 1868 - 1942 (73 years)
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| Name |
Robert John Holman |
| Nickname |
Bob |
| Birth |
28 Oct 1868 |
Bald Hills, South Australia, Australia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Apr 1942 |
| Burial |
Centennial Park, South Australia |
| Person ID |
I2530 |
Tucker Family Tree | The descendants of James Tucker |
| Last Modified |
2 Aug 2010 |
| Family 1 |
Eliza Rosanna Hawkins, b. 7 Oct 1871, Inman Valley District Yankalilla, South Australia, Australia d. 5 Sep 1906, Naperby, South Australia, Australia (Age 34 years) [1, 2] |
| Marriage |
4 Jan 1894 |
Wesleyan Church Napperby, South Australia, Australia [1, 2] |
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South Australia Marriage Registrations, Robert John Holman and Eliza Rosanna Hawkins.
Eliza Rosanna Hawkins, daughter of William Clement Hawkins age 22 yrs, married, Robert John Holman, son of James Holman, age 25 yrs, at the Wesleyan Church, Napperby, South Australia, Australia, 04 September 1894. |
| Children |
| + | 1. Effie Susanna Holman, b. 7 Nov 1894, Nelshaby, South Australia, Australia d. 26 Feb 1983 (Age 88 years) |
| + | 2. Robert Leland Garfield Holman, b. 19 May 1896, Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia d. 8 Jan 1954, Adelaide Repatriation Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Age 57 years) |
| + | 3. William James Stanbrook Holman, b. 20 Dec 1897 |
| + | 4. Cyril Clement Holman, b. 1 Jun 1899, Nelshaby, South Australia, Australia d. 1 Sep 1983, South Australia, Australia (Age 84 years) |
| + | 5. Thomas Arthur Holman, b. 7 Dec 1900, South Australia, Australia d. 18 Jan 1974 (Age 73 years) |
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| Family ID |
F0734 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Apr 2020 |
| Family 2 |
Jane Nosworthy, b. 16 Feb 1875 d. 27 Oct 1955 (Age 80 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Oct 1920 |
Bald Hills, Yankalilla, South Australia, Australia |
| Family ID |
F1358 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
8 Jul 2022 |
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| Documents |
 | The Family of Clement and Jane Hawkins
Back row, L to R: Hartley Hawkins, Millie hawkins (Angel), Ethel Hawkind (Dow), Friend hawkins, Minnie Hawkins (n. speed), Charlie Smith
Middle Row LtoR: robert J Holman, Eliza Holman (n. Hawkings), Effie Holman, Miriam Jane Hawkins (n. Tucker), francis Hawkins, Lilly Smith (n. Hawkins)
Children at front: Cyril Holman, Tom Holman, Jack Hawkins,… |
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| Notes |
- There is an article on Robert John Holman in the ALDINE'S HISTORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA VOL.2 PAGE 623. Bob bought a farm at Nelshaby and built a stone house where he took his young bride Eliza Rosanna; their five children were born in that house. Bob was a man of great moral strength and courage. When his wife died he was faced with the awesome responsibility of raising his five young children alone. When Eliza died, their children were placed with Hawkins/Tucker relatives; the youngest two Cyril and Thomas went to stay with their grandmother, Miriam Jane Hawkins (nee Tucker) Stan went to Lilly May Smith, Robert Leland to Ethel Dow and Effie was looked after by Hartley Hawkins and his wife Bertha.
Bob bought 5,000 acres of farming land at Wanilla, South Australia, from Mr W.T. Mortlock. He built a home there for his family (the stone chimney still stands in 1989 as a memorial to his work). Bob called his farm "Ashley Farm" after his uncle, Thomas Atkinson's farm at Willunga. It had been the name of the Atkinson farm in Lincolnshire, England. In October 1907. Bob gathered his family to him. They travelled by train from Warnertown to Wallaroo, where they boarded a vessel, the "Rupara" and sailed to Port Lincoln. When Bob arrived at Port Lincoln with his family on October 75h 1907, they had Brought with them furniture and 2 cows. Mr Arthur Hall, who was working for Bob, walked the cows 23 miles to the farm, staying overnight at the "Fountain" with Mr. Sep Roberts.
Effie, at nearly 14 years, was given a formidable task of house-keeping for her father and four younger brothers. Effie cooked on a wood stove and an open fire; utensils were of cast iron. Clothes were boiled in a copper and all the trousers were cleaned on a scrubbing board using a scrubbing brush. Life at Wanilla was very difficult due to extremely wet weather; Crops planted were destroyed by heavy rains and the boggy conditions killed off a lot of the livestock. Bob became very ill after a time and was nursed by his children. This would have been about 1909; Bob thought he had consumption. He had been a great believer in Homeopathy Medicine (a system of medicine introduced by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann in the 19th century; it was preferable to the over-drugging and blood-letting by leaches that had been practised in the previous centuries) and had studied that subject in depth. He always treated himself and his children successfully with Homeopathy. He had great faith in a tonic called "Vita Dact" which came in 1.5 pint bottles. He never consulted a doctor (of orthodox medicine) and never had a chest X-ray; He made a complete recovery.
The older sons with their father cleared and fenced many acres of land, but eventually after much sweat and toil, they were unable to keep up payments and the property was repossessed by Mortlock. Bob moved his family to Cummins where he worked on the new railway lines to Kimba and Darke Peak. When world War I started the two elder sons joined the Light horse and fought in Egypt and Palestine.
When new leases of land were allocated in the Hundred of Wannaman, Bob was allocated Section 30 on 16 September 1915 at Kyancutta. He camped there for some time before being joined by his other sons, Cyril and Tom. Effie married in 1915. Bob with the help of his sons, built a stone house on section 30 (now owned by a great-grandson, Trevor Holman). In 1920 he married Jane Nosworthy of Bald Hills, Yankalilla.
Bob was a truly remarkable man who never lost his faith in God, a mighty man of love, fortitude and courage. He was still farmin and lay-preaching in the Methodist Church until 1940. In 1942, he had a fall from his horse while rounding up his sheep; he never recovered fully from the concussion and broken ribs he received in the fall. He died in Adelaide, following a "stroke". He was survived by his 5 children and 27 grandchildren. (The Tucker Family in Australia, 1992)
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| Sources |
- [S1] Cynthis Henley-Smith, The Tucker Family in Australia, (Gillingham Printers Pty Ltd Adelaide, South Australia), 1992, 312 (Reliability: 3).
- [S493] Genealogy SA, trading as the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, findmypast, South Australian Marriages 1842-1937 Transcription, (findmypast), 4 Jan 1894, Clare Registration No. 178/49 (Reliability: 3).
See attached copy of South Australia marriages 1842-1937, Marriage Transcription Eliza Rosanna Hawkins and Robert John Holman. Registration district Clare, Registration No. 178/49.
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