Harry Bartlett (Australian politician)
Henry Bartlett[1] (6 January 1835 – 8 July 1915) was a politician in the colony of South Australia, dubbed "Father of the West Coast".[2]
Harry was born in
He soon went to Woolundunga Station, near
He was elected to the seat of Yorke Peninsula in the South Australian House of Assembly and sat from March 1887 to April 1896. His colleagues were, in turn, Robert Caldwell, Henry Lamshed and Arthur Short.[5] He was remembered for his tireless advocacy on behalf of Yorke Peninsula agriculturists at a time when pastoralists were all-powerful.
He owned 742 acres (300 ha) near Port Vincent, by the road to Curramulka.[6]
Family
Little is yet known of Harry's father Richard Bartlett. More is known of his mother, Mary Ann Ribouleau Perrers (b. May 1814 in Holsworthy, Devon – c. 13 June 1902) the first born of Capt. Henry Wilson Perrers of H.M. Navy and Lucy Collins. Mary Ann's middle name of Ribouleau was in honour of her father’s first wife, Rachel Ribouleau (1764-1812) who had died just 6 months into the marriage. Rachel was the sister of then Captain, later Vice-Admiral
Harry Bartlett married Anne Ferrett (née Dennis) (1824–1890) on 19 March 1864. She was the widow of John Ferrett ( – 6 November 1860)[7] of Angaston and already had five children; they had three more together: Lucy Ann, Emily Ribouleau, and William John.
Harry moved to Germein Street, Semaphore in 1904. He married (Henrietta) Minna Schultze "his true wife"[8] (c. 1861 – 12 December 1951) on 21 March 1910.[9]
His sister (Amelia) Lucy Bartlett (1840 – 6 October 1914) married Frederick Samuel Sison (c. 1831 – 29 December 1891) of the brewing firm Syme & Sison (Sison and Bartlett went fishing and shooting together;[10] Bartlett was remembered in Sison's will)[11] and lived at Boston House, Port Lincoln; she married again, to Edmund P. G. Oswald (1841 – 19 January 1900) on 1 November 1899.
References
- ^ "Family Notices". South Australian Register. 6 June 1884. p. 4. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- The Register. 6 January 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- ^ "Family Notices". South Australian Register. 14 March 1864. p. 2. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- Evening Journal. 16 June 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- ^ "Harry Bartlett". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Advertising". The Advertiser. 30 July 1904. p. 12. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- The South Australian Advertiser. 15 November 1860. p. 3. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Advertiser. 7 July 1917. p. 6. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove. An enigmatic epitaph.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Advertiser. 16 July 1910. p. 12. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- ^ "Cruise of the Yacht White Squall". South Australian Register. 30 January 1888. p. 5. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
- Adelaide Observer. 5 March 1892. p. 30. Retrieved 7 September 2015 – via Trove.
For early years, mother Mary Ann Ribouleau Perrers, and the Ribouleau Family:
www.ancestry.co.uk - baptism, Censi
www.findmypast.co.uk - Ship's Manifest 1857
The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland