Henry SALTMARSH

1819 - 1899  (80 years)

• Name	Henry SALTMARSH
  	Rather than Henry, he might have been named Jno (John) at his baptism - this is the name on the Hooghly passenger manifest. He was definitely known as Henry in Australia. Maybe he changed his name after settling in the colony, or maybe there was a clerical error on the passenger list.
  Born	19 Jul 1819	Yorkshire, England
  	We are not certain that Henry was born on 19th July 1919 in Yorkshire. Open up his biography which can be found as a story linked at the bottom of this profile.
  Gender	Male
  Education	Education : * Well educated * Assisted with the education of the neighbour's children in Angas Plains.
  General event	Achievements : Henry was a lay preacher in Primitive Methodist Church in Angas Plains
  General event	Land : * Section 2854 in Bugle Ranges, near Macclesfield - 80 acres - in 1846 (ref : Email from Colin Semmler, 20th May 2013 - Jim Faull's book Macclesfield, reflections along the Angas). * 1853..... petition of rate payers to establish a district council. Both Henry Saltmarsh and Charles Maidment are on this. (ref : 'Macclesfield, Relections along the Angas' by Jim Faull, 1980, p39) * 1855 SA Directory for Bugle Ranges Henry Saltmarsh and William Maidment listed as farmers. William would have been 20 years old. He may not have owned his own land at Bugle. He went on to success. Carl Gustav Schedlich was an early Macclesfield pioneer who wrote his memoirs. "At Macclesfield he was engaged by Henry Saltmarsh as a bullock driver and by Charles Maidment in the reaping season. From these men he learned enough about farming that he could start up on his own." (ref : ?Macclesfield, Relections along the Angas? by Jim Faull, 1980, p39) * The following are ref : Craig Fisher, emails on 3rd June 2013 and 7th July 2013 > Bugle Range is actually in the hundred of Macclesfield not the town. The hundred of Macclesfield goes all the way from Mt Barker down to Strathalbyn. > The sections Henry lived on was in the vicinity of Archer Hill Rd - where it meets Long Valley Rd and heads away east nearly all the way to Woodchester. > In the SE corner of that intersection is where Ferdinand Mueller first lived when he came to Australia. He was the famous botanist later known as Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller. He was a near neighbour of Henry I think and he gave the land for the Bugle Ranges school that Henry was involved with. The school is just south along Long Valley Rd on the other side from that intersection. > Friedrich Krichauff was a very prominent figure in early South Australia: scientist, professional botanist, local councillor and Parliamentarian, and he was an associate of Henry Saltmarsh as was Ferdinand Mueller PhD, later Baron Ferdinand von Mueller KBE the famous Australian botanist --- inventor of the gum tree you might say! Krichauff and Mueller occupied cottages on parts of section 2852 which is immediately adjacent to this old graveyard and also includes the land that the Bugle Ranges school stood on. I will send some sketch maps of the area and the people who lived there later this week. > It is not known whether Henry was only leasing the land or whether they took the opportunity to buy it. By the time the school was built Mueller had bought his sections from the Davenport family. His land was on section 2852 - his cottage is still standing near other farm buildings. I have one suggested section number for the Maidments and Ellises, 2826 but it is uncertain. If they did own the land then I will be able to find it in the land-title office archives. > I think the Maidment's farm at Tinpot and the Inn were on section 1789 possibly the one highlighted in the attached .jpg The main road going past is the Wistow Rd originally the main Rd to Melbourne. The diagonal Rd meeting it at the SW corner is Wheal Ellen Rd which came from the Tin mine. I'm guessing that the Inn stood at that corner and the other Rd heading east from there is probably Everleigh Rd (now unnamed afaik) The town of Woodchester is in that cluster of allotments a little further south.
