Henry
Mylam Cockerill was born in London in 1806 to Susannah Cockerill, he was tried
at Middlesex, 14th September 1823, and sentenced to stealing a gold watch
from Mr. Booth.
Henry
and Mr Booth (a barrister) lived in the service of Brookman, a Barrister in
the Temple.
Henry
was sentenced to transportation for life and arrived in Hobart aboard the
"Phoenix", 22nd July 1824.
Henry
was employed as a hospital clerk in 1827 when he was was found guilty of altering
the the sentence of Furniss Graff in the Register of Convicts kept in the
Secretaries Office from life to seven years and making a like
alteration in the original indent of the prisoner of the ship "Coromandel"
in which ship the said Furniss Graff arrived. Henry was sentenced to transportation
to Maria Island for 3 years.
Henry
married Eliza Vincent, daughter of John
Vincent
and
Susannah Rivers at Green Ponds 15th June 1832. Eliza and Henry Mylam Cockerill
had fifteen children
between 1834 and 1861.
On
the 25th March 1834 Henry was charged with assaulting James Fisher, the case
was dismissed there being no grounds of complaint.
He
received a conditional pardon on 6th Juy 1836, and a free pardon on 9th July
1840.
Henry
was licensee of the "Bothwell Castle Inn, at Bothwell, from 1836 to 1846,
In
1850 the "Hobart Town Courier" advertised the lease of "Enfield
Cottage" for H. M. Cockerill The cottage was "....brick, containing
eight rooms, furnished and papered, situate in the suburbs of Bothwell, within
walking distance of the church.......A paddock of 10 acres, in cultivation
and strongly fenced......also large garden, stable, barn, men's hut, etc.
.....rent £30 per annum if taken for 3 years.
The
same newspaper advertised for sale on 5th February 1851 surplus stock
and farming implements as Henry Cockerill was leaving the Bothwell district.
Henry
and Eliza moved to Back River. Eliza Cockerill died at Back River,
20th June 1864.
Henry
married Alicia Macleay (nee Corrigan), 31st January 1866 at Colebrook.
Henry
Mylam Cockerill died Hobart, 20th February 1873 and is buried at Cornelian
Bay