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Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971)

dressmaker, talented artist, pottery

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971) + John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (1881 - 1940)	George Byfield Boyfield WORMERSLEY (1851 - 1887)	Boyfield WORMERSLEY (1801 - )	John WORMERSLEY WORMSLEY (1761 - 1844)
				Sarah PAGET (1762 - 1822)
			Elizabeth CUMMINS ( - 1896)
		Mary Elizabeth HARRISON ( - 1897)	James HARRISON
			Hannah SWINBOURNE

Pic S1. Presentation to Queen

b. 1886 at Manilla, New South Wales, Australia

m. 26 May 1913 John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (1881 - 1940) at Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia

d. 1971 at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia aged 85

Near Relatives of Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	Boyfield WORMERSLEY	bef 21 Jun 1801	Skillington, Lincolnshire, England
Grandmother	Elizabeth CUMMINS			1896
Grandfather	James HARRISON
Grandmother	Hannah SWINBOURNE
Father in Law	John O'REILLY	abt 1854	Co Kerry, Ireland	13 Jan 1907	Petersham, New South Wales, Australia	53
Mother in Law	Ellen O'SULLIVAN	abt 1859	Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland	1933	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	74
Father	George Byfield Boyfield WORMERSLEY	1851	New South Wales, Australia	31 Aug 1887	Queensland, Australia	36
Step Father	Bernard Patrick HURLEY	abt 1855
Mother	Mary Elizabeth HARRISON			1897	Queensland, Australia
Self	Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY	1886	Manilla, New South Wales, Australia	1971	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	85
Husband	John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY	1881	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	10 Sep 1940	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	59
Half Brother	Bernard Harrison WORMERSLEY	22 Mar 1885	Queensland, Australia	14 Dec 1885	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	0
Half Sister	Mary Josephine HURLEY	10 Sep 1888	Queensland, Australia	1970	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	82
Half Brother	Francis James HURLEY	1890	Queensland, Australia	1966	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	76
Half Brother	Bernard Joseph HURLEY	1891	Queensland, Australia	1962	New South Wales, Australia	71
Half Sister	Teresa Ellen HURLEY	21 Sep 1891	Queensland, Australia	1891	Queensland, Australia	0
Half Sister	Annie Kathleen HURLEY	1894	Queensland, Australia
Aunt	Charlotte WORMERSLEY	1833		1878	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	45
Uncle	John PHILLIPS
Uncle	John S WORMERSLEY	1835	New South Wales, Australia
Aunt	Sarah WORMERSLEY	1840	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Uncle	John LEWIS
Uncle	Robert WORMERSLEY	01 Apr 1847	Paterson, New South Wales, Australia	1883	Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia	36
Aunt	Ellen CROTTY	1843
Aunt	Elizabeth WORMERSLEY	1848	New South Wales, Australia	1927	Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia	79
Aunt	Catherine WORMERSLEY	1849	New South Wales, Australia	1941	Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia	92
Uncle	James MOORE
Uncle	Francis WORMERSLEY	1853	New South Wales, Australia
Uncle	Walter WORMERSLEY	1854	New South Wales, Australia	1940	Granville, New South Wales, Australia	86
Cousin	Hannah PHILLIPS	1857	Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia
Cousin	Sarah LEWIS	19 Jan 1863	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1941	Paddington, New South Wales, Australia	78
Cousin	Walter John WORMERSLEY	1871	Paterson, New South Wales, Australia	24 May 1943		72
Cousin	Eliza Honorah WORMERSLEY	1872	Paterson, New South Wales, Australia
Cousin	Mary Ann Theresa WORMERSLEY	29 Apr 1876	Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
Niece	Gladys Lillian Maud Joy HURLEY	22 Sep 1921	Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia	abt 2000	Queensland, Australia	79
Niece	Joan Florence HURLEY	11 Jan 1924	Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Loreto HURLEY
Nephew	Noel HURLEY
Nephew	Don Bernard HURLEY	abt 1931		29 Mar 1998		67
Nephew	Charles W MANSFIELD	1910	Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
Niece	Ellen M MANSFIELD	1912	Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
Niece	Eileen Frances WALSHE	17 Jun 1912	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	04 Sep 1984	Amby, Queensland, Australia	72
Niece	Moira Berenice O'REILLY	abt 1930	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1990	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	60
Brother in Law	Michael O'REILLY	1878	Ireland	1879	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1
Sister in Law	Mary O'REILLY	1880		1880		0
Sister in Law	Ellen Mary O'REILLY	1883	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1960	Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia	77
Sister in Law	Johanna O'REILLY	1885	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1904	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	19
Sister in Law	Mary Ellen A (Molly) O'REILLY	17 Apr 1888	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	02 Dec 1969	Coogee, New South Wales, Australia	81
Brother in Law	James Joseph O'REILLY	1890	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	15 Dec 1968	Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia	78
Brother in Law	Joseph Bendict O'REILLY	1892	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1959	Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia	67
Sister in Law	Frances Helena O'REILLY	1895	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1975	New South Wales, Australia	80
Brother in Law	Peter Dominic O'REILLY	1896	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	21 May 1971	Burwood, New South Wales, Australia	75
Brother in Law	Stephen Patrick O'REILLY	02 Jan 1899	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1980	New South Wales, Australia	81
Sister in Law	Agnes Mary O'REILLY	1901		1901	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	0
Sister in Law	Lilian Bridget O'REILLY	1902	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1987		85
Sister in Law	Lillian Margaret Ann MADDEN	19 Mar 1894	Millchester, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia	14 Nov 1977	Sandgate, Queensland, Australia	83
Sister in Law	Amy Winifred WHITE			08 Sep 1967

