He emigrated to South Australia on the Lord Hungerford, arriving at Port Adelaide in November 1856,[1] and for several years worked on a farm at McLaren Vale.
He was a member of the Strathalbyn District Council from 1867[2] until he closed his carrying business in 1873 to take up farming on Yorke Peninsula.
Most of them lived around Strathalbyn in the 1860s, then moved to the upper Yorke Peninsula area when it was opened for closer settlement in the 1870s.
[13] The surname spelling appears to have been Lambshead or Lamshead in some early South Australian documents, but eventually standardised on Lamshed.
Thomas Lamshed (c. 1843 – 28 August 1912) born Bere Alston, Devon, emigrated 1862, lived Strathalbyn, married Elizabeth G(eorge) Bailey (1846 – 20 March 1933), farmed at Echunga, Mount Crawford, Riverton, Maitland, Sunny Vale, retired to Kadina.