Cyril Howard Gould CONNOLLY
Born 25 January 1904 in Geraldton, Western Australia [16]
Son of Robert Walter CONNOLLY and Harriet GOULD [15]
Farmhand on his father's farm in Walkaway until shifting with his parents to Arrino in 1922 [P121]
Farmer with his father of Cintra Farm in Dudawa, East Arrino 1922-1930[P121]
After his father sold Cintra Farm shifted with his father and sisters to a house in the Arrino townsite [P121]
Member of the Dudawa Tennis Club in 1928-29 and 1939-30 [4: 20-Apr-1929, 30-Nov-1929]
Attended the Beach Committee's Dance held at the Dongara Hall in Dongara on Monday evening 28 February 1929 [4: 2-Feb-1929]
Following the Arrino Race Club's race meeting attended the evening Ball in the Arrino Hall on Thursday 4 April 1929 [4: 13-Apr-1929]
Attended the Anglican Church's Fancy Dress Ball in Three Springs on Thursday 27 June 1929 as a "Dudawa Cowboy" [4: 6-Jul-1929]
Attended the Three Springs Football Club's Welcome Home Social for two newly wedded couples on 1 November 1929 [4: 9-Nov-1929]
He was among those who took a joy-ride in a Gipsy Moth plane which visited Arrino on 19 December 1929 [4: 28-Dec-1929]
Won the High Jump at the R.S.L. Sports Day at the Arrino Recreation Ground on Thursday 5 November 1932 [5: 11-Nov-1932]
Member of the Arrino Tennis Club from 1929-30 to 1935-36 [4: 8-Nov-1930] [5: 20-Apr-1934, 13-Mar-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Golf Club's Opening Season Dance at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 21 April 1934 [5: 27-Apr-1934]
On 2 May 1934 he and Herbert B. FAWCETT crutched William MUTTER's ewes on Noalimba Farm in Dudawa [144]
Attended the Inering School Dance held at the Carnamah Hall to raise money for books on Saturday 21 July 1934 [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Member of the Arrino Cricket Club in 1934-35 [5: 14-Dec-1934]
Winner of Bridge at the Card Party held at the home Mrs TURNER in Arrino on Wednesday evening 7 August 1935 [5: 9-Aug-1935]
He and Miss SEHPPARD won the Monte Carlo dance at the Anglican Church Dance in Arrino on 1 November 1935 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
He and Herbert B. FAWCETT made cement brick at Blue Water that were used for Arthur A. V. C. SMITH's farmhouse [144]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Attended the funeral of Arrino resident Mrs Ellen DEE at the Three Springs Cemetery on 16 August 1939 [4: 19-Aug-1939]
Private in Arrino's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War[16]
After marrying an Eastern States woman resided with his wife in the Eastern States of Australia for a number of years [P121]
Later returned to Arrino and worked as a Sheep Shearing Contractor [6] [P121]
After working as a Shearer in Arrino for a number of years he left the district and moved to Dongara [P2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Cyril Howard Gould Connolly' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 18 November 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/cyril-howard-gould-connolly [reference list] |
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