The Sum of Us

FOREWORD

As a young child I would transcribe my grandfathers handwritten notes on our family history. The fascination has never waned and I am the fortunate successor of generations of individuals who have been intrigued by this family’s history.

Let it be said that this is not an academic work. Material has been borrowed from a variety of sources and I have not bothered to be studious about citations. Much in this collection has been sourced from original documents in the families possession and the internet has been used extensively to collaborate details. Citations could be provided if required. I would prefer to consider this book to be an ‘up-market scrapbook’.

Finding where to draw the line with one’s research is difficult. In the process of gathering the material for this book my research has wandered far and wide. Through the use of programs like ancestry.com I have made family connections that date back 2,000 years. The journey is fascinating as families meander their way back through England, Scotland, Ireland, the Norman invaders, to Germanic and Norse people and eventually back through Europe to Italy and the Middle East. There is a point where the credibility of the data is questionable however I am reassured that we are all related.

To quote Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News:

A genetic survey concludes that all Europeans living today are related to the same set of ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago. And you wouldn’t have to go back much further to find that everyone in the world is related to each other.

“We find it remarkable because it’s counterintuitive to us,” Graham Coop, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Davis, told NBC News. “But it’s not totally unexpected, based on genetic analysis.”

Family researchers have long known that if you go back far enough, everyone with a European connection ends up being related to Charlemagne. The concept was laid out scientifically more than a decade ago.

To keep a lid on my own research and the collection of information, I have elected to concentrate mainly on the ancestry of my father, Colin Bassett Jeanneret. This has led me down four main family lines: Jeanneret, Hull, Dickson and Macgregor. At times I have deviated where there is a person of interest.

Ian JeanneretApril 2014

Jeanneret

Janneret Jeannerat Jeannerot Jeannotat,

Jeannottat Jeanneney Jeannenez Jeannesson,

Jonneret Johannot Johannes Jeanneret-Gris Jeanneret-Grosjean Jeanjean Jeanpierre

Jampierre Jeanperrin Jeangirard Jeanjaquet Jeanhenry

Jeanclaude Jeanrenaud Jean-Gueninn

Jeanguenin Jeanguenat Jean-Richard

JeanRichard Jeanrichard Jean-Mairet Jeanmairet

Jeanneret Jeanmonod Jeanmonnot Jeangros

Jeangroz Jeanningros Grosjean

Grandjean Petitjean Jean-Cartier Jean-Quartier

Jeanquartier Jeanbourquin Jeanbourgquin Jean-Prêtre Jeanmaire Jeanclerc Jeancier Jeanfavre

Jeandrevin Jeanbrun Jeandroz Jeandupeux Jeanloz

Jehanneret Jonerey Jennerick Generette Jeneret

Genrett Janerette

Genealogical search, or more exactly the search of the surname can hardly be made beyond the 15th century. At that time the shortage of personnel, the shortage of documentation and the lack of their text do not make it possible to establish with certainty affiliation. One must be often satisfied with probability and limited data.

During the 14th Century, amongst subjects of the Princes of Valangin we find in year 1350, the name of Yermin which becomes Small Jehan then Jehanneret then Jeanneret. In 1447, the population of valley-I-Ruz becoming more numerous, the lord of Valangin supports the colonists who from there in the High Jura will call themselves as clearer-ploughman. At the 14th Century they are established in Segue, with the Between-two-Mounts, Locle the Lime of Bottoms.

A family of the name of Jeanneret is installed with the hamlet of Crozot on Locle, an official letter going back to 1612, addressed to Jean-Jacques Jeanneret, Bourgois of Valangin. Franc-Habergeant, confirms the existence of this family to the farm of Cernaye. Certain nicknames or physical characteristics were not long in differentiating between families, thus a large strapping man took the particle "large-Jean", Jeanneret-Grosjean. One strongly grisonnant took the nickname of "the gris" from where Jeanneret-Gris comes from.

Switzerland is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe, with more than 70 percent

of its area covered by the Alps with peaks of 4,634 m, in the central and southern sections, the Jura (Celtic for forests) in the Northwest. The Juras are much lower and smaller than the Alps, and are popular for cross country skiing. The renowned Swiss watchmaking industry began in the Jura mountains, introduced by the Huguenots escaping from France.

Switzerland is a confederation of 23 states, called cantons. Originally the canton of Neuchatel was

under Prussian control and it was not until 1815 that it became the 18th member of the Swiss Republic. Neuchatel canton is known for speaking the purest French in France & Switzerland, the other main languages of the Swiss Republic are German in the West and Italian in the south.

Neuchatel canton covers the towns of Le Locle, La Chaux de Fonds, Travers, Neuchatel and

many more but those stated appear to be the main areas that the name Jeanneret is established.

Le Locle is near the French border and lies approximately 15 km North of Neuchatel and 10 km West of La Chaux de Fonds, Travers is approx. 15 kms South west of Le Locle.

The Huegenot Society of South Carolina confirms the name Jeanneret as a Huguenot family.

HISTORY OF THE FAMILY JEANNERET ORIGINATING FROM LE LOCLE SWITZERLAND

Lewis Frances James JEANNERET8 August 1773 - 1 June 1848

LEWIS FRANCES JAMES JEANNERET was born on 8 August 1773 in Le Locle, Switzerland, died on 1st June 1848 in Newington, London, England, aged 74.

He married MARY ANNE PRYCE (1773-1845), daughter of Elijah PRYCE (1741-1821) and Elizabeth MOORHOUSE (~ 1746-) on 4 March 1798 in London, St Mathew Friday Street. They both were 24 years of age.

Lewis and Mary-Anne had one child:

1. EDWARD PRYCE JEANNERET, born on 30 December 1798 in London, England, Tabernacle Independent St Luke Finsbury, died on 5 August 1882 in Islington, Greater London, England, aged 83. He married Mary HARRIS on 22 August 1822. He had no known descendants.

Lewis next married SARAH JOHNSON WARREN (1775-1844), daughter of DR. JOHN WARREN (1731-1787) and MARY NOYES (1738-1777) on 9 May 1801 in Greensted By Chipping Ongar, Essex, England. Lewis was 27 and Sarah was 26.

Lewis and Sarah had eight children:

2. HENRY JEANNERET, born on 31 December 1802 in The Poultry St Mary Colechurch, London, England, died on 12 June 1886 in Cheltenham, County of Gloucestershire, England, aged 83. He married HARRIET MERRETT on 15 December 1832, next married FRANCES ANN BARNETT in 1874. He had 7 children: Charles, Frances, Jane, Henry, Francis, Sarah and John.

3. CHARLOTTE WARREN JEANNERET, born on 31 January 1805 in Nelson Terrace, City Roa, St Mary Islington, Middlesex, England, died on 4 June 1870 in Brighton, Sussex, England, aged 65. She married WILLIAM REYNOLDS FOSKETT on 31 January 1826. She had one child: Jane.

4. MARY ANNE JEANNERET, born on 9 March 1807 in London, England, died on 15 February 1845 in St Mary Newington, Surrey, England, aged 37. She had no known descendants.

5. JOHN POWELL JEANNERET, born on 30 January 1810 in Cripplegate, London. He had no known descendants.

6. JANE POWELL JEANNERET, born on 30 January 1810 in St Leonard, Shoreditch, England, died on 28 January 1892 in Gloucestershire, England aged 81. She had no known descendants.

7. CHARLES WARREN JEANNERET, born on 16 December 1811 in Westmoreland Place City Road St Leaonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England, died on 23 March 1843 in Lambeth, England and was buried at Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, aged 31. He married MARGARET ISABELLA RANDOLPH on 27 May 1837, next married EMMA WILTON on 19 December 1839. He had no known descendants.

8. SARAH NOYE JEANNERET, born on 4 October 1814 in Westmorland Place City Road St Leonard Shoreditch, Middlesex, England, died on 25 November 1875 in Heath Cottage, Oxford Road Southampton, aged 61. She had no known descendants.

9. JOHN WARREN JEANNERET, born on 22 January 1818 in The Strand, St Martins in the Fields, Middlesex, England, buried on 26 November 1841 in Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth, England, aged 23. He married EMMA WELDON on 19 December 1839. He had no known descendants.

Background At the time of writing we are still ignorant of Lewis’s parentage. The story passed down through the family is that he travelled to England with his parents from Switzerland, via the Channel Islands at around age 6. There are no records available at present to indicate who his parents were however there are many pointers towards his Swiss/French heritage. At age 13 he was apprenticed to Jno.

Haydon as a clock maker and in later years he taught French. It would appear that clock making did not suit him as he was apprenticed in December 1788 as an Ironmonger.

Various records show Lewis Jeanneret as either Lewis Francis James Jeanneret or James Francis Lewis Jeanneret.

Some information about Lewis Franes James Jeanneret is available from newspaper and gazette items. From these we learn that Lewis became a freeman of the city of London in 1798.

He carried on his business as an ironmonger at various addresses which is evidenced by records of rental and taxes collected.

A partnership between Lewis and Charles farmer was dissolved in 1814; in 1827 Lewis was before the Court for Relief of Insolvant Debtors and in 1828 was discharged from Fleet Prison.

London Gazette Issue 2244 - 12 November 1814 Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between Charles Farmer and James Francis Lewis Jeanneret, as Ironmongers, 93 St. John Street, London, was this 8th day of November 1814, dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and owing by the said partnership will be received and paid by the said Charles Farmer, by whom the business will in future be carried on. As witness, our hands this 8th day of November 1814. Chas. Farmer & James Francis Lewis Jeanneret

The Court For Relief Of Insolvent Debtors. Pursuant to the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England.

The Matters of the PETITIONS and SCHEDULE: of the PRISONERS hereinafter named (the sain having been

filed in the Court) are appointed to be heard at the Court-House, in Portugal-Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, on Tuesday the 14th day of August 1827, at Nine o’Clock in the-Forenoon. Jeanneret, James Francis Lewis (commonly called and known by the name of Lewis Jeanneret), formerly of Westmorland - Place, City-Road, Middlesex, and of the Poultry, in the City of London, Ironmonger, then of Saint John-Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, in Partnership with Charles Farmer, carrying on business under the firm of Farmer and Jeanneret, as Ironmongers, then of Bermondsey-Street, Surrey, in Partnership with John Young, carrying on business under the firm of Young and Co. as Leather-Dressers, then of No. 316, Strand, Middlesex, Ironmonger, then of Gloucester-Place, Brighton, Sussex, then of Camberwell, Surrey, then of Blue-Stile and of Maize-Hill, Greenwich, Kent, and late of North-Buildings, Finsbury-Circus, Middlesex, Teacher of the French Language, and his Wife carrying on a Ladies-Boarding-School.

London Gazette Issue 18453 - 18 March 1828 The creditors of James Francis Lewis Jeanneret, late of North Buildings, Finsbury Circus, Middlesex, Teacher of the French Language, and his Wife carrying on a Ladies Boarding School, an Insolvent Debtor, who was lately discharged from the Fleet Prison, in the City of London, are requested to meet at the Office of Mr. Charles Young, Solicitor, Temple Chambers, Fleet Street, London, on Saturday the 29th day of March instant, at 11 o’Clock in the forenoon of the same day precisely, for the purpose of choosing an Assignee or Assignees of the said Insolvent’s estate and effects.

Freedom of the City On the 9th October 1798, on payment of forty six shillings and eight pence,

Lewis Jeanneret was granted Freedom of the City.

History of Fleet Prison The prison was built in 1197 off what is now Farringdon Street, on the eastern bank of the River Fleet after which it was named. It came into particular prominence from being used as a place of reception for persons committed by the Star Chamber, and, afterwards, as a debtor’s prison and for persons imprisoned for contempt of court by the Court of Chancery. In 1381, during the Peasants’ Revolt, it was deliberately destroyed by Wat Tyler’s men.

In 1666, during the Great Fire of London, it was burned down on the third day of the fire, the prisoners fleeing at the last moments. The then-warden of the prison, Sir Jeremy Whichcote, purchased Caron House in Lambeth after the fire to house the prison’s debtors while the prison was rebuilt on the original site at his own expense.

During the 18th century, Fleet Prison was mainly used for debtors and bankrupts. It usually contained about 300 prisoners and their families. Like the Marshalsea prison, it was divided into a restrictive and arduous Common Side and a more open Master’s Side, where rent had to be paid.[1] At that time prisons were profit-making enterprises. Prisoners had to pay for food and lodging. There were fees for turning keys or for taking irons off, and Fleet Prison had the highest fees in England. There was even a grille built into the Farringdon Street prison wall, so that prisoners might beg alms from passers-by. But prisoners did not necessarily have to live within Fleet Prison itself; as long as they paid the keeper to compensate him for loss of earnings, they could take lodgings within a particular area outside the prison walls called the “Liberty of the Fleet” or the “Rules of the Fleet”. From 1613 on, there were also many clandestine Fleet Marriages. The boundary of the Liberties of the Fleet included the north side of Ludgate Hill, the Old Bailey to Fleet Lane and along it

until the Fleet Market, and ran alongside the prison to Ludgate Hill.

The head of the prison was termed the warden, who was appointed by Letters patent. It became a frequent practice of the holder of the patent to farm out the prison to the highest bidder. This custom made the prison long notorious for the cruelties inflicted on prisoners. One purchaser of the office, Thomas Bambridge, who became warden in 1728, was of particularly evil repute. He was guilty of the greatest extortions upon prisoners, and, according to a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of English gaols, arbitrarily and unlawfully loaded with irons, put into dungeons, and destroyed prisoners for debt, treating them in the most barbarous and cruel manner, in high violation and contempt of the laws. He was committed to Newgate Prison, and an act was passed to prevent his enjoying the office of warden.

During the Gordon Riots in 1780 Fleet Prison was again destroyed and rebuilt in 1781–1782. In 1842, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament, by which inmates of the Marshalsea, Fleet and Queen’s Bench Prisons were relocated to the Queen’s Prison (as the Queen’s Bench Prison was renamed), it was finally closed, and in 1844 sold to the Corporation of the City of London, by whom it was pulled down in 1846.

Edward Pryce JEANNERET 2 December 1798 - 5 August 1882

Born 2nd Dec 1798 to Lewis Jeanneret and Mary Ann Pryce. He was baptized at the Independent Congregational chapel, St Luke’s in Finsbury, London on the 30th December 1798. He did not see much of his mother as she died in March 1800, of dropsy, and was buried at St Luke’s.

On 21 August 1822 he married Mary HARMAN in St Peter’s in St Albans. Mary was stepdaughter of William Harris, a rich farmer from St Albans. In 1824 Edward insured the premises at 60 Aldersgate Street, London where he was in business as a cotton merchant. In 1830 he was working in partnership with his father-in-law as cotton merchants at 44 Basinghall Street, London. However this venture went wrong. In his will, Harris bemoans the fact that he wasn’t leaving much to his heirs on his death in 1841 because of the failure of the partnership which was dissolved on 17 Oct 1834.

In 1841 Edward and Mary are living in Finsbury where he is working as a clerk. In 1851 he is working as an actuary for a Savings Bank in Moorfields (close to Finsbury) and by 1856 he has been made a partner in the Union Bank of London. He has also moved to a new house in the suburbs newly created to provide accommodation for those working in London – 19, Barnsbury Park. From 1865 to 1871 he is a partner in the Albion Bank. He appears to have retired around then. In 1881 he gives his occupation as Retired Savings Bank Officer. He died on 5 August 1882.

Edward and Mary had no children but they seemed to have been very hospitable to members of Mary’s Harris family who were recorded as staying at 19 Barnsbury Park in various census returns. Perhaps as recognition of their help, Mary’s stepbrother Bevan Harris christened his youngest son Albert Jeanneret Harris in 1871.

Mary lived on until 1895, first in Brighton, and later with her step-niece Rose Harris in Nottingham.

Edward Pryce Jeanneret was apprenticed to John Munro Berry, Citizen and STATIONER to learn his art on 7 December 1813.

LONDON GAZETTE 1869 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, William Harris and Edward Pryce Jeanneret, of Basinghall-Street, in the City of London, and St. Albans, in the County of Herts, Cotton Manufacturers, was ‘this day dissolved by mutual consent,— Dated this 17th day of October 1834. William Harris and Edward Pryce Jeanneret

On the eastern borders of Chancery Lane, that is to say, more particularly in Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street, Mr. Snagsby, law- stationer, pursues his lawful calling. In the shade of Cook’s Court, at most times a shady place, Mr. Snagsby has dealt in all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment; in paper — foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whitey- brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office-quills, pens, ink, India- rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape and green ferret; in pocket-books, almanacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands — glass and leaden — pen-knives, scissors, bodkins, and other small office-cutlery; in short, in articles too numerous to mention, ever since he was out of his time and went into partnership with Peffer.

Charles Dickens’ description of the Stationer’s art which is extracted from his novel, Bleak House, Chapter 10

Apprenticeship Indenture for Edward Pryce Jeanneret

Dr. Henry JEANNERET31 December 1802 - 16 June 1886

Dr. Henry JEANNERET31 December 1802 - 16 June 1886

HENRY JEANNERET was born on 31 Dec 1802 in The Poultry, St Mary Colechurch, London, England. He died on 12 Jun 1886 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He married HARRIET MERRETT, daughter of WILLIAM MERRETT and ELIZABETH BEARD on 15 Dec 1832 in St. James Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was born about 1809 in England. She died in Jun 1873 in Romsey, Wiltshire, England. He then married FRANCES ANN BARNETT, daughter of WILLIAM BARNETT and ANN MATTHEWS in 1874 in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England. She was born on 23 Aug 1826 in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England. She died on 02 Nov 1901 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

Henry and Harriet had the following children:

1. HENRY JAMES JEANNERET was born in 1842 in Haider, Ireland. He died on 30 Aug 1860 in Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia.

2. JOHN LOUIS JEANNERET was born on 26 Nov 1850 in St. Mary, Islington, Middlesex, England. He died on 05 Jan 1877 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

3. JANE WARREN JEANNERET was born in 1838 in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 03 Oct 1857 in Leicestershire, England.

4. CHARLES EDWARD JEANNERET was born on 09 Feb 1834 in New South Wales, or Hobart Australia. He died on 23 Aug 1898 in Wyrallah, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia. He married JULIA ANNE BELLINGHAM, daughter of FRANCIS BELLINGHAM and JULIA ROWE IVE on 12 Jun 1857 in St Phillips Church, Sydney, New South Wales. She was born on 14 Jun 1837 in Gracechurch, London, England. She died in 1919 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

5. FRANCIS CROSBIE JEANNERET was born in 1844 in Flinders Is., Tasmania, Australia. He died on 05 Mar 1873 in Poole, Dorset, England.

6. FRANCES CHARLOTTE JEANNERET was born in 1837 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1837 in On Voyage To Hobart, Tasmania.

7. SARAH CHARLOTTE JEANNERET was born on 01 Nov 1848 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. She married THOMAS CHAMBERS on 10 Jan 1889 in Parish Church Ryde, He was born in 1829. He died on 24 Aug 1896 in Summer Hill, Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia.

Dr. Henry JEANNERET

“In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries of Australian colonisation the discipline of dentistry as we know it today was an uncommon one. The medical men (all men!) of the First Fleet undertook dental extractions as part of a doctor's normal surgical duties; and the management of dental and maxillo-facial injuries was part of their routine professional lives.

One of the early colonial surgeons in Sydney, Dr Henry Jeanneret, had a special interest in dentistry. When he was 28 years of age, he published in Sydney in 1830 the first paper on dentistry in Australia, entitled “Hints on the Preservation of the Teeth” , it dealt with a subject of neglected health that was of singular importance to all in the Colony - soldiers, convicts and free settlers alike. Although other doctors - had published letters on preventive and public health in the Colonial newspapers as early as 1804, Jeanneret's privately published booklet was one of the first preventive health books, dental or medical, published in this country.

Henry Jeanneret was born in London on New Years Eve, 1802. When he was 15 years of age he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Oxford. His practical training in surgery and the rural life of surrounding Oxfordshire were to stand him in good stead in his professional life across the world, particularly in the outposts of the penal colony at Port Arthur and the Aborigines' Establishment on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. He was to make significant contributions to both medicine and natural history in his future professional life in Sydney and Tasmania during the convict era; and he was to be a performer at the centre of events which were to see the tragic demise of the Tasmanian Aboriginals.

The above extract is taken from a paper entitled “ORAL HISTORY” - MEMORIALS TO THREE PIONEER AUSTRALIAN DENTISTS by Gael Erica Phillips and John Hemsley Pearn. The paper was read at the Biennial National Conference of the Australian Society for the History of Medicine, February 10 - 14, 1993 Hobart, Australia.

Chronological precis of the life of Dr Henry Jeanneret

1802 Born in England 31st December 1802

1817 Apprenticed to the surgeon John Symmonds, City of Oxford for 5 years. 14 March, 1817

c.1822 Studied medicine at The Radcliffe Infirmary (Oxford); worked as a Dresser at The London Hospital and at the City Dispensary, London

1823 Studied at the University of Paris

1824 After studying at Oxford, London and Paris graduated from University of Edinburgh 7 October 1824. Elected as a Licentiate of Society of Apothecaries

1825 Moved to Edinburgh. Active both in clinical medicine and in natural history. He was elected President of the Plinian Natural History Society of Edinburgh University; awarded the Doctorate of Medicine (Edinburgh University) and elected as a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons

1826 Negotiated to emigrate to Australia to take up land under "Land Regulations of 1827" Confirmed by Sir George Murray

1828 Letter of introduction provided by Sir Richard Dundas to Governor Arthur

1829 Emigrated to Sydney, N.S.W. and set up Medical practice

1831-1832 Treatise and Lectures on Dentistry, by Henry Jeanneret M.D. published. Article by contributor and his first Australian Book of Dentistry

Practiced for some years in Colony (N.S.W.) chiefly in capacity of Dentist

1832 Married Harriett Merritt of Sydney

Notice of intention of leaving Sydney for Van Diemans Land appeared in the

Australian Newspaper

1834 Son Charles Edward born Sydney 9 May 1834

1834 Dr. Jeanneret opened a Medical Practice at 31 Murray Street, Hobart Town and practiced till the end of 1837

1835 Claim for Land by Dr. Jeanneret

1837 Daughter Frances Charlotte born

1837 Infant daughter Frances Charlotte died on voyage from Sydney

1838 Relinquishing his Medical Practice in Hobart Town, Dr. Jeanneret received appointment in Service of Crown of Medical and Spiritual Charge of Point Puer, Port Arthur

Daughter Jane Warren born

1840 Daughter Charlotte Sarah born

1842 Posted to Aboriginal Settlement on Flinders Island as Surgeon, Commandant and Justice of the Peace

1842 Son Henry James born

1843 Suspended from office by Governor Sir John Franklin

1844 Resumed practice at 31 Murray Street, Hobart from 21 September 1844

Presumed to have spent some time at the penal settlement at Norfolk Island

Son Francis Crosbie born

1846 Reinstated to Flinders Island by the British Government

Son John Louis born

1847 Settlement at Flinders Island disbanded

1848 Dr Jeanneret and family left Flinders Island aboard the “John Bull” and arrived at Launceston 18 February 1848

1849 In a published statement in the Colonial Times 27 February 1849 through a Secretary of States Despatch, the British

Government ordered the Colony to renumerate Dr Jeanneret to the sum of one thousand pounds in settlement of his claims

1850 Dr Jeanneret and family sail for Sydney aboard the ‘William’ on 11 April 1850

1851 Returned to England with family and took up residence at 12 Finchley Road, St Johns Wood, 18 August 1851.

1851 Dr Jeanneret had printed in pamphlet form a letter to the Rt. Hon. Earl Gray - being a short explanatory appeal relative to the authors conduct as Superintendent of Flinders Island.

1854 Pamphlet published by Dr Jeanneret after Cholera epidemic in London

1874 Wife Harriet died

1874 13 November, married Frances Ann Barnett, eldest daughter of Mr William Barnett at the Abbey Church, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England

1886 After returning to England, Dr Jeanneret died at Cheltenham 16 June 1886.

After practising in London till 1828, Dr Henry Jeanneret applied for a post in Australia but was recommended for a land grant in proportion to his capital under the “Land Regulations Act of 1827”. Reluctant to sell out before certain that the colonial climate would suit him, he was assured at the Colonial Office that he could visit Sydney and reserve land while he returned to England to sell his property . Confirmation of these negotiations was given by Sir George Murray in 1828 .

With a letter of introduction from Sir Richard Dundas to Governor Arthur , he departed England on the brig “Tranmere” with the intention of setting up practice in either Sydney or Hobart Town. He arrived in Van Diemans Land on 12th. November 1829 from where he proceeded to Sydney, arriving in December 1829.

On arriving in Sydney, he applied for a reserve grant but was told that he must take out a bond for five hundred pounds to remain in the colony for three years. Protesting against this condition he established a practice as a surgeon and dentist. It was during this time that Dr Jeanneret wrote the first book on dentistry in Sydney, ‘Hints for the Preservation of Teeth’ (1830).

Dr Jeanneret had a very keen sense of preventive medicine and particularly of the prevention of dental ill health. He publicly advocated, in his book, general rules for the preservation of the teeth. He advocated daily brushing of the teeth and gave practical illustrations in lay terms how a toothbrush might be used. He advocated a dentifrice of charcoal mixed with chalk and powdered cinnamon. He advocated that a silken thread might be used for flossing the teeth. Chapters in his book dealt with Teething, Shedding of Teeth, General Rules for the Preservation of the Teeth, Diseases, Decay, Toothache Remedies, Diseases of the Gums and the subject of Artificial Teeth and Palates.

During those first five years in New South Wales Dr Jeanneret took a great interest in everything tending towards the advancement of the colony. He was a strong advocate of the establishment of Schools of Art and his lectures on scientific subjects helped to develop the resources of the colony. In 1831 he was active in dysentery epidemic.

On the 11th December 1832 he married Harriet Merrit of Sydney, sister of the wife of the late Mr Francis Mitchell. They were married at St James’s

Church. Their first son, Charles Edward was born on the 9th May, 1834.

Not enjoying the climate due to ‘being by day eaten up by flies and by night by mosquitoes’, Dr Jeanneret requested a transfer to Van Diemans Land. He gave notice of his intention to leave Sydney for Van Diemans Land in the following notice which appeared in The Australian Newspaper 8th November 1832:

Dr Jeanneret begs to inform friends and public that he proposes leaving NSW shortly and requests those requiring his assistance as a dentist to make early application having been obliged to disappoint many persons on leaving for Van Diemans Land.Clarence St, Sydney, New South Wales 8th October 1832.

It was not until 1834 that Dr Jeanneret and family sailed from Sydney for Hobart Town. On arrival he established a medical practice at 31 Murray Street,

Hobart Town where he practiced until the end of 1837.

1835 saw the start of a long winded attempt by Dr Jeanneret to obtain land which he understood, before leaving England, would be made available upon application.

He duly lodged an application with the NSW Government on 24th March 1835 which was evidenced in a note from

Sir George Murray to General Darling and an enclosed memo from Mr Ferguson. A number of communications concerning Dr Jeanneret’s land claim were made between Secretary of State Spring Rice, Sir George Murray, General Darling and Lord Glenelg , but were of no avail.

A letter from Government House dated 27th October 1835 stated that “Dr Jeanneret appears to labour under a misconception in supposing that there was an intention to except him from

the operation of any established rules. No record of any instruction to that effect having been transmitted to General darling.” On the 25th January 1836 the claim was dismissed in a terse letter from Government House with the words: “This department unable to trace any application on papers authorising same.”

The following year, 1837, Dr Jeanneret’s wife Harriet gave birth to a daughter Frances Charlotte Elizabeth in Sydney. Two months and eleven days after her birth, on the return voyage from Sydney to Hobart Town, Frances died. Her tombstone is set in a wall at St Davids Park, Hobart.

