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John Robert (Bob) Keenan) (1898 - 1970)

Last updated 31 July 2023

Australian Generation:  Second

Parents:  John Keenan and Emma Morton
Born: 28th November 1898 (Baptised - Presbyterian - 1899)
Married: 10th November 1932 - Thelma Emily Champion,  born 1910, died 1966.
Occupation:
Residence: Engadine, NSW
Deceased:  30 September 1970 (Death registration 5872/1970)
Buried: 5 October 1970 at Woronora Cemetery, NSW.  Site GL4/0085. 

Children:

Allan Robert  Keenan (b.1920/21 d.2000)  (with Vera Adelaide Gorey b.1901 d.1974) *

Leslie Robert Keenan  (1931 - 1932) **

Kenneth John Keenan (b.1932)

Colin Maxwell Keenan (b. 1934)

Donald Joseph Keenan (b.1936)

John Keenan (b. 1938)

Joy Keenan (b. 1941)

Robert Keenan (b. 1943)

Thelma Anne Keenan (b.1945 - 2010)

*  Additional information supplied by Dave Keenan, grandson of William Stanley Keenan, in July 2023: "Vera was born Vera Adelaide Gorey, in 1901 in Deniliquin, NSW. Died: 16 Jun 1974, Manly, NSW. .... Vera married Harry Llewellyn Morris .... Allan took his stepfather's surname and became Allan Robert Morris .... Helen Hall's family tree shows Allan as born in 1921 in Narrandera, NSW and dying in 2000 in Cairns, QLD. Allan married May Ford (1921-2016) in 1945 in Newtown, NSW."

** Leslie Keenan's burial headstone adjoins that of Ann Jane Hopson (Nancy/Ann Jane Keenan nee Gamble) at Woronora Cemetery, Sutherland, NSW.

Photographs:  

Family photo circa 1947.

A group at the graves of Ann Jane Hopson ( former name, Nancy Jane Keenan nee Gamble) and Leslie Robert Keenan.


  John Robert (Bob) Keenan and Thelma Emily Keenan  - wedding photo (1929?)  (Photo supplied by Robert Keenan b.1943)

Bob-Thelma-wedding



John Robert Keenan and Thelma Emily Keenan:       (Photo supplied by Robert Keenan b.1943)

John Robert (Bob) and Thelma Keenan