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The Lighter Side / Re: Lovely surprise from the past!
« on: Sunday 02 June 13 22:05 BST (UK) »
New to Rootschat but have researched heaps of the Thorley family. Thomas Allan Thorley worked for the Marsh family at Salisbury Court as a carpenter (immigration Cert states he was a Millwright from Rivistin (Riverstown) C. Cork, Ireland) bookkeeper and shepherd. He died in 1861 aged only 46 "of Natural Causes" after an illness of 13 days. The Manager (and brother of the owner) of the Salisbury Run, C M Marsh, was the informant on the death cert. The Marsh diaries (at Armidale University Library) show two entries ...13.7.1861 "Thorley died' and Thorley buried".
A relatively young family was left fatherless. Evidence of Marsh benevolence may be in the NSW land ownership records. The names of two of the sons of Thomas and Mary (nee Meehan) Thorley .....William Joseph Thorley (oldest) and Cadman Samuel Thorley (youngest) appear on many of the grants of the blocks that became the Thorley family farms of Woodburn and Greylands and some of the same deeds also show Marsh as one of the grantees.
The Woodburn and Greylands property is reputed to have been was one of the biggest wool producers in New South Wales in the early 20th century ..and family lore has it that those family members residing there lived life in a very opulent manner. Portion of these properties had originally been part of Salisbury Run.
It was not until 1925 that the Hayne and Thorley families became directly interlinked. marriage no. 11950/1925 was Ida May Thorley and Clarence Matthew Hayne. Ida was a daughter of William Joseph Thorley (from above) and Mary Agnes (nee O'Neill).
An earlier indirect Hayne - Thorley link is via the marriage 6635/1942 of William Clyde Jurd to Rita May Hayne. William's mother was Catherine Mary Thorley (m. Ebenzer Jurd 6354/1899) Catherine was a niece of William Joseph Thorley. Her father was William's brother, John.
William and John Thorley married sisters from the Burraston family. And their sister Mary Anne jane Thorley married Joseph Burraston. So three Thorleys married three Burrastons of the same generation.
I digress ....it seems like a history of much or the Uralla area!
I was really interested to see the Salisbury Court fireplace and the link to the Hayne name. It rather says that E Hayne and Thomas Allan Thorley or his family were associated with Salisbury at about the same time.
I wonder if there may be more old photos of Salisbury Court around which could show any of the staff employed there in the early days? There is a facebook site for Salisbury Court which might be a good spot to add them (as well as here on Rootschat)?
A relatively young family was left fatherless. Evidence of Marsh benevolence may be in the NSW land ownership records. The names of two of the sons of Thomas and Mary (nee Meehan) Thorley .....William Joseph Thorley (oldest) and Cadman Samuel Thorley (youngest) appear on many of the grants of the blocks that became the Thorley family farms of Woodburn and Greylands and some of the same deeds also show Marsh as one of the grantees.
The Woodburn and Greylands property is reputed to have been was one of the biggest wool producers in New South Wales in the early 20th century ..and family lore has it that those family members residing there lived life in a very opulent manner. Portion of these properties had originally been part of Salisbury Run.
It was not until 1925 that the Hayne and Thorley families became directly interlinked. marriage no. 11950/1925 was Ida May Thorley and Clarence Matthew Hayne. Ida was a daughter of William Joseph Thorley (from above) and Mary Agnes (nee O'Neill).
An earlier indirect Hayne - Thorley link is via the marriage 6635/1942 of William Clyde Jurd to Rita May Hayne. William's mother was Catherine Mary Thorley (m. Ebenzer Jurd 6354/1899) Catherine was a niece of William Joseph Thorley. Her father was William's brother, John.
William and John Thorley married sisters from the Burraston family. And their sister Mary Anne jane Thorley married Joseph Burraston. So three Thorleys married three Burrastons of the same generation.
I digress ....it seems like a history of much or the Uralla area!
I was really interested to see the Salisbury Court fireplace and the link to the Hayne name. It rather says that E Hayne and Thomas Allan Thorley or his family were associated with Salisbury at about the same time.
I wonder if there may be more old photos of Salisbury Court around which could show any of the staff employed there in the early days? There is a facebook site for Salisbury Court which might be a good spot to add them (as well as here on Rootschat)?