Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM (1879

Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM (1879 - 1942)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Edward (Ted) CUNNINGHAM (1914 - 1993)	Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM (1879 - 1942) + Nellie Maud WHARTON (1892 - 1957)	Edward CUNNINGHAM (1834 - 1898)



		Caroline Sharp HANN (1842 - 1880)	Joseph HANN (1815 - 1864)

			Elizabeth SHARPE ( - 1864)

Pic S1. Sacred to the Memory of
ARTHUR HENRY WICKHAM CUNNINGHAM
Passed away 9th January 1942
also his wife
NELLIE MAUD CUNNINGHAM
Passed away 10th March 1957

Pic 2. Sacred to the Memory of
ARTHUR HENRY WICKHAM CUNNINGHAM
Passed away 9th January 1942
also his wife
NELLIE MAUD CUNNINGHAM
Passed away 10th March 1957

b. 1879 at Queensland, Australia

m. 1910 Nellie Maud WHARTON (1892 - 1957) at Ashfield, NSW, Australia

d. 1942 at Townsville, Queensland, Australia aged 63

Near Relatives of Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM (1879 - 1942)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	Joseph HANN	1815	England	1864	Queensland, Australia	49
Grandmother	Elizabeth SHARPE			1864	Queensland, Australia

Father	Edward CUNNINGHAM	1834	Wiltshire, England	1898	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	64
Mother	Caroline Sharp HANN	1842	Wiltshire, England	1880	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	38
Step Mother	Annie Collett CLEMENTS	1859	Murrurundi, NSW, Australia	1916	Middlesex, England	57

Self	Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM	1879	Queensland, Australia	1942	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	63

Wife	Nellie Maud WHARTON	1892	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	1957	Darling Point, Woollhara, Sydney, NSW, Australia	65

Son	Edward (Ted) CUNNINGHAM	1914		1993		79

Sister	Louisa Augusta CUNNINGHAM			1926	North Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sister	Alice Maud Mary CUNNINGHAM	1866	Queensland, Australia	1942	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	76
Sister	Elizabeth Frances CUNNINGHAM	1867	Queensland, Australia	1901	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	34
Sister	Jenny CUNNINGHAM	1869	Queensland, Australia	1869	Queensland, Australia	0
Sister	Isabella Mary CUNNINGHAM	1870	Burdekin Downs, Queenland, Australia	1891	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	21
Brother	Edward Robertson CUNNINGHAM	1873	Queensland, Australia	1892	Queensland, Australia	19
Sister	Agnes CUNNINGHAM	1875	Queensland, Australia	1875	Queensland, Australia	0
Sister	Amy Bond Jessie CUNNINGHAM	1877	Queensland, Australia	1905	Ryde, Sydney, NSW, Australia	28
Half Brother	Norman Clements CUNNINGHAM			1883	Queensland, Australia
Half Sister	Helen Maud CUNNINGHAM	1884	Queensland, Australia
Half Brother	Arundel Howard CUNNINGHAM	1886	London	1938	Queensland, Australia	52
Half Sister	Gladys Gwendolen CUNNINGHAM	1888	Queensland, Australia

Uncle	William HANN	1837	Wiltshire, England	1889	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	52
Aunt	Mary Burge HEARN	1833	England	1894	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	61
Uncle	James Charles HANN	1839	Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, England	1923	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	84
Aunt	Katherine STANWAY	1839		1920	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	81
Uncle	John Thomas HANN	1840	Wiltshire, England
Aunt	Henrietta Georgina TAYLOR	1850	Battersea, Surrey, England	1910	Victoria, Australia	60
Uncle	Frank Hugh HANN	1846	Wiltshire, England	1921	Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia, Australia	75

Cousin	Louisa Clarke HANN	1860		1895	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	35
Cousin	Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN	1868	Queensland, Australia	1943	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	75
Cousin	Eugene Frank HANN			1916	Bullecourt, France
Cousin	John Marcus HANN	1889	Queensland, Australia	1947	Nyah, Victoria, Australia	58

