Henry Arthur - 25/8/1862 to 1/8/1943
| Henry married Mathilde Koehncke, they had no children, i will cut and paste the deatils of his life from the book to here. |
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Henry, the second son of David and Emily, seems to have been associated with his half-brother, Gibson, in some of the latter's storekeeping ventures. As recorded above, he purchased an allotment in the township of Lancelot when Gibson was in business there and later moved to Renmark when Gibson went there. He had been trained as a carpenter and was first employed in that capacity on moving to Renmark. He was one of those with Gibson at the time of the latter's death and subsequently assisted Gibson's widow, Annie, in carrying on the storekeeping business. On leaving Renmark he established himself as a haberdasher and draJ;ler at Goodwood and seems to have built up a reasonably successful business. He married Mathilde Charlotte Koehncke but had no children
Henry's early life and marriage to Mathilde Koehncke are described in the text. He was with his step-brother, Gibson, when the latter was drowned at Renmark and remained there to assist Gibson's widow, Annie, in carrying on the store- keeping business. On leaving Renmark he established himself as a haberdasher and draper at Goodwood and seems to have built up a reasonably successful business. He was the only one of David's sons to return to Scotland, which he and his wife visited just before the outbreak of war in 1914. There were no children of the marriage.
After retiring from business, Henry built a house at Brighton and a caravan in which he and his wife proposed to tour Australia. The original caravan was so solidly c constructed the car had difficulty in towing it. Undeterred by this setback Henry purchased a 'truck chassis and built a motorised van on it. It is not known how long the trip took or what route they followed. They certainly got as far as Geelong, where they visited Gibson's eldest son, J ohn, and his family, and it is believed that they eventually achieved their objective.
Following the death of his first wife, Henry married Priscilla Emma Lambert.
Like his brothers, Henry was a loyal Baptist and was a deacon of the Brighton Church, to which he left a substantial legacy on his death.
