Henry BROADBENT [1976]

  General Notes:

1902 SA Death 287/34 BROADBENT Henry undefined Adelaide

Immigration: 24 Dec 1836 Buffalo

The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929) Tue 1 Jul 1902
Death Notice:
BROADBENT.-On 30th June, at Adelaide, suddenly, Henry, beloved husband of Anna Elizabeth Broadbent, of Wright street, in his 78th year. Arrived in H.M.S. Buffalo, 1836.

The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929) Tue 1 Jul 1902 Page 4
The body of Mr. Henry Broadbent, of Wright street, Adelaide, was on Thursday found lying in a right-of-way at the side of Pirie Chambers, Pirie street. Deceased, who was in his seventy-eighth year, arrived in H.M.S. Buffalo in 1836. An inquest was deemed unnecessary.

Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) Tue 1 Jul 1902 Page 2
Crumbs:
The late Mr. Henry Broadbent, who died in Adelaide yesterday, came out in H.M.S. Buffalo in 1836.

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Tue 1 Jul 1902 Page 4
Personal:
The late Mr. Henry Broadbent, of Tenterden Cottage, Wright-street, Adelaide, was a colonist of 66 years. Although the deceased had reached the advanced age of 78 years, he was up to the time of his death hale and hearty, and attended to his business regularly. On Monday he left home shortly before 7 a.m., having eaten a good breakfast and enquired as to the state of the King's health. He did not reach his destination, however, and he was found dead in the right-of-way at the side of Pirie Chambers, Pirie-street, soon after 7 o'clock. It was thought that death had been due to failure of the heart's action. Mr. Broadbent was born in Cheshire, England, in 1824, and arrived in South Australia with his parents in the ship Buffalo when only 12 years of age. During the last 8 years he had been in the employ of Messrs. E. & W. Hackett, of Rundle-street, previous to which he was with Mr. W. W. Gall, late of Rundle-street, for about 25 years. In 1851 he tried his fortune at the Bendigo diggings, but was not successful, though later on at the Echunga goldfields the tide turned. He had always been a staunch Methodist, and used to attend the Wesleyan Chapel situated in Gawler-place, and afterwards worshipped at the Pirie-street church. Of later years he had attended the Draper Memorial Church. He leaves two sons and three daughters-Messrs. Wm. Henry and Ernest Broadbent, and Mrs. R. Kennett, Mrs. W. Hill, and Miss A. S. Broadbent.

Australian Christian Commonwealth (SA : 1901 - 1940) Fri 4 Jul 1902
A Pioneer Galled Home.
By the death of Mr. Henry Broadbent, of Wright street, Adelaide, our Draper Memorial Church will be the poorer, and he will be missed not only by the present worshippers there, but by the large number who have been members of the church in past years, who looked for his warm hand shake and cheery welcome whenever their steps tended to "Draper" Church. Although called to suffer bereavement in the loss of his children, and never enjoying an immunity from daily toil, his was "the ornament of a meek and quiet, spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price." He came to South Australia in H,M.S. Buffalo in 1836, and had many interesting reminiscences of the early days of the colony before it assumed its state proportions. He loved the House of God, and its ministers, for he enjoyed the fellowship of a goodly company, from the sainted William L. Binks and W. P. Wells to the present pastor, the Rev. A. J. Burt. Blessed with a good voice, and a love of music, his gifts were always freely rendered to the church, which gifts were inherited by his children, his eldest son at present presiding at our Pirie street Church organ. Of the time and manner of our death it is not given us to choose. Called home in the midst of life's duties, Henry Broadbent suddenly passed away, and of him it may be fittingly said, "he was not, for God took him."

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) Mon 7 Jul 1902 Page 4
Personal:
In connection with the death of Mr. Henry Broadbent a memorial service, was held in the Draper Memorial Church on Sunday evening. The Central Mission Band played Beethoven's "Funeral March" and Handel's ''Largo'' and "Dead March in Saul." The choir rendered "Vital Spark." The Rev. A. C. Burt delivered a panegyric on the life of the deceased gentleman, speaking of Mr. Broadbent's Christian virtues, and the worthy example he had set the young men of the community.