  General event	Sources : Heather Laycock - Milang book
  General event	Speculation : * Henry's third wife, Ann WILLESEE, was previously married to William RAINS who had previously been married to Sarah Perkins who was born in 1814 and died 16th January 1871 - less than 2 weeks before he married Ann!!!. * This William Rains might??? have been the same William Rains who came out on the same ship as the McLeans - the Navarino in 1837. * If this is the same William, this would mean that their first child (John, the first of 9) was born just 3 weeks after they disembarked from the Navarino on 6th December 1837 with John born on 30th December. And if this is true, we can trace it through with John marrying Mary Ann SPECK on 7th March 1864 and later marrying Lilian Jane BROADBENT on 25th August 1903. * Lilian's father is George Broadbent who was born on 10th October 1853. John died on 11th May 1907. * Is this any connection with the Broadbent brothers who married Malcolm McLEAN's daughters. And the strong connection between Dora McLean's family and the Broadbent family in Mile End.
  Notes for biography	Advertiser Adelaide, 17th March 1932, p10 Out Among the People, by Rufus: Could Race Phar Lap - LAL Gordon, Tiparra via Paskeville writes:-"Dear Rufus, your talk over the air about your holiday was most interesting to me, as many of the haunts you visited are very familiar to me and many of the people you mentioned are personal friends and schoolmates of mine. When my father was managing Point Sturt for the then owner, Joan Howard Angas, ducks were very plentiful, and we boys shot hundreds of them. You mentioned something about ostriches. I know a little about those same birds. Mr. Angas sent 20 of them to Point Sturt. They proved a rank failure from a money-making point of view, although feathers were fashionable and commanded a high price. They do not work well together with cattle: they tear themselves about too much in the barbed wire. You compared their speed to a fast trotter. Why, Phar Lap at his top would not get near them and they can maintain top speed for half a day. They are the maddest things on earth to yard. They will not go through the gateways without first walking past about twenty times. If there are chicks among them then the job is simplified, as the chicks, being low, lead the way through the gate. I remember we boys chasing one bird that broke away for half a day. It eventually took to the water and walked out until only about a foot of its neck and head were above water. It then resembled a periscope of a submarine "They are very savage at nesting time especially the male bird. I remember my old grandfather. Henry Saltmarsh, who was staying with us on two occasions coming in contact with the ostriches. The first time he had his head cut badly and his coat and pants ripped almost off him. The second encounter put him to bed for weeks with three broken ribs. Out of season the birds are very tame and can be made pets of. They are real gourmands. We boys had to crack stones and cut up bones for them to swallow. They will pick up iron and other metals if they get the chance."
  Notes for biography	Henry painted the Bugle school - as per Craig Fischer's notes about the Bugle school.
  Notes for biography	Obituary: Chronicle Adelaide, 26th Aug 1899, p14 DEATH OF MR H SALTMARSH, Milang, August 17. The news was received today from Adelaide of the death of Mr. Henry Saltmarsh, at the age of 79. For many years he was engaged in pastoral pursuits here. He had resided at Dry Creek during the past year. Deceased was highly respected, and much sympathy is felt for his relatives, who reside here. He leaves five sons, three daughters, and many grandchildren. Advertiser Adelaide, 22nd Aug 1899, p3 A PIONEER DEAD : The death is announced of Mr Henry Saltmarsh, a native of Yorkshire, England, who arrived in the colony in 1839. For many years Mr Saltmarsh was a well-known pastoralist of Bugle Ranges and the Lake Plains, near Milang, and for the last two years he had resided at Dry Creek. He leaves a widow, five sons, four daughters, and a number of grand and great-grand-children. The deceased gentleman, who had suffered from dropsy for about twelve months, was a member of the Church of Christ for something like 40 years.
