TASMANIA BOUND

Weymouth, Hubbard, Harris
& McPhail family stories

ADDENDA

Additional information about these families and their stories which has been received since publication in 2004

(Page references refer to the Page number within our family history, TASMANIA BOUND, within either the Text or the Family Trees)

(Updated February, 2005)

E8.F5.

Robert HARRIS - B. 27.1.1852 in Watervale, SA (Reg: District of Adelaide, Book 3, P. 330) (Christened Launceston, Tas by Rev Wm. Law); D. 1929 in Launceston, Tas. Aged 77 (worked as a commission agent)
M. 27.1.1880 in Launceston Tas to Fanny HOLBROOK(E) (Reg: 1880/130/37) (Parents: …………… & Margaret HOLBROOKE)

E8.F5.G1.

Leila May HARRIS B. 26.8.1880 in Launceston Tas
M. Norris TURNER (married after 1912)

E8.F5.G2.

Robert Weymouth HARRIS B. 21.4.1882 in Launceston;
                                       D. 4.8.1970 in Launceston, aged 88
M. …… (Cis) …………….

E8.F5.G3

Beatrice Fanny (Triss) HARRIS B. 4.1.1884 in Launceston Tas
M. William GIBSON (married after 1912)

E8.F5.G4.

Clarice Kate HARRIS B. 19.10.1885 in Launceston; D. 1957 in Hobart
M. 26.1.1912 in L’ton to Ernest WEYMOUTH B. 29.4.1882; D. 1.11.1962
(Ernest was her second cousin. Clarice died in her 72nd year at Alma street, Bellerive (Hobart), leaving a son and 3 daughters)

E8.F5.G4.H1.

Nola Weymouth B. 1913
M. William GIBSON (married after 1912)
I1. Janice Reid M. Douglas CLAYTON (no children)
I2. John Conibear Reid M. Rosemary COLMAN (dec.)
      4 children – Angela, Helen, Scott & Peter
I3. Richard Weymouth Reid M. Valerie WHALE
      2 children – Denita & Nigel
I4. Suzanne Reid M. Richard TURFREY (dec.)
      4 children: Triplets: Allison, Belinda, & Caroline, & son, Marcus

E8.F5.G4.H2.

Clare Weymouth B.1916 M. 1937 to Robert PARKER (no children)

               H3.

Donald Weymouth B. 1918; D. 2003 M. Mollie ……………
8 children: 4 sons, 4 daughters – live in WA)

               H4.

Elma Weymouth B. 1922 M. Eric McRAE
3 children

               H5.

William Brian Weymouth D. 18.4.1929 aged 5 weeks

E8.F5.G5.

Douglas Holbrooke HARRIS B. 17.11.1887 in Launceston, Tas

E8.F5.G6.

Victor Alexander HARRIS B. 1890; D. in 1910 in Caulder, Vic, aged 20

Hubbard Family - Child 6 - Descendants of Robert Cordell

B6.C1.D4 Flora Amy Flexmore Cordell, and her husband Richard THOMPSON,
with 6 of their 8 children. Taken c.1915   (provided by Kathleen White)

(see revised section in the Hubbard Family Tree)

C1.

Robert James Cordell B. 1.3.1854 (see B6.C1 - below)

C2.

Willliam Henry Cordell B. 9.4.1858 (see B6.C2 - below

C3.

Helen Mary (“Nellie”) Cordell B. 7.8.1864 (married JOHNSON)>

C4.

George Bassey Cordell B. 12.5.1867)

C5.

Margaret Faith Cordell B. 1956 D. 17.9.1917

B6.C1.

Robert James CORDELL B. 1.3.1854 At Launceston, Tas
M. 1882 in Portland, Tas, to Agnes Isabella SHARPE B. 1858 in Hobart or 1862 in Tas
D1.     Myrtle Grace CORDELL B. 1882
D2.     Bernard Henry Archibald CORDELL B. 1885 in Tas.
D3.     George Edward CORDELL B. 1887 in Tas
D4.     Flora Amy Flexmore CORDELL B. 1889 at St Helens, Tas
                                                       D. June 1921 aged 33 (Int. Sorell, near Hobart)
(Information received from Kathleen White of Wynyard, Tas - November 2004)
          M. 2.10.1907 at Newlands, Pass River, King Island to Richard John THOMPSON
          B. c.1887 in Victoria (Occupation: Dairyman, later Policeman;
          Parents: Anthony Henry Thompson (Storekeeper) & Elizabeth Bartlett)
          Eight surviving children:

          E1.  Joyce THOMPSON

          E2.  Elsie THOMPSON

          E3.  Margery THOMPSON

          E4.  Henry THOMPSON

          E5.  Maynie Irene THOMPSON B. …..; D. 2.8.2001
                M. Albert Edward KELLETT (dec.)
                F1.   Laurence KELLETT
                F2.   David KELLETT (deceased)
                F3.   Heather KELLETT
                F4.   Kathleen Kellett M. ……….. WHITE
                F5.   Dorothy KELLETT
                F6.   Flora KELLETT

          E6.  George THOMPSON

          E7.  Arthur THOMPSON

          E8.  Barbara THOMPSON

(On Flora's death, Richard Thompson remarried and had a new family of 4 children, 3 girls and 1 boy)
D5.     Delphine (Dorothy) Sylvia CORDELL B. 1890 or 1891 in Tas.;
                                                              D.11.11.1959
          M. George WEYMOUTH (1888-1971)
(see B2. C1. D13 - p.281 in the full Hubbard Tree, for descendants)

B6.C2.

