Alfred Edwin Perry

  General Notes:

15 March 1912 embarked "Orontese" Orient Line, London bound for Australia.

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Keith Perry who writes:
Grandad went out in 1912 with his best mate and brother in law Jim Morris.
They were set on at the rail yards/Toowoomba Foundry. Initialy they were given the shed roofs to paint ( to see if they would work).
At that time the foundry had just landed a repeat order for steam locomotives. Grandad who was an engineering fitter was set on, building engines and Jim Morris, who was a foundry man, worked in the casting department.
They lived on a near by station, in what sounds like a ranch house, from a western. - Tales of horses being rode up the steps on to the porch and into the house, on one occasion.
Toowoomba Foundry was started by the Griffiths family. Grandad's mother was also a Griffiths, but I have not found a conection yet. The firms founders were of a family from Bristol, where as my lot seem to by from Worcestershire.
Anyway about 1915, the locomotive order was virtualy complete and Jim was down in the dumps, I dare say missing Esther and home, he said to Alf, "I'm thinking about going home". And that was it, on a whim, they packed there bags and were on the next steamer home.
Grandad died in1973. He had been interested in family history and had lots of documents, but after he died and the house was"tidied up" the vast majority were binned. A great shame. How he would have loved the possabilities of this medium. Back then, I was curiouse about Australia, but non of us really knew what questions to ask, and without the right trigger, to recall the memories he didn't say that much.He would have loved being able to see all about where he used to work, like we can today.

• emigrated. 15 March 1912 embarked "Orontese" Orient Line, London bound for Austral

• connection. ³⁶² Ray Griffiths' connection to me is as follows:

Ray Allan Griffiths (c1965)
His father was Raymond Albert Griffiths (1939)
His father was Charles Griffiths (1874)
His father was Richmond Griffiths (1852)
His father was Charles Griffiths (1824)
His father was William Griffiths (1796) & he also had Edwin Griffiths (1830)
He had Esther Griffiths (1867) who married Alfred Perry (1866)
They had Alfred Perry (1890) who married Alice Haywood (1889)
Her father was Joseph Haywood (1862)
His father was Joshua Haywood (1810) & he also had Harried Haywood (1847) who married Caleb Firkin (1846)
His father was Chalim (Caleb) Firkin (1811) & he also had Thomas Firkin (1833)
He had Caleb Firkin (1863)
He had Caleb Firkin (1892) who married Laura Effie Landeryou Bray (1893)
Her father was Thomas Alfred Inglis Bray (1872)
His father was Thomas Alfred Bray (1848)
His father was Thomas Bray (1821) & he also had Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
He had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Alfred married Alice Haywood, daughter of Joseph Haywood and Mary Hall, on 26 Oct 1918 in St Stevens, Smethwick, near West Bromwich, Staffordshire England. (Alice Haywood was born in 1889 in Smethwick, near West Bromwich, Staffordshire England and died on 21 Jun 1963 in Hadley St, Langley, Staffordshire England.)