GARTH, James

1791 - 1872  (81 years)

• Name	GARTH, James  [1]
  Born	30 Apr 1791	Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Oct 1872	Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia   [1]
  Buried	Tasmania, Australia
  Person ID	I154	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	GARTH, Edward,   b. 1763, London, England ,   d. 13 Dec 1823, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	GOUGH, Susannah,   b. 1763, St Giles, London, England ,   d. 24 Jun 1841, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1793	Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia   [1]
  Family ID	F3481	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BELLETT, Mary Harper,   b. 30 Apr 1795, Norfolk Is, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 23 Jan 1877, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 81 years)
  Married	22 Sep 1815	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  Children	1. GARTH, Ann,   b. 17 Jul 1816, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 10 Jun 1898, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 81 years)  [natural]   2. GARTH, James,   b. 25 Mar 1818, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 4 May 1880, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 62 years)  [natural]   3. GARTH, George,   b. 28 Nov 1819, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 12 Aug 1833, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 13 years)  [natural]   4. GARTH, John Edward,   b. 9 Sep 1821, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 30 Sep 1821, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 0 years)  [natural]   5. GARTH, Frederick Henry,   b. 22 Sep 1822, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 15 Apr 1827, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 4 years)  [natural]   6. GARTH, Susannah,   b. 29 Dec 1824, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 3 Nov 1902, Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 77 years)  [natural]   7. GARTH, Mary,   b. 6 May 1827, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 22 Jun 1862, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 35 years)  [natural]   8. GARTH, Elizabeth,   b. 28 Jun 1829, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 29 Jul 1843, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 14 years)  [natural]   9. GARTH, Eliza Adelaide,   b. 8 Jul 1831, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 20 Aug 1898, Geeveston, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 67 years)  [natural]   10. GARTH, William George,   b. 18 Jul 1833, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 12 Aug 1883, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 50 years)  [natural]   11. GARTH, John Walter,   b. 20 Oct 1835, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 6 May 1903, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 67 years)  [natural]   12. GARTH, Sarah Emily,   b. 10 May 1838, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 9 Jan 1933, St Peters, South Australia, Australia  (Age 94 years)  [natural]   13. GARTH, Edward,   b. 8 Sep 1840, Police Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 3 May 1921, Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 80 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  James Garth (1791-1872) was born on Norfolk Island, and was the son of First Fleet convict parents (Edward Garth and Susannah Gough) who were also members of the first party of nine convicts who went with Phillip Gidley King to start the first settlement on the island. James Garth settled in the Huon by 1844, where he owned sawmills. In 1851 he was listed as a timber dealer at Port Cygnet and was both a master and ship owner. James Garth owned a house and farm on 47 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as owning saw mills at Agnes Rivulet in 1867. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.149). According to the 1851 Census, James Garth lived at Port Cygnet where there were 25 people in total including eleven workers. James Garth married Mary Bellett (1796, Norfolk Island; died Hobart, 1877). Children: Ann Garth (1816-1898), married John Birchill in 1840, Hobart; James Garth (1818-1880), married Elizabeth Garth (1820-1861); George Garth (1819-1833); John Edward Garth (1821-1821), Frederick Henry Garth (1822-1827), Susannah Garth (b.1824), married James Henry Walker in Hobart, 1843; Mary Garth (1827-1862), married Thomas Inches in Hobart, 1845; Frederick Henry Garth (1827-1854); Elizabeth Garth (1829-1843), Eliza Adelaide Garth (b.1831), married James McLaren in Hobart, 1847; William George Garth (b.1833), married Rose Ingram in Hobart, 1866; John Walter Garth (b.1835), married Elizabeth Short at Sorell, 1862; Sarah Emily Garth (b.1838), Beilby Hallen Evans at Franklin, 1863); Edward Garth (1840-1921), married Sarah Emily Robertson at Franklin, 1862. James Garth appears in the 1842 and 1843 census for Southport; Edward Garth in 1842 and 1848; Susan Garth in 1842 and 1843. James Garth's daughter, Mary Garth, married Thomas Inches, senior, (1819-1908) who arrived in the district around the same time as him. Mary Garth (a minor) married Thomas Inches in Hobart in 1845. Children: Mary Ann (1847), Robert (1849), Thomas (1851) Jane (1853), Clara (1855), Alolphus (1857), twins Edwin and Reubin (1859), Edith Alice Rebecca (1866). George Garth married Ellen Fitzpatrick. Children between 1857 and 1875: Emily Sarah (1857 at Port Cygnet; baptised at St. David's in Hobart 30 September 1857). George Garth is listed a living in Port Cygnet (MDT). Ellen Garth died in 1896, aged 59. George then re-married (aged 61) in 1897. His second wife was Catherine Molloy (aged 38). George Garth is listed as living in Port Cygnet in a letter published in the Mercury, 8 July 1854. John Edward Garth and Priscilla Harrison had children in the 1880s: James (1877, Fingal), John (1878, Fingal), George (1880, Ringarooma), Louisa (1881), Frederick William (1883), Emily (1885) and Mary (1888). William James Garth married Catherine Harrison in 1888. Children: James (1889), Mary (1891), Fanny (1893), a daughter (1896). Edward Garth (aged 23) married Ellen Dillon (aged 17) in 1897. Ellen known as "Queen" (1879-1965) is buried in St. James Cemetery. Henry Garth married Ruth Wilson. Their children: Edgar (1887), Irene (1888), Ralph (1889) and Norman (1890). Susannah Garth married Walter Hill in 1872. Eva Garth died in 1900. Frederick George Garth died in 1917 (death notice Mercury). Edward Garth died in 1919 (death notice Mercury). Catherine Garth died in 1922 (death notice Mercury). Florence Garth died in 1923. Arthur Garth married Elizabeth Dillon in 1901 at the bride's home (son Lionel Charles "Bill" Garth, born in 1906). Louisa Garth married Bernard Thomas in 1902 in the Methodist Church. Henry Garth married Catherine Molloy in 1916 in SHC. Mary Garth married Harold Batchelor in 1920 in the Methodist Church. Lionel Charles Garth married Ellen McNamara in 1928. Fanny Garth died in 1913. Catherine Garth died in 1914 (death notice Mercury). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Catherine, George, Henry J., and John E. Garth were farmers. Frederick G. Garth was a fruit-grower.

  
  

• Sources

  Database online. Record for Edward Garth