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   The Life of Peter Paul Daly   
      
   A biography by his Grand-Son Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly   
      
   I never met Peter Paul. He died before I was born. Dad (Cyril) tells me he was   
   a hard man, and I get the feeling dad didn’t appreciate it that much. I   
   think dad said he had a taste for classical music, so he must have had some   
   records. Mum also told me    
   that Peter Paul played the fiddle, so obviously he had a fondness of music.   
   Peter Paul was the son of Peter Daly, who worked as a Grocer in Mullingar (who   
   dad recalls as also being Peter Paul Daly) and Maria Daly nee Molloy, and he   
   was born in Earl    
   Street, Mullingar in Ireland on the 6th of July 1876. Peter Paul's father,   
   Peter Daly, was on the Town Council of Mullingar, serving as Chairman of the   
   Board from 1888 to 1899. Of Course, Peter Paul Daly was born at Earl Street in   
   Mullingar. Also from    
   that time period we have this online record of Denis Daly and his family. The   
   address was 3 Earl Street in Mullingar from the 1911 Census. Denis was born   
   about 1857, which potentially makes him a brother of 'Peter Daly' the Town   
   Commissioner, due to the    
   Earl Street Residence were Peter Paul Daly was born.   
      
   Peter Paul Daly was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church on the 11th of   
   July 1876. Funnily enough my brother Gregory was born 100 years after   
   Grand-pa, in 1976. At one point in Peter's life he worked as a Tutor in   
   Orange, NSW and at another he worked    
   as a cellarman in one of the Pubs on one of the main streets of Sydney (ie   
   Pitt or Elizabeth or York street or something like that). Peter married Mary   
   Ann McLean (born 26th of June 1885 in Sydney, the daughter of Duncan McLean   
   and Mary McLean nee Finn)    
   at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on the 10th of February 1908. Joseph Daly,   
   his brother, witnessed the marriage and signed on the certificate. They had 1   
   girl, Molly, followed by 9 boys (in no particular order) Stan, Keith, Frank,   
   Leo, Vincent, Cyril,    
   Brian, Peter & Kevin, followed by another girl, Philomena who was last of all.   
   Here at 29 Merriman crescent we have a photo of Peter Paul with some of his   
   boys, as well as a photo of him with his wife (my grandmother) Mary Ann. Peter   
   lived at 43 Arden    
   Street in Clovelly in Sydney where the family was initially raised in Cyril's   
   years, and it would have been a tight fit with so many children. The whole   
   family was Roman Catholic, and it appears they were quite religious and   
   Grandfather probably went to    
   church every Sunday like dad. His son Leo was a Marist Brother, and the whole   
   Clan were involved with Church throughout their lives and kept the faith. I   
   remember going along to St Vincent de Paul with uncle Kevin in Sydney one   
   time, and that uncle Frank    
   went to the latin mass later on in life. Each of the Daly boys seemed actively   
   involved with the Church. Peter Paul used to go to Mass every morning, and he   
   would read the papers in the park before work. He went to Mass up in Waverly   
   at Immaculate Heart    
   instead of Arden Street church, because he preferred those priests who wore   
   the brown habits. At home in Arden street, it was a small 2 bedroom place,   
   with a lounge room, and the family would sit in the kitchen, while Peter Paul   
   sat alone in the lounge    
   room very often. An anecdote from the family is that every afternoon, on radio   
   2BL, Peter Paul would be listening and 'God save the King' would come on the   
   radio at 4 O'Clock, and he would storm down the hallway in a huff (In true   
   Irish fashion). Auntie    
   Shirlie provided that anecdote for me. His wife Mary Ann died on the 5th of   
   July 1939 at 43 Arden Street, and this was recorded in the Sydney Morning   
   Herald in the obituaries on Thursday the 6th of July 1939 (available to view   
   online). There was a    
   requiem mass for the repose of her soul held at St Anthony's church, Clovelly,   
   on the Thursday morning at 9 O'Clock. The funeral party would leave the   
   church, after Mass, for the Botany Cemetery. By request there would be no   
   flowers. According to online    
   records found at the 'Ancestry' website, Peter lived at Waverly in Sydney in   
   1915, Coogee in Sydney in 1930, Coogee in Sydney in 1937, Waverly in Sydney in   
   1943 and Clovelly in Sydney in 1963. He died on the 20th of June 1965 aged 88.   
   Grandpa Peter has '   
   Daly' features in photos of him from younger years, and I can see were his   
   son's get their looks. I am grateful to my grandfather for having my father,   
   and without him I would not be here. I am sure he is in the heavenlies,   
   receiving his reward and    
   enjoying his rest, and my prayers and best wishes are for him.   
      
   Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly   
      
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