Frank Ryan was one of four children born to Ellen Sweeney and John Ryan. Frank was born in 1887 at Coromandel in NZ. He married Mary Ann (May) Smale in 1916 in North Fitzroy and they had 4 children Shiela, Kitty, Ellie and Jack. He died in 1965 at the Alfred Hospital in Prahran. May died in 1937 at Black Rock where they lived.