BRANNAN / BRENNAN / BRANNION – Edward 31st Regiment

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Name	BRANNAN / BRENNAN / BRANNION – Edward
Regiment (s)	31st Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	2728
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	March 1855 (deduced) / 18 years / Not yet known Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 6 in Fair / Blue / Brown / Severe wound in groin and upper left thigh
Overseas Service/Duration	Crimea – 7 months
Length of Service	1 year 6 months
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 21st October 1856 / Not yet known
Campaign Medals	Crimean War Medal Crimean Turkish Medal
Intended Residence at Discharge	Manchester England
Pension Districts	1856 1^st Manchester 1859-1864 Western Australia 1865-1876 South Australia 1876-1894 New South Wales
Pension Paid	8d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	26th May 1859 Plymouth Devon England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	SULTANA 19th August 1859
Date/Place of Birth	c1837 Salford Manchester Lancashire England
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	BRANNAN James Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Catherine Not yet known
Siblings	Margaret b 1843 Manchester England James b 1846 Manchester England
1st Wife	LEWIS Alice B c1842
Date/Place of Marriage	13th February 1859 St Wilfred’s RC Church Hulme Manchester England
Children by 1^st Wife	William John (Brannon) B 24th June 1860 Fremantle Western Australia D 8th December 1885 drowned at Girilambone New South Wales Mary (Brannan) B 7th September 1861 Fremantle Western Australia D Not yet known Alice (Brannion) B 1863 Fremantle Western Australia D Not yet known Margaret (Brennan) B 1865 Adelaide South Australia D 1921 Drummoyne New South Wales bur 22nd November 1921 Rookwood Cemetery (Zone C Section 05) Norah (Brennan) B 1867 Adelaide South Australia D Not yet known Edward (Brennan) B 2nd May 1869 Adelaide South Australia D 22nd February 1933 Parramatta New South Wales bur 23rd February 1933 Rookwood Cemetery (Zone C TT plot 34) Catherine B 16th September 1871 Adelaide South Australia D Not yet known Ann (Brennan) B 11th December 1873 Gawler South Australia D Not yet known James A. (Brennan) B 1877 Redfern New South Wales D Not yet known Arthur Lewis (Brennan) B 1880 Redfern New South Wales D 7th November 1918 Sunta Wentworth Road Strathfield New South Wales bur Rookwood Cemetery (Section 5 Row 44 Plot 6405 646)
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	LEWIS William Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Honorah Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	NSW Engine driver
Newspaper Articles	Perth Gazette and Western Australian Times Friday 28th October 1864 Sydney Morning Herald 21st December 1885 page 1 Death William John Bathurst Free Press & Mining Journal (NSW:1851-1904) 16 December 1885 page 4 Sydney Morning Herald 27th August 1914 page 8 Death Edward Sydney Morning Herald 2nd January 1917 page 5 Death Alice The Labor Daily (Sydney, NSW) Saturday 25th February 1933 page 6 Death Edward Jnr
Departure from Western Australia	24th October 1864 left with wife and 3 children for South Australia per “Europa”
Date/Place of Death/Burial	26th August 1914 Sunta Church Street Croyden New South Wales bur Rookwood Cemetery (Section 5 Row 44 Plot 6405 646)
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	21st January 1917 Lynwood Melford Street Hurlstone Park New South Wales bur Rookwood Cemetery 22nd January 1917 (Zone C Section 5 Plot 6405)
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	1855 Discharge due to severe wound minor action at Sebastopol 29 August . Incontinence of urine due to severe wound on the groin and upper part of left thigh. The name Brannan is recorded in most of his Army papers but seems to have been more commonly Brennan in Australia. 1864 Edward Brennan (sic) nominated his siblings James age 18 and Margaret age 21 as Government Immigrants, Edward gave Father Newton of St Mary’s church Manchester as a reference. In December 1885 Edward Brennan gave notice of his intent to apply for the letters of administration for the estate of his late son William John Brennan, however, William had made a will on 25th October 1882 whereby he left all the money in his Government Savings Account and his books and personal effects to his youngest brother Arthur Brennan. Arthur Lewis Brennan also made a will on 4th June 1915 whereby he left all his estate and personal effects to his sister Margaret (spinster) who resided at the same address. The value of the estate was £382. From the obituary for his son William in 1885 it appears Edward worked for the New South Wales Railways as an engine driver also mentioned in William’s will, and his sons William and Arthur Lewis followed his example: Arthur as a clerk. Son Edward was the Press Secretary for the Parramatta Central branch of the ALP.