John HOLDSWORTH, 18261887 (aged 60 years)

Birth August 12, 1826 35 38
Baptism September 17, 1826 36 38 (aged 1 month)
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015

Note: Joseph and Mary Holdsworth's 2 youngest children were baptised in the church.
Birth of a sisterMary HOLDSWORTH
January 22, 1829 (aged 2 years)
Baptism of a sisterMary HOLDSWORTH
April 17, 1829 (aged 2 years)
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015
12 Century Baptismal Font 2015

Note: Joseph and Mary Holdsworth's 2 youngest children were baptised in the church.
Death of a maternal grandfatherFrancis BRIGGS
August 5, 1834 (aged 7 years)
Burial of a maternal grandfatherFrancis BRIGGS
August 19, 1834 (aged 8 years)
Note: Recorded as being 81 years of age.
Census June 6, 1841 (aged 14 years) Age: 14
Address: Bridge St Tadcaster, essentially the main road
Note: Living with the Pannett family and a female servant. 25 year old William Pannett was a chemist and…

Living with the Pannett family and a female servant. 25 year old William Pannett was a chemist and John was listed as a chemist's apprentice.

Death of a fatherJoseph HOLDSWORTH
January 26, 1846 (aged 19 years) Age: 62
Cause: Asthma
Note: Wife Mary was present at the death and reported it to the registry.
Burial of a fatherJoseph HOLDSWORTH
January 30, 1846 (aged 19 years)
Address: St Andrew's Church Cemetry, Newton Kyme Yorkshire England
Note: Joseph Holdsworth is buried in a cul de sac in the Newton Kyme churchyard. The question I've had is…

Joseph Holdsworth is buried in a cul de sac in the Newton Kyme churchyard. The question I've had is whether it was like that at time of burial and if there was a reason for the placement and if so whether choice existed. The answer is inconclusive due to proximity of critical events and lack of documentation about the date of the wall constructed between Fairfax property and churchyard from the church. Finalization of the 1846 tithe maps and Joseph's burial occurred within a few weeks of each other. The map showed that what had originally been a straight line boundary dipped down in the 1846 map so that the boundary between church land and Fairfax land followed the line of church wall whereas it had previously been quite a few meters out providing greater churchyard land. A document written by a church rector claimed the change occurred during the term of one of his predecessors.

Death of a brotherHenry Davies Briggs HOLDSWORTH
April 1849 (aged 22 years)
Burial of a brotherHenry Davies Briggs HOLDSWORTH
April 9, 1849 (aged 22 years)
Religious marriageKezia BAYLISView this family
March 4, 1850 (aged 23 years)
Address: Redditch Chapel
Residence March 4, 1850 (aged 23 years)
Note: Marriage notice identified John as a chemist and druggist of London. Keiza was from Redditch.
Census March 30, 1851 (aged 24 years) Age: 24
Address: Pickard St
Note: John's 22 year old sister Mary was staying with John and his wife Keiza. Keiza was pregnant and gave…

John's 22 year old sister Mary was staying with John and his wife Keiza. Keiza was pregnant and gave birth to a daughter soon afterwards.

Birth of a daughterMary Louisa HOLDSWORTH
April 5, 1851 (aged 24 years)
Death of a daughterMary Louisa HOLDSWORTH
November 1851 (aged 25 years)
Emigration October 16, 1852 (aged 26 years)
Note: John and his wife Keiza arrived in Melbourne in October 1852 on the ship Panama.
Death of a wifeKezia BAYLIS
July 6, 1853 (aged 26 years) Age: 26
Address: 217 Swanston St, Melbourne
Cause: Phthisis, ie tuberculosis/TB of 18 months duration.
Burial of a wifeKezia BAYLIS
July 7, 1853 (aged 26 years)
Address: MGC-COE-D-Public according to findagrave.
Note: Thanks to RonM of Findagrave for photos & assistance.
Religious marriageCate Lancashire VICKView this family
December 24, 1855 (aged 29 years)
Residence 1855 (aged 28 years)
Event
Industrial Exhibition
November 26, 1856 (aged 30 years)
Note: Articles are long but sections relating to medicinal plants and Holdsworth/Wright prizes are at the…

Articles are long but sections relating to medicinal plants and Holdsworth/Wright prizes are at the end and are highlighted.