In 1838 Dr Jeanneret relinquished his medical practice in Hobart Town to take up an appointment in Service of the Crown as Medical and Spiritual Charge of Point Puer, Port Arthur. The settlement at Point Puer was a prison where many hundreds of boys aged from eight to twenty years old, who had been transported from Great Britain, were kept. Dr Jeanneret did much to alleviate the hardships that the boys endured. The system of securing the juvenile prisoners to a triangle and flogging with the cat’o’nine tails in the presence of all their comrades was deeply opposed by Dr Jeanneret and eventually abolished during his tenure at Point Puer. Apparently, during his time at Point Puer, Dr Jeanneret fell foul with Captain Charles O’Hara Booth which was to prove detrimental for him in his later appointments. Having incurred the displeasure of the authorities by his leniency, Dr Jeanneret was forced to abandon his charge and returned to medical practice in Hobart Town where he practiced until 1842.

Jeanneret's clinical skills as a surgeon and dentist, together with the bureaucratic controversies in which he was eternally embroiled, have overshadowed his work as a botanist. He was interested in botany generally, but particularly in seaweeds and other marine plants. He corresponded with two of the great doctor botanists of his era, Professor William Henry Harvey, Keeper of the Dublin Herbarium and subsequently with botanists in both England and Scotland. He sent specimens of marine algae from Port Arthur

to Dr Hooker in London and the new genus Jeannerettia was named, in 1847, "in dedication ... to Dr Jeanneret of Tasmania, from whom we have received a number of interesting algae, gathered at Port Arthur, and among them the first specimens we have seen of this new remarkable plant ”. Jeanneret's name is well known in the world of botany . His eternal memorial is the name of the beautiful red cold water algae, Jeannerettia pedicellata and Jeannerettia lobata. These delicate red seaweeds, with their glowing colours, are common in the seaborne drift of the southern shores of Australia. There is a drawing of the type specimen, sent from Port Arthur in Tasmania by Dr Henry Jeanneret in 1838. Drawn by another doctor-botanist, Dr William Henry Harvey, it features in Harvey's "Nereis Australia", published in 1847, with acknowledgments.”

Given the displeasure of the authorities at Jeanneret’s performance at Point Puer it is curious that in 1842 he was appointed to the Aborigine Settlement "Wybalena" on Flinders Island as Protector of Aborigines, Surgeon and Commandant and Justice of the Peace, by the hand of Governor Sir John Franklin . Perhaps it was Jeanneret’s reputation as “... a brilliant medical officer who had a vast knowledge of the treatment of dysentery ” that motivated this appointment at a time when Aboriginal mortality at Flinders Island was high.

Regardless of the reasons for his appointment, he was to take charge at “Wybalena” at a very low point in the history of the demise of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. According to Bonwick, the historian,

“After departure of Robinson from Flinders Island and his failure to have Natives transferred to Port Phillip the aborigines sank into an apathy from which they never emerged.”

Of the two hundred natives originally relocated to the Settlement on Flinders Island, there were only fifty two surviving when Jeanneret took up command of the Settlement. These consisted of twelve married couples, eleven single men, six single

women and eleven children in various stages of ill health.

“On arrival at Wybalena, Dr. Jeanneret was much shocked at the Islands affairs. He found the rations inadequate for his charge and even tampered with by the small military party still esteemed necessary for the safety of the Settlement.”

Bonwick also wrote of Jeanneret

“Of an impulsive, energetic nature and highly sensitive in his conscientiousness he was led from the rebuke of wrong doing to active denunciation and was early involved in personal collision with the soldiers whom he accused of malpractices with the Natives.

Engaging in voluminous correspondence with the Government, the officials long tired of the Native question and never appreciating the pertinacious exhibition of abuses preferred to get rid of the difficulty by the suspension of the Superintendent in 1844 .”

According to Lyndall Ryan in her book “The Aboriginal Tasmanians”, the Aborigines were indifferent to Jeanneret’s position and his difficulties increased when two unexpected groups of Aborigines arrived - one from Port Phillip, the other from Cape Grim. They were to have a profound effect upon the establishment. Jeanneret’s problems were further compounded by Clark, the catechist who has been described by Plomley as anarchistic and whose interference was mindless and destructive with a meaningless determination to cause trouble .

Dr Jeanneret had determined to make the Aborigines self sufficient by allocating them plots of land for growing vegetables as well as flocks of sheep. He introduced a system of rewards for those that were prepared to work. Payment was made for work performed and profits from the sale of vegetables and wool were distributed accordingly. Typically the money earned was used to purchase treats such as tobacco, sugar and clothing. The group of Aborigines from Port Phillip undermined this system, believing that they should not have to work for such extras.

It is difficult to rationalise the varied reports of Dr Jeanneret during his appointment to Flinders Island. On the one hand he received support from people like Dr Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania and Lady Jane Franklin, whilst on the other he was dammed by the political leaders of the day. Many historians seem supportive of his actions and dismiss the many petty quarrels with which he was embroiled. Certainly Dr Jeanneret appears to have been a tenacious opponent who did not know when to leave well enough alone. Perhaps some of the cruelest comments encountered by this writer are those found in an annotation by Governor Denison to a volume of papers concerning dealings with Dr Jeanneret in the archives of the Colonial Secretary -

“The whole thing is a tissue of absurdity from end to end. If Dr Jeanneret had his deserts he would be whipped like an unruly schoolboy, and his whelp of a son as well...”

Obviously tempers were frayed over the issue of the Tasmanian Aborigines which proved to be a massive blunder and disgrace to the Tasmanian Government. It should be noted that an emissary from the Government, Matthew Curling Friend, spent three weeks at the settlement investigating claims against Dr Jeanneret. Friend had previously been a member of two boards of enquiry into affairs at the settlement. Without going into the details of Friends findings, Plomley writes

“The minutes of the evidence taken by Friend contain many statements in favour of Jeanneret - and none supporting Clark which can be held to be unbiased - but so much black had been applied to Jeanneret’s image that any application of a different colour could not stick .”

Dr Jeanneret’s whelp of a son, Charles Edward, in later years (1885) was described in the book “Australian Men of Mark ”

“As a public spirited and enterprising citizen, and Alderman both of his own suburb and of the City Council, and later as a member of the Legislative Assembly, he is in many worthy respects an acknowledged representative man.”

On the 21st November 1843 Dr Jeanneret was dismissed. He returned to Hobart Town to plead his case and also resumed his medical practice at 31 Murray Street, Hobart Town from September 1844 until he was reinstated at Flinders Island on the 18th February 1846.

Three weeks after Jeanneret’s dismissal Sir John Franklin accompanied by Lady Franklin, Dr. Nixon - Bishop of Tasmania and several officials visited Flinders Island on the 12th December 1843. The party minutely inspected the establishment. It appears that the visit only lasted one day as evidenced by a letter from Lady Franklin to Mrs Jeanneret dated the following day 13th December from aboard the “Flying Fish”.

Dear Mrs Jeanneret, We shall remember our visit to you with much interest and pleasure and I beg you to accept my earnest wishes for your improved health and strength and for your future welfare. With kind compliments to Dr. Jeanneret. Believe me dear Mrs Jeanneret. Very truly yours, Jane Franklin .

On his return to Hobart, Dr Jeanneret harassed the Government seeking reasons for his dismissal and the vindication of his character. failing to receive either satisfactory replies or pecuniary compensation, he petitioned the Secretary of State in February 1845 for reinstatement and compensation. These were granted by Lord Stanley in a despatch dated 11th August 1845, who directed that “immediate measures be made to compensate Dr Jeanneret, either by restoring him to the office he has lost, with all arrears of salary; or by placing him in some other equally lucrative position with the payment of those arrears.” ,

The soldiers on the island were withdrawn and Dr. Jeanneret was granted full control. His triumph over the local authorities did not lessen the spleen of his enemies nor silence the voice of calumny and reproach .

To quote Plomley once again, “...there is much to be said in favour of him, however strongly he acted as ‘the boss’ in his dealings with both the whites and the blacks. Jeanneret’s job was a difficult one. He had to contend with Franklin’s stinginess on the one hand, and with an intractable problem of management of the Aborigines on the other. And opposed to him were not only the Governor and the administration in Hobart, but also Robert Clark and the Aborigines, the latter stirred up against him by Clark and as well wanting to get as much as possible for nothing and annoyed that they had to do something to earn their luxuries, even if that something were very little indeed.”

Early in 1846, Jeanneret received a letter of congratulations from his friend Dr. Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania.

2nd. January 1846. Congratulations on your reappointment, Testimony of gratification. Signed F.R. Tasmania

In April of the same year he received another letter of encouragement from the Bishop

7th. April 1846 Expressing satisfaction of safe arrival at Flinders

Island and satisfactory arrangements of withdrawal of soldiers. Signed F.R. Tasmania

To quote the historian, Bonwick, support for Dr Jeanneret may be found in the words of Dr Nixon, ‘who was ever a friend to both’.

“Yet knowing him well and honouring him much I am sure he misrepresented himself, for of all men I know few with more real kindness of nature, or more profound regard for his duty to God. For his pious and gentle Lady the Natives cherished tender feelings.”

All was not well though, almost immediately upon his return to Flinders Island a petition against him was got up upon the apparent inspiration of Dr M.J. Milligan with the clerical assistance of Clark the Catechist purporting to be from "the free aboriginal people” of Van Diemans Land - dated 17th. February 1846 and signed by eight of the Natives. The petitioners claimed that Dr. Jeanneret carried pistols in his pockets and threatened to shoot them, also his pigs ate the natives food and that the natives were inadequately clothed.

A number of curious documents bearing on this matter are preserved in the Tasmanian Archives most of them chiefly remarkable for their faked simplicities of style .

The poor men afterwards repudiated their own act and attributed it to bad counsel.

Dr Jeanneret replied to the petition with a long rebuttal on 12th June 1846. It has been noted that his response was ‘as could be expected from someone obsessed with the injustice to himself’.

Lieutenant Friend was appointed to investigate and reported on his questioning of the natives, that they reported the statements had been made for them.

Inflexible in Justice the Doctor needed suavity to soothe. Earnest in the discovery of a wrong, he may have lacked the judicious prudence which refuses to see everything, or which perceives extenuating and ameliorating circumstances. His very integrity dissociated him from the sympathies of his subordinates and the rigidity of his righteous rule perhaps increased the restlessness and discontent of his little state.

The battle with Clark, who was in truth the author of the petition, raged on until the opportunity arose for Jeanneret to stand him down from his duties.

“The Catechist, Clark, was accused of cruel treatment and neglect of the children under his care and they were therefore removed from under his roof and the officer was suspended from service. Mr. Clark did not deny his having flogged the girls but declared he had done it in religious anger at their moral offences. One in particular had been seduced into improper society and was very long kept in rigid seclusion”.

The tragedy of the situation according to Plomley was that:

“What is so very evident is the extent to which the Aborigines were used in this war, which was really one between Clark and Jeanneret, with the government a willing recipient of anything to Jeanneret’s disadvantage.”

"In a letter answering some enquiries of mine (Bonwick) about the blacks, Dr. Jeanneret wrote in bitterness of his disappointment on 10th. March 1847.

The official directions of the Government provide amply for their handsome provision, though hitherto a faction has often interfered with the instruction furnished. I think so far from being neglected, they are and have been plagued by too much interference”.

It was a month after that date of that letter that the following communication was addressed to Dr. Jeanneret.

"His excellency has it in contemplation to break up the Aboriginal Establishment at Flinders Island at an early period and that should his intention be carried into effect your appointment as Superintendent would probably cease as your services would not be required.

No charges are here made and no reference is made to mal-administration. On the following day a letter was sent intimating the appointment of a successor

Dr. Milligan for the express purpose of effecting the removal of the Aborigines to the mainland.

As this is to be accomplished without unnecessary delay Mr. Milligan’s arrival will take place on or about the first proximo, when you will have the goodness to hand over your charge to that gentleman and be prepared to return to Van Diemans Land by the same vessel which conveys him to the settlement.

The Aboriginal settlement at “Wybalena" Flinders Island was abandoned late 1847 by order of Governor Sir William Denison. Dr. Milligan having been appointed as successor to Dr. Jeanneret for the express purpose of the removal of the Aborigines to the mainland at Oyster Cove in D’Entrecasteaux Channel.

Dr. Jeanneret was virtually the last Superintendent of Flinders Island. He remained to see the embarkation of the Natives under his successor Dr. Milligan all bound for Oyster Cove. At the time of transfer according to Fenton there were forty four natives at Flinders Island.

A report in the Hobart Town Courier reports their arrival on the 20th October 1847.

"Arrived in schooners Sisters and Gill from Flinders Island with Dr. Milligan and lady, twenty two females, fifteen aborigines and ten children which they landed at Oyster Cove in D'Entrecasteaux Channel."

Some time after the removal of the natives Dr. Jeanneret and family left Flinders Island in the 'John Bull' arriving in Launceston February 1848. Two years later, 1850, they sailed for Sydney, New South Wales where Dr Jeanneret continued to practice medicine. He also continued to write and carry on his appeals to authorities claiming injustices.

In 1851, having returned to England, Dr Jeanneret had printed in pamphlet form a letter to ‘Rt. Hon. Earl Grey - being a short explanatory appeal relative to the authors conduct as Superintendent of Flinders Island’ .

In a memorial dated 18th February 1853, Henry Jeanneret petitioned His Grace the Duke of Newcastle a Secretary for State for the Colonies for compensation and losses and injury through neglect of the Colonial Office. The pamphlet was entitled ‘The vindication of a Colonial Magistrate from the aspersions of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle’.

In another dated 1854: ‘Remonstrance and Exposure of a Colonial Conspiracy whereby Her Majesty the Queen has been imposed upon in a petition against Henry Jeanneret M.D. Charges reputed: Statements by the Duke of Newcastle were in opposition to those of Lord Derby when Secretary of State and the arrival of his Graces immediate predecessor Sir John Pakington. Dr. Jeanneret’s pamphlet "Petition to the Queen" and resulting correspondence clearly states his case of oppression and unfounded accusations.

The year 1854 brought the Cholera epidemic that raged in London and there is evidence that Jeanneret still practiced and published a pamphlet in French: ‘De la guerison prompte et facile du cholera asiatique par la method de Henry Jeanneret’ This also reveals that cases treated included members of his own family, his wife Harriett, a son Francis Crosbie and a daughter Jane Warren. He also refers

to cases treated while he was in Tasmania and his discovery of the treatment.

Harriet died early in 1874 and Henry remarried at the end of the same year to Frances Ann Barnett, daughter of Mr William Barnett at Abbey Church, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, Frances Ann and Henry Jeanneret at England on the 13th November, Cheltenham, England.

The Cheltenham Examiner of the 23rd June 1886 records death of Dr Henry Jeanneret L.S.A. M.D. L.R.C.S. at Cheltenham England 17th June 1886, aged 84.

Probate was granted to his widow Frances Anne Jeanneret.

Addresses for Henry JEANNERET:

Oxford, England 1817-22 Paris, France 1823 London, England 1824 Edinburgh, Scotland 1825 London, England 1826-9 Sydney, NSW 1829-1837 Van Diemen’s Land 1837 (shipping record) Port Arthur, VDL 1838 Brisbane Street, Hobart, VDL 1840 (Colonial Times) Flinders Island 1842-4, 1846-7 Launceston, VDL 1848-1850 London, England 1851 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England 1859 (Medical Register).

Frances Anne (Barnett) and Dr Henry Jeanneret

Genus 5. JEANNERETTIA, Jeannerettia lobata, Hook. fil. et Harv. if SS. (Tab. IV.) Hab.

The South Temperate zone offers a remarkable contrast, even with our present miserably imperfect knowledge of its marine vegetation, and no doubt, when more fully explored, the difference will be much more striking. In place of but ten genera, as in Europe, there are in the south no less than twenty-two, of which twelve are peculiar to the Southern Ocean, and these twelve are by far the most remarkable and strongly marked of the family; namely, Claudea, Botryocarpa, Polyphacum, Lenormandia, Jeannerettia, Sarcomenia, Pouexfenia, Kützingia, Epineuron, Spyrhymenia, Trigenia and Polyzonia.

Hook.fil.etHarv. Frons prolifera. Phyllodia plana membranacea costa evanescenti percursa, striis curvatis è costa ad marginem obliqué proficientibus notata, è cellulis quadratis coloratis for mata. Ceramidia ignota. Stichidia lanceolata fasciculata per totam frondem dispersa, tetrasporas duplici serie foventia. Alga Australasica, speciosa, purpurea, foliacea, phyllodiis lobatis.

This new genus is dedicated by Dr. Hooker and myself, to Dr. Jeanneret, of Tasmania, from whom we have received a number of interesting Algae, gathered at Port Arthur, and among them the first specimens we had seen of this remarkable plant. In its general habit there is a considerable resemblance to Delesseria platycarpa, but the nature of the fructification is very different; and it is, in truth, more nearly allied to Polierfenia, from which it chiefly differs in having a distinct costa, and in being proliferous.

At Port Arthur, Tasmania, Dr. Jeanneret. Also collected by the Rev. Mr. Eving. (v. s. in Herb. T. C. D. com. cl. Hooker!) Frond perennial, eventually of large size, probably one or two feet long, but our specimens are very imperfect, formed in a proliferous manner of nerved phyllodia, the new springing from the midribs of the old. Primary

leaves, in old specimens, lose their lamina and are converted into tough, strong, compressed, or more or less winged stems, six to eight inches long, or more, giving off, along their extent, secondary phyllodia with more or less of membrane adhering to them. From the primary and secondary leaves thus altered into stems, spring, without order, except that they invariably issue from the midrib, the young phyllodia which we shall now describe. In our most perfect specimen these are from two to four inches long, and from half to three quarters of an inch wide, oblong, undivided or forked, having a few lateral, alternate, rounded lobes, a very undulating margin, and furnished with a strong, thick midrib, which gradually fails towards the apex, and vanishes altogether at a short distance from the point. This rib throughout its length is covered with foliaceous processes, the preparation probably, for phyllodia of the next season. Our specimens are too imperfect to warrant us in limiting the variations in form of the perfect phyllodium, which are probably considerable. The lobes, for example, may lengthen, acquire midribs, and be themselves lobed, of which propensity we think we see indications in one specimen. The whole leaf is traversed by close, parallel, internal striae, very visible under a pocket lens, which originate in the midrib, and proceed in a very oblique line towards the margin. These are formed by internal, articulated filaments, which pass through the substance of the lamina, which is formed of a double layer of quadrate, coloured cells. Substance rigid, not adhering to paper. Stichidia in bunches, scattered over the surface of the phyllodia. Colour probably a clear purple-lake, brownish when dry.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ARRIVALS Dec 7. - Sailed the brig Tranmere, Captain James Smith, with her Sydney cargo. Passengers Dr Evans, Dr Jeanneret, Mr. A. Morrison and J. Cole. Colonial Times 11 December 1829

PUBLICATION The second work about to issue from the press of the Gazette-Office, is entitled ‘ Hints for the Preservation of the Teeth. By Henry Jeanneret, M.D. &c. &c. Surgeon and Dentist.’

The table of contents is as follows: “Dedication. -Preface. -Introduction. - Teething; order of protrusion; effects upon the constitution; remedies. Shedding of the teeth. –General rules for the preservation of the teeth; scaling; dentifrices; deficiency of enamel. -Diseases of the teeth. -Decay of the teeth; stopping with metal, &c.; filing; excision; extraction. -Toothache: remedies. Irregularities and looseness of the teeth. Diseases of the gums: gum-boils; sponginess; tumours. -Artificial teeth and palates.”

It is a well-known fact, that the teeth of Europeans very generally begin to decay after a few years residence in this Colony, and a work that should instruct the inhabitants in the art of counteracting the causes of this misfortune, has long been a desideratum. Dr. Jeanneret is, we understand, a completely educated Dentist, and may be presumed to be fully qualified for the work he has undertaken. His ‘Hints’ possess one excellence which will greatly contribute to their usefulness - they are unencumbered with scientific refinements and technicalities of phrase; addressed exclusively to the people, they will be found intelligible by the most illiterate; and being purely practical, they promise to contribute much to the comfort of John Bull’s mastication. To those who are duly impressed with the importance of that serious portion of the day’s business, -dinner, -Dr. Jeanneret’s pamphlet will be a most acceptable offering: for, when the teeth have eloped from their sockets, or refused to perform their wonted office, -what becomes of the charms of the dinner-hour? Alas for the toothless gourmand!

What can surpass his torments, when the reeking sirloin, the plump turkey, and other old and well-beloved acquaintances, stand smoking before him, regaling his nostrils, and mocking him with their impracticable invitations! Whoever would shun this diurnal agony, should digest Dr.Jeanneret’s advice.

The subjoined extract from the ‘Dedication’ will show that simplicity has been studied throughout the work:

“My only object being to furnish such general information as I conceive will prove useful, which will sufficiently appear from the size and price of the work, I should think that further no one has a right to demand from me any thing respecting it.

“Had I contemplated the gratifying my pride, the subject would have been treated in a more scientific manner, references would have been made to the opinions of eminent men, the work would have been more extended; but then the price must have been higher. Thus I might have placed myself in a more gratifying position as an author, and it would have better accorded with my own feelings to proclaim my pretentions, and the Public also would have had a stronger right to question their foundation. But in this case only professional men, or the learned, would have been my readers, and thus would the general usefulness of these few remarks have been lost to the community at large.”

We shall for the present dismiss Dr. J. with the following extract from his ‘Preface’:

“It has been generally remarked, that the descendants of Europeans who have emigrated to previously uncultivated countries, for the purposes of colonization, have undergone a considerable alteration in constitution, which is perceptible in a change of the colour and texture of the skin, hair, and eyes, and in a defective formation and rapid decay of the teeth. Various causes have been assigned for this imperfection in one of the essential organs of the body, but I believe no satisfactory explanation has hitherto been offered, nor does any mode of prevention appear to have been successfully pursued.”

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 8 May 1830

SYDNEY DISPENSARY. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette.

SIR , Sensibly alive to the necessities of the times, and sincerely solicitous of seeing my fellow colonists in the enjoyment of better days, I thus take my pen.

Poverty is the usual complaint, and in many instances may be urged as a good plea for retrenchment. But I sincerely hope, for the honour of the colony, for the honour of human nature, that no such plea will be made for the withdrawment of our AID from the poorer classes of the community. They are our brothers, our younger brothers, and have a positive claim upon us for our assistance. You may be induced perhaps to say “quoten-dis?”

I am now, about to advocate the Sydney Dispensary. An institution claiming our cordial support, whether we view it as a mere charitable institution, or as an institution of policy. An institution, in the former instance, of the small charge of £200 for 1000 individuals! And, in the second instance, affording to its medical officers a point of contact with the poorer classes of the sick, by which their diseases are readily, andwith certainty, made known, and as far as possible obviated or cured. It is such institutions that promote medical knowledge and the public health, which by the by are very nearly connected. It is institutions like these that keep up a kindly and good feeling between the poor and rich – this renders the former contented and the latter res-pected. Our distinguished mother country fairly owes her fame more to her honourable acts of charity than her most splendid victories! And if any thing can add to the above claims to our respect and regard, it is that such institutions are the children of the public, the fruit of collective, individual, gratuitous contribution.

It is with pain that I learn the Sydney Dispensary does not meet with that support with which similar institutions are favoured in the mother country. This, I am well aware, does not arise from the want of an equally good feeling among

the colonists. That, in fact, we are in debt to the amount of £80, and, in justice to the medical officers, it isnot attributable to them. Then to what is it attributable? To this circumstance - I will be delicate - I will only in this short address point out this temporary difficulty - it is for the public to remedy the calamity. I have done my duty as an individual, and hope you will publish this appeal before the public, sincerely hoping it will have the desired effect of eliciting their better feelings, and to contribute their individual mite.

At the same time, the Gentlemen of the Committee merit the thanks of their fellow townsmen for their gratuitous services for their pauper brethren. And particularly those medical gentlemen who devote alternately their time to the alleviation of their sufferings. I allude to Doctors Bland, Mitchell, Forster, Fattorini, and Jeanneret.

This plainly shows how much example will effect, for the first mentioned gentleman led the way, and has been laudably followed by the latter clever men. CHARITAS The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 7 August 1830

PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the public notice, a Meeting of the Colonists, to prepare an Address to His Most Gracious Majesty, King WILLIAM the Fourth, on his accession to the throne, was held in the Court-house, King-street, on Thursday last. The Meeting was convened for 1 o’clock, at which hour but few persons had assembled; the room, however, gradually filled, and, when the business commenced, at about half-past 1 o’clock, contained a very numerous assembly of gentlemen, some of whom were of the very first rank and respectability in the Colony.

Dr. JEANNERET objected to the introduction of the paragraph, on account of its allusion, to a particular class of the Colonists. No man was more anxious than himself to extend the benefits of the Constitution to every part of the British Dominions; but he conceived that the paragraph had a tendency to hurt the feelings of individuals, and he therefore

objected to its insertion, or at least to that portion of it in which the words- “A body of outcasts” -appeared.

“Mr. MACKANESS- Thank God you are the only one who has made that objection.

The addition to the Address was then put from the Chair, and carried by a large majority. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 5 March 1831

DR. JEANNERET will commence a COURSE of LECTURES on CHEMISTRY, on Monday, the 12th Instant, at 7 pm. Tickets may be obtained, from Dr. Mair, 39th Regt. Macquarie-street; the Rev. R. Hill; Francis Stephen, Esq. York-street; Mr. Henderson, Apothecary, George-street ; Mr. Byers, Agent, at the Custom-house, and at Dr. J.’s Residence, Clarence street, where the Lectures will be delivered. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 3 September 1831

LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY Dr. Jeanneret’s course of lectures on chemistry, which was delivered at his residence on Monday evening. The company was respectable, and included several ladies of rank, among whom wereMrs. Broughton, Mrs. Dumar esq, (accompanied by Colonel D.), Miss Darling, &c.&c. The lecture was, of course, introductory, presenting a general outline of the nature and advantages of the science, which were illustrated by several entertaining experiments. The Doctor acquitted himself to the entire satisfaction of his auditory, who heartily congratulated each other on the novel pleasure they had been enjoying, and on the increasing gratification anticipated from the remainder of the course. We offer similar gratulations to Dr. Jeanneret on the encouragement that has attended his outset ; and to the colony, on what we hope will prove only the first in a long series of scientific amusements. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 17 September 1831

COURT HEARING Thomas Newby assigned to Dr. Jeanneret, was charged with having allowed persons to go into his master’s house during his absence, his master having lost several articles, without being able to account for their disappearance. Mr. Rowe, who was present, begged to explain the very peculiar situation of the prisoner at the bar. The prisoner, was formerly sent for life to the Derwent, where he obtained a ticket-of-leave and entered into the service of Dr. Jeanneret, who, when he came to this Colony, obtained leave from the Lieut. Governor for tlhe prisoner to accompany him, and he was accordingly regularly indented to him at a fixed salary, for a certain period, and accompanied the Doctor to Sydney. In this Colony, his ticket-of-leave would not be acknowledged; it was taken from him, and he was assigned to Dr. Jeanneret. Dr. Jeanneret had acknowledged that he had broken his agreement with the prisoner, previously to his ticket being taken from him. The Bench could only look upon the prisoner as the assigned servant of the Doctor and accordingly sentenced him to three days on the tread mill, to be then returned to his service. The Sydney Monitor 19 November 1831

CORONER’S INQUEST - INFANTICIDE C. T. SMEATHMAN, Esq., Coroner for the district of Sydney, convened an Inquest, at 12 o’clock, on Tuesday, on view of the body of a child, name unknown, which had been discovered the preceding afternoon, in a water-closet, at the rear of the “Warwick Arm’s” public-house, York-street.

The Jury having been sworn in the usual form, proceeded to inspect the body, which was in a very advanced state of decomposition, and appeared to have been greatly mutilated by the spade of the labourer who rescued it from its secresy. Dr. Jeanneret, at the same time, examined the remains, and delivered the following opinion :

“I have examined the remains of a child found in a privy in Clarence-street, and condsider them to belong to a child born at its full time - the soft parts being almost converted into spermaceti. I conceive it impossible to determine whether the child had

breathed or no. From the situation in which the remains were found, they must have been at least three months deposited, and during that time subjected to the action of moisture.

