Thomas Tobin

	Born	March 8th 1863 in Birr, King’s County (now Offaly), Ireland.
	Married 1)	Maria (Marie) Christie July 3rd 1889 in Ch ur ch of St Andrew, Dublin. She was born c.1863 in Rostrevor Co. Down Ireland and died February 10th, 1897 in Fremantle Western Australia.
		Maria died of ‘mitral obstruction, diarrhoea debility’ in late pregnancy. She was 34.
	Children of Union	Ellen Maria (1890 – 1891, infant death), Winifred (Winnie) Agnes (1892 – 1961), John Michael (1894 – 1973) and a stillborn female.
	Married 2)	Alice O’Dowd in St Patrick’s Church, Fremantle Western Australia on April 20th 1898. She was born May 8th 1872 in Toorak, Victoria Australia and died January 28th 1944 at 13 Kent Street, Ascot Vale, Victoria.
		Alice died from cerebral thrombosis after suffering a stroke.
	Children of Union	Mary Julia (Mollie) (1899 – 1966), Leo Thomas (1902 – 1970), Joseph Mark (infant death 1904), Alphonsus (Phonse) Vincent (twin) (1905 – 1993), Bernard (twin – infant death 1905), Noel Patrick (1907 – 1981), Thomas O’Halloran (1909 – 1969), Kevin (1912 – 1998) and Catherine (stillborn c. 1917).
	Died	July 6th 1953 in East Camberwell, Victoria, Australia of influenzal pneumonia.

See Thomas and his life with Maria to discern the facts from the fiction and read about Thomas and Alice’s time in Fremantle and their lives in Melbourne.