John was born in Taree in 1893 and registered as Burns.

​He married (as Byrnes) to Elsie Bennett in Tweed Heads on 22/03/1916. Elsie was born on 01/07/1892 in Gentlemans Halt Hawkesbury.

​They had 2 children:

• Oswald Allan Byrne (1917 – 1956)

• Lottie Byrne (1919 –      )

​Elsie died in 1929 in Kogarah.

John died on 01/02/1957 in Private Hospital Rose Bay.

Oswald Allan Byrne (1917 – 1956)

Oswald was born in Tweed Heads in 1917.

​He married to Marjorie Loraine Davis in 1940.

​Oswald died in  Sacred Heart Hospice, Darlinghurst on 19/06/1956.

Marjorie married in 1957 in Sydney to Leith Wright.