Evan Thomas - I am an assigned servant to Mr.Hutchinson, and have been with him seven years; I was employed by him to clear the privy in the rear of his new houses in York-street yesterday; about three o’clock; while digging, I found a bag, which, on examination, contained a child ; the privy is situated between York-street and Clarence-street; I picked up a number of rags before I came to the bag; on discovering the bag, I did not think it was a child, and knocked it about with my spade; on opening the bag, I discovered what it was, as the arms presented themselves to my view perfect; the head had been mutilated by the spade, as also the thighs and legs; there was a quantity of hair and flocks from a bed in the bag; I fetched Dr. Boston, who pulled it about, and pulled the skull off; the bag was not tied, but rolled round the infant; the Doctor said it was a Christian, and six or seven months old; I reported the matter to Mr. Jilks, the Chief Constable; I heard some of the people who assembled say, that a female was in the family-way about 12 months since, and nobody knew what became of the infant; I lived on the spot at the time, and knew her to be pregnant.

Walter Boston (Doctor, from the College of Edinburgh, for these 30 years) - I was called upon last night officially; I reside in Clarence-street, where I keep a repository for drugs; I sell snuff; my snuff is not common snuff - it is good for the eyes; Evan Thomas came to me yesterday afternoon, and asked me to come over and look at the corpse of a child which he had found in a privy; on going to the spot, I turned up the hand of the child, which was very obnoxious; I turned up the elbow, and found that the child had lived for about three months; the skull had a double plate; the child had either died or been killed at the birth; I did not take time to look whether it had one or two arms, because the women flocked round me and said I was going to make pills of it, and threatened to stone me; it did not smell very nice; I would rather have smelt a pinch of my own snuff; the child had been in a state

of animation for at least three months; I think it had been at least twelve months in the place where it was found; I have been thirty years a doctor; I am a Master of Arts, and a D. M.; I challenge any minister or doctor in this colony to cope with me.

Elizabeth Board - I resided, previous to the last eleven months, in one of Mr. Hutchinsons houses in York-street; I had a female servant named Alice; she was very stout and lusty; she left me last May twelve-months; she had lived with me about 20 months; one Thursday, when I came from Market, she was taken very sick, and said she had a pain in her stomach; she always had the same appearance, and I do not think she was pregnant while with me; I never saw her followed by any of the other sex; I believe there was a love affair between her and a soldier; I never saw him there but once, but heard the neighbours tell of it after she left me; she robbed me of thirty shillings, for which I parted with her.

Evan Thomas recalled, and confronted with Mrs.Board - I had some conversation with Mrs. Board last night; I told her that I had dug up a child in her old privy; she asked me what sort of a child it was; I replied, that it appeared to be born in time; she then said that it could not have been her servant Alice’s child, as she was only six months pregnant when she miscarried; she further said, that one market day when she came home, she discovered that the girl had miscarried, but could not find it, although she had searched the privy, and everywhere else; she taxed her with having miscarried, asked her what she had done with the child, on which she threatened to stab her with a knife, or any body else that said so. - Mrs. Board has repeatedly told me that the girl was pregnant. (Mrs.Board did not contradict this additional evidence, but went on to detail further particulars, which left little doubt on the mind of Dr. Jeanneret and the jury, that the girl alluded to, had undergone parturition.

Peekie, a New Zealand girl, was next examined, but gave no particular information.

Alice McCay, the young woman who had been alluded to in the preceding evidence, was next called in. She appeared somewhat agitated, and

answered every question put to her, bearing on the matter, negatively. Her manner at length induced the Jury to desire that she might be sent to look at the body, for which purpose they accompanied her to it. On looking at it she betrayed excesive agitation, and for a length of time refused every request to touch it. After her return she was closely questioned by the Coroner; she sighed deeply when asked if the child was her’s, but denied it; she acknowledged having one child, but said it was in Ireland; also that she was acquainted with a soldier of the 39th, but not improperly.

Mrs. May, the present mistress of the girl, gave her a very good character for industry, sobriety, and general good behaviour.

The Jury then consulted for a short time, and returned a verdict that “the deceased was found in a privy in the rear of Clarence-street, having been placed there by some person or persons unknown.” The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 7 June 1832

CORONER’S INQUEST On Tuesday, a Coroner’s Inquest was assembled by Major Smeathman, at the Ship Inn, Parramatta Road, in consequence of the body of an individual named Thomas Cunningham, having been discovered, the preceding day, by a servant of Dr. Ramsay’s, couched in the hollow of a white gum tree, to which spot, the man was attracted by the strong effluvia emanating from the tree, situated remote from the road, about half-a-mile, in nearly an impervious part of the bush. The body was found coiled up, and under the left side was a bundle of cloths, which the deceased had in his possession at the time he left Sydney, about three weeks before, and at twenty yards distance, his hat was found, containing a pass from Lieutenant. Colonel Snodgrass. One of the shirts in the bundle was marked with blood, but how, or in what manner, no evidence was forthcoming to solve; Dr. Jeanneret, who attended professionally, gave it as his opinion, that there were no marks of fractured bones, but from the decomposed state of the fleshy parts, it was impossible to say, whether he met his death by a wound. After the jury had sat for six

hours in deliberation, without any evidence being adduced, that could throw light on the way in which the deceased came to his death, they returned the following verdict :- This jury are of opinion, from the state of extreme decomposition in which the body of the late Thomas Cunningham has been seen by them, and the total want of evidence, they cannot decide on the actual cause of his death.” A coffin was provided, and the remains removed for interment. The Sydney Herald 15 November 1832

CORONER’S INQUEST, MYSTERIOUS DEATH. -An inquest was convened on Tuesday last, by C. T. SMEATHMAN, Esq. Coroner for the Sydney district, at the Ship Inn, on the Parramatta Road, on view of a body discovered the day previous on the Dobroyd estate. It appeared, that as two of Dr. Ramsay’s men were passing through the bush on Monday, they smelt a most disagreeable effluvia; one of them remarked that there surely must be a dead body not far off, and the other, in consequence, proceeded in the direction from whence the stench proceeded, into an almost impervious scrub, where he found the body of the deceased in the hollow of a large tree, about five feet in diameter. He immediately hastened home and related what he had seen to his master, who transmitted the information to the proper authorities. On the jury proceeding towards the spot, the effect produced on the air by the decomposition of the remains was so powerful that they were scarcely able to perform their painful office. The body was coiled up, and lying on the left side; a bundle containing clothes and other necessaries in travelling, being placed under, as if to answer the purpose of a pillow. The tree in which it was deposited was a white gum, which had at some former period been hollowedby fire, and was situate about half a mile from the road at Iron Cove bridge. At a distance of some twenty yards from the body, was a black hat containing a pass, dated 19th September last, giving a description corresponding with the deceased, stating the bearer’s name to be James Cunningham, late a private of H. M. 50th regiment of foot, and that he had permission

to pass from Sydney to the interior in search of work; it was signed by Colonel Snodgrass. In the bundle was a dirty shirt, the collar of which bore marks of blood, though not saturated, and on the body was one apparently clean, as if they had been changed just previous to death. Four goannas ran up the tree, and the animals of the bush had preyed so very lavishly on the remains of mortality that the thorax andother parts of the neck, together with various portions of flesh from the rest of the body, were missing. Doctor Jeaneret examined the body, and certified that none of the bones were fractured, but it was in such an advanced stage of decomposition, as to render it impossible to decide whether a wound had at any time been inflicted. The jury were somewhat divided in opinion; the idea of some being that the deceased had been murdered, and the majority of opinion that he had placed himself in the tree and died a natural death. After much deliberation, however, they agreed upon the following verdict -“ That this jury are of opinion,f rom the extreme state of decomposition in which the body of the late Thomas Cunningham has this day by them been seen, and the total want of evidence, that they cannot decide on the actual cause of his death.”

In the latter part of the afternoon, a young woman arrived, who stated herself to have been the wife of the deceased; that he had accepted the commuted allowance, and arrived lately in the colony with herself and child, but being reduced to a state of utter destitution, they placed the child out to nurse, she went to service, and the deceased left Sydney last Wednesday three weeks, to seek for the means of supporting them up the country, taking with him the things just as found in the bundle. It also appeared that he had been seen passing the Plough Inn on that afternoon. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 15 November 1832

DR. JEANNERET Begs to inform his Friends and the Public, that he purposes leaving New South Wales shortly, and requests those Persons who desire his assistance as a DENTIST, to make early application, having been obliged to disappoint many Persons requiring

artificial sets upon leaving Van Daemon’s Land, in consequence of their applying too late. Clarence-street, 8th Nov. 1832. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 22 November 1832

CORONER’S INQUEST On Thursday an Inquest was held at the Curriers’ Arms, Castlereagh-street, on the body of Mr. Edward Laverty, who died suddenly that morning. It appeared in evidence that the previous night deceased had gone to bed in his usual good state of health, but the following morning, about 6 o’clock, on an old man who was employed about the house in the day time arriving, Mrs. L. desired him to look at the deceased, who was very ill, and having done so, the man pronounced him dead, and immediately went and procured the attendance of Dr.Street, who opened a vein, but all without effect; the deceased expired without a groan, or saying a word. Scarcely had the deceased expired, than some malicious persons raised a report that would have been highly injurious to the survivor and others, had not the Jury, with a view to silence rumour, and her many thousand tongues, called in Drs. Street and Jeanneret, and the body was opened, when it was clearly proved that apoplexy was the cause of his death. The Jury being perfectly satisfied with the cause of his death, returned a verdict of, died by the visitation of God. The Sydney Herald 10 June 1833

DR. JEANNERET our old philosophical associate having completed the period of his intended stay at Sydney was about to leave that colony. From his lamenting his being obligated to disappoint many persons here by the abruptness of his departure of artificial sets of teeth we presume he intends to return to us for a short time. The Hobart Town Courier 14 December 1832

DR. JEANNERET begs to inform his Friends that he purposes leaving, and requests that all cases unfinished or requiring repairs may be sent immediately, and all Accounts settled; and that he cannot undertake any cases requiring more than

six Teeth supplied. Dr. J. will continue to perform operations upon the Teeth, for a week or two. No 4, King-street, Dec. 4, 1833. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 5 December 1833

LATELY a meeting of the faculty was convened, --to drive quacks out of the field— A second meeting ought to be called to fix the fees of medical practitioners, dentists, &c. What will the public think of a charge of £30 for one tooth? Yet such has been made; and a respectable man, in Sydney, has actually been arrested by Dr Jeanneret for this sum on this account. At such value a set of grinders are worth £600. The Sydney Monitor 7 February 1834

JEANNERET V. SMEATHMAN We regret that our reporter did not happen to be in Court during the trial of the cause, Jeanneret v Smeathman, which took place on Tuesday last. We can make every allowance for mistakes in giving evidence on trials, where individuals called, perhaps, unexpectedly, have to depend so much on indistinct memory. But, really, the mistakes made in this case, as it has been represented to us, seem most extraordinary. The action was brought to recover upwards of £30 for professional services rendered to Mrs. Smeathman, the lady of Major Smeathman, the Coroner for Sydney. The plaintiff is a dentist, and his claim was, as stated on one occasion, for furnishing the lady with sixteen artificial teeth, and, on another, for nineteen. The case was opened in due form- -witnesses, or, rather a witness proved the performance of the professional labour; when lo! two other, professional gentlemen entered the witness box, on the part of the defendant, and proved that all Mrs. Smeathman’s teeth -save one- were her own indisputable property, well formed by the hand of nature, and not by the hand of Dr. Jeanneret! It is not fair thus to reveal a lady’s secrets, but we think Mr. S. will forgive us on this occasion, as we only report what has already been publicly stated in Court. This lady, then, certainly had lost two teeth, and the Doctor replaced the same teeth, in their proper places, by the aid of a bit of gold wire; and this piece of professional

assistance, together with the one artificial tooth, of which we have already made mention, constituted the basis of his claim to upwards of £30! The jury, of course gave a verdict for the defendant; but as the professional gentlemen examined on his behalf stated that about £4 would remunerate the plaintiff, and as Major Smeathman had already paid more than three times that amount into Court, we would recommend him to take advice as to the proper mode of getting back the balance. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 6 March 1834

SMEATHMAN V. JEANNERET The Plaintiffs the Sydney Coroner, and the defendant is a Dentist. This case came on before the Bench on Wednesday. The plaintiffs wife had occasion to employ the defendant to supply her with some artificial teeth, which he did, rendering his advice also, on several occasions. In May, last year, a bill was sent in to plaintiff, charging him thirty guineas for seventeen teeth, that is to say, sixteen single, and three double teeth; to this claim objection was made on the part of the plaintiff, on the grounds that the number of teeth supplied were not correct. Defendant subsequently entered an action in the Supreme Court for the recovery of the sum, which he considered to be fair and just charges, and after evidence on both sides, decidedly of a contradictory nature, a verdict was given for the defendant. A motion was afterwards made for a new trial, on the grounds that the perjured party might be brought to light; this His Honor Judge Burton, who had tried the cause in the firstplace, refused, as it would be adopting a dangerous precedent, and there was another source to resort to, to ascertain who had overstepped the boundaries of truth. The affidavits on both sides produced in Court, were of that contradictory nature, that Mr.Smeathman, smarting under such an imputation, as that advanced by Dr. Jeanneret, considered that it was a duty which he owed to the public, to adopt the mode of proceedings in question, namely, to bring him before the Police Court, for perjury, to allow the Magistrates and the public to judge which of the parties had committed the offence in question. Several witnesses were called on the part of the

prosecution, to prove that Mrs. Smeathman never had a double tooth in her life. This was her own statement also, and Mr. Ambrose Foss, stated on his examination, that her jaw did not extend so far back as it does in most persons; he had examined Mrs. Smeathman’s mouth, and considered that such a number of teeth as were purported to have been supplied by defendant, could not from the nature of Mrs. Smeathman’s mouth be supplied. Many other witnesses were called, who proved from their evidence, that Mrs. Smeathman never had more than three teeth from Dr. Jeanneret. The servant was examined on the occasion, who had been accustomed to examine Mrs. Smeathman’s mouth. After evidence for the plaintiff had been gone into, Mr. C. H. Chambers, for the plaintiff, contended, that the case had been made out; he recapitulated the evidence, making his comments, and explaining the different points adduced before the Court. It was, he said, very plain from the evidence, that the claim made upon the plaintiff by Dr. Jeanneret, was an unusual one. After a lengthened statement, the evidence for the defence was entered into.

Dr. Mitchell sworn: stated that he never heard of a person that had not double teeth.

Eliza Smirk, stated that on one occasion Mrs. Smeathman called her son into the drawing-room, and on opening the door, after conversing with him for some time, she heard her say, take care Henry, that you remember what I have said on the occasion, or it may cost your father a great deal of money.

Martin Wilson, formerly connected with Dr. Jeanneret’s establishment, said, that hehad seen a model of the teeth in question, at least a hundred times, for it lay on the Doctor’s table for some time, and he remembered Mrs. Smeathman’s coming very often to the Doctor’s house. This was the case for the defence.

Mr. David Chambers then addressed the Court, and contended that nothing like acase had been made out; he recapitulated the evidence pro. and con., he considered that it was a case upon which the

talented mind of the Magistrates could not decide and it ought therefore to go to a Jury.

Mr. Windeyer then proceeded to deliver his opinion on the case. He- stated that there were two or three assignments of perjury, but only one had been supported by two witnesses, and that was with respect to the order given for the whole set of teeth. This was with respect to the evidence given by young Smeathman. A lapse of time had taken place since the conversation between Mrs. Smeathman and Dr. Jeanneret, consequently, it amounted almost to an impossibility for young Smeathman to remember the observations made. The only remedy for the plaintiff would be to apply to the Supreme Court, to file a Criminal Information against Dr. Jeanneret; he, therefore, considered that the case should be dismissed, which was dismissed accordingly. The Sydney Herald 7 April 1834

CORONER’S INQUEST An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Edinburgh Castle, Pitt-street, on the body of Thomas Hegney, an assigned servant to Dr. Jeanneret, who died suddenly that morning The deceased had done his morning’s work, apparently in his usual health; he then complained of being ill, and Dr. Wallace was sent for by his mistress and bled him and the deceased said he felt better; but Dr. W. had hardly left the house, when he fell down and expired. Under the certificate of Dr. W., the jury returned a verdict of - Died by the Visitation of God. ‘ The Sydney Herald 3 November 1836

NEWS OF THE DAY MULTUM IN PARVO. -The French lately discovered, that animal matter was reducible to spermaceti, by a particular chemical process. It is said that Dr. Jeanneret is employing himself to reduce the substance of whales, after the oil has been extracted, to the same state; We wish him success. The experiment is judicious in this, colony, where the substance of whales may be accumulated in quantities. The Sydney Monitor 23 December 1836

ADIPOCIRE. WE, last week mentioned that Dr. Jeanneret was employed converting the refuse blubber of the whale by chemical decomposition into the substance called adipocire. We now have the pleasure of laying a detailed account of the discovery of this substance by the French, extracted from one of the publications issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: ADIPOCIRE. A substance so named from adeps, fat; and cera, wax; because it possesses the properties partly of fat and partly of wax; it is a body of a peculiar nature, being intermediate between fat and, wax, and bearing a close resemblance to spermaceti. This name was given by M. Foureroy in 1786, to the substance in question, which he discovered on examining a piece of human liver that had remained for ten years exposed to the air in the laboratory of M. Poultier de la Salle. In the same year Fourcroy had the opportunity of observing an accumulation of adipocire on a scale of prodigious extent, under circumstances of a peculiar nature, which are highly curious. There was in Paris an immense burial ground, called La Cimetiere des Innocens. This place had been the receptacle of the dead for a considerable part of the population of Paris for several centuries. On account of some improvements in the neighbourhood it was, determined to remove this cemetery. The number of burials in this place had amounted to some thousands annually. The bodies were deposited in pits or trenches about thirty feet deep; each pit was capable of holding from twelve to fifteen thousand bodies; and as the pits became full they were covered with a few feet of earth. The extent of the whole area was about seven thousand square yards, and this space became at last occupied by a mass which consisted almost entirely of animal matter, rising several feet above the natural level ofthe soil; Scientific men were especially charged by the government to direct the precautions requisite for securing the health of the workmen in removing this immense mass of putrefying animal matter; among whom were Fourcroy and Thouret. The most remarkable change was found in the bodies that had been heaped together in the trenches. The first of these

trenches opened in the presence of Fourcroy, had been closed for fifteen years. ‘The coffins were in good preservation; the covers being removed, the bodies were observed at the bottom, leaving a considerable distance between their surface and the cover, and flattened, as if they, had suffered a strong compression; the linen which had covered them was slightly adherent to the bodies beneath the linen was found nothing but irregular masses of a soft ductile matter of a grey-white colour, resembling common white cheese, the resemblance being more striking from the print which the threads of the linen had made upon its surface: --the bones; -which were surrounded by this matter, had no solidity, but were readily broken by sudden pressure. The head was environed with this peculiar matter; the face was no longer distinguishable; the mouth was disorganised; no trace remained of the viscera of the thorax and abdomen, which were all confused together, and converted into this fatty matter; and this was also invariably the case with the brain. None of this matter was found in bodies isolated from each other, but only in those accumulated in the common graves. From various observations it was found that this fatty matter was ‘capable of enduring’ in these burying places for thirty or forty years, but that ultimately it became corroded and was dissipated. This substance, thus presented for examination under such remarkable circumstances, is considered by M. Fourcroy as an ammoniacal soap, formed of a ‘peculiar oil combined with ammonia. Its properties are, that it melts at about 1300 Fahrenheit; by a strong heat it is decomposed with the solution of ammonia. Alcohol acts but slightly upon it at common tempetatures, but when boiling dissolves about one-fourth of its weight, the greater part of which separates on cooling in small acicular crystals. Lime, potash, and soda, decompose adipocire with the solution of ammonia. It is decomposed by nitric acid with the production of nitric oxide, and by sulphuric acid with the development of charcoal. M. Chevreul finds that adipoeire consists of a large quantity of margaric acid, and a small quantity of oleic acid, combined with; a little ammonia, potash, and lime. Different opinions have been entertained as to the nature of the operation by

which adipocire is produced. From the experiments of Dr. Gibbes; it would appear that muscular flesh, when buried in moist earth, is, by a peculiar kind of decomposition, scarcely to be considered as putrefaction, converted into adipocire; and this change he found was expedited by exposure to running water. M. Gay-Lussac has stated it as the opinion both of himself and M. Chevreul, that the apparent conversion of flesh into adipocire is merely a deception; Sand is nothing more than the wasting of the muscularfibres, while the fat remains. The experiments on which this conclusion are founded are these; --fibrin of blood was kept in water, renewed once every two or three days for three months; it all wasted away, -and no fat whatever remained. Muscle of beef and liver being treated in the same way, some fatty matter remained. Dr. Thomson states, that a body which had lain in a moss in Scotland for more than a century, was examined a few years since, and found to be entirely converted into, a hard saponoceous matter; a portion cut from the thigh was chiefly adipocire; and the quantity of fatty matter was much too large to suppose it to have pre-existed in the living body. - By the action of dilute nitric acid upon lean flesh Dr. Gibbes obtained a substance, which he considered as exactly similar to the adipocire produced in, the mode, already described... Dr. Bostock also formed adipocire by the agencey of nitric acid; it is, however, most probable that the result of the action of the acid is essentially different from the true adipocire. The Colonist 29 December 1836

DEPARTURES March 12. — The barque Francis Freeling, Hayle, master, for Hobart Town. Passengers— -Mr. Backhouse, Mr. Walker, Mr. Crooks, Mr. Spent, Mr. Whyte, Mr. and Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. Jeanerett, James Stephens, F.Kealock, William Score, George Howard, Mr. Dixon, and Master Seale. The Australian 14 March 1837

HOBART TOWN ARRIVALS. March 31--the -schooner Mars, from Launceston. April 2-the bark Francis Freeling, from Sydney-

passengers Mr. Backhouse, Mr. Walker, Mr. Crooks, Mr. Sprent, Mr. Whyte, Mrs.Merritt, Mrs. Jeanneret and child, Mr. Dixon, Master Seal, Mr. Wilson, G. Howard, W.Score, J. Stephens, G. Savage, 5 male and 1 female prisoners. Hobart Town Courier 7 April 1837

ADVERTISEMENT Dr Jeanneret, Surgeon and Dentist.

ARTIFICIAL Teeth of every description, adapted on the most advantageous principles, at the London prices. Repairs executed without delay. N. B.-Medical and Surgical advice to the poor gratis. Brisbane street, near Trinity chapel. Hobart Town Courier 9 June 1837

MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE Dr. Jeanneret delivered a lecture on chemistry at the above institute on Wednesday evening.The lecture was perspicuous and interesting; and considering the difficulty of obtaining the proper materials for experiments, and the necessity of a lecturer making use of what he can get, Dr. Jeanneret’s experiments were generally very successful. The lecture room was literally crammed; and at the conclusion as well as throughout the delivery of thelecture, the audience evinced warm approbation. We are glad to see the spirit and energy with which the secretary and managers of the Mechanics’ Institute are acting, and the general sympathy of the public in their favour. Hobart Town Courier 29 September 1837

COURT HEARING Thursday, April 12. William Murray was charged by constable Rice with assaulting him, and damaging his wearing apparel. Rice had a woman in charge, and Murray, being pot valiant, disputed his authority, and so assaulted him. Here the constable stood with his mouth wide open, pointing to it. ‘ Well, what’s the damage?” O, your Worship, look at my mouth, ’pointing to a gap in his gum, where two teeth had formerly stood. ‘ Well, I mean my teeth Sir; oh, I mean I wish I had ‘em, your Worship.’ ‘Ah, said Murray, I wish you may get them.’ Well, what’s

the damage ?’ What, my teeth, Sir?’ ‘Oh, if you like’ ‘Oh, dear Sir, I dare say Dr. Jeanneret would ask a guinea for a sheep’s tooth ‘At last, he placed 10s. damages done to his cloathes, and put up with the loss of his ivories. Ah, well,’ said Murray, ‘you’ll know how to use your staff of office’ Colonial Times 17 April 1838

THE COUNCIL resumed in committee the consideration of the Diseased Sheep Importation Bill, and the evidence of Captain Hume, of the Bombay Army, and Dr. Jeanneret, was taken on the subject of catarrh amongst sheep and lambs in New South Wales. Hobart Town Courier 9 November 1838

NOTICE, DR. JEANNERET returns thanks to his friends and the public, for the professional support they have afforded him; but, finding the branch of the profession he had adopted, does not at present offer a sufficient income for his increasing family, he has accepted an appointment that has been kindly offered. Dr. Jeanneret will make immediate arrangements that a person fully qualified may in a short time succeed him, and will with pleasure render his professional advice by letter to persons who consider it valuable. He will also arrange that any cases requiring repairs or alterations may be properly attended to. Hobart Town Courier 23 November 1838

APPOINTMENTS Mr. Barrow has Received the appointment of Secretary to the Education Board, and is succeeded, at Port Arthur, by Dr. Jeanneret. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 8 December 1838

THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. -We are happy to hear that Dr. Jeanneret has entered the Government service, having been appointed to the medical charge at Port Arthur. We hear that Dr. Richards has also received the offer of a publc appointment.’

