William Edward THURLOW [17831]

  General Notes:

William Edward Thurlow came to Sydney Australia at a young age with his Father on the "William Shand" 1 July 1825

Mr. William Thurlow, Clerk to Mr. Charles Henry Chambers ; Mr. Henry Dickinson, Clerk to Mr. D Chambers ; Mr. William Minithorpe, a Solicitor and Master Extraordinary of the High Court of Chancery, and an Attorney of the Courts at Westminster, have posted the usual notices at the doors of the Supreme Court, that they intend to apply on the last day of Term to be admitted Attorneys.
Ref Trove: The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842) Monday 18 September 1837

SUPREME COURT.
(In Banro.)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1837.
On the motion of Mr. Therry, Mr. Willliam Thurlow, lately clerk to Mr. C. H. Chambers, was admitted to practise as an attorney, solicitor and proctor of the Supreme Court.
Ref Trove: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 26 September 1837

DEATH OF W. THURLOW, ESQ., Intelligence was received in Sydney last night of the decease of William Thurlow, Esq., an old colonist, and formerly Mayor of Sydney (1851-52), and member of Assembly, who died last week at Tinonee, on the Manning River, where he had gone on professional business. The particulars of his death have not yet reached us, but the news of his decease will be received with regret by a large number of his friends in all parts of the colony . Evening News, Jan 21.
Ref Trove: The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893) Thursday 23 January 1873

Deaths
On the 15th instant, at Cundletown, Manning River, WILLIAM THURLOW, of Sydney, solicitor, aged 58 years, grandson of the late Rev. John Thurlow, D.D., vicar of Gosfield, Essex, and cousin of C. A. Thurlow, of this city.
Ref Trove: The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Friday 24 January 1873

Deaths
THURLOW. On the 15th ult., at Cundletown Manning River, N.S.W. whilst on a professional visit, William Thurlow, of Sydney, Esq., solicitor, aged 58 years, son of the late William Thurlow, formerly of Orange-hall, county of Essex, England, Esq., grandson of the late Rev. John Thurlow, D. D., vicar of Gosfield, in that county, and brother of J. W. Thurlow, of Melbourne, solicitor.
Ref Trove: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) Wednesday 12 February 1873

  Research Notes:

This article confuses William snr and William Edward Thurlow
Thurlow, William
by Terri McCormack, 2010
Dictionary of Sydney.
William Thurlow (was born about 1807 - No), and arri
ved in Sydney from London with his three sons on the William Shand on (4 ?) August 1825. As a free settler, he was granted land This is William Edward Thurlow - and, in 1829, was appointed a Justice of the Peace. By 1836 John William (Should be William Edward) Thurlow, solicitor of Wentworth Place, had a farm for sale.

On 3 May 1837 William Edward Thurlow married his (second) wife Anne Jane James at St Mary's Roman Catholic church, Sydney. They had several daughters.

This refers to Willam Edward Thurlow
Solicitor and property owner
By 1837 Thurlow was working with Charles Henry Chambers, who was later the first Town Clerk. This partnership was dissolved in July 1842 and Thurlow joined James McPherson Grant in Pitt Street north.

By October 1844 Thurlow had accumulated property in Thurlow's Terrace, Bourke Street, Surry Hills and was advertising two offices in Pitt Street for rent. He had been an early purchaser of East Balmain land, acquiring two lots in Paul Street.

In the 1850s, Grant left for California and later Victoria where he acted as solicitor for the Eureka stockade rioters. Thurlow went into partnership with Stephen Campbell Brown and Alexander Dick with offices at 308 Pitt Street. In 1863, he also had an office in Elizabeth Street. Thurlow lived in Bligh Street before moving to 203 Bourke Street, Redfern.

Politician
William Thurlow was elected councillor for Bourke Ward on 7 October 1843. He was mayor in 1851 and 1852, and instigated an investigation into the corporation which led to its abolition due to incompetence and corruption in October 1853. Thurlow lost his seat and the council was replaced by city commissioners. He was re-elected for Gipps Ward from 1 December 1857 to 30 November 1859.

Thurlow was elected as a member of the Legislative Council for the City of Sydney, defeating Henry Parkes at a by-election in March 1853. He retained the seat until it was vacated in December 1854.

William Thurlow (senior) died at the Manning River on 16 April 1865, aged 58.

Morts Cottage 1838-1988 by Jill Buckland on pdf on this file.

William married Ann Jane JAMES [17834] [MRIN: 6431] on 3 May 1837. (Ann Jane JAMES [17834] was born in 1820 in Sydney NSW Australia and died in 1854 in New South Wales, Australia.)

William next married Elizabeth DOWLING [20307] [MRIN: 7295], daughter of Christopher DOWLING [20308] and Martha LESLIE [20309], on 14 Aug 1869 in St Michaels Surrey Hills Sydney. (Elizabeth DOWLING [20307] died in 1904.)