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Alfred Australia HOWE (1825 - 1837)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Alfred Australia HOWE (1825 - 1837) Robert HOWE (1795 - 1829) George HOWE (1769 - 1821) Thomas HOWE


Mary MCLEAY ( - 1800)



Ann BIRD (1803 - 1842)











b. 1825
d. 17 Jan 1837 at Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia aged 12
Near Relatives of Alfred Australia HOWE (1825 - 1837)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather George HOWE abt 1769 St Kitts, West Indies 11 May 1821 NSW, Australia 52
Grandmother Mary MCLEAY 1800 At sea

Father Robert HOWE 30 Jun 1795 London, Middlesex, England 29 Jan 1829 Sydney, NSW, Australia 33
Step Father T A SALMON
Mother Ann BIRD 1803 1842 Sydney, NSW, Australia 39
Step Mother Elizabeth LEE 17 Jun 1802 Sydney, NSW, Australia 17 Aug 1878 Sydney, NSW, Australia 76

Self Alfred Australia HOWE 1825 17 Jan 1837 Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia 12

Half Brother Robert Charles HOWE 27 Feb 1820 St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW 14 Jul 1875 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 55
Brother Robertus Mansfield HOWE 12 Nov 1822 Sydney, NSW, Australia 26 Feb 1824 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1
Sister Annie Wesley HOWE 1824 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sister Mary McLeay HOWE 21 Apr 1827 20 May 1827 0

Uncle Thomas Terry HOWE 02 Apr 1803 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Aunt Mary Ann Risdon HOWE 01 May 1805 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1832 Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand 27
Uncle John COWELL 1786
Uncle George Terry HOWE 18 Dec 1806 Sydney, NSW, Australia 06 Apr 1863 Chippendale, NSW, Australia 56
Aunt Sarah BIRD 1801 1871 70
Aunt Tawariki Te KIWI
Aunt Ann HOWE 06 Feb 1809 Sydney, NSW, Australia 10 May 1811 2
Aunt Sarah Risdon HOWE 27 Sep 1810 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1879 Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia 69
Uncle Frederick LEE
Uncle Edward LEE 1807 27 Jun 1842 Lithuania 35
Aunt Jane HOWE 09 Nov 1816 Sydney, NSW, Australia 23 Nov 1880 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 64
Uncle Capt. John HARRISON 1800 Cumberland, England 21 Jul 1869 Williamstown, Victoria, Australia 69

Cousin Sarah Eclipse HOWE 1824 At sea 1905 Callan Park, New South Wales, Australia 81
Cousin George Risden HOWE 1825 01 Jul 1889 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 64
Cousin Mary Ann Cowell HOWE 17 Jun 1827 Sydney, NSW, Australia 20 Feb 1905 NSW, Australia 77
Cousin Marion HOWE 1829
Cousin John Kiwi HOWE 1830 1860 Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand 30
Cousin Ann Risden HOWE 1832
Cousin Eliza Frances HOWE 1834 13 Oct 1914 80
Cousin Elizabeth Jane HOWE 1836 15 Dec 1916 80
Cousin Emily HOWE 1840 1880 Sydney, NSW, Australia 40
Cousin Maria Elizabeth LEE 09 Nov 1891
Cousin John Arthur HARRISON 1897
Cousin Adela Ann HARRISON 11 Sep 1834 23 Jul 1910 Victoria, Australia 75
Cousin Henry Colden Antill HARRISON 16 Oct 1836 Cj, NSW, Australia 02 Sep 1929 Kew, Victoria, Australia 92
Cousin George Alfred HARRISON 1838
Cousin Kate HARRISON 1840 1914 Minto, NSW, Australia 74
Cousin Alice HARRISON 1842
Cousin Ernest HARRISON 1845
Cousin Horace Washington HARRISON 1848 Avon, Victoria, Australia 09 Feb 1869 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 21

Nephew Robert HOWE 1841 St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW 23 Oct 1930 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 89
Niece Maria Elizabeth HOWE 1843 St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW 1913 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 70
Nephew George Alfred HOWE 1845 St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW 1910 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 65
Niece Sarah Jane HOWE 17 Jan 1848 St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW 03 Mar 1922 Kandos, NSW, Australia 74
Niece Mary Rebecca HOWE 1855 Pj NSW, 1860 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 5
Nephew Thomas John HOWE 15 Mar 1858 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 1924 Granville, NSW, Australia 66
Niece Wiliam HOWE 1860 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 1861 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 1
Nephew James Bloodworth HOWE 1863 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 29 Jun 1908 Queensland, Australia 45
Nephew Charles HOWE 21 Feb 1866 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 14 Aug 1947 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 81
Niece Frances E MORRIS 1844
Nephew John R MORRIS 1846

Sister in Law Sarah BLOODWORTH 1822 NSW, Australia 1891 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 69
Brother in Law John Randall MORRIS
Events in Alfred Australia HOWE (1825 - 1837)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1825 Alfred Australia HOWE was born Note 1 52, 55
29 Jan 1829 4 Death of father Robert HOWE (aged 33) Sydney, NSW, Australia Note 2 52
17 Jan 1837 12 Alfred Australia HOWE died Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia Note 3 52, 55
Note 1: Reg No V18161022 148/1816 - this seems to be the wrong year, far too early - more likely 1826
Note 2: Reg No V18298310 2C
Australian Dictionary of Biography - on 29 January 1829 he was drowned while fishing near Pinchgut
Note 3: Reg No V18372948 21 OR V1837254 448
drowned

The Mercury 26 Feb 1935
Article - Sharks as Man-Eaters
In 1837 a boy of 12, Alfred Australia Howe was taken by a shark in the Macleay River, N.S.W.

Richmond River Herald ..13 Dec 1940
Items of Interest
According to a Sydney authority the first direct shark attack to he traced in N.S. Wales was that on a boy of 12, Alfred Australia Howe, who was taken in the Macleay River on January 17, 1837. Howe was the son of a Govern ment printer in Sydney, and, a few years before, he had been rescued from a capsize in Sydney Harbor in which his father lost his life.


Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser
31 Jan 1837
DEATH.
At the McLeay River, on Wednesday evening, the 17th January, Master Alfred Australia Howe, aged 12 years, second son of the late Robert Howe, Esq., of Sydney. This unfortunate youth whilst washing his feet in shallow water, on the banks of the stream, in charge of a man servant, was suddenly seized by a large shark, near fifty miles from the harbour, and dragged into the current. The man rushed in and grasping the boy at the hazard of his own life, pulled him out of the monster's month and swam to land, just as the fish pursued them furiously to the shore. The effusion of blood was instantly stopped, but symptoms of mortification exhibiting themselves, the Surgeon in attendance peremptorily ordered a removal to Port Macquarie, for amputation of the limb, but death terminated his sufferings by locked jaw, in a litter on the road. Eight years ago this unfortunate boy was miraculously saved from a watery grave, at the time his equally unfortunate father was drowned by the upsetting of a boat off Pinchgut. The good qualities and high promise of the youth are justly appreciated by all who knew him ; and time itself can never efface from his unhappy relatives, the dreadful catastrophe which has deprived a mother of her fondest hope, and two sisters of their dearest brother. He will be removed to Sydney for interment in the vault of his family, so that the bodies of the father and son may mingle in dust together.
Source References:
52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record
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55. Type: Book, Abbr: Edward Wills Family and Descendants, Title: Ancestor Treasure Hunt; The Edward Wills Family and Descendants in Australia 1797 - 1976, Auth: R.V. Pockley, Publ: Wentworth Books - Sydney, Date: 1976
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