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Headstone of Frederick Dalton Ayling
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Date17 Jan 2018
PhotographerRalph HawkinsDescriptionGrave of the Ayling family, Macquarie Park Cemetery, North Ryde. Frederick Dalton Ayling was born on 20 April 1861 at Lyndoch Valley in the Barossa Valley in South Australia. His parents John Ayling and Mary Ann nee Dalton had been married in Wandsworth on 6 Jan 1847 and arrived in Adelaide on board the 'Simlah' in December 1849. The family moved to NSW where Frederick found employment as Crown Lands Agent in the District Survey Office in Wagga. There were two daughters in the family; Leila and Mildred. The Aylings were living in Murdoch St Mosman in 1913 but had moved to 'Wollundry' in Warne St Pennant Hills by 1920. Leila Ayling was a primary school teacher at Thornleigh School until around 1925 when the sisters travelled to Europe. The Aylings built a new house of texture bricks in Yarrara Road in the mid 1930s and gave the adjoinging land to the south To Hornsby Council for use as a public park on the condition it be named 'Wollundry' after the lagoon in Wagga. The word Wollundry is an Anglicised form of the Wiraduri words 'walang' meaning stone and 'duray' meaning place of. Physical FormatMacquarie Park Cemetery, North RydeDimensionsRalph Hawkins
PhotographerRalph HawkinsDescriptionGrave of the Ayling family, Macquarie Park Cemetery, North Ryde. Frederick Dalton Ayling was born on 20 April 1861 at Lyndoch Valley in the Barossa Valley in South Australia. His parents John Ayling and Mary Ann nee Dalton had been married in Wandsworth on 6 Jan 1847 and arrived in Adelaide on board the 'Simlah' in December 1849. The family moved to NSW where Frederick found employment as Crown Lands Agent in the District Survey Office in Wagga. There were two daughters in the family; Leila and Mildred. The Aylings were living in Murdoch St Mosman in 1913 but had moved to 'Wollundry' in Warne St Pennant Hills by 1920. Leila Ayling was a primary school teacher at Thornleigh School until around 1925 when the sisters travelled to Europe. The Aylings built a new house of texture bricks in Yarrara Road in the mid 1930s and gave the adjoinging land to the south To Hornsby Council for use as a public park on the condition it be named 'Wollundry' after the lagoon in Wagga. The word Wollundry is an Anglicised form of the Wiraduri words 'walang' meaning stone and 'duray' meaning place of. Physical FormatMacquarie Park Cemetery, North RydeDimensionsRalph HawkinsLocation
Building NamePennant HillsMacquarie Park Cemetery
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Headstone of Frederick Dalton Ayling (17 Jan 2018). Hornsby Shire, accessed 28/04/2026, https://hornsbyshire.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/3460