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Henry Christopher (Harry) Scully (1882-1921) chemist, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, police informer
Birth: 22 February 1882 at Stanthorpe, Queensland, youngest of nine children of Patrick Scully, miner, later storekeeper, and Alice, née Sexton. Both parents had been born in Tipperary, Ireland. Marriage: (1) 26 November 1912 in St Benedict’s Church, Sydney, New South Wales, to Queensland-born Marie Gloria Cooper, a saleswoman. They had one daughter and one son. (2) informant on his death certificate, “brother-in-law”, claimed that Scully had married Pearle, formerly Morris, late Olsen, at Geelong, Victoria, in 1919, but no record has been sighted. Death: 28 August 1921 at the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley. Religion: Anglican.
Sources
Ian Turner, Sydney’s Burning (Sydney, 1967); Frank Cain, The wobblies at war: a history of the IWW and the Great War in Australia (Melbourne, 1993); Verity Burgmann, Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia (Melbourne 1995).
Chris Cunneen, 'Scully, Henry Christopher (Harry) (1882–1921)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/scully-henry-christopher-harry-33469/text41849, accessed 23 September 2023.
22 February,
1882
Stanthorpe,
Queensland,
Australia
28 August,
1921
(aged 39)
Waverley, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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