Background
Hampton was the eldest son of John Hampton Gleeson, who with his brother Edward Burton Gleeson and their families emigrated to South Australia from Calcutta on the Emerald Isle, arriving in July 1838.
Hampton was the eldest son of John Hampton Gleeson, who with his brother Edward Burton Gleeson and their families emigrated to South Australia from Calcutta on the Emerald Isle, arriving in July 1838.
He was later involved in the business of brewing beer in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales. The voyage was organised by the Australian Association of Bengal, and besides the two Gleeson families and a few other settlers (notably Judge James Donnithorne) and their servants, the ship carried a number of Indian coolies, a large quantity of Indian merchandise and horses, including "Abdallah", an Arab stallion brought out by East. B. Gleeson for breeding purposes. There were (unspecified) problems with the Emerald Isle and her master.
The Association"s other ship, the Guillardon, was wrecked at the mouth of the Ganges in 1840, and no further ships were despatched.
The Gleesons established a pastoral property north of Penwortham, on which Edward Burton Gleeson developed a township, naming it Clare. Somehow he received on excellent education and developed a keen business sense, perhaps at his uncle"s property "Inchiquin" near Clare.
In 1860 he took a business trip to India, bringing back as a curio several pairs of "mangouste" or "ichneumon" (mongoose), which he presented to Mr. Elliott (his landlord at the Globe Inn) and to the Botanic Garden.
He was active in a number of mining ventures in the northern Flinders Ranges: New Cornwall Mineral Association Limited. in 1861, Duryea Mining Company in 1862, and was managing director of the Daly and Stanley Mining Company in 1868.
He secured an Auctioneers licence in 1864. In 1869 he was appointed Justice of the Peace. In 1876 the brewery was largely destroyed by flood.
An interim arrangement with Tooheys Brewery to fill their orders resulted in that firm gaining a toehold in the area which they never lost.
Gleeson was also associated with Marshall"s Brewery. He died at his home "Juliette", 44A Bayswater Road, Darlinghurst
Harriet Gleeson (c 1833 – 27 March 1882)
Hampton Carroll Gleeson (31 August 1834 – 10 April 1907) married Susan Mary McEllister (c1839 – 20 May 1887), daughter of Edward McEllister, on 15 November 1860.
Edward William Gleeson (17 October 1861 – ). He worked with East.S.& A. Bank before founding his own clothing store.
Mabel Mary Gleeson (22 January 1883 – ) married Walter James Leonard on 6 February 1905
She was the daughter of Isaac Josephson of Macquarie Street, Sydney.
He was buried in the Catholic section of the Waverley cemetery. Sara Gleeson ( – ) married Doctor Arthur Newnham Bewicke ( – ) of Melrose on 18 April 1865. They left for England on the Orient in February 1874, never to return.
He was a member of Sydney Tattersalls Club and its treasurer in the last years of his life.