Person:Samuel Horsfall (1)

1845, Baptism No. 616
Admitted to the Church 27 August, Samuel Tomlin, son of Jeremiah and Anne Horsfall (born 12 April 1839), resident Ilkley Hall, father’s occupation formerly Cotton Merchant; John Snowd[en], vicar

Jeremiah Horsfall, of Addingham, born 1792, married Anne, dau. John Tomlin, Esq., Clitheroe. Their children: Samuel Tomlin, b. 1839

Farfield Hall
Sarah Ann Horsfall, age 15*, female, Ind., No [Not born in County]
Elizabeth Horsfall, age 15, female, Ind., Yes [born in County]
, Alfred, 12, male, yes
, Mary, 10, female, yes
, Esther, 9, yes
, Michael D., 5, yes
, Jeremiah, 1, male, yes
Hannah Taylor, 25, female, F. S. [female servant], yes
Sarah Wilson, 40, female, F.S., yes
p. 25
Farfield Halll
Samuel Horsfall, 2 years, male, omitted by mistake should have been entered on the top of page 2, yes
*[between 15-20]

1. 159, Saint Johns
   Horsfall, Sarah Ann, head, unmarried, age 26, Income from Mortgages, etc., b. Lancashire, Clithero
   , Martha, sister, unmarried, age 24, b. Lancaster, Clithero
   , Mary Garnett, sister, unmarried, 20, b. Yorkshire, Addingham
   , Samuel Tomlin, brother, 11, scholar, b. Yorkshire, Addingham
   , Jeremiah G., brother, 10, scholar, b. Yorkshire, Addingham
   Haigh, Miriam, servant, unmarried, 24, general servant, b. Yorkshire, Clayton West

No. 855, Horsfall, Samuel Tomlin, Qualification: residential, residence: 156 Cashel street, occupation: horse breeder

No. 360, Horsfall, Samuel T., resident Gisborne, qualification: freehold, Property description: Gisborne, premises in which he resides

Wednesday, 7 April
Resident Magistrate's Court
Quinlan v. McIvor
. . . . Samuel Horsfall said: "I am a proprietor of race horses, and I have been in the habit of attending race meetings. . . . It woiuld take a very good racehorse whose earnings would be sufficient to pay all expenses and to declare a dividend. . . . I never heard of an arrangement where the owner of a race horse was to get half the gross winnings. . . . I think my own horses are better than Redeemer, and they have been a loss to me as yet. My horses are King Quail and Ratcatcher."

Letter, Maurine Creagh, 13 Jan. 1993
Samuel Tomlin Horsfall, born 1839 at Farfield Hall, Addingham.

Samuel emigrated to New Zealand around 1867 and settled in Gisborne, North Island. He soon built a General Store, obtained a liquor licence and was in opposition to a Mr. Read who had the only other store there.
Samuel married Horiana WILLOUGHBY (TE-KAINGAHOU) a Mouri Princess
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vol 1, (1990) 1767 - 1869 gave details of Samuels troubles where a court case which involved paying for travel and accommodation for witnesses. This sent him broke. (Source: Research by Maurine CREAGH; IGI Index)

The National Archives of New Zealand, Samuel is listed as a Lieutenant at Pot Bay, on the 15th April 1872. The next year it is crossed out with the notation "Left the Colony". Samuel had left New Zealand "to escape his debts" and probably went to South Australia first and then to Melbourne (Source: Research by Maurine CREAGH) [Note: Maurine Creagh consistently said he was listed as a Lieutenant in 1871.]

Samuel Tomlin HORSFALL d.28th March 1919 aged 80 in Melbourne, Victoria
When Samuel died in Melbourne aged 80, his occupation was listed as "Curator" and he was buried in Fawkner cemetery. (Source: Research by Maurine CREAGH)

Chapter XXII, "Uncrowned King of Poverty Bay" - Captain G. E. Read's Colourful Career
[The "colourful" nature of Read's career included some behaviours that were not always as scrupulous as they might have been. He also was the owner of the only store in Gisborne in the early years of its settlement.]
"It came as a great shock to Read when he learned, early in 1871, that Samuel Taylor [sic] Horsfall was about to open a big store on the main street. Bitter enmity soon sprung up between them, and, on several occasions, their wordy warfare ended in blows. During a quarrel in October, 1872, Horsfall knocked some of Read's teeth out and kicked him. Read took the matter into court. Horsfall pleaded that, when he had sent a messenger with an account to Read, the document was thrown back to the accompaniment of insulting language. He was merely bound over to keep the peace. Dissatisfied with the decision, Read sued Horsfall for £500 for violent assault. A special jury at Napier assessed the damages at £50."

