FIFTH GENERATION

235. Thomas Henry Holyman ⁽²⁹⁾ was born on 24 Oct 1856 in Torquay, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 13 May 1933 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He was buried on 15 May 1933 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
General Australian Dictionary of Biography;

Thomas Henry, joined his father in 1868 on Cousins. He was an independant, venturesome boy and after three years he left to serve on the brigantine Emma Jane. A year later he was aboard the schooner Leslie but, satisfied by nothing short of deep-sea sailing, he joined the brig Assyrian as third mate and sailed to England around Cape Horn. From England he joined vessels carrying freight into Baltic ports and other centres of British trade; he gained his second mate's papers, being the only member of his family to secure a foreign going master's certificate. Thomas returned to Tasmania in 1878 on the barque Westbury. In maturity he was a large, forthright man, barrel chested and spade bearded, who fluently demonstrated his command of the loud language of a seafarer-he was known as `Roaring Tom.' His ill-fortune in losing several ships during his career of over sixty years was due to impulsiveness: over-confidence induced him to accept risks with both sail and steam and, in later life to speculate foolishly in Tasmanian mining shares. In 1890 Thomas again left the family business to work on vessels trading between Melbourne, Launceston and Beauty Point. But he returned in 1902 and, until his retirement in 1929, commanded many ships of the Holyman fleet. In December 1911 his steamer Toroa carried stores and equipment from Hobart to Macquarie Island for (Sir) Douglas Mawson. His first wife Grace Victoria, nee Young, whom he had married about 1883, died in 1885; on 22 April 1889 at the Anglican Church of Holy Trinity, Beaconsfield, he married Helena Josephine Wyett; he had no chi ldren. A Freemason, Holyman died on 13 May 1933 at St.Margaret's Hospital, Launceston, survived by his wife, and was buried at Carr Villa cemetery.

He was married to Grace Victoria Young in 1881. Grace Victoria Young ⁽²⁹⁾ was born on 6 Oct 1863 in Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 9 Aug 1885 in Torquay, Tasmania, Australia. She was buried in East Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.

He was married to Helena Josephine Wyett on 22 Apr 1889 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Helena Josephine Wyett⁽²⁹⁾ was born about 1868 in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. She died on 12 Mar 1949 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. She was buried on 13 Mar 1949 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

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