Birth of a sonEdward Lancashire HOLDSWORTH
December 4, 1856 (aged 30 years)
Occupation
Chemist Druggist
1857 (aged 30 years)
Employer: self
Residence between 1858 and 1860 (aged 33 years)
Address: Possibly Forest St, Sandhurst, Barnard St or possibly both as they intersected.
Note: John HB Holdsworth was reported to have been born in Sandhurst in June 1858. Two years later the nex…

John HB Holdsworth was reported to have been born in Sandhurst in June 1858. Two years later the next baby was born in Forest St. Rates for Barnard St in 1859 and Forest St in 1860 remained the same £50 as did the description of J Holdsworth renting a house and land from Harker.

Birth of a sonJohn Henry Beard HOLDSWORTH
June 17, 1858 (aged 31 years)
Residence 1860 (aged 33 years)
Address: Raglan St
Note: William Silvanus was born in April 1860 in Forest St, Sandhurst. He died in White Hills in October 1…

William Silvanus was born in April 1860 in Forest St, Sandhurst. He died in White Hills in October 1861. An 1860 rate notice exists for house and land in Raglan St White Hills so it is likely that the Holdsworths moved from Forest St to White Hills sometime later in 1860 after William's birth and before his death in October 1861.

Birth of a sonWilliam Silvanus HOLDSWORTH
April 23, 1860 (aged 33 years)
Death of a sonWilliam Silvanus HOLDSWORTH
October 18, 1861 (aged 35 years) Age: 1
Cause: Diphtheria
Burial of a sonWilliam Silvanus HOLDSWORTH
October 19, 1861 (aged 35 years)
Address: Mon A1 grave number 3093. Wrong year on tombstone. 1862 instead of 1861.
Birth of a sonSidenham HOLDSWORTH
January 6, 1862 (aged 35 years)
Death of a motherMary BRIGGS
December 4, 1862 (aged 36 years) Age: 74
Address: 3 Sunny Bank, Leeds
Cause: Typhoid fever
Note: Esther WILKINS (daughter) of Darrington, near Pontefract, was present at the death and registered it…

Esther WILKINS (daughter) of Darrington, near Pontefract, was present at the death and registered it.

At that time typhoid was a nasty prolonged illness which is no doubt why Esther was summoned to nurse her mother. It is caused by the ingestion of food or fluid infected by a specific bacterium which entered the food chain due to poor hygiene or poor sanitation. Leeds was growing rapidly during Mary's life there resulting in reduced open land and gardens and increasing numbers of small sized housing and commercial developments most of which had limited washing and sanitation in close association with wells providing water for all purposes.

Burial of a motherMary BRIGGS
December 6, 1862 (aged 36 years)
Address: Burial register records Mary's abode as "Woodhouse Leeds".
Note: Buried with spouse.
Birth of a sonAlfred Herbert HOLDSWORTH
July 17, 1863 (aged 36 years)
Address: White Hills
Note: Birth and baptismal certificate state birth was 17th July. The Bendigo Advertiser of 17th July note…

Birth and baptismal certificate state birth was 17th July. The Bendigo Advertiser of 17th July noted he was born on 15th July.

