Helen Alice Maud (Applewhaite) Garrett (abt. 1861 - 1944)

Born about 1861 in Sydney, Colony of New South Wales

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas William Garrett — married 25 Mar 1879 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1944 at about age 83 in Warrawee, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Helen (Applewhaite) Garrett was born in the Colony of New South Wales (1788-1900)

Helen Alice Maud Applewhaite was born about 1861 in Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, daughter of John Lythcote Applewhaite (1821–1869) and Lucy Hannah Langdon (1833–1909).^[1]

Helen (17) married Thomas William Garrett (20) (born on July 26, 1858 in Wollongong, New South Wales; son of Thomas Garrett and Mary Ann Elizabeth (Creagan) Garrett) on March 25, 1879 in Sydney.^[2] Their children were:

• Mary Emily Elsie Garrett (1880–1955)
• Lucy Alice May Garrett (1882–1938)
• Maude Helene Garrett (1884–1960)
• Hubert Frederick Garrett (1885–1915)
• Tom Vernon Garrett (1886–1942)
• John Henry Garrett (1888–1967)
• Eric Reginald Garrett (1890–1965)
• Frederick Campbell Garrett (1892–1975)

Helen died on January 18, 1944 in Warrawee, New South Wales, Australia, aged about 82.^[3] She was buried at Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales.^[4]

Research Notes

During an episode of Who Do You Think You Are, Peter Garrett discovered from a cousin that he was a direct descendant of Helen, and that Helen in turn was a descendant of her father, John Lythcote Applewhaite and her maternal grandfather, Henry Langdon, who was a butcher in the earliest days of the colony^[5].

It was stated in the same program that her mother Lucy Hannah Langdon was one of the first people to be born in New South Wales, c1838, despite the fact that a settlement had been established on 26 Jan 1788^[5].

She married Thomas William Garrett, a famous cricketer, and who had been a part of the Australian cricket team at the Oval in London when the match that England lost, that led to the "In Memoriam" notice being placed in the English press, "in remembrance of English cricket" and (ii) the creation of the Ashes and the subsequent Australian-England rivalry. The marriage occurred in Sydney at St. James Church.

Sources

1. ↑ Despite extensive searching I have been unable to locate a record of birth for Helen. There is a private tree on Ancestry citing a birth year of 1861 but further information is available.
2. ↑ Marriage registration of Thomas Garrett and Helen Applewhaite (m. 1879), NSW Births Deaths and Marriages. Registration number 305/1879 Groom's Family Name GARRETT Groom's Given Name(s) THOMAS WILLIAM Bride's Family Name(s) APPLEWHAITE Bride's Given Name(s) HELEN ALICE MAUDE District SYDNEY
3. ↑ Death registration of Helen Garrett (d. 1944), NSW Births Deaths and Marriages. GARRETT HELEN ALICE MAUD Registration number 2605/1944 Father's Given Name(s) HENRY Mother's Given Name(s) LUCY HANNAH District HORNSBY
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201987336/helen_alice_maude-garrett: accessed March 12, 2024), memorial page for Helen Alice Maude Applewhaite Garrett (1861–18 Jan 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 201987336, citing Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, North Ryde, Ryde City, New South Wales, Australia; Maintained by HontheHill (contributor 49085723).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Warner Brothers International Television Productions, 2016, Who Do You Think You Are, Season 8, Episode 2 (50), Peter Garrett, screen date, SBS One, Australian domestic broadcast