Stories of Agnes Cahill

Last year I pieced together the very sad story of Agnes Curry (nee Dries), my grandfather's first cousin, and her family. Agnes was the niece of my great-grandmother, Agnes Cahill, and her namesake.   While I'm sure that members of the Dries family know the full story, this wasn't shown on any publicly available family trees. Over some weeks, I worked on the story of Agnes and her family  which you can read here. Until recently, I'd though that Agnes had two children, Claude and Edna, prior to her 1917 marriage to Robert Curry who became the superintendent of Palm Island in 1919. Their son, Robbie, was born 100 years ago today. Agnes died on 10 November 1929 in hospital at Townsville with pregnancy complications. Her husband was grief stricken and under investigation by the Queensland Government into a range of allegations which were subsequently found to be unsubstantiated.   On the morning of 3 February 1930, he shot his son Robbie and step-daughter Edna and s