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Family of Thomas Henty and Frances Elizabeth Hopkins

Husband: Thomas Henty

  • Name:

  • Thomas Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • William Henty (1731-1796)

  • Mother:

  • Jane Olliver (c. 1738-1820)

  • Note 1 (shared):

  • A farmer and banker, of West Tarring, Sussex, Thomas Henty decided to sell his Sussex property in 1828 and move the entire stock to Australia, where he was already known for his Spanish merino sheep-breeding. In 1829 the vanguard of the family, with stock and labourers, sailed for Swan River in the chartered ship "Caroline", in charge of the eldest son James, the family subsequently moving to Launceston in Van Dieman's Land (now Tasmania).

    From the first, Thomas Henty identified himself with Launceston life, where he was also a magistrate, helping to found the Cornwall Agricultural Society and to improve the standard of the town's racing, in which soon most events were won by progeny of his importations from the Earl of Egremont's stud. He died in Launceston on 25 October 1839.

    Of a generous and lively mind and a temperament that his son James considered incorrigibly optimistic; with a pride in his reputation in both England and Van Diemen's Land as a breeder of blood-horses and fine-woolled sheep and with as great a pride in the achievements of his sons; and with the support of a practical, intelligent and affectionate wife, Thomas, despite what he called 'the buffettings' he had undergone, seems to have been a happy man until near his end.

    Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

     

    "I Give and devise unto my Son Thomas Henty his Heirs and Assigns all and Singular my Messuages Farms Lands Tythes Tenths and Hereditaments whether Freehold Copyhold or Leasehold situate ... in the several parishes of Eastpreston Littlehampton and Rustington in the County of Sussex."

    Will of William Henty, 1796

  • Note 2 (shared):

  • Arundel Bank, and Worthing and Sussex Bank. Notice is hereby given, that the Copartnership subsisting between us the undersigned, George Henty, Thomas Henty, and James Hopkins, as Bankers, at Arundel, in the County of Sussex, under the name and firm of Henty, Henty, Hopkins, and Street, and at Worthing, in the said County, under the name and firm of Henty, Henty, and Hopkins, was this day dissolved by mutual consent: As witness our hands the 28th day of October 1823. G. Henty. Tho. Henty. J. Hopkins.

    And notice is hereby further given, that the Banking business, at Arundel and Worthing aforesaid, will in future be carried on by the said George Henty, James Hopkins, and James Henty (Son of the said Thomas Henty), under the name and firm of Henty, Hopkins, and Henty. Witness our hands this 28th day of October 1823. G. Henty. Jas Hopkins. Jas. Henty.

    London Gazette, 15.11.1823, page 1920

    http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17975/pages/1920

  • Birth:

  • 1775

  • Littlehampton, Sussex

  • Baptism:

  • 22 Jan 1775 (age 0)

  • Saint Mary, Littlehampton, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 25 Oct 1839 (age 63-64)

  • Launceston, Tasmania

Wife: Frances Elizabeth Hopkins

Child 1: James Henty

  • Name:

  • James Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Charlotte Carter (1806-1865)

  • Note (shared):

  • James Henty, merchant and banker, sailed for Swan River (Western Australia) in 1829 along with two brothers in the chartered “Caroline”, with stock and labourers, to establish a family sheep-breeding settlement in the new colony. But James became convinced that the poor soil made successful farming impossible. He therefore appealed through his father to the British government for permission to exchange the Swan grant for a smaller one in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Pending a decision James transferred his capital in 1831 to Launceston where he settled with his wife Charlotte.

    There he established the business of James Henty & Co, shippers to England of wool, wheat, whale oil and other merchandise. A prosperous leader of the Launceston mercantile community, promoter of free emigration, a worker for improvement of the town's shipping facilities, a founder of the grammar school and of Holy Trinity Church, shrewd, unswervingly honest, even his solidly based business could not survive the years of depression in the 1840s and he became bankrupt in 1846.

    Two years later, James sailed for England with his wife and seven children. Returning in 1851 on the eve of the gold discovery, he started business in Melbourne, again as James Henty & Co. He was elected in 1853 to represent Portland in the Legislative Council, and from 1856 held a place in the Upper House until his death. A commissioner of the State Savings Bank, he became chairman in 1859; an early director of Victoria's first railway, he was later its chairman. He died in Melbourne in 1882, outliving all his brothers but the youngest, and to the last a man of strong principles, deep feelings and iron will.

    Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

  • Birth:

  • 24 Sep 1800

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 12 Jan 1882 (age 81)

  • Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Child 2: Thomas Henty

  • Name:

  • Thomas Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Note (shared):

  • A tablet over the vestry door of Tarring Church, Sussex, has the following inscription:-

    "Sacred to the memory of Thomas Henty, the second son of Thomas and Frances Henty, many years resident in this Parish, who after having served in H.M.S. 'Minden' at the battle of Algiers under Lord Exmouth in 1816, proceeded in his ship to the East Indies where where the rupture of a blood-vessel occasioned his immediate return to this country and his subsequent death on 28th June, 1819, in the eighteenth year of his age.

    His parents now living in a distant land have placed this tablet to record their affection for his memory."

    Source: http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/merino/1775th.htm

  • Birth:

  • 1802

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 28 Jun 1819 (age 16-17)

  • England

Child 3: Henry Henty

  • Name:

  • Henry Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 1803

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 1804 (age 0-1)

  • Sussex

Child 4: Jane Henty

  • Name:

  • Jane Henty

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Samuel Bryan (c. 1793-1862)

  • Birth:

  • 1805

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 8 Oct 1893 (age 87-88)

  • Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Child 5: Charles Shum Henty

  • Name:

  • Charles Shum Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Susan Boniface (c. 1808-1872)

  • Note (shared):

  • Charles Henty sat in the House of Assembly in 1856-62 representing George Town, where he died in 1864.

    Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

  • Birth:

  • 24 Apr 1807

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 18 Mar 1864 (age 56)

  • George Town, Tasmania

  • Burial:

  • 1864

  • George Town General Cemetery, Tasmania

Child 6: William Henty

  • Name:

  • William Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Susannah Matilda Camfield (c. 1804-1879)

  • Note (shared):

  • William Henty arrived at Launceston, Tasmania, in January 1837 with his wife Susannah Matilda, née Camfield; a solicitor, he entered practice in partnership with John Ward Gleadow. William Henty was prominent in church, educational and horticultural activities in Tasmania. He was also noted as a cricketer, and is on record as having bowled the first ever ball in Australian first-class cricket (for Tasmania vs. Victoria on 11.2.1851). He represented Tamar in the House of Assembly and became colonial secretary in 1856. Resigning in 1862 he returned to England, where he died in 1881.

    Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

     

    Cricket information about William Henty from CricInfoAustralia

    http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5641.html

  • Birth:

  • 23 Sep 1808

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Census:

  • 1871 (age 62-63)

  • Retired solicitor, 2 Norfolk Terrace, Brighton

  • Death fact:

  • 1881 (age 72-73)

  • 1881 Sep Qtr, Steyning, 2b/148 (aged 72)

  • Death:

  • 11 Jul 1881 (age 72)

  • Hove, Sussex

Child 7: Edward Henty

  • Name:

  • Edward Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Anne Maria Gallie (c. 1820-1901)

  • Birth:

  • 28 Mar 1810

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 14 Aug 1878 (age 68)

  • Offington, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

Child 8: Stephen George Henty

  • Name:

  • Stephen George Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Jane Pace (c. 1817-1906)

  • Birth:

  • 3 Nov 1811

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 18 Dec 1872 (age 61)

  • Hamilton, Victoria, Australia

Child 9: John Henty

  • Name:

  • John Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Eliza Whitfield (1808-1893)

  • Birth:

  • 15 Jun 1813

  • Church Farm, West Tarring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 1869 (age 55-56)

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Child 10: Francis Henty

  • Name:

  • Francis Henty

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Mary Anne Lawrence (1821- )

  • Birth:

  • 30 Nov 1815

  • Field Place, near Worthing, Sussex

  • Baptism:

  • 6 Feb 1816 (age 0)

  • Goring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 15 Jan 1889 (age 73)

  • Field Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Child 11: Frances Henty

  • Name:

  • Frances Henty

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 1817

  • Field Place, near Worthing, Sussex

  • Baptism:

  • 25 Jul 1817 (age 0)

  • Goring, Sussex

  • Death:

  • 1818 (age 0-1)

  • Sussex

Note on Husband: Thomas Henty (1) - shared note

A farmer and banker, of West Tarring, Sussex, Thomas Henty decided to sell his Sussex property in 1828 and move the entire stock to Australia, where he was already known for his Spanish merino sheep-breeding. In 1829 the vanguard of the family, with stock and labourers, sailed for Swan River in the chartered ship "Caroline", in charge of the eldest son James, the family subsequently moving to Launceston in Van Dieman's Land (now Tasmania).

From the first, Thomas Henty identified himself with Launceston life, where he was also a magistrate, helping to found the Cornwall Agricultural Society and to improve the standard of the town's racing, in which soon most events were won by progeny of his importations from the Earl of Egremont's stud. He died in Launceston on 25 October 1839.

