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Information is taken from the 1842 Census (Hobart Parish No.16), the 1851 Census, the 1858 and 1862 Valuation Rolls for Southern Tasmania (VR58, VR62), MacPhail's Directory of Tasmania (1867-1868) "Port Cygnet Portion" (MDT), the Buckingham County Post Office Directory 1890-1891, the Tasmanian Pioneer Index 1803-1899, the Tasmanian Federation Index Births 1900-1919, Deaths and Marriages 1900-1930, Fr. John Murphy's "Saddlebag" Records, The Cyclopedia of Tasmania (1900), the Index to Pierce J. Keating Funeral Records, Transcription of records from St. James Catholic Cemetery and St. Mark's Anglican cemetery, the Index to Convict Applications to Marry 1829-1857, List of military pensioners (AOT CSD 1/144/3994), the Mercury 1803-1954, Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923, Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871, Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1886 (Public Record Office Victoria), the Ireland-Australia Transportation Database (National Archives of Ireland), Richie Woolley and Wayne Smith, A History of the Huon and Far South (2004), the 1857 census for Kingborough (AOT CEN1/1/114), the Huon census for 1851 (AOT CEN1/1/108), the 1841 census for England, the 1851 census for England, the Electoral Roll for Tasmania 1914-1954.
ADAMS/ADDEMS Thomas Adams was tried at the Liverpool Assizes of Lancaster 25 March 1843 and sentenced to 15 years transportation. He applied for permission to marry Grace Anderson in 1853. Grace Anderson (born c.1830) was tried at the Glasgow Court of Judiciary 9 May 1848 and sentenced for 7 years. She arrived in 1849. They had the following children: Thomas (1853; died young), Thomas (1856), James (1859), Elizabeth (1860), Eliza Jane (1862; died 1866, aged 4), Alexander (1864), Alfred (1867-1880). He rented a hut and garden at Lymington on 1 acre from A. Blackwood (VR62). He lived at Lymington in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1880 at Hobart.
Aged 42, Charles Adams married Ellen Williams, aged 26, in 1885 (the daughter of Richard and Ellen Williams see below). Their children: Charles Edward (1886) and Thomas Leslie (Hobart 1887).
ALLEN William Allen (c.1802-1876) married Ann Hill at Westwood in Wiltshire in 1825 Their children: John (1825-1902), Eliza (1828-1905), George (1828), Eli (1830-1891), Thomas (c.1837-1922), Arthur (1838-1909). In 1841 the family lived at Twerton near Bath in Somerset. In 1842, he was tried at the Wiltshire Assizes and sentenced to life for breaking and entering (along with Nathaniel Burge - see below). Eliza Allen had a son, William, born in 1850, who later took the surname Dance when his mother married the convict William Dance. The family of William Allen arrived in Hobart in 1851 on board the Ann Thompson. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.136). He lived at the New Inn Hotel on 50 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). He owned the Harvest Home Inn at Port Cygnet on 10 acres (VR62). William Allen lived at the Harvest Home in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1876. Ann Allen died in 1871. Both buried at St. Mark's Cemetery, Cygnet.
John Allen married Hannah Norris in 1864. He died at Huonville in 1902.
Thomas Allen married Sophia Watson in Franklin in 1862 at Franklin. He lived in Port Cygnet in 1862 and in 1867 (MDT). They had a daughter, Emily, born 1862. He died at New Town in 1922.
Arthur Allen married Jane Martha O'Brien in July 1863. Jane Allen died in November 1863. He then married her sister Lucy Beaumont O'Brien (c.1847-1893) in Hobart in 1865. Children: Female (1863-1863), Edwin Arthur (1866), Charles Ernest (1867), Mary Ann (1868-1883), Lucy Beaumont (1871-1871), Thomas Herbert (1874-1879), William George Beaumont (1878), Lucy Beaumont (1881), Female (1883, New Norfolk). Arthur Allen lived in Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in NSW in 1909.
Eli Allen married Jane Bull. Children: Clara (1853). He died in NSW in 1891.
ANDERSON James and Isabella Anderson had two children: Agnes (1886; died aged 2) and James (1888). James Alfred Anderson married Olive Rowe at the Methodist Church in Cygnet, 1920.
ANDREWS/ANDROWS John Andrews was tried at the Pembroke Assizes, Pembrokeshire, South Wales 25 July 1836 and sentenced for life. He married the ex-convict Maria Corney who was tried at the Leeds Quarter Sessions 31 December 1845 and sentenced for 7 years. Children: John William (1849, Launceston), David (1850, Hobart), Alice Rachel (1856, Hobart), William Christopher (1864, Port Cygnet), Priscilla (1867, Port Cygnet; married John Reid at Port Cygnet in 1891). Not listed in MDT for 1867. Aged 31, John Andrews married Maria Corney, aged 21, at Longford in 1848. John Christopher Andrews died in Port Cygnet in 1880, aged 65. Maria Andrews died in Cradoc in 1904 (death notice Mercury).
William C. Andrews and Mary Dillon had children in the 1890s. Albert Victor Andrews married Phyllis Askey at a private house in Cygnet in 1916.
ARKWRIGHT Robert Arkwright (born c.1828) married Margaret Coleman in 1853 (Hobart). Children: Robert (1858), Edwin (1861-1871), Thomas (1864), Ann (1866), Margaret (1873).
ARMSTRONG John Armstrong (c.1827-1867) (the son of Matthew Armstrong) was convicted at the Morpeth Quarter Sessions, Northumberland, England 10 April 1844 and sentenced to 15 years. He married Margaret Redmond in 1853. Margaret Redmond was tried in Co. Wexford 7 April 1851 and sentenced for 10 years for arson. Children: John William (1854-1925), Mary (1857), James Francis (1859), Alice (1863), Elinor (1865), William David (1867). John Armstrong rented a farm from James Walter at Wattle Grove on 5 acres (VR58). He lived at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1867, aged 40. In 1869, Margaret Armstrong re-married. She married John Hynes. They had a son Patrick in 1869. Margaret Hynes died at Cradoc in 1914.
John Armstrong junior (c.1854-1925) married Hanorah Benson in 1876. Children: Margaret (1876), Mary (1878), Joseph William (1880; married in NZ in 1908; died in NZ in 1911), John (1880; died in 1897, aged 17) and James (1882-1883). Hanorah Armstrong died in 1884, aged 26. He married Elizabeth Hague in Hobart in 1886. Children: Elizabeth (married Daryl Townsend at Cygnet in 1914), David John (1891; killed in action in France in 1916), Jane (1892-1892), Catherine (1893; married Herbert Halton at Cygnet in 1915; died in 1990), Alice (1895; married William Donald Elwell at Cygnet in 1918; died in 1931, aged 36), Tasman Leo (1898; married Mary Cecilia, called "Ciss" Cockshutt at Hobart in 1920; died in 1983), William John (1900; married Iris Freda Berry at Cygnet in 1924; died in 1981), James Victor, called "Snowy" (1902) and Albert Sidney (1907). They were buried at St. James cemetery. John Armstrong died at Cradoc Hill in 1925, aged 71. Elizabeth Armstrong died at Cygnet in 1949, aged 83.
James Francis Armstrong (1859-1926) married Elizabeth Theresa Devereux née Dedman. Children: William Philip (1891), James Francis (1895; killed in France in 1917), Beryl May (1899; married Allen Thomas; died in 1993) and Wallace (1902). James Armstrong died at Cradoc in 1926. Elizabeth Armstrong died at Hobart in 1953, aged 91.
William Henry Armstrong (1868/1870-1927), ostensibly related to the Cygnet Armstrong family, married Emma Ray McNee in Victoria in 1889. Children: Janet May (1890, Melbourne), Alice Maud (1892, Melbourne), Beatrice Myrtle (1896, Bunyip, Victoria; married Maurice Branch Henley at Hobart in 1920; died in 1986), William Henry (1890, Bunyip, Victoria; married Ellenor --; died in 1965), Gerald (1902, Rosebery; died in 1973), Florence Ray (1904, Dundas; married Keith Thorp at New Town in 1925), Ronald (1906, Dundas; married Thelma Donaldson at Cygnet in 1928; died in 1984), Ivy Edna (1908, Dundas) and Dorothy Mary (1910, Dundas; married Douglas Percy Batchelor at Hobart in 1927; died in 1994). William H. Armstrong died at Electrona in 1927. Emma Armstrong lived at Cygnet until she died there in 1932, aged 62.
ARTHUR Thomas Arthur was tried at the Gloucester Assizes 4 April 1821 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing a copper. He arrived 21 October 1821 on board the Malabar. In 1833, he married Isabella Hoskin at Sorell. He and Elizabeth West had children. Elizabeth West arrived in March 1840 on board the Emu with her husband George and daughter Annie. Children of Thomas Arthur and Elizabeth West: Elizabeth West ('Henrietta Elizabeth') Arthur (1843-1913), Thomas Oliver Arthur (1844-1923) and Emma Selina Arthur (1847-1917). He rented a farm on 5 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay (VR58). He lived at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Thomas Arthur died in 1882, aged 87. Elizabeth Arthur died in 1887, aged 83.
Thomas Oliver Arthur married Eliza Hartney in 1874. Children: Mary Elizabeth (1875), Thomas Edward (1875), Ann (1878), Edwin Michael (1880), Emily Lavina (1882), Angelena Catherine (1883), Lillie Jane (1885), John Charles Alphonso (1888-1889). Henrietta E. Arthur, aged 15, married Alfred King, aged 22, in 1858. Emma S. Arthur married Richard Roberts at Franklin in 1868. Thomas Oliver Arthur died in 1923 in Hobart. Eliza Catherine Arthur died in Hobart in 1929.
ASKEY Alfred James Askey (1871, New Norfolk-1954, Cygnet) was the son of James Askey (1814-1891) and Mary Keefe (1840-1893). He was a butcher at Cygnet in 1914. He married Margaret Honor Whitton (1878-1940) at Port Cygnet in 1898. Children: Phyllis (1899; married Albert Andrews at Cygnet in 1916; died in 1988), Rena Victoria (1901; married Alfred Glover at St. Mark's in Cygnet in 1918; died in 1983), Stanley "James" (1902; married Jean Flakemore at Hobart in 1927; died at Cygnet in 1966), Alfred Sinclair (1905-1905), twins Jack (1906-1963) and Bert (1906; married Vera Stevens at Cygnet in 1928; died in 1969) and Frank (1907-1967). Margaret Askey died at Hobart 24 December 1940, aged 62. Alfred Askey died at Cygnet 15 May 1954, aged 83. They were buried in the Methodist cemetery at Cygnet.
ASPIN/ASPEN The convict James Aspen (c.1822-1880) was tried at Salford, Lancashire, in England in 1841 and transported in 1842. He married Jane Pollard in 1865 and died in Port Cygnet in 1880.
ATKINS The convict Richard Atkins (1806-1857) was tried at the Aylesbury Quarter Sessions, Buckinghamshire, 18 October 1842 and sentenced to 15 years. He died in Port Cygnet in 1857 aged 44.
BABINGTON Mabel Babington born to John and Mary Babington in 1884.
BACON Joseph Henry Bacon married Susan Ann Morley. Children: Joseph Henry (1883-1960), Samuel (c.1886-1972), William Pampiel (1887-1980), Martha (1889-1919), Charlotte (1891-1919), Daniel (1894-1975), Robert Charles (1897-1965), Ellen Mary (1899-1980) and John (1902-1964). Sarah Ann Bacon died at the Infirmary in Newtown in 1925. Joseph Bacon died in 1934. Charlotte Bacon married Julian Stevens at the Catholic Presbytery in 1908. Martha Bacon married John Dillon in 1914. Daniel Bacon married Lucy Collins at St. Mark's in 1916. Ellen Bacon married James Synnott in 1923.
BADGER/BADJA The convict Henry Badger (c.1819-?) was convicted at the Warwick Assizes, England, 25 March 1846 and sentenced to 10 years for burglary. Henry Badga and Calania Hutton had a son Henry in 1856.
BAINE Maurice Baine and Ann Fitzgerald had a daughter Sarah Baine in 1869.
BAKER James Baker rented a house and land on 26 acres from John McConnell at Port Cygnet (VR58). Twenty-three convicts had the name James Baker.
Aged 27, Rufus Spencer Baker (born at Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, in 1824) married Sarah Ann Tindall, aged 22, in Hobart in 1852. He later married Caroline Ann O'Brien (see below): Mary (1861; married Louis Felix Reymond in South Australia in 1881), Caroline Ann Jane (1863; married Robert Jenneson, South Australia, in 1881; died in Victoria in 1945), Rufus Spencer Edward (1865-1865), Harriet (1866; married William Henry Newton in South Australia in 1885; died in Victoria in 1931), Rufus Spencer Edward (1868-1869), Florence Eva (1869; married Frederick William Hunter in South Australia in 1893; died in Melbourne in 1950), Jessie Elizabeth (1873-1875) and Josephine Lucy (1876, Port Adelaide, S.A.; married Charles Edward Swainson in South Australia in 1907; died in Victoria in 1945). R.S. Baker lived at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Caroline Baker died at Broken Hill in 1900. Rufus Baker died at Port Augusta, SA, in 1892.
BAKEY Michael Bakey (c.1809-1887) was tried in Co. Clare in 1849. Aged 50, he married Sarah Oakford, aged 17, in 1869. He died in Port Cygnet in 1887, aged 86. Mary Bakey died in 1877, aged 7.
BALDWIN John Baldwin (1838-1922) married Sarah Rachel Coventry (1844-1924) in 1862 at Wattle Grove. Children: John (1864-1948), Eli (1866-1959), Herbert (1868-1948), Ruth (1870-1954), William (b.1874) and Esther (1877-1928). John Baldwin was a farmer at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT).
John Baldwin married Rose Ann Grace Thomas. Children: Roy Bernard (1909, Woodbridge)
Eli Baldwin married Matilda 'Lily' Norris (1870-1958) in 1893 and they lived at Wattle Grove. Two children: Pearl Gladys (1896-1992) and Lauren "Gean" (1904; married Albert Morris; died in 1989).
Herbert Baldwin married Rose Isabella Hosking and they lived at Wattle Grove. Children: Joyce Muriel (1900), Elvie Myra (1901), Herbert Bertram (1905).
William Baldwin married Ada Coventry. Children: Gwendoline Grace Millicent (1902, Woodbridge), Mavis Tessa (1907, Woodbridge), Averil Saida (1910, Woodbridge), Keith William Trevor (1912, Woodbridge), twins Percy Elliston and Maxwell John (1914, Woodbridge).
Esther Baldwin married Arthur Jennings.
BALFE J.D. Balfe (1816-1880) J.P. and M.H.A. arrived in VDL in October 1850 from Ireland on board the Australasia with his wife Mary Balfe, née O'Reilly. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.45). He owned and lived at "Cloghrea," Cradoc Road near Port Cygnet, on 150 acres (VR58). He leased a house and land from Ellen O'Reilly of Lisadern on 320 acres on the Huon River (VR62). He lived at Cradoc Hill in 1867 (MDT). He married Mary O'Reilly in Co. Meath, Ireland. Children: Mary (1856), Edgar Oscar (1860), Frances Melvira St. Clare (1862). Frances Meliore St. Clare Balfe married John G. Edwards at Holy Trinity Church, Westbury, in 1900. Children: Oscar (1903, Hobart). Harold Oscar Vincent August Balfe married Elfeida Horne at Matlock, Glebe Town, in 1912. Children: John Donellan Balfe (1912, Hobart), Peter Donellan Balfe (1919, Hobart). Eric John Donellan Balfe married May McCann at the Wesley Church, Hobart, 1926. Mary Balfe died in Hobart in 1902. Eric Oscar Balfe married Gertrude E. Duke. Children: Mary (1902, Launceston), Josephine (1905, Trevallyn). J.D. Balfe died in Hobart in 1880, aged 64. Entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
BALL Samuel Ball was a military pensioner. He and Mary Harwood had a son Albert Ball, born in 1857. He owned a farm and house on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58).
BANWELL/BAMWELL/BENWELL John Banwell (1821-1861) was tried at the Warwicksire Assizes 24 March 1841 and sentenced for 15 years. He arrived on the David Clarke and sought permission to marry Christina Douglas in 1848 and Mary Webb (free) in 1855. He is listed as Henry Benwall in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.30). He married Mercy Webb in 1855. Children: John Thomas (1857), Sarah Ann (1859), Harriet (1860). He died in 1861, aged 45. "Mercy Benwell" leased a farm on 200 acres from Mrs. Thomas (VR62). Marcella Banwell married John Hoare at Franklin in 1865. Marcella Hoare died at Derwent Park in 1925, aged 85.
BARNES/BARNS/BARRINS Patrick Barnes (c.1846-1906) and John Barnes (c.1844-1902) were sons of the convicts Patrick Barnes (from Dublin, transported on board the Lord Auckland in 1846) and Anne Barnes, from Dublin, transported on board the John Calvin in 1848). They accompanied their mother and arrived 18 May 1848. They were sent to the Queen's Orphanage in Hobart. Aged 29, Patrick Barnes married Alice Rachel Andrews (the daughter of John Andrews - see above), aged 19, in 1875. Children: Martin (1874), Peter (1876), Ann Maria (1879), Ann (1881), William (1885; married Myrtle Giblin in 1910), Priscilla (1893), George (1886), David (1891; married Marie Mackey in 1920; died at Cygnet in 1925) and Susan (1894, Hobart). Another son was Patrick Francis Barnes. Patrick Barnes sen. committed suicide at Woodstock in 1906, aged 58. Anne Barnes married John Morrissey in 1854 and died after childbirth in 1860.
John Barnes married Catherine Leahy (the daughter of James Leahy and Honora Ryan) in 1876. Their children: Hannah Maria (1877, Port Cygnet), Honora Virginia Mary (1878, Gordon), Catherine Esther (1880, Gordon), John Andrew (1881, Gordon), Elizabeth Ada (1883, Hobart), James Patrick (1884, Port Cygnet), Angelina (1888, Hobart) and Thomas Wellington (1890, Hobart). John Barnes died at Queenstown in 1902, aged 58. He had been in the Police Force. Catherine Barnes died at Hobart in 1909, aged 54.
Patrick Francis Barnes married Alice Adelaide Giblin in 1901 at St. John's Church, Woodstock. Their children: Patrick (1902, Woodstock), George Samuel (1903, Woodstock), Kathleen Helen (1905, Woodstock; married William Graham), James Christopher (1907, Woodstock), Gladys "May" (1910, Woodstock; married Reg Holmes), Mary Priscilla (1912, Woodstock; married Alfred Vincent), Anne (1914, Pelverata; married Ron Harper), Elizabeth Alice (1915, Pelverata), Thomas David (1918) and Raymond. Alice Barnes died at Hobart in 1945, aged 64.
BARNETT Henry Barnett married Rebecca Cane in 1861. They had a son Charles in 1869. Henry Barnett and Fanny Henley had a son in 1916. Frances Louisa Barnett died in 1919.
BARRON Michael Barron was a military pensioner. He owned a farm and house near Port Cygnet on 10 acres (VR58, 62). He died in 1864, aged 55. Susan Barron (aged 22) married Thomas Casey (aged 62) in 1871. Johanna Barron (aged 40) married Thomas Dolan (aged 57) in 1865.
BARRY Patrick Barry leased a cottage and farm on 20 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR62). Patrick Barry and Catherine Carthy had two sons (1860 and William, 1863). Four convicts had the name Patrick Barry.
BATCHELOR/BACHELOR James Batchelor (c.1816-1889) was tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing a donkey. He married Caroline England Elliott in 1846. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.104). He rented a farm on 5 acres from Henry Elliott at Lymington (VR58). He leased from R.S. Waterhouse of Hobart a house and land on 20 acres at Cradoc Road (VR62). He lived at Cradoc in 1867 (MDT). Children: George Benjamin (1848-1911), James Daniel (1851-1911), Eliza Jane (1852), Caroline Jane (1855-1855), Evangelina (1856-1856), Benjamin Frankland (1857-1857), Jabez (1858-1915), Alfred (1861), Mary (1863-1948), Frances Elizabeth (1865-1919), Martha "Anne" (1867-1940), William Henry (1869-1947) and Lilly Augusta (1871). Caroline Batchelor died in 1880. James Batchelor died in 1889. Caroline Elliott arrived with her parents (Samuel and Mary Elliott) and siblings Eliza, John and Betsy on board the William Metcalfe in January 1837.
BATGE/BETGE/BETZE/BATYE/BADGE Henry Clement Theodore Batge (c.1811-1896) rented a farm on 20 acres at Gardners Bay (VR58). Henry "Batzye" is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.40). He rented a farm on 30 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay in 1862 (VR62). He is listed as living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). His wife's name was Magdalene Dorothy Harten (1814-1898). Henry Batge died in 1896, aged 85. Magdalene Batge died in 1898, aged 85. Henry and Magdalene Batge were from Luneburg, Hanover, in Germany.
Charles Batge (c.1841-1906) married Margaret Cameron in 1869. Children: Henry Charles (1870-1951), Charles John (1872-1872), William (1873-1873), Elena Ellen (1874-1961), Herbert Edwin (1878-1962), Clement Arthur (1880-1881), Theodore (1882-1882), Grace Mable (1884-1887), Grace May (1885-1887), Mildred Lydia, called "Millie" (1888-1976) and Naomi Lillian Evangeline (1890-1977). Charles Batge died in 1906, aged 61. Margaret Batge died in 1938, aged 89. They were buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery, Cygnet.
Henry Batge married Susan Richardson in 1881. Children: Lilly (1882-1887), Alice "Rose" (1888-1970) and Henry "Horace" (1892-1965).
BEARD Edward Beard and Anastasia O'Brien had a daughter Alice Beard in 1871.
BEDDOME Richard B. Beddome (c.1867-1954) married Jane Aileen Judge in 1891. Children: Bert Charlesworth. The family lived at Cradoc in 1914. He died at Hobart in 1954. Aileen Beddome died in 1949.
BEECHEY William Henry Beechey (1842-1934) was born at O'Brien's Bridge (Glenorchy) 11 February 1842. He was the son of Thomas Beechey (10 January 1802, Sydney - 25 August 1869, Franklin) and Jane Pickett (c.1800, Hawkesbury, NSW - 2 January 1853, NSW), who married 14 July 1823 in Hobart. The Beechey family was from Farringdon in Berkshire, England. Thomas and Jane Beechey went to Victoria in the early 1850s to take part in the gold rush. Jane Beechey died near Ballarat in 1853. Thomas Beechey and his family later settled at Franklin. William Beechey married Jane Isaacson at Geeveston 17 October 1866. Children: Emily Ann (1868; married Thomas Harrison at Fingal in 1889; died in 1938), George Henry (1870-1942), William Edward (1873-1949), Thomas Richard (1876-1964, Victoria), Edward James (1877), Annie Maria (1878; married Thomas Townsend), Mary Ann (1880-1961), Alfred Ernest (1882-1958). After 1882 William Beechey spent eight years mining on the NW coast. He moved to Cradoc c.1890. Jane Beechey died at Cradoc 22 June 1924, aged 76. W.H. Beechey died at Hobart 11 July 1934, aged 92. He was buried at the Anglican cemetery in Franklin.
William Edward Beechey (1873-1949) married Mary Cross at Franklin in 1903. Children: Edward William (1904, Cradoc; married Elvie Jean Woolley at Ranelagh in 1928; died in 1969), Walter Thomas (1905; married Mary Cecilia Howard; died in 1934), Mabel Jane (1907, Cradoc; married Jack Tregallis and lived in Victoria; died in 1993), Frederick Albert (1913; married Gwen Welling; died in 1986) and Ivy Annie (1914; married George Bell). Mary Beechey died at Cradoc 18 July 1928. William Beechey later married Rose May Field. He died at Hobart 23 February 1949.
George Henry Beechey (1870-1942) married Amy Isabel Bird at Franklin in 1904. Children: James Henry (1904, Cradoc; married Alice Grey; died in 1973), William Alfred (1906, Cradoc; married Pat Doyle; married Agnes May Sheehan; died in 1963), Mary Ann (1908, Cradoc; died from burns in 1912), Tasman George (1910 Cradoc; married Lily McMullen; died in 2004), Alfred Thomas (1912, Cradoc; married Margaret Frances Sullivan; died in 1989), Edward Charles (1914, Cradoc; married Olive Silver), Leslie John (1917, Cradoc; married Kathleen Morrison; died in 2005), Vera Grace (1919, Cradoc; married Leslie Bridges; died in 1984), Edna (1926; married Colin Doyle).
Annie Maria Beechey (1878) married Thomas James Townsend at Huonville in 1910. (See below)
Mary Ann Beechey (1880-1961) married the widower William Jones Tomkinson at Franklin in 1903. (See below).
BELL John Mathew Bell (c.1854-1935) was the son of John Bell (c.1827, Co. Antrim, Ireland-1915) and Margaret Holmes (1829-1878). John Bell (1827-1915) arrived in Hobart 27 January 1857 on board the Great Tasmania with his wife and three children: Thomas, Margaret and John Mathew. He married Sarah Rourke in 1878. Children: Thomas James (1879-1947), Margaret (1880, Hobart), Robert (1881-1956), William Arthur (1882-1964), Mathew Richard (1884), Mary Jane (1886-1956), John Andrew (1889-1916), Ambrose (1892-1892) and James Hilary (1894-1927). Sarah Bell died in 1917 and was buried in St. James Cemetery. John Bell died in 1935. John Bell (c.1827-1915) was the son of the convict John Bell (1799-1878) who was tried in Co. Antrim 30 March 1844 and aged 45 sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing oats. He was tried with his son James Bell, aged 18. They arrived on board the Emily 30 October 1844. Margaret Bell, the wife of John Bell, arrived in VDL on board the Anne Thompson 22 April 1851 and the following children: Sarah, Robert, Thomas, William and Margaret.
John Bell married Ivy Pierce at SHC in 1915. Mary Jane Bell married Adolphus Ambrose Holloway in 1905. Margaret Bell married James McNamara at St. James Church, 1905. Robert Bell married Amy Cowmeadow at SHC in 1912. William Bell married Alma Dance at the SHC in 1917. James Bell married Bridget Downham at the SHC in 1922. Ivy Bell née Pierce married John Mundy in 1923. Marguerite Bell married Colin Delaney in 1930.
BENBOW Sarfield Alexander Benbow and Mary Ann Bones had a daughter Ethel in 1893. Sarfield A. Benbow died in Hobart in 1913 and Mary Ann Benbow in 1921 (death notices Mercury).
BENDER Arthur Leonard Bender (1871, Bream Creek-1960, Hobart) married Annie Caroline Wagner (1877-1959) at Woodsdale in 1898. They lived at Lower Wattle Grove in 1914 and 1919. Children: Nellie (1901), Alfred "Gordon" (1904, Woodsdale), Mabel (1907, Woodsdale; died at Wattle Grove in 1920), Lila Alice (1912, Cygnet).
BENNETT Richard Bennett (c.1829-1895), the son of James and Jemima Bennett of Cradley in Worcestershire, was tried at the Worcester Quarter Sessions 31 December 1849 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for killing a sheep. His background. He arrived in Hobart 9 December 1852 on board the Lady Montagu. He leased a hut and land on 20 acres at Port Cygnet from James McConnell. He is listed as living at Nicholls Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Aged 45, he married Margaret Baker (aged 46) in 1874 and died 1895, aged 69. Margaret Bennett was tried in Co. Galway 30 October 1847 and sentenced to 7 years for larceny. She was transported under the name Margaret Larkin (married to John Larkin in Co. Galway) and her maiden name was Gelan. She married the convict James Baker (per Ratcliffe) in Hobart in 1852. James Baker committed suicide by taking poison in 1872, aged 42. Margaret Bennett died in Hobart in 1911.
Lucas Bennett leased from J.H. Walter a hut and farm on 30 acres at Wattle Grove. He died in 1865, aged 43.
James Bennett married Lucy Ellen Welling at Cradoc in 1902. Children: Keith (1902, Ranelagh-1986), Daisy Hart (1904, Ranelagh; married Studley Chisholm Townsend at Cradoc in 1922), Freda Doris (1905, Ranelagh-1905), Dallas Trevor (1908, Cradoc-1965), Maxwell (1914, Cradoc-1914), Doris Merle (1919, Cradoc; married E. Rowe) and Leila "Grace" (1922; married Eric Direen; died in 2009). In 1914 James (a farmer) and Lucy Bennett lived at Cradoc. James Bennett died at Cradoc 1 November 1947. Lucy Bennett died 28 November 1959. They were buried at the Cradoc cemetery.
BENSON Thomas Benson (c.1818-1887) arrived from Co. Limerick as a convict in 1843. He was sentenced for 7 years for malicious assault, 11 March 1843. He was detained at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 15 April 1843, awaiting transportation. In 1862, he leased a farm on 20 acres at Glazier's Bay from James McLaren. He owned 60 acres of bushland at Bedford (VR62). He is listed as a farmer at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He married Honorah Donohoe in Hobart in 1850. Two children: Joseph Benson (1855-1935) who married Mary Hassett (1865-1936) (12 children) and Hanorah Benson (1858-1884) who married John Armstrong (c.1854-1925). Joseph and Mary Benson were buried at St. James Cemetery. Charlotte Benson married Philip Grace in 1911. Kathleen Benson married William Grace in SHC in 1918. Molly Benson married Denis John Direen in 1927.
BERRY William "Herbert" James Berry (1881-1960) married Emily Maida May, called "Emma" Cowen at Gardner's Bay in 1907. He was a miner at Gardner's Bay in 1910. They lived at Gardner's Bay. Children: Percy Herbert (1906; married Jean Mavis Coad; died in 1982), Iris Freda (1907; married William Armstrong in 1924; died in 1972), William George, called "Nat" (1910; married Elizabeth Wass; died in 1985), Daphne May (1911; married Charles Alfred Cockshutt at Cygnet in 1929), Lucy "Eunice" (1913-1913), Joyce Maud (1914; married Oscar Hawes; married Paul Davies), Ruby Gwendoline (1917; married Harry Batchelor; died in 1990), Lawrence Edward (1921; married Anne Direen in 1945; died in 1998), Vera "Dawn" (1925; married Herbert "Bert" Hilary Direen; died in 2001), Phyllis Fay (1927; married James Coad in 1947; died in 2001) and Stanley William (1930; married Patricia Jennings). He died at Gardner's Bay 29 May 1960. Emma Berry died in 1972.
BETHEL/BETHELL/BETHILL Michael Bethell (c.1829-1884) was tried in Co. Clare 16 June 1849 and sentenced for 10 years' transportation for cow stealing. He married Ann Theresa McArdel in 1856. Children: John (1856-1857), James (1858-1918), Michael John (1860), Mary Anne (1861-1947), Robert (1863), Margaret (1865-1919) and Thomas (1869). Michael Bethell is listed as living at Cradoc Hill in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1884, aged 57. Anne Teresa Bethell died in Cygnet in 1903.
BINGHAM Albert Arthur Bingham (c.1874-1947) was Council Clerk at Port Cygnet from 1908 until 1921. He became Council Clerk at Gormanston in 1921 until his death. He married Kate Elizabeth Hardiman at St. Mary's Cathedral, Hobart, in 1905. Children: Hubert Charles (1905), Patrick James (1907), John Bernard (1909), Betty (1910), Marie (1912), Francis (1914), Errol Hardiman (1915), Paul Gregory (1917-1918) and Paula Rachel Pamela (1919). He died at Queenstown 12 May 1947, aged 73.
BIRCH Edwin Birch and Margaret Farnie had a daughter Elizabeth in 1858.
BIRCHALL Ann Birchall died in 1898, aged 83 (death notice Mercury). She was born in 1816, the daughter of James Garth and Mary Bellette.
BIRD James Bird (aged 43) married Agnes Holland (aged 26) in 1874. They had children until 1885. In 1895, Agnes Bird married again - John Dooley.
BLACK George Black was tried at Aberdeen in Scotland in 1850 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing sugar. Aged 28, he married Sarah McGuinness, aged 25, at Franklin in 1862. Children: Ann (1863, Cradoc), John (1864, Cradoc), Mary Ann (1866). George Black is listed as living at Huon Hill in 1867 (MDT).
BLACKLOW James Edmund Blacklow (1849-1917) was born at Brighton in 1849. He was the son of John Blacklow (1812, Brighton-1881, Brighton) and Eliza Jane Davis (1816, Hobart-1889, Pontville). He married Eliza Irvine Fergisson (1849, Hobart-1914) at Hobart in 1876. Eliza Blacklow died at Cygnet in 1914, aged 64. James Blacklow died at Hobart in 1917, aged 67 and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery. James Blacklow and his following children lived at Cygnet in 1914: Edmund Herbert (b.1879, Hobart; married Florence Elwell in 1909), Norman Fergusson (1882, Brighton; married Louisa Helen Mainwaring in 1916; died in France 15 April 1917), Roy O'Donohoo (1886, Brighton), Olive Edith Isabella (1887, Hobart; married William Finan in 1922), William Edward Meredith (1890, Hobart; WWI; died at Hobart 8 October 1919), Amy "Ruby" (1892, Hobart; married George Henry Henley at Cygnet in 1916). Derwent James Blacklow and Florence Mary Blacklow also lived there in 1914. The grandfather of James E. Blacklow was John Blacklow, born at Edinburgh, Scotland, 7 December 1782, who married Ruth Rebecca Thompson at Hobart in 1808 and who died at Brighton in 1812, aged 29.
BLACKMORE Arthur Blackmore and Florence Robertson had a son in 1888.
BLADES John Blades (c.1826-1899) was born at Boston in Lincolnshire. He was convicted at the York Assizes 6 December 1845, aged 19, and given a life sentence for highway robbery. He leased a farm and house at Culloden Jetty, Port Cygnet on 10 acres (VR58). He leased a hut and garden on 2 acres at Lymington from F.J. Windsor (VR62). John Blades and Sophia Robley (free) sought permission to marry in 1855. They married in April 1855. Children: Mary Jane (1856-1920), Elizabeth Sarah (1857-1925), John (1858-1858), Mary Ann (1859-1919), Esther (1862-1923), John George (1864-1937), Henry (1869), James Frederick (1871-1935), Sophia Ellenor (1874), Frederick (1875-1907), Walter Albert (1877-1877) and Charles Robert (1879-1948). John Blades died at Battery Point in 1899. Sophia Blades died in Hobart in 1909 (death notice Mercury).
BLEEZE Mary Bleeze (née Walker) was born at Staveley, Derbyshire c.1803. She was tried at the Nottingham Town Quarter Sessions 14 July 1830. She arrived from Sydney in 1831 per the America. She married Thomas Cowen in 1836 (see below).
Charles Bleeze (the son of Mary Bleeze) arrived in Hobart Town with his mother in 1831 and was sent to the Queen's Orphanage in Hobart Town. He rented a farm of 20 acres at Culloden Point from Anne Mead of Sandy Bay (VR58, 62). He also rented a house and farm of 40 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Port Cygnet (VR62). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Children of Charles Bleeze and Bridget Madden: John (1856), Mary (1858) and Patrick (1861-1945). Mary Bleeze (aged 22) married Roderick Fitzpatrick from Franklin (aged 35) in 1879. Charles Bleeze died in Hobart in 1904, aged 77 (death notice Mercury). Bridget Bleeze died in Hobart in 1899, aged 69 (death notice Mercury).
BLUNDSTONE Bernard Walter Blundstone (1868-1936) married Gladys Gordon in 1913. He was a mail contractor at Cygnet from 1914 until 1928. He died at Sandy Bay in 1936.
BOLGER/BOLGES/BULGER Patrick Bolger married Ellen Kelly (aged 17), the daughter of the convict Laurence Kelly, at St. Joseph's, Hobart, in 1853. He is listed living in Hobart in 1854 (letter published in the Mercury 8 July 1854). In 1874 he owned a house and land (218 acres) at Port Cygnet; He died in 1879, aged 65. Buried at St. James Cemetery. Born in Co. Wexford in Ireland. (Death notice in the Mercury of "Patrick Bolges"). Ellen Bolger married Richard Howard in 1880. She died in 1921 in Hobart.
BOLAND James Boland was a military pensioner and owned a farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet, Port Cygnet (VR58). John Bolland died in 1859, aged 47.
BONES/BONE James Bones (c.1821-1899) was convicted at the Kent Assizes 11 March 1844 and sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing three sacks of oats value £2 from Mr. Benstead at Wormsley. He had a previous sentence of 11 months for desertion from the 88th Regiment. He married Mary "Ann" Cowen (1834-1927) had children in the 1860s and 1870s. James Bones is listed as living at Gardners Bay in 1867 (MDT).
William Bone (b.1853) and Emily Schreiber (1861-1891) married in 1879 and had children. James Bone (1850-1935) and Sarah Jane Lancaster (1854-1934) had children in the 1880s. James and Sarah Bone buried at St. Mark's Cemetery. Richard Bone (1859-1901) and Elizabeth Lockley (1861-1913) married in 1881 and had children. Thomas Bone (1855-1932) and Charlotte Sculthorpe (1858-1920) married in 1880 and had children until 1901. William Bone and Elvia Priest had triplets in 1900 and a son in 1902. Patience Victoria Bones married Edward Dillon in 1904.
BONHAM Joseph Bonham (c.1827-1880) leased a hut and farm on 15 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay (VR62). Aged 29, he married Dorothea Batge (aged 16) in 1858. He is listed as a farmer at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). The children of Joseph and Dorothea Bonham: Magdalena (1860-1948), Elizabeth (1870-1946), Henry (1873-1898), Agnes (1877-1944) and Mary (1880-1880). Joseph Bonham died at Hobart in 1880, aged 53.
BOSE/BOOSIE/BOOSY Christian Bose (c.1817-1874) was from Holstein in Germany. His wife's name was Christina. The family arrived on board the Lewe Van Nyenstein from Hamburg 27 January 1857. He owned a farm of 100 acres at Wattle Bay, Huon River (VR58,62). He rented a farm on 7 acres at Wattle Grove (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1874, aged 58. John Marens Bose, the son of Christian and Christina Bose, died of TB at Port Cygnet in 1870, aged 22. Christina Bose married Paul Peters in Hobart in 1879. She died at Mount Stuart in 1904.
BOWDEN Frank Prosser Bowden (aged 37) married Grace Hill (aged 18) in 1892. Their son Frank was born in 1893.
BOWEN Thomas Bowen (c.1816-?) was convicted at Shrewsbury in Shropshire 24 July 1841 and sentenced for life. In 1846, he was hired by James Spencer at Port Cygnet and in 1849 he was hired by Matthew Fitzpatrick in Port Cygnet. According to the 1851 census, he lived at Lymington.
BOWERMAN Douglas Albert, called "Jack" Bowerman (c.1887-1970) married Blanche E. Hawkes at Hobart in 1913. Blanche Bowerman died in 1958, aged 83. Jack Bowerman died in 1970, aged 83, and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
BOWES William Kerine Bowes (1875-1955), the son of John and Annie Bowes, South Franklin, married Ethel Jean Taylor (the daughter of Robert S. Taylor, librarian, Queenstown) at Port Cygnet in 1908. Children: Telford Kerine (1909-1992, Bentleigh, Victoria), Aileen Mary (1910-1985), Elizabeth Jean "Sr. Imelda" (1915-1985) and William Donal (1917-1937, aged 20). Ethel Bowes died at Cygnet in November 1928 and was buried at St. James cemetery. William Bowes died at Roger River 31 January 1955.
BOWLAND John Bowland rented a farm on 5 acres at Foster's Rivulet, Lymington (VR58). John Bowland and Bridget Flynn had a son Daniel in 1859 who lived for 6 months.
BOWLER The daughter of the convict Sarah Winchester (c.1803-1876) applied to marry John Bowler (free) in 1852. Aged 45, the mother was tried in Co. Armagh 7 July 1848 and sentenced to 7 years for larceny. They married in Hobart in 1852. Sarah Bowler (aged 75) died in Port Cygnet in 1876. John Bowler (aged 55) married Margaret Charlton (aged 56) in 1880. Margaret Bowler died at Gordon in 1901.
BOWMAN Richard Bowman was tried at the Old Bailey in London, aged 16, 29 November 1832 and was transported for stealing a handkerchief. He was assaulted and stabbed at Port Cygnet in 1860. He is listed as a farmer living at Lymington in 1867 (MDT).
BOYLE/BOIL/BOYD/BOYL/O'BOYLE/BOYES John Boyle (1830s-1877) leased from Thomas Inches of Hobart a house and farm on 40 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR58,62). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He married Catherine Sullivan at Hobart in 1859. Children: twins Mary (1860-1860) and Bridget (1860-1881), Mary Teresa (1862; married Johannes "Eric" Kronman at Hobart in 1890 [who died in 1907]; married Peter Johnson in 1917; died at Hobart 21 September 1940), Ellen (1864; unmarried; died at Slab Road, Cygnet, 4 April 1943; buried at St. James cemetery), John Thomas (1866; unmarried; died at Hobart 15 June 1946, aged 80; buried at St. James cemetery), Catherine (1868; married Patrick F. Dwyer in 1887; died in 1896, aged 28) and Michael (1872; married Margaret Scalon at Cygnet in 1908). Patrick Kilmartin and Catherine Boyle had a daughter Elizabeth in 1884, who married Walter Parry at Cygnet in 1916, and who died in 1955. Elizabeth Boyle charged John Sullivan, aged 45, with child desertion 31 March 1909 (POL541/1/1). John Boyle sen. died of T.B. in 1877, aged 45. Catherine Boyle died at Woodcock Road near Cygnet in 1910. In 1914, Elizabeth, Ellen and John Thomas Boyle lived at Cygnet.
Mary and Eric Kronman, children: Eric, Frank and Olga Kronman.
Percy Andrew Boyle, the son of Michael and Margaret Boyle, married Gladys May Bridges (from Nicholls Rivulet) at Hobart in May 1927. Gladys Boyle died at Hobart in October 1927, aged 23 and was buried at St. James cemetery. Percy Boyle was also buried at St. James cemetery (date of death unknown).
BRADY Francis Tasman Brady (1851-1933) was the son of John Brady (c.1825-1857) and Ellen Fitzpatrick (c.1827-1883). He married Mary Jane Hill at Franklin in 1874. Born in 1851, Mary Hill was the daughter of Patrick Hill (c.1817-1897) and Catherine White (c.1811-1879). The children of Francis and Mary Brady: Philip Patrick Joseph (1875-1949), Lilian Mary Virginia (1877-), Kathleen Winifred Mary (1880-), all born at Franklin and John Edwin (1883-1955), Lucy Mabel Agatha (1885-1942) and Ellen "Theresa" (1891-1982), all born at Garden Island Creek. In 1914 Francis and Mary Brady lived at Garden Island Creek as did their children John (a labourer) and Kathleen. Mary Brady died at Garden Island Creek 17 September 1923. Francis Brady died at Garden Island Creek 4 April 1933. They were buried at St. James cemetery.
BRANCH George Henry Branch (1872, Bothwell-1946, Hobart) married Margaret Doran in 1904 at St. James church. Children: Thomas "Douglas" (1905-1946; buried at St. James cemetery), George Basil (1907-1920), Francis Augustus (1910). He was a blacksmith at Cygnet in 1914. He died at Hobart in 1946, aged 74, and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
BRASILL/BRASSLEY/BRASSELL/BRASEL/BRAZIL/BRASSIL/BRASSALL/BRAZZELL Patrick Brasill, aged 27, was convicted in Co. Clare 11 July 1846 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for receiving stolen goods. Patrick Brassil and Margaret Lawler (free) sought to marry in 1853. Children: twins Daniel (1854-1864) and John (1854-1877), Michael (1856-1916), Patrick (1859-1863), Maria Anna (1862-1938), Josephine (1865-1944), Theresa (1870-1955). Patrick Brassall is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.29). Patrick Kerwick Brazill died in Hobart in 1895, aged 87. Margaret Brazil died in Hobart in 1878, aged 43. Michael Brasill married Rose Anna O'Sullivan; Maria Brazil married Joseph Bowman; Theresa Brazil married Joseph Benjamin.
BRATT James Bratt (c.1860-1917) married Elizabeth Mary Johnston at Hobart in 1881. They moved to Cradoc in the late 1890s. Children: James John (1882, Hobart; married Eileen Duggan at Cygnet in 1916), Charlotte Amy Mary, called "Ciss" (1883, New Norfolk; married William Bender at Cradoc in 1903), Mabel May (1885, New Norfolk; married Henry Miller in 1918), Edith Marie (1889, New Norfolk; married Wesley Dove in 1917), Sydney Robert George (1891, Franklin), Aubrey Stanley (1894, Franklin), Eunice Octavia (1895, Franklin; married Reuben Gilles Peters in 1914), Female (1898-1898, Port Cygnet) and Eva Bona (1899, Port Cygnet; died at Battery Point in 1926, aged 26). James Bratt died at Hobart 7 March 1917, aged 57. Elizabeth Bratt died at New Town (in her bath) 20 April 1929, aged 74. Article in the Mercury about her death 22 April 1929. They were buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
The children of James J. Bratt and Eileen Winifred Duggan born at Cradoc: Eva Winifred Lily (1917), Clyde James (1918), Winifred Nellie (1919) and Reginald John.
BRENNAN Robert Brennan (c.1889-1947) lived in Zeehan before moving to Port Cygnet. He played for the Lovett football team as early as 1912. He is listed on the electoral rolls living at Cygnet between 1914 and 1943. He married Bridget Ellen, called "Judy" Garth. Children: Lenna May (1916, Huonville; married Vernon Johnson; died in 2008). Ellen Brennan died at Hobart 18 March 1943, aged 45, and buried at St. James cemetery. He was killed by a fall of earth in a quarry at Glazier's Bay 14 March 1947, aged 58, and buried at St. James cemetery.
BRERETON/BREATON Two Breretons settled in Port Cygnet, Martin Brereton (c.1828-1912) and Denis Martin Brereton (c.1832-1903).