Australian Christian Commonwealth (SA : 1901 - 1940) View title info Fri 8 Aug 1902 Prev issue Next issue Browse issues Page 7
Obituary:
HENRY BROADBENT.
Hadfield, in the county of Derbyshire, England is a pleasantly situated, but very old-fashioned town of about 2,700 inhabitants. Here, on December 6, 1824. Henry Broadbent was born, who for so many years has been a zealous and consistent member of the Draper Memorial Church, and whose sudden death in the street on June 30, has left a vacancy in our ranks that will long be felt. Born into an industrious and hard faring, as well as hard working family, he soon had to seek employment, and at the age of nine years had to enter the cotton factory of an adjoining county. Steadily he was working his way upward among the hands employed therein, when he was overtaken by a painful accident. He was scarcely 11 years old when his hand caught in the machinery, and was badly broken. This necessitated a long rest, and as his parents had decided to emigrate to Australia, this rest was secured aboard H.M.S. Buffalo, which after a long voyage reached Kangaroo Island, December 28, 1836. The family consisted of the father, Luke Broadbent, who seems to have been an original thinker, and a frequent contributor to the newspapers of those days; the mother, a sincere believer in the providence of God and the saving grace of Jesus Christ, who was able to impress her children alike with the sincerity of her faith, and the reality of "those truths in which she believed; four brothers and two sisters, of whom a brother and sister died soon after the settlement of the family on the island. In a fellowship meeting recently held in the Draper Memorial Church, our departed brother gave a most graphic description of life on the island, of the first services of the earliest local preachers, and of accompanying, his mother to what was probably the first class meeting held on Kangaroo Island. In 1838 the family came to reside in Adelaide, and the young people commenced to attend the Sunday school connected with the Hindley street Wesleyan Church. Henry Broadbent obtained a situation with Mr. Featherstone, storekeeper, Hindley street, and though he went for awhile to assist his parents when they settled at Cherry Gardens, he soon returned to his situation, and has ever since been a resident of Adelaide. From Hindley street the Methodist "cause" shifted to its new home in Gawler place, and there under the ministry of the Rev. John Eggleston, was experienced the first great revival this country had witnessed during the year 1839." Among the many converts were the young people of the Broadbent family, and no more useful converts have been added to our church in this land. Only one of the sisters survives our brother, but his brothers have been well known and much beloved in the neighbourhood of Cherry Gardens, and one of them became an efficient home missionary. In the year 1847 the Rev. Daniel J. Draper officiated at the marriage of Henry Broadbent and Anna Elizabeth La Vence. Their happy, comfortable home has been the birthplace of 10 children, five of whom survive him to cheer his widow in her declining years. It speaks well for the training given, and the example maintained in that home, that they are all confessors of Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour. One feature in their training must not be overlooked. They were trained from the very first of their earnings to devote one-tenth of their income to religious work. The religious life of our departed friend was singularly unostentatious. He moved in our midst a power still but strong, unassuming but decided, humble but courageous. His fellow Workmen found the same solemn satisfaction in bearing the coffin from the house to the hearse as his fellow church officials did in bearing it in and out of the church, and every one who knew him wanted to be present at the funeral and memorial service of the good old man who had endeared himself to all, and few eyes were tearless when the great congregation stood while the Central Mission Band played The Dead March. Henry Broadbent has been a classmate of great value to any class leader with an original fervent and fresh note in his experience, while none could be more regular in attendance. As a Sunday school teacher he has been beloved and revered. He was caretaker of the Draper Memorial Church from its opening until about two years ago. At the time of his death he was poor steward, and nothing can give more sanctity to such services than to see men of such advanced experience, continued ability, and sterling worth assisting at the sacrament. His spare form and honoured grey head will long be a tradition of our church. The morning he died he rose not quite so fresh and bright as usual, conducted family worship with his usual fervour, and an hour afterwards died in the street. But sudden death can have no special terrors for any one under such circumstances. He only conquered death by dying, and the memory of the just is most blessed.

Henry married Anna Elizabeth LA VANCE [2810] [MRIN: 940] on 12 Oct 1847 in Res Mr Lavance Sec 2 Dist B, South Australia. (Anna Elizabeth LA VANCE [2810] was born on 23 Jul 1828 in Kent, England and died on 23 Feb 1905 in Adelaide, South Australia.)