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Ancestor Biography:
Hookey Jack Lovell
'You can't see the tree for the leaves.' Useful for the home family unit tree researcher, or recreational genealogist every bit it is now called. You find yourself out on some distant limb, swaying precariously, picking up every foliage and seeing if it is sprouting from the correct tree or not. This is how I came across John Isaac Lovell.
I was looking for data on his sister, an unnamed babe daughter born somewhere in the Huon River district to Samuel Lovell and Elizabeth Smith on Christmas 24-hour interval, 1852. A side note scrawled in a different hand noted she was baptised in the Wesley Church building as Elizabeth Margaret. Confusingly, this girl was always known equally Mary. John Isaac was the eldest and only son of the family of five, and Mary, the youngest. The other three sisters remain equally equally elusive as Mary. Their mother Elizabeth died in 1854, when little Mary was fifteen months one-time.
John Isaac popped up in plenty of family tree matches on genealogy websites with varying siblings and parents, but always called "Hookey Jack" Lovell. What a great name!
A census reveals John Isaac and his parents in Franklin between 1848 and 1851. They lived in Geeveston and and then Castle Forbes Bay. John grew upwardly when the Huon Valley was an isolated but apace emerging area. The pioneers were bushmen who felled the wood giants, milled the timber and shipped information technology to Hobart and the mainland to the growing colony's cities.
At age eighteen, John was employed by a Mr Kellaway at Woodstock. He had not been working in that location long, when he was out one solar day shooting parrots. He signalled to his companion to keep serenity, knocked the trigger of his gun causing it to explode and the ensuing accuse shattered his forearm. Mr Kellaway conveyed immature John to the doctor at Franklin. Without the use of chloroform or any type of anaesthetic, reportedly, immature Lovell watched the amputation of his forearm without flinching. Every bit soon equally the limb was healed, he was fitted with an iron hook, thus explaining and validating the truth of his wonderful nick name.
After leaving Kellaway's he went to work for Lucas' Factory at Baker's Creek. It was here he met and married the daughter of John Bell. On October 10, 1864 when Sarah Bell was seventeen, and he was xx, they were married by Richard Cook in the house of E. Dowling, Franklin. On Christmas Day that same year, their first child was born.
The young couple bought state in Bakery's Creek and gradually laid out a farm of apples, pears and small fruits, in what would become the predominant agricultural manufacture of the Huon Valley for the adjacent one hundred years.
Ranelagh. Tas Archives
While the orchard was establishing, Hookey Jack worked as a timber getter. Despite his physical handicap, he worked at phenomenal speed. He was the champion pailing- splitter of the district, often tallying 800 a 24-hour interval, with a tape of about 5000 in ane day.
Huon timber men. Tas Archives
His orchard grew as did his family unit. Hookey Jack and Sarah went on to take vii more sons and seven daughters.
Sarah died in 1915, in her belatedly 60's, several months subsequently a stroke.
Hookey Jack and his sons and daughters placed a heartfelt memorial to her in the Huon Times when she passed and over again a twelvemonth after her decease.
Two shocking events occurred for the family in the ensuing few years. On Wed eleventh of June, 1919, John Isaac jnr, then anile forty, was taking 28 cases of apples from Baker's Creek to the Huonville sales. The cartwheel hit a sandy estrus and he was thrown to the route, became entangled in the reins and was dragged forth the road and somewhen run over past the cart, causing dreadful injuries. "Don't touch on me, I'thou cooked," was what John told his employee who was with him at the time when he came to his aid. Hookey Jack had the sad duty of identifying his son's torso in Hobart on Saturday when the man finally succumbed to his dreadful injuries 3 days later on.
Timber Carter on the Huon Road
In 1923 another son, James met his sad and atrocious death also.
On Tuesday the 19th of June, James was at the box-mill of Mr Chas Woods at Ranelagh. James began to push some billets through when one jammed. A piece 5 inches thick was hurled through the air at tremendous strength and hit James in the head. An unconscious James was motored by Mr South Shepperd to the Hobart infirmary, arriving at two:30 pm, a trip which took them 3 hours. His injuries consisted of fractures to the skull, nose, cheek and upper jaw. Office of the brain was exposed and missing. During the evening he regained consciousness but relapsed towards morning. At 11:00 he took a bad plough, and everything was done to relieve the unfortunate human. He appeared to suffer deplorable agony and died at one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. The newspaper reports that 'the deceased was thirty-four years of age and left a widow and 2 young children to mourn their loss. He was a well respected equally a hard-working orchard labourer and much sympathy is felt throughout the Ranelagh district for the bereaved family unit.'
Huon Valley sawmill. Tas Mail service 1903
Hookey Jack himself 'joined the great bulk' early on on Sunday morning, the anest of June 1924 aged eighty years and four months.
Sadly, the risks these pioneers faced in the timber and orchard industry, played out desperately for Hookey Jack, with ii of his son's deaths.
His obituary states that fortune did non always grin on his efforts, simply that he carried his troubles lightly, always finding something to exist thankful for and e'er ready with a cheery discussion or helping mitt for others. His hardy constitution was taxed several times through serious accidents.
Hookey Jack as an older man.
It was in the research of Hookey Jack that I plant 2 footling hints about his sisters. The offset was Mary.
From the Huon Times 19th of August 1924: A southern contributor writes:
"The passing of Mrs Rose, of Dover, is another break in the list of old Huon pioneers. Deceased was well known in her young days at Castle Forbes Bay, Franklin and Cradoc. At the last-named identify, deceased and her husband were employed for a time by the belatedly Mr J. Rowe. Her blood brother, Mr John Lovell, of the Grove passed abroad only a few weeks ago reference to which sad issue was made in the 'Huon Times.'" It is always pleasing to get confirmation such as this that you have the right Lovell on the right tree.
The 2d hint was mention of some other sister at the stop of his obituary: "Deceased had a long line of descendants- 96 grandchildren and 68 great grandchildren. A younger sister, Mrs Rowe, is living at Hastings." Ah-ha. This must be the elusive Hannah, or perhaps the thrice married Susanna, and has given me a new co-operative to climb out upon.
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