 1872 - 1938
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| Born |
30 May 1872 |
Taramia Station, Corowa, NSW  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
18 Oct 1938 |
Heathfield, Sussex |
| Person ID |
I323 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
28 Aug 2013 |
| Father |
Whitty Henry Tarlton, b. 4 Jul 1847, Tarramia, New South Wales , d. 30 Mar 1912, Wadhurst, Sussex |
| Mother |
Harris Mary Hamlyn, b. 31 May 1848, Bangalore, India , d. 1 Sep 1932, Wadhurst, Sussex |
| Married |
6 Jul 1871 |
Hampstead |
| Family ID |
F10 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Hampton Marguerite Louise, b. 7 Jul 1881, Mile End, London , d. 1958, Tonbridge, Kent |
| Married |
1904 |
New South Wales |
| Children |
| | 1. Whitty Marguerite Eleanor Hamlyn, b. 8 Apr 1905, New South Wales , d. 2000, Seaford, Sussex |
| > | 2. Whitty Lt Col. John Henry Hamlyn, b. 4 Dec 1910, Sydney, Australia , d. 23 Oct 1944, Monte Cassino, Italy |
| | 3. Whitty Mary Hamlyn, b. 12 Oct 1913, Melbourne, Australia , d. 27 Dec 1948, Cheltenham, Glos. |
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| Last Modified |
6 Dec 2012 |
| Family ID |
F123 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- Henry, born into a wealthy family, grew up in both Australia and Gloucestershire, he sold the family farm Taramia in Australia in 1922, eighty two years after his grandfather started it, but remained on the board of a large land-holding company in Australia.
When he died he left £7040 in his will.
When his father Henry Tarlton died he left £179,000, so Henry Hamlyn either through the difficult economic times of the 1920s and 1930s, or through not generating much capital, somehow spent/lost what would in todays money be tens of millions of pounds during his life.
Obituary in the 'Argos', Melbourne, 1938:
'The death look place at his home in England recently of Mr Hamlyn Henry Whitty, formerly of Tarramia Station, Corowa. He was aged 66 years, and was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tarlton Whitty and a nephew of Mr Harold P. Whitty, of Berrigan. His grandfather, the late Mr J. C. Whitty, took up Tarramia in 1840. After having sold the station about 16 years ago, Mr H. H. Whitty went to England, and was elected to the board of the Peel River Land and Finance Company, which controls large areas of country in New South Wales, Queensland, and the Northern Territory. On one occasion he visited Australia by plane and used it to inspect the company's holdings in Australia. He has left a widow, one son and two daughters. His son, Mr. John Henry Hamlyn Whitty, of the Second Battalion of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, was recently awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in rescuing a man under fire in Palestine. Mr. H. H. Whitty was a brother of Sir John Whitty, of England and Colonel Noel Whitty, of the West Kent Regiment, England.'
source: http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/whitty-henry-hamlyn-14333
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On the death of his mother, Mary Hamlyn, Dewhurst Lodge passed to her eldest son, Henry Hamlyn. He 'retired' from Australia in 1934, and sold Dewhurst, moving to live at 10 Hungershall Park in Tunbridge Wells.
source: notes of Mary Whitty
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1891 Census info:
Whitty family lives in Ivywell House, Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire.
Henry Hamlyn Whitty is head of household aged 19 (Parents Henry and Mary must have been away), and is a student of civil engineering. Siblings Eleanor, John, Marie and Elsie are all scholars. There are 4 domestic servants in the household.
1904 Marriage record, Australia:
Marguerite L Hampton to Henry H Whitty
Marrickville, New South Wales
8th Dec 1922 Passenger List
On board the 'Benalla' from Melbourne, arriving in London were Henry Whitty (grazier aged 50), Margurite Whitty (wife, aged 39), Margurite Whitty (scholar aged 17), John Whitty (aged 12) and Mary H whitty aged 9.
their home address is Dewhurst Lodge, Wadhurst, Sussex.
*This would have been the voyage home after selling the farm in NSW.
16th Dec 1927 Passenger List
Henry and Marguerite Whitty arrive from Australia in the port of Southampton. They'd been passengers on the 'Largs Bay', and had joined the ship at Melbourne.
Their address is given as Dewhurst Lodge, Sussex
Henry's occupation is 'grazier'. Henry is aged 55, Marguerite aged 44
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The 1933 Electoral Role in Australia has both Henry Hamlyn Whitty - listed at address No.2 Vera st, Corowa, Riverina District, NSW - as a pastoralist, but also his wife Marguerite Louise Whitty, 'home duties'.
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Death notice 1938:
...Henry Hamlyn Whitty late of 10 Hungershall Park Tunbridge Wells in the county of Kent formerly of Tarramia Corowa in the State of New South Wales Australia and Dewhurst Lodge, Wadhurst in the county of Sussex, and Shelford Mulwala in the State of New South Wales Australia
Retired Grazier. Deceased, who died on the eighteenth
day of October 1938...
source: London Gazette, 5th Jan 1940.
Probate:
WHITTY Henry Hamlen of 10 Hungershall Park, Tunbridge Wells, died 18th October 1938 at the Lonsdale nursing home, Lonsdale Gardens, Tunbridge Wells, Probate 5th dec London to Marguerite Louisa Whitty, Widow.
Effects £7040 14s. 7d. in England.
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