Hurry

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NameHurryDescriptionLionel Hurry was born to William ‘Edmund’ and Elizabeth Hurry (nee Parker) about c.1840.

Edmund and Elizabeth had several children;
Horatio Parker b.1835 (died 1896, Kensington, London)
Elizabeth b.1838 (died 1845, Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire)
Eve b.1840 (died 1868, Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire)
Donna Maria b.1842
Napoleon b.1844 (died 1927 Wollongong)
Albertina b.1848 (died 1907 Cambridgeshire)

Lionel Hurry arrived in Australia aboard ‘Beejapore’, May 1857. His age was listed as 19 years, native place Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, and his parents Edmund and Elizabeth.

In July 1861, at the schoolhouse, Macquarie Rivulet, Lionel married Sarah Denniss of Marshall Mount. Sarah was the daughter of Richard and Sarah Denniss (nee Gillett).

Lionel and Sarah Hurry lived in a small cottage, 'Vine Cottage' at Tongarra Road, Albion Park. They had one daughter, Albertina Rachel b.1872.

Sarah was a local midwife. According to local identity Bert Weston, Mrs. Hurry was in looks and dress a replica of Queen Victoria and spent most of her time in her small cottage preparing and plaiting strands of cabbage tree palms into long flat lengths, which she then fashioned and stitched into cabbage tree hats. Many of the old timers in Albion Park wore nothing else. Mrs. Hurry was ‘ready to saddle forth and any time of day or night for an impending birth’. Bert Weston and his family of six brothers and sisters were all ‘introduced squalling to the light of day by Mrs. Hurry and for which dubious service she charged $2 per head. According to Bert, ‘A family of seven for seven quid was cheap nation building.’
Lionel and Sarah’s daughter, Albertina never married. She lived in the family home her whole life, and died in 1966, aged 94 years.
Lionel Hurry’s brother Napoleon, arrived in Australia about seven years after Lionel, in 1864, aboard the ‘Ida’. Lionel had sponsored him to come out.
In 1869, Napoleon married Sarah Joliffe at West Dapto and the couple had 14 children;

Elizabeth Esther b. (married 1894 William Chilby, d.1932, Bulli)
Ellen b.1870 (married 1888 William Chinnock, d.1964, Sydney)
Eve Cluenda Sarah Agnes b.1872 (married 1894 Thomas Stone, d.1957, Wollogong)
Emily Jane Shepherd b.1873 (married 1893 James Chilby, D.1894, Woonona)
Edmund Thomas b.1874, d.1896 Dapto
Herbert b.1876, d. 1876, Wollongong
Herbert Albert b.1877, (married 1906 Eliza Jane Stone, d.1965, Balgownie)
Albertina b.1880 (married 1916 William Russell, d.1969, Parramatta)
Arthur b.1881, d.1940, Wollongong
Ethel May b.1882 (married 1920 Thomas Chilby, d.1961, Bulli)
Sarah Louisa b.1883 (married 1905 Arthur Stone, d.1984
William Lionel b.1888 (married 1910 Daisy Jolliffe, d.1955, Wollongong)
Austin Hanese b.1889 (married 1920 Ivy Devine, d.1953, Wollongong)
Cecilia Rosena b.1891 (married 1912 William Jolliffee, d.1929, Cowra)
Ernest Robert b.1893 (married 1921 Eldora Frances Theresa Reimann, d.1978, Bulli)

Napoleon died in 1927 at Wollongong, and Sarah in 1916. They are buried at the Berkely Pioneer Cemetery.

External LinkMrs L Hurry 92nd Birthday 1923The Late WA Denniss A Pioneer 1923Deaths of Pioneers 1925Nonagenarian's Death - Sarah Hurry 1925Fifty-Eight Years in the Same Home 194190 Years of Age Miss Denniss 1947Pioneer's Death Recalls Early Illawarra History 1950Party For Eightieth Birthday 1952Historic Land for Auction at Albion Park 1952

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The Denniss Family Home at Marshall Mount

Lionel, Sarah & Albertina Hurry 1922

Sarah Hurry 1922

Lionel Hurry

The Denniss Family home at Marshall Mount

Lionel Hurry driving his sulky horse 'Victor'

Lionel, Sarah and Albertina Hurry

Object

Wall Slabs from 'Vine Cottage'

Person

Hurry, Sarah

Family

Denniss

Place

Vine Cottage

Lionel Hurry driving his sulky horse 'Victor', c.1920.

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CollectionFamiliesFamilyDennissLocalityAlbion ParkPersonHurry, SarahPlaceVine Cottage

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