88. Henry Neal⁴ Sweeney (Beatrice Olive³ Brown, William Mitchell², Stephen¹) was born in Gawler, South Australia 10 October 1910. Henry died 3 October 2000 in Modbury, South Australia, at 89 years of age.

He married Kathleen Mills in St. Patricks Church, Grote Street, Adelaide, SA, 9th October 1937. Kathleen was born in a Private Hospital, Stirling West, SA 1st June 1916.⁽¹⁾ Kathleen was the daughter of William Thomas Mills and Helena May Ryan. Kathleen died 28 February 2002 in Calvary Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, at 85 years of age. Kathleen went to a catholic convent school near her home in Marion Road, Plympton for a while and then moved to the public school on Marion road Plympton. After school Kath took piano lessons, becoming proficient and played the piano on and off for the rest of her life even up to the time of her death. In her later years when she and Henry were retired she took up playing the elecronic organ, and owned several, the last of which was a Baldwin Cinema Organ. She on occasions played the pipe organ of the South Australian Theatre Organ Society in the Capri Theatre, the St Peters College Pipe organ. Kathleen after leaving school, gained employment in a cafe in King William Street, Adelaide where she worked for a period until she found that the proprietors were not very clean or careful with the storage of the food they served and left. Residences: Gawler South, 80 Rose Street, Prospect, 10 McEwin Avenue, North Plympton, build red brick house at Richmond, 11 Devonport Terrace, Ovingham, Seacliff, built timberframe house at 312 Cave Avenue, Aldgate 17 years, 34 Cochrane Terrace, Prospect, 5 years aproximately, corner, Fourth Avenue and Windsor Grove, Klemzig, 28 Sturt Road, Valley View, 26 years and Unit 3, 1188 North East Road, St. Agnes, South Australia. Occupations: as a junior worked in the Central Provision Stores, worked on his brother Neal's milk round at Prospect. As a Carpenter from apprenticeship up until the second world war. Worked in the Barossa Valley with a builder and at Stenhouse Bay as a carpenter in the gypsum production putting down wooden rails for the transport of gypsum to the jetty and on houses. In the flour mills at Port Adelaide, on building sites across Adelaide for Jarvis, working on the Bonython Building, Exhibition Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Urrbrae Agricultural High School original building. After he and Kathleen were married he worked at Broken Hill, New South Wales on the mines and on the Flying Doctor hospital at Tibooburra in the north west of New South Wales. During the Second World War was a soldier in the Australian Infantry Forces, being posted to the eastern states but on injuring his back was never transferred to overseas duty. Following the war he worked for Horward Bagshaw, implement makers at Wayville as a clerk in the office until he joined the South Australian Railways as a welder. Whilst in the S.A.R. was employed building Jubilee railcars, Red hen railcars and Blue Bird railcars. Health: Injured his back in an accident whilst a soldier during the war which severly affected his occupation from then on.

Henry Neal Sweeney and Kathleen Mills had the following children:

+ 99 i. Harry Raymond⁵ Sweeney was born 25th April 1945. Birth site: Northern Private Hosp., Prospect.

100 ii. Colin Neal Sweeney was born in Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, Fullarton Road, Rose Park 26th October 1947. He married twice. He married Marianne Van Den Broek in Adelaide, South Australia, 1969. He married Raelene Ann Fletcher in Allenby Gardens, South Australia, 11 February 1978. Raelene was born Hindmarsh, South Australia 21st February 1949. Raelene is the daughter of Jack Hugh Fletcher and Muriel Alma Edwards.

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