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Guihen, Denis (Dinny) (1878-1917) tramway employee, trade union official and alderman
Birth 1878 at Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, son of Irish-born parents, Patrick Guihen (1846-1919), a farmer, from County Leitrim, and Mary, née Dooley (1845-1916), from Kings County (Offaly). Marriage: 1903 at Sydney, to native-born Olive Agnes Shanaghan (1882-1956). They had five daughters and one son. Death: 31 October 1917 in hospital at Camperdown, Sydney, usual residence English Street, Camperdown. Religion: Catholic.
Sources
H. J. Gibbney & Ann G. Smith, A Biographical Register 1788-1939, vol 1 (Canberra, 1987); The Railway and Tramway Record, 13 November 1917; Labor Council of New South Wales, Half Yearly Report to 31 December 1917; Christopher Cunneen, William John McKell: boilermaker, premier, governor-general, (Sydney, 2000), pp 40, 42, 48 & 59.
'Guihen, Denis (Dinny) (1878–1917)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/guihen-denis-dinny-33924/text42509, accessed 4 November 2024.
City of Sydney Archive, A-00041192
1878
Kangaroo Valley,
New South Wales,
Australia
31 October,
1917
(aged ~ 39)
Camperdown, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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