William Henry CORDELL B. 9.4.1858; D. 2.6.1950
M. 1885 to Elizabeth Marjery MOYLE   B. 8.2.1862 in Sofala, NSW;
                                                        D. 31.7.1929 At Portland, NSW
D1.     John Charles Stanley CORDELL  B. 4.4.1887 in Sofala, NSW;
                                                        D. 8.5.1962
D2.     Lionel Victor CORDELL              B. 2.6.1889 in Sunny Corner, NSW;
                                                        D. 20.4.1917 in Heirnies, France
D3.     Estella Grace CORDELL B. 24.10.1890 in Sunny Corner, NSW
          M. 7.12.1918 to John William HART
                                                       B. 7.12.1887 in Nottingham, England;
                                                       D. 25.6.1953 in Wollongong NSW
D4.     Pearl May CORDELL                B. 4.6.1892 in Lithgow, NSW;
                                                       D. 30.8.1976 in Brookvale, NSW
          M. 23.10.1915 to George William MEACHIN
                                                       B. 9.11.1886 in Northwich, England;
                                                       D. 13.8.1976 in NSW)
D5.     Elizabeth CORDELL                 B. 1896;
                                                       D. 1896 in Newcastle NSW
D6.     Kathleen Alma CORDELL          B. 26.2.1896 in Wallerawang, NSW;
                                                       D. 26.6.1962
          M. 1926 to Joseph STONE
D7.     William Henry CORDELL          B. 2.2.1899 in Sunny Corner, NSW;
                                                       D. 27.6.1969
          M. 1926 to Jessie Evelyn ARNOLD B. 1899 in Bourke NSW;
                                                        D. 1.7.1983 in Sydney NSW
D8.     Oliver Tristram CORDELL         B. 11.12.1900 in Lithgow, NSW;
                                                        D. 9.7.1981 in Sydney NSW
          M1. in 1925 to Sarah Vera E. MIDDLETON B. 1904 Mosman NSW
          M2. on 28.11.1934 to Letitia Margaret Evelyn HEATHWOOD B. ..;
                                                        D. 13.5.1987 in Budapest, Hungary

(Information provided by Laura & John Hart – December 2004)

The following recently-discovered announcement published on 16 January 1851 in the South Australian Register newspaper, establishes that Samuel remained in South Australia long enough to set up in practice in Adelaide:

Mr. Samuel Harris, Surgeon-Superintendent of the ship Planter 1839 and late of the firm Harris Dulex and Harris, Surgeons, Fenchurch Street, City, having from ill-health been obliged to leave England, begs to inform the inhabitants of Adelaide that he may be consulted daily at his residence next to the Farmers Inn, Franklin Street.

(information submitted to the Australian Medical Pioneers Index in 2004 http://www.medicalpioneers.com/)

The requirement for medical practitioners to be registered did not come into force in South Australia until 1844, so Samuel had not been registered to practise in 1839. After his return to Adelaide from England in November 1850, Samuel Harris obtained registration in April 1851 to practise medicine in South Australia (No. 68). He later obtained registration with the NSW Medical Board in May 1852, but there is no evidence of his residence in NSW until 1857 with the birth of a son in Port Stephens.

A search of the available South Australian Almanacks and directories between 1839 and 1856 found no listing or advertisement for Samuel Harris in South Australia, apart from a listing in 1855 for a Samuel L.P. Harris, a farmer at Watergate Tiers in the district of Macclesfield, which seems an unlikely match. Robert Harris is listed only once – in 1849 as the “victualler, ‘Saddleworth Inn’ Burra Road”. So just when Samuel and his family left Adelaide and moved to Sydney is still to be established.

Medical history suggests that Samuel’s ‘ill-health’ in 1850 is likely to have been tuberculosis-related, as was his death in Sydney in 1866, from bronchitis at age 52.

Charles Cotter, second husband of Frances Sarah McCormick-McPhail, was a convict transported on the Elphinstone (2) which departed from Sheerness on 10th April 1842 and arrived in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) on 28th July 1842.

His convict records reveal his crime was stealing, at age 18, for which he received a 10-year sentence. He was a plasterer and his native place was Marylebone. While in VDL, his sentence was changed to 'transported for life' after being convicted for stealing a sheep in 1849. For this crime he received 4 years to be served in Port Arthur. Later, in 1857, he received a Bond Pardon which would indicate that when he married Sarah McCormick, he was still a convict. Their only child died as an infant.

Frances Sarah’s second child, Mary Jane McPhail-McKeag (1848-1904) married John FOSTER in 1867. New information indicates that John’s father, Simeon Foster, was also a convict to VDL who spent some time at Port Arthur, possibly at the same time as Charles Cotter, and that Mary Jane and John may have met through them.

Their son, George Simeon John Foster, born 1870, worked for a wool store in Victoria and went to Sydney (year unknown) to meet his McPhail relatives, including his first cousin, Hector McPhail, who was a wool classer in Sydney.

The following obituary was published in the Riverine Herald in 1914 indicating a previously unknown part of Alexander’s story - that Alexander had had a grocery store in Echuca prior to his return to Tasmania where he married into the Harris family, and his involvement in the Ringarooma Tin Mine – information on the mine is included below, although nothing has been discovered to date about the level of Alexander’s involvement.

McPhail & Weymouth – the business partnership
(newspaper advertisements since located by Andrew Jones in Tasmania)

(provided by Andrew Jones – 4.8.04)