{"id":697,"date":"2015-06-27T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?page_id=697"},"modified":"2015-12-29T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T12:13:32","slug":"charles-edward-norman-leith-hay-and-louisa-henrietta-valdivia-oneill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?page_id=697","title":{"rendered":"Charles Edward Norman Leith-Hay and Louisa Henrietta Valdivia O\u2019Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These portraits are at the Hall and held by the N.T.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?attachment_id=739\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-739\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-739\" src=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CEN-LH.jpg\" alt=\"CEN LH\" width=\"163\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?attachment_id=738\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-738\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-738\" src=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HV-ON.jpg\" alt=\"HV ON\" width=\"167\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uncle Charlie was born on the 9th of October in Ipswich Queensland, Australia to his parents James L-H and Maria Catherine Gray. (QLD Reg Birth 1858\/1299)<\/p>\n<p>The chapter on his life in the1958 family book describes his life best and as this was penned by his widow it will also be left unchanged. Charlie\u2019s younger days in Australia were spent at Ipswich and Rockhampton with his siblings and his schooling was done at the Ipswich Grammar School (student number 183) enrolled from 1870 to 1875. His love for acting can be seen in the local record providing details on his participation in school plays and later elocution classes at Ipswich. The Sydney Morning Herald of Thurs 20th Feb 1879 also having him dressed in the role of Thaddeus a noble Polish fugitive exiled in Austria from the play The Bohemian Girl for the Mayor\u2019s Ball.<\/p>\n<p>The below article is from Press and Journal\u00a0 Tue May 30 1939. p3 as well as the photo and as it is unsigned it\u2019s copyright expired in 2009 or 70 years from it\u2019s publication for the article and photo. Credits to Press and Journal and Newspaper Archives. An earlier pre 1920\u2019s article on the origin of Henrietta\u2019s painting above can also be obtained at <a href=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?attachment_id=1084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1084\">Leith_Hall_Garden_Party_Tenantry_entertained<\/a>. The latter being scanned here in Australia after being brought over back in the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?attachment_id=826\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-826\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-826 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/funer.jpg\" alt=\"funer\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/funer.jpg 640w, http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/funer-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?attachment_id=827\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-827 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CEN-OBIT.jpg\" alt=\"CEN OBIT\" width=\"514\" height=\"1544\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CEN-OBIT.jpg 514w, http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CEN-OBIT-166x500.jpg 166w, http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CEN-OBIT-100x300.jpg 100w, http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CEN-OBIT-341x1024.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These portraits are at the Hall and held by the N.T.S. Uncle Charlie was born on the 9th of October in Ipswich Queensland, Australia to his parents James L-H and Maria Catherine Gray. (QLD Reg Birth 1858\/1299) The chapter on his life in the1958 family book describes his life best and as this was penned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":717,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions\/1086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}