Martin Brereton, aged 24, and his wife Jane Healy (c.1835-1894), aged 19, arrived in Melbourne per the Kent in March 1854 (surname appears as "Brenton"). In July 1861 they moved to Tasmania per the City of Hobart with their five children (Catherine, Thomas, Ellen, Mary Theresa and Bridget). They had thirteen children in all. Jane Brereton died in Port Cygnet in February 1894. Martin Brereton then re-married. He married Agnes Margaret Sullivan, née Reardon in November 1894. Martin Brereton is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT).
Denis Brereton, aged 26, arrived in Melbourne as an assisted immigrant in April 1858 on board the Coldstream. In 1862, he leased a hut and farm on 20 acres at Glazier's Bay from Mrs. Gaylor in Hobart. In 1862, he married Mary Leahy (c.1833-1923) in Franklin. They had six children born in Port Cygnet from 1864-1876. Denis Brereton is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died in Hobart in 1903 (buried in St. James Cemetery; death notice in the Mercury) and Mary Brereton died in Lymington in 1923, aged about 90 (death notice in the Mercury).
James Brereton is listed as a farmer at Garden Island Creek in 1867 (MDT).
BRIDGES William John Bridges (c.1881-1947) married Florence Susan Nichols at Glenora in 1902. Children: William John (1903, Bushy Park-1905), Gladys May (1905, Bushy Park; married Percy A. Boyle in Hobart in 1927; died in Hobart in 1927, aged 23), Ella Viola (1907, Bushy Park; married Eric Lawler; died in 1982), Jack Alfred (1908, Bushy Park), Stella (1909, Bushy Park; married John Baden Pregnell at St. Mark's Cygnet in 1930; died in 1979), Ralph George (1911, Glenora; died in 1991), Owen James (1912, Bushy Park), Joseph Frederick (1914, Lymington; married Eileen Joyce Coad in 1937; died in 2001), Harold Bertram (1916, Cygnet; died in 1985), Emma Susan, called "Dolly" (1919, Nicholls Rivulet; married Francis McIrney), Leslie, called "Tom" (1922; married Grace Beechey; died in 1984), Ruth Elizabeth (married Kenneth McNamara) and Jean Clarice (c.1927; married Dennis Pearce; married Samuel Johnson; died in 2006). William Bridges died at Cygnet in 1947, aged 66. Florence Bridges died at Cygnet in 1948. They were buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
BRITTAIN James Brittain (1824-1897) was the son of William Brittain and Ann Leader. He was born at New Norfolk in 1824. He married Margaret McKay at Port Cygnet in 1848. Margaret Brittain died in 1860. He then married Sarah Simmonds at Flight's Bay in 1860. Children: William James (1863, Esperance; died 1863), James (1865-1865), Mary (1866-1866), James Richard (1869), Mary Ellen (1871-1892), William Henry (1872), Edmund (1874-1968), Richard (1875), John (1876-1876), George (1877), Mary (1878), Harriet (1880-1880) and Clara Isabella (1881). James Brittain died in 1897, aged 72. Sylvia Brittain died in 1921. Alan Brittain died in 1929. Richard Brittain and Adelaide Bones had children: Harry (1910, died) and Clara (1914).
BROOKS Charles Brooks (c.1822-1858) was transported under the name Robert Hardista. He was tried at Perth in Scotland in 1842. He married Mary Ann Campbell in 1852. He accidentally died in 1858, aged 34. Mary Brooks owned a farm on 10 acres at Port Cygnet (VR62). She later married James Cunningham. Mary Cunningham died at Port Cygnet in 1897, aged 84.
BROUGH James Brough (1821-1875) was from Shelton in Staffordshire. He was tried at the Stafford Quarter Sessions 8 April 1845 and sentenced to 7 years for stealing bread and cheese. He left London 5 July 1845 and arrived in Hobart 15 October 1845. He applied to marry the convict Susan McArdle 16 October 1849. They married at St. George's Battery Point in 1849. Susan McArdle, aged 16, was tried in Co. Down 21 January 1846 and sentenced to 7 years for larceny. She left Dublin 22 Nov. 1846 and arrived in Hobart 25 February 1847 on board the Arabian. In 1858 James Brough owned a house and farm (27 acres) at Agnes Rivulet. Two children: Mary Ann (1851-1943) and James Henry (c.1856-1921). James Brough died at Ballarat in 1875. Susan Brough then married Thomas Leach in Victoria in 1876. Susan Leach died at Kew in 1900.
BROWN Two convicts, Elijah Brown and Joseph Brown were tried at the Cambridge Assizes 20 March 1844 and sentenced for 15 years. They left Woolwich 9 June 1844. Both left Norfold Island in December 1846 for Hobart and both applied to bring out their families from England. Elijah's sister Eliza Brown arrived in 1853 and married James Mansfield. Their children were born at Franklin. Elijah had a brother Isaac Brown (bapt. 1823-1903). Isaac Brown leased from Elijah Brown of Franklin the New Inn Hotel and farm on 50 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR62). He is listed with Charles Brown as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Thomas Brown and Eliza Batchelor had two children (1884 and 1890). Eliza Brown died in 1905 in Port Cygnet (death notice Mercury). Cyclopedia of Tasmania: "Isaac Brown was a native of Cambridgeshire, England, and was born in 1822 (Baptised 28 September 1823 at Isleham - IGI)." He was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Brown. The 1841 census for England lists Isaac Brown, aged 18, who lived at Isleham in Cambridgeshire with his father Robert Brown (aged 50), his mother Elizabeth Brown (aged 50), his brother Elijah (aged 20) and sisters Sarah (aged 15) and Eliza (aged 9). The 1851 census lists Isaac Brown (aged 27) employed as a carter and his wife Sarah Brown (aged 27) living in the parish of Isleham. Cyclopedia: "He was brought up to farming pursuits in the old country, and came to Tasmania in 1854 in the ship "Kingston." He immediately took up land in the Huon district, and as of 1900 had about 8 acres down in orchard. The homestead commanded an uninterrupted view of the river and district, and was situated on one of the healthiest spots in the Huon. Brown did a large trade in the nursery business previous to 1900, and never failed to obtain top market prices for his seedlings. He was married in 1844, in Cambridgeshire, to Sarah Cadman, and in 1894 they celebrated their golden wedding. (They were married 12 October 1843 at Isleham, Cambridgeshire - IGI). Mr. & Mrs. Brown, although both seventy-seven years of age in 1900, enjoyed almost perfect health". Arthur Brown died in 1918. Frederick and Eleanor Brown, née Richards had children: Clara (1907), Frederick (1909), Allen and Nellie (1910, both died) and Lily (1915). Frederick and Eleanor Brown buried at St. Mark's Cemetery. Isaac Brown died in Franklin in 1903 (death notice Mercury).
Frederick Brown married Eleanor Richards at Latrobe in 1897. Children: Herbert Bernard (1898-1898), Albert (1899-1979), Grace Carrick Victoria (1901-1996), Florence Edith "May" (1903-1995), Elsie "Ivy" (1904-1987), Vera (1905-2001), Clara (1907-1965), Frederick Joseph (1909-1974), twins Allen Herbert (1910-1911) and Nellie Violetta (1910-1911), Herbert Allan (1912-1932), Lily Jessie (1915-1982), twins Arthur Raymond (1918-1918) and James "Roy" (1918-2001).
BRYANT According to the 1851 Census, James Bryant lived at Irish Town. Eight convicts had the name James Bryant.
BURGE Nathaniel Burge (c.1825-1891) was convicted at the Wiltshire Assizes 3 March 1842 and sentenced for life. He leased from Owen Hickman of Sydney a hut and land on 150 acres at Gardners Bay (VR62). He is listed as a farmer at Gardners Bay in 1867 (MDT). He sought permission to marry the ex-convict Mary Ann Gaffney, née Wheatley in 1851. Mary Anne's first husband was the convict Michael Gaffney, transported on the Lord Auckland. She was tried and convicted with her husband 27 December 1848 at Co. Mayo, Ireland, for robbery. An illegitimate son, Nathan Gaffney, was born at the Female Factory in Hobart in 1851 - he died in 1918. She married Nathaniel Burge, a blacksmith, at St. George's Church of England at Battery Point in 1851. Children born after her marriage: George (c.1853-1933), William (1854-1927), James (1856-1910), a son stillborn in 1859, Frederick (1860), Catherine (1861), John Henry (1863-1911), Robert (1865-1866), Mary Ann Jane (1868) and Ellen (1869-1906). Nathaniel Burge jun. married Elizabeth Howell in 1886 and there were children. Catherine Burge married Patrick Kenna in 1883. Mary Ann Burge died of cancer in 1887, aged 53. Death notice in the Mercury for Mary Ann Burge (1887). Nathaniel Burge died in Sydney in 1891.
BURGESS The convict John Burgess (c.1814-1879) took out a timber licence at Petchey's Bay in 1841. He married Elizabeth Foreman (c.1831-1905) at Hobart in 1847. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.102). Family born at Franklin. Eleven convicts with the name John Burgess.
BURNABY Thomas Burnaby (1880-1974) married Alice Isabella Cawthorn (1886-1966) at Port Cygnet in 1909. They had a son, Richard Howarth Burnaby, born in Hobart in 1910. The family lived at Lymington in 1914. He was born at Oswestry, Shropshire, in England. He died in 1974, aged 94.
BURSLEM Francis Henry Burslem (born c.1805), aged 47, married Susan Fynes, aged 38, in Hobart in 1852. He owned a farm at Agnes Rivulet of 10 acres where he lived (VR58,62). His first wife, Susan Burslem, died in 1862, aged 52 (death notice Mercury). He married Ann Elizabeth Anderson and had a daughter in 1863 and another daughter, Elizabeth Ida, in 1864 (Hobart).
CAHILL John Cahill leased a farm and house on 35 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR58). He leased a farm and house on 17 acres at Glazier's Bay from Thomas Inches (VR62). He is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He married Mary Walsh. Children: John (1861) and James (1863). According to the 1890 PO Directory, John Cahill was a farmer. Seven convicts had the name John Cahill.
CAIRNS/CARANS/KERONS John Cairns leased a farm and a house on 5 acres at Glazier's Bay from Thomas Inches in Hobart (VR58,62).
James Cairns died in 1862, aged 22.
Mary Ann Cairns, the daughter of Thomas Cairns, died in 1874, aged 15. Thomas Kerons, aged 38 (born c.1822) married Hannah Leary, aged 27, in 1860 (Franklin). Children: Female (Victoria Huon, 1861), Catherine (Victoria Huon, 1862), Arthur (Victoria Huon, 1864), Margaret (1866). Thomas Carans died in 1875, aged 65.
Francis Anton Cairns (c.1879-1931) and his wife, Laura Edith Cairns née Bennett, lived at Cygnet in 1914. They married in Hobart in 1901. He played in the Lovett Brass Band in 1910. He died at Hobart 3 August 1931, aged 52, leaving his wife and 9 children. The family lived at 73 Argyle St., Hobart, and previously lived at Cygnet and Plenty. The youngest daughter, Mary, died at Hobart 2 October 1931, aged 13. He was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
CALDER/COLDER Patrick Calder (c.1828-1918) married Martha Bollard. Children: William (c.1858-1934), Patrick (c.1861-1940), Mary (c.1867-1942), Thomas (1869) and John (1872). Patrick, Martha, William and Patrick junior arrived on board the Chariot of Flame 25 September 1866. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Patrick Calder was a farmer and William Calder a contractor. Martha Calder died in 1916. Patrick Calder attempted suicide by cutting his throat at Silver Hill in July 1918. He died at New Norfolk in November1918, aged about 90.
William Calder married Hanorah Dwyer in 1885. Children: Patrick John, called "Jack" (1885-1909) and Elizabeth Mary (1891). Jack Calder died on the Waratah in 1909. Elizabeth Calder married Joseph Holloway in 1911. Mary Calder married Joseph Machin in 1894. Patrick Calder married Rachel Jane Blackall in 1899.
CALLAGHAN/CALAHAN/CALLIGHAN/CAHALAN Dennis Callaghan (c.1809-1897), born in Co. Cork, Ireland, was tried at Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, in August 1842 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation. He was a weaver by trade. He applied to lease 500 acres of Crown land in the Upper Huon in 1853 and was listed suffering damage valued at £70 in the January 1854 bushfires. He owned a hut and land on 107 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR62). He leased a farm on 240 acres at Roberts Bay on the Huon River valued at £48 a year in 1858. He is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He was tried for malicious assault and transported on the Duchess of Northumberland. According to the 1890 PO Directory; Denis Callahan was a farmer. He died in 1897 aged 88 and was buried in St. James Cemetery. He married Mary O'Brien (c.1814-1904). Mary Calahan died aged 90 and was buried in St. James Cemetery. They had five children: Bridget (1837-1930), Catherine (c.1841-1896), Daniel (born c.1850; died at Glaziers Bay in 1874, aged 23 and buried in St. James Cemetery), Mary (1854-1936), Ellen (born 1857). Mary Callaghan, née O'Brien arrived in Hobart with her two daughters Bridget and Catherine per the William Jardine in August 1849 from Clonakilty in Co. Cork. Bridget Callaghan married John Lawler at St. Joseph's, Hobart, in 1855. Catherine Callaghan married Michael Rabbitt (see below under "Rabbitt"). Death notices in the Mercury for Denis Cahalan (1897), Mary Calahan (1904) and Daniel Calahan (1874).
CAMPBELL Archibald Campbell (1801-1878) was born in Scotland and enlisted in the 96th Foot Regiment. He married Anna Fultz in 1830 in Canada. The children of Archibald and Anna Campbell: William Charles (1831), Mary Ann (1833-1919), Ann McGregor (1841-1896), Jane (1844-1921), Eleanor "Ellen" (1847-1928), William McGregor (1848-1908) and Emily Irving McGregor (1852-1913). Archibald Campbell was Headmaster at the Port Cygnet Public School from 1865 until his death in 1878, aged 78. Ann Campbell died in 1881, aged 70.
CANE The 1841 census for England lists Henry Cane (a tailor, aged 30), his wife Jane Paviour (aged 30) and their son Theophilas Cane (aged 1) living at Swan St. in the civil parish of St. Mary Newington, Brixton, Surrey. They married at Croscombe in Somerset, 30 March 1835. Henry Cane was the son of John Cane and Rebecca Gorthorn. Jane Paviour was born 21 March 1810 - IGI. Henry Cane (aged 40), his wife Jane Cane (aged 42) arrived in Melbourne on board the Washington Irving in December 1852 from England with their family: Jane (aged 15), Theophilus (aged 13), Rachel (aged 11), Rebecca (aged 8), Charles (aged 6), and Henry (aged 1). The family left Melbourne in July 1853 on board the Harriett Nathan for Hobart Town. Henry Cane is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.73). He owned a farm and hut at Port Cygnet on 10 acres (VR62). Henry Cane owned a farm and hut on 10 acres at Port Cygnet (VR62). Rachel Cane married Nathaniel B. Barnett at Port Cygnet in 1861. Rebecca Cane married Henry Samuel Barnet at Franklin in 1863. Henry Cane died at Franklin in 1866. Jane Cane died in 1893.
Theophilus Cane leased a shop and house on under 1 acre at Port Cygnet from Elijah Hedditch (VR62). He is listed as a storekeeper and postmaster at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). In 1861 at New Norfolk, he married Martha Frances Morey, the daughter of Dr. James Morey (marriage notice Mercury). Children: Florence Amelia Fanny (1862-1932), Miriam (1864-1934), Theophilus James (1866-1916), Rachel (1869-1873) and William Alfred (1874-1932).
James Cane (1873-1943) married Matilda Henzler at Franklin in 1902. Children born in Franklin until 1909, then at Cradoc: Clarice May (1903-1985), Douglas James, called "Sam" (1904-1979), Eileen Matilda (1905; married Mervyn Bower in 1946; died in 1996), Etta (1906), Francis Andrew (1908; married Rose Wallace in 1937; died in 1993), Mary Margaret (1909; joined the Sisters of Mercy, Sr. Alexis), John Cerold (1911, Cradoc Hill; married Lucy Voss in 1942; died in 1991), Agnes Mary Evelyn (1912, Cradoc; married Derrick Townsend in 1933; died in 1993), Allen Patrick (1914, Cradoc Hill; married Joyce O'Bryan in 1943; died in 1984), James Joseph (1915, Cradoc; married Alice Neven née Boldt in 1920; died in 2010), Henry Charles Edward (1920; married Lucy Cane née Voss), Cecilia Violet (1921; married Robert Holstein; died in 1994) and Elvie Coral (1924; married Reginald Herlihy; died in 1987).
CARENS Thomas Carens and Mary Fenn had a daughter Margaret in 1866.
CARNS John and Frances Carns had a daughter in 1883.
CARR Thomas Carr died in 1864, aged 74.
John Thomas Carr (1865, Co. Laois, Ireland-1935, Launceston) married Catherine Susannah Johnstone (1865-1931) at Belfast in the late 1880s. John Carr (a store manager), his wife and their second son, Henry Warren Carr (a catechist) lived at Port Cygnet in 1914. Aged 57, he was a manager at Cygnet in 1922. Catherine Carr died at Ross in 1931. He died at Launceston in 1935. Born in Ireland in 1892, Henry Carr moved to Sydney before 1915 where he married. He was ordained in 1917. He died in Sydney in 1969.
CARREY William Carrey and Jane Wilson had a son Henry in 1857. He owned a farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet, Port Cygnet.
CARROLL Frederick Charles Carroll (1883, Emu Bay-1958) married Florence Cecilia O'Callaghan. They had children at Beaconsfield, Evandale and Parattah between 1911 and 1919. The family moved to Cygnet in the early 1920s. Two sons, Thomas Henry Carroll (1911-1984, Melbourne) and John Carroll attended school in Cygnet. In 1922 Frederick Carroll was a constable at Cygnet.
CASEY Thomas Casey (c.1817-1888) was tried in Co. Cork and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for stealing a pistol and £21. He leased a farm from James Halton on 10 acres at Petchey's Bay (VR58,62) and is listed as living at Lymington in 1867 (MDT). In 1871, Thomas Casey (aged 62) married Susan Barron (aged 22). Three children: Mary Ann Jane (b.1872), Ellen (b.1875) and Thomas (1881-1947). Thomas Casey sen. died in 1888, aged 91. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Susan Casey was a farmer. Susan Casey and John Strong had a daughter, Mary Ann Strong, born 1891. Aged 42, Susan Casey married Samuel Challis, aged 39 in 1893. She died in 1927 (death notice Mercury).
John Casey (born Yarragon, Victoria 1893-1977) settled in the Cygnet area in 1914. He married Lily Frances Teresa Smith (1894-1972) in 1916, the daughter of Joseph Thomas Sears Smith, and granddaughter of Fanny Cochrane Smith. The children of John and Lily Casey: May Daphne (1916-2009), William Roy Ernest (1918-2006), Ivy Matilda (1919-2000), Leonard (1922-1922), Elsie Elizabeth (1924), Fay Frances (1927), Calvin Raymond John (1928), Leo Arthur Thomas (1930), Benjamin Walter George (1933-2003) and Doris Miriam (1935-1994).
CATO Samuel Joseph Cato (1848-1916) married Mary Coleman in 1877. The children of Samuel and Mary Cato: Una (1879-1950), Maida (1880-1958), Eda (1881-1967), Algernon (1883-1954), Hubert (1885-1918) and Kathleen (1886-1960). Samuel Cato died in 1916. Mary Cato died in 1917.
CAWTHORN/CAWTHORNE John Henry Cawthorn (1840-1929) married Martha Annie Cockerill (1841-1925) in 1870 (notice Mercury). They had nine children. Martha Cockerill, born in Bothwell, was the daughter of Henry Mylam Cockerill (1806-1873) and Eliza Vincent (1816, London - 1864, New Norfolk). John and Martha Cawthorn moved from Macquarie Plains to Wattle Grove in 1879.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania: John Henry Cawthorn was a native of Tasmania, having been born at Macquarie Plains in 1840, and was the eldest son of Henry David Cawthorn (and Ruth Fincher), and grandson of John Henry Cawthorn, who came to Tasmania in 1818 (on the Lord Melvill). He arrived with his wife Maria Milne, received a land grant of 1000 acres at Macquarie Plains and died in 1850 after a shooting accident.) He was educated at the late Mr. Robert Giblin's school, which was, as of 1900, Pressland House, Hobart, and on completing his studies went in for farming pursuits on his mother's property at "Arundel," Macquarie Plains.
Children of J.H. and Martha Cawthorn: John Henry Arundel Cawthorn (1870), William Saxby Vincent Cawthorn (1871-1925), George Francis Mylam Cawthorn (1873), Charles Frederick Rivers Cawthorn (1875-1966), Hilda Macquarie Cawthorn (1878-1882), Annie Louisa (1880-1968), Alfred Gower Cawthorn (1883-1915), Alice Isabella (1886-1966) and Claude Edwin Cawthorn (1888-1975). After 1879, the children were born at Wattle Grove.
John Henry Cawthorn died at Wattle Grove in 1929 (death notice Mercury). He was buried at St. Mark's Cemetery. Martha Anne Cawthorn died at Wattle Grove in 1925 (death notice Mercury).
CHADWICK Albert "Vincent" Chadwick (1892, Elsternwick, Victoria-1975) and his parents, Peter Robert Chadwick (1856-1922) and Rachel Chadwick (1858-1941) lived at Cygnet in 1914. He married Elsie May Turner (born at St. Helen's in 1898) at the Methodist Church in New Town in 1923. Their eldest son Peter Maxwell Chadwick, died at Hobart in 1938, aged 14, from a cricket ball injury. Other children: Dare, Ken, Geoff, William and Gwen.
CHALLIS/CHALIS William Challis (c.1816-1889) was tried at the Chelmsford Quarter Sessions in Essex 4 January 1842 and sentenced to 14 years' transportation. He owned a hut and land of 40 acres at Deep Bay (VR62). He is listed as living at Randall's Bay in 1867 (MDT). William Challis and Sarah Mace, née Lenton (c.1813-1885) had children in the 1850s: Emma Lenton (1854-1909), Samuel (c.1855-1906), Eliza (1857-1928) and William (1859-1920). Sarah Lenton arrived from London as a convict in 1847. She married Edward Lenton in 1832. She was from St. Ives in Huntingdonshire. She was tried at the Huntingdon Assizes, 17 July 1846 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation. Aged 68, William Challis married Sarah Linton, aged 79, at Deep Bay in March 1885. Sarah Challis died three months later. William Challis sen. died in 1889, aged 74.
Emma Challis married Richard Cowen in 1872. William Challis jun. married Mathilda Ann Cowen in 1886. Aged 39, Samuel Challis married Susan Casey, aged 42, in 1893. Aged 32, Eliza Challis married Henry Wilson in 1889. According to the 1890 PO Directory, William Challis was a farmer. William John Challis jun. died at Deep Bay, Cygnet in 1920 (death notice Mercury). Susan Challis died in 1927. Samuel Challis died in 1906.
CHAPMAN Henry Chapman (c.1809-1870) was tried at the Northampton Town Quarter Sessions 11 January 1826. He was born at Great Houghton near Northampton. He arrived on the Chapman from London in 1826. He married Ann Kittelty in Hobart in 1834. Children: Esther Kittelty, née Chapman (1835-Geelong, Victoria 1909), Mary Ann Chapman (Hobart 1837-1837), Mary Ann Burton, née Chapman (Hobart 1839-Ballarat, 1884), Harriet Chapman (1842-1842) and Harriet Chapman (1844-1852). He is listed in the 1842 census living at Petchey's Bay with his wife and two daughters (aged between 2 and 7) in a bark dwelling. The census identified the family as Wesleyan Methodist. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.75). Ann Kittelty (c.1817 Scotland-1861 Ballarat) arrived from Scotland in Hobart with her brothers, sisters and parents on board the Thomas 14 August 1833. Henry Chapman left Launceston for Melbourne on the City of Melbourne 13 March 1852. He died at Dead Horse, near Ballarat in Victoria, 29 December 1870. Buried at the Ballarat cemetery 1 January 1871. Ann Chapman died at Ballarat 14 February 1861.
CHARLTON Anthony Charlton (c.1824/8-1909) was born at Stanhope, Northumberland. (The parish of Stanhope is in Co. Durham). He was tried at the Hexham Quarter Sessions, Northumberland 4 July 1849 and sentenced for 10 years. In the 1851 census for England he is described as 27, an agricultural labourer an inmate of the Portland Prison at Portland in Dorset. He left England 4 November 1852. He sought permission to marry Mary Harley or McKay (free) in 1853. They married in Hobart in 1853 and had a son Anthony in 1856. William Charlton died in 1856, aged 34. Aged 56, Margaret Charlton married John Bowler, aged 55, in 1880. (Sarah Bowler, née Winchester, aged 75, had died in 1876). Aged 28, Harry James Charlton married Ellen Smith, aged 61, in 1898. Death notices in the Mercury for Anthony Charlton (1909) and Mary Charlton (1917).
CHATTON According to the 1851 Census, William Chatton lived at Green Point Farm.
CHERRY John Gawley Cherry (1863, Benalla, Victoria-1940) married Elizabeth Russell at Benalla, Victoria in 1883. The family later settled at Cradoc c.1904. Children: Percy Herbert (1895-1917), John Andrew Rhodes (1899-1966), George William Edward (1903, Dandenong, Victoria; died in 1983), Florence May Emily (married Cyril Batchelor at Hobart in 1916) and Elizabeth Minnie Bertha (1905; died at Cradoc 18 November 1926, aged 21). Article in the Mercury 7 October 1932 and 4 October 1934 about the life of John G.Cherry. Elizabeth Cherry died at Cradoc 3 March 1928, aged 66. Buried at St. James cemetery, Ranelagh. John Cherry died at Cradoc 8 November 1940, aged 77.
CHISHOLM Duncan Chisolm married Mary Ann Walter in 1872. A daughter born in 1877. Duncan Duff Hayes Chisholm died at Sandy Bay in 1921 (death notice Mercury). Mary Ann Chisholm died at Moonah in 1923 (death notice Mercury).
CHRISTIE James Thomas Christie (1859, Hobart - 1942, Gormanston) and Mary Ann Hogan had a daughter in 1890 and a son in 1897. According to the 1890 PO Directory, James Christie was a farmer. James T. Christie was the eldest son of Edward Christie (born c.1820 Co. Meath, Ireland; died Glen Huon in 1880) and Mary Webb (died at Cygnet in 1905 - death notice Mercury). Mary, born in Ireland, arrived in Hobart in 1857 per the Sir W.F. Williams together with her widowed mother, and her brothers William, Thomas and Samuel. Two sisters, Eliza and Dora, arrived in Hobart in 1854 on board the Caroline Middleton.
Another son, William Christie (born 1876) married Selina Annie Wicks. Children between 1902 and 1916.
CLARK/CLARKE/CLERK/CLERKE John Kellaway Clark (1851-1919) was the son of John Clark (1804, England - 1865, Franklin) and Sarah Kellaway (1825-1885). He was born at Franklin 14 March 1851.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania: "John K. Clark was the third son of John Clark, of Franklin, and after leaving school assisted his father in conducting a flourmill there. As of 1900, modern machinery was not in vogue, the mill was being run by water power. A few years later he went to New Zealand, and engaged in mining pursuits in the Cormandel district for a couple of years. Clark then sought fresh fields in New South Wales and Charters Towers, where he engaged in mining.
His birthplace, however, again attracted him, and after two years' sojourn in Queensland, he returned to Franklin. He joined Thomas Inches at Shipwrights Point, and remained with him for two years, after which he spent some little time in timber-getting, and then, in company with his brother, accepted large contracts from the Government for roads and bridges in the Huon district. After two years at this occupation he purchased the "Glenburn" estate at Port Cygnet, and by his energy and ability built up a beautiful home.
In the homestead Clark had some 230 acres, of which 9 acres were laid out in scarlet pearmains, Adams' pearmains, Sturmers, and other varieties of the most marketable fruits procurable. The remainder was devoted to general farming pursuits. Clark also possessed some 417 acres of land at the Sandfly. As a fruit grower he had been singularly successful, and during the busy season exported largely to intercolonial and London markets.
He had always taken an interest in matters having for their object the advancement of the district, and during the eight years he occupied the position of a representative on the Port Cygnet Road Trust he had the proud honour of filling the chair during several successive years. He was appointed a member of the Welsh Road trust in 1895, and as of 1900 was in his second term as chairman of that body. Clark had also been for some years a member of the Port Cygnet Fruit Board and of the Board of Advice." He married Mary Jane Skinner (1856-1946) at Franklin in 1883, and, as of the turn of the century, they had three children: John Richard (1885-1970), Harold James (1886-1941) and Percy Robert (1889-1975). John and Mary Clark were buried at St. Mark's Cemetery. John Kellaway Clark died in Cygnet in 1919, aged 68. Mary Clark died at Cygnet in 1946, aged 89.
John Richard Clark married Elodie Mary Blake at Hobart in 1909. Children: Kathleen May (1910, Hobart), Olive Elodie (1912, Hobart), Robert John (1914, Hobart), Eileen Mary (1916, Hobart), Richard Stephen (1919, Hobart).
Harold James Clark was a labourer at Cygnet in 1914. He married Elizabeth "Maud" Dance in 1910 (who died in childbirth in 1916) and Constance Florence Wills at St. Mark's, Cygnet, in 1920. Children of Harold and Maud Dance: Alma Mary (1911), John Arthur (1913), Francis Ivy (1915), Bertie David (1916).
Percy R. Clark married Esther Polley at Gardner's Bay in 1915.
William Clarke and Emily Perry had children in the late 1850s and 1860s. William Clarke is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He leased a house and garden on 10 acres at Port Cygnet in 1862 (VR62).
CLAVIN Patrick Clavin, aged 22, was tried 19 July 1843 in King's Co. and sentenced to 15 years for felonious assault. He was detained at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin. He left Kingston 21 Sept. 1843 and arrived in Hobart on board the Duke of Richmond 2 January 1844. In 1858 he leased a house and farm (20 acres) at Gardners Bay.
CLEARY Aged 28, Thomas Cleary was tried in Co. Tipperary 11 March 1836 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for "robbery and putting in bodily fear." He sought permission to marry Mary Meehan (free) in 1852. (Three convicts had the name Mary Meehan). They married in Richmond in 1852. Children: John Joseph (1857, Gordon; married Helena Jane Dishington in 1893; died in 1921), James (1859, Gordon; married the widow Catherine Sullivan née Dwyer in 1895; died of peritonitis in 1895), Mary (1861, Gordon; died of scarlet fever in 1874, aged 13), Ellen (1863, Gordon), Julia (1865, Gordon; married John Dwyer in 1884; died in Hobart in 1904), Catherine (1868; unmarried; died in 1947) and Thomas Patrick (1870). Thomas Cleary leased a house and land (10 acres) at Long Bay (VR58). He is listed as living in Franklin in 1867 (MDT). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Thomas Cleary was a farmer. Thomas Cleary died in Feb. 1898, aged 75. Mary Cleary died in Dec. 1898, aged 67 (death notice Mercury).
James and Catherine Cleary had one son: James (1895; imprisoned at the Hobart Gaol in 1915 for the manslaughter of Trooper Harris; went to New Zealand where he was known as Jim O'Sullivan, a boxer 1923-1924; died in New Zealand in 1938).
CLENNETT Roy Lyndon Clennett married Maud Emily Harris at Garden Island Creek in 1915. Born in Hobart in 1885, Maud Harris was the daughter of James Harris and Eliza Smith (see below). Children: Brian Guy (1917, Hobart), Nathalie Elsie (1919, Garden Island Creek), James Roy (1921), Gwenda Maud (1923) and Margaret (1926). In 1914, Roy Clennett was a sawmiller at Garden Island Creek where he built a new saw mill that year. He died at Hobart in 1951, aged 63. Maud Clennett died in 1971.
William Longstaff Clennett married Ruby Florence Taylor at Battery Point in 1907. They moved from Moonah to Garden Island Creek before 1919. Children: Alice (1907), William (1909), Wallace (1911), Patricia (1917), Female (1919). Ruby Clennett died at Moonah in March 1930. William Clennett died at Hobart in June 1930.
CLIFFORD George Alfred Clifford (1886-1935) married Ella Denny at Port Cygnet in 1906. Children: Reginald Eric William (1905; married Edith Clay; died in 1952), Vera Catherine Mary (1906, Deep Bay; married Charles Edward Challis at Cygnet in 1924; married Valmont Ryan; died in 1962), John Henry (1908, Kempton; married Beryl Gladys Cowen at Cygnet in 1926; died in 1993), Lavinia Florence, called "Vene" (1910, Deep Bay; married Eric Behrens; died in 1963), George "Charles" (1913, Deep Bay; married Molly Seabourne; died at Darwin in 1943), Hector Roy (1916, Deep Bay; died in 1958), Beatrice May (1918; married George Hanlon), Dorothy Agnes, called "Dulcie" (1921; married Raymond Roland; died in 1989), Donald William (1923; married Greta Whitton) and Ronald Leslie (1925; married Audrey Turnbull). He died at Hobart 12 October 1935, aged 49. Ella Clifford died at Deep Bay 14 December 1946, aged 62.
CLOTHIER Roy Edgar Clothier (1887, Hobart-1966, Hobart) married Lavilla Harriet Garth at Glenorchy in 1912. Born in Cygnet in 1887, Lavilla Garth was the daughter of John Edward Garth (1854-1934, New Zealand) and Priscilla Sarah Ann Harrison. Children: Bessie Lavilla (1913, Glenorchy-1988), Mervyn Edgar (1915, Glenorchy-1988), Louisa Thora (1918, Glenorchy-1964). Roy Clothier (an orchardist) and Lavilla Clothier lived at Port Cygnet in 1914.
CLOUGH George W. Clough (1860-1933) married Ada Jane Atkins in 1880 and they had ten children. He lived at Cygnet from 1906 until his death there in 1933. His wife left him c.1902 and went to live in New Zealand.
COAD/CODE/COADE Francis Coad (c.1817-1865) was born at Primestown in Co. Wexford, Ireland. His surname was Codd. After serving in the East India Company in the late 1830s, he came to Hobart on board the Cornwall as a military pensioner and convict guard in 1851 with his wife (Elizabeth Pierce) and four children. He moved to Port Cygnet in 1855. He owned a farm of 40 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58). He owned a house and farm on 87 acres at Petchey's Bay (VR62). Elizabeth Coad is listed as living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Frank, James, John, Thomas and William Coad were farmers. Francis and Elizabeth Coad had nine children: John Codd (b.1844 Co. Wexford), Bridget Codd (born c.1847, Co. Wexford), Ann Codd (b.1848, Co. Wexford), Thomas Coad (born at sea in 1851), James Coad (born 1853 in Hobart), Elizabeth Coad (born 1855 at Port Cygnet), Francis Coad (born 1857 at Port Cygnet), William Coad (born 1859 at Port Cygnet), Margaret Coad (born 1861 at Port Cygnet) and Mary Coad (born 1863 at Port Cygnet). Francis Coad died in 1865, aged 49. Elizabeth Coad died in 1870, aged 44. They were both buried at St. James Cemetery, Cygnet.
COCKERILL Herbert Wellington Cockerill was the son of Henry William Cockerill (1834-1925) and Elizabeth Jarvis, and the grandson of the convict Henry Mylam Cockerill. Born in 1861 at New Norfolk, he died in 1940, aged 79. He married Frances 'Fanny' Harrison (born c.1862; died 1925, aged 61 - obituary Mercury) in 1895. Children: Eunice (1895-1970), Bertram (1898-1957), Ivy (1899-1977), Elsie (1900), Shirley (1902), Leila (1905) and Eva (1908-1994). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Herbert W. Cockerill was a farmer. Herbert and Fanny Cockerill buried at St. Mark's Cemetery. Elizabeth Cockerill died in 1922. Norma Eve Cockerill died in 1923. Sydney Claude Cockerill (the brother of H.W. Cockerill) died in 1925. Arthur Cockerill married Thella Harvey at St. Mark's in 1907. Bertram Cockerill married Nellie Downham at SHC in 1919. Eunice Cockerill married Charles Markham at SHC in 1920.
Roland Cockerill married Alice Jarvis in 1907. Their children: Florence (1907), Esme (1910-1979), Ronald (1911), Lewis (1915-1982).
COCKSHUTT George John Cockshutt (1855-1936) married Margaret Jane Sharp at Oatlands in 1899. Children: Edward William (1899, Hobart-1948), Mary Cecilia (1901, Glenorchy; married Tasman Leo Armstrong at Hobart in 1920), Colin George (1903, Ouse; married Doris May, called "Dot" Cowen in 1921 at Cygnet; died at Cygnet in 1985), John Joseph (1904, Ouse), Charles Alfred (1905, Ouse; married Daphne May Berry at Cygnet in 1929), James Henry (1907, Wattle Grove), Andrew Bernard, called "Bernie" (1909, Wattle Grove; married Alethia Strong née Williams c.1932; died in 1979) and Clyde Christopher (1909, Wattle Grove). Margaret Cockshutt died at Wattle Grove 20 March 1910. George Cockshutt died at Cygnet 28 November 1936, aged 83, and was buried at St. James cemetery.
COLE According to the 1852 Census, Frederick Cole lived at Port Cygnet with his wife and son. John Cole and Agnes Shore had a son in 1886. William Cole and Louise Wilshire had a son in 1894.
COLES George Petheridge Coles (1878, Adelaide - 1951, Dromedary) was the son of James Michael Coles (1843, Dartmouth in Devon-1921) and Marianne Armstrong (1840-1927). He married Annie Catherine, called "Nancy" Crowe at Port Cygnet in 1905. Born in 1875, Annie Crowe was the daughter of H.J. Crowe and Catherine Farrell. In 1914, George Coles was a shop assistant at Lymington. He ran a store in Cygnet in the early 1930s. Annie Coles died at Cygnet 14 July 1930 and was buried at St. James cemetery. George Coles married Mary ("Molly") Fahey at Hobart in 1933. They had one son. He died in 1951 and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery. Molly Coles died in 1994.
COLEMAN Robert Coleman and Ellen Arkwright had a daughter Margaret in 1859.
COLLINS/COLINS John Collins rented a farm and house on 2 acres near Glazier's Bay from Thomas Inches of Hobart (VR58). He owned a farm and a house on 50 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR62). He is listed as a farmer at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He married Margaret O'Rourke. Children: Sarah (1857), Male (1858), Female (1863), Mary (1866), Male (1871). According to the 1890 PO Directory, John Collins and James Collins were farmers. John Collins died in 1892, aged 60.
Henry Collins (born c.1862) married Catherine Markey in the Hamilton district in 1887. Children: Ada (1887, Hamilton), Cecil Joseph (1891, Green Ponds; died in 1959), Millie Marcella (1892, Brighton), Augustus Roy (1895, Brighton), Basil Vivian (1896, Brighton), Lucy Mary (1898, Port Cygnet), Eva Marm (1902, Port Cygnet) and Hannah Guthruth (1904, Port Cygnet).
Henry Collins married Doris Gladys Rodgers at St. James church in 1913. Children: Doris (1914), Elvie (1915) and Olga (1916). Doris Collins died at Cygnet in 1916, aged 23. He married Myrtle Ellen Brown at Cygnet in 1917. Children: Lloyd (1918). Henry Collins died at Gardner's Bay in 1935, aged 47.
COLSTON James Colston and Margaret Moor had two sons in the 1870s.
COLTER John Colter leased a farm and house at Lymington on 6 acres from F.J. Windsor at Hobart (VR62). He is listed as a farmer at Lymington in 1867 (MDT).
COMPTON Mark Compton (1826-1902) was convicted at the Wiltshire Assizes, England, 5 March 1845 and sentenced for 15 years' transportation. He applied to marry Alice McGill (free) in 1853. They married in Hobart in 1854. He owned a hut and land at Deep Bay on 50 acres in 1862 (VR62). He is listed as living at Randall's Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died at Surrey Hills in Victoria in 1902.
CONLEY William Conley and Mary Lyons had a son James in 1857 and a son Edward in 1858. James Conley married Harriet Archer at Gordon in 1889. Edward Conley married Ella Trayling in Hobart in 1884.
CONLAN Cecil Clyde Conlan (1886, New Norfolk-1965) was an orchardist at Wattle Grove after 1914. He was the son of Robert Dominic Conlan (1850-1928) and Letitia Sarah Broomhead (1855-1923). He married Dora Melba Elizabeth Latham at Franklin in 1911. Children: Robin (1912; married Nina Voss; married Marjorie Armstrong; died in 2000), Preston Wallace (1917; married Lillian Brown in 1942) and Doris (1924; married Allan Bergman; married Richard Sleath).
His brother, Frank Herbert Conlan (1880, New Norfolk-1934) was a labourer at Wattle Grove in 1914. He married Annie Louisa Latham at Hobart in 1904. Children: Dora "Corrie" (1905, Franklin; married Leonard Kupsch at Cygnet in 1929; died in 1982), Gyda Annie Letitia (1907; married George H. Clark; died in 1971), Elvie May (1916, Franklin; married Oswald Nicholas; died in 2009) and Hulbert Morton, called "Bert" (1921; married Gladys Dawson; died in 1977). Frank Conlan died at Lower Wattle Grove in 1934. Annie Conlan died at Hobart in 1951. They were buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
CONNELLY/CONNOLLY/CONNELLEY Michael Connolly (c.1821-1899) was tried at Dublin City in 1842 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing a pen knife. He leased a house and garden of 3 acres at Port Cygnet from Thomas Lewis (VR62). He married Mary McLean. Children: Mary (1858), Peter (1862), James (1865), Elinor (1867). According to the 1851 Census, Michael Connolly lived at Lymington. He died in 1899?
COOK/COOKE John Cook was convicted at the Taunton Quarter Sessions in Somerset, England, 14 October 1845 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation. He leased a house and land on 10 acres at Port Cygnet from Anne Murphy of Port Phillip (VR62). John Cook sought permission to marry the ex-convict Mary Ann Law in 1855. They married in Hobart in 1855 (son born in 1858) and two more sons were born in Port Cygnet in the 1860s. Mary Ann Law (born c.1821) was tried at the Edinburgh Court of Judiciary 14 May 1851.
COOLE Arthur Graham Coole (1882-1933) married Emily May Garth (1885, Port Cygnet-1963, Battery Point) at Hobart in 1906. Emily Garth was the daughter of John Edward Garth and Priscilla Harrison. He was secretary of the Lovett Brass Band in 1910. Arthur Coole (a clerk) and Emily Coole lived at Port Cygnet in 1914. Arthur Coole died at Hobart in 1933. Emily Coole died in 1963.
COOPER David Cooper and Annie Bellette had a son David in 1898.
COSGROVE Hugh Cosgrove leased part of a farm (7 acres) at Cygnet Vale (VR58). He died in 1861, aged 47 (Hobart).
COTTON According to the 1851 Census, James Cotton lived at Lymington with his wife and two children. He was convicted at the Buckinghamshire QS 31 December 1833 for highway robbery and sentenced for 14 years. He appears in the 1843 census for Brighton.
COULSON George Coulson (1858-1922), the son of William Coulson and Ellen Mary Reilly (c.1826-1894), was baptised by Fr. Murphy. He married Adelaide Lancaster at Port Cygnet in 1881. The children of George and Adelaide Couson born at Garden Island Creek: Charles Leonard, called "Mick" (1882-1949), William George (1883-1940), Henry (1885-1961), Herbert (1887-1947), Maria, called "Janie" (1889-1928), Arthur John, called "Jack" (1892-1962), Nellie May, called "Lily" (1895-1971), Tasman (1898-1971) and Albert (1901-1924). In 1914 George (a farmer) and Adelaide Coulson lived at Garden Island Creek. The following children also lived there in 1914: William (a labourer), Arthur (a bushman), and Herbert (a bushman) and his wife Ruby Maud Richie (1890-1974). William Coulson's house was burnt down at Garden Island Creek in February 1934.
COULTER Mary Coulter was tried at the Glasgow Court of Judiciary 28 April 1847 and sentenced for 7 years. She arrived from London in 1848 via the Elizabeth and Henry. She married the convict William McDougall (see below).
COULTHARD/COULTER Anthony Coulthard was tried at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Assizes 14 July 1842. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Anthony Coulter was a farmer.
COULTS Fred Coults and Eliza Bender had a daughter in 1885.
COVENTRY William Coventry (1815-1906) owned a farm and house at Wattle Grove on 95 acres in 1862 (VR62). He was born at Bridgewater 1 January 1815, married Ann Lucas (born Hobart 7 June 1816) at St. Mark's, Pontville, 14 December 1834 and died at Ridgely in 1906. His daughter Sarah Rachel Coventry (1844-1924) married John Baldwin (1839-1922) at Wattle Grove in 1862 at the house of William Coventry. He was the son of the Irish convict William Coventry (c.1776-1831) who was murdered by other convicts during an escape from Macquarie Harbour.
COWEN/COHEN Thomas Cowen (c.1799-1883) was tried in Manchester at the Lancaster Assizes 17 July 1820, sentenced to 7 years' transportation and arrived on board the Juliana in 1820. He was born in Birmingham. He married the ex-convict Mary Bleeze in Hobart in 1836. Mary Bleeze was tried in Nottingham 14 July 1830 and sentenced for stealing a gown, handkerchief, and gloves. She was married with one child at the time of her conviction. They had seven children. According to the 1842 Census, Thomas Cowen lived in a wooden dwelling at Port Cygnet with his wife and three children (two sons aged between 2-7 and a daughter aged 2-7). His son Thomas George Cowen leased a farm at Culloden Jetty, Port Cygnet, on 20 acres (VR58). He leased the Friendly Inn public-house and land of under 1 acre at Gardener's Bay from William Lindsay of Hobart (VR62). He is listed as living at Gardners Bay, along with Joseph Cowen, in 1867 (MDT). Thomas Cowen died in Port Cygnet in 1883 and Mary Cowen died in Port Cygnet in 1885.
