Henry Lamshed
Henry Lamshed was a farmer and politician in colonial South Australia.
Lamshed was born near Plymouth, England, a descendant of an old Newton Abbott, Devonshire, family. He emigrated to South Australia on the, arriving at Port Adelaide in November 1856, 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 until he closed his carrying business in 1873 to take up farming on Yorke Peninsula. In 1888 he 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 and was buried in Maitland.
Family
Henry Lamshed married Harriet Johnston ; they had two sons.He married again, to Elizabeth Choules 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 of Alberton. His children included:
- Samuel Thomas Lamshed born in Brighton, South Australia, married Sabina Cornish on 18 November 1885, lived at Kainton then Sunny Vale, Yorke Peninsula.
- William Lamshed was drowned in a dam while watering horses.
- Henry Herbert Lamshed married Ann Greenslade 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 married Henry "Harry" Wilkinson on 31 March 1891
- Frederick George Lamshed married Ada Jane Edwards on 29 April 1896, lived at "Oakwood", Maitland.
- Charles Arthur Lamshed married Alice Elisabeth Rowe on 15 December 1899. A worker for Red Cross and the Cheer-Up Society, he was postmaster at Yorketown when he died in a cricketing accident. Alice was appointed MBE in 1952 for her work with the South Australia Mental Hospital Women's Auxiliary.
- Francis Walter "Frank" Lamshed married Eva Tilly on 3 September 1902
- Edith Elizabeth Lamshed
- Theodore William Lamshed
Wider 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.It appears that over about ten years, most of a large family of Lamshed/Lamshead/Lambshead migrated to South Australia. Most of them lived around Strathalbyn in the 1860s, then moved to the upper Yorke Peninsula area when it was opened for closer settlement in the 1870s.
Henry's father Samuel migrated last, in 1865 on the Maori with Samuel's second wife Jane and youngest three children. The surname spelling appears to have been Lambshead or Lamshead in some early South Australian documents, but eventually standardised on Lamshed.
Thomas Lamshed
Thomas Lamshed born Bere Alston, Devon, emigrated 1862, lived Strathalbyn, married Elizabeth Bailey, farmed at Echunga, Mount Crawford, Riverton, Maitland, Sunny Vale, retired to Kadina.- Thomas James Lamshed married Sarah Baldock of Tipara on 20 November 1889, lived Sunny Vale.
- William Lamshed married Amy Gepp of Magill, was postmaster at Hallett c. 1897–1905, Wilmington 1905–1909, then lived at Mile End
- Samuel Lamshed 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
- Gilbert Lamshed married Laura Ethel Porker of Kainton on 8 March 1899, lived Cunliffe later Seaton Park, Adelaide
- Arthur John "Jack" Lamshed married Priscilla Florence Rose, lived at Cunliffe then Kadina
- Ada Elizabeth Lamshed married Francis Herbert Baldock of Sandilands
- Alfred George Lamshed married Florence Ann "Flo" Walker on 3 April 1907, lived Tipara then Sunny Vale
- Herbert Sydney Lamshed married Margaretta Stanway on 30 June 1909
- Walter Ernest "Ern" Lamshed married Mabel Phillips on 27 June 1921, farmed at Kadina
- Nellie May Lamshed married George Robinson Snodgrass, farmed at Wallaroo; he died following a gun accident
Others
The family of Samuel Lamshed sen. appears to have been:- With Mary Ann Choke
- *Henry William, the subject of this article, migrated on the Lord Hungerford in 1856
- *Sarah Ann, may have married someone Thomas and lived in Sydney
- *Mary, migrated on the Ocean Chief in 1864, married Thomas Blatchford in 1865
- *Ann, migrated on the Ocean Chief in 1864, married Benjamin Lloyd in 1865
- *Thomas migrated on the Mary Shepherd in 1863, further described above
- *William married Lucy Swann in 1878 in South Australia
- *Samuel, Maori 1865 married Ellen Bell
- *Jacob, Maori 1865 married Sarah Ann Foster 1873
- with Jane Lambshead, Maori 1865
- *Emma Jane, Maori 1865 married William Fletcher 1883