Hanorah Mary Teresa Horrigan was born in 1858 in Warwick, Queensland as the ninth child of James Joseph Horrigan and Hanorah Fitzgibbon. She had nine siblings, namely: Ellen, Cornelius, Thomas J, Mary, Margaret Agnes, Catherine, John, James Edward, and Johanna Marion Josephine.

When she was 21, Hanorah married William Monsoon Ross, son of Angus Ross and Ann McLennan, on 06 Jan 1879[1] in Presbyterian Church, James street, Toowoomba, Queensland.

William Monsoon Ross and Hanorah Mary Teresa Horrigan had the following children:

1. William Hardy Ross was born on 25 October 1879 in Toowoomba, Queensland. He died on 28 November 1952 in Brisbane, Queensland.

2. Edmund Angus Ross was born on 27 April 1881 in Queensland. He married Mary Ann Caroline Polly Downey on 23 May 1906 in Newtown, New South Wales. He died on 09 November 1955.

3. Alexander Herbert Ross was born in 1883 in Toowoomba, Queensland. He married Mary Emma May Hockey in 1910 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales. He died in

1947 in Brisbane, Queensland.

4. Lillian Alice Ross was born on 06 November 1885. She died on 06 March 1886.

5. James Edwin Ross was born in 1887 in Queensland. He died in Queensland.

6. Bertram Thomas Ross was born on 02 August 1889 in Queensland. He married Gertrude Elizabeth Bergin on 11 August 1910. He died in 1971 in Brisbane, Queensland.

7. May Angela Ross was born on 01 September 1892 in Toowoomba, Queensland. She married John Joseph Keating on 27 November 1920. She died in 1979 in New Farm, Queensland.

8. Ivy Monsoon Ross was born on 28 February 1896 in Toowoomba, Queensland. She married Cecil Edward Long on 17 Apr 1922. She died on 01 August 1994 in Brisbane, Queensland.

Hanorah died on 13 April 1926[2] in Brisbane, Queensland, age 68.

Citations:

1. Queensland Government - Births, deaths, marriages and divorces, c258

2. Queensland Government - Births, deaths, marriages and divorces, b48492

External Links:

Family Notices - The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Saturday 11 January 1879 p 4

ROSS-HORRIGAN - On the 6th January, at the Presbyterian Church, James street, Toowoomba, by the Rev. W. S. Rathjean, William Monsoon Ross, of Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, to Hanorah Mary Teresa Horrigan, of Warwick.

Advertising - The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Monday 31 January 1927 p 9

Name of Deceased Proprietor.-Hannora Mary  Teresa (otherwise Honorah Mary Theresa) Ross, late of Wynnum, Brisbane, wife of William (otherwise William Monsoon) Ross. Date of Death. - 13th April, 1926.

Name of Claimant.-The Public Curator of Queensland, as Trustee. Description and Situation of Land. Resub-division 2 of subdivisions 11 and-12-of eastern suburban allotment 33 and Easement 111091, county of Stanley, parish of North Brisbane. Estate Claimed to be Transmitted.-Fee simple.

Particulars of Will or Otherwise.-Section 53a of "The Public Curator Acts, 1915 to 1924." Date within which Caveat may be Lodged. 8th March 1927.

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