  Notes for biography	SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE. To the editor, Dear Sir, I have watched with much interest the discussion carried on in your Open Column arising out of a lecture delivered lately by His Honor the Chief Justice on geology, &c., and I fully expected to hear from the teachers of the people some explanation or reasonable argument, and not mere declamation; some reason why Scripture and science should or should not agree. As I have not seen such explanation as pleases me, I beg leave to submit a few thoughts of my own on the subject. I have often felt a difficulty in reconciling the account of the Creation, in the 1st of Genesis, with the knowledge of things at the present day. I suppose Scripture was never present to teach science, but a higher kind of knowledge. I think the difficulty lies in our being taught to regard all Scripture (or the Bible) as the Word of God, and that it consequently must be infallible in every particular, and that only a certain class of persons (self-styled the Church) have the right to interpret it, for they say unless you believe as we do you cannot be saved, thereby limiting the power of God by confining a man's belief to one particular view of Scripture against the evidence of his senses. Surely it cannot affect a man's faith whether he believes God made the earth in six days or as many thousand (but the establishment of a Sabbath is another thing), for "We stand by faith, not in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God." My notions about the earth are that it has had life and growth imparted to it when called into being by its great Author; that it is developing itself by its self-sustaining power at the present time, and I think I can find support for such an idea in the Scripture: see Gen. i, and Rom. viii, 22. I need hardly say we live in different times to those when the Mosaic account of the Creation was written, and the times to which it points. It is not necessary for anyone to say to us, "the Lord made heaven and earth, &c., in six days, and rested on the seventh, and hallowed it," &c., for we have had God revealed to us in a more excellent manner; but such writing has served its purpose by teaching mankind two main ideas, namely the greatness and power of God, &c., and setting apart a day of rest for the contemplation of himself, and for the effects of such teaching read the whole history of the Jews. It appears to me the teaching of Scripture has been progressive, and as it has been written and preserved by men, it must of necessity partake of the infirmities of men; but the spirit of its teaching has approved itself to man in all ages, and will to all time. I would uphold the inspiration of Scripture with all my might, at the same time I would allow to all teaching that has for its object the ennobling and raising of man to a higher standard of excellence, to be inspired also. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I will just say this, the Scripture was written for man and not for a class, and we are bound to judge of it by the light that is within us, not to accept the dictum of those who are interested in upholding particular views, but "to search for ourselves". Now, Sir, there are numbers of people like myself who follow laborious employments, who have not much leisure for reading anything beside the weekly paper; who have neither the means nor opportunity of obtaining scientific works; consequently we are quite mystified by quotations from such works as Dr. Candlish's and others by some of your correspondents, but are quite capable of estimating at what they are worth, plain statements from a plain man like themselves. If this should be the means of causing any such to think for themselves, my object will be gained. For to have progress we must make exertion. But an indolent assent to anything and everything is like mental death. I am, Sir, &c., HENRY SALTMARSH. Waterside, Milang, May, 1864. (Source: South Australian Advertiser, Adelaide, 18th May 1864, p3)
  Notes for biography	There are four generations of people with the same name:- * Henry Saltmarsh - in England - married Elizabeth - the father of Henry of the Hooghly. * Henry Saltmarsh, born 1819 or 1820 - migrated on the Hooghly. * Henry Saltmarsh - born 1870 - son of the Henry of the Hooghly. * Henry Roy Saltmarsh known as Roy. He was the grandson of Henry of the Hooghly.
