George Robert HUGHES [236]

   Cause of his death was diarrhoea.

  General Notes:

(Image of George Robert Hughes courtesy of T Hughes)

I am indebted to Mr Bob Howlett who is the source of much of this data on the George Robert Hughes family. Bob's excellent Family History Website can be found on http://users.tpg.com.au/havik/genealogy/MFFFP.html


Baptisms at the Parish Church Leeds of September 1800 (West Yorks)
Father: James Hughes; Address: Ebeneza Street; Bap: Aug 28; Named: George.

Occupation: formerly - Tailor; latterly - Commission Agent
Resided in Australia: Adelaide, Nairne, North Adelaide, Walkerville


SAGHS All Other Records' database
Surname:HUGHES
Given Names:George Robert
Location:Sect 5290 Hd Kanmantoo
Event date:1853
Source:Electoral Rolls
Source2:State Records GRG 24/6/1714
Notes:District=Mount Barker. Qualification=Leasehold.


South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal (Adelaide) Saturday 31 March 1849
Post Office Contracts - Mail contracts accepted of for the year 1849-50.
Name of Contractor; Route; Amount.
George Hughes; Mount Barker to Kanmantoo bi-weekly; £52.00.


South Australian Register (Adelaide) Friday 14 June 1850
LOCAL COURTS.
Colonial Secretary's Office, June 11, 1850.
In virtue of the power vested in the Lieut.-Governor by the 4th clause of Ordinance No. 5, of 1850, "For the recovery of Small Debts, and Trial and Punishment of Minor Offences in South Australia," his Excellency has been pleased to make the following appointments in the several Local Courts undermentioned, viz :-
Court at Gawler Town-Clerk, Mr Henry Calton; Bailiff, Mr William Square.
Court at Kooringa - Bailiff, Mr John Saunders.
Court at Mount Barker - Bailiff, Mr George Robert Hughes.
By his Excellency's command, Chas. Sturt, Colonial Secretary.


South Australian Register (Adelaide) Wednesday 29 August 1860
NAIRNE, AUGUST 20.
Present - All the members; Mr. Bee in the chair. The Council appointed Dr. Cotter as medical practitioner to attend the destitute poor for the year ending 30th June, 1861. The Council appointed Mr. George Robert Hughes to the office of Pound Auctioneer, vice Mr. Charles Tucker, resigned. Ordered to be paid, £19 8s. 9d.


The South Australian Register Tuesday 31 December 1872
Death Notice:
HUGHES. -On the 29th December, at North Adelaide, George Robert Hughes, aged 73 years. An old colonist of 32 years.


The South Australian Advertiser Tuesday 31 Dec 1872
Funeral Notice:
The Friends of the late George Robert Hughes are respectfully informed that his Remains will leave his son's residence, Mr. Joseph Hughes, Archer-street, North Adelaide, at half-past 3 o'clock p.m., for the Walkerville Cemetery. LeCornu, Undertaker.

South Australian Register (Adelaide) Thursday 2 January 1873
Death Notice:
HUGHES.-On the 29th December, at North Adelaide, George Robert Hughes, aged 73 years. An old colonist of 32 years.

Adelaide Observer (S.A.) Saturday 4 January 1873
Death Notice:
HUGHES.-On the 29th December, at NorthAdelaide, George Robert Hughes, aged 73 years. An old colonist of 32 years.


During an interview with a journalist in 1908, George Robert's son William Frederick Hughes remembers the family's arrival at Adelaide in 1840 - see articles under William Frederick Hughes [http://www.thelockedjournal.com/webs/pedigrees/135.html,

excerpts as follows:
"Our family came to South Australia in 1840 by the Diadem, sailed by Captain Hartland, he said. My father consulted ex Governor Hindmarsh in England and obtained from him a letter of introduction to Mrs. Hindmarsh who was still in Adelaide. He also obtained letters to Mr. E. J. Eyre from his father and sister."

"So with his wife and four sons, he left for Australia."
"We reached Port Adelaide in November, 1840."
"Adelaide was then in a very primitive condition."

