Harry Reginald Verey (1891)

Born 8 Nov 1891 in East Ballarat In the Colony of Victoria

Ancestors

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Biography

Harry Reginald Verey was born in East Ballarat Victoria in 1891. He was the son of Ebenezer Verey and his wife Emily Pollard^[1]

1912 Marriage

Harry Reginald Verey married Doris Annie Johnstone in Victoria in March 1912^[2] They had one son Reginald Desmond in 1912^[3]

Darlinghurst.—A warrant has been issued by the Children’s Court Bench, Sydney, for the arrest of Harry Reginald Verey, charged with wife desertion. He is 22 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, medium build, fair complexion, fair curly hair, clean shaved, blue eyes, old scar on upper lip ; a process engraver, recently employed as an agent by the Metropolitan Insurance Company of Sydney; dressed in a blue serge sac suit, American cut, Verey, tailors, Rowe-street, Sydney, on tab of coat; has a brother named Eric Verey; a plasterer, residing at Newcastle, where offender is supposed to have gone. Complainant, Doris Yerey, 99 Victoria-street, Darlinghurst.^[4]

Harry was an electrical mechanic when he enlisted in the A.I.F.

Army Service in WW1

Harry Verey enlisted in the A.I.F in October 1914^[5] He was invalided out in July 1916 with shell shock and a back injury after a bomb exploded beside him while serving in Malta. When he arrived back in Australia he did not return to his wife and son.

1920 Divorce

Doris Annie Verey (28), of Millswyn Street, South Yarra, obtained a divorce on the ground of deser tion from Harry Reginald Verey (29) The parties were married in March. 1912, and petitioner alleged that respondent left her in 1916.^[6]

Research Notes

Reginald Desmond Verey married Mary Elizabeth Young in Sydney in 1922. This could not be Harry’s son as he was only 10 in 1922. It is likely that Harry used his son’s name for the marriage. Perhaps he didn’t know that he had been divorced by Doris.
Reginald Desmond Verey and his wife Mary Elizabeth divorced In NSW in 1931

• Mary Elizabeth Verey (formerly Young) v. Reginald Desmond Verey. Married at Paddington March 4, 1922. Desertion. Decree nisi. ^[7][8]

Harry married again and had a son, Harry David Verey in Tasmania about 1926^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ BDM Victoria Births 29823/1891
2. ↑ BDM Victoria Marriages 2555/1912
3. ↑ BDM Victoria Births 27834/1912
4. ↑ New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930), Wednesday 5 August 1914 (No.31), page 378
5. ↑ VEREY Reginald : Service Number - 604 : Place of Birth - Ballarat VIC : Place of Enlistment - Melbourne VIC : Next of Kin - (Wife) VEREY Doris Contents range 1914 - 1920 Series number B2455 Control symbol VEREY REGINALD Access status Open Barcode 8397902
6. ↑ Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thursday 11 November 1920, page 4
7. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wednesday 3 June 1931, page 7
8. ↑ Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Friday 31 October 1930, page 5
9. ↑ Family History