The Colonist 19 December 1838

WE CANNOT help noticing an affair which is before the public of the spy system which disgraced the Government here at one time, and, from the circumstances that have just occurred, it appears is still carried on. One of these street brawls, so disgraceful and so frequent in our community, took place before the custom-house one day last week, which induced us to enquire into the facts; and which are simply these. Mr. Peter Barrow, a son of Sir JohnBarrow, Secretary to the Admiralty, was sent out here by his father to his old friend Sir John Franklin, to give him a comfortable situation under his Government, as Sir John Barrow had been the principal cause of Sir John Franklin rising to the eminent station he now holds, and likewise strongly recommended to His Excellency by Lord Glenelg; but, it appears, that the old system was to be served first, before Sir John could have any influence, and Mr.Peter Barrow was sent down to Port Arthur (a situation that many a prisoner clerk would have despised) to teach the prisoner boys at Point Puer, where he remained for twelve-months; but Mr. Gregory being an old friend of his father, he interested himself with Sir John Franklin to recall Mr. Barrow to Hobart Town, into the bosom of society, as a situation was then vacant for him in the new Board of Education; Sir John Franklin, without consulting his masters, requested Mr. Gregory to write to Mr. Barrow and offer him a higher salary than he received at Port Arthur; Mr. Barrow returned to town, but upon consulting on the amount of salary he found it less than that he had relinquished: he then requested to return to Port Arthur, but that was impossible, as Dr. Jeanneret had accepted the ap-pointment. Mr. Barrow expostulated with the Government on the manner in which faith had been broken with him, and, in a conversation, which he held with the Governor last week, expressed himself as an aggrieved man. After seeing Sir John, Mr. Barrow saw Mr. Logan, a clerk at the Secretary’s office, who asked him if he had settled the affair with Sir John, when Mr. Barrow, under the influence of excitement, stated to Mr. Logan that, he had said to himself, if Sir John was any other than the Governor, he, Mr. Barrow,

would let him feel his resentment, or words to that effect. It appears this Mr.Logan became the means of having this conversation carried officially to the Governor, who caused his Secretary to send a note to Mr. Barrow to attend on him forthwith. When Sir John accused Mr. Barrow of the disrespectful language, Mr. Barrow naturally requested to know from whom Sir John had received the information; Mr. Logan was sent for, who, avowed the communication; Mr. Barrow immediately called him a” traitor”; Sir John could not submit to such language in his presence, and requested Mr. Barrow to make an apology to Mr. Logan, which Mr. Barrow refused. After leaving Government House, Mr. Barrow, in walking up Macquarie street, passed Mr. Logan, and, in passing, called him a “cringing villain”; Mr. Logan, then laid hold of Mr. Barrow, when a scuttle ensued, rather in favour of Mr. Logan, he being somewhat a superior pugilist. It may be well to add, that Mr.Logan arrived here, as Protector for Mr. Marshall, of one of his (Mr. M’s) celebrated ship-loads of live lumber. Colonial Times 29 January 1839

TO LET, A Substantial Two Story Dwelling House situated in Brisbane street; and lately in the occupation of Dr Jeanneret. Entry can be given as soon as the repairs now making are complete. Apply to JAMES F. STRACHAN, Old Wharf, June 11, 1849. Colonial Times 18 June 1839

FLINDER’S ISLAND - THE BLACK JOB The Advertiser twits us with complaining of the singular nomination of Dr. Jeanneret to the command of the kidnapped Aborigines, because a connexion of our own was disappointed of the appointment. He may satisfy himself we regard the unfortunate natives with an interest separate from the mere question of Government stock-jobbing in offices; and if our relative did not possess the qualities necessary for the judicious control of the misused aborigines in about as conspicuous a degree as both of his successors have wanted them, we should be as slow to recognize his appointment

as the absurd nomination of Dr. Jeanneret, or that of Dr. Lhotsky, who might probably have received the preference, had he remained in the colony. The Advertiser must also stand corrected as to any design on our part to reflect with unpleasant levity upon the diminutive proportions of the new nominee. If it were possible, we would wish the full, blown dignity of the doctor could make amends in aboriginal eyes for a minute person; but, as far as we understand the disposition of the Blacks, a commanding exterior and physical energy are material in gaining an ascendancy over them essential to their welfare equally with their safe control. The Courier 1 April 1842

FLINDER’S ISLAND. -We understand the importunity of Dr. Jennearet has at length been rewarded with the office of physician extraordinary at Flinder’s Island, In connexion wherewith the learned doctor is to perform the business of Commandant, or all that remains of that office which has not grown obsolete. The doctor is fortunately a man of courage, whose extent is in inverse proportion to his stature, or with all the soothing appliances of his profession in hand, he would falter at facing the dark tribe who have keenness to feel the neglects recently imposed upon them, and may have spirit to avenge it against the chosen vessel of their oppressors. Surely some respect should be paid to the feelings and welfare of this captive race, after plundering their country from them and imprisoning their persons. The Courier 25 March 1842

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE MR. FLETCHER, of the Union Bank, and Dr. Jeanneret are gazetted Justices of the Peace; the latter has been appointed Commandant at Flinder’s Island. Launceston Examiner 26 March 1842

GOVERNMENT NOTICE. NO. 90. Colonial Secretary’s Office, 24th March, 1842. The Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to

appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Justices of thePeace for the Island of Van Diemen’s Land and its Dependencies :- William Fletcher, Esquire. Henry Jeanneret, Doctor of Medicine. By His Excellency’s command, G. T. W. BOYES. The Courier 1 April 1842

FLINDERS’ ISLAND. The Flying Fish, Captain Clinch, arrived from Flinders Island on Tuesday last, whither she had been dispatched with 500 sheep for the use of the aboriginal establishment. The aborigines there are described to us as “fat, happy, and contented.” Work they set their faces against, but at marbles, peg in the ring, and other boyish games, they have acquired considerable proficiency. They generally enjoyed good health. Captain Clinch picked up at the island a part of the Industry’s figure head, which was lost by that vessel at sea some time since. -P. P. Patriot. The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser 29 July 1843

FLINDER’S ISLAND. A report is current that Dr. Jeannerett, the Civil Officer in charge of the islands in the Straits, is to be immediately relieved by Dr. Milligan, late director of the probation department, the latter gentleman being desirous of obtaining for himself employ suited to his suddenly acquired dignity. This might be compromised in any subordinate situation under another person, and as there is not the least chance of the Inspector of Hospitals resigning in his favor, he has, it is said, been offered Flinders. It appears to us to be a wretched affair, this putting a Medical man in charge of the aborigines, merely to effect a small pecuniary saving. Supposing illness and death ensue from his neglect as superintendent, can it be possible that he will, as Surgeon, report his own conduct to the Government? Does he sit as Coroner on sudden deaths, and ex.mine himself? Really. It is an absurd proceeding, unless tho object is to get rid of the aborigines as soon as possible, “ by hook, or by crook,” or any how. That a surgeon should be on the Island is certain, but, that he

should also be the Superintendent we deny, upon every principle of common sense, and justice. In our next we may probably give a few facts relative to Flinders, and its management, and endeavour to show how wrong the appointment of Dr. Milligan, we say, would be because it is scarcely possible either that Sir John Franklin would make it, or that the ex-Director would accept it, certain as he might be of immediate recall on the arrival of Sir John’s successor. By proper management we do not doubt that an establishment might be formed at Flinder’s, to pay all its expenses, and at the same time effect the great end contemplated, as respects the Aborigines, but this cannot be brought about by quackery and maneuvre, by men unacquainted with human nature in its uncivilized state, or, who have bought a brief experience amongst criminals, over whom they may have had control, or for whose mere bodily disease they may have prescribed. It is something more than this, or even general scientific requirements which are required at Flinders. -Since writing the above, we have heard it positively asserted, that Dr. Milligan’s appointment by Sir John is certain, and that he will be Gazetted immediately he is relieved by Captain Forster; nevertheless, we can scarcely believe it possible. Colonial Times 1 August 1843

A CURIOSITY The following letter was written by a Van Diemen’s Land black, now at Flinders Island. The letter, it will be observed, is directed to the Chief Protector, to whom many of the unfortunate people are tenderly attached. We have furnished as exact a copy as it in our power to offer :—Port Philip Yearra Yearra River Tarneat

My Dear Old Master Sir Mr Robinson has I have had the pleasure of writing to you from Flinders Island, by the flying fish Brig that arrived from port philip with sheep for Flinders Island myself and my wife and all my Countrymen are all very well, indeed and Mary Ann is often speaking about poor old Charlotte is always taking to about her how is all your family and how is Mrs Robinson and my wife sends the most and inaffectionate respects we can alow to you July the 5th and you will try to send

young Tommy tompson and peter Brune by any ships which may set sail for Hobart town and they will be sent down to Flinders Island, I saw George Robinson when I was in Hobart town he lives in murry very nigh Oppositie your hold house I hope you will write to me if you can this ---- is a very bad man he shot all the native dogs from them. We are all well I am ploughin a pice of Land for myself and I always Gets a Letter from Hobart Town every time the ships came to Flinders Island Mary Anne is doing very well, and she hops that Old Charlotte is doing well I Remain you most humble Servant WALTER Walter George Arthur Chiefton of the Benlomond Mr. Robinson Port Philip. Launceston Advertiser 10 August 1843

DR. MILLIGAN.—It is reported, in contradiction to another rumour, that this gentleman will not proceed to Flinder’s Island to relieve Dr.Jeanneret. Launceston Examiner 12 August 1843

MR. T. Y. LOWES WILL SELL BY AUCTION, at the Exchange Mart, Elizabeth street, On MONDAY next, the 20th instant, at 12 o’clock, being the property of Dr. Jeanneret, leaving the colony, Handsome sideboard and dining table Loo, sofa, chess, and dressing tables Horsehair sofas and chairs Easy chairs, chests of drawers, and cabinet Surgical and other instruments Gentleman’s tool chest, complete Superior turning lathe and tools of every description Pair 21-inch globes Black lead and other crucibles, wire plates Two guns, and two pair capital pistols ALSO, One hundred volumes Medical Works, among which are the following: Henry, Brunde, Accum, Chaptal, and Rose’s Chemistry Medico Chirurgical Review Monographs and Dictionaries Lyall’s Geology Works on the Teeth, Stomach, Liver, Asthma, Midwifery, Anatomy, Stricture, Fever,&c, by the most celebrated authors.

Terms- Above £20, three months credit, on approved bills. The Courier 17 May 1844

H. JEANNERET, M.D., EDINBURGH &C., 31, MURRAY STREET, BEGS to announce his intention of resuming practice as Physician and Surgeon, in Hobart Town. In thus offering himself, Dr. J. thinks it due to the public, and to his own reputation, to publish the Courses of Study he pursued, with testimonials evincing the estimation which his attention to his professional engagements obtained.

Dr. Jeanneret possesses, and will be happy to show, certificates of attendance upon the following institutions : In Oxford - The Radcliffe Infirmary andOxford Dispensary. In London - The London Hospital as Dresser, and the City Dispensary. In Edinburgh - The Royal Infirmary and the Royal Dispensary.

Dr. J. also attended the Finsbury Dispensary as Assistant Physician; the Hospital St. Louis in Paris; and the Dispensary for Diseases of the Skin in Edinburgh; together with lectures under Drs. Kidd, Williams, &c, of Oxford Duncan, senior and junior, Alison, Munro, Home, Graham, Campbell, Duffin, &c, of Edinburgh; Clutterbuck, Hancock, Spurzheim, Lidderdale, &c and Sir William Blizzard, and Messrs. Abernethy, Lawrence, Stanley, &c, of London; and Dubois, Beclard, Vauquelin, &c, of Paris.

TESTIMONIALS. I have great pleasure in attesting the high opinion I entertain of Dr. Henry Jeanneret’s professional talents and qualifications. (Signed) J. SYMONDS, Surgeon to the Oxford Dispensary.

I have known Mr. Henry Jeanneret for many years, and feel great pleasure in bearing testimony to his talents, and to the many and great opportunities he has possessed in this place as well as Scotland

and Paris of acquiring all the branches of medical knowledge. (Signed) E. HACLEY, Apothecary to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Edinburgh Feb. 12, 1827. I can testify with much pleasure that, at the time of your private examination for the degree of M.D. in this University, you were considered bythe Professors as having distinguished yourself by the degree of acquaintance which you showed with the various branches of professional study in which you were examined, &c. (Signed) W. P. ALISON.

To Dr. Jeanneret. Edinburgh, 4, Picardy Place. Feb. 12, 1827. From personal observation during your studies in this city I can in the most unequivocal manner bear testimony to your unwearied zeal and industry in the pursuit of professional knowledge, and the strict propriety of your conduct. (Signed) Wm. CAMPBELL, M.D., Lecturer on Midwifery, &c.

To Henry Jeanneret, M.D., &c. Edinburgh. Feb. 12, 1827.

From personal knowledge of the progress which Dr. Henry Jeanneret made in the course of his medical studies at this place, I can with confidence recommend him as a medical practitioner, who will be a blessing to those whose health is intrusted to his care. (Signed) ANDREW DUNCAN, SEN. Professor of the Institutions of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh.

P. M. O. Office. Sept. 3, 1840. SIR, -I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, in which you give me the details of your professional education. This letter accompanies different testimonials of your medical qualifications, which, I admit, are

highly respectable; but as I believe the rank of Colonial Surgeon will cease with Mr. Officer, the appointment cannot be given to any. Indeed, were it to be continued, I could not, with any justice, pass by medical officers, also of respectable qualifications and long standing in the service. I herewith return the documents you forwarded me, and have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN FRED. CLARKE, M.D., P.M.O. Colonial Times 17 September 1844

STRENUE ET PROSPERE. HOBART TOWN. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. A letter appears in our columns to-day from Dr. Jeanneret, formerly Superintendent at Flinder’s Island. We sympathise with the Doctor in the difficulty he feels in approaching a subject on which (we regret to observe) he is manifestly so ill informed. Without taking into consideration the want of good water - an inconvenience to which one may become reconciled by use, and there are many settlers on the east coast of this country not supplied with better the insalubrity of Flinders is notorious to every one who has resided on the island. With regard to the removal of the remnant of this unfortunate people from the scene of their former sufferings, we can confidently deny the Doctor’s assertion that Flinders is agreeable to them. They have always hated the place, and we cannot believe that as it becomes more fatal to their race, their sentiments would alter. It may indeed be something like “shutting the door after the steed is stolen” to remove them now that five-sixths of their number have laid their bones at rest for ever on the island; but we certainly consider if the government feel disposed to subject the unfortunate remnant to the treatment of some new experiments, the closer they are to, headquarters the better. We agree with Dr. Jeanneret that the principles laid down in the original instructions are unexceptionable. They bear the impress of that practical grasp of the subject which distinguished all measures emanating from Sir George Arthur’s government. Mr. Robinson having abused the generous confidence placed in him by Colonel Arthur, the government appears subsequently to have determined to make

the mismanagement of the settlement their peculiar care. They forgot the principles on which the establishment was based, and went tooth and nail into petty details of discipline and economy. Upon leaving Flinders for Port Phillip Mr.Robinson left the settlement in a most unsatisfactory condition; the arrangements were re-modelled, and to remedy certain improprieties, the existence of which were undoubted, the place was inundated with married soldiers and prisoners with large families, in so much so that the whites approached nearly in number to that of their sable charge. A Presbyterian Minister was also provided by way, we presume, of consolidating and fixing the acquirements, which the natives had previously made in connexion with the Church of England form of worship. Be this as it may, the change was not grateful to the natives, and the practical effect of the alteration was a relaxation of interest on their part on a subject of such primary importance. The resolution of having all married persons on the establishment necessarily increased the expenditure; and upon the following change, effected under the economical mania which succeeded, the aborigines, then in a comparatively happy state were surprised and irritated by the sudden arrival of a new superintendent with a diminished scale of rations in his pocket. The construction of affairs entirely changed this time; but economy the only ostensible reason for the alteration was not realised beyond the paltry saving of a few rations; for which sorry object the feelings of the captive islanders were outraged at a period when the evidence of practical amelioration began to appear.

Doctor Jeanneret justly attributes the backward and unsatisfactory state of the natives, as to civilisation, not to any defect in the principles upon which the establishment was first formed, but to the repeated change in the superintendents. In the last six years there have been not less than four superintendents a circumstance of itself (and it is capable of no satisfactory explanation) sufficient to stamp the conduct of the Government, as either wanting in discrimination in the selection of officers, or acting under unsettled views, the result of imperfect information or want of reflection, and ready -in

the spirit of modern wisdom- to adopt any change arising- under the varied whims of economy or humanity.

We must express our regret that want of leisure should prevent Doctor Jeanneret from cutting a more “successful figure” in his philanthropic efforts in behalf of his sable friends, especially as, in these degenerate times, he is not very likely to have another chance of “astonishing the natives “ in his official capacity. In conclusion, with regard to the worthy Doctor’s testimony to the affectionate recollection by the natives of Mr. Robinson, we can only say that ancient grievances maybe forgotten under the weight of modern perplexities and distress. When Mr. Robinson’s virtues were fresh in their recollection, they entertained sentiments of a very different nature to admiration and respect. The Courier 28 January 1845

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HOBART TOWN COURIER 23rd January, 1845. Sir, -I can with difficulty give credence to the statement in your leader of today. I think it scarcely possible that so honourable a body as the Committee of Finance would grudge my poor friends at Flinder’sIsland the small pittance required for their support. I cannot imagine upon what grounds of expense or extravagance a recommendation of the sort could be founded, and the financial question of economy could alone, I apprehend, bring the subject under their notice. So far from an unhealthy locality, Flinder’s Island is, I do not hesitate to say, as salubrious a spot, in point of climate, as could be found, and I believe it would be difficult to indicate a place better adapted as an asylum for these poor barbarians to end their days. They are now attached to the island, and the majority would leave it with regret, and be very reluctant, I think,to become again exposed to the unequal contention they so bravely, nay successfully, maintained with Europeans. Their manly deportment demands at least, at the hands of this Government, a faithful adherence to the terms upon which they submitted. In after years our children will reflect with shame that it

should have been deemed expedient, even so far to interfere with their indulgences as to reduce the trifling allowance of tobacco afforded them, which is their greatest comfort, from the third part to the sixth of an ounce a day. There are some amongst them whose opportunities have placed them more upon a par with Europeans, who should not, I think, be compelled to join a society with whom they have little communion of sentiment; but the experiment of again introducing them to civilized life has been fairly made. Mr. Robinson took several with him to Port Phillip; the fearful result was as convincing to all who were aware of the circumstances which induced the Government of New South Wales to insist upon their expulsion thence, as was the inconvenience manifest to most of the blacks themselves. Your Editor seems unacquainted with the circumstance that the present system adopted at Flinders Island is based upon Mr. Officer’s recommendation, and that the locality of the settlement was the choice of Messrs. Backhouse and Walker; what purpose, then, can it answer to call upon these gentlemen to amend their reports. It should first be shown, not asserted, that the present system and situation are inadequate for the purposes intended. I do not deny that the site is defective in one material respect, want of good water; so much is this felt, that I have myself known it an unattainable luxury; but this evil is not irremediable, and would long have ceased to exist, had the recommendations of Mr. Robinson and the succeding Superintendents received proper attention.

With the assistance of the natives I constructed a tank as large as the materials I could obtain would permit, which enabled me at least to afford them a supply in Sickness. But the point I feel myself more especially called upon to notice, is your reference to the mode in which the establishment has been worked; you say ‘Even had the system pursued for the civilization of these unfortunate people been based on sound principles, and properly worked out, conditions, however, which have been most sadly and disgracefully wanting’. On this I would remark, a house divided against itself cannot stand. The principles upon which

the settlement at Fiinder’s Island has been formed, that is, the ostensible instructions issued to the Superintendent, are unexceptionable, directing attention to the comforts of these poor creatures, offering them inducements to industry, and recommending, by conversational means, endeavours to cultivate sentiments of religion and habits of order. Their original pastimes and amusements, hunting in particular, have never, I believe, been debarred them.

I do not, nay, I cannot believe, that either of the numerous Superintendents who have been so cordially hurried to take the command, and so unceremoniously chasséd, has not done his best to effect these objects; in fact, every inquiry has satisfied me that each has exerted himself to the utmost. But each has ostensibly incurred the displeasure of the Government. However inexplicable this may appear, the enigma is easily solved. All persons in command of dependencies of this Government are dependent upon several departments, and woe be to the Commandant or Superintendent, as the case may be, who presumes to keep his post in trim at the expense of a remonstrance to some of these departments whose principals are at headquarters, a legion easily assembled, and each with numerous expectants and proteges to support and provide for. Being previously cognisant of this difficulty, taught by others experience, I assure you I would never myself have accepted such charge had I not every reason and every claim to expect confirmation in England, and thence to obtain, at least, an opportunity of avoiding or rebutting the insolent and ungentlemanly inculpations which it had pleased some of these gentlemen to inflict upon my predecessors.

Although thus unwillingly summoned to an arena upon which it demands more leisure than I can afford to figure successfully, I feel bound to contribute my need of credit to a gentleman with whom I am not personally acquainted, but who, from every inquiry I have made, appears not to merit the unqualified censure it has lately pleased you to cast upon him. The aborigines of Tasmania still revere Mr. Robinson as their protector and

deliverer, and hold his memory in a degree of adoration little consistent with the neglectful mode of procedure you portray. And this despite the endeavours and persuasions of interested parties, happily indeed ineffectual, to excite a contrary disposition in their minds. I do not mean to say that Mr.Robinson may not have conceded too much to their habits and prejudices, but in those early times it behoved him to innovate with caution. Further, the attentions of Mr. Robinson and daughter are on all hands admitted to have been indefatigable; and they have left their impression in the gratitude and affection of the natives, amongst whom, rude as they are, there are very interesting, sensible, and amiable characters, though others are reckless, and might again become, under the example and temptations to which they would be exposed, ruthless murderers, spreading terror throughout the land -I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Henry Jeanneret. The Courier 28 January 1845

THE BLACK QUESTION. To the Editor of the Hobart Town Courier. SIR, -Public attention having been recently directed to the remnant of the once numerous Aborigines of this colony by the recommendation of the Finance Committee, as stated in one of your late papers, a few remarks on the subject, from one formerly well acquainted with the people and their peculiarities, may not at this juncture be altogether unacceptable.

The epistle of your learned correspondent, Dr. Jeanneret, does credit to his benevolent sympathy with a race too generally regarded with apathy almost unfeeling. But while I honour the motives, which impel his chivalrous advocacy of his late charge, I can by no means concur in his general views.

The people in question are understood to have surrendered themselves on a treaty, and it is indisputably our duty to observe good faith towards them, and to make suitable provision for their necessities and comforts, whether at Flinders or elsewhere; but if this end can be attained at a less

expense at a time when the revenue is deficient, and every mode of retrenchment commendable, no argument can be adduced for keeping up an expensive establishment, where the salaries of the officers alone exceed the amount required for the comfortable support of the Aborigines, to say nothing of the many inevitable expenses inseparable from so remote and, in every way, so inconvenient a locality.

The unhealthiness of Flinders has been so generally conceded by its former medical officers and others, that Dr. Jeanneret’s isolated belief in its salubrity is a matter of surprise; not to dwell on its want of wholesome water, the simple fact of the Aborigines having dwindled away from some hundreds to about forty during their abode there, satisfactorily establishes its degree of unhealthiness, and substantiates the Doctor’s somewhat equivocal praise of its being “the place best adapted to end their days in;” and with every deference to so learned an authority, I should decidedly maintain that the dislike of the natives to Flinders is extreme, and their wish to leave it unvarying. How, indeed, can they be expected to like a place already so fatal to them, and where they are fast verging to extinction.

These children of the forest retain a strong attachment to the place of their birth, and would rejoice in their return to it; nor does the measure afford any just grounds for apprehension; the more formidable of them are long since dead, and the fraction remaining have imbibed tastes which render them dependent on Government for the supply of their daily wants. From my knowledge of their character I would submit that they might be safely replaced in Van Diemen’s Land, on either of the following plans: -They might be placed in some sufficiently large building in Hobart Town, under the charge of their present Catechist, or some other person well acquainted with their habits, whose duty it would be to see that they regularly received their clothes and rations, to instruct them, and watch over their general behaviour; they might be visited by the public authorities and any respectable parties taking an interest in their welfare. The north side of the island might perhaps be preferred

for its milder climate. There was a Government building at GeorgeTown, formerly used as a factory, that would contain the whole of them; their sole expense, besides clothes and rations, being the Superintendent’s salary.

Or, they might be distributed in the several parts of the country they were originally taken from, under the control of the Police Magistrate and the Clergyman of the district, the former being responsible for the regular receipt of their clothes and rations: in what was once regarded as the most important object, their progress in Christianity, they might reasonably be expected to benefit by the change.

I am not aware that the Aborigines can contribute to defray their own expense by labour or manufactures, though it is asserted Dr. Jeanneret formerly imported spinning-jennies for their use at the public expense.

Dr. Jeanneret alludes to Mr. Robinson’s ill success in his experiment at Port Phillip. His failure, however, can hardly be admitted as a fair instance. We should first be informed on what system these people were kept, on what plan their wants were supplied, and what precautions were taken to prevent their trespasses - points demanding earnest attention in a new and strange country. These and some other matters connected with this people call for explanation.

In concluding these desultory remarks, which have run to too great a length, may I, Mr. Editor, be allowed to express my wonder that in recommending a Board, and naming some highly respected individuals as eligible to compose it, you should have overlooked a gentleman associated with Dr. Officer in his report on Flinder’s Island, I mean Lieut. Friend, R. N., Port Officer at George Town - an officer of much colonial experience, scientific knowledge, and philanthropy. I beg to subscribe myself, Mr. Editor, your constant reader, PLATYPUS. The Courier 25 February 1845

RECHABITE DINNER. ON Friday the first anniversary of “Hope of Tasmania” Rechabite Tent was commemo-rated in the Temperance Hall, Bathurst-st. The Rechabites form a Society for the relief of distressed members, their wives and children, in connexion with the Total Abstinence Society.

At six o’clock about seventy persons, composed of the brotherhood and friends, sat down to a capital dinner, which was well served. The tickets for admission to the dinner were charged three and sixpence, which appears rather high for a Teetotal dinner, all thing’s considered. The Hall was adorned with the ensigns of the Order, and was hung with flags which but partially covered the walls, and looked too warm for the season. A sprinkling of evergreens whicch might have been easily procured, would have given a cooler and more refreshing aspect to the room. Mr. Jordan, the Chief Ruler, was in the chair, delivered the toasts, which were responded to as below. The Total Abstinence Band occupied the platform, and played some popular airs during and after dinner. The gallery was occupied by the members’ wives and families, who appeared to enjoy the scene as much as did the guests. The officers and members of the Tent were distinguished by their white and coloured sashes, which denoted their rank. Among the company were the Rev.Mr. Wade, (who said grace and returned thanks before and after dinner,) Dr. Crooke, Dr. Jeanneret. J.P., Mr. Shoobridge, Mr.Hodgson, Mr. Bonwick, Mr. Sherwin (fromLaunceston) and other gentlemen whose names were unknown to our reporter. The toasts were as follows :

“Tho Queen,” “Prince Albert and the Royal Family,” “The Ministers of Religion,” ”The Magistracy,” ” The universal spread of Temperance Principles,” “ Prosperity to the Order of Rechabites in the colony,” ” Mr. Sherwin, one of the principal founders of the Rechabite Tent,” “ Father Matthew,” ” Visiting Friends,” “ The Press,” “ The past Officers of the Tent,” “ The Chair,” and the “Stewards.”

Some very appropriate speeches were delivered by the Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Wade, Dr. Jeanneret,

Mr. Bouwick, Mr. Shoobridge, and Mr. Sherwin, omitted for want of space. Tho utmost order was preserved throughout the evening, and the company retired about ten o’clock. The Observer 25 November 1845

FLINDERS ISLAND Dr. Jeanneret has been reinstated as Commandant at Flinders Island, by an order from the Secretary of State for the colonies, from which office he had been removed by the local government. We understand that imperative orders (arising out of this case) have been received by the Governor that in no case is an official appointed from home to be removed. He is in future to suspend only, pending the decision of the Secretary of State.— Ibid. The Cornwall Chronicle 10 January 1846

FLINDERS ISLAND The Military detachment at Flinders Island is to be withdrawn; this is injudicious, on the change of superintendents, and particularly on the retirement of Mr.Milligan, whose treatment of the aborigines was most kind, and who entertained for him the greatest respect, and indeed, affection. The Cornwall Chronicle 24 January 1846

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN’S PAMPHLET AND MR. MONTAGU. We have not been so fortunate as to obtain a perusal of the pamphlet written for Sir John Franklin in England, and forwarded to this Colony for the information of his friends that portion only have we seen extracted into the columns of the Examiner, which consists in abuse of the then Colonial Secretary, Mr. John Montagu, who the reader will recollect, was removed from office, as was nearly the whole of the efficient servants of the Crown, to make room for several minion idiots of Her Excellency’s choice. Unhappily for the colonists, Sir John Franklin was wholly incapable of properly comprehending the duties of a Governor, and it was therefore impossible that he could properly discharge them, or feel himself at home with those able heads of public departments,

who, tutored under the masterly governorship of Sir George Arthur, were unable, and of course unwilling to betray their trust to their Sovereign and their country, by the neglect of their duty, and an acquiescence in the puerile attempts at the administration of the Government; — Capt. Montagu, with his colleagues were therefore sacrificed — temporarily only, for the appeal of each to the British Minister for redress, terminated in their preferment to higher office, and the recall of the inefficient Governor; but the consequences of Sir John’s vacillating policy, has been dearly felt by the people of this colony, —the present factious opposition to good government is one result ; — that, however, will easily be overcome to the destruction of the mercenary patriots, and the Colonists must submit in patience to the drafts made upon their pockets, for arrearages of pay due to the dismissed officers, — one of whom Dr. Jeanneret, who was removed from Flinder’s Island Superintendency, is reinstated, and the local Government has received instructions to pay to that gentleman, from the pockets of the people — Eight hundred pounds ! Thus, fellow colonists is your industry taxed, and you plundered, to enable the Secretary for the Colonies, to perform an act of justice to Dr Jeanneret, for an act of injustice done him by the present pa-triots, who were in Sir John Franklin’s administration, his advisers and his Governors, and who, to make room for one of their clique, displaced the Doctor, for which patriotic act, we repeat, the Colonists are now called upon to pay to him eight hundred pounds arrearage of salary. But to return to Mr. Montagu, who is so vilely and as it is universally acknowledged falsely abused in Sir John Franklin’s pamphlet, — we shall be satisfied in merely publishing the correspondence which resulted from the generally expressed wish of the colonists, to present Captain Montagu with some testimonial of their respect towards him on the loss of his office, and on the eve of his departure for England; and we recommend to the inhabitants of this Colony, to reflect for themselves on the measures of Government, and to spurn from them as they would a serpent, any and every man who presumes to dictate to them, a course of conduct in respect to, or to induce them to be a party to

any traitorous proceeding, which has for its object only the aggrandisement of an already overbearing and purse-proud clique, to the inconvenience or injury of legitimate government, or of those officers entrusted with its administration. An underhanded and unjust exercise of an unwholesome and destructive party influence— lost to this Colony — the able services of Capt. Montagu; one consequence of which, we have no hesitation in asserting, is the past and present distresses of this colony; — for had the dismissal of the old and serviceable officers, not taken place — the minions of the clique who succeeded them, had never had the chance of occasioning as they have so surely done, the past and pre-sent distresses it has suffered. Captain Montagu, cannot be recalled; — under his skilful management, the Cape Colony is fast advancing in prosperity;— his value is known by the inhabitants of that place, who loudly and universally acknowledge it; the Colonists of Van Diemen’s Land, have now only their Governor to look up to, for relief from the hundred headed hydra, which continues to seek the gratification of its ambition, and to check its insatiate cravings after place and power — and if Sir Eardley Wilmot be properly and faithfully (as his Excellency has proved himself to be deserving) — sup-ported by the people, he will lead them from their slavish bondage to a faction, to a manly and honorable obedience to legitimate government— present difficulties will be overcome, society will cease to be distracted by the abusive and detestable means employed by the unprincipled faction, peace and plenty will again in due time be the portion of every individual throughout the breadth and length of this God’s favored, and naturally productive little Island, which the ambition of one portion of the clique, and the villainy of the other, if not checked, will go on turn into a hell. The Cornwall Chronicle 14 February 1846

ODD FELLOWS. -The Manchester Unity Lodge has presented a very handsome Medal to their Medical Attendant, Dr. Jeanneret, whose departure for Flinders’ Island, prevents his continuance in office. In the true feeling of the Order, Dr.

