Bryce A Henry (1859 - 1894)

Born 11 Nov 1859 in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary May (McClelland) Henry — married 17 May 1880 in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1894 at age 34 in St Peters, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Bryce A Henry was born in about 1860 in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, the son of Thomas Henry and Jane Endesor^[1]. He was the brother of Jane (Henry) Abernethy, Annie Henry, Margaret Henry, Elizabeth Henry, William J Henry and Sarah Henry.

He married Mary May McClelland in 1880 at Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia^[2] and their children were Mary Jane Henry, Arthur Henry, Albert Ernest Henry, Cathcart Lance (James Gethcard) Henry, Ambrose John Arden Henry, Iva Viola Macfarlane (born Henry), Vida J. Henry and Alfred Bryce Henry.

Bryce died on 23 March 1894 at St Peters, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia^[3].

^[4]"We regret to record this week the death of Mr. Bryce Henry, the well-known host of the Great Southern Hotel, Berry, who died at a private hospital in Sydney on Friday night last, aged 34 years. Mr. Henry had been in a debilitated state of health for some weeks, and on the counsel of his medical advisor, Dr. Lowers, had sought the quiet and attention of a hospital retreat to recruit his health. The immediate cause of death was, we learn, failure of the heart's action—a not uncommon cause when the system is weak and debilitated.
Mr. Henry was the eldest son of Mr. Thomas Henry, of Tomerong, and was a native of Kiama or Sydney, we are not quite sure which. In the days when Bryce Henry was young his father removed to the Nerriga goldfields, where there were but few educational advantages. Nevertheless young Henry had much native force of character. He inherited to a large degree the mechanical and constructive faculty so peculiar to the Henrys of his father's family, as also the perseverance to complete large undertakings.
With few advantages of education his predominating talent for mechanics overcame all educational disadvantages. What was laboriously acquired by years of practice in others, was Bryce Henry's recreation, so to speak.
With no friends in counsel to gain influence for him as a young contractor, his naturally correct appreciation of quantities and construction, soon won a way for him in Government contracting. The Broughton Mill bridge and the Jarrett's Creek bridge, both large and important structures in this district, besides many heavy earth cuttings and minor contracts, were but a part of his undertakings. Besides these he had large sub-contracts on the railways and on the Sydney water-works, always carrying them out with a profit— a gain that was wonderful for a man of his limited opportunities, but a success sufficient to show what he might have achieved under more favourable circumstances of early education and opportunities for observation, or even had he continued contracting instead of taking to a business for which he was not adapted.
Mr. Henry was an alderman of Berry Municipal Council, and a member of Berry Lodge of Freemasons, which accorded his remains a Masonic funeral on Monday last at Berry, whither the coffin was conveyed by train. Mrs. Henry and a family of four or five young boys survive her husband."

Sources

1. ↑ New South Wales Australia Births: Name: HENRY BRICE Registration number 7677/1860 Father's Given name(s) THOMAS Mother's Given name(s) JANE District KIAMA
2. ↑ New South Wales Australia Marriages: Registration number 4870/1880  Groom's Family Name HENRY Groom's Given Name(s) BRYER Bride's Family Name(s) MCCLELLAND Bride's Given Name(s) MARY District SHOALHAVEN
3. ↑ New South Wales Australia Deaths: Name: HENRY BRYCE Registration number 12697/1894 Father's Given Name(s) THOMAS Mother's Given Name(s) UNKNOWN District ST PETERS
4. ↑ [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/121623795 The Shoalhaven Telegraph (NSW : 1881 - 1937) Wed 28 Mar 1894 Page 3 Obituary: Bryce Henry]

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Thomas Henry Jane Cooper Endesor