Events in Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1886		Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY was born	Manilla, New South Wales, Australia	34351/1886
31 Aug 1887	1	Death of father George Byfield Boyfield WORMERSLEY (aged 36)	Queensland, Australia	1887/C263
1897	11	Death of mother Mary Elizabeth HARRISON	Queensland, Australia	1897/C2154
26 May 1913	27	Married John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (aged 32)	Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia	Note 1
1919	33	Electoral Roll	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	Wickham Terrace
1925	39	Electoral Roll	Hendra, Queensland, Australia	Chermside St
1936	50	Electoral Roll	Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia	48 Webster St
10 Sep 1940	54	Death of husband John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (aged 59)	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1940/9223 Jno Fran Oreilly
1949	63	Electoral Roll	Ascot, Queensland, Australia	146 Yabba St
1954	68	Electoral Roll	Ascot, Queensland, Australia	146 Yabba St
1971	85	Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY died	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	1971/B26741
1971	85	Burial	Pinaroo, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	Note 2

Note 1: 5895/1913, Petersham - have certificate

Note 2: 'Oreilly Catherine Maud' is the name given in the index.

Personal Notes:

No children. Newspaper article The Daily News (Perth) 31 Jan 1936 " TALENTED ARTIST IN PERTH Specialises in Pottery and Modelling Mrs. J. F, O'Reilly, wife of the new superintendent engineer to the P.M.G's Department, in Perth, who has been transferred from Melbourne, is a talented artist. She was born in New South Wales, and educated in Rockhampton and Brisbane. She began her studies in art at the Art School in Brisbane, and later studied at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. Mrs. O'Reilly is interested in all types of art, but specialises in pottery and modelling, and she prefers water colors to oils. She was the first Australian to have a model of an Australian bird accepted in the Sculpture section of the Royal, Academy, London (Burlington House)— a model of a kookaburra executed in Ceramic art. Another honor bestowed upon her was the sending of examples of her work by the Queensland Government to the Wembley Exhibition, London, in 1925 1926. In 1926, when Mrs. O'Reilly was in London, she had 3cwt. of three different kinds of Australian clay sent to London for her own use. She experimented there with suitable glazes to fit the bodies for prevention of minor defects, such as crazing and pin-holes. In appreciation of the quality of her work, the Agent-General for Queens land arranged an exhibition of her pottery containing vases, bowls, statu ettes, etc., at the offices of the Agent General, the Strand, London. Speaking of her work, Mrs. O'Reilly said, "I concentrate, on good form and proportion with good quality glazes in suitable and subtle colorings, rather than decorations, for my vases and bowls, for I always argue, why put flowers on the exterior of a vase or bowl, which is later filled with flowers?" 