Howey Estate

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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsLandownersHistoryHenry Howey, born c.1805 in Northumberland, England, arrived in Sydney in 1826. On 1st December of that year he married Maria Matilda Minchin. He attended the first land sale of town blocks in Melbourne on 1 June 1837 and purchased the property in Swanston Street which bears his name. The estate consisted of properties fronting on to Collins, Swanston and Little Collins Street. On or about 21 June 1838, Henry, his wife and six children embarked on the schooner “Sarah” for an unknown destination. The schooner sailed into a hurricane and passengers and crew were lost. His executors sold his 3,800 sheep and 520 cattle on 16-18 July 1839 and both the proceeds of this sale and the land in Swanston Street passed to the Howey family in England, principally to John Werge Howey. On 17 April 1871 John Werge Howey died, leaving his property to his wife Elizabeth during her life, “and after her death to his nephew John Edwards Werge Howey for his life, and then to J E W Howey’s first and other sons and male heirs of each son, every older son and his male heirs to take before younger sons”.

Letters of Administration were granted in turn to Joseph Richardson, Estate Agent of 100 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne (d1873) and to Samuel Alfred Richardson of the same business (d.1884) both of whom died before having fully administered the Estate. In May 1907 Letters of Administration were granted to Raynes W S Dickson, Solicitor, Melbourne. Elizabeth Howey, having died in 1878, and the oldest son of John Edwards Werge Howey in 1901, the properties in Melbourne then forming the Howey Estate passed to the second son, John Edwards Presgrave Howey, who attained his majority on 17 November 1907. Raynes W S Dickson continued to administer the Estate until his retirement, when his son, Raynes Waite Adrian Dickson took control under the company name of Raynes Dickson and Co. This company administered the Estate until it was wound up in the 1970s.

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Date1839-1978

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