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Thompson Myers
Nimmitabel 1862

DAVID MYERS [Father] | Genealogy | PHOEBE MYERS | SAMUEL MYERS | ANN MYERS
| EMMA MYERS | MARIA MYERS | PAUL MYERS | THOMPSON MYERS | JOHN CASS MYERS
| JOSEPH MYERS | MARY MYERS | WILLIAM MYERS

THOMPSON MYERS, b. 18 April 1845, Yeadon, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.; d. 1930, Tumut NSW. 15179/1930..

Ellen (nee Mulhearn) and Thompson Myers
Ellen   Myers (nee Mulhearn)	Alfred Smith, with his son Edward Arthur
Alfred Arthur Smith	Rebecca Smith (nee Myers)
Elsie and Cecil Williams (nee Smith)	Sarah Louise Smith b 1991

Thompson was the third born son of David and Elizabeth and was born in Yeadon in Yorkshire in 1845.

Thompson married Ellen Mulhearn b1828 and was the daughter of John Mulhearn born in County Longford, Ireland and Mary nee Coffey born in County Sligo, Ireland.

Thompson owned a settlement at Nimmitabel (NSW) where he had been given a grant of 640 acres, this he named "The Kydra". He also drove a bullock team from Cooma to Sydney taking about twelve months to do the round trip. (He is mentioned in one of the early directories as being a Carrier).

On his way down the very steep Talbingo Mountain during his journeys, he would have to cut down a tree and secure it to his dray to act as a brake. It was on one such journey that he fell in love with the Blowering District near Tumut and when the Blowering Station was divided up, he took up a piece of the land.

Thompson, whilst himself hardworking, had to delegate a lot of the work around his property to his hardworking wife and many children (they had 17 children in total), at times he would be found sitting upon farm machinery giving orders as to what needed to be done in the short time that he was home each year.

Their son Henry married Helen Margaret Campbell and they too took up land at the Blowering. Henry was quoted as saying that there was only one good job on a farm and the bull had it! Another son, Edward, was one of the earlier men to enlist for the first world war, he went to Gallipoli with the Light Horse Infantry. Ted enjoyed relating stories, however, they had a tendency to grow in the telling........... he was also a breeder of champion Jersey cows, winning many prizes in the Royal Easter Show.

Thompson and Ellen also had twins, Emma who married Arthur Hided and Jessie who married George Russell.

Their son Thompson, left home at the age of fourteen and joined a prominent Banking Group where he remained all of his working life. Another daughter, Rebecca, married Alfred Arthur Smith the son of Charles George Smith another prominent person on the Monaro. The first born son of Thompson was Treva who married Eliza Triggell. A number of the Myers' married either Triggell or Holmes' so these families are very much interwoven together, the Holmes' and Triggell' s being half/siblings or relatives to each other. Ada married William Turner and Albert married late in life to an Isobel Campbell. Molly never married, and Ellen (Nell) married a ship's doctor by the surname of Miller who was a widower. Louise also remained unmarried whilst Christina Maude died of TB and Elizabeth (Betty) also married a widower by the name of Stedman, there were no children of this union. I have mentioned my grandmother Maria on an earlier occasion under Paul Myers as she married her cousin, Thomas Leslie Myers.

Submitted by Colleen Levett <cailinluibheid-at-hotmail.com> 28.07.06