"After searching for some time my father secured a couple of lean-to back rooms at a rental of 14/- a week. These we occupied until we removed to a place near the Rob Roy in Halifax-street, belonging to Jemmy Crink. Mr. Eyre was then in Western Australia, and pending his return my father joined the late Mr. John Johnstone in the service of Tailor White, whose shop was in Hindley-street, next to the Royal Admiral."

"On the return of Mr. E. J. Eyre from the West my father entered his service and removed to a house in Rundle street that belonged to him. When Mr. Eyre went to his station at Moorundie, just below Blanchetown on the Murray, our family accompanied him. My father at the time was recognised as a member of the police service, and did duty."

"Two bullock teams left Adelaide on that expedition, the one belonging to Mr. Eyre, and the other being the property of the South Australian Government. We got along very well considering. The first night we camped at Gawler near the police station. At the end of the second day we reached Leak's station where Jeremiah Robin and Inspector Shaw joined the party. Our next camp was at Bagot's beyond Kapunda where my mother was visited by Mrs. Bagot and her two daughters who spoke encouragingly but expressed surprise that a woman could be found with courage enough to venture out into such wild country as the Murray then was. The end of the fourth day brought us to Black Springs, near Truro. The pound on the River Murray was reached at 10 o'clock at night of the fifth day."

"On the day following we reached Moorundie and had great difficulty in getting to the station over the cliffs. After we had been there a fortnight the Water Witch cutter came up the river, commanded by Lieutenant Pullen (afterwards Admiral Pullen)."

"We remained on the station four or five months during which time we lived in tents. The first reed hut on the river was erected while we were there."

"A little ploughing for wheat was done on the flats but we left before it had matured. While we were at Moorundie Governor Grey, Mrs. Grey, Lieutenant Mundy, and Captain Sturt, spent about a week at the station. They went up the river as far as the Rufus and broke their journey at Moorundie on their return."

"News reached Moorundie before we started for the city, that the shed in which practically everything that our family possessed was stored when we went to the bush, had been totally destroyed by fire. This was a serious loss to beginners in a new country."

"On our return to Adelaide my father rented a house in Queen-street."
"Our family left Adelaide for Nairne in 1845."

  Research Notes:

The Register Friday 11 November 1910
"THE REAL PIONEERS."
From '36 to '46.
With a view to secure for the real pioneers of the State the honour that is their right, and duly accorded to them annually by the Mayor of Glenelg on behalf of the citizens of our chief watering place, the Town Clerk (Mr. A. Tait) has prepared a list of the vessels which arrived in South Australia from 1838 to 1846 - the present limitation of the 'pioneers' list. He has, with its help and past records, revised the roll, so that only survivors who arrived in the colony during that period will be entitled to attend the Commemoration Day luncheon. The list is given below, and the Town Clerk will be glad to receive authentic particulars of any other person whose name does not appear therein: -
Pioneer. Present Address. Ship. Year of Arrival.
. . . Hughes, L, R., East terrace, Eastwood, Diadem, 1840. . . (likely son of G.R. Hughes of East tce)


The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser (SA : 1880 - 1954) Thursday 8 May 1947
A JEWEL CASKET (By P.W.)
Chinese with their Pigtails Caused not a Little Excitement
. . . For some time the Hughes family stayed in Adelaide where George Robert Hughes engaged in his trade as a tailor, but later he, with his family, moved to Nairne. . .
(see full Newspaper article on Home Page under Books)


