Henry Columbus Hurry
Henry Columbus Hurry (c1821-1899)
c1821 Born in Philadelphia, USA, the son of Charles Hurry
1850 Married in Meriden to Avarilla Smith (c1826-1918)[1] - (described as the Sutton heiress)
1851 Visitor at Hotel, Newton in Makefield: Henry Columbus Hurry (age 30 born USA - British subject), Civil Engineer. With Avarilla Hurry (age 25 born Coleshill).[2]
1852 'Henry Columbus Hurry, was engineer of the northern branch the London and North Western Railway Company.'[3]
1852 Birth of daughter. Of 63 Thornhill Square.[4]
1860 Henry C. Hurry, Engineer, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, Worcester.[5]
1864 'a civil engineer in the employ of the Great Western Railway'[6]
1867 'read a paper and exhibited an interesting model of an aerial machine, whereof the motive power is electo magnetism' Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.[7]
1891 Living at 139 Gloucester Road, St. Pancras: Henry C. Hurry (age 70 born Philadelphia, USA), Retired Civil Engineer. Unmarried.[8]