JOHN MILLHOUSE born around 1758 was a Joiner of St.Nicholas, Nottingham at the time
of his marriage to MARY RANDSLEY on the 22nd July 1783. They married by licence at
Kirton and went on to have six known children, of those six only two are known to have
survived to adult-hood - the eldest and youngest son -

John was buried 4th May 1802 at Kirton aged 44 years and Mary died in 1806 leaving a Will
naming her two sons John who was 22 years of age and Richard who was 10 years at the time
of her death -

FOUR CHILDREN ALL DIED YOUNG
Ann baptised 15th October 1785 - buried 3rd August 1789 Kirton
Richard baptised 15 April 1783 - buried 29th May 1794 Kirton
William baptism not found - buried 28th January 1790 Kirton
Ann baptism not found - buried 10 September 1793 Kirton


JOHN born c.1784 - died 1846 Kirton.
A carpenter, he married Mary Rowland in 1807 at Kirton

JOHN MILLHOUSE AND MARY ROWLAND had the following family -

Drusilla........baptised 1808 Kirtonsurvived to get married
Ozias............baptised 1810 Kirtondied 1811
Epaphas.......baptised 1812 Kirtondied 1812
Rowland.......baptised 1813 Kirtondied 1813
Eunice..........baptised 1815 Kirtondied 18 ?
Rowland.......baptised 1816 Kirtonsurvived to get married
Jethro...........baptised 1818 Kirtonmarried Sarah Adams-St.Pancras,Lnd.
Vashti...........baptised 1820 no further trace
Hur...............baptised 1823 Kirtondied 1825
Arzor............baptised 1827 Kirtondied 1827


RICHARD baptised 15th November 1796 Kirton -
He was 'of Wansford, Northants' (a military camp was there)
when he married HENRIETTA SIMPSON on 9th May 1820 at Spalding, Lincs



My thanks to Jean Brideson - New Zealand, for the photographs and the newspaper cuttings
and also to
Audrey Russell - Australia, for sharing with me many family lines of descent from our
Tasmanian Pioneer
great grandaughter of
ELIZABETH HENRIETTA MILLHOUSE and EDWARD GALLAHAR

CHILDREN:
THOMAS TAYLOR....................1847-1903 - married Matilda Tilyard-no descendents

ELIZABETH HENRIETTA.........1850-1895 - married - descendents

EMMA HEATH.............................1852-1931 - married Wm.Howard - descendents

SARAH UNICE.............................1855-1921 - married Thomas Holly and William Hallam

RICHARD ALFRED....................1857-.......... - married Margaret S.Cuthbertson-descendents

JOHN WILLIAM..........................1859-1933 - married Mary Rawlings - descendents

ROWLAND THEOPHILIOUS...1861-may have gone to South Africa-no further trace

THIRZA ELLEN............................1864-died at 5 months of enteritus October 1864

FRANK HENRY............................1865-may have gone to South Africa-no further trace

EDWIN ERNEST...........................1868-1936 - married Ellen L.Atkinson - descendents

SYDNEY HERBERT.....................1870-1939 - married Eliza Jane Beltz - descendents


(John Scott Heath, grandfather of these children, had been convicted at the Old Bailey,
London, England, in 1821 of forging bank notes and sentenced to 7 years transportation.
When in Hobart he was employed in the Police Office. He commited no further offences
of any kind and was granted a conditional pardon in 1828.)

ELIZABETH HENRIETTA MILLHOUSE married EDWARD GALLAHAR
on 5 July 1871 Hobart, Tasmania


CHILDREN :-

Richard Edward......b.1872-1872
Sydney Herbert......b.1873 N.S.W. - married SUSANNAH ELIZ. STEVENS 1898 N.S.W
Tasman Roland.......b.1875 Hobart - married Sarah Buckney 1898 Hobart-descent
Mary Lovalette.......b.1877 Hobart - married James Thorp in 1903 Hobart
Henry.......................b.1879
Willy A.H.................b.1881 N.S.W.
Horace T.P..............b.1884 N.S.W. - married Margaret Scott 1906- descent
Leslie C.W...............b.1886 N.S.W.
Elsie F.V..................b.1890 N.S.W.
Irena T.H.................b.1894-1894

FROM SPALDING, LINCOLNSHIRE
TO
TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA
ROWLAND MILLHOUSE

In 1849 he left Tasmania for the gold fields of California, from where he wrote to his
mother. She passed on his letter to the Temperance Banner for publication in
Feb.1850. After a passage of 18 weeks he received employment discharging cargo for
$7 a day. He advised Richard to come as carpenters are getting $12 a day but not to
bring his wife as she would be utterly miserable. He was also advised "he should not
bring anything other than opossum rugs, which sell for $150.00 each." "That there are
thousands and thousands going and coming from the mines"
EMMA MILLHOUSE

She was said to have been the belle of Melbourne and to have been married three times,
each time to sea captains (Skey, Carder and Howden): in latter years, to have been cared for
by her son William Carder who had been born in 1856, son of her marriage to Captain
William Carder.