Jeanneret refused payment for his services for the three months he was so employed. The Medal is ‘a remarkably handsome silver coin, richly chased and bearing the following inscription:- Presented to H. Jeanneret, M. D. by the Brethren of the Southern Star Lodge, 378, I. O. O. F. M. H., as a mark of respect, February, I846 The Observer 20 Febrauary 1846

INVESTIGATION AT FLINDER’S ISLAND. -Lieut.Friend has been commissioned to proceed to Flinder’s Island, to investigate certain grievances complained of by the aborigines. He will accompany Captain Moriarty in the Fortitude. The natives were much attached to the late commnandant, Dr, Milligan, and have memorialised for the removal of his successor, upon what grounds we have not heard. It is said they have been put upt o this “dodge,” by some subordinate officer of the establishment, who is at logger-heads with Dr.Jeanneret. According to all accounts, the island is in, a state of great confusion. Launceston Examiner 30 September 1846

LATEST INTELLIGENCE, INCLUDING THE NEWS BY THIS DAY’S POST - THE STRAITS- The Fortitude visited Kent’s Group and Flinders. At the latter place depositions were taken by Lieutenant Friend relative to the recent disputes. Some of the statements made are of an extraordinary nature, ridiculous, and incredible. Dr. Jeanneret, the commandant, has returned with the Fortitude. There was also on board an old chief of a Circular Head tribe, known as King Tippoo. He excited no little interest about the wharf from the evident pride with which he regarded his semi-military costume; the soldier’s jacket emblazoned with a star, Scotch cap, and grey trowsers, apparently compensating in his opinion, for the total absence of shoes or stockings. The Fortitude sailed again this morning; Captain Moriarty and Captain Bateman proceed this trip to Kent’s Group, Goose Island, and Swan Island, to inspect the light-houses erected, and fix upon sites for others contemplated.

Launceston Examiner 4 November 1846 SECOND EDITION.

CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the Launceston Advertiser. Sir, — Upon my return to port, in consequence of the leaky state of the vessel in which I embarked for Flinders’ Island, I find a report has been circulated that I have been suspended from my office for cruelty to the Aboriginal children. May I request the favour of your inserting in the various journals of this colony my explanation in contradiction. I have received no intimation that I have been suspended at all, and am not aware that I have officially merited censure. The painful step of suspending one of my officers until the pleasure of his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor could lie known, has been my apparent duty! I trust that my duty, feelings, and interest, so far coincide as to prevent the temptation, and that were I so tempted I should be preserved from the commission of an act of cruelty.— I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient HENRY JEANNERET. Launceston, Nov. 25, 1843. Launceston Examiner 26 November 1846

FLINDERS ISLAND The Flying Fish, which arrived here on Friday last, called at Flinders’ Island to land some sheep for the use of that settlement; the passengers, of which there were several of the highest respectability, speak in the warmest terms of the polite attention shewn to them by Dr. Jeanneret, the Commandant; they report most favourably of the island, the natives being all comfortable and very happy. Colonial Times 12 January 1847

FLINDER’S ISLAND. The aboriginal establishment at Flinder’s Island is, we hear, to be broken up; the natives to be removed to, and kept imprisoned with hard labour at Bruny Island. Launceston Examiner 21 July 1847

FLINDERS ISLAND The expense of maintaining the establishment at Flinder’s Island, for the support of the few original inhabitants of the colony who are still in existence, has latterly been increasing, while the numbers of the natives themselves have either decreased or, at best, remained stationary. The distance of Flinder’s Island rendering any effective inspection or control over the officers employed impossible, has, in point of fact, delivered over the unfortunate beings to whom, both in justice and honor, every attention and kindness is due, to the caprice (for I can call it by no better name) of a single individual. This individual I have been obliged to remove from his charge; and in order to enable the Government and the community to exercise some control over the persons to whom the charge of the few remaining natives is entrusted, I have decided to remove the whole establishment from Flinder’s Island, and to place it at a convenient spot within such a distance from Hobart Town as will bring it within reach of visit and inspection, not only of persons officially employed, but also of benevolent individuals. By so doing, it is to be hoped not only that any act of tyranny or caprice on the part of the officers will be discovered, and will then meet its proper punishment, but that means will be afforded of gradually inducing individuals, or even families amongst the natives, to submit to the restrains of civilization. If these expectations should prove erroneous, should the longing after that state of unrestricted freedom, so dear to the savage, still lead them to wish to be released from the slight restraint to which it is proposed to subject them, -I think they might be allowed to reassumne their old habits of life without any risk to the colonists: this, however, will be a matter for future consideration. Launceston Examiner 24 July 1847 TO THE EDITOR OF THE LAUNCESTON EXAMINER. -Can it be possible that Sir William Denison really intends to break up the Aboriginal Establishment at Flinder’s Island, and bring back the natives to this colony Has he yet to learn that for a series of years the inhabitants of this island were kept in a

continual state of terror, apprehension, and alarm, not by the open hostility of large bodies of the aborigines, but by the insidious and murderous attacks of small parties frequently not exceeding three or four in number? Does he require to be told that these aborigines were in great measure under the control of a supposed civilised native of New South Wales, who had been brought to this country, and suffered to remain at large; and that upon his instigation, or under his immediate direction, numerous outrages were committed of so wanton and blood-thirsty a character as to overwhelm the colony with horror and dismay? Is Lieutenant-Governor Denison ignorant that under the government of his predecessor Sir George Arthur, so great was the consternation pervading all classes of the community, that he deemed it necessary to suspend all other official operations, and to devote the whole resources of the Government to effect the capture and removal of the aborigines; and that the whole military force in the colony and the greater part of its inhabitants were called out by the Government, and employed at a vast expense for many weeks in an ineffectual attempt to accomplish this object, which was at length attained by the unwearied efforts of Mr. G. A. Robinson, now Chief Protector of the aborigines of Port Phillip, who eventually succeeded in conciliating and removing, as is generally believed, the whole of the natives of this land then remaining thereon, and thereby conferring, as was universally considered, an inestimable benefit upon the colony? Is Sir William Denison aware that after the most careful investigation and mature deliberation on the part of the Government, Flinders’ Island was chosen as the most fit spot to carry out its intentions towards the natives; its insular position admitting of their enjoying greater freedom from any personal restraint and also furnishing them, to a certain extent, with the means of following their accustomed pursuits in the bush, whilst at the same time as much are and attention could be bestowed upon them as in a more confined position? I repeat, can Sir William Denison be aware of all this, and yet dare to take upon himself the fearful responsibility of neutralizing all that has been effected by the removal of the aborigines, by bringing back the

remnant of these unfortunate beings and restoring them to the scenes of their former outrages, only rendered more dangerous by those new wants and desires inseparable from their partially civilized condition? What good reason can be pleaded for breaking up the establishment at Flinders’ Island? If that establishment is larger and more expensive than is necessary for the due management, control, and instruction of the natives, cannot it be forthwith reduced to its proper limit without involving the necessity of breaking it up and forming a new one elsewhere; an operation on which heavy expenses must inevitably be attendant? For my own part, I cannot discover that the safe custody and due management of the aborigines at Flinders Island should cost the Government more than the attainment of that object would, if they are removed to this colony, except it may be in the cost of transport; but this charge would be nothing in comparison with the expense of forming a new establishment, and carrying out those additional measures for their safe custody which removal from their present insular position would render imperatively necessary, but which measures it would be extremely difficult to render in any degree effectual. I trust that my fellow-colonists will immediately take such steps as the importance of this subject demands: let those more especially bestir themselves who were resident here during that period of terror, when we were under continual apprehension of the outrages of the aborigines, and who must forever remember those spectacles of horror too often presented to our view, in the mutilated and disfigured remains of those unfortunate beings, men, women, and children, who had fallen unoffending victims to their insidious and wanton attacks. Let me instance the treacherous and cold-blooded murders of Captain B. B. Thomas and his overseer, within a short distance of Port Sorell. Let us remember the poor, but hospitable, Gildas, of the West Bank of the Tamar, who, after several hair breadth escapes, at last fell as sacrifice to their savage barbarity in his own garden. Let us remember old Fitzgerald, who lived where Mr. Coulson now resides on the East Bank of the Tamar, and who was surprised and murdered by a native woman whilst standing at the

door of his cottage, leaving his numerous and interesting family to the mercy of the world. Where, alas, are they now? I say to the heart-rending remembrance of these, and the long list of still more barbarous outrages, arouse the colonists and induce them to do all in their power to avert even the possibility of their recurrence, which the restoration of the natives to those shores would entail upon us. And let Sir William Denison pause, and beware how He trifles at the safety of this community, over whose interests our gracious Sovereign has appointed him to watch. Let him beware how he entails upon himself the fearful responsibility of giving directions for the return of the natives to this island; but should he unhappily proceed to this length, let the colonists avail themselves of every lawful means in their power to prevent such instructions being carried into effect. In order to give some idea of the feelings of the community on this side of the island, upon the capture and removal of the aborigines, I forward you a copy of the letter addressed to Lieutenant Governor Arthur bringing under his notice certain resolutions passed at a public meeting held at Launceston, to take into consideration the best mode of testifying our gratitude to Mr. Robinson for the deliverance he had effected in our behalf. You may observe the letter has reference to the “special reason” the inhabitants of Launceston and its vicinity had to rejoice at the removal of the natives: it may throw some light upon this, if I tell you that some time previous to the meeting, within the short space of one week, the mangled remains of no less than seven persons destroyed by the natives had been interred at the burial ground in Launceston. I would conclude by again urging upon the notice of my fellow-colonists, that it is not because the natives are so few in number that their return to this island should be viewed without apprehension or alarm: I conceive that all who were acquainted with their former insidious mode of warfare, will bear me out in the assertion that a dozen ill-disposed natives would be quite sufficient to carry out such a system of bloodshed and plunder as would spread terror and dismay throughout the length and breadth of the colony.

-I remain, Mr. Editor, yours obediently, Reminiscor. Launceston, September 12. Launceston Examiner 18 September 1847

ABORIGINES. A requisition has been addressed to the Sheriff to which about 150 names are attached, requesting him to call a meeting to take into consideration the propriety| of petitioning the Secretary of State on the subject of Sir W. Denison’s proposed removal of the aborigines from Flinder’s Island and placing them on the main land, and for the purpose of addressing a protest to the local government against any further steps being taken in the matter, until a reply be received from the Home Government. Amongst the requisitionists are many colonists of the highest and longest standing, who from past experience are best qualified to judge of the hazard of the Governor’s proposition. His Excellency thus proposed his scheme- “I have decided to remove the whole establishment from Flinder’s Island, and to place it at a convenient spot within such a distance from Hobart Town as will bring it within reach of visit and inspection, not only of persons officially employed, but also of benevolent individuals.

If these expectations should prove erroneous, should the longing after that state of unrestricted freedom, so dear to the savage, still lead them to wish to be released from the slightest restraint to which it is proposed to subject them, -I think they might be allowed to resume their old habits of life without any risk to the colonists: this, however, will be a matter for future consideration.” From the course adopted of applying to the Sheriff, neither we, nor any one of the 150 requisitionists, can tell when the meeting will be held, nor what reply will be made to the application. Mr. Sams declined to act on his own responsibility in such cases, and the document has to be forwarded to Hobart Town for the approval of the Sheriff. [A reply has been received by to-day’s post; the meeting is fixed for the 30th.] -Launceston Examiner. Colonial Times 24 September

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LAUNCESTON EXAMINER. ABORIGINES. Sir, -Lieutenant-Governor Denison, in his Minute to the late Council announcing his intention to remove the natives from Flinders’ Island and to restore them to this colony, speaks of them with commiseration as “ the unfortunate beings who have been delivered over to the caprice of a single individual,” at such a distance from the seat of government as to render impossible “any effective inspection or control over him.” I question if the present condition of the free colonists of Van Diemen’s Land could be more accurately or graphically described than in the terms of this Minute. Does not the announcement of the restoration of the natives contained therein, and the grave expression of his Excellency’s opinion that “they might be allowed to reassume their old habits of life without risk to the colonists” too clearly indicate that our best interests-yea, even our lives and properties are subject to the caprice, to call it by the mildest name, of a single individual, who is too far removed from the parent government to be subject to that immediate inspection and control which his actions too clearly show he so much requires. It is impossible that the wildest freaks of the deposed Commandant at Flinders’ Island can bear comparison with this experiment of our ruler, who, of his own will, sets himself to neutralize and render abortive the greatest benefit ever conferred upon the colony; and in contemptuous defiance of all past experience on the subject, arranges for the restoration of a horde of savages to their former haunts now occupied by the colonists, and coolly tells us “he thinks these savages may be allowed to reassume their old habits of life without risk to those colonists.” Would it not be naturally imagined by any one unacquainted with the subject, that their former habits of life had been perfectly inoffensive in their character whereas the dearly bought experience of the colonists too clearly proved, that, for some years previous to the removal of the natives, their habits of life could only be described as a system of bloodshed and plunder. Our condition as a community at the present moment is indeed specially deserving the commiseration of the parent government and of our

fellow countrymen in Great Britain, threatened, as we are, with the importation of the polluted mass of convicts from Norfolk Island. The individual who has been appointed by our gracious Sovereign to watch over our interests intimates his resolution to fill up the cup of our calamities by the restoration of a horde of savages to these shores from whence it was naturally hoped they had been for ever most providentially removed. I rejoice to see that a public meeting is about to be held, to petition the home government upon this momentous subject, and to forward to the local government a protest against its taking any measure for the return of the natives until an answer to that petition can be obtained; and I trust that such protest will forcibly and plainly set before His Excellency the heavy responsibility which will thence forward devolve exclusively upon him should he unhappily carry out his intentions, whilst it faithfully warns him to beware how he incurs that responsibility. -I remain, Mr. Editor, yours obediently, A COLONIST. Launceston, September 20. Launceston Examiner 25 September 1847

THE ABORIGINES. The Government under which the people of Van Diemen’s Land exist, is, in the truest sense of the word, despotic; true, we have the pretense of a constitutional Government, but that is the extent of our privilege; the colony has no representative body; the local Legislature is defunct and the Governor has presumed on a dictatorship in the most miserable ignorance of either the wants of the people, or the peculiarities of this Hemisphere.

Retrenchment is the professed object of the Governor — but none has been yet, or is likely to be effected; his Excellency professed his determination to correct existing abuses in the public departments, but they are daily accumulating; in the police department — in which the most disgraceful scenes are enacted — a premium has been advanced for their repetition; but this not our present subject; the fruits of his Excellency’s vacillation will soon be apparent. The retrenchment move in respect to the Aborigines claims from us a few observations; his Excellency views the situation of the remnant

of the blacks, now reduced to from 40 to 50 men, women and children — as objectional, under the direction of Dr. Jeanneret, and no doubt considers the cost of their maintenance excessive; in both these respects we coincide with his Excellency in opinion, but of two evils we deem it policy to adopt the least objectionable; if the superintendence of Dr. Jeanneret lie objectionable, let him be relieved, — and the expense should be curtailed to the lowest amount consistent with the happiness and comfort of the aborigines — but to bring back the same people who some years ago deluged the colony in blood, to the scenes of their former atrocities is madness. His Excellency states it to be his determination to benefit the aborigines; if their annihilation — their butchery will benefit them, his Excellency’s object is accomplished; their return to their original soil — to their native haunts— will, if they possess in their souls one spark of human nature, — be a rekindling of the fires of their revengeful spirits, which will lead them to the reenacting ot their former violence; they will spear, mutilate and destroy according to their native fashion, and retaliation, dire and sure, will be the work of the Europeans; the slightest act of irregularity on the part of the Aborigines towards the colonists, will be the signal for a war against them of extermination, and we feel assured that in less than twelve months after the landing of the Aborigines in this colony, not a memento, save their unbleached bones, will be left of them. His Excellency in respect to the Aborigines has hit upon a sure mode of retrenchment. The Cornwall Chronicle 2 October 1847

THE NATIVES.GOVERNMENT NOTICE, NO. 100. Colonial Secretary’s Office, 4th Nov., 1847. The Lieutenant-Governor directs it to be notified for the information of the public, and of those persons interested in the return of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land to their native country, that they consist of 13 Adult Men, 15 Boys, and 22 Adult Women. 15 Girls. That, of the thirteen, two have been reared from boyhood amongst Europeans, three have been educated at

the Queen’s Orphan Schools, one has been reared on the establishment of a settler (now deceased), and is a good bullock-driver and farm servant; one is nearly blind; one is imbecile: that, of the remaining five, four are from 45 to 55years of age, -two of them having been pretty regularly employed as boatmen, and one having for years done the duty of cowherd, with a steadiness which would have been praiseworthy in a men bred to labour. They have all lived about fifteen years in civilised habits; several of them can read and write; and they are almost all addicted to gardening. They raised at Flinder’s Island, in gardens fenced by themselves, peas, beans, turnips, cabbages, carrots, onions, parsnips, and pumpkins, besides cultivating fruit trees. The Aboriginal women have lived in the practices of civilised life for even a longer period than the men. The children are to be educated and trained in a manner to fit them to mingle with, and to be ultimately absorbed into, the community. The adult Aborigines are now located at Oyster Cove. Respectable persons may visit the establishment; and, on doing so, they will be required to write their names in a Visitors’ Book kept there. The Lieutenant Governor sees in the insignificant number of the Aboriginal men few who have ever been at large in the Colony; and His Excellency possesses, in the fact of these men having acquired a taste for settled habits and industrial pursuits, and in their appreciation of the comforts and advantages of domestic life, a sufficient guarantee for their future good behaviour.

By His Excellency’s Command, J. E. BICHENO.

WE purposely reserved the above notice that we might give it a prominent place in our columns. The information is calculated to alleviate the fear generally entertained: it must be regretted that the intelligence has been so long delayed. Whether the reluctance of the Government may be attributed to a supercilious contempt of public alarm; or the tardy announcement be traced to the agitation of the question, it is certain the notice will be received as an unwilling homage to the pressure from without, destitute of all the virtue an early and spontaneous explanation might have claimed. The Governor declares that neither the number

nor character of the remnant of aborigines warrant the belief they are capable of mischief. It is useless to repeat the testimony of colonists who were eye-witnesses to the ravages committed, before their removal, by far fewer blacks than are now restored to the island. With the conflagrations, robberies, and murders fresh in the recollection of the settlers: the vivid remembrance of the general terror, the presence of the natives diffused; and the many unsuccessful efforts to effect their capture, as well as the cost of the expeditions against them, it was impossible the colonists could learn without regret and apprehension the return of these exiles. Even though now inoffensive, the feeling that pervaded the community rendered the plan of the Government more than questionable- it was highly impolitic. None, save the finance committee, whispered a syllable concerning the expense. It was the universal wish that every comfort the natives could enjoy, should be provided, and that they should be permitted all the liberty consistent with their own safety and the security of the colonists. At Flinders the aborigines might roam without restraint, and nothing but the mere cost of transporting a few stores to the station, could be gained by their removal to the main. Oyster Cove is as much a “foreign” soil to them as the spot they have left; and for a time, at least, they will be subjected to a surveillance and constraint they have never before experienced. The appliances of civilization were at least equally available in both situations. But is there no danger? Sir William Denison declares there is none. -He is indeed a total stranger to the Tasmanian natives, and executed his design in entire ignorance of their former career, But he is satisfied to found his prediction of peace on the opinion of irresponsible advisers, who are nameless and unknown. At best his views are theoretical: they are in opposition to local experience, and contrary to the historical testimony of other countries. The natives of North America cultivated the soil, possessed herds, and were accustomed to trade with the whites for articles imported from abroad; but, though farther advanced in civilization than the aborigines of Van Diemen’s Land, they proved a terrible scourge to the European adventurers in that continent. We

shall be happy to find that the wretched remnant of numerous tribes, once the exclusive occupants of this island, are contented with and attached to their new locality. If they still possess that ferocity which they once exhibited, and which savages are said never to relinquish, their dispersion and hostility would inevitably terminate in their destruction, though it might be at the cost of some valuable lives.

ABORIGINAL We perceive by the Hobart Town journal that the Van Diemen’s Land Aborigines, lately brought back from Flinders Island, have commenced to reassume their old habits of life by committing depredations upon the flocks in the neighbour-hood of Oyster Cove where they are now located. The Melbourne Argus 4 January 1848

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL In my last address to you, I stated my intention of removing the small remnant of the Aborigines from Flinders’ Island to the mainland. Some feeling of alarm was created at the time, lest such a measure should prove the forerunner of a state of hostility between the natives and the colonists, such as created the necessity of removing them to Flinders’ Island I am happy to be able to state that these fears have proved ground-less; the conduct and demeanor of the natives since their return have been uniformly quiet and subordinate to control; and they have evinced such a decided preference for the comfort and advantages of a fixed home as compared with the misery attendant upon their former state of lawless freedom, that a perfect guarantee is afforded by their self-interest for their good conduct. The children have been sent to the Orphan School, and will there be trained to those habits of obedience and industry which will ensure their becoming at all events quiet and orderly members of the community. Colonial Times 28 January 1848

ARRIVALS Dr. Jeanneret and family had arrived at Launceston from Flinders’ Island in the John Bull. The island is

now uninhabited except by some men in charge of the livestock. The Sydney Morning Herald 26 February 1848

FLINDERS ISLAND We can hardly conceive anything less accordant with the old English love of fair-play than the treatment Dr. Jeanneret has, if we are rightly informed, received.

To be charged for several years with the management of the native blacks of this country, who, whatever they may be now, and we can hardly realize so entire a revulsion as their complete civilization, were, a few years ago, as turbulent, cunning, and vindictive a race as any upon the earth. To be subjected to the whims of even fifty of these sable gentry, might we think suffice as a fair trial of temper to most people; no-one will contend but that in such a positions o grave an accusation as caprice and tyranny, if advanced, should be fairly explained that it might be as fairly met, if the party felt prepared to justify. We are told that not only no opportunity has been afforded for such justification, but very unwarrantable violences have been committed upon Dr. Jeanneret and his family by persons under the especial protection of the Local Government. If so, surely such a matter should be subject of open enquiry. Dr. Jeanneret insists upon it that he only did his duty, and with kindness and forbearance, exercised a protective discipline materially interfering and contrasting with the harsh proceedings of others, and thus excited the animosity of a party who claim somewhat too exclusively a title to the possession of the benevolent affections. We understand it is Dr. Jeanneret’s intention to appeal to her Majesty in person.

