Johanna "Nellie" Westbrook (nee McNamara) - Photo Album

Thankyou Nellie for allowing access to your photos and giving us the time to tell us who the people are. This access will help in the preservation of many of these old photos. A few extra photos which were obtained from Margaret Vitagliano have also been included here.

	Photo (1) 0245 - Cornelius Grady (Jnr) (1885 - 1971), son of Cornelius Grady (Snr) (1846 - 1888) and Margaret Ryan (1851 - 1874). This is not the Cornelius Grady who was killed by a train. That was his father.
	Photo (2) 0245 - Cornelius Grady (Jnr) (1885 - 1971), son of Cornelius Grady (Snr) (1846 - 1888) and Margaret Ryan (1851 - 1874) This is not the Cornelius Grady who was killed by a train. That was his father.
	Photo (3) Carney McNamara, Keith McNamara, Kevin McNamara, Jack McNamara (Front) Tom McNamara
	Photo (4) Dad, Carney, Eva (Carney's friend), Mum, John Jones (baby), Sis, Nellie (in First Communion outfit), Tim Mcnamara, Watts' children (Watts were family friends)
	Photo (5) Maggie, Mum, Ryany, Friend of Sissy, Sissy. Photo taken at Orange c.1921. Mum was pregnant with Nellie.
	Photo (6) Notation on back : May (?) Mortlock, wife of Cliffie Mortlock, daughter of Aunty Kate Grady (nee McNamara) with her baby. (Signed) Kevin McNamara
	Photo (7) Ryany McNamara
	Photo (8) Ryany and Eileen (nee Andrews) at St Jerome's Catholic Church Punchbowl c.1946 for their marriage.
	Photo (9) Carney, Mum, Sis, Jack Tom, Maggie Tim
	Photo (10) Kevin feeding Nellie at Orange

	Photo (11) Tom, Maggie, Mum, Nellie and Tim at Manly Beach
	Photo (12) Jack, Cracker Brown (friend), Reg Doolan (friend), Clem and Kevin (Front) Maggie Dec 1988
	Photo (13) 0039 - Mary Jones (nee Anderson) and grandson I 78 - John Clarence Jones at Shadforth St Lakemba
	Photo (14) Note on back : Me (Kevin McNamara) at Upper Mangrove Creek Snap by Marie (wife nee Marie Josephine Andrews)
	Photo (15) Note on back : 0223 - Marie after a long walk
	Photo (16) Willy with his son Bobby. Bobby went into the priesthood.
	Photo (17) Tim McMahon (Possibly a brother of 0226 Michael McMahon)
	Photo (18) Tim McMahon (Possibly a brother of 0226 Michael McMahon)
	Photo (19) Len Hordern (a family friend)
	Photo (20) Ryany with sons Dennis and Kevin James (known as James) Duplicated by Photo (32)

	Photo (21) Joan Fitzgerald and Nellie's Aunty Johanna Fitzgerald (a sister of her mother's)
	Photo (22) Willie's daughter Joan McNamara. She became a nun (Sister Imelda)
	Photo (23) Willie with an old girlfriend (name unknown)
	Photo (24) Gerrard Cotter. All other Gerrard Cotters found have been male but Nellie insists this Gerrard Cotter was female although after she grew up she referred to herself as Mary Cotter. Nellie says she was her first cousin. Her parents were Mary (nee unknown) who referred to herself as Polly and her father was Garry Cotter. Polly was a triple certificate nurse.
	Photo (25) Carney McNamara
	Photo (26) Nellie's school friends. The girl on end of second row from back was Evelyn Burns, sister to Eddie Burns the great Canterbury-Bankstown and Australian Rugby League player who was a great friend of the family for many years. See Photo (42)
	Photo (27) 0077 - Margaret Anne Jones at Michelago
	Photo (28) Alan McClure. He was Nellie's mum's brother-in-law. He married Aunty Kit.
	Photo (29) Maggie with 0078 - John Jones and 0077 - Margaret Jones at Michelago
	Photo (30) Nellie at Shadforth St Lakemba

