Elizabeth and Thomas Stonehouse are my g-g-g-g grandparents. Their third child, Alfred, is the one I’m descended from.
Birth dates and 19thC deaths are from Tasmanian lists of registered births, 20thC deaths come from other people’s ancestry.com trees. The final column is Elizabeth’s age at the time of the birth (assuming a birth date for her of 1820).
1837 Nov 13 1913 William 17
1839 Oct 1 1919 Thomas 19
1842 May 20 1881 Alfred 22
1844 May 24 1881 Harriet 24
1846 Aug 10 1894 Caroline 26
1848 Dec 12 1917 Nancy 28
1850 Aug 18 1878 Elizabeth 30
1852 May 14 1927 Rosa Bella 32
1854 1876 Mary Ann 34
1857 May 22 1921 name not given 37 – I’m happy to assume that this is Catherine, who married George Kerrison in Thomas Stonehouse’s house 5 August 1890 when she was 32, as the ages and dates almost match!
1862 Apr 11 1919 Jane 42
William was born before they were married (Elizabeth was just 17ish and had only arrived in the colony on 7 February 1836). Unusually for an “illegitimate” child he was registered with acknowledgment of both his parents, however he wasn’t registered until he was 18 months old, a few weeks after his parents’ marriage.
In later years Rosa Bella went by Rosabella, while Mary Ann sometimes shows up as Marian.
Mary Ann’s mother’s maiden name isn’t “correct” on her birth registration however I think someone has just misheard.
The First Ball I Took Your Mother To 
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