McCanns celebrate 60 years

The Corlette couple celebrated 60 years of marriage last Thursday, October 23.

While they have been married for six decades, the McCanns have known each other a lot longer.

They were married in Sydney in 1954, five years after they first met at 16.

A mate on Peter's cricket team asked his sister, Judith, to keep score for them.

Their relationship grew from there as they began spending more time with each other.

Their families were members of the same tennis club with Peter and Judith finding themselves paired up.

"We had the same interests and understood each other," Mr McCann said.

"We fell in love."

They also rode the same train to work together and are born two days apart.

After marrying they moved into a house at Mount Colah and began family life having two boys, Gregory and Robert, and a girl, Phillipa, before Mr McCann was transferred to Melbourne for his work in 1966.

Between the ages of 15 and 68, Mr McCann worked in the insurance industry.

While in Melbourne the McCanns added one more to the brood, Carolyn, and as a unit of six moved back to Sydney, to Wahroonga, in 1970.

There they lived until the children left the nest and the McCanns retired to Corlette in 1999.

Asked the secret to their success, Mr McCann said it came down to understanding one another and sharing interests.

"If a cross word is said it only lasts overnight," Mr McCann said.

"We do things together, we're both interested in the same things."

The couple celebrated the diamond wedding anniversary with three of their children.

The McCanns have seven grandchildren.