Monday, 15 April
Supreme Court - Civil Sittings
Reid vs Horsall
"Mr. Wihitaker for the plaintiff, Mr. MacCormack for the defendant. the proceedings in this action are out of a former trial in the Supreme Court, in which the defendant brought an action against the plaintiff to recover damages for conversion of goods shipped in one of Reid's vessels from Napier to Gisborne, Poverty Bay, and sent back by Reid's order to Napier, without delivery to the defendant Horsfall. [Horsfall denied Reid's testimony in the previous trial] and a good deal of ill-will existing led to the present action [a charge of perjury]. [The present action was] brought by Captain Reid, of Gisborne (on the East Coast), against the defendant, Samuel Tomlin Horsfall (plaintiff in the former action), a store keeper of the same place, to recover damages (£500) for injury sustained by reason of a false accusation made by defendant, before a Justice of the Peace, against the plaintiff, in consequence of which the plaintiff was arrested (under a warrant), brought before the Magistrates at Napier, but the charge against the plaintiff was dismissed. [Reid argues that Horsfall] did falsely and maliciously appear before the Justice of the Peace at Napier (Singleton Rochefort, Esq), and swear 'maliciously, and without reasonable or probably cause,' that the plaintiff, on a trial at the Circuit Court (Civil Sittings), holden in Auckland, had been guilty of willful and corrupt perjuries." [Defendant denied allegations.]

[Apparently Reid had told Horsfall not ship goods on his boat, but Horsfall's agent in Napier had shipped them on Reid's boat and Reid had returned them to Napier, claiming that a) he did not know to whom they belonged, and when he tried to give them to another man (possibly Horsfall's manager?) he would not take them; and b) Horsfall's agent in Napier had told him to return the goods. In the previous trial, the agent denied giving such an order, but subsequently started to waffle, and suggestd that Horsfall might gain £100 pounds if he dropped the whole issue.]

After considerable discussion of who actually said what to whom and how it was to be interpreted according to law, the jury spent an hour and a half in deliberation and returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £10.

Notice:
Creditors, next of kin and all others having claims against the estate of any of the following person are required to send Particulars to the Curator of Estates of Deceased Persons before 15 December 1919
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Samuel Tomlin Horsfall, late of No. 122 Nicholson street, Fitzroy, old age pensioner, died 24 March 1919, intestate

Samuel T Horsfall
Occupation: Pensioner
Death Date: 24 Mar 1919
Residence City: Fitzroy
[Probate Registration]: 28 Mar 1919Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Series Number: 162, Record Number: 864

SS Moana, 11 March 1901 Passenger List
Mr. S. T. Horsfall, age 62, English, Gentleman, boarded at Hobart, destination Bluff, Southland, New Zealand, travelling in Saloon

Probate Record 162864
Estate of Samuel Tomlin Horsfall
Late of No 122 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy
Deceased, Intestate
Granted to Administrator 28 Mar 1919
Ordered that Curator of Estates of Deceased Persons shall be Administrator
Statement of C. Reeve Stacks of Melbourne HospitalSamuel Tomlin Horsfall, old age pensioner, died 24 March 1919, intestate
He was bachelor at time of death
and had property to the value of 6£ 16 shillings 1 penny
as follows:
cash and stamps: 1:14:5
Money in Commercial Bank, Melbourne 4"16"8
Watch and Chain 0:5:0
that he had no known relatives or next of kin

HORSFALL Samuel Tomlin
Burial (Interment) 26/03/1919, Church Of England Section, Fawkner Memorial Park
Location: FA-COE*H***565

When [Reed] thought he had been wronged he was quite willing to seek redress in court or by more direct means. One argument in December 1872 with another store owner, Samuel Horsfall, ended with Read's losing teeth and his competitor's being sued for assault.

Name Samuel T Horsfall
Year 1878-1879
Residence Gisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand

Saml Horsfall, age 18 [b. abt 1839], single, occupation Trader, English
Arrival: 7 Sep 1857, Melbourne, Australia
Departure Port: Liverpool
Ship: Ellen Stuart