William HEMMANT^[1]

1837 - 1916  (78 years)

• Name	William HEMMANT
  Birth	24 Nov 1837	Kilgate, Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	Jun 1859	Melbourne, Australia   [2]
  	Travel record arrival in Melbourne June 1859 aboard the 'Yorkshire'. Travelled steerage, occupation shown as goldseeker. Departure port Gravesend.
  Residence	Mar 1860	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  	Established a drapery shop together with Alexander Stewart. Stewart & Hemmant.
  Residence	1869	Eldernell, Brisbane
  	Commissioned ‘Eldernell’ overlooking the Brisbane River
  Will	1916  [3]
  	£92,404 left in will
  Death	20 Sept 1916	Kent, England
  Person ID	I2547	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Hemmant,   c. 25 Mar 1801, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England d. 8 Nov 1877, Royal Leamington Spa (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Isabella Elizabeth RICHMOND
  Marriage	10 Jun 1835	All Saints, Wakefield, York, England
  	ref: Wakefield District Marriages. Groom living in Leeds, Bride in Wakefield
  Notes	Thomas Hemmant can be tracked through the various census data from 1841 to 1871. Born in Whittlesea in 1801, by 1841 he is living in Leeds, married to Isabella Richmond. Thomas Hemmand in the 1851 Census, in 1861 daughter Elizabeth is living at home in Trinity Newington, Surrey.
  Family ID	F2147483649	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Elizabeth Ground,   b. Apr 1843, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England d. 1897, Sevenoaks, Kent, England (Age ~ 53 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1866	Holy Trinity Church, Coates, Cambridgeshire, England
  	Bedfordshire Times and Independent 29 Sept 1866: '...Lucy Elizabeth, Eldest daughter of Daniel Ground, Esq., Eldernell, Cambridgeshire' Bedfordshire Times and Independent 29 Sept 1866. '...Lucy Elizabeth, Eldest Daughter of Daniel Ground, Esq., Eddernell, Cambridgeshire'
  Children	1. Lucy Elizabeth HEMMANT,   b. 16 Nov 1867, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia d. 26 Feb 1939, London (Age 71 years)   2. Frederick William HEMMANT,   b. 15 Aug 1869, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia   3. Ada HEMMANT,   b. 20 Jun 1871, Eldernell, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia   4. Tom HEMMANT,   b. 3 Feb 1873, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia   5. John HEMMANT,   b. 20 Dec 1874, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia   6. Mary HEMMANT,   b. 15 Aug 1879, Ealing, Middlesex d. 1950 (Age 70 years)   7. George HEMMANT,   b. 13 Oct 1880, East Neuk, Blackheath, London d. After 1944 (Age 64 years)   8. Lucy Margaret HEMMANT,   b. 8 Sept 1882, East Neuk, Blackheath, London   9. Edward Vincent HEMMANT,   b. 14 May 1884, East Neuk, Blackheath, London   10. Francis HEMMANT,   b. 20 Aug 1885, East Neuk, Blackheath, London d. 1969, Tonbridge, Kent, England (Age 83 years)   11. Daniel Ground HEMMANT,   b. Q1 1887, Eldernell, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England   12. Lieutenant Maurice HEMMANT,   b. 10 Sep 1887, Blackheath d. 14 Aug 1917, Steenbeek, Langemark, Belgium (Age 29 years)
  Family ID	F928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 24 Nov 1837 - Kilgate, Yorkshire, England Residence - Established a drapery shop together with Alexander Stewart. Stewart & Hemmant. - Mar 1860 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Marriage - 20 Sep 1866 - Holy Trinity Church, Coates, Cambridgeshire, England Death - 20 Sept 1916 - Kent, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos		William Hemmant
  		Hemmant - Atkin Wedding Wedding of James Richard Atkin and Lucy Hemmant 16 May 1893, Taken at Bulimba

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated to Victoria, worked as a miner at Ballarat and in 1860 moved to Brisbane where he established a drapery shop in partnership with Alexander Stewart. A lot more detail in Australian Diectory entry Onetime member of Queensland Parliament, Minister of State Parliament. Friend and colleague to Robert Atkin. The suburb of Hemmant, Brisbane, Australia was named after William Hemmant. By the time he built Bulimba, near Sevenoaks, in about 1990, he was evidently a very wealthy man. Australian Dictionary of Biography entry: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hemmant-william-3749 ~~~ Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hemmant ~~~ Eldernell and Bulimba houses: Hemmant was evidently quite a builder. In Brisbane, he commissioned ‘Eldernell’ in 1869, designed by the prominent Brisbane architect James Cowlishaw. It is described as ‘a fine example of a mid-Victorian stone dwelling, which is unusual in Brisbane’. Now it is the home to the Anglical bishops of Brisbane. On his return from Queensland, in 1891-93 William Hemmant built a very extravagant and substantial house called Bulimba, and named after his constituency in Brisbane, Bulimba. The details of the construction are lovingly detailed in The Builder; 1891 (1). The house was sold on William Hemmants’ death in 1916, and the Sale Particulars and the Sale photographs are held in the National Archives. (2) This house was demolished in 1933. 1. https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/buildings/bulimba-kippington-sevenoaks 2. https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/results/?searchType=HE+Archive+New&search=bulimba More about Eldernell, Brisbane: https://heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/822

  
  

• Sources

  [S1000025] Penny David, David Web Site, https://www.myheritage.com/person-3000095_235658531_235658531/william-hemmant (Reliability: 3). [S7] Victoria Inward Passenger Lists 1839-1923 (Reliability: 0). [S8] Manchester Evening News. Mr William Hemmant of Sevenoaks, Kent, a director of the London board of the Australian Bank of Commerce, left £92,404