Hugh and son Thomas Lewis, Brighton, Sussex, England. 1800-1840. Greenponds, Tasmania, Casterton and Sandford, Victoria, Australia. 1840-1910

HUGH LEWIS

Born England (??)

Thomas Lewis (son of Hugh) may well have been a convict!
Evidence seems to suggest so! See below..

DESCENDENTS OF: HUGH LEWIS


1 Hugh Lewis 
  m. Elizabeth Unknown 
   2 Thomas Lewis b. 19 Mar 1809 d. 3 Jan 1874
     Convict Ship - Vessel - "Augusta Jessie" (1)  
     Master - Hy Edenborough 
     Surgeon - Jas McTernan
     Sailed 29 09 1834 - From Portsmouth. Days on Voyage - 115 Embarked - 210 Males  
     Arrived - 22 01 1835 - VDL Tasmania - 207 Males
     m. Rebecca Brame m. 26 Sept 1842 b. __ __  1824 d. 24 Nov 
     1907 
     Rebecca: 
     Grandson Edward Millard buried same plot.   
      3 William Lewis b. 3 Jun 1843 d. 29 Oct 1870 
      3 Sarah Rebecca Lewis b. __ __ 1845 d. 8 Nov 1865 
        m. Isaac Jones m. 29 Apl 1863 
      3 Thomas Lewis b. 23 Dec 1847 d. 16 Apl 1904 
        m. Alice Ley m. __ __ 1874 
      3 George Lewis b. __ __  1850 d. 20 Jun 1932 
        m. Mary Ann Murrell m. 20 Mar 1877 
      3 Eliza Lewis b. __ __  1853 d. 19 Oct 1935 
        m. William Thomas Millard m. 8 Sep 1874 
         4 Edward Millard 
      3 John Lewis b. __ __ 1856 d. 25 Oct 1924 
        m. Anne Elizabeth Collingburn m. __ __  1880 b. __ __  1863 d. 11 Jul 1945 
         4 Anne Elizabeth Lewis b. __ __  1881 
           m. William Birchall Hunter b. __ __  1919             
           m. Herbert James Austin m. 7 Jun 1911 b. __ __  1885 d. __ __  1922 
         4 Ethel Maria Lewis b. 27 Feb 1883 d. 25 Apl 1940 
           m. Albert Peters m. 23 Jul 1903 b. 11 Mar 1882 
         4 Minnie Collingburn Lewis b. 11 Apl 1886 d. 16 Jun 1962 
           m. Alfred Ernest Bain m. 27 Feb 1915 b. __ __  1890 
         4 John Bertie Lewis b. 25 Oct 1888 d. 25 Aug 1952 
           m. Amelia Helen Smith m. 14 Apl 1925 
         4 George Ernest Lewis b. 14 Aug 1891 d. 12 Apl 1967 
           m. May McKinnon m. 25 Jun 1912 b. 14 Apl 1891 d. 7 Jul 1959 
         4 Leslie Cecil Lewis b. 6 Mar 1894 d. 13 Oct 1918 
           m. Sarah Elizabeth Thompson m. 25 May 1912 b. __ __  1890 
         4 Ruby Dulcie (Delicia) Lewis b. 23 Oct 1896 d. 8 Apl 1959 
           m. James Stanley Aitken m. __ __  1944 b. __ __  1895 
         4 Sylvia Estelle Lewis b. 12 Sep 1900 
           m. William George McGown m. 29 Nov 1920             
           m. Herbert Harper m. 3 Nov 1928 b. __ __  1896             
           m. Reginald McGown Scott d. __ __ 1960 
      3 Elizabeth Lewis b. __ __ 1858 d. 3 Apl 1885 
        m. Thomas Hodgetts m. 28 Apl 1875 
      3 Edward Lewis b. __ __ 1861 
      3 Charles Henry Lewis b. 3 Dec 1864 d. 21 Sep 1958 
        m. Virtue Best m. 2 Feb 1898 b. __ ___ 1867 d. 14 Mar 1952
        Virtue: 
        Grandma Wilke (Mary Rebecca) remembers her mother telling of sitting on floor 
        & feeling earthquake tremors in NZ (poss. spent some of childhood there)      
         4 Henry William Lewis b. 27 Sep 1898 d. 15 May 1970 
           m. Jessie Rosina Hastings m. 11 Nov 1918 b. 2 Sep 1900 d. 9 Aug 1978 
         4 Eric George Lewis b. 30 Mar 1900 d. 23 May 1968 
           m. Eileen Elizabeth Glynn m. 26 Sep 1923 b. 27 Oct 1903 d. 13 Jun 1958 
         4 Virtue Mary Rebecca Lewis b. 8 Feb 1903 d. 28 Jan 1996 
           m. Harold Wilke m. 25 Jul 1921 b. 29 Dec 1890 d. 25 Nov 1972
             Met Harold Wilke when he was shoeing a horse behind Pt MacD Hotel. 
         4 Robert Clifton Lewis b. 5 Nov 1904 d. 3 Oct 1996 
           m. Ethel Louise Willis m. 8 Dec 1942 b. 23 Jan 1918 
         4 Sarah Lydia (Liddie) Lewis b. 24 Mar 1906 d. __ ___ 1985 
           m. Albert James Jacob m. 16 May 1925 b. 3 Jan 1906 d. 14 Jan 1965 
         4 Eddie Dawson Lewis b. 8 Sep 1907 d. __  Jun 1985 
           m. Ivy Elizabeth Dickson m. 26 Aug 1926 b. 4 Apl 1909 d. 2 Feb 1988 
         4 Coral Cathellen Stephanie Lewis b. 24 Nov 1909 d. __ __  1978 
           m. Harold Robert (Mick) Cook m. 16 Feb 1925 b. 14 Nov 1905 d. __ __  1975 
         4 Lillian Rosetta (Lily) Lewis b. 25 Jul 1910 d. 13 Apl 1993 
           m. Henry Colin Burston m. 9 Jan 1937 b. 9 Jan 1914 d. 23 Jan 1983 
         4 Norman Charles Cavell Lewis b. 25 Aug 1916 d. 20 May 1991 
           m. Gloria Joan Hunter m. 12 Oct 1940 b. 17 Oct 1920             
           m. Yvonne May Pengilly m. 29 Dec 1951 b. 31 Mar 1929 
           Son of Jessie Carol Monteith Farrow - she had boyfriend (fiancee ?) from Port-
           land Vic who was sent to the war and was killed.  There is a Leslie Charles 
           CAVELL on the CWGC website - b. Melbourne, Vic. died 9/4/1917 aged 24 - 
           buried Buissy, Pas de Calais, France.  Could this be him? Jessie's parents 
           Virtue & Charles Henry LEWIS adopted (or brought up) her son Norman as their
           child.            
           Norman painted two pictures of aboriginals of the “Boandik” tribe,
           Mona Muller has one, Mary & Bing O'Neil gave the other one to son Dennis 
           after Grandma Wilke died. (Parents of Jessie actually Virtue & James Monteith
           Farrow - decd) brought up by Virtue & Charles Henry Lewis.  
           Yvonne: 
           Had 2 daughters.                                                             
      3 Mary Ann Lewis b. __ Feb 1868 d. 28 Oct 1945 
        m. George Stone m. 8 Jul 1891

Names, dates and information are presented with the best intentions.
Family history being what it is, although much time, effort
and money is expended, we can never know it all!

THE MYSTERIES

What was the surname of Elizabeth (wife of Hugh Lewis)?
Where and when were they married?
Was Thomas Lewis a convict?
Was Virtue Lewis (nee Best) first husband's surname Spencer or Farrow?

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