Henry Lamshed

Henry Lamshed (11 April 1836 – 13 June 1918) was a farmer and politician in colonial South Australia.

Lamshed was born near Plymouth, England, a descendent of an old Newton Abbott, Devonshire, family. He emigrated to South Australia on the Lord Hungerford, arriving at Port Adelaide in November 1856,^[1] and for several years worked on a farm at McLaren Vale. He established a carrying business at Strathalbyn. He took up land near Maitland when that district was first opened for settlement around 1875, and ran a farm there, "Oakwood", until around 1916, when he retired.

He was a member of the Strathalbyn District Council from 1867^[2] and in 1888 was one of the foundation members of the Yorke's Peninsula District Council. He was elected to the seat of Yorke Peninsula in the South Australian House of Assembly and served from April 1890 to April 1893 as a colleague of Harry Bartlett.

He died after several months' illness^[3] and was buried in Maitland.

Family

Henry Lamshed married Harriet Johnston (c. 1836 – 28 March 1864); they had two sons. He married again, to Elizabeth Choules (16 May 1838 – 14 June 1897) in November 1864. Her family arrived in S.A. on the Diadem in November 1840; she had a previous marriage to William Spanswick. He married a third time, on 24 February 1898, to Sarah Jane Slade (c. 1850 – 18 July 1938) of Alberton. His children included:

• Samuel Thomas Lamshed (29 January 1859 – 22 October 1916) born in Brighton, South Australia, married Sabina Cornish (c. 1863 – 13 April 1945) on 18 November 1885, lived at Kainton then Sunny Vale, Yorke Peninsula.^[4]
• William Lamshed (6 January 1861 – 3 April 1878) was drowned in a dam^[5] while watering horses.^[6]
• Henry Herbert Lamshed (19 September 1865 – 21 July 1942) married (Lucy) Ann Greenslade (c. 1866 – 19 May 1923)^[7] on 6 March 1889. He was a Maitland town councillor and served a term from 1922 as Mayor and subsequently as Magistrate. He married again, to "Bessie", in late 1927.
• Ellen Mary "Nellie" Lamshed (19 February 1867 – 1938) married Henry "Harry" Wilkinson (14 May 1865 – ) on 31 March 1891
• Frederick George Lamshed (16 June 1870 – 2 December 1940) married Ada Jane Edwards on 29 April 1896, lived at "Oakwood", Maitland.
• Charles Arthur Lamshed (20 May 1873 – 31 October 1931) married Alice Elisabeth Rowe (5 January 1883 – 12 September 1956) on 15 December 1899. A worker for Red Cross and the Cheer Up Society,^[8] he was postmaster at Yorketown when he died in a cricketing accident.^[9] Alice was appointed MBE in 1952 for her work with the South Australia Mental Hospital Women's Auxiliary.^[10]
• Francis Walter "Frank" Lamshed (15 August 1874 – 7 November 1952) married Eva Tilly (5 March 1880 – 8 November 1956) on 3 September 1902
• Edith Elizabeth Lamshed (14 October 1875 – 14 September 1969)
• Theodore William Lamshed (13 July 1881 – 1 December 1930)

Another South Australian Lamshed family

The surname "Lamshed", rare elsewhere in Australia, was well known in South Australia around Strathalbyn, Maitland, Kadina and Moonta in the late 19th century. Another pioneering Lamshed family may be mentioned here, as they farmed in similar areas around the same time, and may easily be confused. Their relationship, if any, is not yet clear.

Thomas Lamshed (c. 1843 – 28 August 1912) born Bere Alston, Devon, emigrated 1862, lived Strathalbyn, married Elizabeth G(eorge) Bailey (1846 – 20 March 1933), farmed at Echunga, Mount Crawford, Riverton, Maitland, Sunny Vale, retired to Kadina.^[11]

• Thomas James Lamshed (4 June 1864 – 4 June 1912) married Sarah Baldock (23 May 1868 – 2 July 1946) of Tipara on 20 November 1889, lived Sunny Vale.^[12]

• Clarence Albert Lamshed ( – ) was witness to the WWI death of cousin William Horace Lamshed.^[13]

• William Lamshed (2 June 1866 – 21 March 1944) married (Priscilla) Amy Gepp (2 June 1867 – 7 August 1898) of Magill, was postmaster at Hallett c. 1897–1905, Wilmington 1905–1909, then lived at Mile End
• Samuel Lamshed (19 September 1868 – 20 October 1944) married Annie Florence Scott of Moonta on 28 January 1892. He married again, to Emma "Emmie" Mutton on 2 March 1904, lived Kainton then Kadina^[14]

• William Horace "Will" Lamshed (8 May 1894 – 20 September 1917), born at Weetulta, was killed in action, Polygon Wood, Belgium, during the Third Battle of Ypres.

• Gilbert Lamshed (31 August 1872 – 10 June 1951) married Laura Ethel Porker of Kainton on 8 March 1899, lived Cunliffe later Seaton Park, Adelaide
• Arthur John "Jack" Lamshed (19 October 1875 – 18 November 1954) married Priscilla Florence ??, lived at Cunliffe then Kadina
• Ada Elizabeth Lamshed (11 November 1878 – 1923) married Francis Herbert (or Herbert Francis) Baldock (c. 1875 – 28 January 1947) of Sandilands
• Alfred George Lamshed (15 August 1880 – 25 August 1941) married Florence Ann "Flo" Walker on 3 April 1907, lived Tipara then Sunny Vale
• Herbert Sydney Lamshed (2 September 1884 – 19 December 1938) married Margaretta Stanway on 30 June 1909^[15]
• Walter Ernest "Ern" Lamshed (3 May 1888 – 1968) married Mabel Phillips on 27 June 1921, farmed at Kadina
• Nellie May Lamshed (22 January 1891 – 27 February 1976) married George Robinson Snodgrass (24 July 1883 – 11 March 1939), farmed at Wallaroo; he died following a gun accident^[16]

The noted journalist and Red Cross official Maxwell Robert Arthur "Max" Lamshed OBE (5 April 1901 – 25 July 1971) was the only son of A. J. Lamshed of Rendelsham, Robe and Mount Gambier, whose relationship to either of these families is as yet uncertain - his forebears arrived in South Australia in 1856^[17] and Max described Will Lamshed (1894–1917) as a "great-uncle".^[13]

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