MARRIED 1) CHARLES SKEY on 7 Feb.1850
|
|-Charles Skey died aged 0 in Hobart 23 August 1851
|-Charity Emmna Skey born 5 June 1853 married a man named Bowden

............................................... BOWDEN children were Daisy: Ida: and Hilda.

MARRIED 2) WILLIAM CARDER married 1855 / he died in 1859
|
|-William Carder born 1856
|-Harriet Walker (Polly) Carder born 1858-1978

MARRIED 3) CHARLES HOWDEN married 1863
|
|-Charles Howden
|-Blanche Cassel Howden born 1866 at South Yarra

There is an oil painting by marine artist Thomas Robertson which shows Captain Carder
standing on the prow of the paddle-steamer ferry he operated between Port Melbourne
and Williamstown. Port Melbourne is in the background of the picture. Noted is the
fact that he lived at Williamstown and ran a paddlesteamer Comet from there to
Sandridge. It is also believed that Captain Corder ran farms which were later sold.

In Williamstown Cemetery there is a plot for four burials surrounded by a 2-3 ft high
wrought iron fence which is the last resting place for Thomas Taylor Millhouse:
Henrietta Millhouse nee Simpson: Captain William Carder and Harriet Walker Carder.


RICHARD MILLHOUSE

At the age of 15 years he is recorded as being a cabinet maker at an established case
manufactory in Murrey Street. Next door to him was a small cottage with the roof far below
the street level where lived a family named West who went in extensively for poultry, and bred
some very fine ducks and geese. The Millhouse establishment stood on piles cut on the Huon
road by Millhouse himself, and it burnt merrily when a fire destroyed it some years later.
Millhouse achieved some fame in selling Underwoods snakebite antidote and now and then he
got into a controversy with the medical profession over the efficacy of the antidote but even to
this day many old people away back swear by it in cases of relieving snakebite. When
Millhouse left the place, a Scotch bootmaker named Auchincloss took it over and a fine
building now covers the plots of Millhouse and Wests.

Richard Millhouse advertised in the Mercury Newspaper of Jan 1860 -

"Cases: Cases: Cases: Fruit Cases: The undersigned begs to intimate to his friends and the
public in general that he will supply them at 1$ each. Warranted good and strong and made of
the best material. N.B. All orders executed on the shortest notice.
R.Millhouse. Case Manufactory, Murray Street, near the New Wharf. Jan.10 1860.

Whether as a result of the fire referred to above, Richard Millhouse became insolvent the
following year in 1861. "In the matter of the insolvency of Richard Millhouse of Hobart Town
Carpenter and Joiner, Richard Millhouse did this day present his petition to Commissioner of
Insolvent Estates for Hobart town, alleging his insolvency, and praying for relief pursuant to
the Act was declared insolvent, and John Milward appointed Provisional Assignee of the estate
and Effects 11 September 1861 at eleven o clock in the forenoon at the Court of request etc.,


From undated unsigned hand written list headed Names and addresses of my brothers and
sister. An additional note reads "Dear Uncle, we do not know Richards address. He went to
New Zealand, and wrote to dear Mother a few times, and we have not heard from him for some
time. I don't think he has heard of the death of my dear mother (if this refers to Henrietta, her
death occured in 1862) as the letter has been returned months ago, and we have never heard a
word about him." (If this refers to Richard 1826-1893) he had children born in Hobart in 1861
and 1864 so presumerably he would have returned by 1863/4.
RICHARD ALFRED MILLHOUSE =MARGARET SUSAN CUTHBERTSON
born 1857 Tasmania
son of Richard Wm.Millhouse
and Elizabeth Scott-Heath

CHILDREN;-

JAMES RICHARD LESLIE.....b.May 1880 Kingston

THOMAS ALEXANDER..........b.April 1881 Kingston

ALFRED TASMAN...................b.Nov.1886 Hobart / d.April 1920 Tasmania see report

FRANK HENRY........................b.July 1888 Kingston

male poss.stillborn.....................b.Jan.1890 Kingston

JOHN (premature)...................b.June 1890 Hobart

ALBERT ROWLAND...............b.June 1891 Hobart

CLAUDE EDWARD..................b.Oct.1892 Hobart

CLARA ELSIE DOBIS.............b.Aug.1896 Hobart

and possibly a ROLAND AND A GERTRUDE ?