Passengers arriving 1840-11-16 in SA aboard the Diadem
(398/485 t brq 1840) from London 40-07-31 via Plymouth, Captain Rbt Harland
BAKER Charles
BAKER Elizabeth, Sarah
BAKER Joshua
BAKER Henry, Susanna Mary EGALTON
BAKER Joseph, Eleanore (wife)
BAKER Stephen William, Harriet BAXTER, Stephen Wm, Fdk, Alf
BAKER Thomas, wife, 2 dau, son, dau
BARRATT James
BASSETT James Bailey, Ann STEVENS, Jas Bailey, My Ann
BOOTHEY Thomas, Sarah SHARP, Joseph, My Ann, Sophia, Amy, John, Chlt, Martha
BORRALL Frederick I
BRADEY Daniel, wife, son, dau, 2 sons, 2 dau
CARMAN Mary H, son, dau, son, dau
CARROLL Catherine
CASSIDY Samuel, Mary RUTHERFORD, Wm, Sam, Thos, Jas, John
CHANDLER William, Maria MACKLIN, Adam, Oliver, Fdk, Martha (29,28,10,5,2, 5 m)
CHOULES Charles David, Sophia (wife), Arthur Charles, John (d aft arr), Eliz, son (b@sea, d aft arr)
CLEWER / CLEWAR Joshua, Jane (1st wife)
DART James
DAVIS David, wife (Elizabeth HUGHES?)
DAY John, Mary (wife), John, My Ann(e), son (Thos?), Jas, 3 dau (inc Jane?)
DAY Mary
DAY Thomas, wife
DAY William
DRAYTON William, Rachel HICKMAN, Priscilla, Julia, Eliz, Melina, Noah, John, Job, Geo
HEATH Edward, Hannah (wife, d aft arr)
HIGGINS Robert, Mary Ann MULLAND fmly BARRATT nee HOLLAND, son, dau
HORNE Eliza Anne
HORNSBY Joseph, Elizabeth GREEN (d@sea), (Wm), Hannah Maria, Em Maria, Eleanor, Ann, Maria
HUGHES George Robert, Charlotte (wife), (Wm Fred?), John Prentice, Joseph Prentice James
LAMBERT Richard, Martha CARMAN, W H, J
LONG Miss M A
MUNDY / MUNDAY William Rodney, Lucy RUTT, John, Jas, Eliz (Ann d aft arr?), Wm, David
OSMENT / OSMONT James, wife
PALMER George, wife (Sarah LARKAM?), 2 sons, dau, son
PARKER Charles
PLUNKETT Thomas, wife (Anne DALY?), My, Christopher, son (Jas?), dau (Cath?), son, dau, son (Luke?)
POTTS John, Susannah BAKER, Geo
RONALD Edward, Margaret CONNELL, My (b aft arr)
SHUTE Henry, Jane MARTIN, son
THOMPSON Jonah, wife, son
TIDY Henry, Harriet ROBERTS
TRANTER Ellen, Lucy Elizabeth, Teresa
TRANTER Francis, wife, 2 dau, son, 2 dau inc My
TRANTER John, Ellen (wife), 3 dau, Ezechiel, Jas, dau
TUCKER Benjamin, Keziah Jane WILLIAMS, Ben Fdk, dau, Jas Hy
WILLIAMS William
WILSON William Skinner, Eliza HORROCKS, Rebecca
WRIGHT George, wife, 2 sons, 2 dau (Jane, Susannah, John, Frank?)
WRIGHT Isaac
WRIGHT John, Mary PAMMETT, dau

  Other Records

• George Robert Hughes: BAPTISM, 1800, St Peters, Leeds, Yorkshire.

• Photograph: Diadem, 1840, Passengers to Adelaide, South Australia. HUGHES George Robert, Charlotte (wife), (Wm Fred?), John Prentice, Joseph Prentice James

• Photograph: Scissors, 1840, Memorabilia. George's scissors of trade, inscribed "GR Hughes Diadem 1840" :

• Resided: family removed, 1845, to Nairne, South Australia. (as noted in The Adelaide Chronicle August 8th 1908 WF Hughes interview with a Special Correspondent)

• George Robert Hughes: Death Certificate, 1872, Tynte st, North Adelaide.

George married Charlotte PRENTICE/PRENTIS [238] [MRIN: 82], daughter of Thomas PRENTICE [565] and Isabella WILSON [566], on 15 May 1826 in St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. (Charlotte PRENTICE/PRENTIS [238] was born on 30 Dec 1806 in Bramham, Yorkshire, England, baptised on 10 Mar 1807 in Bramham, Yorkshire, England, died on 29 Sep 1884 in Archer Street, North Adelaide, South Australia and was buried on 1 Oct 1884 in Walkerville Cemetery, South Australia.). The cause of her death was old age, apoplexy, paralysis.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Geo Hughes & Charlotte Prentice: Marriage, 1826, Parish Church Leeds, York. (Signed with 'X')

• Marriage: Parish Church, 1826, Leeds, YKS, England. (15 May 1826 St Peters Leeds Yorkshire)