# Update For: MADAM PRESIDENT

- Link: https://johnshistory.com/2025/10/07/update-for-madam-president/
- Published: 2025-10-07T23:46:07+11:00
- Author: John Macvean

## Marion Jane Macvean née Fraser

This is a quick update on some of the information I provided in my series of posts
published earlier this year, titled “Madam President”.

Just a reminder, Marion was married to John Macvean, my 1st Cousin 4x removed. She
was also the daughter of Sir Simon Fraser and Margaret Bolger, and was the paternal
aunt of Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser.

In my previous posts, I shared that I had made contact with the Quirindi District
Historical Society. I heard back from their wonderful team of volunteers again, 
and they happily provided me with some more information on Marion.

First off, one thing I had wrong, which I thought I might have. Concerning the house
that Marion lived in at Quirindi, I hypothesised that this particular house on the
corner of Henry and Hill Streets might have been her house, named “Tycawina”.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tycawina-quirindi-
2010-b.jpg?resize=1100%2C535&ssl=1)

_Corner of Hill and Henry Streets, Quirindi, New South Wales _
_Figure 1: Courtesy
of Google Maps_

I was wrong. This is not Marion’s house. It was, in fact, the house opposite, on
the top left side of the intersection in this photograph below.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/intersection-of-
hill-and-henry-sts-quirindi-2010.jpg?resize=1100%2C675&ssl=1)

_Intersection of Hill and Henry Streets, Quirindi, New South Wales _
_Figure 2: 
Courtesy of Google Maps_

The volunteers were able to confirm that it was this property, as a photograph of
it appeared in a book on the history of the area titled “Quirindi 2000” by Dorothy
Durant. Here is a copy of that photograph taken by Graeme Collins.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina.jpg?resize
=1100%2C667&ssl=1)

_Figure 3: Courtesy of the Quirindi District Historical Society, _
_taken from “
Quirindi 2000: a pictorial record” by Graeme Collins & Dorothy Durant_

It was actually a triple block going through from Hill Street to Lee Avenue behind
it.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-block-
1.jpg?resize=1100%2C705&ssl=1)

_Corner Block from Lee Avenue to Hill Street, Quirindi, New South Wales, 2022_
_Figure
4: Courtesy of Northern Daily Leader _[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/HqKfNWeMNcUiyNaZWaJHFZ/2548de88-85e7-4386-b404-5ff6ea4f2282.jpg/r3_0_5461_3070_w1200_h678_fmax.webp](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/HqKfNWeMNcUiyNaZWaJHFZ/2548de88-85e7-4386-b404-5ff6ea4f2282.jpg/r3_0_5461_3070_w1200_h678_fmax.webp)

Since starting these posts on Marion back in May, Google Maps have updated its street
view and here is the latest view of the property from Hill Street in July this year.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-jul-2025.
jpg?resize=1100%2C535&ssl=1)

_Tycawina, Hill Street, Quirindi, New South Wales, July 2025 _
_Figure 5: Courtesy
of Google Maps_

I had some great luck in finding the property listed in “The Northern Daily Leader”
from when it was last sold in 2022. Thanks to the paper for being so generous and
sharing their photos online, we have this fantastic aerial shot of the property 
showing it in greater detail.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-henry-
hills-st-quirindi-2022.jpg?resize=1100%2C619&ssl=1)

_Tycawina, Hill Street, Quirindi, New South Wales, 2022 _
_Figure 6: Courtesy of
Northern Daily Leader _[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3)

According to the Leaders online sales blurb, Tycawina features 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms,
with a large amount of outdoor space and a private courtyard. It also boasts a 2-
car garage and a separate one-bedroom cottage with a kitchen, lounge, and bathroom.
[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5)

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-floor-
plan-2022-1.jpg?resize=425%2C544&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Floor Plan _
_Figure 6a: Courtesy of Northern Daily Leader_[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5)

Thanks to the paper and also Real Estate.com.au and Property.com.au, we have the
chance to actually see inside Marion’s home, as they provided interior shots too.
They also confirm that a lot of the features shown are original and from Marion’s
time in the home.

First off, the front entrance, which faces the main garden.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-porch-
2022.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Porch, 2022 _
_Figure 7: Courtesy of Real Estate.com.au _[https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-quirindi-139977803](https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-quirindi-139977803)

I wonder if this gate shown below might have been the original street entry from
Henry Street to gain access to the property.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/original-entry-
to-tycawina-july-2025.jpg?resize=1100%2C514&ssl=1)

_Figure 8: Courtesy of Google Maps_

This looks like it would link up with a path that might have run the length of the
bottom of _(Figure 6)_, leading to the two white arbour structures on the stairs,
in line with the front door.

Next, we have the formal entrance with a coat room included.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-entry-
2022-b.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Formal Entry, 2022 _
_Figure 8a: Courtesy of Property.com.au _[https://www.property.com.au/nsw/quirindi-2343/hill-st/60-pid-804491/#mediaGallery](https://www.property.com.au/nsw/quirindi-2343/hill-st/60-pid-804491/#mediaGallery)

On the right you go through to the formal lounge.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-study.
jpg?resize=1100%2C619&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Formal Lounge, 2022 _
_Figure 9: Courtesy of the Northern Daily Leader_
[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3)

This then leads through to the dining room that, according to the Leader, boasts,“…
_spectacular ornate finishes, open fireplaces and French doors to a private balcony_.”
[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5)

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-entry-
2022.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Dining Room, 2022 _
_Figure 10: Courtesy of the Northern Daily Leader _
[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3)

The building is designed around a central courtyard.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-courtyard-
2022.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Central Courtyard, 2022 _
_Figure 11: Courtesy of Real Estate.com.au _
[https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-quirindi-139977803](https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-quirindi-139977803)

Next is one of three bathrooms on the property with _“…Original clawfoot tub, showerhead,
pedestal basin and medicine cupboard…”_[ https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=5)

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-bathroom-
2022.jpg?resize=1100%2C619&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Bathroom, 2022 _
_Figure 12: Courtesy of the Northern Daily Leader _[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3)

Then, we have the kitchen, which still features the original cabinets, and a breakfast
corner, which is situated behind the photographer in the view below.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-kitchen-
2022.jpg?resize=1100%2C619&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Kitchen, 2022 _
_Figure 13: Courtesy of the Northern Daily Leader _[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3)

And finally, a butler’s pantry that also boasts a built-in double-sided servery 
through to the dining room.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/tycawina-butlers-
pantry-2022.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1)

_Tycawina Butler’s Pantry, 2022 _
_Figure 13a: Courtesy of the Northern Daily Leader_
[https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3](https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/7852246/elegant-home-with-original-features-60-hill-street-quirindi/#slide=3)

What an absolute treat to be able to see into Marion’s world. I so hope some of 
it has survived since it last sold. Mind you, if I had bought it, that shocker of
a bathroom would be gone.

There is one other person that I feel we need to mention here, namely Dr Kevin O’Hanlon.
He is mentioned in the line of text under the photo of Tycawina in _(Figure 3)_.
I’ve just done a bit of a quick dive on Trove and it looks like Kevin and his family
lived at Tycawina for the better part of 30 years.

I cannot find a leaving notice for Marion or a taking over premises notice for Kevin
on Trove, so I turned to the Electoral Roll listings on Ancestry.com.au.

This is the last listing for Marion in the electoral roll for 1949.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/m-j-macvean-electoral-
roll-1949.jpg?resize=762%2C232&ssl=1)

_Figure 14: Courtesy of Ancestry.com.au_

Dr O’Hanlon and his wife, Ellie Mary Shannon were in Thomas Street, Quirindi at 
this stage.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ohanlon-electoral-
roll-1949.jpg?resize=899%2C231&ssl=1)

_Figure 15: Courtesy of Ancestry.com.au_

Unfortunately, the next three years of the electoral rolls are missing from the 
Ancestry records. I can only assume once again they didn’t survive. The next record
available is for 1953, and look who is in residence in Tycawina.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ohanlon-electoral-
roll-1953.jpg?resize=936%2C232&ssl=1)

_Figure 15a: Courtesy of Ancestry.com.au_

So somewhere in the intervening three years, Marion moves out, and the O’Hanlons
move in.

Here are the O’Hanlons.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dr-k-ohanlon-patricia-
1937.jpg?resize=555%2C727&ssl=1)

_Figure 16: Courtesy of Trove, National Library of Australia_

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ellie-shannon1931.
jpg?resize=715%2C710&ssl=1)

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ellie-shannon1931-
pg2.jpg?resize=689%2C150&ssl=1)

_Figure 16a: Courtesy of Trove, National Library of Australia_

I’m including this next article as it accompanied the photo of Kevin and his daughter
Patricia. It is very interesting to note what they went through.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/patricia-ohanlon-
1937-pg1.jpg?resize=462%2C599&ssl=1)

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/patricia-ohanlon-
1937-pg2.jpg?resize=435%2C606&ssl=1)

_Article 1: Courtesy of Trove, National Library of Australia_

What a journey they had to endure, and I read another article about their experience
and in it, they revealed that Patricia lost the use of her legs halfway through 
the first part of their crossing.

It was wonderful to read that Patricia survived; unfortunately, she was only with
Ellie and Kevin for another two and a half years, as she passed away in October 
of 1939.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/patricia-ohanlon-
death-1939.jpg?resize=1033%2C165&ssl=1)

_Figure 17: Courtesy of Trove, National Library of Australia_

Patricia was buried at the Quirindi Lawn Cemetery.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/patricia-ohanlon-
grave-1939.jpeg?resize=1100%2C733&ssl=1)

_Figure 17a: Courtesy of Find A Grave, _
_Kindly shared by user Grace_

Ellie and Kevin go on to have another three children, Frances, Connaught and Charles,
who, from all reports, go on to lead full lives.

Ellie passed away at Tycawina in 1968 at the age of 60.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ellie-ohanlon-
1964.jpg?resize=403%2C212&ssl=1)

_Figure 18: Courtesy of Ancestry.com.au_

Ellie is also buried at Quirindi Lawn Cemetery.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ellie-ohanlon-
grave-1964.jpeg?resize=1100%2C733&ssl=1)

_Figure 18a: Courtesy of Find A Grave, _
_Kindly shared by user Geordie Clark_

 The last electoral roll listing I have for Kevin is in 1968, and his son Charles
is listed as still living with him.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ohanlon-electoral-
roll-1968.jpg?resize=1028%2C219&ssl=1)

_Figure 19: Courtesy of Ancestry.com.au_

I’m fairly sure that Kevin went on living at Tycawina until his death in 1975.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/kevin-ohanlon-
1975.jpg?resize=506%2C241&ssl=1)

_Figure 20: Courtesy of Ancestry.com.au_

Kevin is buried at Quirindi Lawn Cemetery the same cemetery where Patricia and Ellie
are buried too.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/k-c-ohanlon-grave.
jpeg?resize=1100%2C733&ssl=1)

_Figure 21: Courtesy of Find A Grave, _
_Kindly shared by user Cal68_

I know this is only a small mention of the O’Hanlons, but it just seemed the right
thing to include them, as their story is just as much a part of the Tycawina story
as Marion’s.

To finish off, the Volunteers at the historical society also sent me this small 
article they had on display, mentioning Marion from the Quirindi Advocate, which
is not available on Trove.

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-2.png?resize
=1100%2C296&ssl=1)

![](https://i0.wp.com/johnshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/img_6693.jpg?resize
=1100%2C1467&ssl=1)

_Article 2: Courtesy of The Quirindi District Historical Society_

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