John Henry Beard HOLDSWORTH, 18581927 (aged 68 years)

Birth June 17, 1858 31 24
Birth of a brotherWilliam Silvanus HOLDSWORTH
April 23, 1860 (aged 1 year)
Death of a brotherWilliam Silvanus HOLDSWORTH
October 18, 1861 (aged 3 years) Age: 1
Cause: Diphtheria
Burial of a brotherWilliam Silvanus HOLDSWORTH
October 19, 1861 (aged 3 years)
Address: Mon A1 grave number 3093. Wrong year on tombstone. 1862 instead of 1861.
Death of a maternal grandfatherSilvanus VICK
November 22, 1861 (aged 3 years) Age: 68
Cause: "Cancer of the face extending to the brain 18 months certified".
Note: The death was reported by Adelaide Longey his landlady from earlier in the year at the time of the 1…

The death was reported by Adelaide Longey his landlady from earlier in the year at the time of the 1861 census who was present at the time of death.

Burial of a maternal grandfatherSilvanus VICK
November 27, 1861 (aged 3 years)
Note: Location of burial unknown although it is expected to be in the same area as other Vick burials.
Birth of a brotherSidenham HOLDSWORTH
January 6, 1862 (aged 3 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherMary BRIGGS
December 4, 1862 (aged 4 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 paternal grandmotherMary BRIGGS
December 6, 1862 (aged 4 years)
Address: Burial register records Mary's abode as "Woodhouse Leeds".
Note: Buried with spouse.
Birth of a brotherAlfred Herbert HOLDSWORTH
July 17, 1863 (aged 5 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 brotherAlfred Herbert HOLDSWORTH
September 24, 1863 (aged 5 years)
Address: Parish of Sandhurst, Victoria.
Religion: Church of England
Death of a brotherSidenham HOLDSWORTH
March 5, 1864 (aged 5 years)
Cause: croup
Burial of a brotherSidenham HOLDSWORTH
March 6, 1864 (aged 5 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.
Birth of a sisterThirza Mary HOLDSWORTH
July 2, 1865 (aged 7 years)
Birth of a sisterEtty Stella HOLDSWORTH
August 18, 1867 (aged 9 years)
Birth of a brotherWilliam Octavius HOLDSWORTH
May 22, 1870 (aged 11 years)
Birth of a brotherArthur Halsey HOLDSWORTH
September 28, 1871 (aged 13 years)
Birth of a sisterEdith Armytage HOLDSWORTH
July 26, 1873 (aged 15 years)
Note: "On the 26th inst., at Ascot, Sandhurst..."
Birth of a brotherAlbert Armytage HOLDSWORTH
November 4, 1875 (aged 17 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Octavius HOLDSWORTH
February 4, 1876 (aged 17 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 brotherWilliam Octavius HOLDSWORTH
February 6, 1876 (aged 17 years)
Address: Mon A1 Grave no. 3093
Death of a sisterEdith Armytage HOLDSWORTH
February 7, 1876 (aged 17 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 sisterEdith Armytage HOLDSWORTH
February 8, 1876 (aged 17 years)
Address: Mon A1 Grave 3093 where her brothers and father are buried.
Birth of a sisterEmmeline Christina Hopton (Em) HOLDSWORTH
November 27, 1877 (aged 19 years)
Occupation
chemist
December 10, 1879 (aged 21 years)
Note: The Victorian Pharmaceutical Register of 1898 noted that JHB Holdsworth registered on 10 Dec 1879. H…

The Victorian Pharmaceutical Register of 1898 noted that JHB Holdsworth registered on 10 Dec 1879. His qualification was a "Mod. Exam., Vict., 5 Dec., 1879"

Sale of strychnine to man who suicided
An older well known church-goer and Mason bought strychnine from JHB Holdsworth stating it was to kill rats. He later committed suicide after failing yet again to obtain work. Before dying he admitted to ingesting strychnine and left a letter for his wife. John Holdsworth confirmed at inquest that the strychnine had been bought from him.
June 20, 1880 (aged 22 years)

Religious marriageLouisa JACKSONView this family
April 23, 1884 (aged 25 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.

