SHOOBRIDGE, William Ebenezer

1820 - 1901  (81 years)

• Name	SHOOBRIDGE, William Ebenezer  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Born	4 Feb 1820	Maidstone, Kent, England   [2, 6, 7, 10]
  Christened	14 Mar 1820	Maidstone, Kent, England   [6, 7]
  	Age: 0
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Jul 1901	Bushy Park, Tasmania, Australia   [2, 7]
  Buried	8 Jul 1901	Red Hills Cemetery, Bushy Park, Tasmania, Australia   [2, 7, 10, 11]
  Person ID	I963	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	SHOOBRIDGE, William,   b. 8 Jul 1781, Maidstone, Kent, England ,   d. 15 Mar 1836, Bushy Park, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	JENKINS, Mary,   b. 31 Mar 1774, Kent, England ,   d. 29 Mar 1822, At Sea  (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F4157	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	BRUCE, Annie,   b. 27 Sep 1835, Islington, Middlesex, England ,   d. 23 Apr 1886, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 50 years)
  Married	13 Jul 1880	Res of Mrs Paxton Glenelg, South Australia   [2]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	COLLINS-HARVEY, Louisa Caroline,   b. 25 Feb 1857,   d. 24 Jan 1936, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 78 years)
  Married	3 Aug 1886	Coffee Place, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia   [2, 12]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	GIBLIN, Charlotte,   b. 30 Sep 1814, Bittoms Townsend, Kingston, Surrey, England ,   d. 3 Jan 1879, Bushy Park, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 64 years)
  Married	23 Mar 1841	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  Children	1. SHOOBRIDGE, Charlotte Jean 'Jessy',   b. 5 Oct 1843, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 1925  (Age 81 years)  [natural]   2. SHOOBRIDGE, William Ebenezer,   b. 7 Jan 1846,   d. 17 May 1940, Bushy Park, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 94 years)  [natural]   3. SHOOBRIDGE, Robert Wilkins Giblin M.H.A.,   b. 11 Jun 1847,   d. 13 May 1936  (Age 88 years)  [natural]   4. SHOEBRIDGE, Anne Mary,   b. 26 Dec 1848, Turriff Lodge, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 8 Mar 1909  (Age 60 years)  [natural]   5. SHOOBRIDGE, Kate Elizabeth,   b. 5 Jul 1850,   d. 5 Jul 1918, Red Chapel Road, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 68 years)  [natural]   6. SHOOBRIDGE, Louis Manton MLC,   b. 25 Oct 1851, Turriff Lodge, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 12 Mar 1939, Sunnyside, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 87 years)  [natural]   7. SHOOBRIDGE, Emily,   b. 23 Mar 1853, Valleyfield, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 15 May 1940, Australia  (Age 87 years)  [natural]   8. SHOOBRIDGE, Margaret Reid 'Minnie',   b. 9 Oct 1854, Valleyfield, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 9 Sep 1936  (Age 81 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		AUTAS001125880930w150 Ebenezer Shoobridge
  		Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007

  
  

• Notes

  Bushy Park and Hawthorn Lodge Leave New Norfolk township westward via Glenora Road; indeed, Glenora, some miles further north west, is the furthest port of call in this itinerary. Pass Plenty; it’s more relevant to stop there on the way back. Bushy Park, twelve miles from New Norfolk, was originally the property of Adolarius Humphrey who arrived with David Collins in 1804 and, although he and Edward Lord built the house known as the first in Hobart (from the pen and ink drawing that survives), he did not settle, roaming first in Tasmania as a mineralogist and then on the mainland. He met Harriett Sutton, daughter of a convict storekeeper, in Sydney and took her to Tasmania. Macquarie insisted that he return her to her father (for reasons that sources do not spell out), but Humphrey demurred and they were married in Hobart in 1812. It was about this time that Humphrey was granted the acres in the Derwent Valley, what came to be known as Humphreyville. By 1814, he had been appointed a magistrate, and later Superintendent of police. This left him little time to manage his land so, as the Land Commissioners described in 1826, it was Harriett who did so, impeccably (p72). When Humphrey died in 1829, Harriett inherited the property. To save her financial embarrassment, the government bought grain from her. In 1831, she married John Kerr. Other sources say that Humphrey’s nephew inherited his property and leased it to John Kerr. Beatrice Kitty Blyth (1849–1948) aged 92 and living in Melbourne recorded her memories of Bushy Park in 1941; they were drawn upon by KR von Stieglitz. Beatrice’s mother, Elizabeth Crowther Blyth (1815–1897), arrived in Tasmania with her parents in 1825 and was educated at Ellinthorp Hall (pp138, 336). At that time she amassed a folio of sketches, watercolours and poems by herself and friends; her six Crowther sisters were also artistic. She married William Blyth in 1835, six weeks after their first meeting following his arrival in Tasmania with a letter of introduction to her father, and between 1837 and 1849 they had 14 children, eight daughters and six sons whom Eliza educated herself, but had no more time for her artistic endeavours. The Blyths moved into Humphreyville in 1850, changing its name to Bushy Park and, when they had built another house next door in 1859, their son, Beatrice’s brother, lived at Bushy Park. Ebenezer Shoobridge bought the property in 1867, moving there from Valleyfield, and introduced to the area the hops which his father had brought over from Kent in 1822. Bushy Park was to become the largest hop-producer in Australia. Among the texts, mostly biblical, inscribed on the blocks of the hop kiln, known locally as the Text Kiln, is one that reads: ‘Erected by Ebenezer Shoobridge in 1867 assisted by his wife and three sons and five daughters, union is strength. God is love.’ Ebenezer’s wife was Charlotte Giblin Shoobridge (1813–1870) who had married him in 1841; one of the sons was Robert, eventually of Valleyfield (p306). The Shoobridge family were to farm Bushy Park for the next seven decades, 65 of those years continuously growing hops, until the bottom fell out of the hop market. In the early days, many pickers were women who tended to work in family groups, and it was one job where pay was equal because it depended on the quantity picked during the twelve-hour day, 6am to 6pm. Conditions for pickers were seen as less favourable in the early twentieth century. The annual Bushy Park show and Strawberry Feast was held in the lee of the hop kiln. Matilda Swynys visited Tasmania from the mainland in the late 1860s and wrote of a trip up the Derwent on a steamer ‘decorated with lilies and yellow broom and filled with holiday makers enlivened by a good German band’. In ‘A Lady’s Trip to Tasmania’ (preserved in the family’s archives and available on the internet), she added: ‘A gentleman at New Norfolk gave a strawberry feast to five hundred visitors.’ The hop kiln is still there, but on private property; you can glimpse it from the road.

  
  

• Sources

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