Wiltshire Lovelock Trees - A Collection of Various Trees

The family left Adelaide, South Australia late in 1849 on the schooner TIMBO (Captain Hill), arriving on 3 December in Hobart according to the Shipping Intelligence in The Colonial Times of 4 December. The family were named as George, Frederick, Mary and Mary Jane.

They left Hobart on 5 December on the CAROLINE (Captain Perry) for San Francisco and, hopefully, GOLD. The 330 ton barque was wrecked on 25 March 1850 off Honolulu, where the captain had been prevented from docking due to adverse weather. Mary died in April 1850 according to the Britannia and Trades' Advocate of Hobart reporting on 15 August 1850.

Sources are the Courier [newspaper] (Hobart), 14.8.1850; and GOLD FLEET FOR CALIFORNIA: FORTY-NINERS FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, by Charles Bateson, published by URE SMITH P/L, Sydney, 1963. There is no list of deaths at sea in this wonderful book and no Lovelock entry in the index but the Captain was William C. Perry. This was his only voyage to the USA with prospective miners.

A report in the Sydney Morning Herald of Friday 10 May 1850 repeated the following from the Honolulu Times of 27 March 1850:

The British bark 'Caroline', of London, Captain Perry, 110 days from Hobart Town, anchored off our harbour (Honolulu) on Monday morning last, intending to remain only long enough to procure water and other supplies, being on her passage to California. During the early part of the day, the wind, which was from the southward, freshened considerably, and it became evident to all acquainted with the nature of our harbour, &c., that the situation of the vessel was one of extreme peril. Captain Maughn, the pilot, went on board in the morning, and at 5 p.m. the cables were slipped, and an attempt made to wear and stand out to sea, but owing to the heavy swell, it was impossible to get weigh (way) on her, and she struck on the reef at the leeward side of the passage, where she now lies.-After the vessel struck, it being understood that a number of women were on board, several of our citizens procured boats, and with praiseworthy courage pulled through the surf and brought all of them that could be reached in safety to the beach. Shortly after grounding, the standing rigging was cut, and the masts went by the board, carrying with them a seaman, named John Wilson, a native of Sweden, aged about 27 years. A rope and a grating were thrown to him, but it is supposed that he was struck by some of the falling rigging, and thus response was incapable of exertion before reaching the water. His body was found upon the reef yesterday morning, and identified by several of the passengers and crew. Captain Maughn arrived from the wreck last evening, leaving the master and five others still on board. Their situation, although anything but pleasant, we do not apprehend to be dangerous.-Honolulu Times, March 27.

Further Notes:

Carpenter. Sailed in "Success" to Adelaide arr Feb, 1848. With Daniel went to Copper mines Kapunda, SA. to California in mid 1850's till middle 1860's thence to Nevada. Became very wealthy thru coach routes, water rights, good meadow land, mines. Built town of Lovelock in 1860's. George had previously founded the town of Lovelock California, see: http://www.caghosttowns.com/towns/butte/lovelock.htm. The town of Lovelock was originally established by George Lovelock in 1855. It was the quartz and placer mining that attracted miners to the area. The Lovelock Inn here is near the site of the old Lovelock Hotel, Store and Dance Hall which were operated by the Kitchen family.

See also article in Lovelock Lines issue 1 on the Lovelock web site. Taken from Elaine Pommerening's account for the Lovelock Centennial Booklet, 1968. More information on the town of Lovelock can be found at http://www.city-data.com/city/Lovelock-Nevada.html http://ednapurviance.org/ednahome/lovelockhomea.html

Chis Knight, email 7-Nov-04: Daniel's son George Lovelock has turned into the most fascinating character. I have found a lot on Ancestry in the Nevada Daily State Journal that fortunately includes his obituary. His story is one of (several) fortunes in mining, shipwrecks en-route to Australia - which killed an un-named daughter, Pirates, the murder of his son Daniel by a jealous husband and endless selling of mines, some at $100,000 each (and this in the 1880s!), another early death of a son by malarial fever (George, died 24 Aug 1893 in Lovelock, Nevada). A second wife - Mrs Evans, no other names yet - drowned whilst fishing in a creek a few years after they were married.