Birth of a daughterCate Jackson HOLDSWORTH
March 23, 1885 (aged 26 years)
John acquired his father's business in Pall Mall. September 1885 (aged 27 years)

Death of a daughterCate Jackson HOLDSWORTH
March 4, 1886 (aged 27 years) Age: 11 months
Burial of a daughterCate Jackson HOLDSWORTH
March 5, 1886 (aged 27 years)
Address: Section MON A3 Grave number 9326
J H B Holdsworth and his brother Edward L, joined the masons
J H B Holdsworth and his brother Edward L, both chemists joined the Golden and Corinthian Lodge of Bendigo - the Masons, on 23 March 1886.
March 23, 1886 (aged 27 years)

Examples of druggist advertising and medicines October 13, 1886 (aged 28 years)

Death of a wifeLouisa JACKSON
July 20, 1887 (aged 29 years)
Address: "at the residence of her mother"
Burial of a wifeLouisa JACKSON
July 22, 1887 (aged 29 years)
Death of a fatherJohn HOLDSWORTH
August 11, 1887 (aged 29 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.
Burial of a fatherJohn HOLDSWORTH
August 13, 1887 (aged 29 years)
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.

Left one business and bought another
John left the Pall Mall site and bought a business near the Alexandra Fountain. Rents may have been a little cheaper in that location.
1889 (aged 30 years)

Fact
Was re- elected as Honarary Secretary of the Bendigo Hunt Club at it's first annual meeting.
November 1890 (aged 32 years)

Fact
Insolvent, released in 1893
1891 (aged 32 years)

MarriageElizabeth (Emilie Isabel) GREENBANKView this family
February 22, 1894 (aged 35 years)
Note: The Argus published a notice referring to the marriage of Isabella Goldie and JHB Holdsworth which…

The Argus published a notice referring to the marriage of Isabella Goldie and JHB Holdsworth which had occurred in Bombay. No other references found to it elsewhere apart from a contempory newspaper reference.

Fact
J H B and Emelie Holdsworth had a big party at "Sebrof'' in Armadale which Emelie had taken to the relationship. Her son, Alexander Goldie, was reported by the Argus in June 1893 as having purchased it when it was available for sale.
June 20, 1894 (aged 36 years)

Article about house and advertisement about sale items
Advised he was selling furniture, horses etc prior to several years of travel during which time the house would be let.
October 1894 (aged 36 years)

Note: Given Sebrof had been bought by Alexander Goldie with Robertson/Goldie money and Victorian women h…

Given Sebrof had been bought by Alexander Goldie with Robertson/Goldie money and Victorian women had fairly recently acquired rights to their own money and property in marriage it is difficult to know why the reporter kept referring to the property as Mr JHB Holdsworth.

Fact
Travelled to England on the "Ormuz" with wife and her 2 sons. They enrolled in Oxford University. Lady Tichbourne was also a passenger. While she was unconnected with the Holdsworth's she said she was the mother Tichbourne claimant. The identity of the Tichbourne heir was a major mystery which has never been resolved.
November 1897 (aged 39 years)

Military
Bushman's Regiment
February 1900 (aged 41 years)
Note: Was recorded as a lieutenant in the Bushman's Regiment for action in the Boer War in South Africa. S…

Was recorded as a lieutenant in the Bushman's Regiment for action in the Boer War in South Africa. See media and additional ones for his letters from South Africa during it.

Note: Camp photo is GRS1350_18 from the Woodward Collection at the Geelong Heritage Library.
Residence between 1912 and 1914 (aged 55 years)
Note: According to electoral rolls E G Todd was also at that address from 1912 to 1915.

According to electoral rolls E G Todd was also at that address from 1912 to 1915.