Children of Thomas and Mary Cowen: Mary Ann (married James Bone); Thomas George (married Ellen Wilson); Joseph (married Harriet Devereux); Richard (married Emma Challis); Sarah Maria (married Thomas Nichols); Matilda Ann (married William Smith); Henry (married Ann Coy). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Joseph Cowen and Richard Cowen were farmers. Thomas Cowen was a carter.
COWLES John Thomas Cowles owned a farm of 168 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58,62). He married Caroline Glover Hannen in Franklin in 1864. They had ten children, three of whom were born in Port Cygnet in the 1860s. J.T. Cowles is listed as living at Martin's Point in 1867 (MDT). Caroline Cowles died in Hobart in 1884, aged 42. J.T. Cowles died in Hobart in 1888, aged 52.
COWMEADOW Henry James Cowmeadow (1881-1971) and John Joseph Cowmeadow (1885-1951) were the sons of James Walter Cowmeadow (1856-1922) and Mary Jane Hinchmore (1857-1940).
Henry Cowmeadow married Amy Margaret Eaves at Franklin in 1905. Children: Daphne Lily (1907, Waterloo), Edith May (1909, Geeveston), Matilda Hilda Jane (1909, Cradoc), Arthur Henry George (1911, Cradoc).
John Cowmeadow married Maud Fonsey Mansfield at Franklin in 1908. Children: Gladys Florence Maud (1910, Franklin; married William Harold Cooper in 1931; married Donald Stephenson Murphy; died at Brisbane in 1983), Andrew (1912, Cradoc-1912), Zillah Kathleen (1913, Cradoc; married Albert Ernest Young in 1935; died at Launceston in 2007), Hartney Bernard, called "Joe" (1915, Cradoc; married Kathleen Mary Grace in 1937; died in 1993).
COY Michael Coy and Martin Coy are listed as living at Cradoc Road and Port Cygnet respectively in 1867 (MDT). Michael Coy was from Co. Clare and he was convicted 27 February 1849 of stealing a sheep. His wife, Margaret Jordan, (c.1828-1897) was also convicted of the same offence 3 March 1849. Children: Mary (1852), Ann (1854), Margaret (Bridgewater, 1856), Michael (O'Briens Bridge, 1858-1920) and Patrick (O'Briens Bridge, 1860). Mary Coy married Thomas Maley in 1871. Margaret Coy married John Ryde in 1889. Ann Coy married Henry Cowen at Franklin in 1873. Michael Coy died aged 75 at New Norfolk in 1881 and Margaret Coy died at Port Cygnet aged 69 in 1897.
Martin Coy (c.1816-1884) arrived on the Lord Dalhousie in 1852. Aged 27, he was tried in Co. Clare 5 March 1849 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for sheep stealing. He (aged 45) married Ellen Dwyer, née Brereton (aged 40) in 1870. Children: Mary Coy (1868-1946) and Martin Coy (1871-1940). Martin Coy died in 1884, aged 68. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Ellen Coy and Margaret Coy were farmers. Ellen Coy died at Glazier's Bay in 1905. She arrived in Hobart in 1855 with her first husband Jeremiah Dwyer who died in 1864.
Mary Coy married John Hanrahan at Zeehan in 1892. Children: Isabel (1893, Strahan; died in 1913), Ellen (1894, Port Cygnet; married Charles Hampton; died in 1921, aged 26), John (1896, Zeehan), William Albert (1897, Port Cygnet-1898), Ethel May (1898, Zeehan; died at Hobart in 1909, aged 11), Oscar Bernard (1899, Zeehan-1900), Martin Eric (1901, Port Cygnet; died at Hobart in 1909, aged 9); Stella Kathleen (1902; married Harold Stafford; died in 1975) and Mary Margaret, called "Molly" (1904, Port Cygnet; married Darcy Jones; married Paul Pettersen; died in 1981).
Martin Coy and Bridget Mackey had a son Martin James Coy in 1889 (married Queenie Ford in 1916; died in Melbourne after a car accident in 1935).
Children of Martin Joseph Coy and Annie Markey (1883-1943): Keith Joseph (1906, Hobart; married Lyla Direen; died in 1977), Martin Clavin (1908, Silver Hill; married Ivy Russell; died in 1987), Ellen May (1909, Silver Hill; married Leslie Griggs; married Roy Smith; died in 1990), Nora May (1911-1911), Patrick John (1912, Cygnet; married Joan Folder; died in 1983), John Michael (1914, Silver Hill), Dennis Douglas (1915, Cygnet; married Maisie Stingel; died in 1960), Bernard Charles (1917, Cygnet; married Patricia Finn; died in 1990), Alan William (1922; married Phyllis Claridge; died in 1996) and Hazel May (1924; married Ronald Hutcheon; died in 1957).
CRANNY/CRENNY/CRANNIE/CRANY Patrick Cranny (c.1857-1938) and Peter Cranny, both from Co. Wicklow, arrived in Tasmania on board the Pathan 15 October 1884. Their uncle Thomas Mills applied for them to come to Tasmania (CB7/12/1/13, p.64). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Patrick Cranny was a farmer. Patrick Cranny married Margaret O'Reilly in 1893, both aged 35. They had two children: Patrick William (1894; married Claribel Kube; died in 1974) and John (1896; married Veronica O'Sullivan in Sydney in 1929; died at Sydney in 1978). Margaret Cranny died in 1896, aged 38, a week after childbirth. Patrick Cranny married Ada Farnell in 1900. Their children born at Lymington: Edith (1901-1901), Thomas Joseph (1902; unmarried; died in 1981), Arthur Charles (1904; married Doreen Direen; died in 1981), Leo Raymond (1907; married Lillian Bradley; died in 1967), Benjamin (1910; married Winifred Dutton; died at Sydney in 1984) and Mary Florence (1912; married Alan Fitzpatrick; died in 2007). Patrick Cranny died in 1938, aged 81. Ada Cranny died in 1955, aged 76. Peter Cranny died in 1943, aged 94.
CRAWFORD Thomas Crawford married Eliza Summers. Children: Thomas (1862), Robert (1864), William Henry (1869-1869). Four convicts had the name Thomas Crawford. Ann Crawford died in 1879, aged 45.
CRIPPS David Cripps (1876-1959) married Mary Jane Boyd at St. Mark's church in Port Cygnet in 1903. Article on their Golden Wedding anniversary in the Mercury 14 August 1953. Children: Lilah (1906; married H. Kregor; died in 1982), Eva (1908; married George Fleming; died in 2000), Grace (1910; married E.V. Grimsey), James (1913) and Joyce (1915; married L. Pearson). David Cripps died in 1959.
CRISP Samuel Crisp (c.1806-1876) was tried at Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1823 and given a life sentence. He married Eliza Rawlins in 1839. Their children: Rosanna (1840-1867), Triphena (1844), Samuel (1847). He was drowned at Port Cygnet in 1876, aged 70. Eliza Rawlins was born at Shrewsbury in England. She was tried at the Stafford Assizes in 1837 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Samuel Crisp junior and Sarah Pilkington had two children: Elizabeth (1873-1876) and Elizabeth (1876).
Charles Joseph Crisp (c.1877-1945) married the widow Louisa Emma Pregnell née Davis at Port Cygnet in 1901. Children: Tasman Ernest (1901, Dover; married Mary Margaret Barrett at Gardners Bay in 1923), Charles Clement Herbert (1905, Deep Bay-1905), Lyla Beryl (1907, Deep Bay; married Leslie E. Rogers at Deep Bay in 1926; died in 1972). The family lived at Petchey's Bay in 1913. Louisa Crisp died at her son's residence Cygnet in 1924. Charles Crisp died at Hobart 26 June 1945, aged 68, and was buried at St. James cemetery.
CROSS Edward Baker Cross (1835-1918) and Elizabeth Williams whose real name was Patience Smith (1851-1922) married in 1869 at Fitzroy in Victoria. Children: William John (1870-1949), Edward George (1871-1944), Henry (1873-1873), Charles Henry (1874-1961), Walter Thomas (1876-1912), Arthur James (1879-1951), Clara (1880-1934), Mary (1882-1928), Elizabeth (1884-1968), Albert (1886-1951), Sydney Robert (1888-1915), Alfred Baker (1890-1890), Jane Chesney (1893-1967) and Alfred Valyer (1895-1984).
According to the 1890 PO Directory, Edward Cross was a craftsman and Nathaniel 'Robert' Cross was a farmer. Robert Cross (1825-1905) was the brother of Edward Cross; a widower with his 9 year old son, he arrived in Melbourne in August 1870 and later came to Tasmania.
Edward Baker Cross died in Lymington in 1918 and Elizabeth Cross died in Lymington in 1922 (death notices Mercury).
William John Cross and Agnes Mary Payne had children in Lymington: Nathaniel (1900), Violet (1901), Rose (1905), Milford (1906) and Glenford (1908). William and Agnes Cross buried in the Methodist Cemetery, Cygnet. Edward Cross and Louise Wyatt had a daughter Clara (1905) in Lymington. Albert Cross and Lily Haines had children in Lymington: Joseph (1918). Arthur Cross married Lily Wass in 1911.
CROSSWELL Charles Robert Crosswell (1883, Oatlands) married Alice Hyslop Hills at Campbell Town in 1907. He is listed as a labourer living with his wife at Port Cygnet in 1914. By 1922 he was a butcher living with his wife at Latrobe.
CROWE Henry Joseph Crowe married Catherine Farrell at Fremantle, WA, in 1868. Children: Mary (1871; married Albert Lumsden; died in 1929), Elizabeth (1873-1876), Annie Catherine, called "Nancy" (1875; married George Coles in 1905; died in 1930), Henry Joseph (1878; married Sarah Ann Cowen in 1905; died in 1930), Charles Peter (1880-1907), William John (1883; married Dora Irene Hawkes; died in 1965) and Ernest "Clifton" (1886; married Vilma Susie Dooling; died in Victoria in 1966). Henry Crowe died 11 August 1898. Catherine Crowe died in 1916.
The children of Henry and Sarah Crowe: Henry George (1905; married Daphne Bertha Knights [who died in January 1930] died in September 1930, aged 25), May (1908-1929, aged 21), Dorothy (1909), Charles (1912-1936, aged 24), Leonard Max (1915-1983), Albert John (1919), Clarence Frederick (c.1925-1945, aged 18).
The children of William and Dora Crowe: twins Nina Mary and William Ernest (1911: married Mavis June Fyfe at Ranelagh in 1948; died in 1986), twins Dora Magdaline (1912) and Archibald James (1912-1914), Irene Victoria (1913; died at Geeveston in 1929), Alan Patrick (1914; married Winifred Doreen Coad in 1938; died in 1996), Nancy (died at Geeveston 1921), Geoffrey James (1916-1942), twins Marjorie Katherine (1917) and Eric Hilary (1917; moved to Victoria), Beryl Winifred (1918, Geeveston), Edna May, Mavis Elizabeth, Norma Patricia (1925-1945, aged 20) and Colin David.
The children of Clifton and Vilma Crowe: Clifton Alroy (1913).
CROWLEY John Crowley leased from J. D. Balfe a house, land and store on 17 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58,62). He married Ann McGuiness in 1858 (Hobart). Daughter Mary Jane in 1859 and a daughter Catherine (died) in 1862. Five convicts had the name John Crowley.
CROWTHER During the bush fires of the summer of 1854, John Crowther (aged 40), his wife Ellen (aged 30) and three children, Robert (aged 5), Eliza and Alfred, all died on 11 January 1854 at Petchey's Bay.
CUE The convict Charles Cue (c.1800-1871) was tried at the Berkshire Quarter Sessions 5 April 1836 and given a life sentence for sheep stealing. He applied to marry the ex-convict Catherine Macguigan (from Co. Antrim) in 1845. Aged 40, he married Catherine Megingan (aged 30) at Hobart in 1845. Charles Cue is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.11). He rented a house and farm on 4 acres at Agnes Rivulet. He rented part of a farm on 10 acres at Cygnet Vale (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living in Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in Hobart in 1871. Catherine Cue died in Hobart in 1888.
CULLEN Thomas Cullen was a military pensioner. He owned a farm (new allotments) at Agnes Rivulet (10 acres) VR58.
CUMMINGS/CUMMINS Joseph Cummings and Maria Louise Stephens married and had a son in 1866. Joseph Cummings, a school teacher, is listed as living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). Joseph Cummins died in Hobart in 1905; Maria Louisa Cummins died in 1908 (death notices Mercury).
CUNNINGHAM James Cunningham (1806-1888) was a military pensioner on board the Lady Kennaway. He arrived in Hobart Town 6 June 1851 and was located at Port Cygnet by 1858. He owned a house and farm on 10 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Aged 57, he married the widow Mary Brooks, aged 40 in 1862. He died in 1888, aged 89. Mary Cunningham died in 1897, aged 84.
CURTAIN/CURTIN James Curtain (c.1827-1905) arrived with his parents and siblings on board the Sir G.F. Williams in December 1856. He married Mary Sheehy (c.1838-1916) at Franklin in 1861. Their children were born in Franklin until 1873 and after that at Port Cygnet: Elizabeth (1863-1936), Mary (1864-1940), Andrew (1866-1934), Ellen (1868-1916), Austen "James" (1871-1936), John Francis (1873-1898), Francis (1875-1875) and Margaret (1876). James and Mary Curtain were buried in St. James Cemetery.
Francis Curtain (c.1833-1915) arrived with his parents and siblings on board the Sir G.F. Williams in December 1856. He married Ellen Hassett in 1863 at Franklin. Their children were born in Franklin: Austin (1863-1892), Anne (1865), John (1866), Mary (1868), Francis (1870) and at Port Cygnet Timothy (1875), James Hilary (1877-1929), Ellen Frances (1878-1934), Catherine Bridget (1880-1964), Elizabeth Mary (1883) and Bridget Beatrice (1885-1946). Francis Curtain died in 1915, aged 79. Ellen Curtain died in 1903, aged 67. Both buried in St. James Cemetery.
According to the 1890 PO Directory, Andrew Curtin and James Curtin were farmers. Francis Curtin was a fruit-grower. Elizabeth Curtain married David Pursell in 1887. Ellen Curtain married Francis Stanton in 1891. Andrew Curtain married Mabel Clements in 1928.
DALCO Joseph (Guiseppe) Dalco (c.1840-1895) married Sarah Hudson in 1868. Their children were born in Esperance and Southport. Joseph Dalco died in Southport in 1895, aged 52. Julian Dalco married Sarah Whitton in 1904. Leonard Tasman Dalco died in 1914; Joseph Dalco died in 1903; Sarah Dalco died in 1906 (death notices in the Mercury).
DALY/DALEY Peter Daly married Catherine Wade in 1869. James Daly married Elizabeth Ready in 1891. Alice Daley married Thomas Deegan in 1899. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Edward Daley was a storekeeper. Edward Daley died in 1898, aged 67. He is buried in St. James Cemetery. Veronica Daly died in 1920.
DALTON George Dalton was tried in London at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) 14 December 1840 and sentenced to 15 years' transportation for breaking and entering. He leased a farm of 5 acres at Wattle Grove from J.H. Walter (VR58,62). He sought permission to marry the ex-convict Margaret McKie in 1854. Margaret Dalton died in 1862, aged 36. She was tried at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Quarter Sessions in Northumberland 26 February 1851 and sentenced for 7 years.
DANCE William Dance was tried at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) in London 4 April 1842 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing bottles of sherry. Before transportation, he married Mary Rogers, 17 September 1831 at Collingbourne Kingston, Wiltshire, in England. He married Eliza Allen (the daughter of William Allen - see above - in 1851). Their children: Anne Elizabeth (1854), James (1860), Arthur (1863-1929) and Violetta (1866). He died in Port Cygnet in 1884, aged 69 (death notice Mercury). William Dance left London 16 April 1843 and arrived in Hobart 20 August 1843. He owned 20 acres of bushland at Franklin (VR58). He was buried in St. Mark's Cemetery. Eliza Dance married Herbert Wallace Brown in 1889. Eliza Brown died 28 September 1905, aged 79.
Anne Elizabeth Dance married Thomas Earl Walker in Franklin in 1872. They had one child, James Walker, born in Franklin in 1872. James Dance married Mary Ann Thornton in Hobart in 1883. They had a daughter Florence Dance born in Port Cygnet in 1885. Arthur Dance married Frances Lawler (died 1933) and they had children in the 1880s, 1890s and until 1903. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Arthur Dance was a fruit-grower. Arthur and Frances Dance buried in St. James Cemetery. Violetta Dance married William Nichols in Hobart in 1889. No children.
William Dance (the son of Eliza Dance, née Allen, who changed his name to Dance after his mother married the convict William Dance) married Eliza Charlotte Francis in Franklin in 1874. All the children were born in Port Cygnet: William Edward (1876-1877), Arthur Edward (1879-1879), Ann Elizabeth (1880-1902), James (1882-1906), William Eden (1884-1906), Rosina (1887-1895), Hubert Joseph (1889-1973), Eliza Violetta (1891-1960), Martha Florence (1893), Bertie Cygnet (1896-1977), Percy Arthur (1899-1930). According to the 1890 PO Directory, William Dance was a farmer. Eliza Charlotte Dance died in 1929. William Dance died in 1936.
DARCEY Francis Darcey and Mary O'Brien had a daughter Mary in 1873.
DAY According to the 1851 Census, William Day lived at Lymington with his wife. Eighteen convicts had the name William Day.
DEEGAN Thomas Michael Deegan (aged 35) married Alice Daley (aged 28) in 1899. Thomas Deegan, the husband of Elizabeth Deegan, died in 1937, aged 74. Alice Veronica Deegan died in 1904 (death notice Mercury).
DELANEY Michael Leslie Delaney (1877, Bruny Island-1923), the son of Michael Delaney (1854-1916) and Catherine Cox (1855-1923) married Ruby Hilda Ida Argent Gibbons in 1909. They lived at Police Point before moving to Cygnet after 1916. Children: Mary Phoebe Irene (1911, Port Cygnet), Theodore Lionel Argent (1913, Police Point), Ruby Emily Catherine (1914, Police Point; married John Patrick Delaney at Cygnet in 1929), Elizabeth Eileen Rose (1916, Police Point), Cecil Anthony Clarence (1918, Police Point). There was a son, Colin Delaney, who married Marguerite Bell at Cygnet in 1930. Michael Delaney died at Cygnet 22 July 1923, aged 46.
DENEHEY Margaret Denehey married John Henry in 1873. John Denehey married Ellen Bartlett in 1908.
DENNY Charles John Denny (1887, Green Ponds-1949), the son of John Denny and Catherine O'Rourke, married Ethel Bone (1890-1979) at Port Cygnet in 1908. Children: William Charles (1910-1911), Raymond John (1912), Arthur Francis (1915; married Beryl Valma Coulson; died in 1983), Ellis George (1918; married Olga May Dillon; died in 1984) and Allen Wilfred (1921-1924). Charles and Ethel Denny divorced in 1924. Ethel Denny née Bone married William George Coulson at Cygnet in 1926. Charles Denny married Daphne May Williams at Cygnet in 1924. Daphne Denny died in 1945 and Charles Denny died in 1949.
DEVELYN Aged 42, Patrick Joseph Develyn mariried Julia McKenna (aged 36) in Franklin in 1869. He was schoolmaster at the Port Cygnet public school. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Patrick J. Develyn was a storekeeper. He died in 1899, aged 73.
DEVLYN James Powell Devlyn (1853, USA-1925) married Jessie Annie Thorne (1860, Devon, England-1949, Hobart) at Emy Bay in 1881. In 1914, James Devlyn (a miner) and Jessie (postmistress) lived at Port Cygnet.
DEVEREUX/DEVEROUX/DEVERAUX/DEVEREW Philip Devereux (1822-1910; death notice Mercury) is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.26). He leased part of a farm of 120 acres at Nicholls Rivulet from William Nichols and another part of a farm of 200 acres at the same place from John Nichols. He leased 500 acres of crown land at Nicholls Rivulet (VR62). He is listed, along with Peter Devereux, as a farmer living at Nicholls Rivulet in 1867. He married Christina O'Rourke (c.1839-1900; death notice Mercury) in Hobart in 1855 and they had 16 children between 1855 and 1884. Philip Devereux was born in North Bridgewater, near Hobart and was the grandson of John McCarthy, who was a pioneer of New South Wales and Tasmania. Devereux 's father John (b.1777) was a farmer at North Bridgewater. In 1847 Philip Devereux settled down in business in the Huon district and was engaged in fruit-growing for many years. He had 23 acres under fruit adjoining the hotel at Port Cygnet, 20 acres at Irish Town, and another orchard at Lymington South. Philip and Christina Devereux buried in St. James Cemetery. Philip Devereux died at Mrs. Bromwich's house, 81 Barrack Street, aged 89.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania: "As a proprietor of the Huon Hotel since 1887 he had been very successful, being careful always to pay that attention to visitors, which the most exacting expected. Opposite his well-known hostelry was a large entertainment hall. Devereux was identified with all local affairs, and was for many years a member of the Port Cygnet Road Trust. He married Miss Rooke, a native of the district, and as of 1900 they had a family of sixteen children." His brother, Peter Devereux, married Mary Low and had children most of whom were born in Port Cygnet in the 1860s and 1870s. According to the 1851 Census, Peter Devereux lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife and children. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Emily Devereux was a storekeeper, Philip Devereux a fruit-grower and Philip Devereux had the Huon Hotel.
DICKENSON Charles Carroll Dickenson (1881-1964) was a labourer at Garden Island Creek in 1914. His apple shed was burnt down in February 1934. William Joseph Dickenson (1871-1963) was a farmer at Garden Island Creek in 1914.
DICKSON William Dickson and Mary Ann Jackson had a daughter in 1875.
DILLON The ex-convict Edmund Dillon (c.1814-1889) owned a farm and house of 17 and a half acres near Glazier's Bay (VR58). Edward Dillon owned 52 acres of bushland at Agnes Rivulet (VR62). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT).
The ex-convict John Dillon (c.1817-1890) is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.68). He leased part of a farm and a house on 10 acres from John Kellaway at Woodstock (VR58). In 1862, he owned 52 acres of bushland at Agnes Rivulet and leased a hut and farm on 10 acres at Glazier's Bay from Thomas Inches (VR62). He also owned a hut and land of 2 acres at Woodstock and a farm of 10 acres at Woodstock (VR62). He is listed as a farmer at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Death notice in the Mercury.
The ex-convict Timothy Dillon (c.1824-1880) owned a farm and house on 17 and a half acres near Glazier's Bay (VR58,62). He is listed as a farmer at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT).
According to the 1890 PO Directory, Catherine, Edmund, Edmund J., J., John and John Dillon were farmers.
DIREEN Three Direen brothers, born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny in Ireland, lived in Cygnet: Edmond/Edward, William and Richard. They arrived in Hobart with their mother Ellen Direen, née Kelly on board the Conway, 14 October 1855. Ellen, a general servant, was aged 45. Edmund, aged 20, was a farm labourer. John, aged 18, was a ploughman. William, aged 14, was a ploughman. Richard, aged 12, was a farm labourer. Edward Direen (c.1832-1891) married Catherine Mulcahy (c.1843-1901) in Port Cygnet in 1865. They had 13 children. Edward is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). William Direen (c.1837-1903) married Margaret McGinn (c.1840-1919) in Hobart in 1861. They had 10 children born in Port Cygnet. William is listed as a farmer at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Richard Direen (c.1840-1886) married Bridget Coad in Port Cygnet in 1864. They had 13 children. Ellen Direen re-married in 1856. She married Henry Ward (c.1803-1870). Ellen Ward died in 1870.
William Direen leased part of a farm of 10 acres at Irish Farm, Port Cygnet from Thomas Inches of Hobart (VR62). He leased a farm and house of 20 acres at Port Cygnet where he lived (VR58). Edward Direen leased a farm and house of 20 acres from F. Windsor of Hobart (VR62). Edward Direen leased a farm on 20 acres at Port Cygnet from Thomas Inches in 1862 (VR62). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Bridget, Edward and William Direen were farmers. William Direen jun. is listed as a farmer at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). Death notices in the Mercury for William Direen (1903), Alice Direen (1917), Bridget Direen (1928) and Edward Direen (1929).
DIXON/DIXSON William Dixon and Catherine Cassey had a daughter in 1858. William Dixson is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.12). He leased part of a farm at Cygnet Vale on 12 acres (VR58). Eleven convicts had the name William Dixon.
DOLAN Thomas Dolan married Bridget McNamara in 1855. Children: James (1856), Mary (1857). He owned a farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). Thomas Dolan (aged 57) married Johanna Barron (aged 40) in 1865. He died at Hobart in 1868. Johanna Dolan died in 1878, aged 60.
Thomas Dolan junior married Agnes Hodson Harrison in Franklin in 1877. Children: Catherine (1877), Elizabeth (1879), Female (1881), William (1883), Annie (1885), Mary (1887).
DONOHO/DONHOO/DONOHOO Michael Donohoe was a military pensioner who arrived on the William Jardine in November 1850. He owned a farm of 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58,62). He is listed as a farmer living in Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Michael Donohoe died in 1871, aged 60. Johanna Donhoe died in 1885, aged 91.
John Donohoe was a military pensioner (convict guard) who was granted 9 acres at "Agnes Rivulet" (CSD1/144/3994). He arrived on the Lady Kennaway in June 1851 with his daughter Charlotte Donohoe. He married Mary Ann Brimblecombe in Wales in 1844. They had a daughter, Louisa, born in 1852. He died c.1853. Mary Ann Donohoe married James Henley in 1854. Louisa Henley/Donohoe married Frederig Lorensson at Franklin in 1873. Charlotte Donohoe married the convict Patrick Farrell.
DONOVAN Denis Donovan leased a farm of 20 acres from Christopher O'Reilly at Mount Huon, Woodstock in 1862 (VR62). He married Ann Chesney and they had a daughter in 1877.
Peter Donovan (1858, Franklin; Hobart 1938) married Catherine Flynn (see below) in 1881. Children: James (1881), John Joseph (1883), Thomas Francis (1885-1922), Gladys Frances (1890), Percival William (1893), Vivian (1895) and Edwin Hilary (1898-1930). Catherine Donovan died in 1917.
DORAN Thomas Doran, aged 26, was tried in Co. Kilkenny 25 July 1850 and sentenced to 10 years transportation for "illegally assembling and damaging property." He left Ireland in April 1852. He leased a house, land and a store on 20 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet from J.D. Balfe (VR58). He leased a house and farm of 40 acres at Petchey's Bay (VR62). He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He married Catherine McCain in Hobart in 1855. Children: Mary (1857-1943), Francis Robert Joseph (1859-1930), Eliza (1864), Catherine Ignatius (1867-1928), Jane (1870), Margaret Agnes (1873), Helena "Isabella" (1875-1932) and Gertrude Mary (1879). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Thomas Doran was a mail contractor. Thomas Doran died in 1908 and Catherine Doran died in 1919. Francis Doran married Frances O'Reilly in SHC in 1904 (one son Joseph Francis, called "Frank" 1905-1953). Margaret Doran married George Henry Branch in 1904 at St. James. Children: Thomas Douglas (1905-1946), Francis Augustus (1910).
DOWTHWAITE/DOUTHWAITE/DOTWAITE Richard Dowthwaite was tried 27 June 1842 at the Lancaster QS and transported on board the Gilmore. He married Esther Williams(on). Children: Jane Lydia (1855), Margaret Deborah (1856).
DOWNHAM William Downham (c.1857-1908) married Emily Jupp (c.1860-1918) in Hobart in 1886. Children: Lillian (1886-1930), Emily (1887), Richmond), Alice (1889, Richmond), Ellen (1892, Richmond), Bridget Cecilia (1894), Susan (1896-1980), Minnie (1898-1972), George William (1900-1973) and Maud (1902-1970). William Downham died in 1908 and Emily Downham died in 1918 (death notices Mercury). Ellen Downham married Bertram Cockerill in 1919. Minnie Downham married Bernard Holland in 1921. Bridget Downham married James Bell in 1922. Emily Downham married Charles Cox in 1923. Susan Downham married Matthew King in 1927. Lillian Downham married William Roberts in 1930.
DOWNING/DENNING/DOWNEY/DOWNIE Cornelius Downing, aged 27, was tried Co. Tipperary 4 March 1843 and sentenced to 14 years' transportation for "felonious assault and robbery." His family was from Co. Kerry. He arrived in the Constant in 1843 and later applied to bring out his family: his wife Ann Downing and his two sons Patrick Downing (c.1838-1858) and William Downing (c.1840-1913). He married Margaret McNamara in Franklin in 1860. She died at Port Cygnet in 1876, aged 65. He then married Ellen Williams, the widow of Richard Williams (aged 55) in 1877. Ellen Downing died at Port Cygnet in 1884, aged 65. In 1884, he married Sarah Riley, aged 35. He died at the New Town Charitable Institution in 1893, aged 83. He was buried in the pauper section of Cornelian Bay Cemetery.
DRAKES/DRACUS/DRAKESUS/DRAKER The convict William Draker, aged 13, was tried at the Old Bailey in 1836. Aged 25, William Drakes married Rosanna Crisp, aged 16 in 1856. Children: Eliza (1857), Mary Ann (Gordon, 1860), William Henry (1862-1917), Thomas (1864). Rosannah Drakes died in 1867, aged 35. William Drakes died in 1898, aged 65. Rosanna Crisp was the daughter of Samuel and Eliza Crisp, baptised at Franklin in 1846. Death notice in the Mercury for William Henry Drakes (1917). Eliza Drakes had a daughter Rose Ellis or Drakes born and died in 1877. A daughter and a son (George) born and died in 1878 (Hobart). Eliza Drakes, aged 30, married John Cooper, aged 87, in 1884 in Hobart.
DRUMMOND James Drummond arrived on the Amity in 1825 as a free immigrant. In 1837, he was tried at the Hobart Supreme Court for stealing cattle. He was sent to Norfolk Island in 1838. He married the convict Jane Hunt in 1845. Jane Hunt was transported on the Royal Admiral and arrived in 1842. According to the 1851 census, James Drummond lived at Green Point Farm with his wife. He owned a farm of 18 acres at Gardener's Bay (VR58). He died in 1860, aged 64. Jane Drummond owned a farm (18 acres) in 1862 (VR62). Aged 46, Jane Drummond married Alexander Stuart, aged 32, 9 January 1864. Jane Stuart died 11 January 1864, aged 46.
DUFFY According to the 1852 Census, James Duffy lived at Lymington with his wife, one son and three daughters. Seven convicts had the name James Duffy.
DUGGAN Jeremiah Duggan (1829-1891) married Bridget Flynn (c.1838-1900) in Hobart in 1857. Aged 14, he was transported with his brother, John Duggan (aged 15) and father Timothy Duggan (aged 40). They were all tried in Co. Cork 2 April 1847 and sentenced for 7 years each for sheep stealing. All three were held at Smithfield Gaol, Dublin, awaiting transportation. Jeremiah and Bridget Duggan had nine children born in Hobart.
John Duggan married Ann McNamara in Hobart in 1852. Children: Michael Duggan (born May 1853, bapt. St. Joseph's, Hobart, June 1853), Catherine Duggan (born Feb. 1855, bapt. at St. Joseph's, Hobart, Apr 1855) and John Edmund Duggan (18 March 1857).
The son of Jeremiah and Bridget Duggan, Larry Duggan (c.1860-1897) married Fanny Wilton and their family were born in Cygnet. Another son, Timothy, called "Ted" Duggan (1861-1940) married Mary Batchelor (1863-1948) in Port Cygnet in 1881. Their family born in Cygnet, Ranelagh and Pelverata. Another son, John Duggan married Lily Markham in 1885 and their family born in Ranelagh. A daughter, Mary Ann Duggan, married Tasman Wilkinson and their family born at Port Cygnet. Another daughter, Elizabeth Duggan, married Robert Roberts and their family born at Cygnet.
DUNCOMBE Edwin and Augusta Duncombe had a son Edwin jun. born and died 1897.
DURKIE David Durkie and Eliza Lowrey had a son David in 1862.
DWYER Patrick and Hanorah Dwyer were from Co. Tipperary in Ireland. Some of their children arrived in Tasmania as convicts or free immigrants. Hanorah Dwyer arrived in 1854 on board the Northumberland with her sons Patrick and Timothy and daughters Hanorah and Margaret. Her sons Charles Dwyer and William Dwyer were transported in 1843. Her son Jeremiah Dwyer arrived as a free immigrant in 1855.
Charles Dwyer (c.1817-1869) died at Glaziers Bay in 1869, aged 52. He is listed as a farmer at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Transported in 1843. Charged with manslaughter (of a policeman) at Bristol, England, in 1842 and sentenced for life. Married in Ireland to Ally.
Jeremiah Dwyer (c.1819-1864) was born in Tipperary, Ireland. He married Ellen Brereton in Tipperary. Their daughter Catherine Dwyer was born in Co. Cork in 1853. The family emigrated to Tasmania 14 June 1855 per the Blanche Moore and the City of Hobart. Jeremiah Dwyer leased a house and farm of 460 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR58). He leased a house and farm on 410 acres at Glaziers Bay from Mrs. Gaylor in Hobart in 1862 (VR62). He died in 1864, aged 45. Ellen Dwyer is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Children born in Tasmania: Patrick (1855; died of tumerculosis in 1886), Hanorah (1856; married Philip O'Rourke; died in 1900) and John Jeremiah (1858; married Julia Cleary in 1884; married Emily Rovina Hill), Charles (1860; married Mary Ann Scanlon; died in 1946) and Ellen (1862; married Timothy Mackey in 1882; married John O'Brien in 1928; died in 1947). Ellen Dwyer re-married in 1870 (Martin Coy - see above). Catherine Dwyer (aged 15) married James Sullivan (aged 31) in 1867. For children, see below (under James Sullivan).
William Dwyer (c.1821-1883) was transported in 1842 for aiding and abetting Charles Dwyer in murdering a policeman. He married Elizabeth Webb in Hobart in 1851. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.50). Children born in Franklin and Port Cygnet: John (1852-drowned 1857), Patrick Francis (1854-1915), Mary (1855), Honorah Winifred (1857-1931), Elizabeth (1859-1887), Charles Joseph (1860-1941), Jeremiah (1862), Ellen (1863-1935), Margaret (1865), Thomas James (1867-1914), William John (1869), Timothy Lawrence (1871-1912), Hannah (1873-1943), Ann Belinda (1874-1944), Mark Michael (1877-1930) and Frances Augusta (1878-1964). William Dwyer died in 1883. Elizabeth Dwyer died in 1931, aged 95.
Patrick Dwyer (c.1831-1911) arrived on board the Northumberland in July 1854 with his mother and siblings. He married Margaret Flood in Queensland in 1865. The children of Patrick and Margaret Dwyer: Patrick (1867, Qld), Thomas Simon Francis (1869, Qld), Hanorah (1870), Maria Ellen (1872-1963), Catherine Bridget (1874-1967), Margaret Agnes (1876-1965) and Ann Teresa (1879-1914). Patrick Dwyer died at Silver Hill in 1911.
Hanorah Dwyer married Thomas Wall at Franklin in 1857. (See below)
EBERLE Joseph Eberle and Mary Jane Harrison had a daughter in 1887.
EDEN The convict Mark Eden (c.1828-1864) was tried at the Northallerton Quarter Sessions in York 2 July 1844 and sentenced for life. He arrived in 1845 left Norfolk Island in 1847. Mark Eden and Jane Coulthard had daughter born and died in 1864. Mark Eden later died the same year. Jane "Eden or Collett" re-married. She married George Rex at Port Sorell in 1869.
EDGAR Oliver John Edgar (1871-1933) married Alice Lillian Walton at Melbourne in 1902. He was manager of the Commercial Bank in Port Cygnet from 1908 until at least 1919. He died in Sydney in 1933. Alice Edgar died in Victoria in 1956.
EDWARDS Edmond Edwards died in 1857, aged 30. R.T. (Robert Thomas) Edwards is listed living at Port Cygnet in a letter published in the Mercury, 8 July 1854. Robert Edwards (c.1825-1874) married Mary Elizabeth Reardon in Hobart in 1846. Children: Sarah (1847, Richmond), Emma (1850), Isabella (1852), Caroline (1857), Clara (1859), Helena (1863, Launceston), male (1866, Launceston), Rosina (1868). Other births registered in Hobart. Robert T. Edwards died 1874, aged 49. G.W. Edwards is listed in the same letter living in Port Cygnet.
John and Jane Emma Edwards née Sattler moved to Cygnet between 1919 and 1922. In 1922 John Edwards was a licensed victualler at Cygnet. Children: Cyril John (1902), Olive Esme (1904), Kathleen Grace (1906), Gladys Eileen (1908), Raymond Charles (1910), Male (1913), Brenda Evelyn (1915) and Alfred Keith (1918).
ELKIN John Elkin leased a house and farm of 15 acres at Glazier's Bay from Thomas Inches (VR58,62). He is listed as a farmer at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT).The convict John Elkin arrived in 1842. Tried at the Warwick Assizes 4 August 1841 and sentenced for 7 years. John Elkin and Catherine Ryan had the following children: Eliza (1857, Franklin), James (1859, Port Cygnet), Michael (1861, Port Cygnet) and William (1864, Port Cygnet). John died in 1889, aged 75. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Catherine Elkin was a farmer. Catherine Elkin died in 1902. Both buried in St. James Cemetery (no dates). Elijah Thomas Elkin and Theresa Markey married in 1901 and had children in the early 1900s: James (1901), Catherine (1902 - died 1902), Elijah (1904), John (1905), Albert (1906), Doris (1908), Teresa (1910), Eliza (1911), Bernard (1913), Brighta (Pontville, 1915) and Douglas (Hobart, 1918).
ELLIOTT John Elliott leased a house and land on 20 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet from J.D. Balfe (VR58). John Godden Elliott and Emma Miller had a daughter in 1881. Lancelot Elliott married Priscilla Walshe in 1894.
ELWELL George Angus Elwell married Edith Margaret McDevitt at Strahan in 1902. Children: Albert (1902, Port Cygnet; married Ruby Dorothy Matilda Smith at Hobart in 1924; died in 1965), George Angus (1903, Port Cygnet), Vera Florence May (1905, Port Cygnet; married Gilbert John Whitbread at West Hobart in 1926), Violet Lilian (Port Cygnet; married Charles Hamilton at Hobart in 1927), Charles Edmund (1909, Kettering), twins: Leslie Edgar Keith (1911, Port Cygnet) and Olga Mary (1911, Port Cygnet).
William "Donald" Elwell (c.1873-1943) married Alma Eleanor Louisa Stanton at Hobart in 1909. Alma Elwell died at Hobart in 1913, aged 35, and was buried at St. Mark's cemetery. He married Alice Josephine Armstrong at Cygnet in 1918. Alice Elwell died at Cygnet in 1931, aged 36. He died at Hobart in 1943, aged 70, and was buried at St. Mark's cemetery. His sister, Annie Elwell, married Joseph Robert Stanton at Port Cygnet in 1891.
Charles Elwell married Hilda Polley at Battery Point in 1914. Children: Kathleen Hilda (1916, Cygnet).
ENGLISHBY/INGLESBY (c.1811-1878) The convict Christopher Englishby or Inglesby was tried at the Lancaster Quarter Sessions 13 January 1830 and sentenced for 14 years. He arrived from Norfolk Island in 1845 where he had been sent in 1841. He was tried in Hobart in 1851. Tried in Sydney in 1841 and sentenced to 10 years. Hired by William Nicholls in Port Cygnet in 1849. According to the 1851 census, Christy Englishby lived at Port Cygnet. He died at the General Hospital in Hobart in 1878, aged 67.He was buried in the pauper section of Cornelian Bay Cemetery 23 October 1878. He was born at Wigan, near Manchester in Lancashire.
ESSEX The convict John Essex (c.1810-1866) was tried in Dorset 5 January 1841 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for stealing a sheep. He arrived in VDL in 1842. He owned a hut and garden on 25 acres near Glaziers Bay (VR58). He died in 1866, said to be aged 45.
EVANS Bilby Hallen Evans and Sarah Garth had a son in 1864. Edward Evans and Elizabeth Doran had a son in 1893. Bridget Evans (aged 38) married George Fyfe (aged 55) in 1896.
FAIREY Frederick Charles Bonfield Fairey arrived in Tasmania from Melbourne in the late 1870s. He was appointed a Congregational minister at Port Cyget in 1885. Frederick Fairey and Frances Allen had a daughter at Port Cygnet in 1887. He died at Sydney 31 December 1924. Their youngest son, Kenneth Holmes Fairey, was killed in action in France, 12 November 1916, aged 21.
FANNON/FANNING Patrick Fannon leased a farm (10 acres) from James McLaren at Glen Eden near Glaziers Bay (VR58). Two convicts had the name Patrick Fanning.
FARNIE Elizabeth Farnie died as a baby in 1858.
FARRELL/FARREL Patrick Farrell (c.1828-1896) was tried at Galway 16 June 1847 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing sheep. Aged 35, he married Charlotte Donohoe, aged 16, in 1862. Children: Arthur William (1866-1884), John Clifford (1867-1924), Catherine (1869), Thomas (1871-1918), Mary Ann (1873), Patrick (1874-1951), Ellen (1876), William (1878), Charlotte (1881-1969), Margaret (1883-1941), James Michael (1885-1917), Arthur Harold (1887-1888) and Henry Randolph (1889). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Patrick Farrell was a farmer. Patrick died in 1896, aged 66. Thomas Farrell died in 1918 and John Farrell died in 1924 (death notices in the Mercury). Charlotte Donohoe was the daughter of the military guard John Donohoe who arrived on the Lady Kennaway in June 1851. Charlotte Farrell died in Hobart in 1902.
FEENEY/FEENY/FEENAY/FEARNEY Peter Fearney (c.1821-1889) was tried at the Chester Assizes 1 April 1843 and sentenced for life for rape. He was born in Co. Roscommon, Ireland. He applied to marry the ex-convict Mary Kilmartin (c.1832-1898) in August 1853. Mary Kilmartin was tried in Co. Clare 27 June 1850 and sentenced to 10 years for cow stealing. They married in Hobart in 1853 and had the following children: Charles (1853-1853), John (1854-1896), Bridget (1856-1890), Margaret (1858), Ellen (1860-1885), Brian (1863-1902), Mary (1865-1911). Peter Feeny leased a house and farm on 20 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). He is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). He died at Hobart, 7 May 1889, aged 71. Mary Feeney was found drowned 21 Sept. 1898, aged 70. They were buried in the pauper section at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
FENNER Josiah Fenner (c.1847-1909) married Cecilia Ann Birchall at Richmond in 1872. Children: Walter Joseph (1873-1936), John Frederick Josiah (1874-1937), Annie Amy Susannah (1876), Edith Eliza Amy (1878-1958) and Cecilia (1882-1908). Josiah Fenner was a police constable at Franklin in the 1870s. He is listed as a labourer at Port Cygnet in the 1890 PO Directory. Cecilia Fenner died at Port Cygnet in 1897, aged 47. He died at Port Cygnet in 1909, aged 62.
FILER According to the 1851 Census, Charles Filer lived at Lymington. He was a convict and arrived in Hobart in 1841. Aged 40, Charles Filer married Selina Wilson, aged 30, at Launceston in 1866. Tried at the Gloucester Assizes 31 March 1840 and sentenced for life. Worked in the coal mines in 1846.
FINN Luke Finn (c.1807-1862) was born at Kiltoom in Co. Roscommon, Ireland. He was a military pensioner who arrived on board the Blenheim in 1851. He married Catherine Maloney at Kiltoom in 1842. Children: James (1843), Margaret (1844; married David King in 1863; died in 1922), John (c.1847-1865), Ann (1851; married Henry Hobbs in 1868; died in NZ in 1916), James (1854-1855 in Victoria ), Thomas (1856; married Sarah Gregory in 1886; died in 1926), Luke (1858), Ellen (1860; married Rowland Digby in NZ in 1881; died in NZ in 1954) and Francis (1862). He owned a farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet and leased a farm on 4 acres at Glen Eden near Glaziers Bay (VR58). He was drowned at Shipwright's Point in 1862. Catherine Finn married John Healy in 1865. Children: Mary (1866; married Reginald Pinhey in NZ in 1893; died in NZ in 1950) and Patrick (1870). John Healy died in 1875. Catherine Healy later moved to New Zealand where she died in 1903.
FISHER Edward Fisher, born on Norfold Island, married Ann Garth, the sister of James Garth, in Hobart, 1834. They had a son Edward in 1835 who died. Edward Fisher bought 130 acres of land in Port Cygnet, 1843, on which Thomas Cowen and Charles Bleeze jun. worked as sawyers. He owned vessels transporting timber to Hobart and drowned while trying to save John Robinson, 15 May 1851, at Port Cygnet. Ann Fisher, aged 35, re-married in 1855. (William Mead, aged 28). Ann Mead died in Hobart in 1867, aged 49.
FITCH Frederick Robert Fitch married Sarah Dorothea Salter at New Norkolk in 1856. They had a son Charles Octavius Fitch in 1856. Other children born in Hobart. F.R. Fitch died in 1891 in Hobart, aged 60. According to the 1851 Census, Robert Fitch lived at Port Cygnet.
FITTON/FITTEN Charles Fitton was tried at the Lancaster Quarter Sessions 21 March 1828 and sentenced for life. Aged 38, he married Ann Willis (aged 46) in Hobart in 1838. Ann Willis was tried at the Plymouth Quarter Sessions, Devon, 13 April 1835 and sentenced for 7 years. Ann Fitton died in 1841, aged 51. According to the 1842 Census, Charles Fitton lived at Petchey's Bay with three other people (in all two ex-convicts and two convicts with a ticket of leave). He worked on public works in 1830, 1833 and 1835. Charles Fitten is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.203).
FITZGERALD John Fitzgerald (aged 25) married Elizabeth Smith (aged 15) in 1857. They had a daughter Jane, b.1857. Eighteen convicts had the name John Fitzgerald.