We deprecate, as very injurious to the reputation of the colony the contentious impetuosity which, not satisfied with attacking public character, has too often excited private animosity, and express our disapproval of the interference of the public with purely private matters; but to make any department the vehicle of private malice is so great a crime against society that we can hardly

think it possible in the nineteenth century, even in Van Diemen’s Land, were not the presumption so strong. We therefore gladly comply with Dr. Jeanneret’s wishes expressive of a desire to elicit publicly any complaints any person may have to prefer against him. We believe Dr. Jeanneret has offended, in that he has not been a mere partisan blindly adopting the sentiments of a class, where he would doubtless have met with a numerous body of supporters, pro hac vice, as the personification of a principle of temporary expediency; but having been content to pursue an unpretending path in amicable intercourse with all sects and parties, some astonishment and perhaps resentment has been excited by his unexpected firmness in opposition to the proceedings of a party he considered acting unwarrantably and injudiciously. Should Dr. Jeanneret’s correspondence be published as we strongly recommend, we consider, making allowance for a somewhat intemperate tone, the result perhaps of a degree of self-reliance engendered by his insulated position and an enthusiastic temperament, that little honour will redound to his antagonists. Colonial Times 14 March 1848

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LAUNCESTON EXAMINER. DR. JEANNERET’S CLAIM. SIR, -I regret that any one should be inconvenienced by the delay which has occurred in passing my accounts for the Aborigines’ Establishment; and I trust, whether they are audited or not, it will not be long before I shall be able to make some satisfactory arrangement. I have now been in attendance more than a year applying for a settlement, I have represented the inconvenience occasioned, and have taken every precaution I could devise to obviate it. My applications to the Auditor have been met by references to the Lieut. Governor: my representations for the information of his Excellency by references to the Auditor; exactly the course which might be anticipated towards an officer denounced ex cathedra as a capricious tyrant, erased from the commission, and held up on the authority of the Colonial Secretary as a malfeasant magistrate, for the mere

performance of a duty I would gladly have avoided if I could have done so justly. There is scarcely a department of the service of this colony which has not been moved to extra official interference to countenance the prejudices Sir William Denison has lent so facile an ear to, and each must be supported. The auditor must be supported; the Colonial Secretary must be supported, and so must the informer (however groundless his statements), be screened and protected. Therefore judicial officers must succumb, under pain of deprivation and confiscation, to the subversion of the principles which alone give stability to the crown, and upon which only the loyalty of the subject is based. The real question appears to me to be, whether the colonial executive shall exact penalties, launch forth public denunciations, and confiscate property of individuals, even though they be its own officers, judicial or ministerial, or both, and whether punishment by means of intrigues, and application of penalties intended for bona fide civil torts, shall be resorted to for supposed infractions of law and obedience unproved and possibly never committed. It appears to me, since the Privy Council itself is bound to refer all criminal jurisdiction to the courts of law, that no minor executive authority, emanating from the same source, can claim exemption from the salutary restraints upon power and privilege in favor of the security of person, and property, and reputation. Mr. Boyes is pleased to say to me, “You have charged rations to aborigines not in existence: therefore, although I have audited and passed the account, it rests with the Lieutenant-Governor whether your accounts shall be reconsidered and your balance paid, or whether I shall not trump up a balance to exhibit in your disfavor,” -at least this is the amount of the communication. One reply I have not: and feel satisfied no-one will for a moment believe what you say unless you prove it. This Mr. Boyes declines, and he can perhaps explain why he prefers to terminate my accounts on March 31st, 1847, instead of to the later period to which they have been forwarded. I contend only for such a completion as may not admit of separation of further secret misrepresentation to the home authorities. When I apply for an indictment for an assault upon my son, the Attorney-General replies

that it is in his absolute discretion to grant or refuse it; and accordingly of his mere motion chooses the latter; the police magistrate and another official are equally complaisant, just, I repeat, as might be anticipated when it pleases the Lieutenant-Governor personally to denounce. One, individual is indeed so polite and conscientious as to explain that disobedience to a course he is persuaded to be unjust would cause his ruin. But, since you have entered into data, it is perhaps desirable I should explain the circumstances you refer to. In Dec 1845, Sir Eardley Wilmot sent me a note, requesting I would wait upon him to receive the decision of the Secretary of State. At this interview he offered me a cheque for £800, in repayment of my arrears, and explained that the minister did not consider, there was the shadow of a cause of complaint against me. Not having calculated the exact amount, but considering more must be due to me for two years, estimating my place worth at least £500: a-year, I declined the offer, but was ultimately compelled to content myself, under protest, with less than £700, which proved to be very little more than the half of what I was justly entitled to: I therefore continued to charge upon the balance the same rate of interest which I had been compelled to pay upon overdue accounts. Amongst other unreasonable deductions I may instance that for rations charged a shilling in my instructions, I was graciously permitted to receive 4 ¼ d. At my second return to this island, subsequent to the wars and fulminations instituted against me, after having been unreasonably detained at Flinders’ Island with part of my family, without supplies; and after having been put to much expense, hazard, and suffering, I found that for a period of nearly twelve months but £100 had been placed to my credit at my banker’s, although I had continued advances to my officers, men, and aborigines, which never exceeded the authorized amounts, without due reference and explanation of the urgency of the case. If not replied to this had always previously been considered as admitted. The usual vouchers were furnished. About £1,200 was then due to me. I have since furnished my account current to January 31st, amounting to nearly £1,800, considering myself entitled to full pay and allowances so long as I am unreasonably detained for the completion of my accounts. Besides

this: my livestock at Flinders’ Island has been dispersed by the dispossession of my servants, and I have been put to unnecessary expense by frivolous suits. During all this bother the Secretary of State is pleased merely to approve of my suspension; Hence I presume it is the intention to afford me a nominal pension on full pay and allowances, especially as Mr. Bicheno continues to threaten me with the penalties of insubordination if I continue to appeal as usual. I dare say my creditors will remark, “I wish you may get it.” I may be permitted to observe that I have sought as public a defence as his Excellency’s attack and have been officially denied, and I have every reason to desire a full investigation of my conduct in office; and although I do not wish unnecessarily to subject individuals who have opposed me to scrutiny, I consider myself bound to reply until I can appeal fairly to the opinion of an impartial authority: and I challenge any one to show that his Excellency’s charge of caprice and tyranny to the aborigines, upon which I imagine these delays are based, has the least foundation. I hope his Excellency has directed the sums due to the aborigines for, labor, &c., at the termination of my accounts, to be paid then from their own proceeds, ~which, with other advances, I should have liquidated had funds been in hand. -I remain, Sir, &c, H. JEANNERET. Launceston Examiner 28 February 1849

DEPARTURES Sailed the brig William, 121 tons, Thom, for Sydney. Passengers - Mr. J. Fowler, Mrs Ralston, Miss Ralston, Miss Thompson, Miss E. Thompson, Dr. Jeanneret, Mrs. Jeanneret and child, Mr. C. E. Jeanneret, Master H. T. Jeanneret, Master F. C. Jeanneret, Miss Jeanneret; four in the steerage. The Courier 13 April 1850

AUSTRALIAN DIAMONDS The following is taken from an English paper of 17th November:- “LAMBETH. -On Wednesday Mr. Frederick Pass, a schoolmaster at Walworth, and who had been admitted to bail on Thursday last, on a charge of obtaining £3 from Mr. Russell the

pawnbroker, by falsely representing an Australian cut stone as a diamond, attended before Mr. Elliott for final examination. Mr. Russell said that since the last examination he had submitted the stone to a respectable lapidary, who pronounced it not only not to be a diamond, but perfectly worthless; in fact not of the value of a shilling. Mr. Saunders, a professional gentleman, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, observed that the real history of the stones produced was this:- Dr. Jeanneret, a medical gentleman, who had spent many years in Van Diemen’s Land and Australia, had fortunately for himself collected and brought home with him from the latter place, a number of what he would e able to prove to be valuable diamonds; and having got them cut by lapidaries in this country, had employed the defendant to dispose of some of them. The defendant, however, was not fortunate enough to effect a sale of any, but ultimately pledged one set in a ring at the shop of Mr. Russell. Being thus satisfied, within his own mind, that the stones were diamonds, else Mr. Russell’s shopman would not have thought of giving so much as 50s. for one, he released the ring at once, and returned it and the stones then in his possession to Dr. Jeanneret. He then requested that the doctor would kindly give him some of the diamonds upon credit, and at a moderate price, to enable him to dispose of on his own account; and the doctor did so. He then proceeded to the shop of Mr. Russell, and pledged the large stone produced, as had been stated; in doing so, he had not the most distant thought to commit the slightest imposition on Mr. Russell. On the contrary, he believed he was giving him more than value for what he had received, and in this opinion he was strengthened by the amount lent on the ring. Mr. Russell here asked why the ring spoken of had not been produced, and said that his shopman was ready to make oath that the stone in the ring was a diamond. Mr. Saunders said that if so, so also were those produced. Dr. Jeanneret corroborated the statement of Mr. Saunders, and said he became acquainted with the prisoner by his teaching his children. The doctor produced a box full of very finely cut stones, which he said were Australian diamonds, as pure as the celebrated Kohl-i-noor itself. -Mr. Elliott, having some apparent

doubt as to the article, sent for Mr. Chally, a jeweler in the vicinity of the court, to take his opinion, and he, upon being shown the large stone, at once pronounced it to be a composition, and not a diamond, and also considered it soft, but, on trying it with a file, he found it quite hard, contrary to his expectations, so that he could not say what it really was, The test of diamonds was their hardness, and their value depended on its quality and brilliancy. Dr. Purcell, a medical gentlemen, and several others, gave the prisoner a high character, and declared it to be their opinion that he was incapable of committing the charge alleged against him. Mr. Elliott observed that after such high testimony to character, and from the extreme doubt as to the article produced, he did not think there was any use in sending the case for trial. He (Mr. Elliott) should give no opinion as to the article, but he must say the prisoner’s conduct was far from straightforward in not having stated the whole of the circumstances, as it was the wish of Dr. Jeanneret, and not to have allowed the shopman of Mr. Russell to infer that the stone pledged was the same. -The prisoner was then discharged. Launceston Examiner 13 March 1852 THE Partnership heretofore existing between us, as Surgeons, Apothecaries, and Accoucheurs, is dissolved by mutual consent: As witness our hands this 30th day of January 1826. Charles Fredk. Collier. Henry Jeanneret.

NOTICE.Leicester, January 21, 1826Edinburgh Gazette 11 Feb 1826

BY CABLE THE DEATH OF HENRY JEANNERET M.D., IS ANNOUNCED. Though Dr. Jeanneret removed with his family from Sydney to Tasmania in 1836, he, with his amiable wife will be remembered with respect and affection by friends.

Amongst the oldest colonists still living, Dr. Jeanneret, after pursuing his studies at Oxford, Paris and London graduated at Edinburgh,

emigrated to Sydney, and commenced the practice of his profession here in 1829.

When in Sydney, he took great interest in everything tending to the advancement of the colony, and by his advocacy of the establishment of Schools of Art and his lectures on scientific subjects helped to develop the resources of the colony. Amongst other things he discovered gold in quartz on the property of the Australian Agricultural Company, near Stroud, and duly reported its discovery, but as it was only ascertained by chemical analysis, and the quantity was small, it was not regarded by the Company as a discovery of any importance.

In 1832, Dr. Jeanneret married Miss Merritt, sister of the wife of the late Mr Francis Mitchell. He entered the service of the Crown in Tasmania, and occupied various responsible positions, until he returned to England with his family in 1850. When at the Council Settlements at Port Arthur, Dr Jeanneret had the medical and spiritual charge of the settlement at Point Puer, a prison where many hundreds of boys, of from eight to twenty years old, who had been transported from Great Britain, many of whom for the most trivial offences, were kept. Dr Jeanneret did much to alleviate the condition of the boys. The system of flogging with the cat-of-nine tails on a triangle erected for that purpose, in the presence of all their comrades was vehemently opposed by him, and consequently abandoned.

He afterwards, when Commandant of Flinders Island and protector of the aborigines of Tasmania, reversed the policy of cruelty and coercion practiced there, and substituted one of kindness and freedom, but his efforts were of little avail. Old ideas of justice and punishment were too strongly rooted in official minds, and the poor aborigines were removed from the beautiful and free settlement and hunting grounds of Flinders Island to the wretched old penal settlement at Oyster Cove, Tasmania where they speedily died.

Dr. Jeanneret, during his service, always made a point of devoting the early and late portions of the Lord’s Day to his medical duties, but the principal

portion of the day was devoted to the honour of God by conducting His worship and in giving religious instruction, when at Point Puer, under the sanction of the late revered Bishop of Australia. Extract from “THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCHMAN” Friday, July 2nd 1886

EXTRACT FROM CHARLES DARWIN’S NOTEBOOKS FROM THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE - SYDNEY NOTEBOOK The inside back pages of the notebook are impossible to date precisely as they consist of lists of names and places, apparently in Australia but also including Valparaiso, together with one of the most detailed lists of equipment in any of the notebooks. We assume they relate to preparations for Darwin’s trip to Bathurst. ‘Dr Jennerett’, on the inside front cover and ‘Dr Jennerat’ on p. 6b was Henry Jeanneret (1802-1886), surgeon, dentist and amateur botanist in Hobart Town, Tasmania. Sydney, January 1836

PETITION FOR PATENTAs set forth in their respective petitions, all recorded in the said office on the 14th day of September, 1853.2147. And Henry Jeanneret, of Great Titchfieldstreet, in the county of Middlesex, M.D., has given the like notice in respect of the invention of “ improvements in machinery for digging and tilling land.”London Gazette4 October, 1853

THE Partnership heretofore existing between us, as Surgeons, Apothecaries, and Accoucheurs, is dissolved by mutual consent: As witness our hands this 30th day of January 1826. Charles Fredk. Collier.Henry Jeanneret.NOTICE.Leicester, January 21, 1826Edinburgh Gazette 11 Feb 1826

TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

The humble petition of Henry Jeanneret, Doctor of Medicine, sheweth, That petitioner served your Majesty as an officer under the Colonial department for ten years, and having been removed from his command as Superintendent of the aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, in 1844, was restored to his office upon appeal to the Secretary of State.

That this award in petitioner's favour was resisted by a petition addressed to your Majesty as from eight aborigines accusing petitioner. But, when petitioner's conduct was subjected to a strict official investigation, those aborigines represented that the said petition was false, and had been unfairly originated; whilst the Europeans who had served under petitioner testified to petitioner's zeal, humanity, and impartiality.

That petitioner has nevertheless been treated as if guilty, and as if he had justly incurred your Majesty's displeasure, and was again dismissed in 1847, and held up to public detestation in the colony, whilst his property was devastated.

That, notwithstanding the Right Hon. Earl Derby decided in petitioner's favour in 1845, and the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington officially absolved petitioner in 1852 from any amputations of a moral nature, or such as could affect his profession, petitioner has been refused redress by the Colonial-office, upon plea of dismissal for offences against law and humanity.

That petitioner went out as a settler under promise of grants of land in 1829, but has in vain claimed the fulfilment of that promise, and has suffered grievous losses thereby.

That petitioner has endeavoured, to the best of his judgment and ability, to comply with the regulations of the Colonial-office, and to obey the instructions he has received.

And petitioner humbly solicits the establishment of his honour, and compensation for his losses, so that the sufferings of his family may not be prolonged. And Your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.

HENRY JEANNERET.

24, Howland Street, June 27, 1854.

“It may be some satisfaction for him to know that, when I was at Oyster Cove a dozen years after, his name was spoken of with respect by the Natives. Even one of them, who had before opposed him, declared him to be a just and good man; and another asserted that he kept the bad men from troubling them there, and that they were far happier on Flinders than ever they had been since.”

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Charles Edward JEANNERET 9 February 1834 - 23 August 1898

CHARLES EDWARD JEANNERET was born on 09 Feb 1834 in New South Wales, or Hobart Australia. He died on 23 Aug 1898 in Wyrallah, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia. He married JULIA ANNE BELLINGHAM, daughter of FRANCIS BELLINGHAM and JULIA ROWE IVE on 12 Jun 1857 in St Phillips Church, Sydney NSW. She was born on 14 Jun 1837 in Gracechurch, London, England. She died in 1919 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

Charles and Julia Anne had the following children:

1. HENRY STANLEY JEANNERET was born on 07 Apr 1858 in ‘Henly Cottage’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1911 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He married MARY ELIZABETH BANKS SMITH on 12 Apr 1890 in St George’S Church, Hobart, Tasmania. She died on 31 Dec 1936.

2. LUCY WARREN JEANNERET was born on 24 Mar 1860 in ‘Henly Cottage’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 20 Aug 1891 in Dungog, New South Wales, Australia. She married HARRY SEYMOUR BINGLE, son of JOHN RAYDEN BINGLE and FRANCES ELIZABETH CORLETTE in 1889. He was born in 1865 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

3. IDA JANE JEANNERET was born on 17 Jul 1862 in ‘Fernbank’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1946 in Concord, Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia. She married CHARLES FREDERICK MOORE MICHELMORE, son of JOHN MITCHELMORE and HARRIET HOSKINGS in 1888 in Ryde, New South Wales. He was born on 09 Mar 1863 in Totnes, Devon, England. He died in 1917 in Drummoyne, Canada Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

4. FRANCIS EDWARD JEANNERET was born on 28 Sep 1863 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 06 Dec 1933 in

Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He married AUGUSTA BASSETT HULL, daughter of HUGH MUNRO HULL and MARGARET BASSETT TREMLETT on 17 Apr 1888 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 15 Aug 1864 in “Tolosa”, Tolosa Street, Glenorchy, Tasmania. She died on 16 Oct 1933 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

5. CHARLES FREDERICK JEANNERET was born on 29 Nov 1865 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1932 in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia. He married ROZALIE DE L ARGUE in 1903. She died in 1942.

6. ALFRED ERNEST CAMPBELL JEANNERET was born on 26 Feb 1868 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 11 Sep 1944 in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia. He married AMY MAY ROSE, daughter of REUBEN UTHER BARTLETT ROSE and ELIZA JANE MERRETT in 1908. She was born on 08 Feb 1878 in Boloco, Dalgety, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 18 Feb 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

7. ARTHUR JOHN JEANNERET was born on 20 Feb 1870 in ‘Summerville’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 24 Mar 1939 in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.

8. HERBERT JEANNERET was born on 29 Apr 1872 in ‘Summerville’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 03 Aug 1932 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He married FANNY RIDGE HENSON in 1902 in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. She was born in 1879 in St George, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1962 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia.

9. CHARLES LOUIS JEANNERET was born on 20 May 1874 in ‘Summerville’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 05 Aug 1923 in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia. He married STELLA HENSON, daughter of GEORGE ROBSON HENSON and MARY ANN RIDGE in 1902 in Lismore, New

South Wales, Australia. She was born in 1875 in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1964 in St.Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.

10. EDWIN SINCLAIR JEANNERET was born on 14 May 1876 in ‘Wybalena’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 14 Sep 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He married MAYBELLE OLIVE HENSON, daughter of GEORGE ROBSON HENSON and MARY ANN RIDGE on 18 Aug 1924 in St Phillips Church, Sydney. She was born in 1891 in Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 14 Sep 1944.

11. FLORENCE ANNIE JEANNERET was born on 21 Nov 1878 in ‘Wybalena’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She died in Nov 1942 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She married ETHELBERT CHRISTIAN HULL, son of HUGH MUNRO HULL and MARGARET BASSETT TREMLETT in 1906 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 27 Aug 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1949 in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.

Charles Edward Jeanneret and family

Charles Edward JEANNERET31 December 1802 - 16 June 1886

ONE of the successful among the native-born of New South Wales, which takes us back to the period in our history before the introduction of free institutions, is that of Mr. Jeanneret, a well-known resident of the picturesque suburb of Hunter’s Hill, with the development and progress of which he has always been closely identified. As a public spirited and enterprising citizen, and Alderman both of his own suburb and of the City Council, and later as a member of the Legislative Assembly, he is in many worthy respects an acknowledged representative man.

Charles Edward Jeanneret was born in Sydney in 1834, during the term of rule of Governor Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B. His father, of whom our subject is the only surviving son, was Dr. Henry Jeanneret, an old and respectable colonist of New South Wales, and subsequently Civil Commandant of Flinders Land, a dependency of Tasmania. Here the son spent most of his boyhood and youth, and acquired that love of the sea and acquaintance with the¬ principles of navigation and practical seamanship, which led him to undertake a voyage to Europe at the age of eighteen. On returning to Australia the attractions of the diggings proved stronger than his nautical proclivities, however, and he followed the Bendigo gold rush to where the city of Sandhurst now is, and remained there for three years. Subsequently he returned to Sydney, and, after a period of service in the Bank of New South Wales, he entered into a general agency partnership with a Mr. Henry Porter. He married about the same time, and settled at Hunter’s Hill.

It may be here remarked that this beautiful suburb was first inhabited bv Mr. Muir, one of the historic “Scotch Martyrs”, transported to this colony for his efforts to obtain certain popular parliamentary reforms which have long since passed into law. Mr. Muir was a gentleman of education and position, and a barrister, but a packed jury and an intolerant Government secured his conviction in the face both of justice and of law. His case aroused world-wide sympathy. General Washington sent a ship to

rescue him. He escaped, but the ship was wrecked. After a weary land journey of many thousand miles he again took ship, but the vessel was attacked by a British cruiser. and in the conflict Mr. Muir was dangerously wounded. A bible in his possession bore his name on the fly-leaf, and one of the British officers recognised the wounded man as an old friend. Muir subsequently escaped to Paris, where the Directory gave him a friendly greeting. On rising to respond at a banquet given by five hundred French gentlemen in his honour, he was overcome, fell back, and expired. A public funeral was accorded his remains, as those of a martyr to the cause of popular liberty, by the French Government. Mr. Muir first named Hunter’s Hill.

On Mr. Jeanneret’s settling there it presented a very dissimilar appearance to that of to-day. By prudent land investments Mr. Jeanneret prospered apace, and became a shareholder and manager of a local steam company. For some years a keen competition went on between that and a rival enterprise, but eventually the two coalesced and later on both were sold, with fleet and goodwill, to Mr. Jeanneret. This occurred in 1876, and at that time there were but five steamers to meet the river trade. This number Mr. Jeanneret has since increased to upwards of twenty. Farming, mining, meat-preserving, and other industries occupied the residue of his time, and the traces of his building enterprise are visible all along the Lane Cove and the Parramatta Rivers. Another of his works, and by no means the least enterprising or progressive, is the tramway from the head of the Parramatta River to the Park, the Rose Hill Racecourse, and the town of Parramatta.

In municipal matters his activity has been quite marked. The incorporation of Hunter’s Hill is directly due to his energetic advocacy and personal exertions. Since 1871, when that event took place, Mr. Jeanneret has been an Alderman and for some years Mayor of that borough. In recent years he has been elected to the City Council, where he has distinguished himself by the exercise of those personal gifts and qualities which mark the whole of his active career. In 1875 he contested the electorate of Central Cumberland with Messrs. Lackey, Wearne, and A. H. McCulloch. The

two former of these three were elected on that occasion to represent the electorate in Parliament. At the general elections in the early part of 1887 Mr. Jeanneret contested another electorate, and was elected to the seat in Parliament, which he still holds as we write this notice of his restlessly progressive career. He is also a magistrate of the territory, and during the time when his services were in active requisition at the Water Police Court his decisions were marked by a strict and intelligent justice and a sound common sense not always found in the records of the work of the unpaid magistracy of the colony. Mr. Jeanneret has at

present in view the establishment of a new line of tram communication connecting the fertile Ryde district, Hunter’s Hill, and Sydney together with steam punts across the Paramatta River.

PARRAMATTA FERRIES BY GREGORY BLAXELL In 1866, Charles Edward Jeanneret became a shareholder in Manning’s company, now called the Parramatta and River Steam Ship Company. Jeanneret became the company’s Manager in 1869. At that time also, there was another ferry company operating on the Parramatta River. It was owned by

Map of subdivision by C. E. Jeanneret at Hunters Hill

the Didier and Jules Joubert, well-known residents of Hunters Hill. The two companies merged to form the Parramatta and River Steamers’ Company. In 1875, Jeanneret bought the company from Manning. The Jouberts were left with running the Hunters Hill and Lane Cove Ferry Company.

With competition from the railway, the changes in propulsion technology (from paddle wheel to screw propeller) and the silting up of the river beyond Duck River, Jeanneret decided to build a deep-water wharf at Redbank – just west of the present Silverwater Bridge. The Redbank complex offered deep water wharves and Jeanneret proposed to connect these to Parramatta by a steam-driven tramway.

The Redbank wharves were more than five kilometres from the centre of Parramatta. His company first gained the approval from the Parramatta Borough Council for this bold plan and in August 1881, the New South Wales Parliament passed the Jeanneret Tramway Act that authorised the construction and maintenance of a tramway from the Domain Gates at Parramatta to Redbank.

The Jeanneret tramway was the first private tramway built in New South Wales. The first steam tram ran in October 1884.

The Redbank Terminus comprised two wharves, one for passengers and one for freight. There was a station, a waiting shed, and two additional sheds; one for locomotives and passenger cars and the other for goods. Nearby was a crane to handle the freight. The terminus was situated on land leased from the Macarthur family.

In 1916, the Municipality of Granville constructed a new road, Grand Avenue, that ran west from near the terminus to Camellia. The tramline ran along Grand Avenue, Grand Avenue North, Noller Avenue and into George Street until it reached the Domain Gates.

On the block bordered by Macquarie, O’Connell and George Streets was situated Meggitts Limited who were manufacturers of linseed oil and associated products used as lubricants, as a base for

paint and in the manufacture of linoleum. Meggitts used the tramway to transport its products to and from the Redbank wharf.

Although there were no ferry passengers from 1928, the tramway continued to operate until 1943. During that time, it carried workers to Hardies, Wunderlich, Goodyear Tyre and Rubber and the Sandown Meatworks and provided a cargo service for Meggitts.

Jeanneret sold the company in 1888 to Philip Walker who lost it to the Union Bank.

The new company was called the Sydney and Parramatta Wharves, Steamers and Tramway Company. It was in turn taken over by Sydney Ferries Limited in 1917 and this period is when the ferry services reached their peak. Some of the famous ferries were Bronzewing (1899),Pheasant (1889), Halcyon (1884) and Alaethea (1881). They were larger and propeller-driven with Bronzewing the largest being 110ft (33.5m) in length, displacing 150 tonnes with an operating speed of 12 knots.

The Bronzewing was capable of carrying in excess of 500 passengers. The ferries stopped operating form Redbank in 1928.

Charles Edward Jeanneret is the gentleman responsible for the building of what we now call the Newport Arms Hotel and the jetty or wharf that allowed passengers on to land in Pittwater. Some sources state a disagreement or a refusal to allow Mr Davis to use this wharf were resolved in Mr Jeanneret purchasing the Florrie. Other sources point to her only ever connecting with other mail steamers from Sydney at the head of Barrenjoey (the custom’s wharf) or with vehicles bringing mail overland into Pittwater. Most of these terminated at Newport due to the condition of the tracks into Pittwater, which were even worse or non-existent further north than this. Either way, Mr Davis seemed happiest building boats while Charles Jeanneret, who must rank among Australia’s pioneers as a gent who invested and built much infrastructure, was a keen ferry procurer.

Born in Sydney in 1834 the eldest son of Dr. Henry Jeanneret he grew up on Flinders Island, then a protectorate of Tasmania, where his father had the title of ‘Commandant’ as well as ‘Superintendant of Aborigines’. Here he learnt navigation and seamanship. After stints at sea, sailing to England at 18 and on the goldfields in Bendigo he returned to Sydney in 1850, joined the Bank of New South Wales and married Julia Anne Bellingham in 1857, settling at Hunter’s Hill. They had eight sons and two daughters, the youngest of these, born in 1879 was named Florence Annie. Besides being responsible for the building of many lovely houses at Hunter’s Hill and elsewhere, being attributed with a great avenue of trees in this suburb and the construction, later, of a tramway, C E Jeanneret heard the complaints of fruit growers in this area on the then existing ferry service for their produce down the Parramatta River to Sydney markets.

REMINISCENCES. THE LATE MR. JEANERET. HISTORY OF THE PARRAMATTA STEAMER COMPANY. The late Mr. Alderman Jeanneret’s career had an important bearing in the development of the passenger traffic on the Parramatta River and elsewhere. The original proprietors of the Parramatta steamers were Mr. E. D. Manning,

Sir William Manning, Mr. J. S. Mort, Mes.rs. J. and W. Asyrnes, and it was about 30 years ago that Mr, Jeanneret came upon the scene and that his influence was felt in connection with the river traffic. At that time the Hunter’s Hill people expressed great dissatisfaction with the arrangements of the original Parramatta Steamship Company, and this culminated in Messrs. Jeanneret, Joubert and others running a small steamer called the’ Isabel’ from Hunter’s Hill to Sydney. Success attended the venture, and, soon after, the S.S. Adelaide, procured in Melbourne, and engined in Sydney was added to the service. The enterprising owners then floated a company in opposition to the old company. Almost the whole of the fruit growers of the Ryde district, from those at Ermington to those of Hunter’s Hill took tip shares in the company to the extent of £5 and under. Mr. Jeanneret was unanimously selected as Manager, a position for which he proved himself eminently fitted. The two companies now entered into a keen competition, with the usual result that both lost heavily, and in less than two years there was an amalgamation, Mr. Jeanneret being selected as manager of the combined fleets. Soon after the amalgamation, the members of the old company disposed of the whole of their shares in the boats, and the new company were therefore left

masters of the situation. Owing, however, to the heavy expenses, incidental chiefly to the working of the old steamers, whose earnings did not give an adequate return for the outlay, the victorious company found after a time that it could not meet its liabilities. Tenders were invited for the purchase of the fleet, which was sold to the highest bidder — the energetic and enterprising C.E. Jeanneret. He continued running the steamers successfully, the time proving exceedingly opportune for the venture. Those were the good old times when railway construction was in full swing, and large sums of money were being expended in the building of bridges, so that traffic on the river was very considerable. He continued the service for many years at a profit, and added considerably to the fleet both by purchases and the building of new steamers, bringing the number of vessels in the service up to 20. It was he who built the Halycon, Eagle, Eclipse, Nautilus, Osprey, Neutral Bay and, lastly, the Pheasant.

Of the 20 vessels in his service half-a-dozen were employed on the Parramatta River, the others running to Gosford, Neutral Bay, Iron Cove, Hawkesbury River, etc. It was the late Mr. Jeanneret who opened up the Iron Cove service and also the service to and from Woolwich. Another boat he built was the S.S. Gosford which was afterwards sold at a satisfactory figure. During the good times an English syndicate made an offer for the purchase of Mr. Jeanneret’s entire fleet, and he went to England in 1890 to treat with the syndicate. The result was that he sold out, severing entirely his connection with the service, which he had worked up to a high state of proficiency. He made his home at Hunter’s Hill, which he regarded as ‘the apple of his eye’ from the time he first saw it. He was always a shrewd businessman, and of him it might almost be said that he ‘made Hunter’s Hill’. He built a great many villa residences on the Hill; in fact, no single individual has spent so much money in property in that borough as he. It was due to his influence that the Post and Telegraph offices were built at Hunter’s Hill, and they are certainly a credit to the place. In conclusion, it may be added that of the officers or men employed by the old Parramatta

company that opened up the river service, the genial and ever-obliging Captain Mance is the only one now remaining in the service. He is known as the Commodore of the fleet, a distinction to which he is well entitled. Reminiscences. (1898, September 10). The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate(Parramatta, NSW : 1888 - 1950), p. 6. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85845277

ROCK DAVIS. One of Brisbane Water’s most prolific shipbuilders was Rock Davis who was born at sea in July 1833. Ferries, schooners, steamships, cutters and ketches were launched from the Davis shipyard at Blackwall (near Woy Woy) totalling 168 vessels built as recorded. One of these, launched in 1879, was the Florrie, a 32 ton steam ship capable of carrying 150 passengers with dimensions of 55.50 x 14.00 x 5.40 (feet). Originally owned and run by Mr Davis she was contracted to be the Royal Mail Service for Brisbane Water. This service commenced on August 2nd 1879 and within a few months the Florrie and her connecting Mail service was owned by Charles Edward Jeanneret.

