- Arthur Bryant -Life Events
When Arthur married Emmelina Leech, the daughter of Edward and Martha (Thwaites) Leech, on 26 April 1879 he was only 19 years old while Emmelina was 22 years old. He needed his father William's permission to marry as he was under the age and the consent. At the time he lived at Waterloo and was a plasterer.
Arthur and Emmelina lived initially in McEvoy Street Waterloo and then moved to nearby Mead Street. With three children the family movved to Bowral and lived in Merrigang Street and then Holly Street. Now with a family of eight children they moved back to Mead Street where the last child Edrick Jack was born.
By his sixties Arthur and Emmelina has moved to Woniora Street Hurstville where they spent their last years. Emmelina died in 1925 at the age of 68 years and Arthur six years later aged 70. They were both buried at Woronora Cemetery.