FITZPATRICK Matthew Fitzpatrick (c.1817-1874) arrived from Co. Cork in Ireland in 1838 with his wife Catherine Roche (c.1813-1876). According to the 1842 Census, Matthew Fitzpatrick lived in a bark dwelling at Port Cygnet with his wife and three children (two sons - one aged between 2 and 7 and the other between 7 and 14 - and a daughter under the age of 2). They lived with a girl over the age of 14. According to the 1851 Census, Matthew Fitzpatrick lived at Port Cygnet where there were 34 people. Children listed below the age of two: one male and two females. Matthew Fitzpatrick is listed as a farmer living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). He is listed (or his son) as a general storekeeper at Port Cygnet (MDT). Aged 57, Matthew Fitzpatrick died in 1874 and his wife Catherine Fitzpatrick died in 1876 (death notices in the Mercury). Matthew Fitzpatrick jun. married Annie Hill at Geeveston in 1878 and they had 9 children born in Port Cygnet. Matthew Fitzpatrick sen. owned an inn (Travellers Rest) and land on 170 acres at Petchey's Bay as well as land and huts on 90 acres at Adelaide (VR58).
Peter Fitzpatrick owned a farm (new allotments) on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58).
FLEET According to the 1851 Census, William Fleet lived at Lymington with his wife and son. William Fleet applied to marry the ex-convict Sabina "Sibby" Collins in 1850. They married in Hobart in 1850. Sabina Collins was tried in Co. Mayo 18 January 1848 and sentenced to 7 years for larceny. Children: William (1850), George (1853, Hobart), Richard (1855, Hobart). William Fleet arrived from Plymouth in 1843. He was tried at the Warminster Quarter Sessions in Wiltshire 28 June 1842 and sentenced for 15 years.
FLEMING George William Henry Fleming married Annie Maud Mary Wass at Oatlands in 1903. In 1914 George Fleming (a carpenter) and his family lived at Port Cygnet. Children: Mabel Alice (1904, Oatlands; married Francis John Thorp at Franklin in 1921 [who died in 1935]; married William Herlihy), Vernon Robert (1906, Oatlands; married Gladys McCormack; died in 1966), George Frederick (1907, Oatlands; married Eva Cripps) and Stanley Cyril, called "Mick" (1912, Cygnet; married Dorothy Eileen Bellette at Hobart in 1937; died in 1982). George Fleming died at Cygnet 8 July 1935, aged 71. Annie Fleming died at Cygnet 19 June 1939, aged 66.
FLOOD Arthur William Flood (1863-1925) married Mary Elizabeth Scott (1864-1915) at Hagley in 1892. He was a blacksmith, wheelwright and undertaker. Children born at Sheffield: Cyril W.T. (1892), Harold C. (1894), Ralph C. (1895), Arthur R. (1897), Ivy May (1897-1897) and Ethel (1898). He was accidentally killed along with his daughter-in-law (a former teacher at the Cygnet State School) on the Huon Road, near Grove, 17 June 1925. Photo of the scene of the accident in the Mercury 19 June 1925. George Scott, the father of Mary Flood, died at Port Cygnet in 1915, aged 73. He had been an engine driver for the Tasmanian Government Railways and was buried at Launceston. Mary Flood died at Launceston in 1915, aged 52.
FLYNN/FLINN The convict Laurence Flynn was tried in Co. Waterford 4 July 1848 for sheep stealing and sentenced to 7 years transportation. He arrived on the Hyderabad in 1850. His wife Mary Flynn and their children arrived from Ireland in 1856: James, Francis, Bridget, Johanna and Mary. A daughter Catherine was born in 1859 (she married Peter Donovan at Port Cygnet in 1881; died in 1917).
James Flynn (1833-1909) married Elizabeth Reardon (born in Co. Cork, Ireland, 1832; died 1903) in Hobart in 1858. Children: Catherine (1859, Franklin; died Cygnet 1903), Lawrence (1861, Franklin; died 1944, aged 83), Michael (1862, Franklin; died at Woodstock in 1905), Mary Ann (1865, Franklin; died Port Cygnet 1869), Christina Ellen (1867, Port Cygnet) and Daniel James (c.1871; died of tuberculosis at Port Cygnet in 1894, aged 23). According to the 1890 PO Directory, James Flynn was a farmer at Port Cygnet. Elizabeth Flynn died at Woodstock in 1903 and James Flynn died at Battery Point in 1909.
Michael Flynn (1862-1905), the son of James and Elizabeth Flynn, married Matilda Targett at Fingal in 1893. Some of their children were born at Port Cygnet: Elizabeth Maud (1893; died at Sandfly in 1901), Daniel James (1895), George Victor (1896), Michael John (Victoria-Huon, 1897), Ethel May (1899). Others born at Woodstock: Leslie Claud (1901), Margaret Hilda (1903) and Matthew Stanley (1904).
Bridget Flynn married Jeremiah Duggan at Hobart in 1857. They had nine children born at Hobart. Jeremiah Duggan died at Port Cygnet in 1891. Bridget Duggan died at Woodstock in 1900.
Owen Flynn was from a different Flynn family. He married Mary Helen O'Reilly (see below) at Launceston in 1902. They had a daughter, Catherine Theresa Flynn born and died at Port Cygnet in 1903. Owen Flynn died at Cygnet in 1911. Mary Flynn died at Petcheys Bay in 1948 and buried at Cygnet.
FOGARTY/FOGHARTY James Fogarty arrived from the Cape of Good Hope in 1850 and was given a conditional pardon on arrival. He was convicted with Denis Fogarty 26 October 1846 in Co. Tipperary. Aged 27, he married Bridget Burke (aged 20) in Hobart in 1856. Children: Michael (1856, Launceston), William Henry (1857, Port Sorell), John (1859, Port Cygnet), Edward James (1861, Morven) and Annastacia (1863, Longford).
FOLDER Captain William Folder (1839-1913) was the son of the English convict William Folder (1797-1863) who arrived in Hobart in 1830 and who married Sarah Allender in 1835 (Clarence). He married Catherine Halton in 1871. She was the daughter of James and Catherine Halton (see below). Children: William John (1873), Edith May (1878-1893), Gertrude (1880), Jane Isabelle (1883-1883), Hilda May (1884-1885), Harold Douglas (1886-1951), Muriel Isobel (1887-1964). According to the 1890 PO Directory, William Folder was a fruit-grower. He died in Hobart in 1913 and Catherine Folder died at Kettering in 1911 (death notices Mercury).
FORD Edward Giles Ford (1834-1930) was born in Devonshire, England. He married Jane Young in 1860. With his business partner, James Harris, he ran the sawmill at Garden Island Creek in 1880. The family lived at Garden Island Creek in the 1880s and early 1890s. He died at Bellerive in 1930, aged 96. One daughter was Jane Ford, born in Hobart in 1867. She did not marry and died at Bellerive in 1959, aged 92.
FOSTER James Foster leased a farm on 15 acres at Gardners Bay (VR58).
Children of Joseph James Foster and Agnes Glover: Richard (1869), Amelia (1877, Hobart), Harriett (1884, Hobart), Violet (1887, Hobart).
FOX John Fox died in 1864, aged 42.
FRANCIS Joseph Francis (c.1814-1881) was a military pensioner and arrived at Hobart Town 6 June 1851 on board the Lady Kennaway with his wife Elizabeth Francis, née Avery. Children: Richard (1849), Charlotte Elizabeth (c.1852-1856), Edward (1853), Joseph (1855-1947), Eliza Charlotte (1856-1929). Joseph Francis owned a farm on 10 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58). He died in 1881 aged 67. Elizabeth Francis (aged 64) married James Jasper (aged 67) in 1884. Elizabeth Jasper died in 1898 aged 75. James Jasper died in 1887.
William Francis and Ellen Sayers had a son in 1868. Eliza Charlotte Francis married William Dance at Franklin in 1874. Elizabeth Ann Francis in 1905 (death notice in the Mercury). Joseph Francis died in Hobart in 1947, aged 93.
FRENCH The convict Samuel French (c.1815-1893) arrived in 1841. He was tried at the Somersetshire Quarter Sessions 29 June 1840. He is listed in the 1848 census for Westbury. He applied to marry the convict Jane Hampson in 1851. They married at New Norfolk in 1851. He married Mary Agnes MacDonald in Hobart in 1855. He leased a farm and house on 10 acres at Culloden Point with John Blades (VR58). Agnes French died 1889, aged 81. Samuel French (aged 85) married Ann Garner (aged 60) in 1890. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Samuel French was a labourer. He died in New Town in 1893, aged 85, and was buried in the pauper section of Cornelian Bay Cemetery. Previously he had been at the New Town Charitable Institution.
FURLONG John Furlong died in 1874, aged 84. Ann Furlong died in 1886, aged 72. John Furlong is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.115).
GARDINER According to the 1842 Census, John Gardiner lived in a wooden dwelling at Port Cygnet with his wife and children. There were two married ex-convict males, a married ex-convict female, a boy and two girls born in the colony under the age of 2, a boy and a girl aged 2-7 born in the colony, and a girl aged 7-14 born in the colony. According to the 1851 Census, John Gardner lived at Gardners Bay. Eleven convicts had the name John Gardner. John Gardiner died in 1889, aged 86.
Charles Gardiner was tried at the Gloucester Assizes in 1837 for stealing horses. He married Elizabeth Brodie at New Norfolk in 1848. Two children born at New Norfolk: Sophia (1848; married George Tame at Port Cygnet in 1867; died at Hobart in 1919) and Charles James (1850; married Elizabeth Holmes at Sydney in 1895; died at Sydney in 1897). He died at Port Cygnet died in 1882, aged 73. Elizabeth Henshaw (his wife) died at Nicholls Rivulet in 1882 (see below under Henshaw).
GARNER William Garner was tried at the Stafford Assizes 16 March 1847. He married Bridget Smith in Hobart in 1859. They had a daughter in 1859 and another daughter Elizabeth in 1861. Bridget Smith was tried in Co. Tipperary 23 July 1847 and sentenced to seven years for larceny.
John Garner (aged 70) married Ann Downie (aged 42) in 1878. Ann Garner (aged 60) married Samuel French (aged 85) in 1890.
GARTH James Garth (1791-1872) was born on Norfolk Island, and was the son of First Fleet convict parents (Edward Garth and Susannah Gough) who were also members of the first party of nine convicts who went with Phillip Gidley King to start the first settlement on the island. James Garth settled in the Huon by 1844, where he owned sawmills. In 1851 he was listed as a timber dealer at Port Cygnet and was both a master and ship owner. James Garth owned a house and farm on 47 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as owning saw mills at Agnes Rivulet in 1867. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.149). According to the 1851 Census, James Garth lived at Port Cygnet where there were 25 people in total including eleven workers. James Garth married Mary Bellett (1796, Norfolk Island; died Hobart, 1877). Children: Ann Garth (1816-1898), married John Birchill in 1840, Hobart; James Garth (1818-1880), married Elizabeth Garth (1820-1861); George Garth (1819-1833); John Edward Garth (1821-1821), Frederick Henry Garth (1822-1827), Susannah Garth (b.1824), married James Henry Walker in Hobart, 1843; Mary Garth (1827-1862), married Thomas Inches in Hobart, 1845; Frederick Henry Garth (1827-1854); Elizabeth Garth (1829-1843), Eliza Adelaide Garth (b.1831), married James McLaren in Hobart, 1847; William George Garth (b.1833), married Rose Ingram in Hobart, 1866; John Walter Garth (b.1835), married Elizabeth Short at Sorell, 1862; Sarah Emily Garth (b.1838), Beilby Hallen Evans at Franklin, 1863); Edward Garth (1840-1921), married Sarah Emily Robertson at Franklin, 1862. James Garth appears in the 1842 and 1843 census for Southport; Edward Garth in 1842 and 1848; Susan Garth in 1842 and 1843.
James Garth's daughter, Mary Garth, married Thomas Inches, senior, (1819-1908) who arrived in the district around the same time as him. Mary Garth (a minor) married Thomas Inches in Hobart in 1845. Children: Mary Ann (1847), Robert (1849), Thomas (1851) Jane (1853), Clara (1855), Alolphus (1857), twins Edwin and Reubin (1859), Edith Alice Rebecca (1866).
George Garth married Ellen Fitzpatrick. Children between 1857 and 1875. George Garth is listed a living in Port Cygnet (MDT). Ellen Garth died in 1896, aged 59. George then re-married (aged 61) in 1897. His second wife was Catherine Molloy (aged 38). George Garth is listed as living in Port Cygnet in a letter published in the Mercury, 8 July 1854.
John Edward Garth and Priscilla Harrison had children in the 1880s: James (1877, Fingal), John (1878, Fingal), George (1880, Ringarooma), Louisa (1881), Frederick William (1883), Emily (1885) and Mary (1888). William James Garth married Catherine Harrison in 1888. Children: James (1889), Mary (1891), Fanny (1893), a daughter (1896). Edward Garth (aged 23) married Ellen Dillon (aged 17) in 1897. Ellen known as "Queen" (1879-1965) is buried in St. James Cemetery. Henry Garth married Ruth Wilson. Their children: Edgar (1887), Irene (1888), Ralph (1889) and Norman (1890). Susannah Garth married Walter Hill in 1872. Eva Garth died in 1900. Frederick George Garth died in 1917 (death notice Mercury). Edward Garth died in 1919 (death notice Mercury). Catherine Garth died in 1922 (death notice Mercury). Florence Garth died in 1923. Arthur Garth married Elizabeth Dillon in 1901 at the bride's home (son Lionel Charles "Bill" Garth, born in 1906). Louisa Garth married Bernard Thomas in 1902 in the Methodist Church. Henry Garth married Catherine Molloy in 1916 in SHC. Mary Garth married Harold Batchelor in 1920 in the Methodist Church. Lionel Charles Garth married Ellen McNamara in 1928. Fanny Garth died in 1913. Catherine Garth died in 1914 (death notice Mercury). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Catherine, George, Henry J., and John E. Garth were farmers. Frederick G. Garth was a fruit-grower.
GARVIN Francis Arthur Dawson Garvin (c.1865-1907) married Margaret Howell in Hobart in 1885. Children: Arthur (1886), Henrietta (1887), Francis (1887). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Francis Garvin was a baker. He moved away from Port Cygnet in 1902 in order to live in Hobart where he died in 1907, aged 42.
GATES William Gates is listed living at Port Cygnet in a letter published in the Mercury 8 July 1854.
GERGISON George Gergison (1809-1889) married Mary Murphy in Tipperary, Ireland. He was a military pensioner and convict guard on board the Lady Kennaway. He arrived at Hobart Town 6 June 1851. He arrived with his wife and the following children: Mary Jane (1838), Margaret Eleanor (1841) and William Henry. He owned a farm and house on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). Children born at Port Cygnet: Susan (1852-1920), George (1854-1877), Catherine (1858-1936). George Gergison is listed as living at the saw mills, Port Cygnet, in 1867 (MDT). He died in the Immigration Depot, Hobart, in 1889, aged 83 (death notice Mercury). His wife, Mary Gergison, died in Sydney, 1896, aged 63.
Mary Gergison married James Littlejohn. Susan Gergison married Michael Daluce/De Luce in Hobart, 1873. Margaret Gergison married Henry Coulson in Hobart in 1870. William Henry Gergison married Harriet Roberts in 1879. Mary Jane Gergison married James Littlejohn in 1855. George Gergison junior was killed at Franklin in 1877, aged 22. Catherine Gergison married George Nix.
GIBLIN/GIBLON Samuel Giblin married Ellen Fisher at Franklin in 1878. They had 12 children, the first four born at Ranelagh, most in Port Cygnet and the last two in Hobart. Alice Giblin married Patrick Barnes at St. John's, Woodstock in 1901. Myrtle Giblin married William Barnes at SHC in 1910.
GILBERT/GIBBERT William Nicholas "Orlando" Gilbert (born Cornwall in 1868; died in 1920) married Martha Stanton, the daughter of John and Sarah Stanton in 1896. Children: Evelyn (1897-1957), Alma (1899-1979), Irene (1900-1993), Ruby (1903-1983), Ivy (1905-1980) and Violet (1908-1979). Orlando Gilbert died at Hobart in 1920.
GILCHRIST William Henry Gilchrist (c.1872-1951) married Ellen Louisa ('Nellie') Farrell at Zeehan in 1901 and they had the following children: John William Mervyn (1902, Zeehan), Kenneth Frederick (1906, Port Cygnet-1979), Gloria Margaret, called "Madge" (1908, Port Cygnet; married Glenn Evans), Isma May (1911, Port Cygnet; married Horace Coombes), William Thomas (1916, Cygnet; married Lily Bell, died in 1987) and Nelly (married A.E. Woolford). William Gilchrist died in Hobart in 1951 and Ellen Gilchrist died in Hobart in 1950.
GILROY Alexander Gilroy (c.1821-1880) was tried in Co. Armagh 24 June 1846 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing pigs. He married Bridget McNamara at Brighton in 1853. She died in 1870, aged 40. Aged 46, Alexander Gilroy married Sarah Dwyer (aged 40) in 1870. He is listed as living at Gardners Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died at Hobart in 1880, aged 58, and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
GINN The convict Robert Ginn (1813-1873) was tried at the Northampton Quarter Sessions 18 October 1843. The Northampton Herald 28 October 1843 reported: "Robert Ginn, out on bail, charged with having, at Oundle, wounded a horse, the property of John Bailey. Ten years transportation." He later applied to bring out his family. He was the son of John Ginn (1776-1862) and Elizabeth Rippin (1778-1860), baptised at Woodnewton in Northamptonshire, 5 December 1813. According to the 1841 census in England, Robert Ginn (aged 25) lived at Woodnewton with his wife Elizabeth Ginn, née Longstaff (aged 20), his mother Elizabeth (aged 60), Henry Ginn aged 30, Hannah Ginn aged 20, and his two children Sarah Ann (aged 2 and David aged 1 - died young). Another son, George Ginn (1842-1891) was born in England. Children of Robert and Elizabeth Ginn born in Tasmania: James William (1850, Spring Bay-1905), Mary Jane (1852, Spring Bay-1925), John Henry (1854, Spring Bay-1936), David William (1857-1858, Spring Bay), Levi (1858-1858, Sorell), Female (1860, Sorell). George Ginn and Robert Ginn are listed as farmers living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). According to the 1890 PO Directory, George Ginn was a farmer and John H. Ginn was a farmer. George Ginn married Louisa Sophia Coventry at Horton in 1867. Children born in the 1870s and 1880s. James William Ginn married Maria Louisa Schultz in 1874 (registered at Franklin). Children registered at Port Cygnet: Maria (1873-1883), Jessey (1874-1875), and James Norton (1876). Others registered at Franklin: Albert Ernest (1878), Elsie Mary (1880), Clara Jane (1882), Leslie Edwin (1884-1959) and Harry Edgar (1886-1891). Robert Ginn died in 1873, aged 57 and his wife Elizabeth Ginn died in 1891, aged 77. The will of John Henry Ginn is dated 1937. The will of George Ginn is dated 1913.
GIRDLER/GIRDLEY John Girdler (c.1802-1869) was tried at the Old Bailey 15 September 1845 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing 2 trucks. He was on Norfolk Island. He died in 1869, aged 60. An inquest was held. Verdict: natural causes.
GLANVILLE Harold Thomas Glanville (1878-1946) was born at Camden, NSW. He married Louisa Muller at Cygnet in 1905. Children: Harold Victor (1906, Hobart; married Rosina Fisher in 1926; married Eva M. Cockerill; died in 1962), Frederick Ronald (1907, Hobart; married Enid Size in 1931) and Lillian Florence (1910, Cygnet). Harold Glanville died in 1946, aged 68.
GLOVER Charles Glover (c.1784-1864) and his wife Elizabeth (c.1786-1849) had children baptised in Hobart: Louisa Gardiner Glover born and died in 1827; Joseph Gardiner Glover born and died in 1829; Alfred Gardiner Glover (c.1819-1878) died in Hobart, aged 59; Amelia Glover born and died in 1825; Edwin Gardiner Glover baptised in 1826 - died in Victoria 1892; John Glover buried in Hobart in 1833 (no age given); Henry Gardiner Glover baptised at New Norfolk in 1835. Charles Glover is listed in the 1848 census for New Norkolk. He died at Port Cygnet 9 July 1864, aged 80 and six months. Elizabeth Glover died at New Norfolk in 1849, aged 63.
Frederick Gardiner Glover (c.1820-1895) married Eliza Johnston (c.1827-1912) in Launceston in 1846. Children: Charles Freeland Glover (Spring Bay, 1847-1873), Elizabeth Gardiner Glover (Tasman, 1853), Emily Glover (1857), Frederick William Johnson Glover (1861-1924), Alfred Gardiner Glover (1865-1878), Edwin Gardiner Glover (1867-1935). Frederick G. Glover leased the Port Cygnet Hotel from Elijah Hedditch at Port Cygnet (VR58). He also leased a house and farm on 37 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). F.G. Glover, a farmer, died in 1895, aged 77 (death notice Mercury).
William Glover married Amelia Hughes. Children: Agnes (b.1856; died aged 16 in 1870), Henry (1856), Jane (1858), Female (Gordon, 1861), Alice (Gordon, 1866).
Alfred Glover married Bridget Welsh in 1892. They had children in the 1890s. Bridget Glover died in 1934, aged 74. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Alfred Glover was a shoemaker. Alfred W. Glover married Rena Askey at St. Mark's in 1918 and they had a daughter in 1919. Edwin Gardner Glover died in Hobart in 1935, aged 68.
GOBBETT Daniel Gobbett (1826-1887) was tried at the Brecknock Assizes 12 March 1847 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for highway robbery. Aged 24, he married Ellen Scott (aged 25) at Hobart in 1852. He leased a farm on 10 acres at Nichols Rivulet (VR58). Children: John (1852), daughter (1854), twins Daniel and David (1860, Victoria). Ellen Gobbett died in childbirth in Victoria in 1860. He married Martha Jane Smythe at Daylesford in Victoria in 1862. In 1866, he threw his wife into a fire and injured her. He was put into a lunatic asylum from 1868 until his death in 1887 at Ararat in Victoria.
GOLLEY Henrietta Golley died in 1897, aged 35.
GORDON/GORDAN William Gordon (1853, Hobart-1936) was the son of William Gordon sen. (born in Scotland and transported on board the Maria Somes in 1850) and Ellen Keating (born in Co. Cork, Ireland, and transported on board the Duke of Cornwall in 1850. He married Maria Hutchins at Hobart in 1875. The children of William and Maria Gordon: William James (1876-1950), Emily Maria (1878), Walter (1880-1942), Robert (1883-1957), Alice May (1884), Annie (1886-1955), Alfred Charles (1889-1969), Edward (1891-1959), Mabel May (1892-1969), Ethel Mary (1894), Francis (c.1894), James Hutchins (1895-1950), Jane (1897-1976) and Clara (1899-1899). According to the 1890 PO Directory, William Gordon was a miner. Maria Gordan died in 1899, aged 48. William Gordon married Elizabeth Mary Ann Bones, née Lockley in 1905. William and Elizabeth Gordon had two sons, one born in 1907 and Thomas Leo in 1908. William Gordon died at Hobart 11 November 1936. Elizabeth Bone-Gordon died at Hobart in 1944.
GOUGH Benjamin Gough was tried at the Maidstone Quarter Sessions, Kent, 4 July 1844 and sentenced for 10 years. He applied to marry Flora Macdonald in 1851. She was tried at the Glasgow Court of Judiciary 1 October 1846 and sentenced to 7 years. Aged 49, Benjamin Gough married Flora McDonald, aged 38, in Hobart in 1851. Flora Gough died in 1853. Benjamin Gough (aged 68) married Mary Ann Sumners (aged 66) in 1870. He died in 1882, aged 77.
GRACE Aged 33, Pierce Cantwell was tried in Queen's Co. 15 March 1844 and sentenced to 15 years for "maliciously killing sheep" the property of Mr. Dispard of Queen's Co. He arrived on the Cadet 24 August 1844.Some of the children of ex-convict Pierce/Pierre Grace (aka Pierce Cantwell/Cantwill) and the ex-convict Catherine Grace, née Whelan were born in the Port Cygnet area. On 29 July 1858, he was found guilty of stealing two bull calves with Michael Hassett. Sentenced to be sent to Port Arthur.
Catherine Grace was tried at Carlow, Co. Carlow 17 October 1844 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing a tea caddy. She arrived in Hobart on board the Tasmania 3 December 1845. She was married (to Pierce Grace) and three of her children were on board. Brothers Patrick and John Whelan. One sister Bridget in Manchester.
The three children who came out with Catherine Grace were Mary, Catherine and Bridget. Mary Grace married Thomas Francis Taylor at Hobart in 1853. Catherine Grace married Michael Hassett in 1856. Bridget Grace married John Stephens in 1865. Piery Grace is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Pierce Grace married Hanorah O'Brien in 1873. John Grace married Mary Markham in 1875 and William Grace married Mary's sister Ann Markham in 1877. Catherine Grace died in 1887, aged 71. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Michael and Pierre Grace were farmers. Pierce Grace leased a farm and house on 7 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). According to the 1851 Census, John Grace lived at Lymington.
GRAHAM Charles Graham married Bridget Larkin in Hobart in 1852. He was tried at the Pontefract Quarter Sessions, York, 4 April 1842 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation. Children: John (1853), Mary (1858), Amelia (1860). Charles Graham leased a farm on 5 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay (VR58). Ann Graham is listed as living at Nicholls Rivulet in 1867 (MDT).
According to the 1852 Census, Joseph Graham lived at Lymington. Two convicts had the name Joseph Graham.
Thomas Graham married Ann Elizabeth Walton at Hobart in 1847. Children: Sarah Ann (1848; married James Rowe at Franklin in 1868; died at Sandy Bay in 1921, aged 72), Thomas (1851; married Harriet Clark in Hobart in 1878 - she died in 1883 - and Elizabeth Ann Reading/Redding at Hobart in 1905; died at Gardner's Bay in 1927, aged 76), William (1853-1854) and Mary Ann (1854; married William Wheatley at Hobart in 1875; died at Battery Point in 1908, aged 54). Thomas Graham died in Hobart in 1857, aged 36. Ann Graham married John Nichols (1828-1912) in Hobart in 1875.
The children of Thomas and Elizabeth Graham born at Gardner's Bay: Thomas John (1905; married Kathleen Clark in 1935; died at Hobart in 1973), Lily May (1906; married Walter Watkins; died in 1987), William (1908; married Kathleen Barnes; died in 1982) and Sarah Ann, called "Corrie" (1916; married William Jarvis in 1935; died in 1990). Elizabeth Graham died at Gardner's Bay in 1947, aged 70.
GRAY James Gray and Sophia Guest had a daughter in 1886.
GREEN According to the 1851 Census, Thomas Green lived at Deep Bay with his wife and son. John Green married Harriet Langdon in 1867. One daughter was registered in Port Cygnet in 1869.
Frederick Charles Green married Agnes Gilbert at Hobart in 1905. Children: Charles Frederick (1906, Glenorchy) and Myrtle Daphne (1908, Nicholls Rivulet; married Theodore Burr in 1929). In 1914 and 1922 Frederick Green was a farmer at Nicholls Rivulet.
Henry and Phylotta Green lived at Deep Bay in 1914. By 1919 they moved to Hobart.
Joseph Henry Green married Christina May Thomas at Gardner's Bay in 1912. Children: Henry Arthur (1913, Deep Bay), Neta Jean (1914, Deep Bay), Frederick Joseph (1916, Cygnet) and Allan Edward (1918, Cygnet). In 1914 and 1922 the family lived at Deep Bay. Christina Green died in 1973, aged 78.
GREGORY Thomas Gregory died in 1868, aged 65. Thomas Gregory leased a farm on 5 acres at Port Cygnet from Elijah Hedditch. He also leased a house and land on 10 acres near Port Cygnet. He is listed as living at Cradoc Road in 1867 (MDT). Nine convicts had the name Thomas Gregory.
GRELL Benjamin Grell and Elizabeth Gradey had a son Benjamin in 1862.
GRIFFIN James Griffin died in 1862, aged 30.
GRIFFITHS/GRIFFITH Alfred Griffiths (c.1832-1910) married Mary Ann Poultney at Bothwell in 1857. Children: Alfred (1859, Bothwell), C. Edward (1861, New Norfolk-1939, Victoria), Ernest Henry (1863-1942), Ada (1867, Kingston; unmarried; died at Cradoc in 1909, aged 42), Herbert (1869, Kingston-1958), Alice (1879, Port Cygnet; died 1879), Emily (1883, Port Cygnet). Alfred Griffiths died at Cradoc 19 December 1910, aged 78.
Herbert Stancel Griffiths married Lenor Fyfe at Hobart in 1900. Children: Emily May (1900, Hobart), Leonard Roy (1902, Cradoc), Ruby Adeline Emma (1904, Cradoc; married Henry Edward Lampkin at New Town in 1924), Kenneth Edward (1906, Cradoc; married Evelyn Myra Grant at New Town in 1930; died in 1980), twins Raymond Alfred (1909-1909) and Clifford Herbert (1909-1909), Hilda Lenor (1910, Cradoc), Clarence Arthur George (1912, Battery Point; married Molly Josephine --; died at Hobart 4 June 1970), Tasman (1914, Cradoc) and Lorna Pearl (1919, Battery Point). Lenor Griffiths died at New Town 29 April 1942, aged 65. Herbert S. Griffiths died in July 1958, aged 91. They were buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
Ernest Henry Griffiths married Clara Cross (1880-1934) in 1903. Their children: Ralph Edward Claude (Lymington 1904-1990), Mary Elizabeth (1905, Port Cygnet-1980), Clara Rose (1906, Cradoc-1980), Elsie Jane (1908, Cradoc-1980), Edith Laurel (1910, Cradoc-1992), Charles Ernest (1912, Battery Point-1953), Sydney Robert (1914, Lymington-1979), Leslie Alfred (1917-1980) and Alma Joyce (1924-2008). Clara Griffiths died in 1934, aged 53. Ernest H. Griffiths died at Lymington 12 December 1942, aged 78, and was buried in the Methodist cemetery at Cygnet.
GRIGGS Ernest Griggs (1869-1946) married Adeline Norris in 1891. Children: Cyril Waldemar (1891-c.1972) and Carl Clyde (1909-1966). The family lived at Glaziers Bay 1914-1919. Ernest Griggs died in NSW in 1946 and Adeline Norris died at Sydney in 1953..
GROSSE Emiel Gustave Albert, called "Harry" Grosse (1875, Sandy Bay - 1947, NSW) was the son of Ferdinand William Grosse (1839, Prussia - 1912, Hobart) and Hilda Maria Elizabeth Zarth. He married Mary Jane "Dolly" Machin at Port Cygnet in 1902. Children: Kathleen (1904, Port Cygnet-1989), Keith Harold (1907, Cygnet-1971), Allan George (1909, Cygnet-1975), Phyllis Cygnet (1912, Cygnet), Bruce Burwyn (1917, Cygnet-1967). Mary J. Grosse lived at Cygnet in 1914.
GROVES Henry Groves was born at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, the son of Barnabas and Rosanna Groves, née Barnes. He was tried at the Newport Borough Quarter Sessions at Guildhall, Newport, the Isle of Wight 18 April 1849 for stealing five sheep from William Lane. After the trial he attempted to escape from gaol but was recaptured. He is listed in the 1841 and 1851 census. Aged 25, Henry Groves married Margaret Rainsford, aged 20, in Hobart in 1857. They had eleven children in Port Cygnet from 1857 to 1879. Henry Groves leased a house and land on 10 acres at Port Cygnet (VR58). A daughter, Mary Groves (1859-1936), married James Holland in 1881 (the son of Joseph and Mary Holland). Margaret Groves (b.1871) married Joseph Torley. Michael Joseph Groves (b.1878) married Amy Mary Colk. Henry Groves died at Derby 12 May 1913, aged 85. Margaret Groves died at Gladstone, 11 April 1910. She emigrated from Dublin with her mother, Mary Rainsford, née Bloxham, 29 November 1854 per the Caroline Middleton. She was the daughter of William and Mary Rainsford of Dublin. Death notice in the Examiner 13 October 1910. She left a will dated 1910.
GUEST George William Guest (1828 Hobart -1901 Port Cygnet) owned a farm and orchard on 14 acres at Gardners Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Gardners Bay in 1867 (MDT) and as a farmer in the 1890 PO Directory. He died at Gardner's Bay in 1901, aged 72. His wife, Sophia Guest, died at Hobart in 1909, aged 83.
GUY William Guy was a soldier in the 99th Foot Regiment born at Cahirconlish in Co. Limerick, Ireland. He married Catherine Royston at Sydney in NSW. Their children: Mary (1849-1872), Margaret (1851), Patrick James (1853-1855), Bridget (1855), Catherine (1856), John (1858-1868), William (1861), Edward James (1863-1875), Eliza Jane (1865), Ellen (1867). William Guy is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.41). He leased a farm on 500 acres at Irishtown (Nicholls Rivulet) (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1880, aged 70. According to the 1890 PO Directory, William Guy was a farmer. Catherine Guy died at Guy's Road, Port Cygnet, 29 July 1907, aged 84. Bridget Guy married George Machem. Ellen Guy married John Rogers. William Guy married Mary Ann Grundy. Margaret Guy married Richard Williams.
GYNGELL Henry Gyngell and Kate Whitton had two sons in the 1890s.
HALL According to the 1851 Census, William Hall lived at Martin's Point with his wife and two daughters. Thirty-two convicts had the name William Hall.
HALLOTT/ALLOT The convict Margaret Murphy asked permission to marry Henry Hallott (free) in 1851. She was tried in Co. Dublin 9 April 1847, aged 32, for a felony and sentenced to seven years. Henry Allott (born in Hobart) died in 1854, aged 2. Harriet Allott born 22 Jan 1857 and died three days later.
HALTON/HAULTON/HATTON James Halton (c.1816-1879) died at Petchey's Bay said to be aged 75. His wife Catherine Halton, née Spouse died in 1898, said to be aged 81. James Halton owned a farm on 55 acres at Petchey's Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). Catherine Spouse (c.1818-1898) was tried in Edinburgh 6 February 1837 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing wearing apparel. She married James Halton in 1847. Their children: Jane (1846; married John Russell in 1861; died in 1911), Catherine (1848; married William Folder in 1871; died in 1911), James (1850; married Esther Mann in 1876; died in 1910), John (b.1851; died early), Thomas (1854; married Mary Strong in 1877; died in 1909), Mary Ann (1856-1857) and John (c.1859; married Elizabeth Strong in 1879; died in 1925).
HAMMOND Alfred William Hammond (1863, Franklin - 1933, Hobart) was the son of William Hammond (c.1832, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England - 1902, Geeveston) and Sarah Giffen Geeves (1841-1917). He married Elsie Norris at Franklin in 1900. Children: Merlin Norris (1901, Geeveston; married Laura Clark in 1926; died in 1968), Elsie May, called "Dolly" (1904, Geeveston; married James Clark; died in 1967) and Dulcie Muriel (1908, Geeveston-1988), twins Harold "Rex" (1914; married Dorothy Driscoll; died in 1980), Stanley George (1914; married Lois Verrall; died in 1982) and Gwendoline Joyce (1916; married Geoffrey Pogson). Alfred Hammond died in Hobart in 1933. Elsie Hammond died 27 July 1966, aged 90, and was buried at the Cradoc cemetery.
HANNAHAN/HANRAHANN John Hanrahan and Mary Coy had children in the 1890s and in the early 1900s (see above under Coy). Isabell Hanrahan died in 1913.
HANSLOW/HENSLOW/HASLOW Albert Hanslow (1965-1946) married Mary Lancaster at Port Cygnet in 1888. Children: Walter (1888-1889), Charlotte, called Annie (1889; entered the Sisters of St. Joseph 15 August 1910 as Sr. Bernard; died at Hobart 19 September 1966), Lilla (1891; married William H. Cooper), Edith May (1896, Richmond; died in 1920, aged 24), Augustine (1901, Richmond) John and George (1905; married Thelma Coombes; died in 1986). The Hanslow family lived at Port Cygnet from 1888 until the early 1890s.
HARDING Joseph Harding (c.1799-1849) was born at Kentish Town in London. He was tried at the Old Bailey 11 April 1820 and given a life sentence for stealing a watch. According to the 1842 Census, Thomas (a mistake for Joseph) Harding lived in a bark dwelling at Port Cygnet with his wife and one son aged between 2 and 7. Joseph Harding married Johanna Conway in Hobart in 1838. Their son Joseph bapt. Hobart in 1838. He died in 1849, aged 50. Born in Co. Kerry c.1812, Johanna Conway was tried at the Old Bailey 13 June 1836 and given a life sentence for stealing clothes. She married the convict Edward Gooday in 1849.
HARRIS James Harris (1837-1935) was born in Sydney 19 August 1837. He arrived in Tasmania at the age of 13 where he stayed with his uncle, William Harris. He was a pupil at Hutchins School 1850-1853. He was apprenticed to a cabinet maker for 6 years and spent 8 years working in that activity in New Zealand. He worked for the Garden Island Creek Sawmilling Co. after the 1880s. He married Eliza Smith in Hobart in 1872. Children: William Samuel Thomas (1873, Hobart; married Brightie Wilson at Port Cygnet in 1906; died in 1952), Arthur James (1875, Hobart; died at Sydney in 1947), Amy Lilias (1877, Hobart; married Harold Hawson at Garden Island Creek in 1904; died in 1962), Eva Matilda (1878, Hobart; died 1878), Ida Isabel (1880, Hobart; married George Albert Heatherbell in Hobart in 1920; died in 1957), Elsie Beatrice (1881, Hobart; married William Heatherbell at Hobart in 1920; died in 1931), Maud Emily (1885, Hobart; married Roy Clennett at Garden Island Creek in 1915; died in 1971), Sydney Maurice (1886, Hobart; unmarried; died at Sydney in 1950), John Charles (1888, Hobart; married Jean Isobel Blackmore; died at Sydney in 1934), Tasman Talune (1889, Hobart; married Ada May Heatherbell in Hobart in 1920; died in 1977) and Eric Gordon (1891, Gordon; married Elsie Davidson Smith at Hobart in 1924; died in 1976). The family moved from Hobart to Garden Island Creek in 1891. Eliza Harris died at Garden Island Creek 12 June 1931, aged 80. James Harris died there 19 February 1935, aged 97. They were buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
HARRISON Frederick Harrison (c.1822-1908) was tried at the York Assizes 8 March 1845, aged 23, and sentenced for 20 years for highway robebry. He married Mary Davis in Hobart in 1853. Children: Anne Elizabeth (1851-1939), William Thomas (1853-1864), Mary (1855-1915), Catherine (1856-1922), Benjamin Brown (1857-1935), Agnes Hodson (1859-1942), Frances (1861-1925), Mary Jane (1863), Frederick William (1865), male (1867-1867), Eva Martin (1868-1946), George Christopher Davis (1871-1908) and female (1872). Frederick Harrison is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.50). He owned 9 acres of township land at Cradoc and leased another 10 acres at Cradoc (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living in Cradoc in 1867 (MDT). Mary Harrison died in 1872 after childbirth aged 40. Frederick Harrison died in 1908, aged 86 and was buried in St. Mark's Cemetery
Benjamin Brown Harrison married Hanorah Stack in 1879 and they had five children in the 1880s. Cyclopedia of Tasmania: "Benjamin Brown Harrison was born at Cradoc in June 1857, and brought up to farming pursuits on his father's property. He started business on his own account in 1879, and a few years afterwards went into horticultural pursuits. He had two orchards, that on which the homestead stood, comprised 100 acres, 15 of which were under fruit, and the other of 50 acres, 14 of which were fruit-bearing. Harrison grew various descriptions of fruit, but principally Sturmers, scarlet pearmains, Adams' pearmains, ribstons, and French crabs. Portions of his acreage were also under pear crop. He exported largely to the intercolonial markets, and his brands were a guarantee of quality. He had taken a great interest in public affairs, and was for a few years a member of the Port Cygnet Road Trust. He was married to Miss Honorah Marie Stack, a daughter of an old identity in the Huon district, and as of 1900 they had a family of five children". Daughter Grace Harrison (1884-1908) died aged 23 and buried in St. James Cemetery. The eldest daughter Mary Harrison (1880-1915) died aged 35 and buried in St. James Cemetery. Honora Harrison died in Cradoc in 1917 (death notice Mercury) and was buried in St. James Cemetery. Benjamin B. Harrison was buried at St. Peter's in Cradoc.
HARTNEY Michael Hartney (c.1809-1880) was a military pensioner who arrived in Hobart Town 6 June 1851 on board the Lady Kennaway with his wife Theresa Nolan and two children: Elizabeth (1843; married Thomas Oliver Arthur; in 1874; died in 1929) and Edward (c.1850; married Emma Green; died at Zeehan in 1908). Children born in Tasmania: Mary (1851; married John Curley in 1879; died in 1907), Teresa (1855), Jane (1857; died from burns in 1861) and John Gustav (1860; married Emily Hendrie at Melbourne in 1888; died in Melbourne in 1936). He owned a farm and house on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1880 (death notice in the Mercury). Theresa Hartney died in 1884 aged 60.
HARVEY Joseph Harvey (baptised Somersham, Suffolk 12 October 1823; died Hobart 1915, aged 93; death notice Mercury) was tried 9 July 1841 at the Ipswich Quarter Sessions, Suffolk and transported for housebreaking. He arrived in Hobart on the Tortoise in 1842 and sought permission to marry Mary Ann Balfour (free) in 1854. They married in Hobart in 1854 and had children in the 1850s and 1860s. He leased a house and land on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He is listed as owner of the Commercial Hotel in the 1890 PO Directory.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania: "Robert Harvey commenced business in 1878, and owned the largest business in Southern Tasmania, outside Hobart. He was one of the first shippers of apples to London, and had packed large quantities of fruit for that market every year since. He also established fruit drying and preserving works, which were the largest and most complete in the colony. Here were manufactured the celebrated 'R.H.' brand of evaporated apples, cider, etc., which had a large and increasing sale. Commercial Stores, Port Cygnet; Butcher, Baker and General Storekeeper; Fruit Merchant, Orchardist, Landowner, and Investor; Sawmill Owner and proprietor of the Mount Cygnet Coal Mines." Robert Harvey married Eliza Geeves. Eliza Harvey died in 1936, aged 79. Both buried in St. Mark's Cemetery. Thella Harvey married Arthur Cockerill at St. Mark's in 1907. Mellissa Harvey married Francis Wills at St. Mark's in 1907. Arthur Harvey married Amelia Gordon at St. Mark's in 1920.
HASSETT/HASSIT The eldest child of John Hassett (c.1835-1914) and Charlotte Ross (c.1846-1925), Mary Hassett, was born in Port Cygnet in 1865. The other children were born in Launceston or Hobart. John Hassett leased a farm on 4 acres at Glen Eden near Glaziers Bay (VR58). Mary Hassett married Joseph Benson at Hobart in 1883 and died ay Lymington in 1936.
Michael Hassett, aged 22, married Catherine Grace, aged 16, in Franklin in 1856 (the daughter of Pierce and Catherine Grace). Michael and Catherine had a son Thomas, born in Franklin in 1857, who married his first cousin, Charlotte Hassett (the daughter of John and Charlotte Hassett) and who died in NZ in 1926. Michael Hassett leased a farm on 4 acres at Glen Eden near Glaziers Bay (VR58). He was tried in Co. Clare 2 July 1849 and sentenced for "killing a cow with felonious intent." He arrived at Hobart 12 February 1853. He died in Hobart 1872, aged 35.
HAYLEY According to the 1842 Census, Thomas Hayley lived in a wood dwelling on 4 acres at Port Cygnet with his wife and two children.
HEATHERBELL George Heatherbell (1852, Shropshire, England-1943, Nelson, NZ) lived at Port Cygnet in 1914 with members of his family. Three of his sons joined the A.I.F. in 1916: Percy Edward (1891-1917), William Ernest (1887; married Elsie Harris in 1920; died in 1960) and Gordon Graham (1895-1971). Another son, George "Albert" (1889-1933), married Ida Harris in 1920. He died in 1933, aged 44, and was buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
HEDDITCH Elijah Charles Hedditch (1815-1896) married Sophia Fitch in Hobart in 1838. He is listed in the census for 1843 and 1848. He is listed living at Port Cygnet in 1854 (letter published in the Mercury 8 July 1854). He was the son of Samuel Hedditch and Sarah Charlton, baptised at Gillingham in Dorset, 31 July 1815. Samuel and Sarah Hedditch were married at Gillingham, Dorset, 16 April 1807. Samuel Hedditch, baptised 28 December 1784 at Gillingham, was the son of John and Mary Hedditch. Elijah Hedditch married Sophia Fitch in Hobart in 1838. Children: Elijah Charlton (1840-1923), Edwin Henry (1842-1886), Francis Octavius (1844-1853), Celia Isabella (1846-1905), Emily Thirza (1848), Sophia Therese (1850), Esther Sarah (1853-1922), Mary Ann (1859-1944). Sophia Hedditch, died in Hobart in 1859, aged 39 - death notice Mercury. Aged 44, Elijah Hedditch married Sarah Harriet Flexmore, aged 34, in Hobart in 1861. Frank Flexmore Hedditch (1863-1949). According to the 1851 Census, Elijah Hedditch lived at Port Cygnet where ten other people were listed. He ran the Bush Inn hotel at Port Cygnet. He also owned a house and shop (VR58). He died at Latrobe in 1896.
HEENEY/HEENY John Heeney (c.1828-1907) married Margaret Kenar. Their children: James (1874-1938), Margaret (1875), Julia (1878; married John Rodman in 1893), Caroline (1882), Elizabeth (1884; married Frederick T. Bender at Upper Huon in 1907), Nora (1885; married Dennis Harris at Hobart in 1914), John (1887; died as the result of an accident at Kumara in New Zealand in 1935), Jane Margaret, called "Kate" (1889; married William H. Smith at Hobart in 1908; died at Melbourne in 1975) and Walter Joseph (1891). Margaret Heeney died at Gardner's Bay 7 May 1891 (registered as "Hemey"). John Heeney is described as a farmer in the 1890 PO Directory. He died at Gardners Bay 22 January 1907, aged 79 and was buried at Cygnet.