Baptism of a sonAlfred Herbert HOLDSWORTH
September 24, 1863 (aged 37 years)
Address: Parish of Sandhurst, Victoria.
Religion: Church of England
Death of a sonSidenham HOLDSWORTH
March 5, 1864 (aged 37 years)
Cause: croup
Burial of a sonSidenham HOLDSWORTH
March 6, 1864 (aged 37 years)
Address: Grave No. 4087 Section number unknown on burial record. However a photo of a headstone shows both kids together at site MON A1.
Death of a brotherEdward HOLDSWORTH
December 4, 1864 (aged 38 years) Age: 42
Cause: Chronic hepatitis of 2 months duration.
Note: Edward was identified as single and having no children. His brother John Holdsworth signed the death…

Edward was identified as single and having no children. His brother John Holdsworth signed the death certificate as informant. Actually, Edward had 2 children, a 7 year old daughter living with John's sister in England and a son born the previous year who also was to work as a druggist in Bendigo during John's lifetime.

Occupation recorded as clerk.

John recorded their father's occupation as "agent".

Burial of a brotherEdward HOLDSWORTH
December 6, 1864 (aged 38 years)
Address: MGC-COE-D-Public
Note: Buried with his sister-in-law, Keiza Holdsworth.
Birth of a daughterThirza Mary HOLDSWORTH
July 2, 1865 (aged 38 years)
Intercolonial Exhibition Melbourne
Received awards at an exhibition for wax, gum and pick handles.
1867 (aged 40 years)

Birth of a daughterEtty Stella HOLDSWORTH
August 18, 1867 (aged 41 years)
Appointed trustee of White Hills Cemetery
Was appointed a trustee of the White Hills Cemetery in March 1868 and remained so until his death. Trustees were responsible for oversight of the cemetery and compliance with regulations.
March 16, 1868 (aged 41 years)

Birth of a sonWilliam Octavius HOLDSWORTH
May 22, 1870 (aged 43 years)
Birth of a sonArthur Halsey HOLDSWORTH
September 28, 1871 (aged 45 years)
Birth of a daughterEdith Armytage HOLDSWORTH
July 26, 1873 (aged 46 years)
Note: "On the 26th inst., at Ascot, Sandhurst..."
Birth of a sonAlbert Armytage HOLDSWORTH
November 4, 1875 (aged 49 years)
Death of a sonWilliam Octavius HOLDSWORTH
February 4, 1876 (aged 49 years)
Address: "at his father's residence, near Sandhurst." At that date it would have been the house at 66 Taylor St, Ascot.
Burial of a sonWilliam Octavius HOLDSWORTH
February 6, 1876 (aged 49 years)
Address: Mon A1 Grave no. 3093
Death of a daughterEdith Armytage HOLDSWORTH
February 7, 1876 (aged 49 years) Age: 2 1/2 years
Cause: A newspaper article reported that scarlet fever existed in the area and that J Holdsworth's daughter had died from it.
Burial of a daughterEdith Armytage HOLDSWORTH
February 8, 1876 (aged 49 years)
Address: Mon A1 Grave 3093 where her brothers and father are buried.
Birth of a daughterEmmeline Christina Hopton (Em) HOLDSWORTH
November 27, 1877 (aged 51 years)
Death of a sisterEsther Armitage HOLDSWORTH
May 6, 1883 (aged 56 years) Age: 67
Address: Dunstall
Burial of a sisterEsther Armitage HOLDSWORTH
May 8, 1883 (aged 56 years)
Marriage of a childJohn Henry Beard HOLDSWORTHLouisa JACKSONView this family
April 23, 1884 (aged 57 years)
St Paul's Church Sandhurst, 1869 - Representation
St Paul's Church Sandhurst, 1869 - Representation

Note: Construction started in 1868 and in April 1868 Melbourne's "Illustrated Australian News for Hom…

Construction started in 1868 and in April 1868 Melbourne's "Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers" published an illustration of the expected building. Modern photographs show it without the spire.

