William Henry Andrewartha (1833 - 1887)

Ancestors Descendants

Falmouth 1833

Biography

OPC List : Baptism : ^[1]
02-Jun Year 1833 | Parish Or Reg District Falmouth
Forename William Henry Surname Andrew | Sex Son
Father Forename William | Mother Forename Mary
Residence Falmouth | Father Rank Profession Seaman
Notes born 5 Mar 1833
Transcriber Notes src: Exeter BTs | Transcriber Ian Macdonald (Film No 5750459 )

Colony of Tasmania wikipedia

Emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (Tas) 1846 via George Town, and ships list, with Uncle Rev. John Andrewartha. ^[2]

Aden, 1846

Name: Andrewartha, | Given Name Not Recorded ^[3]
Record Type: Arrivals | Title: Master | Arrival date: 17 Feb 1846 | Departure port: London | Ship: Aden |

Occupation

Timber Mill Owner  : Trove ^[4]

NOTICE TO SAWYERS, SPLITTERS, AND OTHERS.—Notice is hereby given that any person or persons found sawing, splitting, or otherwise trespassing on the property at Port Esperance known as Strathbane, will be prosecuted.
Mr. W. H. Andrewartha is authorised to grant licences to saw and split on the property, and to receive payment for the same, also for cartage on the tram roads.
MANING BROS., FALLENSTEIN & McKECHNEY. July 16th, 1863.

Esperance, 1868

Marriage
Andrewartha-Hoskins. ^[5] On the 6th June, at the residence of the bride's father, by special licence, by the Rev. T. Stansfield, William Henry, nephew of the late Rev. J. Andrewartha, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of James Hoskins, Esq., of Mayfield, Port Esperance.

• Was a JP at Newtown

Sudden Death. The Mercury. (1887, April 21). ^[6]
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. W. H. Andrewartha, at his residence, Craig cottage, New Town, a few minutes after noon yesterday. Mr. Andrewartha was in town yesterday morning and went home shortly before noon. Most of his family being absent, he prepared some tea in his kitchen, and was in the act of looking for some sugar when his death took place.
His third son ^[7] was the only other person in the house at the time, and had gone into another room to look for the sugar when he heard a noise, and returning to the kitchen found his father on the floor, to all appearances dead.
He went outside and procured assistance, and Dr. Payne was called in about 12.30, who pronounced life extinct. The deceased had been complaining of feeling unwell for several days, and had called at Dr. Payne's residence in the morning, but the doctor was not at home.
Mr. Andrewartha had presided on the previous day at the election of two trustees for the Augusta Road Trust. He was an old colonist, was widely respected, and had, during a great portion of his career, filled various positions of public trust. He arrived in this colony when he was only 13 years of age with his uncle, the Rev. W. Andrewartha,^[8] and after he left school he was associated with his uncle in the saw-mill trade at Flight's Bay. After that he took up the milling business with Mr. Andrew Gibbs, ^[9] of Recherche Bay. He then became manager of the Strathblane mill for Messrs. Manning and Co., which position he held for many years, and for some years afterwards was lessee of their mills.
He was in fact recognised almost as one of the fathers of the saw milling business in the South. While at Port Esperance he took a prominent part in the affairs of the district. He was elected chairman of the local road trust in 1876. Three years before this he was appointed a justice of the peace for the colony.

About three years ago he sold out his business at Port Esperance to Mr. H. Chesterman, and removed to New Town, where he resided at the time of his death. After his removal from Port Esperance he entered into partnership with Messrs. McDougall and Co., of Recherche Bay, and managed their town business for them.
Mr. Andrewartha was a native of Landport, ^[10] near Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and had almost reached his 53rd year. Mrs. Andrewartha has just recovered from an attack of typhoid fever, and is away in the country for change of air. As soon as intelligence of the sad event became known the police took charge of the house, and Sub-inspector Cavanagh reported the occurrence to the coroner, who decided that an inquest was necessary, as no medical man had attended him for many years. He leaves a widow and six children.

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John Andrewartha (1839 - 1916) : The Austin, Texas Link - (brother)

Death of nephew, Alfred Varnals Hoskins (1852-abt.1871)

Family Notices: On April 20, 1887, ^[11]
at New Town, William Henry Andrewartha in the 53rd year of his age.
The funeral will leave his late residence at 3 p.m. This Day, for
St John's burial ground, New Town. - Friends are invited to attend.

( Head stone photo. ) - ( Church photo )

William's: Descendants, or Ancestors

The place name of Blubber Head, at the northern entrance to Port Esperance, ^[12] may indicate shore-based bay whaling activity took place at the location in the 19th century.

Port Esperance Post Office, opened 6 February 1856; was renamed Dover in 1895

Timber Getting at Raminea. and . Sawmill . . photo . .
And now we come to the early history of timber-getting at Raminea, where sawpits were used as late as 1850, until milling began there. The late Mr. J. C. Judd seems to have been the pioneer sawmiller there, followed by the late Messrs. W. H. Andrewartha and Henry Chesterman. In Howard Haywood's; "Visitors' and Colonists' Guide" of 1886, reference is made to two of these gentlemen: . . . more . . Trove

THE RELATIONSHIP between HISTORY and THE TOURIST INDUSTRY p 55 Citing Howard.

Sources

1. ↑ List : cornwall-opc-database.org : pre 1841
2. ↑ jeandrewartha Family History
3. ↑ Libraries Tasmania
4. ↑ The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Wed 19 Aug 1863 Page 1 Family Notices
5. ↑ Trove : The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Thu 18 Jun 1868 Page 2 Family Notices
6. ↑ Sudden Death. (1887, April 21). The Mercury
   (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved April 24, 2023
7. ↑ Edwin Percy
8. ↑ John: not 'W'
9. ↑ Abraham J S G: not 'Andrew'
10. ↑ a place-name in Portsmouth
11. ↑ Family Notices (1887, April 22). The Mercury
    (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Page 1 Retrieved April 24, 2023
12. ↑ [[wikipedia:Dover,_Tasmania#History|Wikipedia®]