Of a generous and lively mind and a temperament that his son James considered incorrigibly optimistic; with a pride in his reputation in both England and Van Diemen's Land as a breeder of blood-horses and fine-woolled sheep and with as great a pride in the achievements of his sons; and with the support of a practical, intelligent and affectionate wife, Thomas, despite what he called 'the buffettings' he had undergone, seems to have been a happy man until near his end.

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

 

"I Give and devise unto my Son Thomas Henty his Heirs and Assigns all and Singular my Messuages Farms Lands Tythes Tenths and Hereditaments whether Freehold Copyhold or Leasehold situate ... in the several parishes of Eastpreston Littlehampton and Rustington in the County of Sussex."

Will of William Henty, 1796

Note on Husband: Thomas Henty (2) - shared note

Arundel Bank, and Worthing and Sussex Bank. Notice is hereby given, that the Copartnership subsisting between us the undersigned, George Henty, Thomas Henty, and James Hopkins, as Bankers, at Arundel, in the County of Sussex, under the name and firm of Henty, Henty, Hopkins, and Street, and at Worthing, in the said County, under the name and firm of Henty, Henty, and Hopkins, was this day dissolved by mutual consent: As witness our hands the 28th day of October 1823. G. Henty. Tho. Henty. J. Hopkins.

And notice is hereby further given, that the Banking business, at Arundel and Worthing aforesaid, will in future be carried on by the said George Henty, James Hopkins, and James Henty (Son of the said Thomas Henty), under the name and firm of Henty, Hopkins, and Henty. Witness our hands this 28th day of October 1823. G. Henty. Jas Hopkins. Jas. Henty.

London Gazette, 15.11.1823, page 1920

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17975/pages/1920

Note on Child 1: James Henty - shared note

James Henty, merchant and banker, sailed for Swan River (Western Australia) in 1829 along with two brothers in the chartered “Caroline”, with stock and labourers, to establish a family sheep-breeding settlement in the new colony. But James became convinced that the poor soil made successful farming impossible. He therefore appealed through his father to the British government for permission to exchange the Swan grant for a smaller one in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Pending a decision James transferred his capital in 1831 to Launceston where he settled with his wife Charlotte.

There he established the business of James Henty & Co, shippers to England of wool, wheat, whale oil and other merchandise. A prosperous leader of the Launceston mercantile community, promoter of free emigration, a worker for improvement of the town's shipping facilities, a founder of the grammar school and of Holy Trinity Church, shrewd, unswervingly honest, even his solidly based business could not survive the years of depression in the 1840s and he became bankrupt in 1846.

Two years later, James sailed for England with his wife and seven children. Returning in 1851 on the eve of the gold discovery, he started business in Melbourne, again as James Henty & Co. He was elected in 1853 to represent Portland in the Legislative Council, and from 1856 held a place in the Upper House until his death. A commissioner of the State Savings Bank, he became chairman in 1859; an early director of Victoria's first railway, he was later its chairman. He died in Melbourne in 1882, outliving all his brothers but the youngest, and to the last a man of strong principles, deep feelings and iron will.

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

Note on Child 2: Thomas Henty - shared note

A tablet over the vestry door of Tarring Church, Sussex, has the following inscription:-

"Sacred to the memory of Thomas Henty, the second son of Thomas and Frances Henty, many years resident in this Parish, who after having served in H.M.S. 'Minden' at the battle of Algiers under Lord Exmouth in 1816, proceeded in his ship to the East Indies where where the rupture of a blood-vessel occasioned his immediate return to this country and his subsequent death on 28th June, 1819, in the eighteenth year of his age.

His parents now living in a distant land have placed this tablet to record their affection for his memory."

Source: http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/merino/1775th.htm

Note on Child 5: Charles Shum Henty - shared note

Charles Henty sat in the House of Assembly in 1856-62 representing George Town, where he died in 1864.

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

Note on Child 6: William Henty - shared note

William Henty arrived at Launceston, Tasmania, in January 1837 with his wife Susannah Matilda, née Camfield; a solicitor, he entered practice in partnership with John Ward Gleadow. William Henty was prominent in church, educational and horticultural activities in Tasmania. He was also noted as a cricketer, and is on record as having bowled the first ever ball in Australian first-class cricket (for Tasmania vs. Victoria on 11.2.1851). He represented Tamar in the House of Assembly and became colonial secretary in 1856. Resigning in 1862 he returned to England, where he died in 1881.

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

 

Cricket information about William Henty from CricInfoAustralia

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5641.html