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One line of Thurlby's ended up in Brisbane.

Frederick Thurlby b. 15 February 1892 (address shown on birth certificate is
4 Sidney Street, Islington S.E. London. He had 2 sisters Lilie & May, and
twins who did not survive. His father was also Frederick and mother Eliza
Harriot Thurlby (nee Taylor).

Frederick senior & junior left England on the ship Eastminster in 1910
arriving in Australia in 1911 to search for accommodation suitable for their
wife/mother. Father & son had a big disagreement, separated and never got
back together again.

Frederick junior settled in Brisbane and married Ada Wilson raising three
children, Edwin Reuben Charles(known as Ted or Eddie), Frederick Henry &
Florence May Betty (known as Betty).

Frederick died on 13 October 1957 aged 65 and Eliza Harriot on 2 January
1980 aged 89. Two of their children have died - Eddie on 13 August 1988 and
Fred on 18 July 1985.

Charles Watkin Thurlby came to Australia from England on the ship "Eastminster" which departed the port of Queenstown on 15 July 1876 arriving in Brisbane on 6 November 1876.  He put his age as 25 on the shipping register, but he was only 20. He was a steerage passenger. He came across with his cousin, (his mother's side) Mary Hannah Watkin, whom he married on 15 February 1877. They had six children before she died in 1913. He then married Evelyn Corkling. CWT owned his own drapery store in South Brisbane. He also owned several houses in Brisbane which he rented out and he owned 5 houses with fabulous views on Burleigh Heads which is part of the very famous "Gold Coast strip" in Queensland. In WWII When the Japanese bombed Darwin in north Australia, he panicked and sold each of the houses for almost nothing believing that it would be better to have cash if the Japanese took over.