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(Co. Wicklow to Victoria, Australia)

PETER COSTELLO was born Abt. 1819 in Co Wicklow, Ireland, and died 1903 in Darriman, Victoria, Australia.  He married ESTHER MOORE 12 Feb 1849 in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, Ireland, daughter of JOSEPH MOORE and ESTHER ELLIS.  She was born Abt. 1829 in Co Armagh, Ireland, and died 1880 in , Victoria, Australia.       

Children of PETER COSTELLO and ESTHER MOORE are:

 1.                      MARY  COSTELLO, b. Feb 1850, Mucklagh, Co Wicklow, Ireland; d. 17 Mar 1852,
                           Mucklagh, Co  Wicklow, Ireland.                                                                  

2.                      BRIDGET COSTELLO, b. Apr 1852, Mucklagh, Co Wicklow, Ireland; d. 12 Jul 1857, at sea.

 3.                      MAURICE COSTELLO, b. 20 Aug 1854, Co Wicklow, Ireland; d. 22 Aug 1854, Co Wicklow, 
 Ireland. 

4.                      ESTHER COSTELLO, b. 05 Oct 1855, Dublin, Co Dublin, Ireland; d. 1877, Victoria, Australia. She married  Robert Brown in 1874, Victoria, Australia.

5.                      JOSEPH COSTELLO, b. 05 Jul 1857, at sea; d. 1935, Sale, Victoria, Australia. He married  Margaret Knight in 1887 in Victoria, Australia.

6.                      PETER COSTELLO, b. 22 Jul 1859, Tarraville, Victoria, Australia. Died 1905 Warraehotha, Western Australia, Australia.

7.                      PATRICK COSTELLO, b. 22 Jul 1861, Tarraville, Victoria, Australia; d. 1930, Sale, Victoria, Australia. He married Margaret McGauran in 1890, Victoria, Australia.

8.                      LAURENCE COSTELLO, b. 08 Aug 1864, Tarraville, Victoria, Australia; d. 1955, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He married Lucretia Amelia Brown in 1890 Tarraville, Victoria, Australia.

9.                      MARY JANE COSTELLO, b. 25 Oct 1867, Alberton, Victoria, Australia; d. 25 Jul 1948, A'Dale, Victoria, Australia. She married (1) JAMES ONEIL  11 Sep 1884 in Moon St. Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, She married (2) WILLIAM JOHN KERR 1907 in Sale, Victoria, Australia

 Children of MARY COSTELLO and JAMES O'NEIL are:

                    i.    JAMES JOSEPH  O'NEIL, b. 05 Oct 1884, Sunbury, Victoria, Australia; d. 28 Nov 1966, 
                           Victoria,   Australia                                   

                  ii.    ESTHER MARY ROSE ANN O'NEILL, b. 04 Jun 1886, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 16 Sep 1966,
                         Sale, Victoria,  Australia.

                 iii.    PATRICK LAURENCE O'NEIL, b. 1888, Stradbroke, Victoria, Australia; d. 29 May 1958, Bunyip, Victoria, Australia.

                 iv.    SIMON O'NEIL, b. 24 Oct 1890, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 17 Mar 1962, Sale, Victoria, Australia.

                  v.    MAURICE EDWARD O'NEIL, b. 24 Jul 1892, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 30 Jun 1916, Armentieres, France, Europe.

                 vi.    JOSEPH O'NEIL, b. 31 Jul 1894, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 15 Oct 1977, Moe, Victoria, Australia.

                vii.    BRIDGET THERESA O'NEILL, b. 25 Jul 1897, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 17 May 1974, St Vincents Hosp, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

               viii.    EILEEN MARGARET O'NEIL, b. 13 Sep 1899, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 14 Aug 1981, Carn, Victoria, Australia;

                  ix.    ANNIE ADELINE O'NEIL, b. 10 Nov 1901, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 1960, Daylesford, Victoria, Australia;

                   x.    NORAH KATHLEEN O'NEIL, b. 19 Mar 1904, Sale, Victoria, Australia; d. 09 Feb 1986, , Victoria, Australia.

  

Peter & Esther Costello arrived in Australia on the "Echunga", leaving Liverpool the
30th May 1857 and arriving at Geelong on the 19th August 1857