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Charles James Geelan (1896-1979) ironworker, trade union official and Communist
Birth: 1896 at Braidwood, New South Wales, son of native-born Francis Robert Geelan (1862-1932) and Mary, née Connelly (1862-1941), probably born in County Clare, Ireland. Marriage: 7 November 1918 at St Barnabas Anglican Church, Sydney, to native-born Mabel Dorothy Swan (1896-1989). They had two daughters. Death: 25 February 1979 in a nursing home at Annandale, Sydney.
Sources
Magnet, June 1949; Labor News, September 1949; Robert Murray and Kate White, The ironworkers: a history of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia (Sydney, c1982) p 116 [where he is named as “Col Geelan”].
'Geelan, Charles James (1896–1979)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/geelan-charles-james-33854/text42402, accessed 2 November 2024.
1896
Braidwood,
New South Wales,
Australia
25 February,
1979
(aged ~ 83)
Annandale, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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