The property was built in the 1880s as coffee house as part of a movement to provide alternatives to pubs. It's not clear when it became flats. There was development in the 1920s, it became a hotel in 1928 before further changes saw it become heritage listed in 1964. Electoral rolls show multiple people were living there from at least 1906.

Occupation
Indepedent means
1914 (aged 55 years)
Death of a wifeElizabeth (Emilie Isabel) GREENBANK
April 12, 1914 (aged 55 years) Age: 71
Burial of a wifeElizabeth (Emilie Isabel) GREENBANK
April 15, 1914 (aged 55 years)
Occupation
retired
1919 (aged 60 years)
Address: 6 Apuka St
Death of a sisterEtty Stella HOLDSWORTH
September 25, 1921 (aged 63 years)
Burial of a sisterEtty Stella HOLDSWORTH
September 27, 1921 (aged 63 years)
Note: Compartment A Grave 279 C of E
Death of a motherCate Lancashire VICK
February 10, 1922 (aged 63 years)
Burial of a motherCate Lancashire VICK
February 11, 1922 (aged 63 years)
Address: CofA ZA 610
Religious marriageElizabeth Georgina TODDView this family
December 10, 1926 (aged 68 years)
Death January 11, 1927 (aged 68 years)
Burial January 12, 1927 (1 day after death)
Address: Section CH ENG2 Plot No. 218G Record No. 61499 Alternatively referred to in other cemetery records as 06 A 09 012
Probate February 7, 1927 (27 days after death)
Note: Probate granted to wife and Edward Fitzgerald Eager, Vice Principal. Beneficiary : wife.
Family with parents
father
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18261887
Birth: August 12, 1826 35 38Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: August 11, 1887Ascot, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
mother
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
elder brother
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
himself
John H B Holdsworth
18581927
Birth: June 17, 1858 31 24Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: January 11, 19276 Apuka St, Wellington, New Zealand
23 months
younger brother
Gravestone William O & Sydenham Holdsworth from Tony of findagrave
18601861
Birth: April 23, 1860 33 26Forest St, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: October 18, 1861White Hills, Victoria, Australia
21 months
younger brother
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
younger brother
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
younger sister
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
younger sister
18671921
Birth: August 18, 1867 41 33White Hills, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: September 25, 1921Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia
3 years
younger brother
18701876
Birth: May 22, 1870 43 36White Hills, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Death: February 4, 1876Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
16 months
younger brother
18711934
Birth: September 28, 1871 45 37White Hills, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Death: April 13, 1934"A Melbourne hospital", Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
22 months
younger sister
18731876
Birth: July 26, 1873 46 39Ascot, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: February 7, 1876Ascot, Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
2 years
younger brother
Albert Armytage Holdsworth photo
18751932
Birth: November 4, 1875 49 41Ascot, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: October 9, 1932Private Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2 years
younger sister
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
Father’s family with Kezia BAYLIS
father
St Andrew's Church Newton Kyme
18261887
Birth: August 12, 1826 35 38Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, England
Death: August 11, 1887Ascot, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
step-mother
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
half-sister
18511851
Birth: April 5, 1851 24 252 Pickard St, St Luke's Finsbury, London, England
Death: November 1851St Luke Finsbury, London, England
Family with Louisa JACKSON
himself
John H B Holdsworth
18581927
Birth: June 17, 1858 31 24Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: January 11, 19276 Apuka St, Wellington, New Zealand
wife
Louisa and Cate Holdsworth
18551887
Birth: November 8, 1855Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Death: July 20, 1887Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageApril 23, 1884St Paul's Church, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
11 months
daughter
Louisa and Cate Holdsworth
18851886
Birth: March 23, 1885 26 2914 Johnston St, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Death: March 4, 1886"Erin Villa" Mollison St, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Family with Elizabeth (Emilie Isabel) GREENBANK
himself
John H B Holdsworth
18581927
Birth: June 17, 1858 31 24Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: January 11, 19276 Apuka St, Wellington, New Zealand
wife
Isabel Holdsworth's Tombstone - no mention of husband
18431914
Birth: June 30, 1843 43 29Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia
Death: April 12, 1914Campaspe Estate, Goornong, Victoria
Marriage MarriageFebruary 22, 1894Bombay, India
Family with Elizabeth Georgina TODD
himself
John H B Holdsworth
18581927
Birth: June 17, 1858 31 24Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death: January 11, 19276 Apuka St, Wellington, New Zealand
wife
1914 J H B Holdsworth's Location - Tall Building - Google Earth
18611936
Birth: February 15, 1861 46 34Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: June 30, 19366 Apuka St, Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand
Religious marriage Religious marriageDecember 10, 1926St Barnabas Church, Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand
George Leman GOLDIE + Elizabeth (Emilie Isabel) GREENBANK
partner’s partner
18341900
Birth: February 6, 1834Richmond, Tasmania, Australia
Death: July 22, 1900Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
wife
Isabel Holdsworth's Tombstone - no mention of husband
18431914
Birth: June 30, 1843 43 29Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia
Death: April 12, 1914Campaspe Estate, Goornong, Victoria
Religious marriage Religious marriageSeptember 12, 1864Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
8 years
step-son
18721963
Birth: April 9, 1872 38 28Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Death: February 27, 1963Woodend, Victoria, Australia
5 years
step-son
18761955
Birth: 1876 41 32Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Death: 1955Rye, Victoria, Australia
4 years
step-daughter
1891 Memorial to Adelaide Isabel Goldie
18801891
Birth: February 1880 45 36Victoria, Australia
Death: October 18, 1891Campaspe Estate, Goornong, Victoria, Australia
Thomas ROBERTSON + Elizabeth (Emilie Isabel) GREENBANK
partner’s partner
Thomas Robertson's Tombstone - zoom to read fully
18221891
Birth: 1822
Death: December 22, 1891Campaspe River, Campaspe Estate, Goornong, Victoria
wife
Isabel Holdsworth's Tombstone - no mention of husband
18431914
Birth: June 30, 1843 43 29Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia
Death: April 12, 1914Campaspe Estate, Goornong, Victoria
Marriage Marriage
Occupation