HELM Jacob Philip Helm (c.1859-1934, Dundedin, NZ) and Catherine Hague (1854, Huonville - 1929, Dunedin, NZ) had children 1880-1896, some of whom were born in Port Cygnet (Clara in 1888; Margaret in 1890, Leslie in 1892). Jacob P. Helm is described as a gardener in the 1890 PO Directory.
HENCHALL George Henchell died in 1894, aged 26.
HENLEY/HANDLEY/HANLEY/HENDLEY James Hanley (1816-1879) was tried at the Surrey Gaol Delivery in 1833 and given a life sentence. He arrived in Sydney in 1834 and came to VDL in 1846. He married Mary Ann Donohoe, née Brimblecomb in Hobart in 1852. Children: Catherine (1854), James (c.1856), William Henry (1858), George Henry (1860-1864), Edward (1863), Julia (1865), Evalina (1867). James Henley is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.15). He is listed as a farmer living in Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He was a blacksmith and died in 1879, aged 74. Mary Ann Henley died in 1903.
James Henley junior and Fanny Phillips married in 1879 and had children in the 1880s. According to the 1890 PO Directory, James Henley was a blacksmith and Mary Ann Henley was a fruit-grower. James Ernest Henley died in 1906 (death notice Mercury). William Henley and Emily Nichols married in 1886 and had children in the 1880s, the 1890s and in the early 1900s. William Henley, a contractor, died at Gardners Bay in 1920, aged 61 (death notice Mercury). Emily Henley died in 1942, aged 82.
William Hanley (c.1806-1876) owned a farm on 10 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet and another farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He was a convict guard on board the Lady Kennaway and arrived at Hobart Town 6 June 1851. By 1858 he was located at Port Cygnet. He arrived in Tasmania with his wife, Johanna Hanley née Boyle, and the following chldren: Thomas, William and John. Children born in VDL: Honora (1851) and Margaret (1854). In the 1860s the family moved to NSW. He died at Cooma in NSW in 1876. Johanna Hanley died at Redfern in Sydney in 1902.
HENNESEY/HENNESSEY/HENNESAY/HENNESY John Hennessy was tried in Co. Limerick 16 July 1849. He applied for permission to marry Isabella Winchester (free) in 1855. They married in Hobart in 1855. There were 15 children, some born in Port Cygnet from 1864 to 1883. John Hennessy is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT) and he is listed in the 1890 PO Directory. He died in 1902. Isabella Hennessy died at Alonnah in 1921 (death notice Mercury). An Isabella Hennessey died in Port Cygnet in 1892, aged 32. She is buried in St. James Cemetery (death notice Mercury).
HENNIGAN James Hennigan married Maryanne Holehan in 1884. According to the 1890 PO Directory, James Henigan was a farmer. Mary Ann Hennigan died in Hobart in 1905 (death notice Mercury).
HENRY John Henry died in 1859, aged 13.
Patrick Henry was a military pensioner. He married Christina Miller in Brighton in 1852. Children: Mary (1852), Arthur (1860) and Mary (1862). He owned a farm and house on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living in Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1879, aged 70 (death notice Mercury).
John Henry married Margaret Denehey in 1873.
HENSHAW William Henshaw (c.1827-1906) was tried at the Leicester QS 5 January 1846 and sentenced to 15 years' transportation for stealing and killing 3 sheep. He and Elizabeth Brodie had 3 children. Tried at Glasgow 28 April 1846, Elizabeth Brodie was sentenced to 10 years' transportation for stealing a gown. The children of William and Elizabeth Henshaw: Elizabeth Louisa (c.1860; married Hugh Stevenson in 1879; died in 1953, aged 92), John (c.1861; married Elizabeth Mary Woodward in 1890; died in Melbourne in 1944), Jane Ellen (1864; married Charles Woodward in 1886; separated; married Patrick Purcell in 1906; died at North Hobart in 1944). Elizabeth Henshaw died in 1884, aged 53. William Henshaw died in 1906.
HERLIHY/HERDLEIGHY/HERLEHY/HERLEIGH/HERLEIGHY/HERLEHY/HERLONG/HERLEY/HERLITY Timothy Herlihy, aged 32, was tried at Cork City 5 August 1842 and transported for life for "throwing vitriol". He left Kingston 22 September 1842 on board the Navarino and arrived in Hobart 10 January 1843. Timothy "Herhity" is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.155). He later applied to have his family brought out from Ireland. His wife, Margaret Herlihy, and four children (Patrick aged 18), John aged 16, Thomas aged 14 and Barry aged 12) arrived on board the Coromandel in 1853 from St. Ann's, Cork. A daughter was born c. 1856, Mary Ann Herlihy. Timothy Herlihy leased a property of 10 acres (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living in Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). Margaret Herlihy died at Port Cygnet in 1890, aged 77.
Patrick Herlihy (c.1834-1926; death notice Mercury) married Bridget Agnes Leo (c.1838-1911; death notice Mercury) in 1860 in Franklin. Children born at Petchey's Bay: Margaret Mary (1861), Bartholomew John "Barry" (1862), Thomas Edwin (1863; died 1908), Daniel (1866; died 1941), Mary Ann (1867), John Arthur (1869; died 1870), Catherine (1871; died 1951), Ellen (1872), Bridget (1874), Male (1877; died 1877), Matthew (1880; died 1952). Patrick Herlihy leased part of a farm on 10 acres from James Halton at Brabazon, Petchey's Bay (VR58). He is listed as living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Patrick Herlihy was a farmer.
John Herlihy died in Hobart in 1869, aged 32.
Thomas Herlihy (c.1842-1879) married Ann Jones in Hobart in 1870. They had a son born 13 March 1871. Ann Herlihy died five days later, 18 March 1871 at Port Cygnet. Thomas Herlihy then married Mary Ann Maley/Maly/McLey (born c.1855) in Franklin in 1873. Children: John (1875), Mary (1876), Anne (1878). Thomas Herlihy died in 1879, aged 37. Mary Ann Herlihy re-married in 1880. Aged 23, she married Denis McCarthy (aged 43). Children: Hanorah (1881), Margaret (1886), Denis (1887), Male (1892).
Ann Herlihy (born c.1843) died in 1871, aged 28. No records for Barry Herlihy born c.1841. Mary Ann Herlihy (born c.1856) married James Daniel Batchelor (born c.1850) at Franklin in 1870.
HERR Frederick Herr and Laura Wessing had a daughter in 1898.
HICKEN The convict Abel Hicken (c.1800-1869) was tried at the Warwick Quarter Sessions 13 January 1823 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing sheep. He was born at Middleton in Warwickshire, the son of John and Nancy Hicken. He arrived January 1824 on board the Asia. He applied to marry the convict Mary Devine in 1832. He had a daughter Elizabeth (1835-1909). He gave his residence as Port Cygnet at St. Joseph's, Hobart, when he married Catherine Fenwick in January 1846. He died at Daylesford in Victoria in 1869. Catherine Hicken died at Geelong in Victoria in 1887.
HICKEY Lawrence Hickey (born c.1823) sought permission to marry Catherine Hinchey in 1855. They married in Richmond in 1855. He was tried at Fort William. Two children born in Port Cygnet in 1865 and 1868 (others born in Franklin and Richmond). Lawrence Hickey is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT).
HICKS John Hicks died in 1892, aged 76.
HILL Mary Hill died in 1858, aged 63.
Thomas Hill was a military pensioner. He owned a farm and house on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58).
Walter "Thomas" Hill married Susannah Garth in 1872. They had a daughter, Grace, in 1873. He was drowned in 1875. Susannah Hill married James Laffer in 1883.
Richard Hill (1852-1925) married Mary Anne Kinsella (1856-1942) in Port Cygnet in 1880. He is described as a farmer in the 1890 PO Directory. Three of their nine children were born in Cygnet: James (1886-1966), Hubert (1888-1967) and Francis (1890-1909).
HINES John Hines married the widow Margaret Armstrong, née Redmond in 1869. They had a son Patrick in 1869. John Hines is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). According to the 1890 PO Directory, John Hines was a farmer. Margaret Hines died at Cradoc in 1914.
HOGAN Michael Hogan (c.1871-1947) married Martha Lilian Maxfield at Strahan in 1900. The family moved to Deep Bay c.1914. Children born in the district: Mervyn Henry (1914-1958), Kathleen Mary (1916; married Roy Garrod), Sylvia and Valerie Veronica (married Roy Morris). Other children: Sydney Bert (1901-1953), Ivy Gladys (1904: married Edward P. Dillon), May Mona Violet (1906; married James Hogan), Thelma Zena (1908; married Jonathan Moore) and Sadie Elizabeth (1910; married Heseltine Hardinge; died in 1952). Michael Hogan died at Hobart 26 April 1947, aged 76. Martha Hogan died in April 1965, aged 87. They were buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
HOLDEN Albert Holden and Martha Wesley had a daughter in 1896.
HOLEHAN Walter Holehan married Marianne Kelly in 1866. He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1874, aged 41. Marianne Holehan re-married.
HOLLAND Joseph Holland (1807/09-1884) enlisted in the 10th Regiment of Foot soldiers (Lincolnshire Regiment) at Newry, 20 Sept. 1825. Born in Seagoe, near Portadown, Co. Armagh, Ireland. A weaver by trade. He served 21 years and 286 days in the army, abroad for 16 and a half years (11 years in the Mediterranean and 5 years for the East India Company). In 1826, he left Ireland for Portugal. In 1828, he went to Corfu returning to Cork in 1838. He married Mary Collins (c.1819-1892) in Manchester Cathedral, England, 21 Sept. 1840. According to the 1841 census in England, aged 34, Joseph Collins resided at the Salford Barracks in Manchester. In 1842, he was in India. Fought and wounded at the Battle of Sobraon in the Punjab, 10 Feb. 1846 (Part of the First Anglo-Sikh War). Returned to England and discharged at Chatham, 22 Aug. 1848. Children: Agnes (c.1848, England), Sophia (c.1850, Port Cygnet), Joseph (1854-1877), James (1856, Port Cygnet), Richard (1859, Port Cygnet), Daniel (1862, Port Cygnet), Alice (1865, Port Cygnet). Joseph Holland owned a farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). He died in Port Cygnet in 1884, aged 75. Mary Holland died in 1892, aged 73. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Mary Holland was a fruit-grower.
HOLLOWAY/HOLLEWAY/HOLLAWAY Patrick Holloway (c.1818-1887) arrived in Melbourne, Victoria with his wife Ann Holloway, née Boland and their two children, Mary Holloway (born c.1846), aged 23, and their son Patrick Holloway (born 1854) on board the Royal Oak in April 1868. According to the Cyclopedia of Tasmania, Patrick and Ann Holloway were married at Ferbane, King's Co. in Ireland. Ann Holloway died at Port Cygnet in 1869. The Cyclopedia mentions that there were four sons (one was Joseph Francis Holloway c.1852-1879) and two daughters. The other daughter was Margaret Holloway (c.1847-1879) who married Timothy Phelan. Upon arrival in Melbourne, Patrick Holloway's age was given as 50 and his wife, Ann, was said to be 48. Patrick Holloway senior was a member of the Port Cygnet Road Trust 1897-1900 and treasurer to that body as of 1899. Aged 60, he married the ex-convict Ellen Daley, née McKnight, aged 61, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Hobart, 3 June 1878. He died in Port Cygnet in 1887, said to be aged 76. He and his first wife were buried at St. James Cemetery. Ellen Holloway died at the New Town Charitable Institution, aged 83, 4 July 1899. She was buried in the pauper section at Cornelian Bay, 5 July 1899.
Patrick Holloway jun. married Alice Mary Polkey in Melbourne in 1877. Four children: Adolphus Ambrose (1877-1927), Joseph Francis Holloway (1889-1953), Thomas William (1890-1961), and Ann Elizabeth (1892). Alice Holloway died at Cygnet in 1911. Patrick Holloway married Mary Anne Delahunty in 1914 at St. James. Patrick Holloway died in Hobart in 1939.
Mary Holloway married Patrick Synnott in Port Cygnet in 1874. Children: James (1875), Joseph (1876), John (1878), Thomas (1880), Anna (1881), Michael (1884), Raymond Peter (1886) and Mary Jane (1889).
Joseph Holloway married Harriett Dergess in Hobart in 1871. Children: Joseph Francis, (1873, New Norfolk; died in 1882), Edward James (1875, Hobart; married Edith Clarke; died in Melbourne in 1967) and Arthur John (1878, Hobart; married Janet Henderson at Melbourne in 1899; died at Melbourne in 1948). He was accidentally killed at the erection of St. Mary's Cathedral, Hobart, in February 1879 aged 27. Death notice in Mercury.
Margaret Holloway, aged 20, married Timothy Phelan, aged 40, in 1867 at Tasman. Children: Mary (1870, Tasman), Michael (1871, Tasman), a son (1873, Tasman), Margaret (1876, Port Cygnet). Margaret Phelan, died in May 1879 aged 31.
Adolphus Ambrose Holloway (1877-1927) married Mary Jane Bell in 1905. Children: Augusta Frances (1905; married Percy Watson in 1924; died in 1937), Patrick Adolphus (1907; married Nona Direen; married Eileen Halton; died in 1962), Edith "May" (1909; married George Jennings; died in 1990), Edward (1912; married Lois Direen; died in 1986), Alice Sarah (1914; married Hilary O'Neill; died in 1995), Greta Mary (1916; married Bernard Gibbens; died in 1973) and Anne Aileen (1918; married Stanley Halton; died in 1998). Mary Jane Holloway married John Goodrick in 1928. She died in 1956.
Thomas William Holloway married Catherine Dwyer in 1912 at SHC. Children: Thomas (1912; married Jean Anning; died in 1980), Catherine (1914; married Eric Bantoff; married Wallace Clifford; died in 1979), Sheila (1915; married Cecil O'Donnell; died in 1994), Charles (1916; married Marjorie Watts; died in 1982), Harold (1919; married Cathlene Cooke; died in 1991) and William (1920-1963).
Joseph Holloway married Elizabeth Calder in 1911 at SHC. Children: John (1912), Sidonie (1913; married Joseph Bromfield; died in 1978), Edna (1914; married Edward Bailey; died in 1996), Alan (1917-1995) and Maxwell (1929-2000).
HOLMES Charles Holmes married Elizabeth Donohue Children: Mary Ann (1862) and Ellen (1864). John Holmes married Margaret Dwyer in 1885. Charles Holmes died in Hobart in 1900 (death notice Mercury). A Charles Holmes is listed in the 1851 Launceston census.
HOLT William Holt died in 1870, aged 93.
HORNBY William Hornby (c.1867-1943) married Mildred Wrigley at Cygnet in 1915. They lived on the Lymington Road until the end of the 1920s after which they moved at Lindisfarne. Mildred Hornby died in 1938, aged 62. William Hornby died in 1943, aged 76. They were buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
HORNE Robert and Mary Horne had a daughter in 1890. Robert Horne and Flora McKay had twin sons in 1917.
HORSLEY George C. Horsley (1866-1951), a builder, lived at Gardner's Bay from at least 1914 until 1937. He died at Hobart in 1951, aged 83.
HOSKING John and Anna Hosking had a daughter in 1878. Rosie Hosking married Herbert Baldwin in 1899. John Thomas Hosking died in Hobart in 1914 (death notice Mercury).
HOUGHTON William Houghton married Louisa Thorpe Turner in Franklin in 1857. Children: Susan (1858) and Eliza Ann (1860, died 1862). William Houghton died in 1862, aged 26. Susan Houghton died in 1893, aged 51. Three convicts had the name William Houghton.
HOWARD James Howard and Margaret Brereton had a daughter in 1875.
HOWELL John Howell and Margaret Smith had children in the 1870s and 1880s. Elizabeth Howell married Nathaniel Burge in 1886.
HUDSON Sarah Hudson married Joseph Dalco in 1868.
HUFF Henry Huff died in 1862, aged 40.
HULL Thomas Hull (c.1822-1911) was tried at the Leicester Borough Quarter Sessions 28 June 1841 and sentenced to 15 years for sheep stealing. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.35). He owned a farm (70 acres) at Irishtown, Nicholls Rivulet (VR58). Aged 43, he married Jane McKirdy (aged 36) at Franklin in 1864. He is listed in the 1890 PO Directory living in Port Cygnet. Jane Hull died at Battery Point in 1910, aged 81. Thomas Hull died at Battery Point in 1911, aged 89. They were buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
HUTTON Elizabeth Hutton died in 1882, aged 3.
HUXTABLE Isaac "John" Huxtable (1863-1932) married Mary G. Henry at Hobart in 1885. Children: Christina Katherine (1886-1886), Josephine Bridget, called "Brightie" (1893; married John B. Stanton at Hobart in 1915; died in 1973) and Mary Ursula "Claire" (1903; married Charles H. Wills at Cygnet in 1926; died in 1993). Mary Huxtable died at Cygnet in 1923. John Huxtable died at Hobart in 1932.
IKIN Harry Austen Ikin (born in 1867) married Rose Deakes at Hobart in 1890. Children: Ada (1891), Harry Austen (1892-1893), Harold Stewart (1894-1950), Claude (1896-1923), James (1898), Rosalind (1900-1919) and Jessie (1902). The family lived at Port Cygnet between 1908 and 1911. By 1931, some of the family had moved to Kew in Victoria.
INNES Edward George Innes (1854-1904), District Surveyor for Port Cygnet, died intestate at Port Cygnet 3 August 1904, aged 50, leaving his wife, Annie Margaret Innes née Christie and nine children. He was the son of Edward Innes (1827-1913), a police magistrate at Franklin. He joined the Civil Service 27 January 1879 and was appointed District Surveyor for Franklin 24 February 1887 in succession to the uncle George Innes (1832-1917). Edward and Annie Innes had a son, Adrian Arthur Innes, born at Port Cygnet in 1901. In 1914, Annie Innes lived at Cygnet as did her sons the shipwright Vivian O. Innes (1888-1971) and orchardist Eric E. Innes (1891-1973). Eric Innes married Winifred Thella O'Brien at Glenorchy in 1918.
IVEY Charles Leithbridge Ivey married Ethel Helena Walter at Cygnet in 1910. Children: Lily Erica (1911, Battery Point), Charles "Henry" Victor (1913-1967), Eleanor Laura (1915), Frances Norine (1917).
JAMES/JANES Frederick James (born c.1828) married Jane Kane (c.1834-1861) in 1854. The convict Frederick James was tried at Westminster, London, 16 August 1838 and given a sentence of 10 years. The convict Jane Kane arrived in 1842 from Dublin. Aged 14, she was tried in Co. Antrim, 27 June 1842 and sentenced to 7 years for larceny. Children: Mary (1855), Caroline Jane (1856), Frederick (1858-1858), Thomas (1859). Jane James died in 1861, aged 28. Caroline James married John Moore in 1889.
JARVEY William Andrew Jarvey married the ex-convict Catherine Jane Shaw (c.1822-1864) in 1844 in Hobart. They had children in Port Cygnet from 1856 to 1861. (Other children registered in Franklin and Hobart). Catherine Shaw was tried in Dublin 6 February 1843 and sentenced to 10 years for burglary. William Andrew Jarvey owned a farm on 184 acres at Jarveston, Jarvey's Bay, Huon River (VR58). W. A. Jarvey was executed at Otago for the murder of his wife Catherine Jarvey (killed by poison) in New Zealand in 1865. She died in 1864.
JENNINGS George Edward Jennings (1880-1960) married Adelaide "Daisy" Hall in Melbourne in 1904. Children: George Edward (1904; married Mary Edith, called "May" Holloway; died in 1987), Thelma Daisy (1908; married Harris Helm; died in 2009), Leslie "John" (1912; married Edith "Joyce" Carmichael; died in 1980), Benjamin James (1925; married Mary Hills; married Lillian Johns, died in 2011) and William Harril (1927; married Wendy Drake; died in 2003). George Jennings died in 1960, aged 80. Daisy Jennings died 30 October 1977, aged 94. They were buried at Cradoc cemetery.
JOBSON The convict William Jobson (baptised as "Alfred") sought permission to marry Ann Thompson in 1853. They married in Hobart in 1853. He was tried in Essex 5 March 1845 and sentenced to 10 years' transporation for house breaking and stealing. Children: Susan (1855), Charles (1858-1873), Thomas (c.1859-1866), Ann Jane (1860-1938). The family moved to N.S.W. around 1860. Ann Jobson died in N.S.W. in 1867. William re-married. He married Mary Mahony and had more children. He died in N.S.W. in 1905.
JOHNSON/JOHNSTON According to the 1851 Census, Abraham Johnson lived at Port Cygnet with his wife and children. The convict Abraham Johnson arrived free and tried at Launceston in 1839. He absconded in 1841.
Henry Johnston married Bridget Ward in 1864. Children: Ann (1857), Richard (1864), Elizabeth (1867), Louisa (1870). Henry Johnson is listed as living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). According to the 1890 PO Directory, Henry Johnson was a fruit-grower.
JOLLY/JOLLEY Edward Jolly (c.1855-1912) married Elizabeth Henrietta King in Franklin in 1875. Children: Eliza Matilda (1876), Charlotte Maria Louisa (1877), Female (1879-1879), George Edward (1880), Florence Henrietta (1883), Charles Arthur (1885-1961), Herbert Alfred (1887), Lily May (1889), Rose (1891), Albert Henry (1893) and David Lewis (1895). Edward Jolley is listed in the 1890 PO Directory. Charles Jolley married Alice Glennon at St. James in 1902. Henrietta Jolly died at Port Cygnet in 1897, aged 35. Edward Jolly married the widow Ellen Kregor at Port Cygnet in 1906. He died at Port Cygnet in 1912. Ellen Jolly died at Glen Huon in 1939.
JONES According to the 1851 Census, William Jones lived at Lymington. He is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.128). Ellen Jones married Ezekiel Truman in 1870. William and Mary Jones had a daughter in 1882. Henry Jones married Esther Stanton in 1890. Henry Jones married Etheldreda Brown in 1892. James Jones and Dora Christie had sons 1900 and 1903. Henry Jones married Hannah Dwyer at SHC in 1913. Ellen Jones married John Martin at SHC in 1921. James ("Jimmy") Albert Jones married Florence May --. He was a storekeeper at Cygnet after 1928.
KEAN George Kean and Martha Quale had a son in 1895.
KEARNEY Eric Percival Kearney (1909-1961), the son of Albert Ernest Kearney (1861, Co. Armagh, Ireland-1918, New Norfolk) and Margaret Quinlan (c.1866, Melbourne-1929, Hobart), attended school at Cygnet in the early 1920s. He died at Melbourne in 1961.
KEATING Mary Keating married Francis Maldom in 1856.
KELLAWAY/KELLEWAY John Kellaway (c.1806-1859) and Ann Kellaway (c.1794-1879) emigrated from Dorsetshire in England in 1834. Their son John Wallis Kellaway was born there c.1829. According to the 1842 census, John Kellaway lived at Woodstock Farm with ten other people. Altogether there were one married male and one married female over the age of 21, a daughter aged between 2 and 7 born in the colony, a son aged between 7 and 14 who arrived free, a girl aged over 14, five men over the age of 21 and a man over the age of 45. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.47).
John Wallis Kellaway J.P. married Elizabeth 'Eliza' Naomi Parsons in Franklin in 1865. They had two sons (1867 and 1868). J.W. Kellaway owned a farm on 1307 acres at Woodstock (VR58). He is listed as a farmer at Woodstock, Huon River in 1867, along with George Kellaway (MDT). Elizabeth Kellaway died in 1871, aged 37 (death notice Mercury). Her husband re-married. He married Marion Monteith Meyers. Children: Lancelot William (1881) and Annie Isabel (1883). George Kellaway died at Woodstock in 1877, aged 83 (death notice Mercury). J.W. Kellaway died in 1911 (death notice Mercury). Marion M. Kellaway died in 1924 (death notice Mercury).
KELLY/KELLEY Aged 34, Thomas Kelly died 30 January 1854 at Glaziers Bay due to the "falling of a tree" after the bush fires of that year.
Lawrence Kelly (1799-1876) leased part of a farm on 610 acres at Irish Town near Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as living in Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). The convict "Laurence Kelly" was tried 13 March 1845 for writing a threatening notice to his landlady. He arrived in 1845 on board the Radcliffe. He later brought out from Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, his wife (Margaret Kelly) and family: Judith/Johanna (20), Walter (20), Mary Ann (18), Ellen/Elleanor (15), Bridget (12), John (6) and Lawrence Michael (4). He died in 1876, aged 77; Margaret Kelly died in 1890, aged 88 (death notices Mercury).
Mary Ann Kelly married Walter Holehan in Port Cygnet in 1866. They had one child, Mary 'Minnie' Margaret Holehan, born 1871. She did not marry. The will of Mary Margaret Holehan is dated 1933. Walter Holehan died in 1874, aged 41 (death notice Mercury). The will of Walter Holehan is dated 1874. Mary Ann Holehan re-married in 1884, aged 45. She married James Hennigan, aged 39. She died in Hobart in 1905. The will of Mary Ann Henigan is dated 1905.
Johanna Kelly married Patrick Vale in 1851 at Hobart. Children: Margaret (1854, Hobart-1860, Kingston), Ellen (1856, Hobart), Michael (1857, Hobart), Morris (1859, Hobart), Bridget (1865, Hobart), Theresa (1867, Hobart), Francis Patrick (1870, Hobart). The will of Johanna Vale is dated 1908.
Walter Kelly married Ellen White in Hobart in 1858. One son James Edmund Kelly (1858, Hobart - 1931). James Kelly married Alice May Barker. They had one child: Walter William Kelly (1881-1947). There is a will for a Walter Kelly dated 1914.
Lawrence Michael Kelly married Margaret White in Hobart in 1873. Children: Walter (1874, Hobart), John Thomas (1875, Hobart), Lawrence Michael (1877, Hobart-1882), Mary (1878, Hobart), Margaret Helena (1880, Hobart), Richard William (1881, Hobart). The will of Lawrence Michael Kelly is dated 1925.
Patrick Matthew Kelly (from a different Kelly family) married Mary O'Neil in 1900. Children: Mary Bridget (1901-1989), Male (1902-1902), Nora "Rose", known as Sr. Benigna (1903), Matthew Patrick (1905-1968)) and Patrick (1908-1969). They lived at Cradoc. Patrick Kelly died in 1940, aged 81. Mary Kelly died in 1948, aged 81.
KENNA/KANAR/KENNAR Patrick Kenna (c.1826-1865) was tried at Clonmel in Co. Tipperary in 1846 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. He arrived in VDL in 1847. In 1853 he married Julia O'Brien. Children: Patrick John Kenna (1856-1888), John Kenna (1858). Patrick Kenna jun. married Catherine Burge in 1883. Children: Charles Edwin (1878), Victor Albert (1882), Patrick (1884), Mary (1886) and Mary Julie (1887). He died in Hobart in 1888, aged 31. Julia Kenna re-married in 1868. She married Frederick James.
KENNEDY John Kennedy was an Irish military pensioner who arrived in Hobart Town on board the Blenheim. He married Mary Malone. Children: Patrick (c.1851), Catherine (c.1854-1929), Mary (1858-1912), John (1860-1930), Bridget (1863) and Hannah (1865-1919). Patrick Kennedy married Honora Leahy in 1874. Catherine Kennedy married Thomas Coad in 1873. Mary Kennedy married Francis Coad in 1885. Hannah Kennedy married Patrick Stack in 1888. He leased a farm and house on 8 acres near Glaziers Bay. He also owned a farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). Mary Kennedy is listed as living at Huon Hill in 1867 (MDT). He died at Hobart in 1865 aged 53. Mary Kennedy married William McGill/Magill in 1870. Mary McGill died in 1884 aged 54.
KENNY Patrick Kenny was tried in Sydney and transported to Hobart, arriving in December 1842. He sought permission to marry Nancy/Ann Wrenn in 1849. Nancy Wren was tried in Co. Clare 16 June 1847, aged 16, and sentenced to 7 years for larceny. They married in Southport in 1849. Patrick Kenny is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.44). He leased a farm on 5 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay. He leased a farm at Brabazon on 10 acres from James Halton and owned a house and farm on 53 acres near Glazier's Bay (VR58). Julia Kenny is listed as living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). Patrick Kenny is listed as a farmer living at Long Bay, Honeywood, in 1867 (MDT). Children: Patrick (1856), James (1857), John (1858), Thomas (1860), Thomas (1861), Mary (1862) and a male at Franklin (1865). Ann Kenny died in Hobart in 1899, aged 77.
KERR Alexander Kerr (1815-1900) leased a house and land on 6 acres at Lymington (VR58). He is listed living at Long Bay in 1867 (MDT). He arrived in Melbourne, aged 38, on board the Shalimar 10 October 1855 with his wife Esther (aged 37) and children: James (aged 13), Alexander (aged 11), Sarah (aged 9), Joseph (aged 7), Margaret (aged 5) and Hugh (aged 1). They came to VDL on the City of Hobart. Alexander Kerr died at Woodbridge in 1900, aged 86. He was born at Ayr in Scotland.
Their son, Joseph Kerr (1847-1930), married Eliza Lambert in Franklin in 1875. Eliza Kerr died at East Preston, Victoria, 3 February 1943, aged 84. She had been Principal of Farnham School in Hobart. The children of Joseph and Eliza Kerr: Esther (1876, Franklin), Arthur Lambert (1877, Franklin; married Elizabeth Ellen McLeod at Zeehan in 1901), Erma Beatrice (1879, Hobart; unmarried; died in Victoria in 1949), Maida Josephine (1881, Gordon; unmarried; died in Victoria in 1946), Ernest (1883, Port Cygnet), Evelyn (1887, Port Cygnet) and Ronald (1889, Hobart). An interview by Joseph Kerr was published in the Huon Times 3 January 1930.
KEYTON Pearce Keyton died in 1858, aged 35.
KILDEA Allan C. Kildea (b.1887) lived at Port Cygnet 1910-1912. He was a teller at the Commercial Bank. He left the district in 1912 and later lived in NSW.
KILMARTIN/KILLMARTIN John Kilmartin (c.1831-1884) was tried in Co. Clare in 1850 (along with his sister Mary Kilmartin) and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for stealing a cow. He was imprisoned in Ireland for 6 years and subsequently released. He emigrated to VDL with his wife Bridget Rabbitt, arriving on the Vanguard in Melbourne in June 1862. They then took the Tasmania to Hobart Town. Children : Mary Anne (1862-1928), Margaret (1863-1936), Bryan Bernard (1864-1944), John (1866-1948), Michael Thomas (1867-1950), Hanorah (1869-1947), James (1870-1927), Ellen (1871-1939), Joseph (1873-1911), Stephen (1874-1935), Bridget (1877-1877) and Timothy (1878-1950). John Kilmartin is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Bridget Kilmartin died in 1881, aged 43 (death notice Mercury). John Kilmartin died in 1884, aged 55. Both buried in St. James cemetery.
Mary Anne Kilmartin (1862-1928) married William Bennett in 1896. Children: William Leonard 'Buzzy' (1898-1969), John Bernard, Dorothy May.
Brian Kilmartin (1864-1944) married Lavinia 'Lily' Elizabeth Stanton in 1895. Children: Doris (1895), Mary (1897; died), Brian Bertram (1898), Muriel Eileen (1899), John Cameron (1900), Basil James Stanton (1902), Greta Iris (1904) and Elvia Beatrice (1906). Lavinia Kilmartin died in 1908.
Michael Kilmartin married Margaret Daley in Hobart in 1890. Children born in Hobart: Gladys Winifred (1891), James Trevor (1893), John Daley (1892), Bernard Michael (1895), Marie Theresa (1898), Margaret Eleanor (1901).
James Kilmartin (1870-1927) married Alice Scanlon at St. James in 1906. Children: Michael 'Baden' (1907-1980), Bridget (1909), Christina (1910), Adeline (1912), twins Olga and James (1914, died), Janet (1915), Sylvia (1916-1998), John (1917), Patricia (1919).
Patrick Kilmartin (c.1822-1900) arrived in Hobart as a convict in 1851 on board the Blenheim together with his brother Bryan Kilmartin. Both tried for stealing two heifers 28 June 1849 in Co. Clare and sentenced to 7 years transportation. Bryan died of exhaustion in the bush in 1855, aged 30. Also tried Bryan Kilmartin junior. He died at Spike Island Gaol, Co. Cork. Three marriages are recorded for Patrick Kilmartin. Aged 35, he married Mary O'Neil (aged 26) in Hobart in 1858. She died the following year. In 1860, aged 39, he married Catherine Daley in Hobart. Catherine Kilmartin died in April 1878, aged 70. She is buried with Patrick at St. James Cemetery. In August 1878, aged 74, Patrick married Annie Clark (aged 24) in Port Cygnet. They had a son, Patrick Kilmartin, born October 1878. Annie Kilmartin died in childbirth (October 1878). Patrick Kilmartin and Catherine Sullivan had a daughter, Elizabeth Kilmartin, in 1884. Patrick Kilmartin leased a house and farm on 20 acres near Glaziers Bay (VR58). He is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Patrick Kilmartin died in 1900 (death notice Mercury). He is buried in St. James Cemetery.
The convict Mary Kilmartin (c.1828-1898) was tried in Co. Clare 27 June 1850. She arrived from Kingston 29 May 1851 on board the Blackfriar. She applied to marry Thomas Crashaw (free) 8 July 1852. She applied to marry the convict Peter Fearney 20 August 1853. They married in Hobart in 1853 (see above under Fearney). She died in Hobart in 1898, aged 70.
According to the PO Directory for 1890, Brian, John and Patrick Kilmartin were farmers.
KING Alfred Frederick King was born in 1836 at Brighton in Sussex, England. Aged 22, he married Henrietta Arthur (aged 15) in 1858. Their children: Henrietta Elizabeth (1859; married Edward Jolly at Franklin in 1875; died in 1897), Alfred (1861-1951), Thomas Arthur (1864), Emma Helena (1867), Mary Jane (1869-1950), Walter Henry (1873), Herbert Edwin (1875), Florence Victoria (1877) and Lilian Ethelindas (1879). According to the PO Directory for 1890, Alfred King was a farmer. He died in Hobart 1912. Henrietta King died in Hobart in 1913.
Alfred King and Mary Ann Herlihy had children in the 1890s. Mary King died in 1920, aged 52 and she was buried in St. James cemetery. Samuel King and Mary Calder had children in the 1890s.
KINNAR James Kinnar died in 1873, aged 18.
KITCHENHAM/KITCHANHAM William Kitchenham (c.1809-1879) was tried at the Sussex Quarter Sessions 19 March 1838 and sentenced for 15 years. He applied to marry Mary Ann Farrell in 1845. He is listed in the 1851 census living at Lymington, aged over 45, with his wife and one son. He owned a farm on 25 acres at Foster's Rivulet, Lymington (VR58). Mary Ann Kitchenham died at Esperance in 1869, aged 69. William re-married in 1874. He married Agnes Coxe (aged 46) at Franklin. He died in 1879, aged 70.
KINSELLA/KENSALLA Aged 30, James Kinsella was tried in Queens Co.13 March 1849 and sentenced for 10 years' transportation for sheep stealing. He sought permission to marry Mary Ann Conway in 1853. Mary Ann Conway, aged 20, was tried in Co. Clare 6 July 1849 and sentenced to 10 years for arson. Children born in the 1860s and 1870s. James Kinsella is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.46). He is listed as a farmer living in Bedford in 1867 (MDT). According to the PO Directory for 1890, James and William Kinsella were farmers. James Kinsella died in 1892 and Mary Kinsella died in 1900.
KREGOR/KREGER/KREGON Friedrich Wilhelm Krieger (1825-1898) left Liverpool 15 April 1855 on board the America and arrived in Hobart Town 23 July 1855. He was single, a Lutheran, single and could read. By trade he was a mason. He married Ann "Dorothea" Schultz in Franklin in 1860. Frederick Kregor is listed as living at Roberts' Bay in 1867 (MDT). In 1874, he leased a house, farm and orchard at Roberts Bay. The children of Dorothea and Fredrich Kregor: Laura (1861-1928), William George (1863-1942), Henry August (1865-1944), John Frederick (1867-1935), Catherine Henrietta Dorothea (1869-1929), Maria "Louisa" (1871-1930) and George William (1875-1951). Ann Dorothea Kregor died in 1878, aged 41. Aged 42, F.W. Kregor remarried in 1880. He married Ellen Singline, aged 21, at Franklin. The children of Ellen and Fredrich Kregor: Frances Cecilia (1882-1910), Frederick Ernest (1884; died early), Tasman Philip (1885-1954), Mary Ellen (1887-1959), Edith "Elsie" (1889-1944), Emily Rosella (1891-1906) and Alfred (1893-1916). Ellen Kregor had a son born at Roberts Bay in 1900 who died two days later. F.W. Kregor died in 1898, aged 69. Ellen Kregor married Edward Jolley in 1906. Edward Jolley died in 1912. Ellen Jolley died in 1939.
Henry A. Kregor married Jannetta Watson at St. David's Cathedral, Hobart, in 1901. Children: Henry John (1908-1973), Janetta Dorothy (1904-1995), Donald Benjamin (1906), Mary Louise (1911-1991), William George (1912), Amy (1915-2006) and Edward Gordon (1917-1985).
George W. Kregor married Catherine May Josephine Wesley (1878-1938) in 1903 at Gormanston. Children born at Glazier's Bay: George William (1904-1963), John Frederick (1906-1980), Benjamin Daniel (1907-1999), Dorothy May Josephine (1912-1976), William Francis (1914-1992) and Leslie Charles (1917-2000).
KRUSE William Henry Kruse (1840-1911) was born in Kiel, Germany. He married Anna Maria Kruse (1840-1923). The children of William and Anna Kruse: Wilhelm Heinrich (c.1872-1918), Anna Sophia Helena (c.1874-1964), Meta (c.1876-1944). William Kruse died in 1911. Anna Kruse died in 1923.
KUBE/KOUBEA/KUBA Godfrey Kube sen. (1815, Prussia-1897) married Elizabeth Kubel (born in Prussia, 1814). They emigrated per the San Francisco from Hamburg and arrived in Hobart, 2 November 1855, with their two sons, Augustus Kube (c.1838-1923) and Godfrey Kube. Godfrey and Elizabeth Kube are buried in St. Mark's Cemetery, Cygnet.Godfrey Kube (born in Prussia c.1842-1906) and Susannah Jackson, née Stocks (1839-1916) married in St. John's Anglican Church at Franklin in 1874. Their children were born in Port Cygnet or Hobart from 1867 to 1883. Godfrey Kube is listed as living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). According to the PO Directory for 1890, Godfrey Kube was a farmer. Godfrey died in Melbourne in 1906 and was buried in St. Mark's Cemetery (death notice Mercury). Susannah Kube died at Petchey's Bay in 1916. Buried in St. Mark's (death notice Mercury).. Alfred Kube and Charlotte Aird lived at Petchey's Bay. Children born there until 1914. Francis Kube and Nora Benson lived at Petchey's Bay where their children were born in 1904 and 1905.
KUPSCH/KUPSH John "Frederick" Kupsch (born in Prussia October 1835; died in Cygnet 1916 - death notice Mercury) and Charlotte Elizabeth Bender (1858-1943) married in Huonville in 1879. Children: Christina Louisa (1881-1930), Emily "Lucy" (1883), Frederick William (1887-1960), John Augustus (1890-1974), Florence Maria (1891-1960), Leonard Thomas (1894-1981), Herbert Christian (1897-1966), Lavinia "May" (1900-1985). According to the PO Directory for 1890, Frederick Kupsch was a farmer. Frederick Kupsch died in 1916. Charlotte Kupsch died in 1943.
LACKY James Lacky and Ann Ryan had a son in 1858.
LADE Cyrus Havelock Lade (1879, Fingal-1917, Egypt) was the son of John Lade (1833-1915) and Susannah Rose Bellinger (1841-1887). He served in the Boer War in South Africa in 1899. He married Leah Geraldine Douglas Cave at St. David's in Hobart in 1904. Children: Geraldine Douglas (1905, Randall's Bay; married F.J. Thomas) and Margaret Rose Douglas (1911, Randall's Bay). He was at Gallipoli in 1915 and died in Egypt in 1917. Leah Lade died in 1952, aged 70, and was cremated at Cornelian Bay cemetery. Mrs. Lade's house at Randall's Bay was destroyed by fire in 1934 (Mercury 12 February 1934).
LAFFER/LAFFERE James Laffer (1815-1896) was baptised at Saint Germans, Cornwall, 19 August 1815, the son of Richard and Sarah Laffer who married at Tregony with Cuby, Cornwall, 4 October 1810 - IGI. He is listed as living at Lymington in the 1851 Census. He owned 172 acres of land at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as an inspector of timber licenses and living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He married Emlier Isabelle Hamond in Hobart in 1851.
Their son James Laffer (c.1848-1902) married Susannah Hill, née Garth (1845-1893) in 1883. Susannah died in 1893, aged 47. According to the PO Directory for 1890, Susie Laffer was a postmistress. Susannah Garth was previously married to Walter "Thomas" Hill (who drowned in 1875). Susan and Thomas Hill had one child Grace Elizabeth Hill (born in 1873; married Frank Prosser Bowden in 1892; died in 1919). James Bernard Laffer died in 1902 in Queenstown.
LAKE The convict Benjamin Lake (c.1809-1875) was from Brothertoft in Lincolnshire. He arrived in 1846. Aged 36, he was tried at the Holland Quarter Sessions in Lincolnshire 13 October 1845 and sentenced to 15 years transportation for stealing six bushels of wheat. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.6). He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1875, aged 70.
LAMBERT Thomas Lambert and Mary Kidson had children in the 1870s.
LANCASTER/LANCASTGER James Lancaster (1828-1910) was tried at Birmingham QS 8 April 1842 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing a pair of trousers and some boots from a shop. He was born at Birmingham, the son of John and Sarah Lancatser. Aged 37, he married Harriet Campbell, aged 28 at Franklin in 1864. Children: Sarah Ann (1854-1934), Eliza (1866), Jane (1868), Henry (1871). He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.42). Harriet Lancaster died in 1886, aged 51. Mary Lancaster married Albert Henslow in 1888. Sarah Lancaster married James Bones in 1875. Jane Lancaster married Edmund Brittain in 1896. Harriet Lancaster died in 1886, aged 51. James Lancaster died qt Garden Island Creek in 1910, aged 82.
LANGDON/LANGAN John Langdon (1807-1887) leased a farm on 8 acres at Agnes Rivulet. He is listed as a military pensioner (convict guard) with 12 acres at "Agnes Rivulet" (AOT, CSO 1/144/3994). He owned a farm on 12 acres called "Chiselborough" at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). He married Sarah Coleman in 1833 in London. Children: Frederick (c.1834), Aquila (1836-1875), Alfred (1837), Mary Ann (c.1842), John (1844-1844), Harriet Rebecca (1846-1900) and Robert (1849-1937). John Langdon died in 1887 aged 81 and Sarah Langdon died in 1879 aged 73.
Harriet Rebecca Langdon married John Green in 1867. Robert Langdon married Elinor Campbell in 1876. According to the PO Directory for 1890, Robert Langdon was a mail contractor. Robert and Elinor Langdon were buried at the Methodist Cemetery, Cygnet.
LANGRIDGE William Henry Langridge married Maud Helen/Ellen, called "Laurie" Howell at Oatlands in 1882. Children: Ernest William (1884, Oatlands), Leonard James Herbert (1887, Hamilton; married Hilda Rogers at Hobart in 1912; died in 1957), Maisie Maud (1888, Oatlands; married Lewis Douglas Bowerman at Hobart in 1914; died in 1969), Percival Henry (1890, Brighton; married Elsie Polley at Gardner's Bay in 1915; died in 1958), Clarence Rhysowen (1892, Brighton; married Pearl Beatrice Thorp at Bellerive in 1919; died in 1958), Leslie Allan (1895, Brighton; married Sylvia Lawler at Cygnet in 1919; died in 1963) and Winifred Ruth (1897, Brighton; married William Henry Thomas at Battery Point in 1915; died in 1989), Edith Ruby (1900; married Charles Hudson; died in 1996), Annie Lillian (1902; married Francis Woodward; died in 1992) and Maud Helen, called "Betty" (1904-1968). William Langridge died at Albert Park, Moonah, 23 March 1923, aged 64. Maud Langridge died at Hobart 6 June 1951, aged 91. They were buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
LATHAM Joseph Latham married Susan Griggs in Franklin in 1872. Two of their ten children born at Port Cygnet. Susan Latham died in 1904 (death notice Mercury).
LAWLER/LAWLOR/LALOR John Lawler (born Ireland c.1829; died Cygnet 1895) married Bridget Callaghan (born in Ireland 1837; died in Cygnet 1930) in Hobart in 1855. They had eleven children, some born in Franklin, most of them in Port Cygnet. He is listed as a farmer at Wattle Bay in 1867 (MDT). He was tried in King's Co. 21 July 1847 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation.
