Henry Lamshed was a farmer and politician in colonial South Australia. Lamshed was born near Plymouth, England, a descendant of an old Newton Abbott, Devonshire, family. He emigrated to South Australia on the, arriving at Port Adelaide in November 1856, and for several years worked on a farm at McLaren Vale. He established a carrying business at Strathalbyn. He took up land near Maitland when that district was first opened for settlement around 1875, and ran a farm there, "Oakwood", until around 1916, when he retired. He was a member of the Strathalbyn District Council from 1867 and in 1888 was one of the foundation members of the Yorke's Peninsula District Council. He was elected to the seat of Yorke Peninsula in the South Australian House of Assembly and served from April 1890 to April 1893 as a colleague of Harry Bartlett. He died after several months' illness and was buried in Maitland.
Family
Henry Lamshed married Harriet Johnston ; they had two sons. He married again, to Elizabeth Choules in November 1864. Her family arrived in S.A. on the Diadem in November 1840; she had a previous marriage to William Spanswick. He married a third time, on 24 February 1898, to Sarah Jane Slade of Alberton. His children included:
William Lamshed was drowned in a dam while watering horses.
Henry Herbert Lamshed married Ann Greenslade on 6 March 1889. He was a Maitland town councillor and served a term from 1922 as Mayor and subsequently as Magistrate. He married again, to "Bessie", in late 1927.
Ellen Mary "Nellie" Lamshed married Henry "Harry" Wilkinson on 31 March 1891
Frederick George Lamshed married Ada Jane Edwards on 29 April 1896, lived at "Oakwood", Maitland.
Charles Arthur Lamshed married Alice Elisabeth Rowe on 15 December 1899. A worker for Red Cross and the Cheer-Up Society, he was postmaster at Yorketown when he died in a cricketing accident. Alice was appointed MBE in 1952 for her work with the South Australia Mental Hospital Women's Auxiliary.
Francis Walter "Frank" Lamshed married Eva Tilly on 3 September 1902
The surname "Lamshed", rare elsewhere in Australia, was well known in South Australia around Strathalbyn, Maitland, Kadina and Moonta in the late 19th century. Another pioneering Lamshed family may be mentioned here, as they farmed in similar areas around the same time, and may easily be confused. Their relationship, if any, is not yet clear. Thomas Lamshed born Bere Alston, Devon, emigrated 1862, lived Strathalbyn, married Elizabeth G Bailey, farmed at Echunga, Mount Crawford, Riverton, Maitland, Sunny Vale, retired to Kadina.
Thomas James Lamshed married Sarah Baldock of Tipara on 20 November 1889, lived Sunny Vale.
William Lamshed married Amy Gepp of Magill, was postmaster at Hallett c. 1897–1905, Wilmington 1905–1909, then lived at Mile End
Samuel Lamshed married Annie Florence Scott of Moonta on 28 January 1892. He married again, to Emma "Emmie" Mutton on 2 March 1904, lived Kainton then Kadina
Gilbert Lamshed married Laura Ethel Porker of Kainton on 8 March 1899, lived Cunliffe later Seaton Park, Adelaide
Arthur John "Jack" Lamshed married Priscilla Florence ??, lived at Cunliffe then Kadina
Ada Elizabeth Lamshed married Francis Herbert Baldock of Sandilands
Alfred George Lamshed married Florence Ann "Flo" Walker on 3 April 1907, lived Tipara then Sunny Vale
Herbert Sydney Lamshed married Margaretta Stanway on 30 June 1909
Walter Ernest "Ern" Lamshed married Mabel Phillips on 27 June 1921, farmed at Kadina
Nellie May Lamshed married George Robinson Snodgrass, farmed at Wallaroo; he died following a gun accident
The noted journalist and Red Cross official Maxwell Robert Arthur "Max" Lamshed OBE was the only son of A. J. Lamshed of Rendelsham, Robe and Mount Gambier, whose relationship to either of these families is as yet uncertain – his forebears arrived in South Australia in 1856 and Max described Will Lamshed as a "great-uncle".
