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#23250 - John Breen

Resource ID
Location
23250
Photograph 5779
Title/subtitle
John Breen
Picture
John Breen
Format
Photograph
Publisher
Canberra & District Historical Society
Physical description
Black and whte photograph
Summary
Portrait.
Availability
Not for loan. Copies can be purchased.
Notes
John Breen. Grocer and son of John and Catherine Breen. Born Queanbeyan 4 July 1851. Mail coach driver during 1870s. Hotel manager Michelago 1879. Overseer Mount Elrington, Braidwood 1887, grocer at Queanbeyan employed by JJ Wright, PC Hill & Sons, Hayes and Russell. Married at Wagga NSW 30 December 1875 to Eleanor Webb of Springbank, Canberra. Died at Sydney 30 November 1932.
This photograph was originally bundled under title James and John Breen. The bundle also included Thomas Webb and possibly his sister Eleanor Breen.