91His brother Frederick paid 2 pounds to assist his passage on the
"Confiance" which dep Plymouth 10 Jun 1854, arr Adelaide 12 Sep 54,
Henry's age on embarkation was given as 19. The other brothers and
sisters remained in Ireland. Henry joined Frederick at Scott's Creek,
some 18 km SSE of Adelaide. He married Susan Ellen Hill, eldest
daughter of William Rowe Hill of Scott's Creek, SA, on 12 Mar 1858 at
Holy Trinity Church, North Terrace, Adelaide. See notes on Susan. Henry
was an enlightened agriculturalist and breeder of Shorthorn cattle and
Clydesdale horses.
Fifteen children born; Five died in infancy: Charles 1859-62, William
1862-62, daughter1863-63, Ed 1870-70, William 1873-74.

91After some three years in the colony of South Australia, Frederick and Mary must have liked it for they encouraged the 19 year old Henry Howell Fairweather to follow them, paying two pounds towards his passage on the 958t “Confiance” (built in Quebec in 1852, evidently a sister-ship to the “Woodstock”) which arrived in Pt Adelaide on 12 sep 1854 having sailed from Plymouth on 10 June. At the Holy Trinity Church, North Terrace, Adelaide, on 12 Mar 1858, Henry married the third white child born in South Australia, Susan Ellen Treloar Hill, eldest daughter of pioneer William Rowe Hill of cherry Gardens. William Hill had arrived with his wife on the “Royal Admiral” in 1838, less than two years after the first European settlement in South Australia (late December 1836), under the Wakefield Scheme for free settlers. No convicts were ever transported to South Australia, the only Australian state to avoid convict transportation, although, of course, some freed or pardoned convicts would have gone there from other states.
It was a coincidence that, on the “Confiance” in 1854, as well as Henry Fairweather there were Edward Gribbin and family from Corwall. Edward’s grand-daughter, Cordelia Caroline Oats Gribin, was to marry in 1886 Frederick Fairweather’s eldest son, Frederick James Fairweather, following the death of his first wife.
William Hill had a property at Scott’s Creek, near Cherry Gardens, 18km south-east of Adelaide but he had also selected a large holding on the (minor) River Bremen at Langhorne(‘s) Creek, near Lake Alexandrina into which the great River Murray flows before its exit to the ocean. It was there that Henry and Susan settled, raising cattle, horses and 15 children, five of whom died in infancy. Henry was an enlightened agriculturalist and a breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Clydesdale horses.
Susan was both courageous and physically tough. She ran the property and reared the children after Henry’s early death at age 50 in 1885. She eventually died in 1929 at Strathalbyn, a pleasant town near Laghorne(“s) Creek, at age 92.