	Photo (31) Jack McNamara
	Photo (32) Ryany with sons Dennis and Kevin James (known as James) Duplicated with Photo (20)
	Photo (33) Maggie, Tommy's girlfriend (Patty Tuit), Tommy, Daphne, Coral (Len Hordern's wife) and Unknown Ronny (with trouser braces) and Clem Junior in front of the Unknown woman (Front) Len Hordern and his 2 children. Photo taken at Clem and Coral's house in Shadforth St (a different house to Mum and Dad's house in Shadforth St)
	Photo (34) Nellie McNamara
	Photo (35) 0226 - Michael McMahon and his wife Margaret (nee Ryan and married previously to 0034 - Cornelius Grady)
	Photo (36) Ryany with son Kevin James (known as James)
	Photo (37) Willie's wife 0274 - Mary Hazel (known as Hazel) (nee Lee) with their son Bobby
	Photo (38) Kevin McNamara's son Kevin Greg (known as Greg)
	Photo (39) Tommy McNamara
	Photo (40) Written on the back : To Dearest Nanna Mac From your Grandson Dennis   x x x x x Presumably Dennis is somewhere in this photo.

	Photo (41) Nellie as the flower girl for Sissy at Shadforth St
	Photo (42) Eddie Burns, Canterbury-Bankstown and Australian Rugby League player. See Photo (26)
	Postcard Front (43f) Postcard from Nellie's Mum Swings in the Memorial Gardens Blackheath. NSW
	Postcard Rear (43r) NB : P.G. = Please God Craiglea, Waratah St, Katoomba Monday Dearest Everyone We are all well. Very cold. Hope you are all well. See you P.G. Week end Mum x x x x x x x x x
	Photo (44) Nellie's cousin Peggy McClure. She was the daughter of Alan and Kit McClure. How Alan and Kit were Nellie's Aunt and Uncle have not yet been determined. See also Photo 49 for her wedding
	Photo (45) Tim McNamara at the Punchbowl house.
	Photo (46) Tom McNamara who performed under the stage name Tommymack
	Photo (47) 0682 - Leila McNamara with her husband I 980 - Ulrick Noonan
	Photo (48) Friends of Tommy McNamara from the Punchbowl CYO (Catholic Youth Organisation)
	Photo (49) Peggy McClure on her wedding day to a Mr Hopwood. See Photo 44 for her as a young girl.
	Photo (50) (Left) Tommy outside his first home in Lancelot St Punchbowl with a family friend Johnny McCarthy.

	Photo (51) (Left) Jack and (Right) Ryany with a couple of mates.
	Photo (52) Maggie and Joe's wedding cake with its maker, 0600 - Catherine Ford (nee Sheridan) Also see Photo 66
	Photo (53) Jack McNamara (Right) with some army mates.
	Photo (54) Timmy McNamara with nephew 0078 - John Jones
	Photo (55) Nellie's Uncle, Alan McClure at Michelago.
	Photo (56) Nellie's Aunty Maria wife of Willy McNamara with her son Mick (Front) Another son, either Alban or Herbert and daughter Carrie (Caroline)
	Photo (57) Clem McNamara
	Photo (58) "Polly" Cotter's children - Gerrard, Billy and Jacky.
	Photo (59) Nurses at Kenmore Hospital at Goulburn. (Middle Row, Second Left) "Polly" Cotter (nee Mary Grady)
	Photo (60) (Third from Left) "Polly" Cotter (nee Mary Grady) with friends on Murrumbidgee River, possibly in the Michelago area.

	Photo (61) Carney McNamara
	Photo (62) The house on the Mick McMahon's Michelago property.
	Photo (63) Maggie, 0078 - John Jones and 0077 - Margaret Jones at the back of the Michelago house.
	Photo (64) Tommy with his old girlfriend Patty Tuit.
	Photo (65) 0606 Ryany McNamara, his daughter Sandra McNamara and Timmy
	Photo (66) Maggie's wedding cake with its maker, 0600 - Catherine Ford (nee Sheridan). Also see Photo 52
	Photo (67) 0002 - Ellen Jones and 0077 - Margaret Jones
	Photo (68) (Front Right) Nellie skinnydipping in the dam at Michelago with the Reeves' girls.
	Photo (69) Two of Willy's kids, Joan and Bobby
	Photo (70) Willy's other two kids, Elaine and John