Denis Lawler (1856-1930), the eldest, had a child with Mary Welsh in 1884 (a daughter Ellen Lawler born). He then married Mary O'Beirne (c.1855-1928) in Sydney (1885), returned to Cygnet and they had 7 children. Denis and Mary Lawler were buried in St. James cemetery. The next child, Joseph Lawler (b.1858), married Mary Pephard in 1883. They had 4 children born mostly in the 1880s. Frances Lawler (1860-1933) married Arthur Dance (1863-1929) in 1886. They had 11 children. Arthur and Frances Dance are buried in St. James cemetery. James Lawler (b.1862) married Mary Benigna Gordon in Hobart in 1886. Mary died in 1887, aged 27. She is buried in St. James cemetery. Mary Ann Lawler (1864-1915) married John Ryan (1860-1921) in 1890. They had 13 children. John Patrick Lawler (1867-1928) married Mary O'Reilly in 1893 and they had 3 children. Arthur Lawler (1869-1898) unmarried, died aged 29. Catherine Lawler (1871-1960) married James Ryan (1861-1944) in 1889 and they had 9 children. Ellen Lawler (1873-1949) married Thomas Fitzpatrick (1866-1941) in 1899 and they had 11 children. Daniel Lawler (1875-1914) married Madeline Devereux (1874-1946) and they had three children. Alice Lawler (1879-1964) married John P. Devereux (1870-1923) in 1908 and they had 4 children.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania: "John Patrick Lawler was the son of John Lawler, who came to the colony in the mid 1900s, and settled down at Wattle Grove, he being one of the first settlers in that place. He always took an interest in local affairs until he died in 1895. John P. Lawler was born at Wattle Grove in 1867, and, after leaving school, he assisted his father in horticultural pursuits. In 1891 he was engaged in the building trade at Zeehan, and remained there for a year, when he returned to farming operations and fruit-growing. In August 1894, he purchased premises in Port Cygnet, and opened a general store and fruit agency. Lawler kept a large and varied stock, besides which he went in for bacon curing and butchering. He purchased fruit largely for Messrs. H. Jones and Co., Hobart, besides buying for himself for export. He had a well-appointed orchard of 15 acres on the township, in which he grew Sturmers, scarlet pearmains, French crabs, ribston pippins, New Yorks, and a varied assortment of pears. Small fruits, such as currants, raspberries, etc., engaged a large amount of his attention. Lawler was married on 8th February, 1893, to Mary, a daughter of Patrick O'Reilly, of Port Cygnet, and had three children as of 1900."
LEAHY/LEAHEY/LEHEY/LAHEY/LAHIE/LEAREY James Leahy (c.1821-1890) from Co. Tipperary, Ireland, arrived with his wife Hanora Leahy née Ryan on board the Sir W.F. Williams in 1856 and their two children: Catherine (c.1854; married John Barnes in 1876; died in 1909) and Honora (1856; married Patrick Kennedy in 1874; married Edward Gillin; died in 1929). Children born at Port Cygnet: Andrew Joseph (1858; married Honora Ryan; died at Queenstown in 1933), Thomas (1861; married Ellen Dwyer in 1884; shot himself in 1913), Bridget (1862) and Michael (1864-1865). James Leahy is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). James Leahy died in 1890, aged 75.
In 1884, Thomas Leahy married Ellen Dwyer. Children: Linda Gertrude (1885; married James J. Hogan in Qld in 1910; died in Melbourne in 1916), Mary Ellen, called "Minnie" (1886), Ethel May (1887-1919), Thomas (1889-1935), Annie Drucilla (c.1890; married Robert Watt at Sydney in 1923; died at Sydney in 1962), Clarice Elizabeth (1891; married Charles Cecil Cockshutt at Hobart in 1910; died in Hobart in 1935, aged 44), John James, called "Jack" a heavyweight boxer (1893; married Iva Love at Sydney in 1936; died at Sydney in 1963), William Timothy, a welterweight boxer (1897; married Thelma Nelson at Sydney in 1944), Nita Philomena (1899; married Alfred Sellers at Sydney in 1921; died at Sydney in 1941), Francis Jeremiah (1900-1922), Vera (1902-1940), Lila Beatrice (1903; married -- Hughes; died at Hobart in 1969) and Victor James (1905; married Beryl Hughes in Victoria in 1935; died at Hobart in 1968). Thomas Leahy sen. committed suicide in 1913, aged 52. Ellen Leahy died at Sydney 14 November 1935.
Michael Leahy (c.1836-1870) from Co. Tipperary arrived in 1856 on board the Sir W.F. Williams. He married Margaret Dwyer in 1860. Children: Andrew John (1861; married Johanna Maloney at Launceston in 1887; died in Melbourne in 1943), Charles Michael (1862-1898), Jeremiah (1867-1893) and Honora (1869; married Thomas Webb in 1908; died at Hobart in 1929). Michael Leahy is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died at Hobart in 1871, aged 34. Margaret Leahy married James Shanahan in 1872. They had a son John in 1873.
According to the PO Directory for 1890, Charles Leahy was a labourer, James Leahy was a bootmaker, Jeremiah Leahy was a farmer and Thomas Leahy was a farmer.
The children of Andrew and Johanna Leahy: Michael John (1888-1888, Launceston), Margaret Evelyn (1894, Melbourne; married William Collinson in 1918; died 29 August 1919 at Fitzroy, Melbourne, aged 25), Roy Jeremiah (1898, Melbourne; killed in action in France 20 July 1916) and Matthew John (1901, Melbourne).
LEAN William Lean died in 1868, aged 61.
LEARY James Leary (c.1811-1869) was a military pensioner from Co. Limerick in Ireland. He married Elizabeth ("Eliza") Maloney. Their children: James (1853-1853), Eliza (1854), John (1857-1941), Catherine (1860-1954), Bridget (1862) and James (1864-1864). He was granted land at Agnes Rivulet that he sold in 1859. The family was living at Glazier's Bay in 1860. James Leary arrived on the Blenheim in 1851. He died at Hobart in 1869, aged 58. Eliza Leary died in 1866, aged 38.
LEE James Lee owned a house and sawmill on 480 acres at Gardner's Bay (VR58).
LEECH Francis Leech (1873-1944) married Sarah A. Bender at the Upper Huon in 1906. Children: Henrietta, called "Netta" (1908; married Edward Martin; died in 1972), Francis George (1911, Lower Wattle Grove; married Esma Tonks in 1936; died in 1998) and Douglas Byron (Cradoc 1917; married Lesley Denholm in 1940; died in 1990). He died at Wattle Grove in 1944. Sarah Leech died in 1969.
George A. Leech (1870-1944) married Jessie M. Bender at Sorell in 1896. Children: Gladys Ismay (1898, St. Marys; married Herbert Batchelor in 1925; died in 1997), George Gordon (1900-1900) and Stella Dorothy "Pearl" (1903, St. Marys; married Norman Bishop; died in 1976). The family lived at Cradoc Road in 1914. George Leech died at St. Marys in 1944. Jessie Leech died in 1955.
LE-GRESLEY Philip (Philippe) Le-Gresley arrived per the Anson in 1844. He was ried at the Cour Royale in Jersey 10 February 1843 and sentenced for 14 years. He married Margaret Armstrong in Hobart in 1864. He died in 1878, aged 65.
LEITCH Donald T. Leitch (1873-1931) married Helen Kennally at Hobart in 1914. They lived at Cradoc. Donald Leitch died at Hobart in 1931. His brother, John G. Leitch (1869-1948), also lived at Cradoc. He died at Latrobe in 1948. Their half-brother, Robert W. Leitch (1862-1954) married Mary Rowe at Kempton in 1905. Their children were born at Cradoc: Eric Osborne (1908-1989), Mervyn Neil (1911; married Mina Cato; died in 2001) and Marion Isabel (1918; married Cecil Sharer; died in 1998). Mary Leitch died in Hobart in 1953. Robert Leitch died in Hobart in 1954.
LENARD Martha Lenard died in 1871, aged 53. She married Patrick Lenard.
LENNEN/LENNON John Lennon died in 1870, aged 50. William Lennen died in 1877, aged 60.
LEO Thomas Leo died in 1886, aged 75.
LILLIS/LILLEY/LILLES William Lillis was tried in Co. Limerick 4 July 1847 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. He arrived 14 August 1852. In 1853, he sought permission to marry the ex-convict Julia Culnane (National Archives of Ireland record has spelling "Cullinane"). They married in Hobart in 1853. She arrived on the Martin Luther from Dublin 1 September 1852. She was tried 30 June 1851 in Co. Cork and accused of "stealing gingham and former conviction" and sentenced to seven years. Children: Patrick (1856, Hobart), Catherine (1858, Clarence), Margaret (1862), William (1864, Clarence), Ellen (1866, Hobart). With William Carns, he leased a house on less than an acre at Kangaroo Point (VR58).
LITTLE According to the 1851 census, the ex-convict James Little lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife and son. Five convicts had the name James Little.
LITTLEJOHN James Littlejohn and Margaret Kerns had a daughter in 1865.
LIVINGSTON(E) Catherine McFarlane sought permission to marry James Livingston (free) in 1845. She was tried at the Glasgow Court of Judiciary 5 January 1841. One of their children born in Port Cygnet in 1859. The others registered in Hobart (1846, 1848, 1851, 1852) and Franklin (1861).
LOCKLEY James Percy Lockley (1873-1938) married Harriet Cowen at Port Cygnet in 1894. They lived at Gardners Bay until 1905 when the family moved to Hastings. Children born in the Port Cygnet district: Percy James (1896-1963), Lily Mary (1898), Eileen Pretoria (1900), Arthur Harold (1902), Ivy Beryl (1904). Harriet Lockley died at Hastings in 1916. James Lockley married Louisa M. Ford in 1922. He died at Hobart in 1938.
LONG Nicholas Long or Parsell died in 1862, aged 22. Thomas Long and Caroline Briggs had a son in 1885. William Long died in 1899, aged 54.
LONGEY Henry Longey married May Brittain in 1895. May Longey died in 1896, aged 18 (death notice Mercury).
LONSDEN Andrew Lonsden and Emma Williams had a daughter in 1857.
LORD Frederick George H. Lord married Mary Bevely in Hobart in 1856. Children: Susan (1857), Ellen (1859), Mary Ann (1862). Different names given for the mother.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania: James Lord and Mary Ann Halton had children in the late 1880s and 1890s. "James Lord was the grandson of Lieutenant Edward Lord R.N, who was at one time Acting-Govenor of Tasmania, and one of the pioneer colonial settlers. James Lord was born near Richmond, Tasmania, in October, 1864, and educated at the Richmond and Cambridge State Schools. After completing his studies he followed farming pursuits, and then for about two years conducted the Brighton Hotel. In 1888 he sold out and moved to Petchey's Bay, where he acquired 300 acres of land, 9 of which were laid out in orchard. Apples and pears of various standard descriptions were grown, whilst Lord also raised sheep, cattle, and horses, making a speciality of the last named. He owned the well-known racehorse at the time "Merry Lass", and had been identified with the turf almost from his infancy. He married Mary Ann Halton, of Bridgewater, in August 1883, and they had a family of seven children as of 1900."
Walter Edmund Lord (c.1854, Rochdale, Lancashire, England; married Lydia at Rochdale in 1884; died in 1942, Huonville), his wife Lydia Lord, their son Kenneth Lord (married Lyn Jean Cooley in 1941) and Jessie Lord lived at Petchey's Bay in 1914. Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Lord and their daughter left Petchey's Bay for Huonville in 1933 (Mercury 10 June 1933). Their daughter Theodora Margaret Lord (born at Hobart 21 August 1899) married Arthur Beaumont Crowder in 1941. Walter Lord died at Huonville in 1942, aged 88. Obituary in the Mercury with background on his life 29 December 1942. Golden Wedding article in the Mercury 4 January 1934. Family moved to Petchey's Bay in 1895. Lydia Lord died at Huonville in 1939, aged 81.
LORIMAN/LORIEMAN Benjamin Loriman (1855-1891) was born at Launceston in 1855, the son of the convict Benjamin Lorriman (transported on the Eden in 1836) and Margaret Wallace. He married Mary Ann Dillon at Port Cygnet in 1887. Their children: Benjamin Bisbie (1888), Margaret Mary (1889) and Catherine Mary (1891). According to the PO Directory for 1890, Benjamin B. Loriman was a farmer. He died in 1891 (death notice Mercury).
LOVE The convict Samuel Love (c.1816-1869) arrived in 1839. He was tried at the Wiltshire Assizes 7 March 1838 and sentenced for life. He is listed as living at Gardners Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1869, aged 53.
LOVELL Robert Lovell and Catherine Loftus had children in the 1860s and 1870s in Victoria-Huon, Port Cygnet and Franklin.
James Lovell and Anne Howard had children between 1869 and 1882.
Joseph Lovell died in Port Cygnet in 1878, aged 78. He is listed as a farmer living at Huon Hill in 1867 (MDT).
LOW Samuel Low and Sarah Pilkinton had a son in 1863.
LYNCH Patrick Lynch, aged 27, married Bridget Quinn, aged 16, at Westbury in 1861. Children: Female (Franklin 1863), William (1865), James (1867), Ellen (1869), Mary (1871), Rose Ann (1873), Female (Franklin 1875), Patrick (Franklin 1877), Bridget (1880-1880). In 1871, Patrick Lynch leased a hut and land (6 acres) at Glaziers Bay from Dennis Callaghan. Numerous convicts had the name Patrick Lynch.
McALPINE Robert McAlpine is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.28). He leased the Friendly Inn hotel at Gardners Bay (VR58).
McCARTHY/MACARTY/McARTY According to the 1852 Census, Daniel McCarthy lived at Port Cygnet. Eleven convicts had the name Daniel McCarthy.
Denis McCarthy married Mary Ann Herlihy in 1880. They had children in the 1880s. According to the PO Directory for 1890, Denis McArty was a farmer.
McCORMICK/MACCORMICK/MACCORMACK James McCormack leased a house and farm of 40 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR58,62). He married Ellen Cairns. They had a daughter Maria Ann in 1861. He died in 1862, aged 41.
McDOUGALL/MACDOUGAL/McDOUGAL/McDOUGLE William McDougall was tried at the Edinburgh Court of Judiciary 25 November 1844 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation. He sought permission to marry ex-convict Mary Coulter in 1850. Mary Coulter was tried at the Glasgow Court of Judiciary 28 April 1847 and sentenced for 7 years. They married in 1850. Children: William Charles (1852-1939), John Henry (1854-1910), Sarah Ann (1856-1933), Mary Agnes (1857-1917), George Parker (1860-1933). According to the 1851 census, William McDougall lived at Port Cygnet with his wife. He leased a house and land on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). William Charles McDougall married Hannah ('Annie') Jane Archer. Seven children born at Southport or Esperance. John Henry McDougall married Susannah Ann Cate in 1884. Mary Agnes McDougall married Edward Stride in 1887. Sarah McDougall married John Hay at Esperance in 1881. Mary McDougall died in 1898, aged 74. The will of William McDougall is dated 1907. He died in 1907 at Franklin (death notice Mercury). They were buried at the Maxfields Road Cemetery in Franklin.
McGAUGHIN Mary Jane McGaughin married Patrick Harwood in 1878.
McGUINESS Patrick McGuiness owned a farm on 10 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58).
McKACKNEY Agnes McKackney owned a farm at Pleasant Valley, Agnes Rivulet on 10 acres (VR58).
McKANE/McCAIN(E)/MACKENE Francis McKane was a military pensioner who owned a farm on 10 acres at Cradoc Road near Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Francis Mackene died in 1887, aged 87
McKEOWN Thomas McKeown (aged 43) married Catherine Murphy (aged 17) in 1881.
McKIE David McKie leased a house and garden on 6 acres at Gardners Bay (VR58). David and Elizabeth McKie had a son William at Spring Bay in 1864.
McKOY Jane McKoy died in 1858, aged 98.
McLEOD John McLeod and Lilian Rose had a son in 1890.
McMILLAN/MacMILLAN Donald McMillan is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.19). He leased a farm on 166 acres at Port Cygnet (VR58). He married Caroline Lovett. Children: George Archibald (1858, Port Cygnet), Marion Louisa (1860, Port Cygnet), Alice Annie (1862, Port Cygnet), Rosina Lovett (1864, Port Cygnet).
McMULLEN William James McMullen (c.1860-1935) was the son of James McMullen (c.1820, Ireland-1897, Franklin) and Margaret Maloney (died in 1912, Franklin). He married Emma Jarman in Hobart in 1890. Their children were born at Franklin: Leslie (1891; married Lucinda, called "Daisy" Slevin at Hobart in 1916), Ilma Margaret Matilda (1895), Doris May (1897; married Daniel Dance at Cygnet in 1921), James John (1899), Muriel Emma (1902; married Keith Bennett at Cygnet in 1927; died in 1999), Lily Mary (1904), Stanley Richard (1906), The family moved to Cradoc by 1909 when Vera Rita McMullen was born; she died in 1911. William McMullen died at Cradoc in 1935, aged 75, and was buried at the Catholic cemetery, Franklin. Emma McMullen died at Cradoc 1 June 1959.
McNALTY/McINAULTY/McNAULTY/MACKINOLTY/McANNULTY Michael McNalty leased a hut and farm of 15 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay. He is listed as a farmer living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT).
Benjamin McNalty/Mackinolty was the alias name of the convict James Mickleburgh, transported on board the St. Vincent. Aged 31, he married Ellen Connolly, aged 24, in 1863 (Franklin). Children: James (1864), John Thomas (1867), Caroline (1868), Catherine (Esperance 1867), Male (Esperance 1870), Female (Esperance 1872), Male (Esperance 1874), Ellen (Esperance 1878),
Mary Ann Mackinolty married John Sylvester in 1879.
McNAMARA/MACNAMARA/MACHNAMARAH Michael McNamara (c.1832-1876) was tried in Co. Clare in 1842 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing two cows. He owned 50 acres of bushland at Agnes Rivulet. He leased a house and farm of 12 acres from Edmund and Timothy Dillon at Glazier's Bay. He is listed as a farmer living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). He married Ellen Crowley in Hobart in 1858 and they had the following children: Mary Ann (1859-1896) Ellen/Patrick (1860-1860), Michael John (1861), Patrick (1863-1940), James (1864-1937), John Thomas (1865-1939?), Martin (1867; died in W.A.), Ellen (1869-1935), Margaret (1870), Thomas Ambrose (1871-1916), Peter James (1874-1939 in New Zealand), Timothy (1874). Michael McNamara died in 1876, aged 44. Ellen McNamara died in 1909, aged 71 (death notice Mercury). Michael and Ellen are buried in St. James Cemetery.
Ellen McNamara married Daniel Holland in 1893. Mary McNamara married Michael Joseph Renahan in 1890. Thomas McNamara married Ellen Welsh at St. James in 1907. Peter McNamara married Mary Ann Goodby in 1901. According to the PO Directory for 1890, Ellen, James and Patrick McNamara were farmers. James McNamara married Margaret Maud Bell in 1905. Their children: Michael John (1906-1938), Mary Ellen (1907-1951), William Patrick (1909-1987), Thomas James (1910-1983), Margaret Adeline (1913-1994), Leonard Robert (1915-1979) and Bernard Hilary (1921-1996). Mary Ellen McNamara married Ian Stockell in 1928. Ellen McNamara married Lionel Garth in 1928.
MACHIN/MACHIM/MACHAM/MATCHEM/MATCHAM/MATCHIM Joseph Machim (c.1820-1884) was tried at the Stafford QS in 1843 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. He married the Scottish convict Mary Dunsmure in 1854. Mary Machin died later that year. He married Margaret O'Loughlan. Children: Elizabeth (1856), George (1858), Michael (1860-1907), Sarah (1862), Charlotte (1864), Joseph (c.1868), and Mary (1871-1957). He leased 20 acres near Glazier's Bay (VR58). He is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT).He died in 1884, aged 66. Margaret Machin died in 1896, aged 63.
George Machin married Bridget Guy in 1883. They had children in the 1880s and 1890s. According to the PO Directory for 1890, George Matchim was a shipwright. Margaret Matchim was a fruit-grower.
Michael Machin married Johanna Scanlon in 1892. They had a daughter Pauline in 1893 and a son Michael in 1897. Johanna Machin died in 1898, aged 29. Michael Machin died in 1907, aged 44. Both buried at St. James cemetery.
Joseph Machin married Mary Calder in 1894. Children born in Glazier's Bay: John (1899), Elizabeth (1900), Joseph (1902), Ruby (1903), George (1905, died 1915; death notice Mercury), Michael (1907, died 1907; death notice Mercury).
Mary Machin married Emile Grosse in 1902. Kate Matchin died in 1903. Joseph Matchin married Mabel Scanlon at SHC in 1923.
MACKEY/MACKAY/McKAY Michael Mackay (c.1829-1885) was tried at Co. Limerick 17 July 1849 and sentenced to 15 years for malicious assault. A petition was sent from the parish priest Fr. Hennessy and others (National Archives of Ireland CRF 1851 M80). He owned a house and farm of 12 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR58,62). Michael Mackey married Margaret Foley at Hobart in 1855. Children: Timothy William (1857-1919), Ellen (1860), Margaret (1862) and Bridget (1867). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1885, aged 56. Timothy Mackey married Ellen Dwyer in 1882. Margaret Mackey died in 1909 at Glazier's Bay.
MACKIBBEN Joseph Mackibben and Martha Copeland had a daughter in 1863.
MADDEN Thomas Madden married Debora "Guina" in Port Cygnet in 1854. Debora Guinan was an Irish convict who arrived in 1852. She was tried in Co. Kerry 9 January 1851 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for cow stealing.
McGILL/MAGILL William Magill married Mary Kennedy, née Malone at St. Joseph's in 1870. They had a daughter Eliza Ann in 1871. Mary Magill died in 1884, aged 54 and was buried at St. James cemetery. William Magill died at New Town in 1886, aged 72.
MAHER According to the 1851 census, Michael Maher lived at Irish Town with his wife. The convict Michael Maher arrived in 1843. Aged 21, he was tried in Co. Limerick 11 July 1842 and sentenced for 7 years for grevous bodily harm. John Maher also lived at Irish Town.
Five convicts had the name John Maher. John Maher is listed in the 1851 census living at Irish Town and the 1857 Kingborough census (p.17). John Maher died in 1862, aged 72.
MALEY Thomas Maley (1844-1917) married Mary Jane Coy at Port Cygnet in 1871. Children: John William (1872-1888), Mary (1874), Henry Thomas (1877, Gordon; married Margaret Farrell; died in 1917), Annie, called Ethel (1878, Gordon; married Arthur T. Allen; died in 1950), Francis Joseph, called "Joe" (1885, Ringarooma; married Florence Symes; died in 1948), Sarah Amelia (1888, Ringarooma; married Thomas Boucher; died in 1959) and Amy Irene (1891, Hobart; married Edward Hall; died in 1982).
MALDOM Francis Maldom married Mary Keating in 1856.
MAPES Thomas Mapes (1819-1866) was tried at the Great Yarmouth Quarter Sessions, Norfolk, 30 December 1845 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing money. He married Mary Jane Cook in 1852 at Spring Bay. Thomas Mapes is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census living at California Bay. He owned a farm on 31 and a half acres near Glaziers Bay (VR58). A son born at California Point in 1857. Thomas Mapes drowned in Franklin in 1866, aged 48. Mary Mapes married George Gibbs at Hobart in 1866.
MARKHAM/MARCHUM Philip Markham (1808-1888) was tried at the Kent QS in 1827 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing a lamb. He owned a farm of 39 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR58,62). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Philip Markham married the ex-convict Ann Joynt at Victoria Settlement in 1855. Five children born at Glazier's Bay: Mary (1856-1931), Ann (1858-1939), Philip (1859-1886), Elizabeth, called "Lily" (1862-1940) and Charles (1865-1919). Philip Markham died Christmas Day 1888, aged almost 80. Ann Markham died in 1893, aged 64. According to the 1890 PO Directory, Philip Markham had been a fruit-grower.
MARRIOTT Robert Laird Marriott (1874-1926) married Alice Louisa Bradburn at Kingston in 1901. Children: Ruth Blanche Mary (1902; married George Knight at Hobart in 1929), Amelia Myrtle (1904; married Owen Cooley at Hobart in 1920), William Bradburn (1906-1969) and Victor Ross (1908-1957). There was a son Robert William (jun.) who married Vera May Polley at St. Mark's in Cygnet in 1929. The family moved from Kingston to Gardner's Bay by 1914. Robert Marriott died at Hobart 20 January 1926, aged 51. Alice Marriott died at Hobart 6 May 1945, aged 64. They were buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
MARTIN James Martin leased a hut and land of 20 acres at Port Cygnet (VR62).
John Thomas Martin (c.1855-1931) married Catherine O'Reilly (c.1879-1940) in 1888. Their children: Ellen (1889), John Patrick (1892; married Ellen Jones in 1921; died in 1966), William (1892), Peter Joseph (1897; married Anastasia Strong in 1920; died in 1969). According to the 1890 PO Directory, John Martin was a contractor. He died at Wattle Grove 2 August 1931, aged 76. Catherine Martin died at Wattle Grove 24 December 1940, aged 79.
MASON William Mason died in 1856, aged 33. Seventeen convicts had the name William Mason.
Robert Mason and Sophia Jane Rumley had children in 1880s and 1890s. According to the PO Directory for 1890, Robert Mason was a schoolmaster.
MATHER James Mather died in 1883, aged 68.
MAWDSLEY Thomas Mawdsley (1799-1874) was tried at the Lancaster QS in 1830 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. He married Isabella Carruthers. Children: Sarah Ann (1838; married Frederick Flood in 1856; died at Melbourne in 1910), Thomas (1841) and John (1844; married Mary A. Thompson in 1865, who died in 1874; married Sarah Vessey in 1882; died at Longley in 1907). Thomas Mawdsley died at Hobart in 1874, aged 74 and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery. Isabella Mawdsley died at Melbourne in 1885, aged 85.
MAYCOCK Sarah Maycock died in 1899, aged 43.
MAZENGARB Malcolm Francis Mazengarb (1869-1931), the son of Charles Mazengarb (1816-1906) and Maria O'Farrell (1840-1926) married Honora Bridget Kilmartin in Hobart in 1896. He is listed as a butcher in Port Cygnet in the 1890 PO Directory. Charles Mazengarb lived at Gardner's Bay in 1903 where his house burnt down in a buh fire. He died at Queenstown in 1906, aged 90.
MEAD Charles Mead died in 1893, aged 34 (death notice Mercury).
MEDBURY/MEDUBURY/MADBURY/MODBURY John Medbury (1835-1920) arrived in Hobart on board the Conway in 1855. He leased a house and land of 100 acres at Cradoc Road (VR62). John Medbury married Charlotte Esther Wallington in Melbourne in 1869. Their children: Isaac John (1870-1948), Rachel Charlotte (1872-1921), Violet Esther (1873-1944), Ruth Ellen (1874-1951), John Wallington (1876-1949), Gertrude Catherine (1877-1922), Arthur Albert Wallington (1879-1884), Herbert Wallington (1880-1968), Elisha (1882-1884), Oscar Ernest (1885-1963), Walter Ambrose (1887-1947) and May Amelia (1891-1959). William Medbury died in 1882, aged 29. According to the PO Directory for 1890, John Medbury was a farmer. He died in Victoria in 1920. Charlotte Medbury died in Victoria in 1919.
MELLOR William Mellor and Jane Conroy had a son Alfred in 1857. Three convicts had the name William Mellor.
MENZIE Robert Menzie is listed as a butcher in Port Cygnet in the 1890 PO Directory.
MERCHANT/MARCHANT The convict James Merchant (c.1827-1906) was tried at Chelmsford, Essex, 5 March 1845 and sentenced to 15 years' transportation. He leased a farm of 320 acres at Garden Island Creek (VR62). He is listed as living at Randall's Bay in 1867 (MDT). He married Margaret Duffy at Hobart in 1856. They died at 44 Kelly St., Hobart (1906 and 1907). The children of James and Margaret Merchant: James (1856-1937), William (1858-1926), Laura Victoria (1859-1926), John (1860-1861), Robert Edmund (1861-1932), Henry Mark (1863-1930), Albert Edward (1865-1931), Matthew (1866-1905), Alfred Arthur (1868-1899), Walter (1869-1955), Eva Susan (1872-1923), a son (1873-1873), Frederick Mark (1874-1946), Edith Alice (1876-1878), Jessie Elizabeth (1877-1921) and Percy John (1881-1962).
MEREDITH Robert Meredith (c.1804-1883) was convicted in Surrey 3 May 1824 of stealing three pairs of shoes and transported for seven years. He arrived on the Sir Charles Forbes in 1825. In 1828, he was sentenced to another term of seven years for stealing 150 lbs of sugar together with Thomas Budd from the house of William and Joseph Mawle. He and Caroline Vantileur had two children: Robert jun. (born c.1833) and Ann Matilda Meredith, born in the Huon in 1834 and baptised at Hobart in December 1834. Caroline Vantileur, a convict born in France, arrived from London in 1825. She was tried at the Berkshire Assizes 1 March 1824. Jackson's Oxford Journal reported on 6 March 1824: "Caroline Vantileur and Frances Philip, for stealing from the shop of Jane Maria Perrote, of Windsor, a gold watch, were sentenced to be transported for 7 years." He is listed in the 1842 census living at Petchey's Bay with his wife and two children (a son and a daughter aged 7-14 born in the colony) in a bark dwelling. He is also in the 1843 census. They married in Hobart in 1843. He is listed in the Huon census for 1851 living at Franklin (p.72). Robert Meredith died at the New Town Charitable Institution in 1883, aged 78. He was buried in the pauper section of Cornelian Bay Cemetery 25 September 1883.
Robert Meredith jun. married Ann McDonald at Little River in Victoria in 1864. He died at Albury, NSW in 1914. Ann Meredith died at Corowa NSW in 1920. They had 7 children: Caroline Ann (1865-1865), Robert (1866-1867), John (1858), Mary Ann (1872-1876), Sarah (1875-1948), Annie (1878) and Margaret (1880-1880).
A minor, Ann Matilda Meredith, married John Hay, a minor, at Hobart in 1849. Children: John (1854, Hobart-1940, Victoria), Mary (1856-1866), Robert (1858, Franklin-1929), Annie (1860, Franklin-1883), Charles (1862-1935), Margaret (1865, Franklin-1866), William (1868-1916 N.S.W.), Mary Margaret (1869-1897), Nathaniel (1872, Esperance-1948), James (1874-1875) and Herbert (1876, Esperance-1960 New Zealand). Ann Hay, aged 46, died at Esperance in 1880. John Hay re-married in 1881. After the death of Ann Hay, John (aged 49) married Sarah McDougall (aged 25), the daughter of William McDougall and Mary Coulter at Esperance (see above). They had eight children born in Esperance, Franklin or Southport.
MIDDLETON William Middleton leased part of a farm on 10 acres at Spring Bottom, Martins Point, Port Cygnet (VR58). William Middleton married Alice Murphy in Hobart in 1856. Four convicts had the name William Middleton.
MILES Alfred Miles and Caroline Anning had a son in 1886.
MILLER Alfred Miller (aged 36) married Margaret Woods (aged 19) in 1895. William Miller married Mary Jane Smith in 1889. They had children in the 1890s.
MILLHOUSE Sydney Herbert Millhouse married Eliza Jane Beltz. Children: Heath, Edith May (1901, Sandy Bay; died in 1925 GIC), Phyllis Lyell (1902, Battery Point), Richard Philip (1906, GIC; married Clara May Brittain at Cygnet in 1926), Thomas Edwin (1908, GIC), Roy Arthur (1910, GIC; married Mary Elizabeth Durkin at Cygnet in 1930), Eric "Charles" (1912, GIC; died in 1928, GIC), George Coleman (1916, GIC; died in 1944, aged 28). Sydney Millhouse died at Hobart in 1939. Eliza Millhouse died in 1943.
MILLS Thomas Joseph Mills (1834-1910; death notice Mercury) born in Co. Kildare, Ireland, enlisted in the Bengal Army at Dublin, 30 July 1856 for 10 years service. He arrived in India on board the Queen Victoria, 10 March 1857. Aged 32, he married Selina Ellen "Hilda" Shaw (c.1850-1925; death notice Mercury) (aged 17) in Bombay at St. Thomas's Cathedral in 1867. He was Superintendent of Police at Bombay. The first three children born in Bombay and baptised at St. Thomas's Cathedral. The remaining seven children born in Port Cygnet (1877-1892). On the outbreak of the mutiny in June, 1857, Mills volunteered to the Bombay Artillery, and was on active service with the army in different parts of India for two years during the suppression of the mutiny. At the close of the campaign, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, was transferred to the police in October, 1859, and in 1865 was appointed superintendent of the Bombay City Police, a position he occupied for many years.
Cyclopedia of Tasmania: "During his career as a police officer he rendered valuable service in many important cases for which he received special rewards from the Government. In 1876 he obtained six months leave of absence, and came on a visit to Tasmania with his family, whom he left at Port Cygnet, and returned to India to complete his time for a pension. He retired from the Indian Service in 1881, with the pension and rank of senior superintendent of the Bombay City Police, and joined his family at Port Cygnet, where he settled down to horticultural pursuits.
Mills was successful in fruit-growing, and had two splendid orchards, one at Port Cygnet and the other at Lymington. He had always taken an active interest in local affairs. Mills was a member of the local Road Trust on and off since 1886, and had occupied the position of chairman for some time. As of 1900 he presided over the local Fruit Board. He was married at the Cathedral, Bombay in 1867, to Hilda Ellen Shaw of Dublin, and they had a family of 10 children." Thomas and Hilda Mills were buried in St. James Cemetery.
MITCHEL/MITCHELL Charlotte Mitchell owned a farm (new allotment) on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet and another farm on 10 acres at Lovett, Port Cygnet (VR58). Charlotte Mitchel (aged 34) married Andrew Purdy (aged 42) in 1859.
MITSON William Mitson (c.1827-1921) aged 24 married Rebecca Beard (25 March 1833-1899) at Hobart in 1851. Rebecca Beard was the daughter of George Samuel Beard (1797-1871) and Rebecca Babington (1805-1863). He owned a house and farm of 47 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR58,62). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Rebecca Mitson died in 1899, aged 66 at "Babington Lodge" Silver Hill, Cygnet (death notice Mercury). According to the PO Directory for 1890, William Mitson was a farmer. He died in Hobart in 1921: "On July 12, 1921, at his residence, 303 Macquarie-street, Hobart, William, relict of the late Rebecca Mitson, in his 95th year. A native of Norfolk, England, and a Colonist of 86 years, and for many years a resident of Port Cygnet." (Mercury 15 July 1921).
MOFFATT Bertram Moffatt (c.1876-1945) married Mabel A. Jarvis at Hobart in 1902. He worked for Robert Harvey at Port Cygnet in 1909. Mabel Moffatt died at Port Cygnet in 1910. In 1919 and 1922 he was a clerk living at Macquarie Street in Hobart. In 1923 he married Doris Higgins at Hobart. In 1943, Doris and Bertram (a steward) Moffatt lived at Elizabeth St., Hobart. He died at Hobart 2 January 1945, aged 69. He had worked for the Hobart Municipal Tramways as a tram conductor.
MOONEY The convict James Mooney, aged 28, was tried in Galway City 23 April 1849 and sentenced for 10 years for sheep stealing. He died in 1873, aged 44 (death notice Mercury). Margaret Mooney (aged 50) married Hugh Stephenson (aged 70) in 1884.
MOORE Michael Moore and Catherine Flood had a son in 1857. Four convicts had the name Michael Moore. William Moore owned a farm on 500 acres at Deep Bay (VR58). Twenty-two convicts had the name William Moore. John Moore married Caroline James in 1889. Children in the 1890s. According to the PO Directory for 1890, John Moore was a farmer.
MOREY Charles Morey and Emma Maria Jackson had children in the 1860s and 1870s. He is listed as living at Cradoc in 1867 (MDT). Emma Morey died in Hobart in 1900 (death notice Mercury).
MORIARTY Michael Moriarty was tried in Co. Kerry 14 March 1844. He is listed in the 1848 census. He leased a farm on 100 acres at Lymington (VR58). He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT) and as a storeman in the 1890 PO Directory.
MORRIS Henry Morris and Ellen Connolly had a daughter in 1863.
MORRISEY/MORRISSEY/MORRISY John Morrisey was tried in Co. Cork 16 March 1846, aged 23, and sentenced for 10 years for sheep stealing. He leased part of a farm on 10 acres at Butcharston, Glazier's Bay (VR58). He is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He married the former convict Anne Barnes in 1853. They had a daughter who died in 1860. Ann Morrissey died 12 days later. John died in 1869, aged 58.
MOSS Henry Moss leased two farms on 25 acres and 500 acres at Gardners Bay (VR58). Three convicts had the name Henry Moss.
MULCAHY/MULCHAY John Mulcahy was tried in Co. Waterford 29 June 1848 and 4 July 1849 and sentenced for 7 years for larceny and breaking into a dwelling house. He leased a hut and farm of 15 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay. He is listed as a farmer living at Petchey's Bay in 1867 (MDT). John Mulcahy died in 1894, aged 84. Johanna Mulcahy died in 1898, aged 88.
Catherine Mulcahy married Edmond Direen in 1865. Mary Mulcahy married Edward Direen in 1876.
Margaret Mulcahy, aged 22, married Charles Samuel Lynch, aged 27, in 1868 (Hobart).Children mostly born in Richmond. Their son John was baptised at St. James church in 1870.
MULDOON The convict Francis Muldoon aged 17 was tried in Co. Tyrone 9 March 1846 and convicted of larceny. Emprisoned on Spike Island. Petition from his father, Patrick Muldoon, living at Armagh (CRF 2846 M 10 National Archives of Ireland). He married Mary Keating. Children: Male (1858, Gordon), Male (1859, Franklin), John (1861-1870), Female (1862, Franklin), Francis (1865, Franklin), Male (1867, Franklin), Male (1869, Franklin). Francis Muldoon, aged 72, died at Launceston in 1898. Mary Muldoon died at Brighton in 1891, aged 76.
MULRENEY/MULREANY Paul Mulreany (aged 21) married Elizabeth Kinsella (aged 15) in 1869. Elizabeth Mulreany died in 1875, aged 20.
MUNDY Samuel Mundy (1846-1925), the son of Samuel Mundy and Mary Ann Roberts, born in the Clarence district and his second wife Rosetta Free lived at Port Cygnet in 1914. As did Edwin Mundy (born 1853) the brother of Samuel jun., Herman Mundy (born 1885), the son of Samuel and Rosetta, and his half-brother John Joseph Mundy a butcher (1879; married Ivy Bell in 1923; 1965), Walter Clarence Mundy a carter, and Lyla Mundy. They were the descendants of George Munday who was convicted at Devon 22 March 1802 and transported to NSW.
MURDOCH David Murdoch was a military pensioner. He owned a farm on 10 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT).
MURPHY Timothy Murphy (c.1826-1896) was from Co. Cork in Ireland. He owned a hut and farm of 50 acres at Wattle Bay (VR62). He is listed as a farmer living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). According to the PO Directory for 1890, Timothy Murphy was a farmer. Eleven convicts had the name Timothy Murphy. He married Catherine Clune (c.1836-1914) in Hobart 20 April 1863. The children of Timothy and Catherine Murphy: James (1864: married Mary Hennessey), Denis (1865; married Margaret Hennessey; died in 1905), Michael (1867-1870), twins John (1869; drowned at Cygnet 1916, aged 46) and Margaret (1869-1943). Timothy Murphy died at Port Cygnet 15 August 1896, aged 70. Catherine Murphy died at Wattle Grove 24 August 1914.
Thomas Murphy is listed living at Agnes Rivulet. Hugh Murphy living at Glaziers Bay in 1867. He married Honora Day. The children of Thomas and Honora Murphy: Charlotte (1867). James Murphy lived at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT).
NANKIVELL Thomas Francis Nankivell (1880, Richmond-1963, Colebrook) was the son of Henry Nankivell (1852, St. Agnes Cornwall-1895, Richmond) and Mary Ann Bevan (1862-1946). He married Agnes Roach (1871-1946) at Queenstown in 1900. Children: Leslie Thomas (1901-1974), Thomas Henry (1904) and Sydney Claude (1905, Queenstown; married Elvie Kilmartin; died in 1992). In 1914, Thomas (a farmer) and Agnes Nankivell lived at Nicholls Rivulet. Agnes Nankivell died at Hobart in 1946, aged 75, and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery. Thomas Nankivell died at Colebrook in 1963.
NATION James Nation and Lavinia Sweetingham had a son in 1890. Lavinia Nation died in 1890 and James Nation in 1920 (death notices Mercury).
NEIL John Neil leased a farm on 20 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). Eight convicts had the name John Neil(l).
NELSON Peter Nelson is listed as a craftsman in the 1890 PO Directory.
NEWMAN Mary Ann Newman married Richard Stanton in 1870.
NICHOLS
NILSON/NILSSON/NILLSON Philip Nicholas Nilson and Emily Wheatley had children in the 1880s. Philip Nillson died in Sandy Bay in 1899, aged 45 (death notice Mercury).
NIX/NIXE John Nixe leased a farm and a hut of 2 acres (VR58) 6 acres at Glazier's Bay (VR62). He is listed as living at Cradoc Road in 1867 (MDT). Ellen Nix died as a baby in 1861. According to the PO Directory for 1890, John Nix was a farmer.
NOBLE Ely Noble was tried at the York Assizes 8 March 1845, aged 26, and sentenced for 14 years. He leased a farm of 80 acres at Spring Valley. He sought permission to marry Ellen Daley (free) in June 1855. He then sought permission to marry ex-convict Johanna Sullivan in December 1855. He married Johanna 'Ann' Sullivan in Hobart in 1856. Children: William (1857-1857), Elizabeth (1863-1863 Glamorgan), Ann (1865-1865 Glamorgan). Ely Noble died at Launceston in 1897, aged 85. Johanna Sillivan was tried at Co. Cork 23 October 1848 and sentenced to 7 years for stealing clothes. She was detained at Grangegorman Gaol in Co. Dublin. Petition CRF 1836 Misc.94 (National Library of Ireland).
Stephen Noble and Margaret Feeney had children in the 1880s.
NORRIS Edgar Norris (1870-1948) married Phoebe Muskett in 1894. A daughter, Vera Alexandra Norris, was born at Cradoc in 1902. His brother Thomas Young Norris (1872-1941) married Annie Louise White in 1894. Their son, Keith Wilfred Norris, was born at Lymington in 1913 (died 1915, Lymington). Jabez Robert Norris (1874-1949) married Letitia Eunice Wilcox (a teacher at Lower Wattle Grove) at Launceston in 1916. They had a daughter Hazel Norris (1917, Hobart) and a son Bernard Charles Norris (1919, Lower Wattle Grove). Beatrice Norris (b.1880) married Charles Frederick Brown at the residence of Mr Baldwin at Lower Wattle Grove in 1904. Percival Archie Norris married Mildred Stanton at Cygnet in 1916. The Norris family was originally from Somerset in England.
Thomas James Norris (eldest son of James and Sophia Norris) married Rachel Elizabeth McCallum at Hobart in 1903. Children: Thomas Alexander (1904, Hobart; died same day), Mabel Maggie, called "May" (1905, Hobart; married George William Kregor at Shipwrights Point in 1927; died 27 April 1974), Leslie Harold (1908, Hobart; married Mavis Chester in 1937; died in 1980 at Devonport), Clyde McCallum (1909, Hobart; married Ruby Harris c.1947; died c.1980 and buried at Devonport), Ethel Elsie (1911; married John Kregor in 1936; married a Brereton in 1956; died at New Town in 1980). In 1914 Thomas (a farmer) and Rachel Norris lived at Robert's Bay (Lower Wattle Grove). Thomas Norris died at Hobart 19 November 1943. Rachel Norris died 6 January 1959. They were buried at the Methodist cemetery in Cygnet.
OAKFORD John Oakford was tried at the Wiltshire Assizes 3 July 1838 and sentenced for life. He sought permission to marry ex-convict Mary Jane Sankey in 1850. Mary Sankey was tried in Kings Co., Ireland, in 1847. Children: Sarah (1851), Ann (c.1853), Ellen (1856), Mary Ann (1858), John Joseph (1861-1929), Jane (1862) and William James (1864-1900). John Oakford is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.62). He leased a farm and house on 8 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1884, aged 73, and Mary Oakford died in 1904, aged 77 (death notices Mercury). Both buried in St. James Cemetery. Sarah Oakford (aged 17) married Michael Bakey (aged 50) in 1869. William Oakford married Margaret Darcy. Ann Oakford (aged 20) married John Toohey (aged 40) in 1873. William Oakford died in 1900 at Hobart (buried at St. James - death notice Mercury).
O’BRIEN Daniel O'Brien (c.1828-1874) was a military pensioner. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.24). He married Hanora Foley (a son in 1853, Hobart). He owned a farm (new allotments) on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). He died in Port Cygnet in 1874, aged 66.
Edward O'Brien (c.1808) owned a farm and house on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). He was a military pensioner on board the Lady Kennaway and arrived in Hobart Town 28 May 1851. By 1858 he was located at Port Cygnet. He brought out his wife, Mary O'Brien, and the following children: Caroline Ann, Jane Martha, Lucy Beaumont and Edward Charles. Caroline O'Brien married Rufus Spencer Baker. Jane Martha married Arthur Allen in 1863. A few months later she died of tetanus. Lucy Beaumont O'Brien married Arthur Allen (the son of the convict William Allen). Edward Charles O'Brien married Emma Harvey. He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Mary O'Brien died in 1897.
Catherine O'Brien (c.1796-1886) died in Port Cygnet in 1886, aged 90.
O’CONNOR Jeremiah O'Connor died in 1894, aged 80.
OLBRICH/ OLBRICK Carl Gotthef Olbrich (1831-1893) arrived from Hamburg on board the Figaro in 1870. He became naturalised in 1877. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Carl G. Olbrich was a basketmaker. His wife's name was Andnitta Cathnia, known as Anna, Hannah or Henrietta. The children of Carl and Andnitta Olbrich: Sophia Amelia (c.1860-1931), Carl/Charles Gustav (c.1862-1943), Heinrich Wilhelm (c.1873-1942). Carl Olbrich died in 1893, aged 62. Hannah Olbrich died at Cygnet in 1911.
Sophia Olbrich married William Whitbread in 1880. Carl Gustav Olbrich married Bridget Winifred Brereton in 1895. Heinrich Olbrich married Lizetta Thomas in 1904.
O'LEARY Daniel O'Leary is listed as a military pensioner (convict guard) living on 10 acres at "Agnes Rivulet" (AOT, CSO 1/144/3994).
