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Hans (Harry) Rollinson NISSEN (son of Hans Johannes Trules NISSEN and Josephine ROLLINSON) born 27 September 1896, Wall St, Norwood, SA. He was about 5 when his family moved to Sydney. After his mother died in 1910 he went to a boys’ home in Mittagong. He then went to live with the Gulliver family in Newcastle. He was probably attracted to North Queensland by his half-brothers because he eventually had shares in a cane farm with them in Tully, Qld. While they were overseas during the war he looked after their cane farm and was put down as Chris BYERLEE’s next of kin. However it was at Wickham, near Newcastle, NSW, that he met his wife, Dulcie Wilks LESTER, whom he married in 1927. She was 18. (A Dulcie Lester was born in 1909 in Newtown). He took her back to Tully, though their first child Ethel, who died as a baby, was born in Grafton. It was here that he looked after his half-brother, Christian’s, daughter, Daphne, for about 15 months when her mother died in 1928. An aunt then took care of her. Harry finished up as one of the wealthiest cane-growers in North Queensland, eventually selling his property for over £90,000.   Three more children, Edith, Thomas and Mary, were born in Tully, but by 1936 Hans had contracted yellow Jordan fever, a disease that manifests itself in tropical climates and can be spread by mosquitoes. To stop the spread of the disease the family had to leave Queensland, so they travelled by ship to Stockton, Newcastle, NSW, near Dulcie’s family. Here Joyce, Ronald (who died as a baby) and James were born. For a while Harry worked at the Newcastle Steel Mills but eventually was granted a pension and was more or less bed-ridden. He spent a lot of time and devotion looking after his daughter, Mary, who was paraplegic. Harry died in 1956 in Stockton, near Newcastle. Dulcie died in 1976.
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