	Photo (71) The Michelago house with 0077 - Margaret Jones peaking over the top of the verandah wall
	Photo (72) Tim McNamara with nephew 0078 - John Jones
	Photo (73) I 2 - Ellen Jones
	Photo (74) Margaret, Kath (nee McNamara) and Ellen Jones
	Photo (75) Margaret, Kath (nee McNamara) and Ellen Jones
	Photo (76) 0077 - Margaret Jones
	Photo (77) Ellen Jones and Margaret Jones
	Photo (78) 0002 - Ellen Jones
	Photo (79) Kevin and Ryany. Street photo in Sydney
	Photo (80) Joe and Maggie Cuskelly with their children Margaret (in middle) and Anne (baby)

	Photo (81) Maggie and Joe Cuskelly with their wedding cake
	Photo (82) Ellen and Margaret Jones
	Photo (83) (Back Row) Nellie's daughter Cathy Tinson, Kath Jones, Nellie, Ellen Jones (Front Row)Family friend, Margaret Vitagliano and Tony Vitagliano. The photo was taken at Narrabeen
	Photo (84) Various nephews and nieces of Nellie
	Photo (85) Mary Cotter (nee Grady) who called herself "Polly". She was Nellie's aunty. See also Photos 59 and 60
	Photo (86) Unknown
	Photo (87) 0033 - Nellie's Grandma Ryan nursing Nellie's cousin Peggy McClure.
	Photo (88) Alan McClure and Horse
	Photo (89) The house at Spring St Orange
	Photo (90) The house at Spring St Orange at a much later time than photo 89. Note how the roof is faded.

	Photo (91) Nellie's parents with Kath and Jack heading off to Mass on Sunday in the sulky.
	Photo (92) Michael McMahon. He had a twin sister Kit who married Michael McClure although at this stage no marriage record has been found.
	Photo (93) Sir John Monash's charger. Biography 1 Biography 2 Biography 3
	Photo (94) Nellie
	Photo (95) Nellie's son, 0133 - Kevin Tinson
	Photo (96) Nellie's son, 0133 - Kevin Tinson
	Photo (97) Tinson, Jones and McNamara family members on the day Kevin Tinson died
	Photo (98) Carney McNamara
	Photo (99) 0270 - Marjorie (nee Edens) and Jack McNamara on their wedding day
	Photo (100) Kevin McNamara

	Photo (101) Maggie with her daughter 0801 - Margaret Cuskelly
	Photo (102) Maggie (nee McNamara) and her husband 0149 - Joe Cuskelly (nee Kushkelly)
	Photo (103) The three McNamara sisters : Maggie, Sis and Nelly
	Photo (104) Ryany McNamara with son James
	Photo (105) Ryany with 0222 - Eileen (nee Andrews) and their son James
	Photo (106) Maggie, Nellie (Front Left), Mum (Sitting) and Kath
	Photo (107) Standing at back : Carny Sitting : Ryany (on small cane chair), Jack, Mum nursing Maggie, Clem, Dad, Willy, Kath Sitting in front : Kevin
	Photo (108) Tommy McNamara
	Photo (109) Willie's daughter Joan
	Photo (110) Willie's daughter Joan

	Photo (111) Willie's daughter Joan
	Photo (112) William 'Willy' McNamara
	Photo (113) Willy and possibly his wife. His wife was 0274 - Mary Hazel Lee (known as Hazel)
	Photo (114) 0002 - Ellen Jones at Cabramatta
	Photo (115) Ellen with her mother Kath and sister Margaret
	Photo (116) 0002 - Ellen Jones
	Photo (117) 0078 - John Jones
	Photo (118) 0078 - John Jones with his sisters 0077 - Margaret Jones and 0002 - Ellen Jones
	Photo (119) 0078 - John Jones on the rabbit rocker made by his father 0019 - Roy Jones
	Photo (120) 0019 - Roy Jones with his mother 0039 Mary Jones (nee Anderson)

	Photo (121) Kath Jones (nee McNamara). Wedding photo taken a week after her marriage
	Photo (122) Kath and Roy Jones. Wedding photo taken a week after their marriage
	Photo (123) 0117 - Basil Tinson, Nellie's first husband
	Photo (125) Tim and Tom performing at 0002 - Ellen Jones' 21st Birthday Party

Updated : 12 Mar 2016