21 April 1920 -
An Inquisition taken for our sovereign Lord the King at Dunelley Hotel in the district of Sorell, within
the state of Tasmania this 21st day of April in the tenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George V, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British
Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith Emperor of India before me John Grierson
Esquire one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said State and it Dependencies ............

......the identification of the body of Alfred T. Millhouse when/where how and after what manner the said
Alfred Tasman Millhouse came by his death. Upon enquiry I find that on the 19th day of April 1920 at
Finders Creek in Tasmania the said Alfred Tasman Millhouse died from injuries caused by the
upsetting of a cart over a bank, the said cart falling upon him accidentally and not otherwise.
JOHN WILLIAM MILLHOUSE = MARY CULLEN/RAWLINGS ?
born 1859 Hobart
died 1933 Hobart
occ. Labourer

CHILDREN

PHYLLIS ELSIE MAY...............b.November 1884 / d. April 1885 at 5 months at Hobart

GLADYS ISABEL......................b.September 1892 Hobart

FRANK RICHARD....................b.May 1894 / d.March 1895 at 10 months at Hobart
.......................................................of Tubercular enteritis at Geeveston.

EVE ELIZABETH.......................b.December 1895 Hobart

LEONARD ERIC HEATH.........b.June 1899 Hobart

and possibly a FRANK MACLEOD MILLHOUSE ?



SYDNEY HERBERT MILLHOUSE married ELIZA JANE BELTZ
born 1870 Hobart, Tasmania
died 1979 Hobart, Tasmania
occ. Labourer

CHILDREN

SYDNEY HEATH................................b. February 1897 Hobart

HERBERT ROLAND PHILIP...........b. September 1899 Hobart / died October 1899 at 7 weeks
of inflamation of the lungs

RICHARD PHILIP

MAY

PHYLLIS

THOMAS EDWIN

RAY ARTHUR

CHARLES ERIC

GEORGE COLMAN

In 1842 RICHARD and HENRIETTA (nee Simpson) and six of their children emigrated
to Australia on board the "Orleana" arriving on the 4th July. Their eldest sons, Thomas
Taylor and William were not listed on the shipping list and it has now been found that
they travelled to Tasmania on board the "Tropic" in the October of 1844. Richard
senior, was by trade a Collar Harness Maker, and his age was given as 44 years, but as
he was baptised in 1796 in Kirton in Holland he has passed himself off as being younger
by about two years, perhaps there was an age restriction. He became an Overseer to
the convicts in Tasmania. He died at the age of '66' years.

Thomas Taylor Millhouse appears to have returned to England at some stage, perhaps
due to his choice of career, to study to become a Solicitor. The reason could have been
the simple wish to take his bar exams in the land he had grown up in, or more likely, the
opportunity to do so in England had occured at the right time. At the age of 36 years he
married Mary Ann Ealand in Wainfleet in Lincolnshire, following which they travelled to
Australia, only for him to succumb to the ravages of T.B.a year later in 1858 aged just 37
years.

In 1853 Richard and Henrietta had had to cope with a double tragedy within their family.
On the 22nd October their sons William then aged 28 and Alfred at the age of 19 both
lost their lives. A newspaper reported that William and Alfred, both listed as 'craft-
owner', together with a man named Gilbert, were drowned in Ralph's Bay, in the
Derwent River. William's death notice was in the 'Hobart Town Advertiser' dated the
25th October and it was advised that his funeral would leave his home 'opposite
St.Georges Church at Battery Point.'



RICHARD WILLIAM MILLHOUSE married ELIZABETH SCOTT-HEATH dau.of John Scott-Heath
bap. 25 August 1826................................................married 31 October 1846
Spalding, Lincs, England........................................at the Independent Chapel. Brisbane Street.
occ. Joiner/Carpenter.............................................Hobart, Tasmania

EMMA HEATH MILLHOUSE married WILLIAM HOWARD
b.1852 Hobart
d.1931 Hobart

CHILDREN

ELIZABETH HEATH HOWARD b.1871 - d.1872 at 5 months

THIRZA ALMA HOWARD

JOHN WILLIAM HOWARD b.1874 Collingwood

RICHARD JAMES HOWARD b.1876 Fitzroy




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