Item Type: Person

Linked To

Person

James, Jemima

Collection

People

Place

Aronda

Locality

Shellharbour Village

Family

Photograph

Person (12)

Person

Person (3)

Place

Person (2)

Recollections

Add

no stories yet

Tools

Download Add to My Collection Contact us about this Citation for this item

Arnold Ellen

DESCRIPTION

NameArnold, EllenDate of Birth6/6/1869 Last edited by: June Hockey

Date of Death5/5/1964 Last edited by: June Hockey

OccupationBoarding House ManagerPlace of ResidenceAronda, Shellharbour Village.BiographyEllen Frances Leek Arnold was born to Cubitt (known as George) and Mary Ann Arnold (Nee Szarka) in 1869, registered at Kiama.

Leek was the maiden name of Mary Ann Szarka's mother, Helena.

On 15 September 1891, Ellen Arnold was given an address and presentation at the Temperance Hall Shellharbour social evening, for her duties as organist ‘for some years past’ at the Wesleyan/Methodist Church. The Church in Mary Street had been erected in 1865 on land given by Thomas Alexander Reddall.

The book ‘My Name is Jemima’ by Arnold and Lorna Spackman, (Arnold a descendant of the Arnold/James families), tells the history of these families.

The James girls, daughters of Thomas and Rachel James (nee Arnold), went to Shellharbour Public School in Mary Street, opposite the boarding house. They would stay at the boarding house with their aunts Polly, Ellen and Jemima, and swing in the hammock on the balcony and watch the ships passing by on their way to Sydney. The girls would wait here for the older James girls to take them home to their Dunmore farm, ‘Rosemont’ in the horse and sulky.

The girls when older, would catch the train from Shellharbour railway station to Wollongong Domestic Science School, a long day from 7.20 am to 6.30 pm back home to ‘Rosemont’. (excerpts from ‘My Name is Jemima' by Arnold and Lorna Spackman).

Ellen was unmarried, and died in 1964 aged 95 years. Her parents and sisters had predeceased her.

The streets at the new Seacrest Estate, Flinders Shellharbour City, 2009, have been named after the James and Arnold families.

External LinkSocial Gathering for Ellen Arnold

Photograph

Members of the Arnold Family

Mary Ann (Polly) Arnold

Jemima Arnold

Ellen Frances Leek Arnold

Aronda and Guesthouse

Ellen Frances Leek Arnold

Mary Ann (Polly) Arnold withe Nieces Miriam, Jenefer and Eva James

Mary Ann (Polly) Arnold

Jemima Arnold

Person

Szarka, Mary Ann

Arnold, George Cubitt

James, Jemima

Place

Arnold's Guest House - Shellharbour Village

Aronda

Family

Arnold

Ellen Frances Leek Arnold.
Photo courtesy of Lorna Spackman.

CONNECTIONS

PersonJames, JemimaCollectionPeoplePlaceArondaLocalityShellharbour VillageFamilyJamesArnoldFuller

Menu

Arnold Ellen