Viv
This is getting really exciting. If your great grandfather is Henry, then he must be the brother to John Dellaway (my ggg grandfather) who emigrated to Australia in 1862.
John and his wife Mary left England on 2/8/1862 and arrived in Brisbane, Australia on 1/11/1862. With them was Alfred (my gg grandfather- he was about 6 at the time) and Maria, plus they had another daughter, Mary, who died on the voyage (she was only 6 months old.
My gg grandfather Alfred moved to NSW about 12 years later and according to his death certificate was a coalminer.
As you say, my Dellaways were humble working people as well, certainly no millionaires, I am sad to say. Alfred's son Thomas (my g grandfather) was also a miner. My grandmother (whose maiden name was Dellaway) died in 1985, and sadly I did not have a lot of information to go on when I started researching my family. I stumbled across the email of a woman in Melbourne (Victoria, Aust.) and she gave me a lot of information which helped a lot. Apparently when John and Mary came to Australia, they settled in Queensland, and as far as I can see had about another 6 children. The woman in Melbourne has a cousin in Queensland who passed on a lot of information to her, so it appears that there are still a few up there (I didn't know they existed), so it is really exciting when I come across people who are connected in some way.
I am in NSW Australia. I still live in the area where Alfred lived.
Please keep in touch, I would love to hear from you again.
Regards
Lee-Ann