Date of Birth: 12/03/1875
Place of Birth: Illabarook, Victoria, Australia
Date of Death: 25/08/1941
Place of Death: East Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Construction worker. Spent youth in Victoria; worked in Wyalong and in Broken Hill in early 1890's; rural worker, navvy, organiser for Railway Workers' branch of Australian Workers' Union; later employed in bridge building in country districts for Railways Department as a sub contractor, joined Amalgamated Society of carpenters and Joiners; organiser and delegate to the Trades and Labor Council (TLC), president in 1908; moved to Sydney in c.1925, employed as a temporary carpenter by Sydney City Council, later with Public Works Department, transferred to Department of Agriculture., employed in Botanic Gardens from 1927 until 1928
Personal
Son of Walter Keegan, miner, and Mary Flood, Irish migrants. Married (1) unknown. Married (2) Mary Alice Cummings on 2 July 1893 and had issue, 3 daughters and 5 sons. Married (3) Agnes Beena Brown on 15 December 1912. Married (4) Edith Lilley on 10 October 1938. Roman Catholic. Buried in Roman Catholic cemetery at Rookwood.
