Arnold Ellen

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NameArnold, EllenDate of Birth6/6/1869 Last edited by: June Hockey

Date of Death5/5/1964 Last edited by: June Hockey

OccupationBoarding House ManagerPlace of ResidenceAronda, Shellharbour Village.BiographyEllen Frances Leek Arnold was born to Cubitt (known as George) and Mary Ann Arnold (Nee Szarka) in 1869, registered at Kiama.

Leek was the maiden name of Mary Ann Szarka's mother, Helena.

On 15 September 1891, Ellen Arnold was given an address and presentation at the Temperance Hall Shellharbour social evening, for her duties as organist ‘for some years past’ at the Wesleyan/Methodist Church. The Church in Mary Street had been erected in 1865 on land given by Thomas Alexander Reddall.

The book ‘My Name is Jemima’ by Arnold and Lorna Spackman, (Arnold a descendant of the Arnold/James families), tells the history of these families.

The James girls, daughters of Thomas and Rachel James (nee Arnold), went to Shellharbour Public School in Mary Street, opposite the boarding house. They would stay at the boarding house with their aunts Polly, Ellen and Jemima, and swing in the hammock on the balcony and watch the ships passing by on their way to Sydney. The girls would wait here for the older James girls to take them home to their Dunmore farm, ‘Rosemont’ in the horse and sulky.

The girls when older, would catch the train from Shellharbour railway station to Wollongong Domestic Science School, a long day from 7.20 am to 6.30 pm back home to ‘Rosemont’. (excerpts from ‘My Name is Jemima' by Arnold and Lorna Spackman).

Ellen was unmarried, and died in 1964 aged 95 years. She lived with her sister Polly at 'Aronda' next door to the boarding house.

The streets at the new Seacrest Estate, Flinders Shellharbour City, 2009, have been named after the James and Arnold families.

External LinkSocial Gathering for Ellen Arnold 1890

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Ellen Frances Leek Arnold.
Photo courtesy of Lorna Spackman.

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CollectionPeopleFamilyJamesArnoldFullerLocalityShellharbour VillagePersonJames, JemimaArnold, George CubittSzarka, Mary AnnPlaceAronda

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Arnold Ellen