'While in London, the artist studied all the different periods of pottery at the National Museum, London, and she was particularly interested in the won derful Chinese Ming and Sung pot tery. Of this wonderful Chinese pot tery, the Victoria and Albert Museum has many priceless examples. A replica of her kookaburra in the Royal Academy was secured by the Commonwealth Government of Aus tralia to be placed in the Government House at Canberra. Lived in Every State Mrs. O'Reilly has lived in every State in Australia, and for the past eight years in Melbourne. In Melbourne she attended out-door sketching excursions every week. A group of fifteen or twenty art students would set off on Saturdays for the studio home of one of Australia's, leading artists, Mr. John Rowell, at Bayswater, about twenty-five miles from Melbourne. At these outings each student would receive an in dividual criticism of his or her work from Mr. Rowell, which was very helpful and much appreciated. Mrs. O'Reilly spoke of the various methods used in making pottery. The statuettes, she said, are painted with an underglaze paint on the biscuit (so-called after the clay has been once fired), then clear-glazed and returned, to the kiln for a second firing. But, she said, pottery and statuette work was a gamble, as sometimes one would create a large number or articles, experimenting with glazes and heat many times before a perfect specimen was turned out. She has not been in terested in the commercial side of her work, but has concentrated on quality and has created mostly only one piece of each kind. Mrs. O'Reilly is contemplating an other trip abroad next year, and while in London, hopes to secure an electric kiln to have installed in her home in Perth. " A very talented ceramicist - glazing. Kookaburra and naked lady. Aricle in book has birthplace as Manilla, NSW Step-sister of Bernard. Therefore Bernard or Mary married twice. O'REILLY, Maud Australia b.1886 d.1971 Bowl 1926 Earthenware, thrown shallow bowl with running mottled blue and blue/green glaze 7.5 x 30.5cm (diam) Acc. 1987.140 Purchased 1987 O'REILLY, Maud Australia b.1886 d.1971 Double handled vase1924 Hand-built white earthenware clay shouldered vase with bulging cylindrical neck and handles 25.5 x 18cm (diam.) Acc. 1988.066 Gift of Mr E.B. & Mrs M.E. Whitehouse 1988 Additional information (including Note on art work and artist) Maud O'Reilly was a student with L.J. Harvey from c.1923 and exhibited her work at a Royal National Agricultural (RNA) Exhibition. In 1925 she and her husband travelled to England where she continued her interest in ceramics with study at the Royal College of Art and the London County Council School of Art Studies. Her training there included throwing and glazing. She was keenly interested in studying historic ceramics in London museums, especially Chinese ceramics of the Ming and Sung eras. The ceramics she produced (she had 3 cwt. of Queensland clay sent over for her use) had simple profiles and sometimes vestigal dragon motif handles but principally relied on the superb glazes for their effect. A case of her work (including the kookaburra model featured in the 'L.J. Harvey and his School' exhibition of 1983) was displayed in the Women Artist Society Exhibition of 1926. 'Kookaburra' (which was further exhibited in the 1926 Royal Academy Exhibition) and several other Maud O'Reilly ceramics were also exhibited at the Royal Queensland Art Society in November 1926. She and her husband returned from England to Melbourne and then moved to Perth. Maud O'Reilly helped to establish the West Australian Women Painters' and Applied Arts Society in Perth. On her husband's death she retired to Queensland. Maud O'Reilly was one of very few students to progress beyond the Harvey School style. 'Double handled vase' 1924 was made as a Harvey School exercise (no. 12). It is a very fine example of its kind, while providing a useful document of Harvey's teaching methods. O'REILLY, Maud Australia b.1886 d.1971 Vase1926 Earthenware thrown baluster shape with deep plum Chun type glaze 28.5 x 12.5cm (diam.) Acc. 1988.067 Gift of Mr E.B. & Mrs M.E. Whitehouse 1988

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