O’NEIL/O’NEAL/O’NEILL/O’NIEL Thomas O'Neill was tried at Co. Waterford 8 April 1850 under the name Thomas Neill and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing sheep. He married the free immigrant Mary Tuohy/Touhy/Touty/Touly/Toohay/Duay/Donhay in 1858 at Port Cygnet. The children of Thomas and Mary O'Neill: Michael (1859), James (1860-1863), Thomas (1861-1933), Bridget (1862), Patrick (1866) and Mary (1867). Thomas O'Neil (with John Cahil) leased a farm and house on 35 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers bay in 1867 (MDT). According to the PO Directory for 1890, Thomas O'Neil was a farmer. He died in 1892, aged 60. Mary O'Neill died in 1904.
Michael O'Neil married Margaret Sullivan in 1895. Children born at Glazier's Bay: Thomas Patrick (1896), Cornelius 'Hillary' (1897-1913), Michael James (1898), Elsie Johanna (1899), James John (1901), John (1902), Patrick (1903-1903).
Thomas O'Neil married Florence Delaney at St. Mary's Cathedral in Hobart. Children born at Glazier's Bay: Bridget Olive (1903-1903), Mary Elizabeth (1904-1904), Bridget Florence (1905), Eileen Dorothy (1906), Thomas Percy (1907), James Augustus (1908), Patrick Leo (1909), Kathleen (1911), Michael Bernard (1913), Dennis Bernard Stanley (1914), Margaret Josephine (1915), Annie Winifred (1917), Sheila Mary (1918) and Doris Teresa (1919).
Patrick O'Neil married Ethel Mary Gamble at Launceston in 1903. Children: Ethel Mary (1904, Launceston), Frederick John (1904, Bradshaw's Creek), James Patrick (1907, Bradshaw's Creek), Eileen Mabel (1908, Bradshaw's Creek), William Charles (1910, Gladstone), Olive Joyce (1912, Gladstone), Hazel Florence (1913, Gladstone), twins John Albert (1916, Gladstone) and Thomas Stanley (1916, Gladstone).
O'NEIL-WILSON According to the 1842 Census, Benjamin O'Neil-Wilson lived at Port Cygnet with eight other people (a married woman who arrived free aged over 21; six men over the age of 21 and a man over the age of 45 including five men on private assignment). Benjamin O'Neil-Wilson (aged 41) married Martha Dawson (adult) at Clarence in 1852. He died in Hobart in 1886, aged 79 (death notice Mercury).
OPENSHAW John Openshaw died in 1869, aged 34.
O’REILLY/O’RIELLY (also without the O') Andrew O'Reilly (c.1810-1879) was a military pensioner. Born at Newtonmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, c.1810, he enlisted at Dublin in the Indian Army in 1829. In 1836 he married Anne Bauvard at Cuddalore near Pondicherry. He retired from the army in 1841 and returned to Europe. He leased 19 acres of land from J.D. Balfe at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet. He owned a farm (new allotment) on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet and a farm (10 acres) at Prospect, Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as living at Cradoc Road in 1867 (MDT). He died of consumption at Port Cygnet in 1879, aged 68. The informant was his son Thomas O'Reilly (c.1841-1883), who died of lung congestion at Port Cygnet in 1883, aged 42.
Patrick Arthur O'Reilly, born at Cuddalore near Pondicherry, India in 1839, married Catherine O'Donoghue at St. Joseph's, Hobart, in 1862. He was the eldest son of Andrew O'Reilly and Anne Bauvard. The children of Patrick and Catherine O'Reilly: Maud Helen, called "Mary" (Hobart, 1863; married Owen Flynn, died at Petchey's Bay in 1948), Frances de Bouvres (1865; married Francis R. Doran in 1904; died in 1909), Augustine Andrew (Collingwood, Victoria 1867; married Winifred Devereux in 1892; divorced; died at Manly NSW in 1941), Thomas Joseph Fortune (Collingwood, Victoria, 1868; married Elizabeth Thorp in 1897; died in 1906), Catherine Veronica (Melbourne, Victoria, 1870; married James Cooney in Victoria in 1899; died in Victoria in 1958) and John Patrick (Melbourne, Victoria, 1872; married Nora Lee at Cygnet in 1907; died in 1943). Catherine O'Reilly died in Melbourne in 1881, aged 42, and Patrick O'Reilly died in Melbourne in 1882, aged 42.
The children of Augustine Andrew O'Reilly and Winifred Theresa Devereux were born in Geeveston. The children of John Patrick O'Reilly and Nora Agnes Lee: Patrick Aloysius (1908-1981), Sheila Nora Lee (1910-1994), Mary Francis (1911-1916), Margaret Ita (1915-2000) and Eileen Mary (1917-1917). John P. O'Reilly (d.1943) and Nora O'Reilly (d.1946) buried at St. James. The children of Thomas and Eliza O'Reilly: Mary (1898), Joseph Francis (1901-1902) and Cecilia Ann, called "Cissy" (1906).
Bridget O'Reilly died in 1897, aged 66. She was the mother of Mary Frances Lawler née O'Reilly. Mary O'Reilly married John Lawler in 1893. Margaret O'Reilly (aged 35) married Patrick Cranny (aged 35) in 1893. Catherine Reilly died at Lymington in 1901.
Patrick O'Reilly was a military pensioner. He died 4 August 1890. Obituary in the Examiner 5 August 1890: "Another old Imperial pensioner, in the person of Patrick O'Reilly, breathed his last at his late residence, Mount Mary, Port Cygnet today. Deceased was a non-commissioned officer in the 64th Regiment of the line and in his military days saw some hard service, for which he held medals. Deceased was 75 years old and universally respected in the district."
O’ROURKE/O'ROURK/O'ROUARKE (also without the O') Daniel Francis O'Rourke (c.1808-1878), his wife Catherine Dunn (c.1809-1842) and their eldest son, James, arrived from Dublin in Hobart in July 1833 aboard the Strathfieldsay. They were from Co. Wexford. Daniel Rourke jun. was baptised at St. Joseph's, Hobart, in May 1836 at which time the family were already living in Port Cygnet. Their daughter Christina Rourke was born 6 Jan. 1839 and baptised at St. Joseph's, Hobart, 10 April 1839. Charles Rourke was born 13 May 1841 and baptised at St. Joseph's 27 Aug. 1841. Daniel Rourke jun. was born 2 Nov. 1842 and baptised at St. Joseph's, 7 Nov. 1842. Catherine O'Rourke died in childbirth 2 November 1842. Two years later, Daniel O'Rourke married the widow Mary Ann Willetts, née Devereux (1815-1857). According to the 1842 Census, Daniel "Rook" lived in a bark dwelling at Port Cygnet with his wife and three children (a son under the age of 2 born in the colony, a daughter aged between 2 and 7 born in the colony and a daughter aged between 7 and 14 born in the colony ). There was also a boy over the age of 14 who arrived free. According to the 1851 Census, Daniel Rourke lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife, six sons and one daughter. He bought 19 and three quartes acres at Agnes Rivulet in 1853. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.10). He owned a house and farm on 20 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1878, aged 81 and is buried in St. James cemetery.
According to the 1851 Census, James Rourke lived at Nicholls Rivulet. Christina O'Rourke, aged 17, married Phillip Devereux, aged 32, in 1855.
John Rourke (c.1829-1888) from Co. Monaghan was tried in Co Monaghan in 1847 and sentened to 7 years for stealing oats. He married Mary Russell in 1855. He leased a farm and house on 29 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). The children of John and Mary Rourke: Arthur (1856), Bridget (1857), Sarah Jane (1859), Hugh (1861), Elizabeth (1863), a daughter (1865-1865), John (1866), James (1870), Mary (1872-1954) and Arthur (1874). The family lived at Cradoc. John Rourke died in 1888 aged 57.
Charles Rourke married Trephina Crisp at Franklin in 1860. Children: James (1861), John Charles (1864), Catherine (1867), Charles William (1870). Charles Rourke is listed as living at Cradoc Road in 1867 (MDT).
Phillip O'Rourke and Hanorah Dwyer married in 1874. Children: Philip John (1877), Jeremiah (1879), Daniel Francis (1880), William Charles (1882), Alexander James (1884), Mary Ellen (1885), Herbert Patrick (1887), John Douglas (1889), Christina May (1891), Albert Raymond (1893), Martin (1894), Joseph 'Hilary' (1897). Both buried in St. James Hanorah O'Rourke died in 1900, aged 45. Phillip O'Rourke died at Wollongong, NSW in 1938.
Simon Rourke married Laura Kregor in 1881. Children: Simon Peter (1881), Mary Ann (1883), Rosie May (1885), Albert Harold (1888), Percival William (1890).
Sarah Rourke married John Bell in 1878. According to the PO Directory for 1890, John and Philip O'Rourke were farmers. Simon O'Rourke was a labourer.
John Christopher O'Rourke married May Burbury. Children: John (1903), Eric (1907, died), May (1909).
Philip John O'Rourke married Helena "Isabel" Doran in 1911. Their children: Hanorah 'Nora' (1912-1964), Thomas (1914, Hobart), Mary Ellen 'Polly' (1919-1945). Isabel O'Rourke died in 1932. Philip O'Rourke later married Margaret Farrell who died in 1941. He died in 1943.
Jeremiah O'Rourke died in 1903. John O'Rourke died at Cradoc in 1912. Mary O'Rourke died in 1913.
OSWALD/OSWELD John Oswald and Robina Miller had two daughters in the late 1880s. According to the PO Directory of 1890, William Oswald was a farmer.
PACKER Charles Packer and Mary Ann Thompson had two children in 1878 and 1880.
PARKER Mary Parker died in 1880, aged 74 and George Parker died in 1883, aged 70. George Parker leased a farm on 17 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Nine convicts had the name George Parker.
PARRY Walter Rease Parry (1895-1964) married Elizabeth Boyle/O'Boyle at Cygnet in 1916. Children: Bert (c.1917), Olga Catherine May (1918; married Raymond Gray; died in 1953, aged 35), Thelma Johanna (1919), Lily (married Leslie Direen). Elizabeth Parry died 3 June 1955. Walter Parry died 14 November 1964. Both buried at St. James cemetery.
PARSELL/PARCEL/PARCELL/PARSOL/PURCELL/PURSELL The convict John Purcell was tried at the Surrey Assizes 28 March 1831. John Parsell/Purcell married Margaret Barry. Children: Margaret Parsell born in 1850 (registered in Hobart - Pioneer Index); Margaret Purcell born in 1859 (Saddlebag Records - sponsor Nicholas Long). Nicholas Long or Parsell died in Port Cygnet in 1862, aged 22. (A Nicholas Long cut timber at Port Esperance 16 January 1841 - LSD392). William Parsell died as a baby in 1847. John Purcell owned a farm on 5 acres at Purcell's Bay, Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Purcells' Bay in 1867 (MDT). Margaret Parsell died in Hobart in 1891, aged 77 (born c.1814). John Parsell died in 1904 at Deep Bay, Cygnet, aged 96 (death notice Mercury).
Thomas Augustus Parsell and Grace Wheatley had ten sons and one daughter: Thomas (1877, Hobart; died 1924), Michael (1878), William (1881), Margaret (1883), Richard (1884; died 1953), John (1885), Charles (1887), George (1890), Alfred (1892, Hobart; died 1918), James (1894), Phillip (1899, Hobart; died 1899). T.A. Parsell died in 1924 (death notice Mercury).
Patrick Purcell married Bridget Mullen/Mullins. Children: Male (1861, Kingston), Mary Ann (1863), Thomas (1865, Port Cygnet), Male (1869, Hobart), Rowland (1872, Hobart). According to the PO Directory of 1890, David and Thomas Purcell were craftsmen. Patrick Purcell died in Hobart in 1899, aged 64 (death notice Mercury). Thomas Clyde Roy Purcell died in 1910 (death notice Mercury).
PEACOCK Herbert Peacock married Sarah Hood in 1884.
PEARSALL According to the 1851 census, William Pearsall lived at Port Cygnet where seven other people were listed. Rachel Pearsall married Benjamin Bones in 1894.
PEPPER Joseph Pepper leased part of a farm from James Halton on 10 acres at Brabazon, Petchey's Bay (VR58). John and Annie Pepper had children in Franklin in the 1860s.
PEPPERD/PEPPARD John Peppard (born c.1825) married Julia Phillips (born c.1842) in Campbell Town in 1862. Children: Mary (Tasman, 1863), John (Tasman, 1865), Charlotte (Tasman, 1871), a male (Franklin, 1874), Michael (1878, PC). There was also a daughter Julia. John Peppard died in 1896, aged 75. Julia Peppard died in 1903 at Woodstock (death notice Mercury).
PETER Richard Peter died in 1885, aged 39.
PHELAN Timothy Phelan and Margaret Holloway had a daughter in 1876. Other children born on the Tasman Peninsula. Margaret Phelan died in 1879, aged 31.
PHIGGINS Joseph Phiggins leased a farm from James Henry Walter on 5 acres at Wattle Grove (VR58).
PHILP Capt. John Philp married Sarah Wilson Kerr (born at Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland 24 April 1845) at Franklin in 1863. The children of John and Sarah Philp: William Alexander (1864, Lymington; married Jessie McPhee; died 14 June 1937), Esther Isabel (1866, Long Bay; died in 1867), John Ernest (1869; married Vera Robinson; died 16 June 1937), Jessie Christina (1871, Franklin; married Clifton Coke Brownell; died in 1935). John Philp, a master mariner, died in Hobart 6 April 1922. Sarah Philp died 2 April 1938, aged 93.
PHILLIPS John Phillips died in 1894, aged 64. He is listed as living at Deep Bay in 1867 (MDT). Fanny Phillips married James Henley in 1879. According to the PO Directory of 1890, John Phillips was a storekeeper. Fanny Bennette Phillips died at Port Cygnet in 1902 - death notice Mercury.
PICKWOOD Alfred Pickwood was living at Port Cygnet in 1854 (letter published in the Mercury 8 July 1854). He married Mary Ann Dixon. A daughter Edith Flora born in 1854. A. Pickwood, aged 39, arrived from Melbourne on the Clarence in January 1853.
William H. Pickford (1844-1916) married Margaret Kinnaird in NZ in 1871. He lived at Port Cygnet between 1903 and 1907. He died at New Town in 1916, aged 72.
PIERCE William Pierce married Cecilia Naomi Woolley. Children born at Cygnet: Bertram Lennox "Claude" (1909, Cradoc) and Leonard Clarence Leslie (1914).
PILKINGTON/PILKERTON The convict Edward Pilkington was tried at the Chester Assizes, Cheshire 30 July 1842 and sentenced for 15 years for robbery with violence. According to the 1851 Census, he lived at Port Cygnet with his wife and children. He married Sarah Borragan in Hobart in 1847. Sarah Pilkington had a daughter in 1861 who died. Charles Pilkerton died in 1863 as a baby.
PIXLEY Ellis B. Pixley (1870-1961) married Mary Elizabeth Atkins at Hobart in 1904. Children: Isabel Mary (1904; married Reginald Coupe at Kingston in 1941), Dorothy D. (1908; married Robert Edgell; died in 1996) and Stuart Ellis Atkins (1909; married Jean Buchanan in 1937; died at St. Helen's in 1982). Mary Pixley died at Franklin in 1960 and Ellis Pixley died at Lymington in 1961.
POLLEY Robert Polley (c.1803-1897) was tried at the Essex Quarter Sessions 23 February 1836 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing two pigs. Mary Cinnamon arrived from London on the Waverley 25 October 1847 as a convict. They married at St. David's in Hobart in 1851. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.32). He leased a farm on 44 acres at Nicholls Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Nicholls Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Mary Polley died in 1890, aged 85. Robert Polley died in 1897, said to be aged 97. They had one child, William "Robert" Polley.
Robert Polley had a previous wife, Jane Collins, whom he married in Essex in October 1827. They had a child, Robert Polley, born in December 1827, who married Elizabeth Foden at Birmingham in 1856. Robert jun., his wife and eldest child Abraham Robert arrived in Melbourne in November 1859. They settled in Sydney where Robert jun. died in 1887. Elizabeth Polley died in Sydney in 1886. Both were buried at the Rookwood cemetery in Sydney.
William "Robert" Polley, aged 18, married Mary Whitton, aged 18, in 1869. Children born in Port Cygnet: Margaret Jane (1870), William (1871-1871), Ellen (1872-1872), John William (1875), Christina (1877), Francis George (1879), George (1881), Arthur (1883), Catherine (1885), Ernest (1887), Hilda May (1890), Maria (1891) and Esther (1894). According to the PO Directory of 1890, Samuel Polley and William R. Polley were farmers.
Francis George Polley married Bridget Claribel Dillon in 1903. Children born at Gardners Bay: Elvie (1902), Vera (1911) and Ernest (1915). John Polley married Clara Brittain. Children born at Gardners Bay: Christina (1905), Eric (1907), a son (1910), Vida (1915), Elsie (1916), Valmai (1919). Christina Polley married Alfred Arnold Wolf in 1899. Margaret Jane Polley married Frederick Henry Thomas in 1890.
POOLE According to the 1842 Census, Richard Poole (1800/03-1863) lived in a wooden dwelling at Port Cygnet with his wife. A seaman from Hull, he was tried at the Lancester Quarter Sessions 21 May 1821 and sentenced for 7 years. He arrived in 1821 and later worked with Thomas Cowen. Richard Poole ran the Quarryman's Arms Hotel in Argyle Street, Hobart, from 1843 to 1852. He married Mary Mason (died 1849, aged 52) in New Norfolk in 1830, Matilda Cuthrew in Hobart in 1850 and, aged 60, he married Elizabeth Park, aged 33, at Franklin in January 1863. He died at Esperance in October 1863. He is listed in the 1848 census.
POWELL John Powell died in 1872, aged 76 (death notice Mercury). He is listed as living at Cradoc Road in 1867 (MDT). Fourteen convicts had the name John Powell.
PREGNELL/PREGNAL/PREGNALL/PREGNEL/PRANGNALL/PRAGNELL George Pregnell (early 1830s-1874) was the son of Thomas Pregnell (c.1806-1844) and his wife Sarah Presnell. He married Ellen Robley married in 1856. Children: Sarah (1857), John Charles (1859-1898), Sydney George (1862), Mary Jane (1866), Ada Jane (1867) and Thomas (1869). George Pregnell leased a farm on 18 acres at Port Cygnet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). George Pregnell died in Hobart in 1874, aged 44 (death notice Mercury). Ellen Pregnell died in 1923.
John Pregnell and Louisa Davis married in Hobart in 1883. Children: Rosie May (1883; married Leslie Smith; died in 1964), Sydney George, called "Joe" (1884; married Annie Denny; died in France in 1918), Eleanor Mary, called "Ella" (1885; married Albert Boxshall; died in 1922), Alice "Maud" (1887; married Charles Halton; died in 1946), Britannia, called "Brighty" (1889: married Charles W.Cowen who was killed in action in 1917; married Charles Shea; died in 1948), Ruby Dorothea (1890; married Oswald McNeice; died in 1956), John Alexander Charles (1893; married Thelma Williams; died in 1960), Gertrude Margaret (1895; married Clement Bones; divorced in 1921; married Augustus Lookwood), Thomas Walter (1896; married Myrtle Brittain; married Doris Pregnell; died in 1949) and James Bernard (1898; married Myra Leary; died in 1961).
Sydney Pregnell and Blanche Dyson lived at Petchey's Bay. Children: George Sydney Joseph, called "Gordon" (1904; married Frances Wass; divorced; married Norma Byrne; died in 1951), Doris (1905; married Thomas Pregnell; married Ambrose Brereton; died in 1989), John Baden (1907; married Stella Bridges; died in 2001, aged 93), Clarence Ernest, called "Darcy" (1909), Bingham Charles (1911; married Greta Bones; died in 1950), Cyril "William" (1913; married Linda Paul; divorced; married Annie Cowen; died in 1990), Ken (1915; married Dorothy Williams; died in 1986), Chancy Ellen (1917; married Sydney Wass; died in 1981) and Hilary Horace James (1920; married Daphne Bailey; died in 1987).
PRICE Daniel Price was tried at Hereford Quarter Sessions 2 January 1843 and sentenced for 10 years. He leased a farm from James Henry Walter on 5 acres at Wattle Grove (VR58).
PRICHIE Sarah Prichie died in 1887, aged 12.
PUGH Enoch Pugh and Sarah Fenton had a daughter in 1885.
PURDY Andrew Purdy (aged 42) married Charlotte Mitchel (aged 34) in 1859.
PURKINS Henry Purkins and Emma Cox had a daughter in 1885.
PURKIS/PERKIS/PURKISS William Purkiss (c.1830-1920) was born in London. He was tried at the Clerkenwell GS 8 August 1842 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation for stealing beads from a little girl in London. He and Mary Nichols had two children: Mary Ann (1859) and Henry (1862). According to the PO Directory of 1890, William Purkiss was a labourer. He died at Gardners Bay in 1920.
QUIGLEY Daniel Quigley (c.1871-1911) ran the Huon Hotel at Port Cygnet. He died at Brisbane in 1911, aged 40.
RABBIT/RABBITT Michael Rabbit (1835-1919) arrived in Melbourne, aged 27, in 1862 on board the Vanguard. He was baptised at Baunkyle, Corofin, Co. Clare 14 September 1835. He married Catherine Callaghan. Children: Margaret (1869-1952), Mary (1871), Patrick Joseph (1873-1951), Ellen (1875), Michael Daniel (1877-1896), Catherine (1879-1941), twins Dennis (1881-1953) and John (1881-1949). Michael Rabbitt is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Catherine Rabbitt died in 1896, aged 54. Michael Rabbit died in 1919, aged 75. Both buried in St. James Cemetery. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Michael Rabbitt was a farmer. Margaret Rabbitt married James Thomas Daly in Hobart in 1902. Mary Rabbitt married Patrick Wall at SHC in 1913. Ellen Rabbitt married Arthur Bernard Mills in Hobart in 1904. Patrick Rabbitt married Annie Torpey in 1913.
RAINSFORD Mary Rainsford died in 1876, aged 79. Buried in St. James Cemetery. She was from Dublin and arrived in Hobart with her daughter Margaret Rainsford on board the Caroline Middleton 29 November 1854. Margaret married the ex-convict Henry Groves (see above).
RANDALL/RANDALLS William Randall (born c.1821) was tried at the Old Bailey in 1841 and transported for burglary. He was transported under the nme "William Thomas." He married Phoebe Allen in Franklin in 1854. Children: Emma Jane (1856), Charles Robert (1858) and Louisa (Campbell Town, 1862).
RANNESLEY Mr. and Mr Salter leased a farm on 120 acres from Elijah Hedditch at Port Cygnet (VR58).
RANSOM Henry Ransom (c.1824-1896) was tried at the Southampton Assizes 1 April 1839 and sentenced to 15 years' transportation for housebreaking. He married Harriet Wisden on Norfolk Island in 1847. He was District Constable at Port Cygnet from 1859 to 1864 and again from 1874 until he retired in 1877. He died at Southport in 1896 aged 71.
READY/REEDY Michael Ready (c.1835-1919) was from Co. Clare in Ireland. He married Mary Curtin 26 April 1860 at Franklin. Children: Andrew Patrick (1861; died at the Sydney Hospital 27 September 1911), Michael James (1862, Franklin; drowned at King River in 1897), Mary (1864, Franklin; did not marry; died at Hobart 25 June 1930), Elizabeth (1868, Franklin; married James Daly at Port Cygnet in 1891), Bridget and Margaret (1870, Franklin; died of scarlet fever at Deep Bay in 1877, aged 6; Margaret, did not marry and died in Hobart 3 January 1930), Susan (1874, Deep Bay; married Patrick Connors at Cygnet in 1918; died at Hobart 26 April 1941), John Joseph (1876, Deep Bay), Annie (1879, Deep Bay). According to the PO Directory of 1890, Michael Ready was a farmer. Mary Ready died at Deep Bay in 1909 and Michael Ready died in Deep Bay 29 September 1919, aged 84.
REARDON According to the 1851 Census, James Reardon lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife, four sons and two daughters. Two convicts had the name James Reardon. James Reardon is listed in the 1843, 1848 and 1851 census (two for 1851).
Cornelius Riordan (c.1813-1896) was tried in Co. Cork 23 December 1842 and sentenced to 10 years for sheep stealing. He died in 1896. His wife, Eleanor Reardon (who arrived in 1850 on board the Anne Thompson) died in 1891, aged 79 or 88. Both buried in St. James Cemetery. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Cornelius Reardon was a farmer.
Mary Reardon married James Coad in 1877. Daniel John Reardon, a farmer aged 32, married Margaret Agnes Dwyer (aged 18) in 1895. Children born at Glazier's Bay: Eleanor (1896), Annie (1903), Cornelius (1905), Margaret (1907, Silver Hill), Daniel Connell (1909) and Thomas (1911). Daniel Reardon died in 1943, aged 85. Margaret Reardon died in 1965, aged 89.
REDDON/REDON/RIDDON Henry Redding (c.1807-1885) was tried at the Old Bailey 29 November 1832 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing a donkey. He married Christina McLean in 1847. Born on the Island of Mull, Christina McLean was tried in Glasgow in 1846 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for robbery and assault. According to the 1851 Census, Henry "Riddon" lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife and five male workers. He owned a farm on 5 acres at Gardners Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Gardners Bay in 1867 (MDT). Christina Reddon died in 1880, aged 78. Henry Redding died in 1885 aged 85.
REEVES Mary Ann Reeves died in 1858, aged 58.
REID John Reid (born c.1863) married Priscilla Andrews (1867) at Port Cygnet in 1891. Born at Port Cygnet in 1867, Priscilla Andrews was the daughter of John Andrews and Maria Corney (see above). Children: Gordon John (1893-1893), James Garnett (1897), John Victor (1898), Albert Edward (1902, Cradoc). John Reid was a farmer at Woodstock in 1914.
Francis Joseph Reid married Eva Irene Josephine Harrower. Children: William Henry Joseph (1910, Longford), Irene Esme (1912, Longford), Francis Monteith (1915, Longford), Frederick John (1918, Longford). Francis (a storeman) and Eva Reid lived at Cygnet in 1914.
REILLY See O'REILLY
RENAHAN/RENIHAN/RENNAHAN/RENOCHAN Thomas Renihan (c.1817-1892) was tried in Co. Limerick in 1842 and given a life sentence for assaulting a dwelling house. He was convicted with his brother James Renahan. Aged 34, he married Mary Thorpey/Torpy, aged 24, in Hobart in 1856. Children: Michael Joseph (1856-1919), William Francis (1858-1924), Catherine (1861-1872), James Matthew (1864-1950), Mary Ellen (1867-1950). Thomas Renahan died in 1892, aged 84. Mary Renahan died in 1896, aged 64.
Michael Joseph Renahan married Mary McNamara in 1890. Children: Michael J. (1892; married Elsie May Wall in 1916), Mary Ellen (1893; died in Hobart 19 December 1908, aged 15), Thomas John (1896; married Violetta Alice Dance in Hobart in 1923; died in 1954). According to the PO Directory of 1890, Thomas and William Renahan were farmers. Michael and Elsie Renahan had children: Leslie (1918), John Patrick (1919). June Renahan died in 1930.
RENSHAW Mary Renshaw died in 1896, aged 37.
RHODES Catherine Rhodes owned a farm (10 acres) at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58). She died in 1859, aged 35.
RIBBON/RIBBINS/RIBBIN Thomas Ribbon/Ribbin was tried in Co. Galway 22 October 1849 and sentenced to 10 years for "killing a cow with intent to steal same." He arrived in 1851. Thomas Ribbins and Esther Markham had a son John Samuel in 1859. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Essy Markham was tried in Co. Wicklow and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing wearing apparel. She arrived on board the John William Dare in 1852. Thomas Ribbin is listed living at Nicholls Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Thomas Ribbon (aged 59) and Esther Markham (aged 50) married at Franklin in 1876. Thomas Ribbon died in 1883, aged 66. Esther Ribbon was drowned at Nicholls Rivulet in 1896, aged 70. John Ribbon married Margaret Dillon in 1880. He died in 1898, aged 38.
RICHARDS William Richards leased a farm on 5 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay (VR58). George Richards and Ann Lancaster had a son in 1894. Five convicts had the name William Richards.
RICKARDS Allan Rickard (1877-1965) married Nellie Donahue at Hobart in 1899. Children: Myrtle Irene (1899; married Robert C. Bacon at Hobart in 1919), Ivy Ernesteen (1901; married Bertie C. Dance at Hobart in 1917), Kenneth James (1905; married Lilla Upchurch at Huonville in 1929; died in 1973), Allan (1907; married Zena March at Hobart in 1927; died in 1984) and Russell Harvey (1910). Nellie Rickards died at Cygnet in childbirth in 1910. He married Beryl Vertigan in 1912. He died in 1965, aged 88. Beryl Rickard died in 1984, aged 88.
RICHARDSON William Richardson (1836-1900) was born at Sorell in 1836, the son of Charles and Mary Richardson. He married Sarah Anne Ginn (1838-1893) at Sorell in 1857. Their children were born at Port Cygnet: Stephen Arthur (1864), Female (1866), Alice Jane (1868), Walter Robert (1870), Sidney William (1871), Rachel Ann (1873), Emma (1875), Frederick Henry (1877), Female (1878-1878), David Benjamin (1880). Sarah Ginn was the daughter of the convict Robert Ginn. She arrived on board the William Jardine in 1849. She died in 1893, aged 55. According to the PO Directory of 1890, William Richardson was a farmer. He died in 1900 at his daughter's residence, Port Cygnet, aged 63.
RIGGOTT Christopher Riggott is listed as a military pensioner (convict guard) living on 10 acres at "Agnes Rivulet" (AOT, CSO 1/144/3994).
RILEY Patrick Riley is listed as a farmer in the 1890 PO Directory.
RIPLEY John Ripley leased a farm on 5 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick at Petchey's Bay (VR58). He was tried at the Sheffield Quarter Sessions in Yorkshire 28 February 1842 and sentenced to 7 years. He arrived in 1843. He left Launceston 20 August 1852 for Melbourne (probably to look for gold).
RISELEY/RISELY Herbert Riseley (1867, Hospital Bay-1942, Hobart) married Louisa Kube in 1892 at Petchey's Bay. Children: Lavannah "May" (1892-1911), Herbert (1893; married Bridget Theresa Direen in 1918; died in 1973), Edwin Rheuben (1895-1974), Lilian Susannah Mary (1898; married Joseph S.H. Smith in 1920; died in 1967), Walter John Godfrey (1901; married Elsie Smith), Vera Louisa (1905; married John Smith), Ernest Edgar (1908; married Ellen Bender; died in 1954) and Rita Lucy (1911; married Nordstrom; died in 1973). Louisa Riseley died in 1940. Herbert Riseley died at Hobart in 1942.
ROBBINS William Robbins was tried at the Bristol Quarter Sessions 8 January 1844 and sentenced for 10 years. He married Margaret Moore in 1852. Children: Adeline (1856), Alfred (1858), Margaret (1860). Margaret Robins died in 1901 (death notice Mercury).
ROBERTS George Roberts and Bridget Williams had a son in 1857. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Frederick Roberts was a farmer. Eight convicts had the name George Roberts.
ROBINSON According to the 1842 Hobart census, John Robinson lived in a wooden dwelling at Port Cygnet with ten other people. According to the 1851 census, he lived at Nicholls Rivulet with five other people. He was a former convict and de-facto husband of Ellen Nichols, née Kelly. He drowned at Port Cygnet 15 May 1851 and his body was never found.
ROBERTSON Alexander Robertson died in 1867, aged 58. Ellen Robertson died in 1879, aged 96. Five convicts had the name Alexander Robertson. A.J. Robertson is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.190).
ROBLEY George Robley (1795-1873) is listed in the 1842 and 1843 census for Southport and 1848 Hobart census. He is listed living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He was baptised at Parramatta, N.S.W. in August 1795, the son of the convicts John Robley (1765-1840) and Jemima Wasker (died 1837). After living on Norfolk Island, he arrived in Hobart in 1808 with his parents. He married Ann Adams (c.1792-1878) in 1815. They had a son William Michael Robley (1824, Hobart). George Robley and Sarah Williams (c.1797-1870) had three children: Elizabeth (1829), Sophia (1834) and Ellen (1835). Sarah Robley died in 1870, aged 73. According to the 1851 Census, James Robley (mistake for George Robley?) lived at Port Cygnet with his wife and children (two sons and two daughters). He died in 1873, aged 78. Ann Robley was buried in the pauper section of Cornelian Bay Cemetery 23 April 1878, aged 86.
Elizabeth Robley married James Sayers in 1847 (see below). Sophia Robley married John Blades in 1855 (see above). Ellen Robley married George Pregnell (see above).
ROGERS Frederick George Rogers (1862-1928) married Margaret Gilligan in Hobart in 1893. Children: Archibald Joseph (1895; killed in France in 1917), Madeleine (1898-1920), Albert Donald (1900) and Russell Charles (1903). The family lived at Port Cygnet after 1914. Frederick Rogers died at Cygnet in 1928. Margaret Rogers died at Hobart in 1935. They were buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
James Benjamin Rogers (c.1867-1936) married Alice Schofield at Hobart in 1888. He died at Cygnet in 1936. Alice Rogers died in 1931. They were buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
ROSS Theodore Ross leased a farm on 20 acres from James Henry Walter at Wattle Grove (VR58).
ROSSE Charles Rosse and Mary Smith had a son in 1891.
ROUND Percival 'Percy' Eli Round (1873-1935) married Maria Roberts in 1895. The family lived at Gardner's Bay briefly 1906-1907. Three children attended the Gardner's Bay State School: Percy (1896), Leslie (1898) and Dorothy Gladys (1901; married Alfred Peel at Sydney in 1918; died at Sydney in 1952). A daughter, Elsie May, was born at Gardner's Bay in 1907 (married Bernard Paull; died in Queensland in 1968). Percy Round died in NSW in 1935. Maria Round died in NSW in 1932.
ROURKE/ROURK/ROUKE See O'ROURKE
ROWE James Rowe (1845-1914), a master mariner, married Sarah Ann Graham at Franklin in 1868. James Rowe had an orchard at Cradoc by 1903. He died in Cradoc in 1914. Sarah Anne Rowe died at Sandy Bay in 1921. The Rowe family was originally from Cornwall. Article on the Rowe family in the Mercury 2 November 1927.
James Thomas Rowe (1870-1957) married Ella Weymouth in 1899. Children: James William (1901-1993), Cyril Oliver (1903-1966), Eric Hudson (1906-1964), Theodore Weymouth (1909-1951), Beatrice Sara (1917, Cradoc). The family moved from Bellerive to Cradoc in 1914. Ella Rowe died at Cradoc 17 October 1936, aged 62. James Rowe died 9 October 1957. They were buried at Cradoc cemetery.
ROWLES Victor Rowles and Ellen Ginn had a daughter in 1895.
RUFF According to the 1851 Census, John Ruff lived at Deep Bay with his wife and daughter. They had a daughter Sarah, born in Hobart in 1851. The convict John Ruff arrived in 1842. He applied to marry the ex-convict Ellen Farrell in 1848. They married in Hobart in 1848. He was tried at Warwick 24 March 1841 and sentenced for 15 years along with his brother David Ruff who received a similar sentence. Ellen Farrell was tried in Dublin 7 October 1845 aged 24 and sentenced to seven years for "felony of handkerchief."
RUSSELL/RUSSEL Maurice Russell (c.1802-1868) was tried in Co. Clare 13 April 1847, aged 49, and sentenced to 7 years for larceny. He arrived on the Lord Dalhousie from Cork in August 1852. He leased a farm (3 acres) and house at Glaziers Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1868, aged 66. His wife, Elizabeth Russell, died in 1878, aged 76. Two of their children: John (c.1835-1901) and Mary (c.1837).
John Russell, aged 26, married Jane Halton (born c.1845), aged 16, at Petchey's Bay in 1861. Children: Maurice John (1862-1927), Catherine (1863-1868), Jane Halton (1865-1936), James (1867-1867), Mary Ann (1868), Elizabeth (1871), Catherine (1873), James (1875-1875). John Russell leased farms and houses on 2, 3 and 3 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). John and Jane Russell left Cygnet in 1879 and moved to Hobart. They later moved to Weldborough. John Russell died in Hobart in 1901. Jane Russell died at Weldborough in 1911.
Mary Russell, age 18, married the former convict John O'Rourke, aged 26, in 1855. John "Rourke" was tried in Co. Monaghan 10 April 1847 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing oats. The children of John and Mary O'Rourke: Arthur (1856), Bridget (1857), Sarah Jane (1859; married John M. Bell; died in 1917), Hugh (1861), Elizabeth (1863), a daughter (1865-1865), John (1866), James (1870), Mary (1872; married Frederick W. Harrison; died 1954) and Arthur (1874).
RYAN/RAYN/RHYAN Daniel Ryan leased a farm on 4 acres at Glen Eden, Glaziers Bay (VR58).
Thomas Ryan (born c.1842) and Margaret Kaven (born c.1845) married in 1866. They had thirteen children born in Port Cygnet from 1867 until 1887. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Thomas Ryan was a farmer. He is listed as living at Cradoc Hill in 1867 (MDT).
John Ryan married Mary Lawler in 1890. They had children in the 1890s. James Ryan married Catherine Lawler. James Ryan died in 1871, aged 61.
RYDE/RHYDE John Ryde (c.1824-1878) was tried at the Stafford Quarter Sessions 29 July 1841. He married Mary Anne McArtney in 1857 at the schoolhouse in Port Cygnet. She was tried at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Quarter Sessions, Northumberland, 9 April 1851. Children: John (c.1856-1924), Thomas (1856-1937), Benjamin (1859-1929). Other children born in NSW. John Ryde junior married Margaret Coy in 1889. Children: John (1890, Gordon) and Benjamin (1893). Mary Ryde died at Brisbane Water, NSW, in 1869. John Ryde died at Brisbane Water, NSW, in 1878.
SALMON Aged 23, Benjamin Salmon (c.1804-1861) was tried 6 December 1827 at the Middlesex Gaol Delivery (Old Bailey) and sentenced for 7 years for stealing a watch, a watch-chain, a seal and a watch-key. He arrived in 1829. According to the 1851 Census, Benjamin Salmon lived at Port Cygnet. He died in the Esperance district in 1861, aged 58.
SAMPSON Philip Sampson (c.1819-1857) was tried at the Central Criminal Court London 24 October 1841 and given a life sentence. He died at Port Cygnet in 1857, aged 38.
SANGWELL William James Sangwell (1886, Hobart-1932, Moonah) married Ethel Maud Victoria Quinn at Berriedale in 1913. He was a hairdresser at Cygnet. Children born there: Edward James (1914-1914) and Harold James (1919-1977). Edward William Sangwell (a carpenter) (1859-1933) and Elizabeth Sangwell née Harris (1864-1934) also lived at Cygnet in 1914. They were the parents of William J. Sangwell.
SAYERS James/George Sayers (c.1816-1875) was tried at the Pontefract QS in Yorkshire and sentenced to 14 years' transportation for stealing mutton. He married Elizabeth Robley (born c.1829) 12 January 1847 at Hamilton. Children: George Henry (1847-1903), Sarah (1850-1921), Eliza (1853) and James (1857-1857, Port Cygnet). He ran the Culloden Hotel at Culloden Point near Port Cygnet in 1857. He leased 5 acres of land at Culloden Point, Huon River (VR58). He left Tasmania c.1858 and went to Victoria. A daughter Harriet was born at Elphinstone in Victoria (1864). He died at Dunolly in 1875. Elizabeth Sayers died at Elphinstone in 1900.
Sarah Sayers was the second wife of Joseph Harvey (see above).
SCANLON/SCANLAN/SCANDLAR Thomas Scanlon married Alice Hallinan in Hobart in 1856. Children: Michael John (1857-1935), Denis Cornelius (1858-1944), Mary (1860-1935), James William (1861-1888), Margaret (1863), Thomas (1865-1876), Alice (1866-1876), Johanna (1868-1898). He leased a cottage at Kangaroo Point (VR58). He is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). Thomas Scanlon died at Cygnet in 1902. Alice Scanlon died at Cygnet in 1903.
Denis Scanlon married Mary Jones. Mary Scanlon married Charles Dwyer in 1884. Johanna Scanlon married Michael Machin in 1892. Johanna died in 1898, aged 29 and she is buried at St. James Cemetery.
Michael Scanlon died in 1935 (buried at St. James). According to the PO Directory of 1890, Michael and Thomas Scanlon were farmers. Thomas Scanlon married Virginia Seabourne in 1904. Children: Mabel (1904, Gordon), Mary (1905, Gordon), Thomas (1907, Gordon), twins Edward and Christina (1908), Bernard (1910), a son (1912, Gordon), Virginia (1914), Martin (1916), James (1918), Alice (1919, Gordon). Alice Scanlon married James Kilmartin at St. James in 1906. Jane Scanlon married James Welsh at St. Mary's Hobart in 1908. Margaret Scanlon married Michael Boyle at SHC in 1908. Martin Scanlon married Irene Jeffery in the Catholic Presbytery in 1921. Mabel Scanlon married Joseph Matchin at SHC in 1923. Eva Scanlon died in 1900. Thomas Scanlon died in 1902. Michael Scanlon died in Hobart in 1903. Thomas Basil Scanlon died in 1907. James Scanlon died in 1910. Donald Scanlon died in 1925.
SCHENCK John Schenck and Louisa Jane had a daughter in 1885. John Schenck died in 1926 (death notice Mercury). He is listed as living in Franklin in 1867 (MDT).
SCHULTZ/SHULTZ/SCHUTZE Godfrey Schultz (c.1812-1894) and his wife Anna Dorothea arrived in Hobart on board the Lewe Van Nyenstein 24 May 1855 with their children: Ann "Dorothea" (c.1838; married Frederick William Kregor; died in 1873), Frederica Wilhelmina (c.1840; married George Dunn Bennett in 1864; died at Geeveston in 1915), William August (1845; married Rosetta Mazenbarb in 1877; died in 1939), Maria "Louisa" (c.1852; married James William Ginn in 1874) and Augustus John Frederick (1854; married Alice Mary Brady in 1879; died in 1914). The family settled at Wattle Grove, where they obtained 125 acres of horticultural land. "Godfrid Shoots" leased a farm on 10 acres from James Henry Walter at Wattle Grove (VR58). Anna Schultz died in 1859, aged 49 (registered as "Sharlze"). Godfrey Schultz is listed as a farmer living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). He died in 1894, aged 83.
SCOTT Joseph Scott died in 1879, aged 75. James Scott died in 1880, aged 32. J. and W. Scott are listed as living at Randall's Bay in 1867 (MDT). Joseph Scott is listed living at Port Cygnet in a letter published in the Mercury 8 July 1854. Four convicts had the name Joseph Scott.
SCULLY Joseph Scully died in 1857, aged 3.
SCULTHORP/SCULTHORPE James Sculthorpe (1830-1911) was born in Surrey, England 23 May 1830. He was tried at the Central Criminal Court in London 25 October 1847 and sentenced to 10 years' transportation. He married Harriet Mobley (1841-1919) in Hobart Christmas Day 1857. Children: Charlotte Elizabeth (1858-1920), Sarah Jane (1861-1861), Harriet Margaret Matilda "Tilly" (1864-1944), James Anthony (1866-1931), John William Mobley (1869-1949), Thomas McBean (1881-1954) and Tasman Joseph Morris (1884-1951). James Sculthorpe is listed as living in Irish Town in 1867 (MDT). According to the PO Directory of 1890, James Sculthorp was a farmer. He died at Nicholls Rivulet 4 December 1911; Harriet Sculthorpe was born at Oxford, England, 30 November 1841 and died at Nicholls Rivulet 28 April 1919 (death notices Mercury).
SEYMORE Henry Seymore married Ellen Barrett in 1884. They had children in the 1880s. Ellen Seymore died in 1890, aged 31. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Henry Seymour was a farmer. Henry Seymore died at Garden Island Creek in 1926.
SHANAHAN James Shanahan (aged 40) married Margaret Leahy/Dwyer (aged 30) in 1872. A son born in 1873.
SHAW Charles Shaw died in 1886, aged 62.
SHEEHEN John Sheehen died in 1871, aged 58.
SHEEHY Thomas and Mary Sheehy had a daughter in 1862.
SIGGINS Alfred James Siggins (1887-1959) was a labourer living at Silver Hill, Cygnet in 1914. He married Kathleen Winifred Direen at Cygnet in 1921.
SIMMONDS Thomas Simmonds married Esther Bottaball/Bolaball. Children: Esther (1859) and Thomas (1860). He was tried at the Southampton Assizes 1 March 1834.
SKINNER Henry Skinner died in 1878, aged 75. Mary Skinner died in 1885, aged 60. John and Rosetta Skinner had a son in 1889.
SLACK Patrick Slack and Elizabeth Crampton had a son Patrick in 1860.
SMITH According to the 1851 census, the ex-convict Thomas Smith lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife, son and daughter. Thomas Smith is listed in the 1851 Huon census (p.4).
William Smith died in 1856, aged 36. William Smith David Smith and Mary Ann Coventry had a son Albert Ernest Smith in 1862.
William Smith (c.1823-1902) married Fanny Cochrane (1834-1905) in 1854. Children: William Henry Smith (1858-1934), Mary Jane Miller, née Smith (1859-1955) Flora/Florence Amelia Stanton, née Smith (1860-1946), Walter George Smith (1861-1912) Joseph Thomas Sears Smith (1862-1948), Sarah Bernice Laurel Miller, née Smith (1864-1934), Tasman Benjamin Smith (1866-1949), Frederick James Smith (1868-1951), Laura Ann Miller née Smith (1870-1953), Charles Edward Smith (b.1872) and Isabella Frances Smith (b.1874).