PITTWATER. The Royal Mail S.S. “FLORRIE, under contract with her Majesty’s Government, will run as follows, commencing on SATURDAY, 2nd August. 1879:- From Gosford Wharf, on THURSDAYS and SATURDAY’S, at 8 a.m., touching at Blackwall, and arrives at the head of Pittwater, at about 11 a.m.; from Brisbane Water, passengers will be conveyed by waggonette leaving Pittwater immediately after the arrival of the Mail steamer from Gosford ; and passengers from Sydney will be conveyed by waggonette leaving Post-office, Manly, at 8.20 a.m. for Pittwater, and thence by Mail steamer to Brisbane Water. The steamer conveying the Mails from Sydney leaves Circular Quay at 7 a.m. August 2, 1879. The Sydney Morning Herald(NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13448783

NEWS OF THE DAY. It will be welcome news to pleasure-seekers (says a Correspondent) that a trip to the beautiful Rhine-like scenery of the Hawkesbury, via Manly Beach,

may be taken with reasonable comfort, regularity, and cheapness. The arrangement is this. You take the first boat to Manly, thence by coach to Pittwater, where the pretty little steamer “ Florrie “ will be ready for a speedy and delightful run up the River to Wiseman’s Ferry. Here you may pause to consider whether you will proceed to Windsor, accept hotel accommodation on the spot for the night, or camp aboard the steamer, in the morning you may return to Broken Bay, and Pittwater to Manly, and arrive in Sydney by the late Manly steamer. Who could wish to crowd into two days more of real enjoyment and there is but little doubt that the enterprising gentleman who has offered so many advantages to excursionists will obtain a good share of patronage. If the Postmaster-General would arrange to have the various mails on the river delivered by steamer, a regular weekly communication between Wiseman’s and Sydney, via Manly, would be an established fact, and a great boon, alike to the river residents and Sydney seekers of recreation and pleasure. October 24, 1879. The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13446325

STEAM TO HAWKESBURY RIVER PERSONS desiring to see the BEAUTIES OF THIS RIVER will have an opportunity of doing so on TUESDAY next, by the steamer PELICAN leaving King-street at 7 .30am, and joining the Florrie at Barrenjoey or by Manly steamer from Circular Quay at 7 15, and overland to Pittwater If booked on the previous day. The Steamer FLORRIE will proceed to WISEMANS FERRY fifty miles up the river, where good Hotel accommodation can be had. Early on WEDNESDAY MORNING she will proceed on TOWARDS WINDSOR for a considerable distance and then return to Pittwater in time to take coach to catch last Manly steamer. Fares-20s return coach -4s each way.

LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF A NEW LIGHTHOUSE AT BARRENJOEY. Extending his growing fleet’s services to Pittwater, the Hawkesbury River and ensuring these were used on the days and times when they weren’t scheduled for the Royal Mail run would have seemed logical to such an entrepreneur. The Florrie became a

fixture on Pittwater and the Hawkesbury, bringing holiday day-trippers and picnickers to Pittwater. It was the Florrie who transported the official party to the Customs wharf to lay the foundation stone for Barrenjoey Lighthouse. The ceremony of laying the comer-stone of the new lighthouse at Barrenjoey was performed on Thursday, by Miss Rosa Barnet, daughter of the Colonial Architect, and everything connected therewith passed off in a highly satisfactory manner.

The contractor issued invitations to several ladies and gentlemen to be present, and among those who responded there to were Messrs. J. S. Farnell, E. Greville, and J.Hurley, M.L.A.’s, Captain Hixson, and Messrs. Thompson, Whiting, Jeanneret, Wilson, Walker, Barnet and Spencer. Mrs. and Miss Barnet and several other ladies were also present. The party left the Circular Quay at a quarter past 7 o’clock, in the steamer Emu (Jeanneret owned), for Manly Beach, whence they were to go overland in vehicles. The morning was somewhat cloudy, and the harbour overspread with a fog. Before the steamer reached Manly, however, the fog had entirely disappeared, and the sun made an effort to beam forth through the somewhat’. sombre sky. Arrived at Manly, three vehicles were found in waiting, which were quickly filled, and a start was then made for host Cohen’s hotel, on reaching which, it was announced that breakfast was awaiting us. The early hour at which most of the party had been compelled to shake off dull sleep, in order to be in time for the boat and the trip down the harbour, had rendered it quite unnecessary that the announcement should be repeated. Accordingly, we immediately wended our way upstairs to the dining-room, where a really excellent breakfast had been provided. Good humour reigned supreme. After breakfast we again took our seats in the vehicles - the ladies in one and the sterner portion of humanity in two others, and made a start on our journey proper, the vehicle containing the ladies going on first. The road for some distance, after leaving Sydney’s favourite marine suburb, was dull and uninteresting; but as we went on the features of the landscape changed, and the level tracts covered with stunted timber and brushwood

gave place to undulating country, with trees of large dimensions, though evidently not of much commercial value. One conspicuous feature was the number and great variety of ferns, which, after the shower of rain, looked beautiful. I almost forgot to say that just after leaving Manly rain began to fall, but it was not heavy and only lasted a short time, so that mackintoshes and umbrellas were speedily dispensed with. The sun then came out in full force, and the remainder of the day, with the exception of one very slight shower, was beautifully warm. Until Narrabeen Lagoon was reached, the journey was not productive of anything worthy of record beyond the fact that every one seemed to be in the best of spirits. The passage of the lagoon was, however, rather exciting to most of the party, from the fact that hints had been thrown out beforehand that the horses might jib, and leave us in the middle of the water before it was accomplished; that the water was deep, and the swerving of the horses to either side might be the means of increasing the applications for space at Haslem’s Creek. Notwithstanding our “critical position” the utmost coolness was observed; whilst we were crossing the ladies were assured by one gentleman in our vehicle of their perfect safety by the fact of so many “life-boys” being close to them. A merry peal of laughter was the only reply. Frequent inquiries were made of the ladies as to whether, “their feet were wet yet”, as the bottom of the body of their vehicle seemed to be immersed; and it was evident that if such a calamity had happened several of our party were prepared to go to any extreme to avert its repetition. However they were not called upon to exercise their undoubted courage, or manifest other than in the way mentioned, their chivalric devotion. We got through the lagoon in safety. The remainder of the road - or rather track - was in fair order, and we made respectable progress. As we neared the end of our journey we gradually ascended a hill, on reaching the top of which a magnificent panoramic view burst upon us. At our feet lay the waters of Broken Bay, or rather that portion of it termed Pitt Water. For miles it stretched towards the entrance to the mouth of the Hawkesbury while, on either side, bold headlands, crowned to their summits with timber, and looking like great sentinels, rose

from the water’s edge. Expressions of wonder at the beauty of the scene were heard on all sides, and the fact that this lovely place is so little known to denizens of the metropolis was freely commented on.

But our steamer, the good ship Florrie, owned by Mr.Jeanneret, is in waiting, lying alongside a jetty at the head of the bay, so we immediately embarked for our destination, Barrenjoey, a distance of about eight miles. On the opposite side of the bay is New Port, the property of Messrs. Mills and Pile and Mr. Jeanneret, who are erecting an hotel, for the accommodation of visitors to the bay. It will have a fine situation and when the place becomes more widely known, as it deserves to be, the hotel will doubtless be largely availed of. The trip down the bay was greatly enjoyed and every point of interest critically scanned. Shortly before 1 o’clock, or about an hour after leaving the wharf, we steamed opposite the jetty at the Customs-house landing, a short distance away - the depth of water not permitting us to go alongside, and soon Mr. Black, with his whaleboat, came along-side. The whole of the party were then transferred to her, and safely taken on shore, while the provisions and ice were conveyed in another boat.

The arrangements for carrying on the works seem to meet all the requirements. Houses for the accommodation of the workmen have been erected on the seaward side of the isthmus, which joins Barrenjoey to the mainland, and the men seem comfortable and contented. At half-past 4 the steamer arrived, and after good-byes had been exchanged, the party were soon taken on board by the whaleboat, and a start made for home. An hour’s steaming brought us alongside the wharf, which we had left in the morning, where the vehicles were found drawn up in readiness. After a little time they were filled, and the land journey was proceeded with. Nothing of moment occurred on the way; the dreaded Narrabeen was crossed in safety, and the party put down in safety at Host Cohon’s Hotel, Manly, where a cup of tea was hastily partaken of; and a move once more made to the wharf. Alter a pleasant trip of a little less than an hour we were landed at the Circular Quay, having spent a day’s

unalloyed enjoyment. Everything connected with the trip, from first to last, had been most carefully attended to, and the result was a genuine success. (1880, April 17). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13458288

(BY OUR TRAVELLING REPORTER.): Another trip I took very recently, via Manly to Pittwater, or rather, Newport, as I suppose it will in future be known by. - I was fortunate enough to be included in a party of four, and, like the previous one, found this journey an extremely pleasant one. Taking a couple of conveyances from Manly, we drove on a very well made road ‘some 14 miles or so, passing enroute through a very large shallow lagoon, connected with the ocean by a narrow outlet. I was informed that it was the duty of some official to so “ manipulate” the sandbank at the latter place as to keep the crossing place as safe as possible, by allowing free outlet for the water. It is to be hoped that this gentleman does not neglect his work, as I understand it is a matter that requires constant attention.Arrived at the embryo township of Newport, we had just time to give a passing glance

around before our brief sojourn was over. There is already a small quay where the American pine is landed that the one house, an hotel, is being partly constructed of. The place is very beautiful, and the gentlemen interested therein, Messrs. Mills, Pile, and Jeanneret, deserve well of the Sydney people for their enterprise in making another “extra desirable” resort of the metropolitan citizens. I may mention, concerning the lagoon we had to get through, that

a bridge thereon is already on the tapis, that will place Newport within three hours of the General Post-office. And thus, so far; ends, my suburban pilgrimage, which I have as heartily enjoyed as anything of the sort it has been my good fortune to experience. August 28, 1880, Australian Town and Country Journal Lane Cove and Pittwater.

NEWPORT HOTEL, PITTWATER. JOHN COLLINS, PROPRIETOR. FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION. BOATS ALWAYS AT THE WHARF. for Fishing Parties, Buggies for Excursionists at the Hotel. The steamer Florrie starts from the wharf for Gosford and the Hawkesbury. Splendid ocean Beach. Grand Mountain Scenery. Pending the issue of a license the Hotel will be conducted as an Accommodation

House. Coaches leave the Manly Wharf and the Colonnade Hotel, Manly, whenever required.

By 1885 the pier/quay was named ‘Victoria Wharf’ in documents prepared and published for the next phase of Mr Jeannerett’s ventures, probably due to a visit by Queen Victoria’s sons, Princes Albert and George (later King George), who were sent as naval cadets on HMS Bacchante for a three year world tour of the then British Empire. They visited Newport in 1881 and an excursion they were taken on up the Hawkesbury River departed from Newport wharf. September 22, 1880 The Sydney Morning Herald

THE ROYAL PRINCES IN SYDNEY. On the 1st August a party from Government House

and the Detached squadron made an excursion up the Hawkesbury and fortunately the weather was so fine that every lovely scene on the river appeared to the best advantage. The Royal Princes were of the party. At an early hour those engaging in the excursion left Man-of-War Stairs, and proceeded in the steam launch Nea to Manly, whence they were conveyed by Mr Boulton’s coaches to Newport. There they were received by Mr Jeanneret on board the steam launch Pelican. Barrenjoey was passed about 11 o’clock, the boat then proceeded up the river. The day being beautifully clear, the scenery of the Hawkesbury was seen to the best advantage and was very

much admired. Wiseman’s Ferry was reached about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The Pelican stopped at the wharf for a few minutes, and on-the Princes appearing the residents assembled, and an address of loyal welcome was read and presented to them by the master of the Public school, on behalf of the inhabitants of the village. The school children sang the National Anthem and those assembled then gave three hearty cheers for the Queen and the Princes. Prince Edward acknowledged the compliment in a few appropriate words. The Pelican resumed her journey, and went up the river as far as Sackville Reach, at which spot the party disembarked and drove thence to Windsor, returning from Windsor to Sydney by special train at night. The Princes slept at Government House on August 1, and on Tuesday took part in the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the pedestal for the statue of her Majesty the Queen which will be placed in the circular reserve at the top of King street, near St James s Church. The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Thursday 29 November 1888

ATTEMPTING TO ROB A COLONIAL LEGISLATOR. The following paragraph, clipped from the Glasgow Herald of Saturday, October 13, shows the hon. member for Carcoar in a new light. Evidently the colonial M.P. was one too many for the “ Glasgie keeleys,” who came off second best: “ About a quarter-past 10 on Thursday night Mr. C. E. Jeanneret, a magistrate of Sydney, New South Wales, who arrived in Glasgow a few hours earlier, was returning from the exhibition to his hotel, when he was attacked by two men in Cochrane street. One of the men seized him from behind by the arms, and the other endeavoured to gain possession of his gold watch, chain, and money. A third man came to the assistance of the would-be robbers, but Mr. Jeanneret struggled with his assailants, and, freeing himself from their grasp, faced them and struck out with his fists. At the same time he shouted lustily for the police, at whose approach the men fled. They were, however, pursued and captured.” A paragraph in a subsequent issue of the same journal explained that the capture of the men was due to a little boy who overheard them planning the assault and accordingly informed a policeman. Wagga Wagga Advertiser, Tuesday 8 January 1889

THE ATTACK ON MR. JEANNERET, M.L.A., OF SYDNEY. The European Mail of November 30 says:- A few issues ago we mentioned that Mr. Charles Edward Jeanneret, M.L.A., of Sydney, now staying at the St. George’s Club, was assaulted in Glasgow on October 11 by three men, named William Geddes, John Morrison, and Thomas Wilson, They

were brought up for trial last week before the High Court in Edinburgh, and, of course, Mr. Jeanneret had to travel down to Scotland to give evidence. It reply to questions, he said he was a resident of New South Wales and a member of the Parliament of that colony. He was in the Glasgow Exhibition on October 11. On returning to the Central Hotel he lost his way. He was trying to find the entrance when he was seized from behind by a man, and another person tried to seize his watch. He struggled and freed himself, He identified Wilson as the man who seized his watch, - and Geddes as the man who seized him from behind. The man Morrison came up afterwards He shouted for the police, and when a person came up the men went away: He never lost sight of them until they were apprehended. The whole affair, from begin ning to end, lasted four or five minutes. A little boy named Alexander Niblo said that in passing the head of Glassford-street, in Ingram-street, he noticed the accused in close conversation. Hearing one say, “I’ll nab him.” witness remained to see whom they would nab. He followed them up John street. He identified all the prisoners. Lord Trayner complimented witness on the well connected way in which he had described the attempted robbery. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against all accused. Addressing Geddes, his Lordship said he had been engaged in a bold und audacious attempted robbery. His character, from previous convictions, left it out of the ques tion to hope that he would ever reform. In April, 1877, he was sentenced to 10 years, and in September, 1868, to seven years. The sentence in this case would be one of 12 years’ penal servitude. Morrison would be sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, and Wilson to nine months’ imprisonment. Herald, June 7. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (1855, June 9). The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser

SS PELICAN (STEAMER ROYAL PRINCES WENT ON) AND SS EMU INCIDENTAL: Collision between the Steamers Pelican and Emu.-Yesterday morning as these boats were running their usual trips to and from Parramatta, a slight collision took place. Mr. Brett, the master of the Pelican, has furnished us with the following particulars:-At about9 30 a.m., when rounding Pulpit Point, both kept close in shore; the Pelican

was coming down the river, being close in under the point, consequently the other boat could not see her until within a ship’s length of her. The Pelican attempted to pass on the port side, but finding she could not do so without doing serious damage, stopped the engine and kept close in along the shore. The Emu also attempted to pass nearest the point, and not having room to go between the other boat and the rocks, and there not being time to shift the helm sufficiently, both vessels struck with their paddleboxes. The wheels of both vessels were crippled, and a small deck house of the Emu carried away, beyond which we believe the damage to be trifling. One person, who was standing by the rail, was thrown overboard by the shock of the vessels meeting, but he found his way ashore without any injury save a wet jacket. Both vessels were being repaired last evening, and will, we believe, run their trips to-day as usual. August 11, 1881. The SydneyMorning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 9. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13492318

WATER POLICE COURT. Michael Maher, the former engineer on the steamship Florrie, was summoned, by Mr. C. E. Jeanneret, the owner of the vessel, for having, on the Hawkesbury River, on the 30th September, by drunkeness, so neglected the engine of the vessel as to endanger her. The vessel was at Newport, Pittwater, on the 30th September, having on board the Hon. W. A. Brodrihlie and eight other passengers. The speed of the vessel was very irregular, sometimes being very fast, at other times only two or three knots an hour, and occasionally the engine stopped working; at times there was only 40lb. of steam, and at other times there was 701b.; the engineer was observed to frequently go up and down from the engine-room to the deck; a stoppage was made at Wiseman’s Ferry, and as the passengers after going ashore came aboard the engineer was found lying on the deck helplessly drunk. The party were going to Sackville Reach, but a consultation was held, and it was decided not to proceed until the services of another engineer were obtained. The passengers stayed at Wiseman’s Ferry that night, and next day an engineer named G. Brooks was engaged to look after the engine of the

vessel. The prisoner was committed for trial. Bail was granted, the prisoner being required to enter into his own bond of £80, and to find two sureties in the sum of £40 each. October 10, 1882. The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved fromhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13524784

NEWS OF THE DAY. October sittings of the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions commenced yesterday, before Mr. District Court Judge Joephcim, Mr. I. J. Healy prosecuted for the Crown. The only case of importance was one in which a man named Michael Maher was charged with endangering the safety of the steamer Florrie of which vessel he was the engineer, and the passengers on board of her, while on a passage from Newport, Pittwater, to Wiseman’s Ferry, on the Hawkesbury River. Not withstanding that the evidence was very strong against the defendant, the jury found him not guilty, and he was discharged. October 31, 1882. The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13527380

ADVENTUROUS TRIP TO THE HAWKESBURY. From the start there seemed a want of sympathy and understanding between the boiler arrangements with moving parts of the machinery. At times the former would make a big spurt, steam would be hissing all about, but the going parts would not respond and while off the pilot-station and in the rolling swell of the Pacific influenced by a stiff southerly breeze, the machinery slowed down sadly, and came to a stand still. But knowing the careful and vigilant inspection exercised by the Government officials at Sydney, no idea of anything amiss stirred amongst those unsuspecting passengers. ‘Not at that time. The thought was, and that, too, while hammering and bumping were going on about the boiler, that we were waiting for something or other, or somebody from the light-house. And the “ Florrie” rolled about, and the ladies began to look as though their tramp over the, Manly-Pittwater sands was not, after all, such a bad style of enjoying a holiday. Then the commander of the “Florrie,” with his own hands, shook out and hoisted the jib. Though not much to look at, for the

gallant sheet is grimy, and bears evidence of long and wearing service, the jib proved sufficient to turn the prow of the steamer in the direction of the Hawkesbury, and the engine being started again, the prospect of drifting in an, ebbing tide seawards disappeared. November 24, 1883. Australian Town and Country Journal (NSW : 1870 - 1907), p. 17. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71005969

SOUTH AUSTRALIA CONTRACTFour small steamers have been fitted out here for the contract Mr. Jeanneret has with the South Australian Government to perform Customs and other services, and the landing of mails at Largs Bay, It is intended to dispatch the vessels in company at the beginning of next week, so as to be in time to commence the new contract on April 1. March 17, 1888. The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), p. 5. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36428343

SAILEDFlorrie, for Adelaide, via Wollongong. The steamer Florrie, one of the four boats selected for Mr. Jeanneret’s new service at Port Adelaide, sailed for South Australia via Wollongong today. She will be followed tomorrow by the Promise, the Defiance, and the Petrel. March 27, 1888. The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), p. 5. Retrieved fromhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36428802

SHIPPING NEWS.OUTPORTS. Port Augusta, November 26. Arrived-Investigator, steamer (Adelaide Steamship Company), West, from Port Adelaide via gulf ports. Cargo-General.- ‘Florrie,’ steamer, Kerrison, from. Port Pirie, with Macintyre, lighter, in tow. ‘ Sailed-Investigator, ‘steamer, for Port Adelaide. via Ports Germein and Pirie. Cargo-Wool and general. Florrie, steamer, for Port Pirie. Port Pirie, November 27. November 28, 1901 The Advertiser(Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), p. 6. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4887753

SHIPPING NEWS. CAPE BORDA. The steamer Florrie left here on Sunday with the Port Germein cricketers and others for a trip to Port Augusta. A cricket match was played at Port Augusta between

the local team and Port Germein, .the scores being - Port Augusta 177; Port Germein, 59.- PORT GERMEIN. (1903, January 29). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), p. 7. Retrieved fromhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4919992

PORT AUGUSTA.June 28. The Broken Hill team of footballers arrived here from Port Pirie in the steamer Florrie yesterday morning, and were met on the wharf by a large crowd of local-athletes and others. The president of the Port Augusta Football Club (Mr. J.Bsalton) met the team and conducted them to the Town Hall, where a formal reception had been arranged. The council chamber was well filled with the visitors and townsfolk. The visitors, who thoroughly enjoyed the trip, left for Port Pirie by the steamer this morning. (1899, July 8). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87201876

The threads for this lady disappear mid 1920. Some sources state she was broken up in 1931, a mere 52 years old. Other sources state she was converted to a tug and utilised in Port Augusta. Charles Jeanneret sold his entire fleet, aside from those in South Australia, in 1890 to an English company.

NEW NOTICES. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. Mr Garland to move, - That leave have of absence for the remainder of the present session be granted to Charles E. Jeanneret one of the members for Carcoar, who has been compelled to visit England land on urgent private business. November 1888. Sydney Morning Herald.

NEW NOTICES LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. Friday 16ADELAIDE, FRIDAY Mr Jeanneret, late member for Carcoar, arrived by the Liguria this morning, and proceeds from Melbourne on Monday to his electorate by special tram.

NEWPORT WHARFWhat today we know as the Newport Wharf at the end of Queen’s parade (west) below current Newport Arms hotel began as a pier circa 1879 which was built by Charles Edward Jeanneret in anticipation of developing then heavily wooded and

pristine Newport. Although seemingly nameless for this period, it would have been described in terms by those who were eye witnesses early and by advertising material for contractors by real estate developer George Pile, real estate speculator, agent and auctioneer, who was contracted to aid in this venture:

January 1880: TO CONTRACTORS – TENDERS are wanted for clearing roads and about forty acres of land at the new Pittwater Marine Township.

They purchased land from the then released Basset-Darley Estate: At Pittwater the Bassett Darley estate was sold in two parts. In 1880 Charles Edward Jeanneret and George Pile paid 732 [pounds sterling] for 118 acres on which to establish the New Marine Township of Newport, while the remaining land, apart from a one acre lot purchased by the Church of England, was bought by John William Cliff for 8000 [pounds sterling] in 1886.Soon what was called Newport Hotel a few years before it had a licence, featured in advertisements for forthcoming sales for the by then named ‘Marine Township of Newport’.

A similar notice appeared in all major capital city newspapers:

We have received from Messrs. Mills, Pile, and Gilchrist, (who have published it for the proprietors) an interesting pamphlet descriptive and illustrative of the beauties and attractions of Newport, Pittwater, and the celebrated Hawkesbury lakes. The work consists of about eight pages of letter-press and nine carefully lithographed drawings, depicting the more important scenes and places of interest in the locality. The description is capably written, and the

illustrations, lithographed by Messrs. S. T. Leigh and Co., from water colour drawing- by Mr. H. Brees, are very creditably executed, and give excellent ideas of the places represented. Appended is a plan and local sketch of the new marine township of Newport, and altogether the publication is one which will commend itself highly to all interested in one of the most picturesque spots on the New South Welsh coast.

NEW’S OF THE DAY. August 26, 1880. The Sydney Morning Herald

A number of watercolour drawings by Harold Bree of Newport were used for lithographs that are now held by the National Library of Australia.

Florrie Jeanneret and friend at Wybalena

DEATH OF ALDERMAN JEANNERET. The news that Mr. C. E. Jeanneret had passed away on Tuesday evening was received here with general regret. He had been for many years a prominent man in the public life of the city and this colony. The Evening News of Wednesday publishes the following sketch of his life :-” Charles Edward Jeanneret, who for many years past has taken such an active part in the municipal life of the metropolis, passed away at 9.30 on Tuesday evening, at tho age of 64. He died at his son’s farm at Wyrallah, on the Richmond River, after an illness of some months’ duration, which, however, assumed a more serious aspect during the past six weeks. The cause of death was an internal malady of a very painful nature, and the news today that he was no more was received by those of his municipal and business associates who knew him best with the deepest regret. Mr. Jeanneret was a man whose business energy and tact, combined with a naturally genial disposition and a sincere interest in the matters having for their object the advancement of the public welfare, won for him the respect of all with whom he came in contact, either in public or in private life. He was born in Sydney in the year 1834, during the term of rule of Governor Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B. His father, of whom the deceased gentleman has for many years been the only surviving son, was Dr. Henry Jeanneret, an old colonist, who subsequently became Civil Commandant of Flinders Land,

a dependency of Tasmania. Here the son spent most of his boyhood and youth, during which he acquired a love of the sea, and an acquaintance with practical seamanship which led him, at the early age of18 to take a voyage to Europe. On his return to Australia, he abandoned the sea for the more alluring temptations of the gold rushes, and he put in some years upon the Bendigo fields and at Sandhurst. Subsequently he returned to Sydney, and after a period of service in tho Bank of New South, Wales, he entered into a general agency partnership with Mr. Henry Porter. About this time he married, and settled at Hunter’s Hill, on the Lane Cove River. Tho district at that time was little better than a tract of wild bush, the few residences which had been erected being very far apart. Mr. Jeanneret made some prudent investments in land, with the profits from which he became a shareholder in and afterwards manager of the local steam ferry company. After a keen competition with a rival ferry for some years, the two coalesced, and Mr. Jeanneret became proprietor of the concern in1870, his fleet numbering five steamers, a number which he afterwards increased to about twenty. Farming, mining, and meat preserving occupied his time, and the traces of his building enterprise are visible all along the banks of the Lane Cove and Parramatta River. One of his works is the tramway from the Parramatta River to the Park. The incorporation of Hunter’s Hill, of which he was afterwards several times Mayor, was due almost

entirely to his advocacy and personal exertions, and he has been an alderman since that event which occurred in 1871. In the City Council he has represented. Bourke Ward for many years with Sir William Manning and Mr. Alexander Down. At the general election in tho early part of 1887 he was returned to the Legislative Assembly, where he sat for some years as the representative of Carcoar. Mr. Jeanneret was an hon. magistrate of the colony at

the time when his services were often in active requisition at the Water Police Court, and his decisions are stated to have always been marked by an intelligent justice and a sound common-sense. The deceased gentleman was removed to his sons’ place on Monday. He was brought down from his residence at Hunter’s Hill by the Civil Ambulance and Transport Brigade, and conveyed to the N.C.S. Company’s steamer Electra by which he journeyed north.

Deceased, we may add, leaves a widow, six: sons, and two daughters. Knowing the hopelessness of recovering from his ailment, and the certainty of early death, he was quite resigned, and so came to Wyrallah to die surrounded by his family. His remains, by his own request, were enclosed in a leaden coffin to be sent to Sydney for interment in the family vault at Ryde. A short service was held at his late residence, Wyrallah, yesterday, Canon. Ewing conducting the same, and the coffin was then placed on Board the Electra. The interment will take place at Ryde on Monday.]

