SEVENTH GENERATION

418. Robert BLYTH was born about 1813. He was baptised on 12 Jul 1813 in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. He emigrated in 1841 from Adelaide, South Australia. Robert left England on the steam ship 'Corsair', employed as the ships surgeon. When he arrived in South Australia he settled on a dairy farm at Mount Barker. Two years later he left for Tasmania. He was a Ships Surgeon in 1841. 1843: When Robert arrived in Tasmania he was appointed Prison Surgeon on Norfolk Island.
1847: Robert was appointed a Justice of the Peace. He died on 29 May 1887 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. He was buried in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. 1834: Appointed a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in London.
1835: Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

He was married to Harriet Edith GATEHOUSE (daughter of Silas GATEHOUSE and Harriet UNKNOWN) on 30 Apr 1841 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Harriet Edith GATEHOUSE was baptised on 30 Apr 1824. She died on 24 Mar 1875 in Shrub End, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. She was buried in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. Harriet is buried at Henry Street Cemetery. A plaque in St Georges Church: Sacred to the memory of Harriette Edith, wife of Robert Blyth, aged 55 years. Mother thou hast done thy duty well'. Robert BLYTH and Harriet Edith GATEHOUSE had the following children:

659 i. Harriet Edith BLYTH was born on 14 Sep 1845 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 23 Feb 1865 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. She was buried in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. Cause of death given as 'decay of nature'.
660 ii. Frances Mary BLYTH was born on 26 Mar 1847 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 25 Sep 1904 in Devonport, Tasmania. Frances was engaged to the artist G.H.C. Thomas but he died before the wedding. She never married.
+661 iii. Robert BLYTH.
+662 iv. Emma Catherine BLYTH.
663 v. Walter BLYTH was born on 22 Jun 1852 in Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia. He died in South Africa. Walter went to Queensland prospecting then to South Africa.
+664 vi. Arthur Tabrum BLYTH.
+665 vii. Silas Gatehouse BLYTH.
+666 viii. Eliza Sophia Christina BLYTH.
+667 ix. Anna Maria BLYTH.
+668 x. Daniel Alfred BLYTH.

He was married to Selina WICKS (daughter of Mark Everson WICKS and Lucy DARBY) on 18 Aug 1882 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. Witnesses to the marriage were Lucy Wicks and Christy Saltmarsh. Selina WICKS was born on 23 May 1847 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 8 Oct 1933 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She was buried on 9 Oct 1933 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. Robert BLYTH and Selina WICKS had the following children:

669 i. Lucy Selina BLYTH was born on 18 Oct 1882 in Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 17 Jun 1887 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.