  Notes for biography	To the editor, Dear Sir, If Methodists and the many different offshoots of Methodism are really in earnest about organic union there is a sure and ready way of accomplishing not only organic union but what is far better, a unity upon the name of Christ ? a unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace. Despite the efforts of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and his able ally, the Editor of the Review of Reviews, there does does not seem much prospect at present of forming a united body of Methodists. Why? Because of the legislative powers assumed by the different conferences of the different bodies. And if they should be able by legislation to form an organic union, what will it amount to? Merely a Methodist organization. I do not deny the right of the so-called clergy to legislate for their own body of followers, but I do deny the right of any body of men to legislate for the Church of Christ, for we have a complete manual of legislation in the new covenant by Christ and His apostles ordered in all things and sure. The way, then, would be, let those Methodists who have the smallest modicum of faith (if only like a grain of mustard seed) in Jesus the Christ unite on that name. Repent ye of your Methodism and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins, and ye shall receive the gift of tho Holy Spirit (Acts ii., 38). This by the authority of the Lord Jesus the Christ. (John iii, 5). By so doing you may take upon you that name from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. You can then do without the legislative power of the so-called clergy, who have divided the Church into two classes: who have robbed their fellow believers of their birthright in order that they may have the sole right to be paid for ministering in holy things (Rev. xiii, 17). Send out capable preachers to invite sinners into the kingdom, and govern the Church by approved elders; see Tim. and Titus. You will then accomplish a unity approved by God, not of Methodists, but of Christians (John xvii., 11-26) I am,Sir. &c., HENRY SALTMARSH, Point Sturt, February 20. (source: South Australian Register, Adelaide, 26th Feb 1896, p6)
  Immigration	Migration : Henry migrated in 1839 on the 'Hooghly'. He was a steerage passenger. The 'Hooghly' left London on 20th February 1839 and arrived in Holdfast Bay on 18th June 1839.
  Immigration	Who was on the Hooghly? The manifest for the Hooghly journey from London in 1839 has Jno Saltmarsh as a steerage passenger - just one Saltmarsh. However other sources, including Barry Leadbeater, had two Saltmarshes - John and Henry. Barbara Regan has concluded that there was one person but that the name Henry was added in later lists because Henry said that he was on the Hooghly. The name Henry Saltmarsh does not appear on lists of other boats. Barbara has searched South Australian colonial records and has found no trace of John whereas there are ample details about Henry's activities. So either there was a clerical error on the manifest where Henry was recorded as Jno, or Henry deliberately used the name Jno. Maybe he just used that name for the journey or maybe this was his name in his youth but he changed it to Henry when he arrived in the Colony. We are left to wonder why he might have changed his name. Should we be looking for the name Jno or Henry in birth records and evidence of his activities for the first 19 years of his life in UK. Leadbeater quotes the following references:- * Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885, SAGHS, 1986 * South Australian Marriages Registrations 1842-1916, SAGHS, 2001 * Manifests of Vessels Arriving from Overseas 1838-42, SAA, GRG41/8 (A743) * 1841 South Australia Census Returns, SAA, GRG24/13 This comment is by Don Gordon on 14th March 2018.
  Occupation	Occupations : * Farmer * Cream factory near Lake Plains school on a spot locally known as 'Creamery Hill'.
  Residence	Residences : * Migrated in 1839 * Bugle Range * Lake Plains and Angas Plains * Milang * Henry lived in Dry Creek when he was living with his third wife, Ann.
  Died	17 Aug 1899	Dry Creek   [1]
  Buried	Milang cemetery – the plot is fenced and almost in front of the gate as you walk in Milang cemetery gate. The plot has 13 others but there are no names on the headstone other than Henry, Margaret and Margaret’s sister. Colin Semmler has a list of all the people buried in the plot and he has talked with some Saltmarsh descendants who live up north of SA about putting a plaque on the grave with all the 13 names thereon, but nothing ever came of it. (ref : Colin Semmler has a photo of the Saltmarsh plot).
  Person ID	I399	Alexander & Jessie
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Henry SALTMARSH
  Mother	Unknown UNKNOWN,   b. 1795
  Family ID	F348	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Fanny MAIDMENT,   b. 6 Apr 1824, Westbury, Wiltshire, ,   d. 21 Jun 1857, Bugle Ranges SA  (Age 33 years)
  Married	3 Jun 1845	Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, SA, Australia
  Wedding	Wedding : 3rd June 1845 in Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide by Reverend James Farrell.
