Nehemiah Guthridge

Nehemiah Guthridge (1812 Fermanagh - 27 June 1878 Emerald Hill, Victoria), was an Irish-born Melbourne ironmonger, a city councillor in Melbourne, a parliamentarian representing the Central Province in the Legislative Council, a prominent Wesleyan and the first mayor of Sale in 1863. He and W. Nicholson were among the first promotors of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, also providing funding for the initial survey. He also provided considerable financing for the Ballarat and Geelong railway projects.^[1][2]

Nehemiah was married to Martha Erskine (*1814). The family arrived in June 1841 as bounty immigrants (under a scheme first proposed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield) at Port Phillip from Liverpool via Rio de Janeiro aboard the H.M.S. Frankfield. The ship's passenger list records "Nehemiah Guthridge 29, Fermanagh, Martha Guthridge 27 wife of Nehemiah, and Thomas Guthridge 2 son of Nehemiah". ^[3]

On 14 March 1849 Nehemiah bought lot no 2 of the Crown Allotment in Richmond, Victoria. For this property of 21 acres (85,000 m²), he paid £19 per acre.

Children

1. Thomas Guthridge, b. 1839, England
2. Richard Guthridge, b. 1844, Melbourne
3. Ella Guthridge, b. 1847, Melbourne
4. Nehemiah Guthridge, b. 1849, Melbourne
5. Lissa Guthridge, b. 1851, Richmond
6. Edward Erskine Guthridge, b. 1853, Richmond, d. 1874, Victoria
7. Martha Anna Guthridge, b. 1855, Melbourne
8. Lilly Araminta Guthridge, b. 1857, Northcote ^[4][5]

Inscription on gravestone "Edward E. Guthridge, aged 21 years, fifth son of Nehemiah and Martha Guthridge, was drowned by the swamping of a boat in the Lower Yarra on 31 May 1874" ^[6]

External links

• Australia's Early Immigration Schemes

References

1. ^ Hawke's Bay Herald
2. ^ "Guthridge, Nehemiah". re-member. Parliament of Victoria. http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=414. Retrieved 3 March 2010. 
3. ^ http://www.ries.cz.cc/vic1840/41/fk41.html
4. ^ http://victoria.mypeoplepuzzle.net/getperson.php?personID=I1824&tree=VictoriaPioneers
5. ^ http://victoria.mypeoplepuzzle.net/getperson.php?personID=I406&tree=VictoriaPioneers
6. ^ http://www.whitehat.com.au/Cemetery/Graves/Guthridge.asp

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Name	Guthridge, Nehemiah
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Date of birth	1812
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Date of death	27 June 1878
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