Marriage of a childEdward Lancashire HOLDSWORTHCharity HATTAMView this family
October 12, 1886 (aged 60 years)
Address: At the residence of "the bride's uncle, Mr Michael Cock."
Death August 11, 1887 (aged 60 years)
Ascot Park - Google 2010
Ascot Park - Google 2010

Note: Known as Taxonia by the Holdsworths and part of a much larger parcel of land.
Inquest
Inquest
August 12, 1887 (1 day after death)

Burial August 13, 1887 (2 days after death)
Address: Section MON A1 Grave 3093
Note: Note name of road closest to grave area which was named for John Holdsworth during his lifetime. Ref…

Note name of road closest to grave area which was named for John Holdsworth during his lifetime. Reference was made to its need for widening at a meeting of cemetery trustees held on 10 March 1887 and recorded in the Bendigo Advertiser of March 11 1887.

Fact
Sale of property and furniture the year following death.
1888 (0 after death)

1888 Auction of Taxonia
1888 Auction of Taxonia

Note: It's clear that the house did not sell as an advertisement appeared in a Melbourne paper at the end…

It's clear that the house did not sell as an advertisement appeared in a Melbourne paper at the end of June. It later sold to a Mr Mould who was not from Bendigo. It was resold about 10 years later.

Family with parents
father
Joseph & Mary Holdsworth M I
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Birth: September 15, 1790 33 30Yorkshire, England
Death: January 26, 1846Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
mother
Newton Kyme School House with Holdsworth House on Left - 2015
17881862
Birth: February 23, 1788 35 32Faweather, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
Death: December 4, 18623 Sunny Bank Terrace, Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Religious marriage Religious marriageMarch 30, 1815All Saints Church, Bingley, Yorkshire, England
14 months
elder sister
Wharfe River near Church - 2015
18161883
Birth: May 13, 1816 25 28Bingley, Yorkshire, England
Death: May 6, 1883Dunstall, Staffordshire, England
3 years
elder brother
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18181849
Birth: 1818 27 29Hatherton
Death: April 1849Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
3 years
elder brother
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18201864
Birth: 1820 29 31Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
Death: December 4, 1864Carlton St, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
4 years
elder brother
St Mary's Church Tadcaster
18231823
Birth: May 1823 32 35Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
Death: July 1823Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
3 years
himself
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18261887
Birth: August 12, 1826 35 38Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: August 11, 1887Ascot, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
3 years
younger sister
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18291894
Birth: January 22, 1829 38 40Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: October 17, 1894Ilkley, Yorkshire, UK
Family with Kezia BAYLIS
himself
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18261887
Birth: August 12, 1826 35 38Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: August 11, 1887Ascot, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
wife
18251853
Birth: October 24, 1825 30 29Redditch, Worcestershire, England
Death: July 6, 1853217 Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageMarch 4, 1850Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
13 months
daughter
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Birth: April 5, 1851 24 252 Pickard St, St Luke's Finsbury, London, England
Death: November 1851St Luke Finsbury, London, England
Family with Cate Lancashire VICK
himself
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18261887
Birth: August 12, 1826 35 38Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: August 11, 1887Ascot, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
wife
Cate Lancashire Vick
18341922
Birth: 1834 41 25Ham Green, Somerset, England
Death: February 10, 1922"Tacsonia", 1 Luxton Rd, Hawksburn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageDecember 24, 1855St Stephen's Church, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1 year
son
Grave of Holdsworths and Hattams Photo - Julie N
18561940
Birth: December 4, 1856 30 2275 Elizabeth St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death: November 7, 1940Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
19 months
son
John H B Holdsworth
18581927
Birth: June 17, 1858 31 24Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: January 11, 19276 Apuka St, Wellington, New Zealand
23 months
son
Gravestone William O & Sydenham Holdsworth from Tony of findagrave
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Birth: April 23, 1860 33 26Forest St, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: October 18, 1861White Hills, Victoria, Australia
21 months
son
Gravestone William O & Sydenham Holdsworth from Tony of findagrave
18621864
Birth: January 6, 1862 35 28White Hills, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: March 5, 1864Victoria, Australia
19 months
son
Alfred Herbert Holdsworth
18631929
Birth: July 17, 1863 36 29White Hills, Victoria, Australia
Death: April 30, 1929173 Greville St, Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 years
daughter
Thirza Mary Brown - courtesy Enid Muller
18651945
Birth: July 2, 1865 38 31White Hills, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: August 18, 1945Warley Hospital, Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
2 years
daughter
18671921
Birth: August 18, 1867 41 33White Hills, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: September 25, 1921Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia
3 years
son
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Birth: May 22, 1870 43 36White Hills, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Death: February 4, 1876Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
16 months
son
18711934
Birth: September 28, 1871 45 37White Hills, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Death: April 13, 1934"A Melbourne hospital", Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
22 months
daughter
18731876
Birth: July 26, 1873 46 39Ascot, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: February 7, 1876Ascot, Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
2 years
son
Albert Armytage Holdsworth photo
18751932
Birth: November 4, 1875 49 41Ascot, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: October 9, 1932Private Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 years
daughter
Birds outside Em's window & painted when she was elderly
18771964
Birth: November 27, 1877 51 43Epsom, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Death: November 30, 1964Colaba Pte Hospital, 88 Orrong, Rd, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia
Census

