People Australia

Pat Heagney, 1908

Labor Call (Melbourne), 27 February 1908, p 3

Patrick Reginald (Pat) Heagney (1858-1922) publican, carpenter and trade union official and Richmond councillor

Birth: 1858 at Bacchus March, Victoria, son of Irish-born parents Martin Heagney (1836-1888) a farm labourer from Portumna, Galway, and Catherine, née Hogan (1835-1888), from Bawnsha, Foxforth, Tipperary. Marriage: 9 February 1885 at Isisford, Queensland, to Annie Agnes Currie (1860-1934), born at Bendigo. They had one daughter and three sons. Death: 7 December 1922 at Alfred Hospital, St Kilda, Victoria. 

• His father was a friend of Peter Lalor.
• Pat became a member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. He spent his early years in Bucchus Marsh, Victoria. Spent some time in western Queensland.
• He moved to Melbourne about 1901. He was honorary secretary of the Political Labor Council of Victoria from 1904 to 1908 and full-time from 1908 to 1910.
• Represented Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners on the Trades Hall Council in 1921.
• Unsuccessfully contested Legislative Assembly seat of Bulla in 1907 and the seat of Mornington in 1908. He was a councillor on Richmond Council in 1908-1911.
• His wife was an early member of the Labor Women’s Central Organising Committee. His daughter Muriel was a notable women’s rights, political and philanthropic activist.
• Cause of death: suppurating hydatids lung, terminal pneumonia and pericarditis (6 months). 

Sources
Worker (Wagga), 5 July 1906, p 2; Carpenters’ Monthly Journal, February 1923; Labor Call (Melbourne), 17 May 1934.