William Francis Hite

Name:
Hite, William
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Male
Father:
Hite, Samuel
Mother:
Pendrill, Mary Ann
Date of birth:
26 Jun 1844
Registered:
Launceston
Registration year:
1844
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1106083
Resource:
RGD33/1/23/ no 296

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-08/anger-over-jacqui-lambies-ab...

2002 Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Claimants gave evidence that a pardoned convict, Samuel Hite, married another former convict, Mary Ann Pendrill, and that Samuel had a brother, Thomas Hite, who came to Tasmania as a sealer-sailor and took up with an Aboriginal woman.

This pairing is said to have resulted in a daughter, Ann, born in 1837, who was taken in by Samuel Hite and his wife Mary Ann and recorded as their own.

Ann went on to marry a William Aylett, and evidence was given that both are buried in the Jenner Cemetery at Wynyard, with Ann in the Aboriginal section and William in the white section.

On this basis, the tribunal found that the claimants were "the descendants of Thomas Hite and an Aboriginal woman".

This report clearly states that, as well as their daughter Ann, "Thomas Hite and his aboriginal wife had a son, William, in 1844. Samuel and Mary Ann also took William and reared him".

Name:
Hite, Maude
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Female
Father:
Hite, William
Mother:
Thorne, Maria
Date of birth:
02 Feb 1862
Registered:
Port Sorell
Registration year:
1862
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1013584
Resource:
RGD33/1/40 no 1334

Name:
Hite, Elizabeth Mary
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Female
Father:
Hite, William
Mother:
Hawley, Selina Harriette
Date of birth:
04 Sep 1870
Registered:
Deloraine
Registration year:
1870
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:927651
Resource:
RGD33/1/48 no 278

Name:
Hite, Alice Selina
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Female
Father:
Hite, William
Mother:
Hawley, Harriette Selina
Date of birth:
06 May 1872
Registered:
Deloraine
Registration year:
1872
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:932138
Resource:
RGD33/1/50 no 226

Name:
Hite, Laura Cetina
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Female
Father:
Hite, William
Mother:
Hite, Selina Harriett
Date of birth:
17 Mar 1874
Registered:
Deloraine
Registration year:
1874
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:943513
Resource:
RGD33/1/52 no 222

Name:
Hite, Edgar
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Male
Father:
Hite, William
Mother:
Hawley, Selina Harriet
Date of birth:
29 Mar 1876
Registered:
Deloraine
Registration year:
1876
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:948196
Resource:
RGD33/1/54 no 209

Name:
Hite, Frances Harriet
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Female
Father:
Hite, William
Mother:
Halley, Selina Harriet
Date of birth:
16 Jul 1878
Registered:
Deloraine
Registration year:
1878
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1027152
Resource:
RGD33/1/56 no 282

Name:
Hite, Doria Venetia
Record Type:
Births
Gender:
Female
Father:
Hite, William
Mother:
Halley, Selina Harriet
Date of birth:
26 Feb 1880
Registered:
Deloraine
Registration year:
1880
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:1032487
Resource:
RGD33/1/58 no 710