Who was Arthur Llewellyn, and why did he place a leadlight memorial in the hospital?
Arthur Lllewellyn was born in May 1850 in Lancashire, England.
His father was a spirit dealer.
By the time Arthur was 21, he was an apprentice with a timber merchant.
He immigrated to Australia in Jul 1876 on the ‘Allahad’ when he was 26.
In 1878, he married Annie Price.
Annie Price’s parents were both convicts – her father was on Maria Island, a probation station off Tasmania. Annie was born in Tasmania.
Arthur became an auditor and accountant from the time he emigrated.
He and Annie lived initially in Moama after their marriage, and then in Deniliquin in the late 1800s.
He was commissioned by a range of businesses in town to do their books.
Two of Annie’s siblings also lived in Deniliquin.
Her sister Mary did not marry, and died in Deniliquin in September 1898, aged only 46.
Michael Price lived in Moama in 1886, and owned land near Deniliquin before moving his family to Western Australia in 1904.
Arthur was licensed as an auctioneer in 1892, and in 1893 was appointed as accountant for the local council.
Arthur and Annie had five children,
Catherine Annie, known as Kate, was born in 1879 in Moama.
Kate died aged 14 years and three months on February 12, 1894 from typhoid fever.
Arthur was the secretary on the Deniliquin Hospital board at the time of his daughter’s death.
When a new section of the hospital was built in 1894, he commissioned for a memorial for his daughter to be created and presented it to the hospital in 1904.
William Evan Price Llewellyn was born in Moama in 1881, and worked as a stock and station agent and auctioneer in Deniliquin.
He married Matilda Emily Bayliss (sister of Phil and Tom Bayliss from the first two stories of this series) in 1913. By 1917 they moved to Goulburn, NSW.
Evelyn Harriet Llewellyn was born in Moama in 1892, and was wife to Phil Bayliss who featured in last month’s history article.
Doris Amelia Emily Llewellyn was born in Deniliquin in 1890.
She married Victor Charles Hutton Oddy in 1914.
They remained in Deniliquin, and there are descendants still living in Deniliquin today.
Jack Oddy wrote some notes to accompany the hospital memorial in 2001.
Arthur Llewellyn died at his home ‘Roseville’ on January 24, 1905 when he was only 54.
An obituary was featured in the Deniliquin Independent, and his death was announced in the Wagga and Bendigo papers as well.
Annie Llewellyn died on February 12, 1934 in Deniliquin, aged 84
For more details on Annie Price’s background, listen to Nicole Jenkins’ podcast ‘Family History Mysteries’, Episode 12 – Leadlight Memorial.
