John Henry Cawthorn (1840 - 1929)

Born 1 Jan 1840 in Macquarie Plains, Tasmania, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Annie (Cockerill) Cawthorn — married 3 Mar 1870 (to 18 Dec 1925) in Church of St Mary the Virgin, Macquarie Plains, Tasmania, Australia

Descendants

Died 11 Jul 1929 at age 89 in Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia

Biography

John Cawthorn has English ancestors.

Birth

John was born in 1840 and was the son of Henry Cawthorne and Ruth Fincher

Marriage

Martha Annie Cockerill married John Henry Cawthorn, 03 Mar 1870, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Macquarie Plains, registration district New Norfolk, Tasmania

Death

CAWTHORN. —On July 11, 1929, at his son's residence, Wattle Grove, John Henry, eldest son of the late David Cawthorn, of Arundel, Macquarie Plains, in his 90th year. Funeral will leave the above address on Saturday (This Day), at 1 p.m., for Church of England Cemetery, Cygnet. The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Sat 13 Jul 1929 Page 1 Family Notices

Obituary

LATE MR. J. H. CAWTHORN.

Our travelling correspondent writes -The death last week of Mr John Henry Cawthorn of Wattle Grove moves from the Cygnet municipality one of its best-known and most highly respected citizens. A native of Tasmania where he was born in 1840, at Macquarie Plains, the eldest son of the late Mr Henry David Cawthorn, and grandson of the late Mr. John Henry Cawthorn who came to Tasmania in 1818, the deceased was educated at the late Mr Robert Giblin's school. Now Pressland House, Hobart. On the completion of his studies, he engaged in farming pursuits on his mother' s property at Arundel Macquarie Plains. In 1879 he took up the property of High Arundel, Wattle Grove, comprising 133 acres, 14 acres of which were laid in small fruits and general orchard. He specialised in the cultivation of the Sturmer, Scarlet and French Crab apples, a few varieties of pears, and apricots, plums, and currants, besides having a small nursery of standard trees. He was very successful as a shipper of fruit to European and interstate markets. He did much to promote the interests of the district, and was for many years a member of the Port Cygnet branch Board of Agriculture. For a time he was also a member of the old Port Cygnet Road Trust and Fruit Board. He was married to Miss Martha A. Cockerill, daughter of the late Mr Henry M. Cockerill, and had a family of eight children two of whom are orchardists at Wattle Grove-Messrs George and Claud E. Cawthorn. Another son Mr. W. S. Cawthorn, was captain of the s.s. Pilot trading between Strahan and Kelly Basin in 1899.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Obituary, The Mercury, Tuesday 16 July 1929

• Marriage - "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCN-JXN : 10 February 2018), John Henry Cawthorn and Martha Annie Cockerill, 03 Mar 1870; citing Macquarie Plains, Tasmania, Australia, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,368,299.
• https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search/

• Death Burial - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/search?adv=y&searchTerm=