Duryea, Townsend, c. 1860, Photograph, B 7436
Captain Henry Cowell Hawson, son of Henry Hawson and brother of Francis Tapley Hawson [duplicate copy at PRG 458/1/2/39]. Captain Hawson arrived in Port Lincoln in 1839 bringing his whole family (brothers and father) from Newfoundland looking for a better life after the Depression. His brigantine "Abeona" carried a cargo of cedar wood which was used in building his home at Kirton Point. He was a pioneer pastoralist who brought the firtst cattle to the Eyre Penninsula. He built a sheep property at Little Swamp called 'Towalla', a pastoral lease at Coffin Bay and Polda Station. He married Frances Maria Brodribb in Tasmania in 1840 and together they had 6 children. He accompanied Tod's expedition to the north and CC Dutton's party to the south.