Whitty Henry Hamlyn

Whitty Henry Hamlyn

Male 1872 - 1938  (66 years)

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  • Name Whitty Henry Hamlyn 
    Birth 30 May 1872  Tarramia Station, Corowa, NSW Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 18 Oct 1938  Heathfield, Sussex Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I323  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 26 Nov 2023 

    Father Whitty Henry Tarlton,   b. 4 Jul 1847, Tumut, New South Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Mar 1912, Wadhurst, Sussex Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Harris Mary Hamlyn,   b. 31 May 1848, Bangalore, India Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Sep 1932, Wadhurst, Sussex Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage 6 Jul 1871  Hampstead Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F10  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hampton Marguerite Louise,   b. 7 Jul 1881, Mile End, London Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1958, Tonbridge, Kent Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 1904  New South Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Whitty Marguerite Eleanor Hamlyn,   b. 8 Apr 1905, New South Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2000, Seaford, Sussex Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)
    +2. Whitty Lt Col. John Henry Hamlyn,   b. 7th Feb 1910, NSW, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Oct 1944, Monte Cassino, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years)
     3. Whitty Mary Hamlyn,   b. 12 Oct 1913, Melbourne, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1948, Cheltenham, Glos. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)
    Family ID F123  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2012 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1904 - New South Wales Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 18 Oct 1938 - Heathfield, Sussex Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    1933 Australian Electoral Role for Henry Hamlyn Whitty and Marguirite Louise Whitty
    1933 Australian Electoral Role for Henry Hamlyn Whitty and Marguirite Louise Whitty
    Henry Hamlyn Whitty probate record, 1938
    Henry Hamlyn Whitty probate record, 1938
    from National Archives via ancestry.co.uk
    1891 Census record for Henry Hamlyn Whitty, Gloucestershire.
    1891 Census record for Henry Hamlyn Whitty, Gloucestershire.
    from National Archives record via ancestry.co.uk
    'Shearing the rams' by Tom Roberts 1890, painted at Corowa. Henry would have been 18 at the time and had grown up in nearby Taramia Station.
    'Shearing the rams' by Tom Roberts 1890, painted at Corowa. Henry would have been 18 at the time and had grown up in nearby Taramia Station.
    One of the most well known and loved paintings in Australia, Shearing the Rams has been described as a "masterpiece of Australian impressionism" and "the great icon of Australian popular art history". The painting is part of the National Gallery of Victoria Australian art collection.
    Tarramia Homestead, the only known photos from a family album
    Tarramia Homestead, the only known photos from a family album
    John Charles Whitty and his eldest son Henry Tarlton bought Tarramia in 1865, it marks Henry turning 18. It's a large sheep run of approximately 50,000 acres on the north bank of the Murray River. All of Henry's 6 children he subsequently had with his wife Mary Harris were born here.
    golf at Tarramia
    golf at Tarramia
    players unknown, from Whitty family photos
    1904 marriage record: Henry Hamlyn Whitty + Marguerite Louise Hampton in Sydney
    1904 marriage record: Henry Hamlyn Whitty + Marguerite Louise Hampton in Sydney
    15th June 1904, in the parish of Marrickville St Celement
    Henry is described as a Batchelor, and Grazier from Tarramia Station, age 31
    Marguerite is described as a spinster, from Sydney 'en Ville', aged 22
    Grave of Henry Hamlyn Whitty in St Peter & St Paul Churchyard, Wadhurst, E Sussex
    Grave of Henry Hamlyn Whitty in St Peter & St Paul Churchyard, Wadhurst, E Sussex
    This is almost certainly a shared grave with his wife Marguerite, whose details are on the other side
    Dewhurst Lodge, Wadhurst, Sussex. A Whitty family home
    Dewhurst Lodge, Wadhurst, Sussex. A Whitty family home
    photo from Whitty family album, date unknown
    10 Hungershall Park, Tonbridge Wells, where Henry and Marguerite lived in their later years
    10 Hungershall Park, Tonbridge Wells, where Henry and Marguerite lived in their later years
    They had moved from Dewhurst Lodge in Sussex which was a large house, but this is also quite a pile.
    photo from Rightmove property website
    Tarramia Station in 2018
    Tarramia Station in 2018
    photo from an article describing it has having a 150 yr old homestead, which must be from the original buildings built by the Whitty family in the mid 1800s. It is described as having 4 kilometers of waterfront with Lake Mulwala. You can see the water in the background.
    Tarramia Station from the air in 2018 showing frontage on Lake Mulwala
    Tarramia Station from the air in 2018 showing frontage on Lake Mulwala
    A 2018 article on the sale of Tarramia Station says Tarramia South includes "the original three-bedroom homestead fronting Lake Mulwala, a number of cottages, farm building and a pump station."
    1890s 'tennis party' at Tarramia
    1890s 'tennis party' at Tarramia
    Photo caption says: "1890s. Pioneering sheep stations sometimes constructed tennis courts, and held 'competitions' at 'tennis parties'. Pictured is 'Tarramia Station', upstream of Mulwala."
    source: Yarrawonga Mulwala Historical Society Facebook post from 24th March 2022
    Tarramia Station from the air in 2018
    Tarramia Station from the air in 2018
    Photo from an article about the property being sold for the first time in 60 years. It was described in articles from this year as a 'renowned' and 'iconic' property on Lake Mulwala

