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- Arrived Adelaide on SV City of Adelaide 19 August 1876
1898 Photographer of Wall St Norwood.
1900 Photographer of Tucker St Adelaide In later life resided in Point Clare NSW (newspaper obituary). Lived in many locations in SA and NSW and had many occupations.
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- Hans Johannes Trules (Harry) NISSEN born 31 March 1872, christened 19 April 1872 at Abenraa, Aabenraa-Sonderborg, Schleswig. On the birth certificate of some of his children Harry’s birthplace is given as Fredericia, Denmark. On Colin’s birth certificate Harry gives his place of birth as Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, though this is almost certainly incorrect as it is not supported by other evidence. Kiel was possibly the port from which the family sailed to go to England before the journey to Australia. Harry was married twice.
Married (1) 1895 in Adelaide to Josephine ROLLINSON, born 30 October 1866 in Aldinga, SA. [Josephine was the daughter of Joseph ROLLINSON, born 1809, died 20 November 1895 in Norwood, SA, and Christine HENDERSON, born 1824, died 14 July 1886 in Norwood, SA. She had one brother, Colin, who died as a baby. Josephine had first married Horace Edgar Walter BYERLEE, born 12 April 1863. (Horace already had a daughter from a previous relationship). They had two sons: Christian Joseph BYERLEE born 10 January 1889 and Angus Gunn BYERLEE, born 4 March 1891. Both Christian and Angus came to Sydney with Josephine and Harry in about 1901. After he left school Christian worked on a farm, as a drover, doing fencing, then in a baker’s shop. Angus worked in the railway for a while. When they got fed up with the ever growing family in Sydney they went by boat to Townsville, and after many adventures – including time in NT on the Victoria River Downs – they got involved in sugar cane faming at Mina Creek near Tully in far north Queensland. They both served in the First World War, Angus in the 5th Machine Gun Battalion from 13 January 1915 till 9th March 1919 and Christian in the 25th Battalion from 13 May 1916 till 22 August 1919. Angus listed his occupation as stockman. He was gassed and wounded while fighting in France. Chris gave his occupation as farmer. Christian’s wife, Marie CLARKSON, died in childbirth five years after their marriage. They had three children. Their oldest daughter, Joyce, served in the RAAF during World War II. Their son, James, became a geophysicist and moved to America. Daphne was a nurse and lives in Wollongong. Christian was married a second time to Winsome KIRKLAND and they had a son, Hugh. Christian later operated a caravan park in Caloundra. He died at the age of 90 in 1979. Angus always had a violent temper. He once got the sack because of it when working with his brother on a cattle station in Queensland. It was while blazing away at his wife who was with another man that he accidentally killed his child, Heather. He committed suicide five weeks later - the day after his half-sister, Freda’s, marriage. He had been married for just on three years to Theresa McMAHON. Theresa remarried six months later. Josephine NISSEN died, aged 43, on 1 June 1910 leaving seven young children as well as her two children from her first marriage.]
Married (2) 1914 in Sydney (indexed as Mans J.T. Nissen) to Florence Harriet MATTHEWS, nee SWARZES, born 11 February 1887 in St Leonards, NSW. [Florence Harriet SWARZES was the second daughter of George SWARZES and Lilly Annabella Violet WEIR. Her sister, May, married Richard TUNKS. Her paternal grandmother, Mary Anne BAKER, was born in Sydney in 1833 of convict parents who had arrived in 1819 and 1827. Her paternal grandfather was illiterate and had his name written by some official as John SCHWARTZ. He later changed the spelling of the name to SWARZES to better resemble its Portuguese pronunciation. He was born Joao SOARES near Lisbon in Portugal and jumped ship in Sydney some time in the 1840s and died at the age of 95 in 1911. Her maternal grandparents, Joseph and Harriet WEIR, came from England in the 1850s and owned a hotel at Bolivia, NSW. Harriet later ran a boarding house in Sydney. Florence was first married in 1906 at St Leonards to Leonard MATTHEWS. They had one child, Lawrie Leonard George, who later took the surname SWARZES as he was brought up by his grandmother. Lawrie married Harriett YATES in 1933 and had eight children. He died in 1976. Leonard MATTHEWS divorced Florence in 1912 then married Annie ROCK. He died in 1975 aged 91. After Harry NISSEN died Flo was married a third time, in 1943, to Thomas Emery ROBSON, a widower. She died on 27 June 1975 in St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Tom died a few months later.]
In his time Harry had many occupations and lived in many places. He had been a gold digger, shearers’ cook, roustabout, hawker, blacksmith, painter, bush carpenter, salesman, showman and photographer, a mechanical toy maker, rabbit expert, an auctioneer, and a salesman of hardware. He died on 17 March 1941 at the age of 68 in the Hinemoa Private Hospital, Gosford, NSW, of a heart condition. He was buried in the Point Clare cemetery. Harry fathered fifteen children. He had fifty-two grand-children, of whom five died as children. He also had three stepsons.
- Known as Harry.
Arrived Adelaide on SV City of Adelaide 19 August 1876
1898 Photographer of Wall St Norwood.
1900 Photographer of Tucker St Adelaide In later life resided in Point Clare NSW (newspaper obituary).
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