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Roy Harden - Mineworker and Aberdare Taxi Driver. Recorded 4 August 1982. Part 2/2.
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SummaryTAPE 117B ROY HARDEN
Recorded 4 August 1982
Part 2 of 2
0:03
Nellie McKay Scott. His daughter is Robin Gray-Harden, his granddaughter is Sarah Gray-Gilmore. Roy’s father Robert Harden, was born at West Wallsend on 20 October 1901. His father was born at Killside in Scotland in 1872 he was a miner and married in Australia to Christina Gracie at Minmi in 1896.
Roy and Jack are looking at Roy’s family papers. His father William John married Mary Rankin – Gracie worked at Minmi – originally from Ayrshire. Archibald Gracie.
3:30
On mother’s side. Mother born 1904, originally from Helensburg on the south coast. Roy’s grandfather Christopher James Thompson married Susan Harriet Bell (widow) previously a Millman.
Grandfather John Thompson married Catherine (Kate) White from Cork, Ireland. Catherine’s parents: Edward White (master baker) married Kate Hartnett in Australia. Confusion over Irish or English origins.
Family threads. Master baker worked at Sebastopol, Victoria. Married at Bunniyong.
The Thompsons/ the Millmans. Pioneers. Bendigo migrants. Difficulty in identifying graves.
12:10
Pneumonic plague (not bubonic plague). Diptheria and flu.
Barbara daughter of Thomas Grey Brown and Dorothy May Moran. Early settlers in Minmi. They came out with “their team of kids”.
The Morans. 1856 the family came to Australia. Jack and Roy go through the extracts of family documents. Inaccuracies in official documents. Recurring names through the generations, Euphemia. The family originating from Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Jack Moran, Sam Unwin’s father, Jack Delaney’s father, Dan McMichael, George Asmiss, Osland, Murrell, Doyle, Bluey Blanch (maybe his father)(wife Ann) were railway gangers on the South Maitland Railways. The gang were working around 1903 on the Aberdare Junction to Cessnock line.
19:30
John Moran married Martha Jane Mainwaring (Maiden name - Hine) (Her father was William born in 1819 in England and his wife was Mary Hollis born in 1834 and they were married in Port Macquarie in 1850.) Martha Hine married a Mainwaring who died and Martha married John Moran.
Barbara’s father Thomas Grey, Old James Brown (Grandad Brown) with the children Nellie, David, Euphemia, Archibald, Jane, John, James, Margaret, William, Robert, Mary, Tom, Nesbitt. New Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Letter written to Meeting of Friends (Quakers) at Epson, written by Sarah Millman of Ireland
They discuss errors in some of the official documents. Father is wrong age.
Irene and Roy were the names of Roy’s mother’s siblings. Roy was the only boy on the Thompson side of the family, she never told him he was named after his Uncle Roy who died in infancy.
Jack Moran put the line into Cessnock at South Maitland Railways. Sam Unwin’s father worked with him. Doyle as well.
44:23
End Tape 117B Part 2 of 2
Harden, RoyPersonJack DelaneyDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010Location[1] Minmi, NSWIdentifier117B
Recorded 4 August 1982
Part 2 of 2
0:03
Nellie McKay Scott. His daughter is Robin Gray-Harden, his granddaughter is Sarah Gray-Gilmore. Roy’s father Robert Harden, was born at West Wallsend on 20 October 1901. His father was born at Killside in Scotland in 1872 he was a miner and married in Australia to Christina Gracie at Minmi in 1896.
Roy and Jack are looking at Roy’s family papers. His father William John married Mary Rankin – Gracie worked at Minmi – originally from Ayrshire. Archibald Gracie.
3:30
On mother’s side. Mother born 1904, originally from Helensburg on the south coast. Roy’s grandfather Christopher James Thompson married Susan Harriet Bell (widow) previously a Millman.
Grandfather John Thompson married Catherine (Kate) White from Cork, Ireland. Catherine’s parents: Edward White (master baker) married Kate Hartnett in Australia. Confusion over Irish or English origins.
Family threads. Master baker worked at Sebastopol, Victoria. Married at Bunniyong.
The Thompsons/ the Millmans. Pioneers. Bendigo migrants. Difficulty in identifying graves.
12:10
Pneumonic plague (not bubonic plague). Diptheria and flu.
Barbara daughter of Thomas Grey Brown and Dorothy May Moran. Early settlers in Minmi. They came out with “their team of kids”.
The Morans. 1856 the family came to Australia. Jack and Roy go through the extracts of family documents. Inaccuracies in official documents. Recurring names through the generations, Euphemia. The family originating from Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Jack Moran, Sam Unwin’s father, Jack Delaney’s father, Dan McMichael, George Asmiss, Osland, Murrell, Doyle, Bluey Blanch (maybe his father)(wife Ann) were railway gangers on the South Maitland Railways. The gang were working around 1903 on the Aberdare Junction to Cessnock line.
19:30
John Moran married Martha Jane Mainwaring (Maiden name - Hine) (Her father was William born in 1819 in England and his wife was Mary Hollis born in 1834 and they were married in Port Macquarie in 1850.) Martha Hine married a Mainwaring who died and Martha married John Moran.
Barbara’s father Thomas Grey, Old James Brown (Grandad Brown) with the children Nellie, David, Euphemia, Archibald, Jane, John, James, Margaret, William, Robert, Mary, Tom, Nesbitt. New Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Letter written to Meeting of Friends (Quakers) at Epson, written by Sarah Millman of Ireland
They discuss errors in some of the official documents. Father is wrong age.
Irene and Roy were the names of Roy’s mother’s siblings. Roy was the only boy on the Thompson side of the family, she never told him he was named after his Uncle Roy who died in infancy.
Jack Moran put the line into Cessnock at South Maitland Railways. Sam Unwin’s father worked with him. Doyle as well.
44:23
End Tape 117B Part 2 of 2
Harden, RoyPersonJack DelaneyDelaney, Jack, 1919-2010Location[1] Minmi, NSWIdentifier117Bloading google map....
Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010, Roy Harden - Mineworker and Aberdare Taxi Driver. Recorded 4 August 1982. Part 2/2., [117B]. Living Histories, accessed 02/06/2023, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/55701