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Richard Joseph Shanahan was a railway employee from South Australia who arrived in Fremantle in the early 1890s.[1] His parents were Margaret (née McDonaldand) and Richard.

He married Catherine (née O'Keefe), and they had five children (two girls and three boys; all born in Fremantle):

  1. 1898: Maggie Shanahan (died 1957)
  2. 1901: John Martin Shanahan
  3. 1903: Richard Thomas Shanahan
  4. 1909: Annie Kathleen Shanahan
  5. 1911: Thomas James Shanahan

In 1900 he had a duplex house built at 11-13 Alma Street, and he and Catherine lived there with their children until they sold it to Frank Biddles in 1903 or '04.

Richard died in 1961 in Fremantle, aged 88.[2]

References

  1. State Heritage Office, place number 24692.
  2. Western Australian Registry of Births, Marriages, and Deaths (death in 1961). Fremantle district, registration number 2700198 (1961).