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Moinear,
              I will check again concerning the Mullins boys as the lady said there was no shortage of Mullinses coming here in that era so we will look for something younger. Did they go to Townsville to meet the sisters O'Brien or did they go to another Port instead and roughly what year did they travel? Colin.

Hi Moinear,
                 Margaret and Kate O'Brien landed in Townsville on the Jelunga on the 25th May 1892 together on the same ship on the same day.
    The person helping me said there are no census records for Australia at that time and I have to believe her because she is an expert at this.
     She says 2 Mullins boys Daniel and Patrick both 22 years of age arrived on 2nd of July 1908 on the Oruba to go to Ipswich, Queensland. These can be 11 months and 3 weeks apart and still be the same age.
     We need to know if the uncle was a paternal or maternal uncle to see if we can trace him too.
    Let me know what you get from this and ask anything you may still need.
     And yes it appears my John O'Brien did come from Kilkenny or Tipperary.
                                                                   Coldug.

Hi Again Moinear, I am no longer a subscriber on the site where this information was gathered but I am thinking of renewing again for many reasons. I would be happy to go into it in depth if I do. I actually got it from various family trees as the search I did on Dugan family brought up references from about 9 family trees and O'Briens were in most of those. I believe there was an O'Brien tree amongst them. If you would like to make direct contact I am ccjdtb13 at virginbroadband dot com dot au
    Regards,
            Colin.

Hi, I have an O'Brien in my family tree 1 generation back from there. There was a John O'brien probably still in Brittain but his son Edward James O'Brien married Ellen Haarsma in Australia c1875 and had several children before he died young in 1893 when a Dugan married her and had several more children. Regards, Colin Dugan.