  Children	1. Unnamed SALTMARSH,   b. 24 Oct 1846,   d. 24 Oct 1846  (Age 0 years) + 2. Emily SALTMARSH,   b. 19 Dec 1847,   d. 24 Oct 1918  (Age 70 years)   3. Mary Ann SALTMARSH,   b. 22 May 1849,   d. 26 Jan 1850, Died at only 2? years old.  (Age 0 years) + 4. Mary Ann SALTMARSH,   b. 26 Sept 1850, Mt Pleasant, SA, Australia ,   d. 7 May 1904, Inverness House, Owen  (Age 53 years) + 5. Frederick SALTMARSH,   b. 12 Mar 1852, Bugle Ranges ,   d. 5 Jun 1934  (Age 82 years) + 6. Annie SALTMARSH,   b. 28 Oct 1853, Bugle Ranges via Hahndorf, SA, Australia ,   d. 4 Nov 1932  (Age 79 years)   7. Esther SALTMARSH,   b. 16 Jun 1857, Bugle Ranges ,   d. 24 Jun 1857, She died at just 9 days old.  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2014
  Family ID	F139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret RUTHERFORD,   b. 29 Aug 1827, Earlsheugh, Jedburgh, Roxburgshire, Scotland, UK ,   d. 5 May 1894, Lake Plains, SA, Australia  (Age 66 years)
  Married	23 Mar 1858	The residence of Joseph Hutchison who was the husband of Margaret's sister, Isabella.
  Wedding	MARRIED: On the 24th March, at the residence of the bride's brother, Sturt Street, by special licence, by the Rev. John Gardner, Mr. H. Saltmarsh, farmer, Bugle Ranges, to Miss M. Rutherford, of the same place. (source: South Australian Register, Adelaide, 29th March 1858, p2)
  Children	+ 1. Walter UNKNOWN,   b. 10 Sep 1856,   d. 11 Dec 1918, Milang SA  (Age 62 years)  [Adopted]  [Birth] + 2. Alfred SALTMARSH,   b. 23 Aug 1859, Bugle Ranges SA ,   d. 29 Jun 1936, Milang SA  (Age 76 years)   3. William SALTMARSH,   b. 10 Jan 1863,   d. 28 Dec 1949, Milang SA  (Age 86 years) + 4. Edith SALTMARSH,   b. 28 Oct 1865, Waterside ,   d. 5 Oct 1951  (Age 85 years)   5. Florence SALTMARSH,   b. 3 Jul 1867,   d. 1868  (Age 0 years) + 6. Henry SALTMARSH,   b. 28 Mar 1870,   d. 21 Oct 1946  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2016
  Family ID	F351	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Ann Willesee DEANS,   b. 16 May 1832, Leverington, Cambridge, England, UK ,   d. 27 Apr 1915, Goodwood, SA, Australia  (Age 82 years)
  Married	14 Jul 1897	Adelaide, SA, Australia   [2]
  	In the residence of RW Barrien - the home of Ann's daughter (Frederica & Richard Barrien). Genealogy SA, Online Database SEARCH : 1897 MARRIAGE, SALTMARSH Henry & RAINS Ann Willesee , Adelaide 192/133
  Children	Children : Henry died only two years after marrying Ann. They did not have any children.
  Wedding	On 14th July 1897, Ann Willesee Rains, age 65 years, married 77-year-old widower, Henry Saltmarsh, at the residence of R. W. Barrien, Adelaide. The marriage was registered in the Adelaide district, recording their respective fathers as William Rains and Henry Saltmarsh.   [2]
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2019
  Family ID	F357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Henry Saltmarsh This is the only photo of Henry we could find. It is extracted from a group photo of pioneer settlers of Milang thought to be taken around 1900 (Henry died in 1899). Alf Saltmarsh is also in that group photo.