John Smith (c.1822) is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He married the Scottish convict Helen Gill in 1852. Helen Gill was tried at Aberdeen 18 September 1849 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing a watch. She arrived on board the Baretta Junior 25 July 1850. The children of John and Helen Smith: Jane (1855), Rebecca Morgan (1857), male (1859), Ellen (1861; unmarried; died in 1936), Agnes Martha (1863; married William Allsebrook; died in 1932), Sarah Bedford Paris (1865; married George Butling at Hobart in 1885; died in Melbourne in 1904), Frances Victoria (1867; married Lawrence Hanlon at Hobart in 1884; died at Hamilton in 1918), Mark Crompton Gill (1869; married Florence Pollard at Nicholls Rivulet in 1898; died in 1956), Mary Jane Macintosh (1871) and Jemima Bradley (1875; married Frank Hursey in 1902; died at Hobart in 1950). The family lived at Nicholls Rivulet from c.1867 until c.1871. Helen Smith died at Hobart in 1900, aged 65, and was buried at the Queenborough cemetery.
Morven Smith (1855-1917) was born at Port Cygnet in 1855, the son of George Smith and Eleanor Magee. He had a twin brother William. He married Susannah Mary Jackson (c.1861-1942) at Franklin in 1881. Their children: George (1884), Ellen Jane (1886; married Tasman Cathcart Lillye in 1911; died in 1969), Alfred Edward (1888; lived at Petchey's Bay in 1915; married Johanna Kathleen Scanlon in 1917), Albert Wilfred (1891; enlisted in the AIF in 1916; married Alma Gilbert in 1899; died in 1952), Mildred Susannah (1894; married Arthur James Hunt in 1915; died in 1968), Arthur Clyde (1896; enlisted in the AIF in 1917; died in France in 1918), Charles Walter (1899; married Ruby Gilbert in 1925; died in 1965), Jessie Alice Irene (1901) and Gladys Vera (16 April 1904; married Wilmot George Nichols; died in 1983). They lived at Petchey's Bay. Morven Smith died at Glazier's Bay in 1917; Susannah Smith died at Cygnet in 1942, aged 81.
SMYTH John Smyth leased a farm on 5 acres at Foster's Rivulet, Lymington and Peter Smyth owned a house and farm on 10 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58). Aged 40, John Smyth married Anne Thorpe, aged 20, at Franklin in 1861. Four convicts had the name John Smyth.
SPENCER James Spencer, aged 24, he married Margaret Fitzpatrick (the sister of Matthew Fitzpatrick), aged 19, in 1843. No children traced. James Spencer is listed in the 1842, 1843 and 1848 census.
SPILLERS/SPELLERS/SPILLORS John Spillers (c.1822-1893) was tried at the Essex Assizes 2 March 1840 and given a life sentence for highway robbery. He married Mary Mason in 1850. Their children: Peter (c.1853-1884), Matthew (c.1854-1876) and Elizabeth (1856-1857). He is listed as a farmer near Glaziers Bay in 1867 (MDT). Mary Spillers drowned aged 62 in 1885. John Spillers cut his throat 5 January 1893 aged 72.
Peter Spillers and Eliza Spillers, née Grace married in Franklin in 1875 and had children in Port Cygnet in the 1870s: Mary(1876), Matthew(1877), twins Catherine ('Kathleen') and John (1879-1880). Peter Spillers died in 1884, aged 31. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Eliza and John Spillers were fruitgrowers. Eliza Spillers (née Grace) re-married. Aged 39, she married Thomas Brereton (aged 37) in 1893 and there were two more children: Edith May (1893) and Denis (1894). John and Ann Spillers, née Grace had a daughter, Ann Grace Spillers, in 1885.
SPENK Joseph Spenk died in 1887, aged 75. Edward Spink is listed as a farmer in the 1890 PO Directory.
SPROULE Joseph Gilbert Sproule (1887, Kingston-1960, NSW) was a labourer at Nicholls Rivulet in 1914. William Henry Sproule was a contractor there in 1914 and Violet Myrtle Sproule lived there.
STACK/HACK Patrick Stack was tried at Limerick 12 March 1849 and transported (with the Dillon brothers) for burning a stack of hay. Sentenced for 7 years. He sailed per the Lord Dalhousie and arrived in Hobart in 1852. He was married with children when he left Ireland. He married Anastasia Leahy in 1856 in Hobart. She arrived in Hobart 1 Feb. 1854 per the Sir Allan McNab aged 25, a housemaid from Tipperary. Seven children born in Port Cygnet in the 1850s and 1860s. Patrick Stack is listed as living at Agnes Rivulet in 1867 (MDT). He died in Port Cygnet in 1868, aged 52. Anastasia Stack died in 1890. According to the PO Directory for 1890, Anastasia Stack was a fruit-grower. Patrick A. Stack (1860-1928) and his wife Hannah Kennedy (1865-1919) married in Port Cygnet in 1888 (their death notices in the Mercury).
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STEEL/STEELE William Steele (c.1830-1897) was tried at the Southampton QS in 1847 and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. He married Eliza Somers in 1870. They had a son William in 1874. He died in 1897, aged 71 (Hobart).
STEPHENS/STEVENS/STEVENSON John Stevens married Bridget Grace in 1865. Nine children born from the 1860s to the 1880s. According to the PO Directory of 1890, John Stevenson was a miner. Henry John Stevens, the husband of Annie Stevens, died in 1929.
Julian Stevens (c.1881-1956) married Charlotte Bacon in 1908 at the Catholic Presbytery. Children: William Patrick (1908-1989), Vera May (1909; married Bert Askey in 1928), Joseph Julian (1912; marred Rita Marham in 1938; died in 1984), Annie (1913), Daniel James (1915-1979), Elsie Margaret (1916) and Robert John (1919; married Doreen Baker). Charlotte Stevens died in 1919. Julian Stevens married Eliza Wilson in 1928. Children: Beverlyn Jean (1929; married Clifford Coad), Betty Dawn (married Ronald Coad) and Joyce. He died in 1956.
STEPHENSON/STEVENSON Hugh Stephenson (aged 70) married Margaret Mooney (aged 50) in 1884. He is listed as living at Robart's Bay in 1867 (MDT). According to the PO Directory of 1890, Hugh Stevenson was a farmer. He died in 1907 (death notice Mercury).
STIRRUP James and Isabella Stirrup had a son in 1891.
STRINGER Christina Stringer died in 1888, aged 69. According to the PO Directory of 1890, Edward Stringer was a farmer. He is listed as a farmer living at Brabazon in 1867 (MDT).
STRONG Thomas Strong (c.1831-1922) was born in Queen's Co., Ireland. He arrived in Hobart per the Hyderabad in 1850. Transported for assaulting a habitation and sentenced for 10 years on 10 March 1850. In 1854, (described as a blacksmith), he sought permission to marry Bridget Maloney. They married at St. Joseph's in Hobart in 1854. Thomas Strong leased a farm and house on 23 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Lymington in 1867 (MDT). Thomas Strong died in New Town in 1922 and Bridget Strong died in Cygnet, aged 81, in 1912 (death notices Mercury). She is buried in St. James Cemetery. According to the PO Directory of 1890, John and Thomas Strong were farmers.
John Strong leased a farm on 30 acres at Glaziers Bay (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Robart's Bay in 1867 (MDT). He was transported with his brother on the same ship in 1850. He died in 1899, aged 67 (Hobart).
STUART Alexander Stuart (aged 32) married married Jane Drummond (aged 46) in 1864. Jane died two days later.
STUBBINGS Daniel Herbert Stubbings (1873, Huonville-1951, Huonville) was a member of the Huon Council from 1925-1948. He married Ethel Emma Cordelia "Delia" Griffiths at Strahan in 1903. Children: Eve May (1903 Mrs. Gabriel), Claude Herbert (1905), Violet Gladys (1907-1939), Ivy Enid (1909; married Elliott Rees), Edna (Mrs. Simpson) and Ross. The family lived at Lymington between 1914 and 1922. He died at Huonville in 1951.
SULLIVAN/SULIVAN/SULLAVAN/SULLAVIN or O'SULLIVAN James Sullivan (aged 31) married Catherine Dwyer (aged 15) in 1867. Children: Margaret (1868; married -- Kennedy; lived in Victoria), Ellen (1870; married Duncan McGregor in Victoria in 1901), Mary (1872; married Thomas Kelly; died in London in 1929), Hanorah (1873; married Michael Leary; died in 1904), Hannah (1875-1878), Catherine (1877; unmarried; died in Melbourne), Bernard John, called "Dick" (1880; married Lenna Cross; died in 1945), Angela (1883; married Thomas Hayes; married Gerald Fagan), Alice (1885; married Walter Matheson), Jeremiah Gerald "Jerry" (1887), Christina (1889; married James Talbot; married Francis McGrath; died in 1953), Patrick James (1891; unmarried; died in 1938). Catherine Sullivan later married James Cleary and died in 1929, aged 77. James Sullivan is listed as living at Cradoc Road in 1867 (MDT) and as a farmer in the 1890 PO Directory. He died in 1893, aged 61.
Jeremiah Sullivan is listed as living at Glaziers Bay in 1865 and 1867 (MDT). Agnes Sullivan née Reardon (aged 52) married Martin Brereton (aged 66) in 1894. Patrick Sullivan died at Glazier's Bay in 1922. Ella Sullivan died at Cradoc Road in 1910.
Cornelius Sullivan (aged 40) and his wife Johanna Sullivan née Connel (aged 30) left Liverpool in 1873 on board the Wasdale bound for Melbourne and then Tasmania with their family: John (aged 12; died of TB in 1895), Margaret (aged 10; married Michael O'Neill in 1895; died in 1946), James (aged 7; died of TB in 1892, aged 25), Patrick (aged 6; drowned in 1906), Cornelius John (aged 4; married Frances Shiel in WA in 1908 and again at Port Cygnet in 1909; died in 1921) and Johanna (aged one and a half). They came from Co. Limerick and had been sponsored by James Sullivan. Children born at Glazier's Bay: Stephen (1873-1873), Michael James (1874; unmarried; died in 1954), Mary Ann (1875; married Daniel Quigley at Queenstown in 1904), Elizabeth (1878; lived in Hobart in 1954) and Catherine (1881; lived at Cygnet in 1954). In 1878, Cornelius Sullivan leased 20 acres at Glazier's Bay. In 1894 he leased a hut and land (33 acres) at Glazier's Bay. He died at Glazier's Bay in 1911. Johanna Sullivan died in 1910.
Cornelius John Sullivan married Frances Shiel (born in Scotland) in Western Australia in 1908 and again in Cygnet in 1909. Children born in Cygnet: Mary Catherine (1909; married Wilfred Gard; died in 1987), Margaret Frances (1912; married Alfred Beechey in 1933; died in 1982) and Cornelius John (1916-1989).
SUMNERS/SUMMERS John Sumners was tried in Jamaica 28 March 1838 and sentenced to life. He left London in 1839 and arrived in Hobart Jan. 1840. He and Susan Meakin had a son in 1857. John Summers leased a farm on 80 acres at Nicholls Rivulet (VR58). He died in 1858, aged 60. John Summers jun. leased part of a farm on 10 acres at Nicholls Rivulet (VR58). Mary Ann Sumners (aged 66) married Benjamin Gough (aged 68) in 1870.
SUTTON William Sutton died in 1863, aged 11. William Sutton is listed as living at Wattle Grove in 1867 (MDT). Six convicts had the name William Sutton.
SWINSON James Swinson is listed as a farmer living at Wheatley's Bay in 1867 (MDT).
SYNNOTT/SYNNOT/SINNOT Patrick Synnott (c.1843-1904) married Mary Holloway in 1874. Children: James (1875-1955), Joseph Matthew (1876), John (1878-1949?), Thomas (1880), Anna (1881), Michael Ambrose (1884-1956), Raymond Peter (1886-1955), Mary Genevieve, called "May" (1889). Patrick Synnott died at Cygnet in 1904. Mary Synnott died at the New Town Infirmary in 1930, aged 84.
SYLVESTER John Sylvester married Mary Ann Mackinolty in 1879.
TAME Herbert Alfred "George" Tame (1844-1926) married Sophia Gardener (c.1850-1919) in 1867. Children: Sophia Louisa (1868; unmarried; died in 1937), Emma Ann (1871; died in 1948), Eliza Hilda (1873), Herbert Alfred George (1875; married Nellie Coles in 1906), Ada Mary (1878; married John Hague in 1897; died in 1967), Alice Ida (1880), Charles Edward (1882; married Clara Jones in 1916; died in 1929), Mary Ann (1885), Myrtle Ann (1886) and Noral Eucalyptus (1889). According to the PO Directory of 1890, George Tame was an undertaker. George and Sophia Tame had left Port Cygnet by 1906. Sophia Tame died at Hobart in 1919. Herbert A.G. Tame died at Sydney in 1926.
TAYLOR Francis Taylor died in 1858, aged 4. Mary Taylor died in 1876, aged 47. Arthur Taylor married Louisa Chin in 1892. Thomas Taylor leased a farm on 59 acres at Glen Eden, Glaziers Bay (VR58).
THOMAS Joseph Thomas (born c.1824) was tried at the Shrewsbury Quarter Sessions in Shropshire 23 March 1843 and given a sentence of 15 years' transportation. He sought permission to marry Mary Ann Ferguson in 1855. Mary Ferguson was tried at the Ayre Court of Jusiciary, Scotland, 23 April 1852. She was found guilty of coining one shilling and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Mary Ferguson married Joseph Thomas in Franklin in 1855. They had a daughter Agnes born and died in Port Cygnet in 1857.
Joseph Thomas (c.1810-1890) married Rebecca Judd (1827-1864) in Franklin in 1852. Rebecca Judd was the daughter of Thomas Judd and Elizabeth Cane. Children: Wilbraham Henry (1853-1934), Elizabeth Alice (1855), Arthur Judd (1858-1926) and Rebecca Judd (1864). Rebecca Thomas née Judd died at Port Cygnet in 1864 aged 36. Joseph Thomas was elected a trustee of the first Port Cygnet Road Trust in 1856. In 1859, he was elected chairman of the Trust. He owned a farm (166 acres) at Agnes Rivulet after 1865. Described as a fruit-grower, he died in Port Cygnet in 1890, aged 80 (death notice Mercury 3 January 1891: "On December 31, at Agnes Rivulet, Port Cygnet, Joseph Thomas, aged 80 years.")
John Thomas (c.1844-1919) arrived with his parents and siblings on board the Sir Charles Napier in 1842. He was born in Hobart c.1844. Hemarried Margaret Weber (1848-1941) in Hobart in 1865. Born at Staden in Germany in 1848, Margaret Weber arrived with her father and siblings on board the America in July 1855. The children of John and Margaret Thomas: Frederick Henry (1866-1936), John William (1868-1944), Rose Ann Grace (1872-1922), Alice May, called "Lizetta" (1876-1919) and Christina Jane (1878-1979). Frederick Henry Thomas married Margaret Jane Polley (1870-1947) in 1890. John Thomas married Catherine Polley in 1910. Rose Thomas married John Baldwin in 1890. Lizetta Thomas married Heinrich Olbrich in 1904. Christina Thomas married Alexander Wells in 1906. John Thomas died at Cygnet in 1919. Margaret Thomas died in 1941.
THOMPSON Frank Thompson is listed as a bootmaker in the 1890 PO Directory.
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TOBY Thomas Toby and Elizabeth Rose had a daughter in 1858.
TOLLAND Daniel Tolland (1863-1913) was born at Hobart in 1863. He was the son of Daniel Tolland (1826, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland - 1873, Hobart) and Janet Fotheringham (1827, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland - 1897, Moonah). He married Frances Louisa Henley at St. Mary's Cathedral in Hobart in 1903. Children: John (1903, Port Cygnet-1904), twins a male and Alan George (1913, Hobart - 1974). Daniel Tolland died of pneumonia at Cygnet 20 July 1913. Fanny Tolland married Henry Ralph Barnett at Hobart in 1914. Fanny Barnett died at Cygnet in 1919.
TOMKINSON William Jones Tomkinson (1868-1948) married Mary Ann Beechey (1880-1961) at Franklin in 1903. He first married Mary Thomas at Launceston in 1891 (who drowned in 1894, aged 24). Children of William and Mary Tomkinson née Thomas: Melva Rose (1892; married John Henzler at Hobart in 1910; died in 1984) and William Thomas (1893, Launceston; drowned in 1894). Children of William and Mary Tomkinson née Beechey: Melvina "Jane" (1904; married Cecil Ernest Cragg; died at Hobart in 1975), Charles William (1906, Burine; died of diptheria at Hobart in 1923, aged 16), Vera May (1908, Cradoc; married Thomas F. Cragg; died in 1997), Ernest John (1910, Cradoc; died in 1982), Eric Roy (1912, Cradoc; died in 1995), Richard Vernon (1915, Glen Huon; died in 1994), Keith Murray (1917, Glen Huon; married Audrey Clifton; died at Cygnet in 1998), Hedley Alfred (1919, Cradoc; married; killed in action in East Timor in 1942, aged 22), George Arthur (1922; died at Hobart in 1948) and Thelma (married R. Barry). William Tomkinson died at Mount Nelson 7 April 1948, aged 80, and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery. Mary Ann Tomkinson died in September 1964, aged 84, and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
TOOHEY/TOOHY/TORKEY John Toohey (aged 40) married Ann Oakford (aged 20) in 1873. Children: Margaret (1874), Michael (1875), John (1877), Bridget (1878), Mary (1880), James (1882), Thomas (1884), Patrick (1886), Joseph (1888), Denis (1890), Mary (1893). According to the PO Directory of 1890, John Toohey was a farmer. John Toohey died in Hobart in 1902, aged 76; Anne Elizabeth Toohey died in 1897, aged 42 (death notices Mercury).
TOWNSEND Alfred Albert Studley Townsend (1864-1944) married Lucy Chisholm at Hobart in 1889. The family lived at Cradoc in 1914. Children: Audley (1890; married Hilda Wilkins; died in 1963), Daryl (1893), Amanda Barbara (1895; married George Welling in 1913; died in 1982), Studley Chisholm (1898; married Daisy Bennett at Cradoc in 1922), Charles George (1900, Forcett) and Edna Lucy (1904, Forcett; married Harry Duggan at Cygnet in 1927; died in 1976).
John Thomas Pembroke Townsend (1872-1952) married Selina Elizabeth Bender at Glen Huon in 1906. They also lived at Cradoc in 1914. Children: Christian John (1906, Franklin-1908), Nita Louisa (1908, Upper Huon), Derrick John (1911, Huon), Owen Douglas (1914, Cradoc).
Thomas James Townsend (1886-1948) and his wife Annie Maria Beechey lived at Cradoc in 1914. Children: Valmi Annie (1911, Huonville), John Richard (1913, Cradoc), Claude Andrew (1915, Cradoc), Ross Huon (1918, Cradoc) and Thomas.
TREMLET Henry Tremlet died in 1857, aged 40.
TRUMAN/TRUEMAN/TRAUMAN/TROWMANS Ezechiel Trueman (c.1821-1898) was tried at the Worcester QS and sentenced to 7 years' transportation for stealing iron. Aged 25, he married the Irish convict Eleanor Dunigan, aged 22, in 1852 in the Huon. Aged 35, he married Ellen Jones, aged 24, in 1870. He is listed as a farmer living at Gardners Bay in 1867 (MDT). Children: Elizabeth Ann (1871-1879), Ezekiel (1873-1940), Selina (1875), Ada Chrsitina (1877), Ellen (1880-1928), Sydney William (1883), Esther (1886), Frederick George (1890). Ezekiel Trueman died in 1898, aged 77. Ezechiel Trueman married Harriet Woolley in 1895 at Garden Island Creek. Ada Trueman married Thomas Gallagher in 1896. Sydney Trueman married Edith Bone at Garden Island Creek in 1907. Ellen Truman died in South Hobart in 1911.
TURNER John Turner and Ann Johnson had children in the 1870s. Cecelia Turner died in 1897, aged 47.
Herbert Thomas Turner married Ellen Troman at Hobart in 1905. Children born in Hobart: Robert Edward (1905), Ethel Gladys (1908), Herbert Ezechiel (1911-1911), Keith Sherlock (1912), Arthur Max (1915). Ellen/Helen Turner died at Garden Island Creek in 1928, aged 46, and was buried at St. Mark's cemetery.
TURVEY George Harold Turvey (1886, Spring Bay) married Amy Louisa Sapwell (1893-1987). Children: Maxwell Harold (1912-1983), Rex (1914-1982). A labourer, George Turvey and his family lived at Lymington in 1914. By 1919 they had moved to Penna (near Sorell).
VOSS Leslie Voss (1892-1953) married Mary Genevieve Synnott at St. Mary's Cathedral in Hobart in 1913. Born in 1889, Mary Synnott was the daughter of Patrick Synnott and Mary Holloway. Children: Graham Leslie Raymond (1914-1973), Gerald Bernard (1916-1963), Douglas Francis (1918-1996), Jean Marie (1921; married James Patrick Scanlon; died in 2002), Margaret Elizabeth (c.1923-1934), Sylvia Theresa (married Douglas Beattie; died in 1982) and Clarence Anthony (died in 1996). Leslie Voss lived in Cygnet until at least 1937. He died in New Zealand 28 January 1953, aged 58.
VOYCE Henry Voyce and Charlotte Kirby had a son in 1899.
WADE George Wade (1865-1938), born in Scotland, was a doctor at Cygnet for 25 years from 1910 until he retired c.1935. He died as a result of a car accident at Nicholls Rivulet in 1938 and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
WADSLEY James Wadsley, aged 38, arrived in Melbourne on board the Baltimore in January 1853 with his wife, Anna Wright, aged 34 and three children: Wright (aged 3), John Thomas (aged 2) and William (aged 1). They married in the district of Boston, Lincolnshire, Apr-June 1847. Wright Wadsley was born at Kirton Fen Jan-Mar 1848; John Thomas Wadsley was born at Boston Oct-Dec 1849 and William Donnington Wadsley Oct-Dec 1851. A daughter, Ann, was born in Hobart in 1854. The family is listed in the 1851 census in England living at 67 Ashill Row in the village of Skirbeck in Lincolnshire. James Wadsley (aged 37) was born at Sibsey in Lincolnshire. He was a porter for a grocer. Hannah Wadsley (aged 33) was born at Wrangle in Lincolnshire. James Wadsley died in Port Cygnet 1897, aged 85 (death notice Mercury). Wright Wadsley married Elizabeth Annie Roberts in Hobart in 1874. He died in Cygnet in 1929, aged 81 (death notice Mercury). Annie Elizabeth Wadsley died in Port Cygnet in 1901. John Thomas Wadsley married Ellen Geeves in Franklin in 1877. Hannah (Anna) Wadsley died in 1902. Mary Jane Wadsley married Herbert Edwin Batge in 1904.
WALKER Colin Walker was tried in Glasgow and Sydney. He and Ellen Wilson née Nichols had a son Thomas in 1864. He is listed as living at Welsh in 1867 (MDT). Colin Walker (aged 70) married Ellen Wilson, née Nichols (aged 68) in January 1891. In March 1891, Colin Walker died aged 76. Ellen Walker died of influenza in November 1891, aged 69.
WALL Thomas Wall (c.1825-1894) was tried in Co. Waterford 13 July 1850 and sentenced to 14 years' transportation for attacking a police barracks. Aged 30, he married Hanorah Dwyer, aged 20, at Franklin in 1857. Children: Catherine (1858), Charles (1859-1888), Michael (1861; married Mary Durkin in 1902; died in 1930), Thomas (1865), Male (1867), James (1869; married Catherine Williams in 1911; died in 1928), Patrick Henry (1871; married Mary Rabbitt in 1913; died in 1937), Richard (1874), Daniel Francis (1876; unmarried; died in 1919), twins Joseph Stanislaw and Mary Ellen (1879) and Martin Ignatius (1881; unmarried; died in 1909, aged 27). The family moved from Franklin to Glazier's Bay c.1870. Thomas Wall died in 1894, aged 69. He is buried in St. James cemetery. James Wall married Catherine Williams at St. Mary's Cathedral in Hobart in 1911. Children born in Cygnet: Margaret (1912), Charles (1914, Hobart), Thomas (1918).
The military pensioner John Wall arrived in Hobart Town 6 June 1851 on board the Lady Kennaway with his wife Mary Ann Wall. He was located in Port Cygnet by 1858. John Wall died in 1874, aged 70. Mary Ann Wall (aged 55) married William Thorp (aged 65) in 1876. Mary Ann Thorp died in 1877, aged 57.
WALLACE John Wallace is listed as a military pensioner (convict guard) living on 10 acres at "Agnes Rivulet" (AOT, CSO 1/144/3994).
James Wallace (c.1891-1967) married Grace Mansfield at Cradoc in 1912. Children: William James (1912; married Leta Gordon; died in 1978), Roseline Eva, "Rosie" (1918; married Francis Andrew Cane in 1937). James Wallace is listed as a labourer living at Cradoc in 1914. He died in 1967. Grace Wallace died in 1985.
John Gordon Wallace (c.1885-1937) married Angelina "Lena" Barnes at Queenstown in 1907. Children: John Gordon (1908, Queenstown; married Myra Supplice at Cygnet in 1928; died in 1972), Hazel Catherine, "Jean" (1910, Cradoc; married Glen McDowell) and Thora Joy (1922; married Stanley Patrick Direen; died in 1979). John and Angelina Wallace are listed living at Cradoc in 1914. He died in 1937. Lena Wallace died in 1956.
WALLINGTON John Samuel Wallington (b.1825) arrived in Hobart from Liverpool with his wife Charlotte Shrimpton and four children 27 April 1853 on board the Panama: John Samuel (1847), Charlotte Esther (1848-1919), Sarah Ester (1850) and Ruth (1852). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Children born in the colony: Caroline Jane (1854), Phoebe (1856), Hannah (1859), Obadiah (1861-1861), Female (1862), Harriet (1865) and Arthur Isaac Henry (1868).
WALSH Thomas Walsh was a military pensioner (convict guard) and arrived at Hobart Town 6 June 1851 on board the Lady Kennaway with his wife Sarah Walsh. He owned a farm on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT).
WALSHE Born in Ireland, William Walshe (c.1827-1899) arrived in Hobart c.1857. He married Mazella Stanton at Franklin in 1861. Children born from 1865 to 1885. Their son William Edward Walshe died of typhoid at Zeehan in 1895 aged 29. He was a constable at Port Cygnet from 1864 until he resigned in 1874. He was a Justice of the Peace and died in 1899, aged 72 (death notice and obituary Mercury). Florence Walshe married Charles Walter in 1892. Priscilla Walshe married Lancelot Elliott in 1894. Mazella Walshe died in 1906 (death notice Mercury).
WALTER/WALTERS/WATERS James Henry Walter (1817-1892) arrived on board the Hygeia in 1838 with his father and two sisters. He married Susannah Garth in Hobart in 1843. The children of J.H and Susannah Walter: Frances Maria (c.1845; married Frederick Tapfield in 1868; died in Adelaide, S.A. in 1926), Mary Anne (1847; married Duncan Chisolm in 1872), Louisa (1849; died in 1850), Henry James George (1852; married Sarah Eleanor Bingham in 1878; died in 1923), George (1854; married Lois Geeves in 1878; died in 1923), Susan Edith (1856; married Frank Yeoland in 1882; died in 1930), Emily Louisa (1859; married Robert Chalmers in 1880; died in 1913), Lilias Grace (1861; unmarried; died in 1952), Charles Edward (1863; married Florence Walshe in 1892; died in 1930) and Ethel Miriam (1866; married Albert Thorp in 1900; died in 1953). J. H. Walter owned a farm on 58 acres at Wattle Grove (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Wattle Bay in 1867 (MDT). J.H. Walter died in Hobart in 1892, aged 70 and Susannah Walter died in 1902 (death notices Mercury).
WARD Bridget Ward (aged 35) married Henry Johnson (aged 37) in 1864. Ellen Ward died in 1870, aged 65. Henry Ward died in 1870, aged 67. He is listed as a farmer living at Lymington in 1867 (MDT).
George Ward and Martha Wheatley had a daughter in 1872. Frederick Ward married Emily Garth in 1879. John Ward is listed as a farmer living at Cradoc Hill in 1867 (MDT).
WASS Frederick John Wass (1842-1912) died at Nicholls Rivulet in 1912. His wife, Elizabeth Ann Wass née Barwick, died there in 1922. Their son Frederick Martin Joseph Wass (1882-1936) married Elizabeth Cross at Nicholls Rivulet in 1907. They had 10 children. Frederick Wass died at Nicholls Rivulet in 1936, aged 53. Elizabeth Wass died in 1968. They were buried at St. Mark's cemetery. Their daughter Lily Wass (1884-1972) married Arthur J. Cross at Nicholls Rivulet in 1911. Arthur Cross died in 1951 and Lily Cross died in 1972.
WEAVER According to the 1851 census, James Weaver lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife and five male workers. He is listed in the 1857 Kingborough census (p.4). He leased a house and land on 20 acres at Port Cygnet (VR58). Three convicts had the name James Weaver.
WELLARD Alfred and Emma Wellard had a daughter in 1898. Alfred Wellard died in 1916 (death notice Mercury).
WELLING The convict Joseph Welling was tried in Sussex 29 July 1840. He sought permission to marry Grace Mulkern in 1853. They married in Hobart in 1853 where they had a son George in 1853 and later a daughter in Port Cygnet in 1856 (who died in 1857). Grace Welling died in childbirth in 1856, aged 40. She was a convict and left Kingston (England) in 1849 on the Earl Grey.
George Welling sen. (1853-1925, Cradoc) married Ellen Chadwick at Franklin in 1875. Children: George (c.1880; married Amanda "Barbara" Townsend in 1913; died at Hobart in 1951), William (c.1881; married Eileen Clough in 1910; died in 1950), Robert (c.1882; died in 1898, aged 16), James Richard (1884; married Una Griggs in 1910), Lucy Ellen (1886; married James Bennett at Cradoc in 1902; died in 1959), Grace (1887; married John Charles Garth in 1912) and Martha Maud (1890, Port Cygnet; unmarried; died at Cradoc in 1946). George Welling died at Cradoc in 1925. Ellen Welling died at Cradoc in 1945, aged 86.
Children of George and Barbara Welling born at Cradoc: Fay (1913-1996), Max (1915-1979), Gwendoline (1918) and Dora (married Alan Gillett at Townsville, Qld, in 1949).
WELLINGTON John Wellington leased a house and land on 15 acres from John Donellan Balfe at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet (VR58). A John Wellington died in Hobart in 1890, aged 75.
WELSH/WALCH/WALSH/WELCH Margaret Walsh was born in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland at the end of the eighteenth century. She was a convict and arrived in Hobart, 7 October 1848 on board the Kinnear. Margaret was transported with her daughter, Ellen Walsh (c.1831-1891) aged 28. Her son James Walsh was also a convict and arrived 14 August 1852. They were tried in Co. Wexford 25 February 1848. James Walsh is listed as living at Glaziers bay in 1867 (MDT). Margaret Walsh died in Port Cygnet (Glaziers Bay) in 1879, said to be aged 99. Ellen Walsh married the ex-convict William Plumsaul (born in England c.1827) in Hobart in 1853. He arrived in 1844 from Downs, England. Their first-born, James Plimsaul-Walsh (1852-1933), married Ann Codd/Coad in 1872. (They had 10 children from 1873 until 1887). Their second child, John Simon Walsh, was born c.1854 and died in Port Cygnet in 1859, aged 5. Their third child, Ellen Plymsell, died in Hobart in 1855, aged 4 days. Their fourth child, Mary Plimsaul-Walsh (1856-1922), had a child with Denis Lawler in 1884. Another daughter, Bridget Plymsell, was born in 1858.
WHEATLEY/WHATLEY/WHEATLY/WHITHEY John Fry Wheatley (c.1817-1882) was tried at the Somerset QS 4 January 1836 and sentenced to 14 years' transportation for housebreaking. He married Ann Thomas (born in Cornwall, arrived on board the Sir Charles Napier in 1842). Children: Sarah Ann (1846-1860), Martha (1848), Grace (1850-1937), William (1851), Elizabeth (1853), Mary Ann (1855), John Fry (1858-1882), Emily (1860), Richard Thomas (1863-1936), Margaret (1864-1877), Sarah Ann (1869), Florence Louise (1872-1877). He is listed as living at Lymington in 1867 (MDT). William Wheatley and Mary Ann Graham had children from the 1870s to the 1890s. John Wheatley and Mary Smith had children, one of whom (William, 1912) was born in Cygnet. Horace Wheatley and Kate Doherty had children, one of whom (Albert, 1919) was born in Cygnet. Richard Thomas Wheatley died in Newtown in 1936, aged 73.
WHEATMAN Thomas Wheatman leased a farm at Brabazon on 10 acres from Matthew Fitzpatrick (VR58).
WHITBREAD William John Whitbread and Sophia Amelia Olbrich married in 1880. Their children: William Charles (1891), Herbert Thomas (1883-1894), Florence Henrietta (1885), Ethel May (1887), Gilbert Thomas (1889), Walter Douglas (1891), Hilda Amelia (1894), Alice Maud (1899). William C. Whitbread married Lillian Wells at the Melville St. Church, Hobart, in 1911. Children born in Cygnet: Richard (1912), Monte (1917), Kevin (1919-1990). William J. Whitbread died in 1915. William Charles Whitbread died in 1931, aged 49 (death notice Mercury); buried in the Methodist Cemetery, Cygnet.
WHITTON William Henry Whitton (1884, Gordon-1950, Hobart) married Lucy Mabel Agatha Brady (1885-1942) at Garden Island Creek in 1915. Lucy Brady was the daughter of Francis Tasman Brady (1851, Hobart-1933, GIC) and Mary Jane Hill (1851-1923, GIC). William Whitton was the son of William H. Whitton (1858, Little Oyster Cove-1945, Middleton) and Esther Langford (1860-1930). In 1914, he was an engine driver at GIC. Children: William Henry (1911, Dover-1993), John Edwin (1914, Raminea), Francis John (1917, GIC-1953) and Gwendoline May (1919, GIC). Henry and Lucy Whitton were buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery.
WICKS James Wicks (from Franklin) died in 1898, aged 24.
WIGNELL/WIGNALL Benjamin Wignall (aged 26) and Dinah Wignall, née Jennings (aged 24) with their one-year-old son Joseph Jennings Wignall (born at Bradford Jan-Mar 1853) arrived in Hobart from Melbourne on the Emma Prescott in February 1854. They were assisted immigrants who had come from near Leeds in England. They married in the district of Bradford Apr-June 1852. They arrived in Melbourne in January 1854 on board the Poictiers. Banjamin Wignall was baptised 6 June 1829 at St. John, Preston, Lancashire, the son of Henry and Jane Wignall. Children of Benjamin and Dinah registered in Hobart: Hannah Jennings (1855), Martha Ann (1857), Joshua Jennings (1859, Port Cygnet; died 1941), Elizabeth Jane (1862), Sarah Ellen (1864), Dinah Eliza (1867), Grace Ada (1870). Joseph (mistake for Benjamin) Wignell owned an allotment on 3 acres at Lymington (VR58). Benjamin Wignall died in 1912; Dinah Wignall died in 1894, aged 68 (death notices Mercury). Joseph Jennings Wignall was appointed Mayor of Hobart 1927-1929 and 1932-1934. He became Lord Mayor 1935-1938.
WILDLEY Benjamin Wildley leased part of a farm on 10 acres at Cygnet Vale (VR58). Aged 30, Benjamin Wildey married Elizabeth Wilson, aged 23, in Hobart in 1851.
WILGRESS Eliza Wilgress died in 1866, aged 60.
WILKINSON Tasman Brooks Wilkinson (born 1863 Hobart) and Mary Ellen Wilkinson, née Duggan married in 1890 in Hobart. They had children in 1890 and 1891.
WILLETTS/WILLET/WILLETT The Willetts brothers were tried at the Stafford Quarter Sessions, England, 16 October 1822 and sentenced to seven years for stealing wearing apparel. They left England 18 March 1823 on board the Competitor and arrived in Hobart 3 August 1823.
Thomas Willetts married Mary Ann Devereux, the daughter of John and Harriet Devereux at Norfolk in 1832. They had a son Thomas in 1837. According to the 1842 Census, Thomas Willet lived in a wooden dwelling at Port Cygnet with seven other people (altogether one male over the age of 21; two married females over the age of 21 born in the colony; a girl under the age of 2 born in the colony; two boys and one girl aged between 2 and 7 born in the colony; one boy aged between 7 and 14 born in the colony). Thomas Willetts sen. died about 1843. Listed in the 1842 and 1843 census.
Charles Willet married Elizabeth Scott in Hobart in 1834. According to the 1842 census, Charles Willett lived in a wooden dwelling at Port Cygnet with his wife. According to the 1852 Census, Charles Willetts lived at Gardners Bay with his wife and daughter. He bought 14 and a half acres of Crown Land at Gardners Bay in 1855, selling it in 1856 before moving to Hobart where he ran the Seven Stars in Campbell Street. He died in 1875. Also listed in the 1843 and 1848 census.
WILLIAMS Richard Williams (1808-1873) was a military pensioner. He married Ellen Shanahan. Children: Richard (1850-1880), Mary (1853-1876), John (1854-1918), Ellen (1856) and James (1858-1866). He owned a farm on 10 acres at Green Valley View, Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He is listed as a farmer living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). He died in Port Cygnet in 1873, aged 66. Ellen Williams (aged 55) married Cornelius Denning (aged 57) in 1877. Ellen Downing died in 1884, aged 65. Richard Williams junior married Margaret Guy in 1872. John Williams married Catherine Brereton in 1878. John Henry Williams died at Silver Hill, Cygnet, in 1929.
Robert Williams is listed as living at Lymington in 1867 (MDT). John and Bridget Williams had a son William in 1862.
WILLS John David Wills and Mary Ann Wheatley had three children born in Port Cygnet from 1880 until 1884. Thomas Charles Wills, a member of the Tasmanian Territorial Police, was transferred from Derby to Cygnet in the early 1900s. In 1886, at Swansea, he married Mary Anne Dilger. Children born in Cygnet: Eric Albert (1903-1938), Reginald Trevor (1904-1963), Percival Edward (1905-1975). Thomas Wills died in 1927 (death notice Mercury). Descendants of Thomas and Mary Wills Francis Thomas Wills married Edith "Melissa" Harvey at Cygnet in 1907. Children: Robert Francis (1908-1975), John Clarence (1911-1993), Allan Dilger (1913-1913), Edna May (1914-2005), Barbara Edith (1920-1989) and Dorothy Jean (1922). Melissa Wills died at Cygnet in 1925. Francis Wills died in 1977.
WILSON/WILLSON Richard Wilson (c.1814-1889) was tried at Liverpool Quarter Sessions in Lancaster 24 October 1831 and sentenced for 14 years. He sought permission to marry Ellen Nichols (the daughter of William Nichols) in 1843. They married in Hobart in 1843. Children: John (1843-1912), Sarah Ann (1845-1865), Robert (1848), Ellen (1850-1923), Richard (1852-1853), Thomas (1854-1856) and Henry (1857-1934). According to the 1851 Census, Richard Wilson lived at Nicholls Rivulet with his wife, two sons and two daughters. He died at Hamilton in 1889, aged 76. Ellen Wilson re-married in Port Cygnet 14 January 1891. Aged 68, she married Colin Walker (aged 70). Colin Walker was accidentally drowned 24 March 1891.
Robert Wilson died in 1857, aged 50.
John Wilson was tried at the Lancaster QS and sentenced to 14 years' transportation for stealing a handkerchief. He arrived at Sydney on board the Clyde in 1832. He was sent to Norfolk Island in 1841 and arrived in Hobart in 1845. He married Sarah Garbett at Port Cygnet in 1852. Children born at Port Cygnet: Elizabeth (1860-1935), John (1862), Mary (1865-1940), Jane (1867-1934), James (1869), William (1871-1877) and born at Neika, Thomas (1873-1877).
Henry Wilson married Eliza Challis in 1889. Children: Henry (1890), Rose May (1893), Eliza (1895).
WIN/WINN Francis Win (c.1871-1929) married Florence Rebecca Wynne in New Zealand in 1900. He died at Cygnet in 1929, aged 58.
WINTER Rugby Ballantyne Winter (1882, Ringaroona-1961, Mt. Isa, Queensland) married Mary Lilian Brooks in England in 1913. An orchardist, he lived with his wife at Nicholls Rivulet in 1914 and 1922 as did his brother Roy Bonshaw Winter (b.1887).
WISBY Frederick Wisby married Martha Cox in 1883.
WISE William Wise and Anne Skinner had a son in 1865. He is listed as living at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Two convicts had the name William Wise.
Thomas Chapman Wise (1870-1926) married Amy Francis Best née Warden (1874-1952) at Queenstown in 1905. Children: Maurice Chapman (1907, Queenstown, married Ruby Jackson; died in 1975) and Muriel Annie (1909, Queenstown; married Frank O'Neill; died in 1990). Thomas (an accountant) and Amy Wise lived at Cygnet in 1914. Thomas Wise died at Hobart in 1926 and was buried at Cornelian Bay cemetery. Amy Wise died at South Hobart in 1952, aged 76.
Walter, called "Wally" Leslie Wise (1916-1984) was a labourer at the Commercial Hotel in 1943. He died in 1984, aged 67.
WISEMAN William and Isabella Wiseman had a daughter in 1899.
WOLFE/WOLF Alfred Arnold Wolfe (1872-1966) married Christina Polley in 1899. Children born at Gardner's Bay: Wilfred Arnold (1900; married Florence Cockerill; died in 1999), Alma Christine (1902), Ernest Robert (1903; married Hazel McGregor; died in 1980), Albert Arthur (1905) and Harold John (1907-1990). Alfred Wolfe died in 1966, aged 94. Christina Wolfe died in 1967, aged 89.
WOODS Margaret Woods married Alfred Miller in 1895.
WOODWARD Edmond Woodward was tried at the Liverpool Assies in Lancaster 17 March 1849 and sentenced for 10 years. Aged 27, he married Juletta Stanton Elliott, aged 18, in Hobart in 1856. Children: Emma (1857), Edmond (1859), Male (1861), Henry (1863), Elizabeth Mary (1865), Male (1868), Anna Alice (1870), Male (1872), Ernest Marquis (1874-1874), Edith (1876).. Edward Woodward leased a house, land and a store on 14 acres at Cradoc Road, Port Cygnet from J.D. Balfe (VR58). He is listed as a storekeeper at Port Cygnet in 1867 (MDT). Edmund Woodward died in 1877, aged 51. Charles Woodward married Jane Henshaw in 1886 and they had children in the 1880s and 1890s. Charles H. Woodward died in 1911. Henry Woodward and Ada Alice Sherwood had the following children: Lancelot (1903, Upper Huon), Flossie (1907) and Henry (1911). Henry Woodward died in 1924 (death notice Mercury).
WOOLLEY/WOOLEY According to the 1842 Census, William Woolley lived at Petchey's Bay with his two sons. He was baptised at Mildenhall in Suffolk, England, in December 1801. Together with his brother Benjamin Woolley, his sister-in-law Ann and his wife Melinda Bryant, he arrived on board the William Metcalfe in October 1836. He obtained a licence to cut timber at Petchey's Bay in 1841. Children born in England: John (bapt. 1829-1910), Henry Jacob (bapt. 1829-1903), Jane (bapt. 1833-1848) and Talitha (bapt. 1833-1835). Children born in Hobart: Robert Charles (1838-1909) and Talitha Jane (1842-1894). William Woolley died in Franklin in 1863.
A different William Woolley leased a farm at Green Point, Glaziers Bay on 10 acres and a farm (new allotment) on 10 acres at Agnes Rivulet (VR58). He was a military pensioner and married Esther Masters. Children: Albert, Frederick Carpenter (1855, Hobart), Ellen (1857, Port Cygnet), John Edward.
James Woolley and Mary Curley had children in Hobart, Franklin and Port Cygnet in the 1850s and 1860s. They married in 1864 in Franklin, James aged 41 and Mary aged 32.
William Woolley married Emily Bowman in 1890. Elizabeth Woolley married Denis Lockley in 1888. Mary Ann Woolley married Francis Koolykoff in 1890.
WOOLNOUGH Stephen Pickard Woolnough (1868, Nelson NZ-1953) married Teresa Amelia Elizabeth Blyth (1871, Kingston-1954, Glenorchy) at Westbury in 1899. Children: Stephen Carlos (1899-1972), Max Reginald (1901, Westbury), Phyllis May (1902, Westbury; died at Deloraine in 1908), Constance Elizabeth (1905, Westbury), Mary Flexmore (1909, Whitefoord Hills-1980), Raymond Frederick Blyth (1910, Moonah-1973). The family lived at Gardner's Bay by 1914. Stephen Woolnough died at Hobart in 1953, aged 84. Teresa Woolnough died at Glenorchy in 1954.
WORSLEY Frederick Henry Worsley, the son of Richard and Charlotte Caroline Worsley of Gardner's Bay, married Alice May Gordon, the daughter of William and Maria Gordon in 1908. Children: Kenneth (1908-1972, St. Helen's) and Robert (1913, New Town). In 1924, Alice Worsley divorced her husband as he left her without any support in 1914 and went to New Zealand.
WRENKEN James Wrenken and Mary Richardson had a son in 1867.
WRIGHT/WRITE William Wright owned a farm and house on 10 acres near Port Cygnet (VR58). George Wright and Jane Green had children in the 1870s.
WYLIE John David Wylie married Annie Holloway at Cygnet in 1909. Their children: Adeline Alice (1909), Keith John (1911-1992), Mathew David (1913). They lived at Lymington.
William Matthew Wylie and Susannah Wylie lived at Slab Road, Cygnet, in 1914. Their daughter, Rubina Alberta Wylie, married Thomas Edward Alexander in Hobart in 1910. After about 3 months, Rubina left her husband and returned to Cygnet. Thomas Alexander, while still married to Rubina Wylie, married Myrtle Johnson at St. David's in 1912. He was committed to trial for bigamy in August 1914.
YEOLAND Frank Yeoland married Susan Edith Walter in 1882. Their daughter Susan Nellie was born in 1890. Susan Edith Yeoland died in 1930 (death notice Mercury). Susan Walter was the daughter of James H. Walter and Susan Garth (see above).
YOUNG Louis and Rachel Young had children in 1878 and 1880.