Samuel BENNETT [12796]

  General Notes:

children

Benjamin Bennett 1846-901
Sarah Bennett 1851-1936 m. James Mewburn
Samuel Henry Bennett 1853-1929
Mary Jane Bennett 1854-1855
Mary Ann Bennett abt 1856-1938 m. William Mewburn
William Joseph Bennett 1858- 1897
Eliza Jane Bennett 1865- 1865
Charles Bennett 1866-1939
Jane Bennett 1871- 195 Frank Leister



The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 - 1954) Tue 8 May 1906 Page 2
Family Notices
DEATH.
BENNETT-On May 6, 1906, at Horsham, Samuel Bennett, dearly beloved father of Samuel Bennett (of West Australia) ;
Mrs James Mewburn and Mrs William Mewburn (of New South Wales) ; Charles Bennett, and Mrs Frank Leister (of
Horsham) ; aged 85 years.
God saw when his footsteps faltered,
And his voice grew faint and weak ;
He bid him rest for a season,
For the pathway had grown too steep.

The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) Wed 9 May 1906 Page 6
HORSHAM.
HORSHAM.
A PIONEER'S DEATH.
Horsham has lost another of its old worthies in Mr Samuel Bennett, brickmaker, who passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 85. Deceased was a Staffordshire-man, having been born at Wallsall, and came to Victoria in the early fifties. On the subsidence of the gold fever, Mr Bennett, like others, settled down to business, and coming from the pottery county, naturally took to the work he knew most about, brick-making. He started in Ballarat, but in 1874 came to Horsham and remained here. He started the brickfields now occupied Messrs Sawyer, and some ,of the best buildings in the town may be cited as monuments of his work. Some seventeen years ago Mrs Bennett died and about five years ago Mr Bennett sold out to Mr Sawyer, and went to live with his oldest son, Benjamin, in Ballarat.

Owing, however, to his son s death, he returned to Horsham, living with his daughter, Mrs Leister, to the end.

Samuel married Ann THORNHILL [12797] [MRIN: 4517]. (Ann THORNHILL [12797] was born about 1830 in , , England and died in 1890 in Horsham, Vic, Australia.)