  • Notes 
    • SUMMARY
      Henry Hamlyn Whitty was born in 1872 in New South Wales to father Henry Tarlton Whitty, a rancher and mother Mary Hamlyn Harris. He was the eldest of 6 children, and their family was wealthy, through 2 generations of hard work creating a successful farming business in Australia.

      He was born in Tarramia Station, as were all his siblings, which was the family farmstead on the shore of Lake Mulwala, and they all grew up there in their early years. From the photo of the time we have of it, it is a series of Bungalow buildings with tin roofs in a wooded area. More recent photos should it to be right next to Lake Mulwala. The family holdings were based on cattle and sheep, in a dry area prone to dust storms and flooding, so despite the family wealth it would have been an area where hard work was how you survived.

      "A story is told that during one flood, Henry Tarlton, his children and their nurse were in a small boat. They were in the course of a very deep creek which ran just behind Taramia when he realised the youngest child was missing. Henry Tarlton dived in and found the child 12 feet down on the bottom, who was indignant at being rescued from the fascination of watching a fish swim into a bottle... In 1885 Mary and Henry returned to England to settle their two eldest sons (Henry Hamlyn aged 13 and John Tarlton aged 10) at school..." (source: family history notes of Mary Whitty). Some of Henry's younger siblings stayed in Tarramia during this time and the family kept their Australian farming business going.

      The school Henry and John went to was Clifton College in Bristol, a Public School, which was where his father had gone, as part of the first intake when the school set up in 1862. (In all 15 members of the Whitty family have gone to Clifton College over the years).

      In the 1891 Census Henry Hamlyn is aged 19, living in Ivywell House in Bristol, and is a student of Civil Engineering, so he would have finished school the year before. He is described as the Head of the household (so his parents must have been away) and with him are living 4 of his siblings all scholars, and 4 domestic servants.
      We don't know where he was studying civil engineering.

      At some point in the 1890s Henry moves back to Australia, because the next record we have is from 1904 when he gets married to Marguerite Louise Hampton in Marrickville Australia. Henry is aged 31 and a 'Grazier' from Tarramia Station (meaning he had taken on the family business), and Marguerite is aged 22. She had been born in East London but moved to Australia aged 10, and grown up with her 2 siblings in Marrickville with her Mum after her Dad a sea captain died when she was 12. The photos we have of Marguerite show someone with a steady look and probably didn't take fools gladly. Henry and Marguerite go on to have 3 children, of whom John is the significant one to continue this family tree.

      Henry and Marguerite seem to have lived between Australia and the UK, for instance son John was born in Feb 1910 in Australia but baptised in Aug 1910 in the UK.

      In 1922 Henry sold the family farm, Tarramia Station, and moved back to the UK.
      He stayed involved in sheep farming in Australia and remained on the board of the Peel River Land and Finance Company, which a later obituary of Henry said "controls large areas of country in New South Wales, Queensland, and the Northern Territory". So we can assume he remained wealthy.

      There are passenger lists of boats between Australia and the UK from 1922 and 1927 where Henry and Marguerite give their home address as Dewhurst Lodge in Wadhurst, Sussex. This was the home of his parents, but with his Dad Henry Tarlton dying in 1912 one can assume son Henry and his family lived there with his mother Mary who lived on till 1932. From a family photo we have of the house from the time, it is a large place with extensive gardens.

      A 1933 electoral record in Australia has Henry registered at No.2 Vera st, Corowa, Riverina District, NSW - as a pastoralist, but also his wife Marguerite Louise Whitty, 'home duties'. So they keep connected to Australia. A family history says that in 1934 Henry 'retired' from Australia, so perhaps that is when he stops actively being involved in business there.

      After the death of his mother in 1932, Henry sells Dewhurst Lodge and he and Margeurite move about 8km to the nearest big town which is Tonbridge Wells, where they live at no. 10 Hungershall Park. This is another large pile of a house (see photo).

      Henry dies in 1938, his probate saying he was at a nursing home in Tonbridge Wells at the time. He was 66 years old. He left £7040 in his Will, which equates to £350,000 in 2017 money according to the National Archives calculator.
      He is buried at Wadhurst in Kent.

      His widow Marguerite lived on until 1958.

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      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 Hamlyn 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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