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Biography Henry Lawson

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Early life Henry Lawson was born in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales.

His father was Niels Herzberg Larsen, a Norwegian-born miner who went to sea at 21, arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush. Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee, New South Wales) Niels and Louisa married on 7 July 1866; he was 32 and she, 18.

On Henry's birth, the family surname was anglicised and Niels became Peter Lawson.

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The newly-married couple were to have an unhappy marriage. Peter Larsen's grave (with headstone) is in the little private cemetery at Hartley Vale New South Wales a few minutes walk behind what was Collitt's Inn. Henry Lawson attended school at Eurunderee from 2 October 1876 but suffered an ear infection at around this time.

It left him with partial deafness and by the age of fourteen he had lost his hearing entirely. He later atte