The story goes that at some point in the past, Edmund and Margaret decided to build a larger house. It had just reached the second storey when most of the family decided to emigrate, leaving just Billy in Carrigeen. The New House was never finished.

I grew up believing that Ned and Maggie went with a couple of other girls whose names might have been Mary and Ellen, and Ned's son Herbert visited during the Great War. However, Ned didn't have a son called Herbert, Herbert's father was John. So it looks like we have at least three families with principal personae —

• Ned Dunne & Mary Louisa Gobbi with several children.

• John Dunne & Margaret Cashen with several children, principally (in this context) Herbert.

• Maggie Dunne & Murdoch McKenzie, their son Brennie and maybe a daughter.

I have no information on what became of the other girls (if they did exist).

And then there are the unknowns.

		"Yours Very Sincerely, J Roy Stevens" J Roy Stevens was a publisher and printer in Melbourne in the 1920s. The only connection with the Dunnes that I can think of is that both Edmund Alphonsus Dunne and James Francis Cook were printers.
[This card was printed in Australia.]

A Melbournite but no name.	ditto

	The uniform suggests a trooper in the legendary Australian Light Horse. I checked a list of soldiers in the ALH but found therein no suitably named Dunnes. I have no idea who his companions (below) are.

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