Thomas MATTHEWS [16441]

  General Notes:

(Information for early Matthews family noted from Ancestry - Vigar family tree (janettehooker)
Emigration: arr Port Adelaide,19/12/1839 South Australia on board the "Moffat" or " Robert Moffat "


Biographical Index of South Australia 1836-1885
MATTHEWS Thomas b: c1811 SOM? ENG
d: 2.9.1867 bd: Coromandel Valley SA arr: 1840
0cc: Farmer res: Coromandel Valley, Angaston,
Upper Stunt rel: C/E
m: Harriet nee HOWARD b: c1812 d: 14.7.1865
ch: Joan KERNOT, Eliz COSSINS (1839-1864), Rhoda
(1843-1853), John Hurd (c1847-1849), Julia (1849-),
John Hurd (c1851-1853), Jas John Hurd (1853-1940),
Kathleen Gwen (-1966), Thos Hurd, Arthur, Harriet
MORGAN (1861-), Mary


Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929) Tue 3 Sep 1867 Page 2
DIED.
Matthews --At. St, Helens, West Geelong, Monday morning, 2nd Sept., Thomas Matthews, Esq., aged 57 years, of Herd's Hill, Coromandel Valley, South Australia. Funeral will leave his late residence for the Railway Station on Wednesday morning, half-past seven o'clock Jenkins and Bennett, undertakers.


The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Wed 4 Sep 1867 Page 4
Death Notice:
MATTHEWS. --On the 2nd instant, at St. Helens, West Geelong, Thomas Matthews, Esq., aged 57 years, of Herd's-hill, Coromandel Valley, South Australia.

  Research Notes:

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) Tue 1 Oct 1940 Page 5
Land Sale Of Historic Interest On Friday
A land sale of historical importance will take place at Mount Pleasant on Friday next, when 5,378 acres in the estate of the late Thomas Matthews will be offered in 31 lots, ranging from 38 to 320 acres. Thomas Matthews arrived in South Aus tralia in December, 1839, his wife and family following him 17 months later. He immediately started acquiring land, first at the source of the Brownhill Creek, then at Coromandel Valley, Scott's Creek, and finally at South Rhine. The remains of his original two-storey home, erected in 1849 after the style of an English farm house, and which he named 'Hurd's Hill,' is still to be seen at Coromandel Valley. Thomas Matthews died In 1861, and under his will the bulk of his land could not be sold until the last direct descendant had died. This was John Hurd Matthews, who died in April, this year. Thus this land has been in the hands of the Matthews family for a century, and since the death of the owner has remained intact for 73 years, during which period tenants have occupied the 5,378 acres that are now to be placed on the market. Apart from those who desire to purchase the land the sale is sure to be attended by a large number of people interested in so unique a fixture.



The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser (SA : 1880 - 1954) Thu 10 Oct 1940
Big Subdivisions Land Sale
NEAR MOUNT PLEASANT LARGE. SUM REALISED
On Friday last, in the Mount Pleasant soldiers' memorial hall, about 400 people from all parte of State attended the Thomas Hurd Matthews land sale. The late Mr. Matthews came from England 101 years ago, and died way back in 1867." He selected land at Brown Hill Creek, Coromandel Valley and Eden Valley, and the latter was the subject of Friday's auction. It was one of the most important subdivisionnl sales of first-class mixed farming land held in the State for some time. Over 5000 acres were represented, in 32 lots, from 38 to 320 acres each. Auctioneers in conjunction were Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Elder, Smith and Co. Ltd., and Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. Mr. B. Jericho, of Dalgety and Co. Ltd., was the auctioneer. The submission of the various lots resulted as follows:-Lot 1, 38 acres. £l2 15/ per acre, to H. H. Rattel, Springton; 2, 74 acres, passed in; 3. 1141 acres, £17 per acre, E. O. Herbig, Springton: 4, 318 acres, passed in: 5 and G, 15G acres, passed in: 7 and S. 150 acres, passed in; 0. 160 acres, £15 per acre, A. J. Kroehn, tenant, Eden Valley: 10, 160 acres, £14 15/ per acre, W. Vigar, Eden Valley; 11, 320 acres. £20 per acre, J. Rattei, tenant, Eden Valley; 12, 150 acres, £19 10/ per acre, J. Neldner, Freeling; 13, 18 acres, £15 5/ per acre. Esther Pumpa, Eden Valley; 14. 304 acres, £17 7/G per acre, W. E. Pumpa, Eden Valley; 15, 15S acres, £15 per acre, W. Crane, Eden Valley; 1G, 310 acres, £16 per acre, W. C. A. Pumpa, Eden Valley; 17, 100 acres, £12 10/ per acre, G. Crane. Eden Valley; 18. 09 acres, £16 5/ per acre, W. Roesler, Springton: 10, 51 acres. £13 per acre, A. J. Kroehn, Eden Valley; 20, 243 acres, £11 5/ per acre, H. Loechel, tenant, Eden Valley; 21, 230 acres, passed in; 22, 319 £22 10/ per acre. W. Vigar, Eden Valley; 23, 310 acres, £14 7/6 per acre, J. Timmens, Adelaide; 24, 319 acres, passed in; 25, 158 acres, £17 per acre, F. Kuchel, Eden Val iey: 2G, 160 acres, passed in; 27. 159 acres, passed in; 28, 83 acres, £17 10/ per acre, J. F. Herbig, Springton; 29,-122 acres, £14 10/ per acre, A. W. Forrest, Springton; 31, 74 acres, £6 per acre, M. Smith, Eden Valley; 32, SO acres, £3 15/ per acre. H. Woolford, Hundred of Jutland.

Thomas married Harriet HURD [16442] [MRIN: 6064], daughter of Living and Harriet/Hariot BROWN [16444], on 10 Apr 1832 in St John the Baptist Church, Pitney, Somerset, England. (Harriet HURD [16442] was born circa 1815 in Somerset, England, died on 14 Jul 1865 in "Hurds Hill" Coromandel Valley, South Australia and was buried on 16 Jul 1865 in Coromandel Valley Congregational Cemetery, South Australia.)