Brother in Law	Reginald Alfred Maides POTIER	1873	Queensland, Australia	1915	Brisbane, Queenland, Australia	42
Brother in Law	Arthur Temple CLARK CLERK
Brother in Law	Joseph AHEARNE	1849		1926	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	77
Brother in Law	John YOUNG
Brother in Law	Edmund Francis HOGG
Sister in Law	Amy Irene WHELAN			1974	Queenland, Australia

Events in Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM (1879 - 1942)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1879		Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM was born	Queensland, Australia	Burial info
1880	1	Death of mother Caroline Sharp HANN (aged 38)	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	Note 1
1898	19	Death of father Edward CUNNINGHAM (aged 64)	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	Note 2	60
1910	31	Married Nellie Maud WHARTON (aged 18)	Ashfield, NSW, Australia	Note 3
1914	35	Birth of son Edward (Ted) CUNNINGHAM
1916	37	Death of step mother Annie Collett CLEMENTS (aged 57)	Middlesex, England	Note 4
1942	63	Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM died	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	Burial info
1942	63	Burial	Belgian Gardens Cemetery, Townsville	Note 5	90

Note 1: Death

3 April, 1880 (aged ~ 38)
Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 April 1880
SUICIDE.
A TELEGRAM from Townsville, dated Saturday,
informs us that a Mrs. Cunningham committed
suicide that morning by hanging herself with
a saddle strap, at the residence of Mrs. Aplin
near the town. The deceased woman had
been suffering from melancholy and had been
watched by Mrs. Aplin during the early part
of the night, while her husband kept watch,
during the second part. The latter, however,
fell asleep and his wife took advantage of this
to commit the dreadful deed. On awakening
the husband found his wife gone, and on making
search was horrified to discover her hanging as
already described.

Northern Miner (Charters Towers) 10 April 1880
Sudden Death.
A MOST painful and distressing circum-
stance took place on Saturday morning
last. It appears that Mrs. Cunning-
ham, the wife of Mr. Edward Cunning-
ham, of Woodhouse station, has recently
been staying at Mr. William Aplin's
residence at Mundingburrah, and has
been in ill-health for some time past.
During the early morning of Saturday,
the lady must have left her bedroom
and proceeded to the bath-room, where
she was discovered in a lifeless state by
her husband. It is supposed that while
suffering from some derangement of the
mind she must have suspended herself
in the bath-room and that death ensued
therefrom. Dr. Frost was at once sent
for and immediately repaired to Mr.
Aplin's residence, but was not in time
to be of any service as life was extinct.
The funeral, which was largely attended,
took place on Saturday afternoon, the
Rev H. Plume officiating.

Note 2: Burial info

Northern Register (Townsville) 21 Nov 1898
Very sincere and general regret
(says the "Townsville Star,") was ex
pressed on Saturday when the sad
news of the death of Mr. Edward Cun
ningham was made known in Towns
ville. The deceased was a fine speci
men of the North Queensland pioneer,
and possessed hosts of friends through
out this great territory. Mr. Cunning
ham arrived in Northern Queensland
in 1803, being one of the first white
men here, and he took up the Burde
kin Downs station, one of his cattle
camps being on the site of the present
Charters Towers goldfield. Later on
he took up the Woodhouse run, and
the Burdekin Delta sugar plantations
are now upon part of his original sta
tion. Mr. Cunningham experienced
all the ups and downs of the pioneer of
settlement, and was in recent years
one of the severest sufferers from the
disastrous tick plague. His death re
moves from amongst us a man of the
stamp we can ill afford to lose. He
leaves a widow and several children.
The eldest daughter is Mrs. A. T.
Clerk, the second is Mrs. Joseph
Ahearne, and the third Mrs. Potier,
junr.