  		Group of 21 pioneer settlers of Milang about 1900 - including Alf Saltmarsh and Henry Saltmarsh Caption: "Group portrait of pioner settlers of Milang. Front row, left to right: Charles Bagley, Peter Bagley, Mrs Albert Pavy, Albert Pavy, Edward Wenzel, WP Dunk, Matthew Rankine, Alex Mann, Mr Goldsworthy, Mrs Henry Pavy, Middle row: John Clifford, ??, William Barrett, ??, John Mann, Captain Oliver. Top row: Alf Saltmarsh, Sid Mitchell, Fred Mitchell, Henry Saltmarsh, William Smith"

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Henry Saltmarsh - notes by author not known
  		Henry Saltmarsh - birth 26th April 1820 in Hackney, Middlesex OPR Baptisms in Parish of Saint John at Hackney, County of Middlesex, page 265, reg 2120 Parents - Elizabeth & Henry Saltmarsh, carpenter of Shacklewell (Shacklewell is in Hackney) Comment: This might not be 'our' Henry's birth. This Hackney family might be related to a Donald Saltmarsh (Victorian Senator) who is not a relative. (source: Rosemary Saltmarsh email on 10th Aug 2018)
  		Henry Saltmarsh - notes by Elsie Aherns
  		Henry Saltmarsh - notes by Heather Laycock - 1985
  		Maidment family history - notes by Colin Semmler
  		Henry Saltmarsh's Will - with transcription
  		Henry Saltmarsh - summary by Heather Laycock In book on Milang & Lake Alexandrinas Shores
  		Henry Saltmarsh - summary by Barbara Regan
  		Saltmarsh children - teachers at Bugle Range school
  		Hooghly passengers (Saltmarsh) - from Barry Leadbeater Barry has done extensive research into early passengers to Adelaide - including the Hooghly in 1839. He lists two passengers with the surname Saltmarsh - John & Henry. But this might not be correct as the actual manifest just has one - 'Jno Saltmarsh'.
  		W - Henry Saltmarsh - letters to newspapers in 1864 & 1896
  		Henry Saltmarsh - died 17th Aug 1899 in Dry Creek Age: 60 years, born c1839 Residence: Dry Creek Place of death: Dry Creek
  		WW - Henry Saltmarsh & Margaret Rutherford - married on 23rd March 1858 in Adelaide Place of wedding: Residence of Joseph Hutchison in Adelaide Groom's father: Henry Saltmarsh Bride's father: Andrew Rutherford
  		Wz - Henry Saltmarsh & Ann Willesee Rains - marriage on 14th July 1897 in Adelaide Groom: Age 77 yrs, born c1820, widower, son of Henry Saltmarsh Bride: Age 65 yrs, born c1832, widow, daughter of William Rains Place: Residence of RW Barrien, Adelaide
  		WW - Henry Saltmarsh & Fanny Maidment - married on 3rd June 1845 in Adelaide Place of marriage: Holy Trinity Church in Adelaide
  		Hooghly manifest - 1839 - steerage passenger Jno Saltmarsh Jno Saltmarsh is listed with 12 steerage passengers (a third way down the second page of the manifest)
  		Evangelistic Union of Churches of Christ in SA - Dec 1883

  
  

  Stories

  2.60 - Henry SALTMARSH and Fanny, nee MAIDMENT Henry was born in Yorkshire in 1819 and, at 19 years, he migrated to South Australia. Fanny Maidment was born in 1824 and migrated at 16 years. They married in 1845 and had seven children, three of whom died very young. The second child was Mary, who married David Finlayson, and the sixth was Annie, who married Alexander Gordon. Fanny died at the age of 33. The next year, 1858, Henry married Margaret Rutherford. Of their six children, one was adopted and one died early. Margaret died in 1894. Henry’s third marriage was with Ann Willesee Rains in 1897. Only nine of Henry’s 13 children (including one adopted) survived to adulthood. Henry died in Dry Creek in 1899 at the age of 79 years. (Notes for biography - by Don Gordon - updated in February 2020)

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] TBE Fischer's dates book - in media on this website , Transcribed by Craig Fischer . [S86] Sue Vize via WikiTree.