Dr & Mrs John O'Connell, nee Cummins, in their wedding clothes

1874
Glass photonegative

This is Dr John O’Connell and his wife Theresa, née Cummins, who married at Hill End on 6 June 1874. She was 24 and he was 71 and had just been appointed medical officer at Hill End Hospital, much to the dismay of the Hill End Observer, which decried ‘the notorious habit’ of Dr O’Connell and his lack of ‘a firm, steady hand ... ’