Note 3: Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1818-2011
Name Arthur Henry Wickham Cunningham
Gender Male
Marriage Age 31
Record Type Marriage
Birth Date 1879
Marriage Date 12 May 1910
Marriage Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Parish as it Appears Croydon
Father Edward Cunningham (deceased)
Mother Caroline Cunningham (deceased)
Spouse Nellie Maud Wharton (age 31 crossed out and replaced with 16)
Nellie’s Father: William Thomas Wharton (grazier)
Nellie’s Mother: Elizabeth Longwill?

Note 4: Probate
CUNNINGHAM Annie Collett of 5 Northwick-terrace St. John’s Wood, Middlesex widow died 19 May 1916
Administration (with will) London 8 June to Helen Maud Cunningham and Gladys Cunningham spinsters
Effects 220 pounds

Note 5: Arthur Henry Wickham Cunningham

Birth
29 Jun 1879
Queensland, Australia
Death
9 Jan 1942 (aged 62)
Queensland, Australia
Burial
Belgian Gardens Cemetery
Belgian Gardens, Townsville City, Queensland, Australia Show Map
Plot
Sect F, Sub 6, Row 27, Plot 596
Memorial ID

Personal Notes:

Australian Dictionary of Biography
Arthur Henry Wickham (Harry) Cunningham (1879-1942), pastoralist, was born on 29 June 1879 at Woodhouse station, near Ayr, Queensland, son of Edward Cunningham, grazier, and his wife Caroline, née Hann, sister of William and Frank Hann. Harry Cunningham was educated at Barker College, Sydney, and returned to North Queensland; when his father died in 1898 he managed Woodhouse station, owned by Gilchrist, Watt and Cunningham. Much of the property was resumed and in 1902 the group purchased Strathmore on the Bowen River. Cunningham assumed management of both properties and settled permanently at Strathmore. On 12 May 1910 at Croydon, Sydney, he married Nellie Maud Wharton, of Birralee station. They had three sons and one daughter.

Cunningham was a member of the Wangaratta Shire Council from 1903 until 1942 and its chairman for twenty-six years; he was also involved in the Kennedy Stockbreeders and Collinsville Graziers associations, the Kennedy Hospital, Bowen Harbour Board, and the Townsville and Bowen show societies. A keen horseman, he was a long-time member and later patron of the Townsville Turf Club. During World War I his experience on the Bowen war council generated a scheme to assist returned servicemen by means of the profits from a cattle property.

Following negotiations with the Queensland government and the minister for repatriation in 1918-19, Cunningham inspected and purchased four properties on the lower Burdekin and consolidated them into Scartwater. The station was gradually stocked by donations of cattle and from funds contributed by sporting and other bodies. A board of five trustees included the local parliamentarian, the crown solicitor and Cunningham as managing trustee.

All returned servicemen and women resident in a defined area of North Queensland prior to enlistment were eligible, at first only for interest-free loans to establish themselves in business or on the land; the first grant of £500 was made in 1929. After 1936 the scheme was extended to help to educate dependants of ex-servicemen and women, and since then Scartwater and A. H. W. Cunningham scholarships have been awarded annually. The Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia awarded Cunningham its certificate of merit and gold badge in 1933. Since his death, benefits of the trust, managed by his son, have extended to veterans of other wars. To the end of 1976 loans totalled $733,375, and scholarships had supported 690 secondary and 345 tertiary students, representing a total value of $621,665.

Cunningham died on 8 January 1942 in Bay View Hospital, Townsville, of injuries received in a motor accident. He was buried in Townsville cemetery with Anglican rites. His estate was sworn for probate at £124,129.

Source References:

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- Notes: Arthur Henry Wickham Cunningham

Birth
29 Jun 1879
Queensland, Australia
Death
9 Jan 1942 (aged 62)
Queensland, Australia
Burial
Belgian Gardens Cemetery
Belgian Gardens, Townsville City, Queensland, Australia Show Map
Plot
Sect F, Sub 6, Row 27, Plot 596
Memorial ID

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