Hi keyless
Ah, Richard Augustus St HILL. I've never satisfactorily placed him in the antipodean St HILL family.
... it would seem this Richard is the son of James Henry St HillFrom your post, I am supposing that Richard would have been born about 1832 in the West Indies as a "one third removed from white" child. At that time, James Henry St HILL was a declared bankrupt, working as an architect in London. He married Anne ROBINSON in London in 1837 and to my knowledge had no children. However, the St HILLs were no strangers to illegitimacy and Richard could well have been James' son from before his marriage — James himself was illegitimate!
Did he return to NZ after his brush with the law in Australia?From the Timaru Herald (NZ) 11 June 1864:
Richard St Hill was placed at the bar charged with forgery and uttering. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and called Alfred Osborn as to character, who deposed that he had known prisoner twelve months and had always found him steady and of good character.
His Honor said he should take into consideration the character given to the prisoner, and would sentence him to twelve months imprisonment in Lyttleton gaol with hard labor, to be computed from 1st June instant.
Is he the St Hill at school in the English 1841 census ...Henry W[oodford] St HILL, son of Henry Charles St HILL (1783-1861), is at school in London in 1841 aged 13. I can't see any other St HILLs at school then.
You have caught me at just as we are about to have a visitor in the house for a few days so I won't be able to devote much time to going through all my notes, etc. Another St HILL researcher has your Richard Augustus as a son of Richard Augustus of St Vincent (as below). Unfortunately the name Richard (and Augustus less so) is often used by the St HILLs and their SAINTHILL ancestors from Devon so it's not that easy to be sure of who belongs to whom!
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