Above: Margaret Mallon, daughter of Mary Frances Sheridan and Cecil Hilton Mallon. Margaret's parents separated soon after her birth, but I believe that they never divorced due to their Catholicism. The first two years of Marg's life were spent in NSW at Illabo near Junee, where her maternal grandparents had a butcher's shop. The family then moved back to Victoria, and Marg grew up in Tungamah, her mother's home town. Tragically, Marg Mallon died on February 18, 1951, aged only 27 years. She died suddenly of "sub arachnoid haemorrhage extensive from ruptured aneurysm".

Above: Marg Mallon in 1945, aged 21.

Above: The Big Store in Berrigan, NSW, where both of Marg Mallon's parents worked. Neither of the two girls in this photo is Mary Sheridan, but one of the men may be Cecil Mallon, Marg's father, who was a grocer in the store.

Above: The interior of The Big Store, Berrigan. Cecil Mallon is on the left, and above him (closer of the two girls to him) is his future wife Mary Sheridan.


Above: Enlargement of the section of photo showing Cecil Mallon and Mary Sheridan. Cec, as he was known, and Mary were married at Junee in 1923. Their daughter Margaret was born in the same year, and husband and wife then separated, never to live together again.

Cecil Hilton Mallon was born in 1895 in Jerilderie, the son of James Andrew Mallon and Mary Susan Dunlevy, who had married in 1892. Cec appears in Electoral Rolls between 1930 and 1954 living in Berrigan, as did his brother Rupert Terrence Mallon (b 1907, Berrigan). From 1930 until 1937 Cec was a grocer and Rupert a drover, then in 1943 until 1954 both brothers appeared as drovers. At the time of his daughter's death in 1951, Cecil Mallon was working as a station hand. He died in 1963, and Mary Sheridan Mallon on September 23, 1976.