Henry Mylam COCKERILL

Born in London in 1806, Henry was the second son of Edward COCKERILL and Susanna BEELS. He had the benefit of an education but was convicted of stealing in 1823 and transported to Hobart Town on Phoenix in 1824. He was appointed to the Lieutenant-Governor's or Colonial Secretary's office as a clerk with a salary but was sentenced to 3 years hard labour at Macquarie Harbour in 1827 when he was caught altering the sentence of another convict. He was fortunate to have been useful as assistant clerk in the Commandant's Office there and left there for Bothwell in 1829 where he was a clerk in the police office.
By 1831 he was settling down, with some land, a garden and a house commenced. In 1832 he sought permission to marry, but already some in Bothwell were objecting to him. He married Eliza VINCENT that year and received his conditional pardon in 1836 so he was able to leave his position as a clerk and become licensee of his father-in-law's inn. They had 15 children with only two dying as children.
In 1841 Bothwell was rocked by an attempt to rescind his recently approved membership of the Bothwell Literary Society. By 1843 he was seeking to give up innkeeping and obtain a position with the government, with an eye to the future of his children.
The family moved to the New Norfolk area in 1851 and may have tried farming. They were living at the Cawthorn property Arundel at Macquarie Plains in 1864 when his wife died.
Eighteen months later, he remarried to Alicia CORRIGAN, the widow of Dr Kenneth MaCLEAY who had been at Bothwell in 1848.
Henry died in New Town in 1873 and was buried at Cornelian Bay.
Janet Miller, one of his New Zealand descendants, wrote a COCKERILL family history in 1994.

Eliza VINCENT

Born in 1816, the fifth child of John VINCENT and Susannah RIVERS, she arrived in Hobart Town with her family from London in 1823. In 1832 she married Henry Mylam COCKERILL. He was granted a licence for the Castle Inn, built by her father, from October 1836 to 1846.
Life with Henry was not dull as some people in Bothwell objected to his convict origins. They moved to the New Norfolk area in 1851.
They had 15 children so it is perhaps not surprising that she died in 1864 at 47 of a liver complaint. They were living at the Cawthorn property, Arundel, at Macquarie Plains at the time.

Martha Ann COCKERILL

Born at Bothwell in Tasmania in 1841, Martha was the second daughter of Henry Mylam COCKERILL and Eliza VINCENT.

The family moved to New Norfolk in 1851 and were living at the Cawthorn property Arundel in 1864 when her mother died.

She married John Henry CAWTHORN in 1870. They had 10 children.
They moved from Macquarie Plains to Wattle Grove in 1879. Her older brother moved his family to Diamond Hill near Cygnet, perhaps also around that time.

High Arundel c. 1916

Martha died in 1925 and is buried at St Marks Anglican Church in Cygnet.

John Henry CAWTHORN

Born in 1840 at New Norfolk, he was the eldest of three sons of Henry David CAWTHORN and Ruth FINCHER. His father died in 1850, the same year as the accidental death of his grandfather, on whose original grant, Arundel, they lived.
John Henry married Martha Ann COCKERILL in 1870. They had 10 children, the first 6 being born at Arundel. They moved to High Arundel at Wattle Grove above the Huon River in 1879, where they grew small fruits and a general orchard.
Martha died in 1925 and John Henry in 1929 (in his 90th year).

High Arundel c1917

see Cyclopedia of Tasmania p418

Charles Frederick Rivers CAWTHORN

Born Macquarie Plains, Tasmania 1875. Fourth son of John Henry CAWTHORN and Martha Ann COCKERILL. Farmer
Second Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen 1901-2
Married Jean McRAE in 1910 - six daughters.
Carter at Ardlethan NSW 1913-1921. Farming at Dover, Tasmania 1921-1937

Died Hobart 1966