Living with the Pannett family and a female servant. 25 year old William Pannett was a chemist and John was listed as a chemist's apprentice.

Residence

Marriage notice identified John as a chemist and druggist of London. Keiza was from Redditch.

Census

John's 22 year old sister Mary was staying with John and his wife Keiza. Keiza was pregnant and gave birth to a daughter soon afterwards.

Emigration

John and his wife Keiza arrived in Melbourne in October 1852 on the ship Panama.

Event

Articles are long but sections relating to medicinal plants and Holdsworth/Wright prizes are at the end and are highlighted.

Residence

John HB Holdsworth was reported to have been born in Sandhurst in June 1858. Two years later the next baby was born in Forest St. Rates for Barnard St in 1859 and Forest St in 1860 remained the same £50 as did the description of J Holdsworth renting a house and land from Harker.

Residence

William Silvanus was born in April 1860 in Forest St, Sandhurst. He died in White Hills in October 1861. An 1860 rate notice exists for house and land in Raglan St White Hills so it is likely that the Holdsworths moved from Forest St to White Hills sometime later in 1860 after William's birth and before his death in October 1861.

Burial

Note name of road closest to grave area which was named for John Holdsworth during his lifetime. Reference was made to its need for widening at a meeting of cemetery trustees held on 10 March 1887 and recorded in the Bendigo Advertiser of March 11 1887.

Birth
Baptism
Baptism
Note: Joseph and Mary Holdsworth's 2 youngest children were baptised in the church.
Census
Religious marriage
Census
Census
Event
Event
Residence
Intercolonial Exhibition Melbourne
Intercolonial Exhibition Melbourne
Intercolonial Exhibition Melbourne
Intercolonial Exhibition Melbourne
Intercolonial Exhibition Melbourne
Death
Death
Note: Known as Taxonia by the Holdsworths and part of a much larger parcel of land.
Burial
Fact
Fact
Note: It's clear that the house did not sell as an advertisement appeared in a Melbourne paper at the end…

It's clear that the house did not sell as an advertisement appeared in a Melbourne paper at the end of June. It later sold to a Mr Mould who was not from Bendigo. It was resold about 10 years later.

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Note: Joseph and Mary Holdsworth's 2 youngest children were baptised in the church.
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Note: Known as Taxonia by the Holdsworths and part of a much larger parcel of land.
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Note: 1846 tithe records show "Widow Holdsworth" living at that location. A newspaper article wr…

1846 tithe records show "Widow Holdsworth" living at that location. A newspaper article written when John Holdsworth's house was for sale stated that his Bendigo house reflected his home in England. This is the only big house he lived in in England and while the front does not reflect the Bendigo property the side does show two gables.

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Note: It's clear that the house did not sell as an advertisement appeared in a Melbourne paper at the end…

It's clear that the house did not sell as an advertisement appeared in a Melbourne paper at the end of June. It later sold to a Mr Mould who was not from Bendigo. It was resold about 10 years later.

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