The Victorian Pharmaceutical Register of 1898 noted that JHB Holdsworth registered on 10 Dec 1879. His qualification was a "Mod. Exam., Vict., 5 Dec., 1879"

Marriage

The Argus published a notice referring to the marriage of Isabella Goldie and JHB Holdsworth which had occurred in Bombay. No other references found to it elsewhere apart from a contempory newspaper reference.

Article about house and advertisement about sale items

Given Sebrof had been bought by Alexander Goldie with Robertson/Goldie money and Victorian women had fairly recently acquired rights to their own money and property in marriage it is difficult to know why the reporter kept referring to the property as Mr JHB Holdsworth.

Military

Was recorded as a lieutenant in the Bushman's Regiment for action in the Boer War in South Africa. See media and additional ones for his letters from South Africa during it.

Military

Camp photo is GRS1350_18 from the Woodward Collection at the Geelong Heritage Library.

Residence

According to electoral rolls E G Todd was also at that address from 1912 to 1915.

The property was built in the 1880s as coffee house as part of a movement to provide alternatives to pubs. It's not clear when it became flats. There was development in the 1920s, it became a hotel in 1928 before further changes saw it become heritage listed in 1964. Electoral rolls show multiple people were living there from at least 1906.

Probate

Probate granted to wife and Edward Fitzgerald Eager, Vice Principal. Beneficiary : wife.

Birth
Sale of strychnine to man who suicided
Religious marriage
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.

Religious marriage
John acquired his father's business in Pall Mall.
Examples of druggist advertising and medicines
Left one business and bought another
Fact
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Article about house and advertisement about sale items
Article about house and advertisement about sale items
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Military
Military
Military
Military
Religious marriage
Death
Burial
Source: findagrave
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Note: Address was 152 Bridport St according to 1914 electoral roll.