Henry Heath

Kerry Wright

27 March 2020, 02:46

My Great-Great-Grandfather is Henry Heath through my mother's male line of ancestry. Henry Heath was born in Lambeth, London, on 14 July 1801, the son of William and Grace Heath. On 25 July 1827, he married Mary Ann Swinchatt (aka Mary Ann Gerrard) at St Mary's Church, Lambeth. Mary died on 22 June 1846 in Kennington. Henry and his two sons, Henry Jnr and Sydney, departed England on 29 January 1849 on board the "Calcutta", arriving in Adelaide, South Australia, on 23 June 1849. Henry changed his name to Henry Heath "Harry" Glover. He died in Adelaide on 2 March 1858. In the short time he spent in Australia, he distinguished himself as an artist and lithographer credited with recording some of the earliest depictions of colonial era South Australia. Henry's son, now known as Henry Heath "Harry" Glover Jnr, also distinguished himself as an artist and lithographer in Australia. They are represented in various collections throughout Australia, including the State Library of South Australia, the National Library of Australia in Canberra, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the State (Mitchell) Library of New South Wales, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. For further particulars, please see their Wikipedia entries here:

* Henry Heath Glover Snr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Glover

* Henry Heath Glover Jnr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Glover_Jnr

Shaun G.

29 October 2018, 19:10

I have a book of Henry Heath's from 1840 titled Omnium Gatherum. It is of A3 size , because it is 178 years old, worn in places , his observations are still cruelly accurate and very amusing , alas all the drawings are only in black and white but still amazing to look at.

Sue Swinchatt

22 January 2016, 09:38

I believe this Henry Heath was later known as Henry Heath Glover living and working in Australia until his death in 1858. Henry Heath had married my distant cousin Mary Ann Swinchatte in Lambeth in 1827. They already had two sons by then, William and Henry junior (1827-1904) who also later worked as a lithographer in Australia and New Zealand. They had six children before Mary Ann died in 1846, but only three seem to have reached adulthood. In 1849, now using the name Henry Glover, Henry Heath arrived in Adelaide, Australia accompanied by two of his sons, Henry and Sidney. Henry senior became licencee of the Stag Inn in Adelaide and later the three men spent some time on the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo.