Patrick
William Marony
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source: John Wladis, Patrick Marony's great grand
son
Patrick
William Marony (1858-1939) was born in Carragh, Waterford
Co., Ireland in 1858. He was the son of John Marony
and Johanna Walsh. He was an educated man, having
attended seminary in Dublin. He came to Australia
around 1883 and settled in New South Wales with his
brother John Martin Marony. In 1883, Patrick married
Rebecca Mason in Sydney.
Patrick
was a painter, photographer and director. He wrote
the stories for 3 films produced by the Australian
Life Biograph Company, situated in Queenscliffe Street,
Manly in 1911. The titles were: Ben Hall, Notorious
Bush Ranger; One Hundred Years Ago;
and A Ticket in Tatts (which was remade
in the 1930's). The Australian National Film Archives
has a few stills of the movies, however, nothing
else remains.
The
Australian National Library in Canberra, ACT has
several of his bushranger paintings done around 1894.
These include: Portrait
of Ben Hall; Portrait
of Bourke, Hall, Frank Gardiner, Gilbert, Dunne; Portrait
of Gardiner, Gilbert, Dunn, Bourke. Patrick
Marony has exhibited for the Royal Art Society of
NSW in 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1912. After his death
in 1939 Patrick was cremated and his ashes scattered
in the Four Winds Garden in the Northern Suburbs
Crematorium in Sydney. |
Steve
Hart descendant Paul O'Keefe has alerted me to yet
another ridiculous Kelly Gang claim (the latest in a line
of many). Not just content to see Dan escape, this time
around Steve also made a bolt from the Glenrowan Inn
fire (so why was Ned heading back when they had both left?).
Lucky Steve also headed north where he lived a long and
happy life in Queensland under the name of Billy Meade. Apparently
this Meade character confessed about his double identity
on his deathbed in 1938. Well, in that case, it
