Benjamin
Terry
Born about in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Son of Benjamin Terry
and Sarah (Ballard) Terry
Brother of
Eliza Murray Kate (Terry) Lewis, Alice (Terry) Carew GBE, George Edward Terry, Mary Bessie Terry, Florence Maude (Terry) Morris, Charles Terry, Thomas Walter Alfred Terry [half] and Frederick Terry
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Jan 2015
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Biography
The 1861 census records Benjamin, age 12, in the St Pancras district of London, living with his parents. His birthplace is recorded as Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.[1]
Unlike most of his family, Benjamin did not go on to the stage. Instead he worked his passage to Australia.[2] He sailed on the Dover Castle, leaving London on 15 January 1870 for Melbourne.[3]
Benjamin went on to work in India[2] for the South Indian Railway, and then in Mandalay, Burma for a firm of brewers and distillers.[4]
Sources
- ↑ 1861 census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7PT-7XC and FindMyPast with accompanying image
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael Holroyd. A Strange Eventful History. The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families, Chatto & Windus, 2008, p. 10
- ↑ Australia, Victoria, Inward Passenger Lists, 1839-1923, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGR1-CTD7 and FindMyPast and accompanying images
- ↑ Marguerite Steen. A Pride of Terrys, Longmans Green & Co Ltd, London, 1962, Chapter Six, viewed as eBook 10 November 2019
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