THE LATE ALDERMAN C. E. JEANNERET THE FUNERAL. The funeral of the late Alderman Charles E.

Jeanneret, whose death occurred at Lismore on August 23, took place yesterday and was very largely attended. The remains arrived in Sydney on Sunday night, being accompanied by Messrs Herbert, Eddie, and Charles A. Jeanneret (sons of the deceased) in the steamer Electra, and were received by other members of the family. From the steamer the body was conveyed to All Saints’ Church, Hunter’s Hill, encased in a handsome specially imported and richly mounted casket of Huon pine, and on arrival was placed on tressels within the chancel of the sacred edifice. The Mayor and aldermen of the City Council, of which the deceased was a member, drove from the Town Hall to All Saints’ Church and a large number of friends and sympathisers, proceeded from Sydney by a special steamer, which left the King street Wharf at l pm, amongst the latter being the members of the Masonic Lodge, “Harmony,” No 5, of which the deceased was one of the oldest members. Arrived at the church, in which the relatives of the deceased had already assembled, the large company took part in the service, the opening passages of which were recited by Archdeacon Langley (St. Philip’s, Sydney) and the Rev. A. E. Bellingham (St Clement’s, Marrickville). Then followed a psalm and the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” by the choir and the lesson 1 Corinthians xv., 20, by the Rev. Spry Bailey (rector of All Saints) Archdeacon Langley delivered an impressive address, Mr. E. P. Truman presided at the organ, and played one of Mendelsohn’s “Songs without Words”, “Chopin’s “Funeral March” and the Dead March in “Saul” The service having been brought to a close, the immense cortege left the church for St Anne’s churchyard, Ryde, the order being - the clergy, the hearse, the wreath carriage, the mourning coaches conveying the relatives of the deceased, the carriages of the Mayor and aldermen of the City Council, followed by numerous private vehicles, while a large number resumed to the Hunter’s Hill Wharf and were conveyed thence to Ryde, where they again joined the assemblage. Shortly before 4 o’clock the cemetery was reached, and the body was interred in a grave close by the church, in which Mr. Wiegand played the “Dead March”.

The service at the grave was impressive, the prayer of committal being recited by the Rev. A. E. Bellingham (cousin of the deceased), and the concluding prayers by Archdeacon Langley, the Rev. Spry Bailey, and the Rev. Britten (St Anne’s Ryde) At the conclusion of the church service for the dead a Masonic service was held, Wor. Bro. F. O. Timothy, W. M., officiating. The concourse at the burial place was one of the largest seen in the district, the party being largely augmented by many residents of Ryde, the chief mourners were - Messrs H. Stanley, Frank E. Ernest J., Arthur, Herbert, Eddie, and Charles A. Jeanneret (sons of the deceased), C. F. Mitchell-Moore (son-in-law), Rev. A. B. Bellingham (cousin), and J. H. Harris (nephew). Amongst the large company present were - The Mayor of Sydney (Alderman M. Harris), Aldermen Beare, Buckle, Small, Taylor, Jessep, Fowler, Waine, Landers, Booth, Sir W. P. Manning, Deane, and Penny (of the City Council), Sir George Dibbs, Hon. J. Hughes, M.L.C., Messrs. D. O’Connor, A. J. Riley, E. P. Truman, G. McRae (late city architect), G. C. Waldron (city solicitor), J. R. Palmer (town clerk), R. Richards (city surveyor), R. H. Brodrick (city building surveyor), R. Anderson (city treasurer), S. H. Solomon (auditor), M. Wiegand (city organist), Carrick (Mayor’s orderly), Rev. S. H. Begbie (St. Clement’s), Wor. Bro. F. O. Timothy W.M., Wor. Bro. W. H. Shortland, P.M., D.O. Wor. Bro. John Bradley (secretary), Wor. Bro. Enos Dyer, Wor. Bro. H. Wilson, Wor. Bro. W. T. Winn, Wor. Bro. Edgington, Wor, Bro. E. W. Foxall, Bros. W. C. Wise, C, Grace, A. S. Rice, R. Handcock, H. Hesse, A. Edgington, W. A. Baxter, and James R. Thomson (lodge Harmony, No. 5), Alderman J. Thomson (Mayor of Hunter’s Hill), A. Edgington, G. E. Flannery, J. Hollander, Turner, McNeil, McBride (Hunter’s Hill), Aldermen Lovell, Morris and Herring (Ryde); Messrs. W. Dymock, W. Anderson, Joubert, Arthur Wigram Allen, W. Andrews, P. Lucas, W. Moxham, O. Amora, A. Bennett, Henderson, Jamieson, W. Small, Captain Mance, W. Smythe, H. Geary, Thomas Turner, H. Deane, A. J. Stopps, C. E. Ford, E. Gregory, F. McElhone, J. Hardy, and many others. Floral tributes were sent by the Mayor and aldermen of the City Council, the officers of the City Council, Mrs. Burley and family, Mr. John, Mr. D., and Miss

McPherson (of Wyrallah, Richmond River), Mr. and Mrs. Dobbie and family, Mrs. W. M. Fairland, Mr. and Mrs. Rider-Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Joubert, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Lane, Miss. Ruth Manning, Mrs. Sidney, C. A. Oatley, and family; Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Steanes, Captain and Mrs. Mance, the employees of the Parramatta tramway, Mr. A. S. Cowper, Mr. C. E. Ford, Mrs. and the Misses Smith, Miss Stopps, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Boyd Robison, Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. Adnam, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jeanneret, the members of the Hunter’s Hill Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Club, Alderman J. Taylor and family, members of the Masonic Lodge Harmony, Mrs. and the Misses Stoltenhoff, Mrs. Blake, Mr. and Mrs. Garland, Rev. and Mrs. Spry-Bailey, Captain B. Farrell (steamer Electra), Messrs. Giller Brothers, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Riley, Mrs. Chambers, Miss Florrie Jeanneret, and others.

FRANCIS EDWARD JEANNERET

FRANCIS EDWARD JEANNERET was born on 28 Sep 1863 at “Summerville”, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He was baptised at Hunters Hill Church by Rev. T.L. Schleicher. He died on 06 Dec 1933 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He married AUGUSTA BASSETT HULL, daughter of HUGH MUNRO HULL and MARGARET BASSETT TREMLETT on 17 Apr 1888 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 15 Aug 1864 in “Tolosa”, Tolosa Street, Glenorchy, Tasmania. She died on 16 Oct 1933 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

FRANCIS EDWARD JEANNERET and AUGUSTA BASSETT HULL had the following children:

1. ERIC EDWARD JEANNERET was born on 21 Apr 1894 in Alexander Street, Hunters Hill,NEW SOUTH WALES. He died on 10 Aug 1961 in Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia. He married ANNA CHRISTINA ALBERTHSEN, daughter of Rasmus Sydney Sogaard Albertsen and Christjane Baltzer in 1917 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Reference: N S W Marriages 1363/1917). She was born in 1890 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Reference: N S W Births 13430/1976). She died in 1976 in New South Wales (Reference: N S W Deaths 13430/1976).

2. UNA JEANNERET was born on 24 Jul 1889 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 13 Jan 1976 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She married KENMORE DIXON NICHOLAS. He was born on 14 Jun 1891 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 14 Sep 1950 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.

3. ALAN FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 05 May 1899 at “Herne”, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married SOPHIA MARY DICKSON, daughter of Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON and Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR on 03 Feb 1926. She was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Francis resided at Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales but was educated at Hutchins School, Hobart, Tasmania.

He was connected with his father’s ferry services, The Parramatta River Steamers and Tramway Company as Cashier and later as Joint Manager until the company was sold to Sydney Ferries Limited.

ALAN FRANCIS JEANNERET

ALAN FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 05 May 1899 at “Herne”, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married SOPHIA MARY DICKSON, daughter of Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON and Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR on 03 Feb 1926. She was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Alan Francis JEANNERET and Sophia Mary DICKSON had the following children:

1. RUTH FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 15 Mar 1929. She married (1) JOHN COULSON in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married (2) JOHN C.W THROWER. He was born in England. He died in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. ROBIN ALAN DICKSON JEANNERET was born on 09 May 1931. He died on 29 Apr 2011 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) CHRISTINE REED. He married (2)

MABEL BROWN on 16 Jun 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married ROSEMARY PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Alan was educated at Woolwich Public School and Fort Street High School, Sydney. He served in the First World War with 21st General Service Reinforcements, 1st AIF.He then graduated fom Sydney Technical College as a Farmer & Qualified Wool Classer.In 1939 he enlisted to Australian Instructional Corps and served during a period of the Second World War with AIC 40th Battallion & RAASC.In 1952 he was discharged at rank of Captain - Medically unfit.

Rosemary and Colin Jeanneret

Colin Bassett JEANNERET

COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Rosemary PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Colin Bassett JEANNERET and Rosemary PHILP had the following children:

1. NEIL JEANNERET was born on 08 Feb 1956 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) CAROLYN JARVIS, (2) GWENDA PEARCE, daughter of Edwin John PEARCE and Elsie Ellen BEALE on 02 Oct 2004. She was born on 07 Nov 1954. Neil and Carolyn had two sons, Samuel and Nathanael.

2. IAN KEITH JEANNERET was born on 10 Jan 1958 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Catherine Sally MAXWELL, daughter of Alan Peter MAXWELL and Heather Mary PARKER on 27 Dec 1980 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 03 May 1961 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. GUY JEANNERET was born on 07 Nov 1962 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married CAROL BARTON. Guy and Carol have four children, Issac, Brianna, Tobias and Mekody.

4. LINDA JEANNERET was born on 05 Nov 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married RONALD LEACH. Linda and Ronald have two children, Matthew and Sophie.

Colin was educated at Lindisfarne State School and Friends School, Hobart. On leaving school, he worked for Heathorns in Barrack Street, Hobart followed by Jacksons Transport. He also completed National Service and studied accounting at night school. This was the beginning of a long career in management in the transport industry. Towards the end of his career he took on the role of Business Manager for a wealthy entrepreneur and property developer overseeing a variety of businesses and operations.

He was involved in scouting for 30 years and retired from the organisation as District Commissioner for Wellington.

A man of many talents, he built his first home and inspired each of his children with his practical skills and his untiring energy.

As a keen bushwalker and scouter he also taught his children to love nature and the outdoors in all of its guises and all of its variety.

Over the last 1,000 years of our family there has not been a finer father. Colin is a man of infinite love, kindness and generosity. A steady and level thinker, he has been available at every turn for his family to offer advice, quiet reassurance and deep and genuine love.

He has been joined in this chore by his equally remarkable partner, our mother. Together they are the most amazing team.

MacGregor

ORIGINS OF THE CLAN The Clan Gregor held lands in Glen Orchy, Glenlochy and Glenstrae. According to Iain Moncreiffe the MacGregors were descended from an ancient Celtic royal family, through the Abbots of Glendochart. This is alluded to in the clan’s motto: “Royal is my race”. There is a tradition that Gregor was the son of Kenneth MacAlpin, which is supported by the Scottish historian, William Forbes Skene, but there is no evidence to support this tradition. It is possible that he might have been Griogair, son of Dungal, who was allegedly co-ruler of Alba.

Most modern historians have agreed that the first chief of Clan Gregor was Gregor of the golden bridles. His son was Iain Camm One eye, who succeeded as the second chief sometime before 1390.

The barony of Loch Awe which included much of the MacGregor lands was granted to the chief of Clan Campbell by Robert the Bruce. The Campbells had already built Kilchurn Castlewhich controlled the gateway to the western Highlands and they harried the MacGregors who were forced to retire deeper into their lands until they were restricted to Glenstrae.

16TH CENTURY AND CLAN CONFLICTS Iain of Glenstrae died in 1519 with no direct heirs. He was the second of his house to be called the Black. The succession of Eian was supported by the Campbells and he married a daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy. In 1547 Eian’s son, Alistair,

fought against the English at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh but died shortly after.

Colin Campbell refused to recognise the claim of Gregor Roy MacGregor to the estates and for ten years Gregor waged a war against the Campbells. He was an outlaw who raided cattle and sheltered in the high glens. However in 1570 he was captured and killed by the Campbells. The chiefship was claimed by his son, Alistair, but he was unable to stem the Campbell’s persecution of the MacGregors who became known as the Children of the Mist.

John Drummond, of Clan Drummond was the king’s forester and he was murdered after hanging some MacGregors for poaching. The chief took responsibility for the murder and it was condemned by the Privy Council.

17TH CENTURY, CLAN CONFLICTS AND CIVIL WAR Battle of Glen Fruin In 1603 Alasdair MacGregor marched into Colquhoun territory with a force of over four hundred men. The chief of Clan Colquhoun had been granted a royal commission to suppress the MacGregors. Colquhoun assembled a force of five hundred foot and three hundred horse and advanced to Glen Fruin to repel the Highland raiders. MacGregor split his force in two and while the main MacGregor force and the Colquhouns engaged in combat the second MacGregor force attacked the Colquhouns from the rear. The Colquhouns were driven into the Moss of Auchingaich where their cavalry was useless and over two hundred Colquhouns were killed. At the end of the eighteenth century the chiefs of the two clans met and shook hands on the very site of the former slaughter.

James VI of Scotland issued an edict in April 1603 that proclaimed the name of MacGregor as altogidder abolished. This meant that anyone who bore the name must renounce it or suffer death. In 1604 MacGregor and eleven of his chieftains were

hanged at Mercat Cross, Edinburgh. As a result the Clan Gregor was scattered with many taking other names such as Murray or Grant. They were hunted like animals and flushed out of the heather by bloodhounds.

An Edinburgh burgess, Robert Birrel, who kept a diary of events at the time, described the episode thus,

“[MacGregor] wes convoyit to Berwick be the Gaird to conforme to the Earl’s promese: for he promesit to put him out of Scottis grund. Swa [so] he keipit ane Hieland-manis promes; in respect he sent the Gaird to convoy him out of Scottis grund: But thai were not directit to pairt with him, but to fetche him bak agane! The 18 Januar, at evine [evening], he come agane to Edinburghe; and upone the 20-day he wes hangit at the Croce, and xj [eleven] of his freindis and name, upon ane gallous: Himself being Chieff, he wes hangit his awin hicht aboune the rest of hes freindis.”

An Act of the Scottish Parliament from 1617 stated (translated into modern English):

“It was ordained that the name of MacGregor should be abolished and that the whole persons of that name should renounce their name and take some other name and that they nor none of their name and that they nor none of their posterity should call themselves Gregor or MacGregor under pain of death .... that any person or persons of the said clan who has already renounced their names or hereafter shall renounce their names or if any of their children or posterity shall at any time hereafter assume or take to themselves the name of Gregor or MacGregor .... that every such person or persons assuming or taking to themselves the said name .... shall incurr the pain of death which pain shall be executed upon

them without favour.”

Despite the savage treatment of the MacGregors they actually fought for the king during the Scottish

Civil War. Two hundred men of the Clan Gregor fought for the Earl of Glencairn in what was known as Glencairn’s rising, against the Commonwealth. In recognition of this Charles II of England repealed the proscription of the name but William of Orange reimposed it when Charle’s brother James VII was deposed.

18TH CENTURY AND JACOBITE RISINGS. Rob Roy MacGregor was born in 1671, a younger son of MacGregor of Glengyle. However he had been forced to assume his mother’s surname of Campbell. The adventures of Rob Roy MacGregor have been immortalised and romanticised by Sir Walter Scott in his novel Rob Roy. Rob Roy was undoubtedly a thorn in the flesh of the government until he died in 1734. He supported the Jacobite cause in 1715 and after the Battle of Sheriffmuir he set out plundering at will. In one such raid on Dunbarton, the town was put into panic and Dunbarton Castle was forced to open fire with its cannon. He also led the Clan Gregor at the Battle of Glen Shiel in 1719. He is buried in Balquhidder churchyard.

During the 1745 to 1746 uprising some of the Clan Gregor who were under the Duke of Perth fought as Jacobites at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745. The Clan Gregor were amongst the Jacobite force that was defeated at the Battle of Littleferry in 1746 in Sutherland, and therefore missed the Battle of Culloden that took place the next day.

Persecution of the MacGregors did not end until 1774 when the laws against them were repealed.

19TH CENTURY AND RESTORED CLAN To restore pride in the clan the chiefs needed to be re-established. Eight hundred and twenty six MacGregors subscribed to a petition declaring General John Murray of Lanrick to be the true chief. Murray was in fact a MacGregor who was descended from Duncan MacGregor of Ardchoille who had died in 1552.His son was Sir Evan who played a part in the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822, where he and his clansmen guarded the honours of Scotland.

DESCENDANTS OF IAIN OG (JOHN) MACGREGOR (MURRAY)

IAIN OG (JOHN) MACGREGOR (MURRAY) was born in 1668. He died on 18 Sep 1744. He married Catherine CAMPBELL. She was born in 1674 in Lix, Scotland. She died on 14 May 1774 in Scotland.

Iain Og (John) MACGREGOR (MURRAY) and Catherine CAMPBELL had the following children:

1. EVAN MURRAY MACGREGOR was born in 1714 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland. He died on 29 Oct 1778 in Jersey, England. He married Janet MACDONALD, daughter of John MACDONALD and Alice MACKENZIE on 10 Jan 1744. She was born before 1707 in Scotland. She died on 15 Feb 1793.

2. PETER MACGREGOR (MURRAY) was born about 1703 in Scotland. He died about 1758 in Scotland.

3. ABA MACGREGOR (MURRAY). She died in London, Middlesex, England.

4. PEGGY MACGREGOR (MURRAY).

5. ROBERT MACGREGOR (MURRAY) (2nd OF GLENCARNOCH, 6th CHIEF OF THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST) was born about 1700 in Scotland. He died in Oct 1758 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married (1) BARBARA MARY DRUMMOND, daughter of William DRUMMOND about 1750 in Scotland. She was born about 1730 in Scotland. She died in 1789. He married (2) ROBINA JACOBINA CAMERON, daughter of Donald CAMERON about 1735. She was born about 1710 in Scotland. She died about 1750. He married (3) CHRISTIAN MACGREGOR (CAMPBELL), daughter of Gregor MACGREGOR (ALIAS JOHN GORDON OF RORO) and Beatrix ROBERTSON about 1730. She was born about 1710. She died about 1735.

6. DUNCAN MACGREGOR (3rd OF GLENCARNOCH CHIEFTAIN OF THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST) was born in 1707 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland. He died in 1787. He married Beatrix MACNIVEN in 1754. She was born in 1736 in Perthshire, Scotland.

7. CAPT. JOHN MACGREGOR was born about 1719 in Scotland. He died in 1759 in New York, USA.

Notes for Capt. John MACGREGOR:The 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor confrontation at Fort Carillon (later renamed Fort Ticonderoga) on July 26 and 27, 1759, during the French and Indian War. A British military force of more than 11,000 men under the command of General Sir Jeffrey Amherst moved artillery to high ground overlooking the fort, which was defended by a garrison of 400 Frenchmen under the command of Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque.

EVAN MURRAY MACGREGOR was born in 1714 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland. He died on 29 Oct 1778 in Jersey, England. He married Janet MACDONALD, daughter of John MACDONALD and Alice MACKENZIE on 10 Jan 1744. She was born before 1707 in Scotland. She died on 15 Feb 1793.

Evan Murray MACGREGOR and Janet MACDONALD had the following children:

1. ROBERT MACGREGOR MURRAY (LIEUTENANT-COLONEL OF THE CLAN-ALPIN FENCIBLES) was born on 28 May 1753 in Crianlarich, Killin Parish, Perthshire, Scotland. He married Barbara MACKENZIE in Scotland. She was born about 1775 in Scotland.

2. ALEXANDER MURRAY (1st BARON) MACGREGOR was born on 25 Aug 1746 in Napier Ruskie, Lanrick, Scotland. He died on 21 Jul 1822 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married (1) FRANCES PASCAL in 1775. She was born about 1750. She died about 1786 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married (2) GRACE HAY, daughter of James HAY on 25 Mar 1790 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. She was born about 1763 in Banffshire, Scotland. She died on 03 Feb 1844 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

3. PEGGY MACGREGOR (MURRAY) was born about 1747 in Scotland.

4. ALICIA MACGREGOR (MURRAY) was

born on 01 Aug 1750 in Inverlochlanrigbeg, Balquidder Parish, Perthshire, Scotland. She died about 1765 in London, England.

5. COL. PETER MACGREGOR MURRAY (COL. EAST INDIA CO. & GENERAL OF THE BENGAL ARMY) was born on 25 May 1751 in Scotland. He died in India (killed on board of the Lord Nelson, East Indiaman).

6. JAMES MACGREGOR (MURRAY).

7. SIR SIR JOHN (MACGREGOR) MURRAY (18th CHIEF OF CLAN GREGOR, 1st BARONET) was born on 10 Apr 1745 in Lanrick, Scotland. He died on 28 Jun 1822 in Scotland. He married Anne MACLEOD on 10 Apr 1775 in Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland. She was born about 1755 in Roro, Scotland. She died on 05 Feb 1830 in Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland.

ROBERT MACGREGOR (MURRAY) (2nd OF GLENCARNOCH, 6th CHIEF OF THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST) was born about 1700 in Scotland. He died in Oct 1758 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married (1) BARBARA MARY DRUMMOND, daughter of William DRUMMOND about 1750 in Scotland. She was born about 1730 in Scotland. She died in 1789. He married (2) ROBINA JACOBINA CAMERON, daughter of Donald CAMERON about 1735. She was born about 1710 in Scotland. She died about 1750. He married (3) CHRISTIAN MACGREGOR (CAMPBELL), daughter of Gregor MACGREGOR (ALIAS JOHN GORDON OF RORO) and Beatrix ROBERTSON about 1730. She was born about 1710. She died about 1735.

Robert MACGREGOR (MURRAY) (2nd of Glencarnoch, 6th Chief of the Children of the Mist) and Robina Jacobina CAMERON had the following child:

1. JOHN MACGREGOR was born about 1735. He died in 1758.

Robert MACGREGOR (MURRAY) (2nd of Glencarnoch, 6th Chief of the Children of the Mist) and Christian MACGREGOR (CAMPBELL )had the following child:

1. CHRISTIAN MACGREGOR (MURRAY) was born about 1734.

DUNCAN MACGREGOR (3rd OF GLENCARNOCH CHIEFTAIN OF THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST) was born in 1707 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland. He died in 1787. He married Beatrix MACNIVEN in 1754. She was born in 1736 in Perthshire, Scotland.

1. Duncan MACGREGOR (3rd of Glencarnoch Chieftain of the Children of the Mist) and Beatrix MACNIVEN had the following children:

2. DRUMMOND MARY MACGREGOR was born about 1760 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland. She died on 01 Jul 1816 in Newington, Midlothian, Scotland.

3. JOHN MACGREGOR was born in 1755 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland. He died on 23 Mar 1784.

ROBERT MACGREGOR MURRAY (LIEUTENANT-COLONEL OF THE CLAN-ALPIN FENCIBLES) was born on 28 May 1753 in Crianlarich, Killin Parish, Perthshire, Scotland. He married Barbara MACKENZIE in Scotland. She was born about 1775 in Scotland.

Robert MACGREGOR MURRAY (Lieutenant-Colonel of the Clan-Alpin fencibles) and Barbara MACKENZIE had the following children:

1. BARBARA MACGREGOR was born about 1805 in Scotland. She died in 1841.

2. JEANNETTA CATHERINE MACGREGOR was born about 1800 in Scotland. She died in 1883.

ALEXANDER MURRAY (1st BARON) MACGREGOR was born on 25 Aug 1746 in Napier Ruskie, Lanrick, Scotland. He died on 21 Jul 1822 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married (1) FRANCES PASCAL in 1775. She was born about 1750. She died about 1786 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married (2) GRACE HAY, daughter of James HAY on 25 Mar 1790 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. She was born about 1763 in Banffshire, Scotland. She died on

Sir James Sinclair of Mey, 12th Earl of Caithness

JAMES SINCLAIR1766-1823James Sinclair of Mey 12th Earl of Caithness SINCLAIR, son of Sir John 6th Baronet of Mey SINCLAIR and Charlotte Catherine SUTHERLAND was born on 31 Oct 1766 in Barrogill Castle, Caithness, Scotland. He died on 16 Jul 1823 in Barrogill Castle, Mey, Canisbay, Caithness, Scotland. He married Jean (Jane) CAMPBELL, daughter of Colonel Alexander of

Barcaldine CAMPBELL and Helen SINCLAIR on 02 Jan 1784 in Thurso Castle, Caithness, Scotland. She was born in 1769 in Archattaw, Argyleshire, Scotland. She died on 02 Apr 1853 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

The family of St.Clair came into England with William the Conqueror; and this branch, with that of Herdmanstoun, paternal ancestors of Lord Sinclair, settled in Scotland in the 12th century. The Earl of Caithness is a title that has been created several times in the Peerage of Scotland, and has a very complex history. Its first grant,

in the modern sense as to have been counted in strict lists of peerages, is now generally held to have taken place in favor of Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn, in 1334, although in the true circumstances of 14th century, this presumably was just a recognition of his hereditary right to the ancient earldom/mormaership of Caithness. The next year, however, all of his titles were declared forfeit for treason.

Earlier, Caithness had been intermittently held, presumably always as fief of Scotland, by the Norse Earls of Orkney, at least since the days of the childhood of Thorfinn Sigurdsson in c 1020, but possibly already several decades before. The modern reconstruction of holders of peerage earldoms do not usually include those of Mormaerdom of Caithness, although there is no essential difference between them and, for example, those of mormaers of Lennox, mormaers of Strathearn and mormaers of Angus.

The next grant after Maol Íosa was to David Stewart, a younger son of Robert II of Scotland. His heiress, Euphemia, resigned the title in 1390 in favour of her uncle Walter, 1st Earl of Atholl. Walter himself resigned the title in 1428, in favour of his son Allan, but he retained the earldom of Atholl for himself. Upon Allan’s death, Walter again came to hold both earldoms. However, both were lost when he was executed for high treason in 1437, his titles being forfeit.

The third creation of the title was for Sir George Crichton in 1452, but he surrendered the title in the same year. The final creation of the earldom was made in 1455 for William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney. He surrendered the Orkney title and all associated lands to James III in 1470, in return for the Castle of Ravenscraig, in Fife. James III had in 1469 received the rights of the king of Norway to Orkney territories as pledge of dowry of his wife Margaret of Denmark. In this way, the Scottish crown tightened its grip to Orkney and Shetland, a hitherto Norwegian territory, by moving all other important holders away. Six years later, Earl William wished to disinherit his eldest son, who was known as “The Waster.” Therefore, so that his

earldom would not pass to him, he resigned the title in favour of his younger son, another William. General Arthur St. Clair was reportedly descended from the 4th Earl of Caithness. George, sixth Earl of the Sinclair line, was the last Earl to cause a disturbance in the normal succession of the title. In 1672, he agreed that, at his death, all of his lands and titles would pass to Sir John Campbell, who was his creditor. In 1677, the sixth Earl died, and King Charles II granted him a patent creating him Earl of Caithness. Later, however, the sixth Earl’s heir, also named George, was confirmed in his titles by the law. Therefore, in order to compensate for the loss of the earldom, Charles II created Campbell Earl of Breadalbane and Holland. Thereafter, the earldom of Caithness has passed solely within the Sinclair family, without any further resignations or other irregularities.

The Earl of Caithness also holds the title of Lord Berriedale, which was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1455. That title is used as a courtesy title for the Earl’s eldest son and heir. William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (d. 1484) (resigned 1476)William Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Caithness (d. 1513)John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness (d. 1529)George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness (d. 1582) (resigned 1545)George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness (1566–1643)George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness (d. 1677) (resigned 1672)

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1633–1717) (resigned 1681)George Sinclair, 7th Earl of Caithness (d. 1698)John Sinclair, 8th Earl of Caithness (d. 1705)Alexander Sinclair, 9th Earl of Caithness (1685–1765)William Sinclair, 10th Earl of Caithness (1727–1779)John Sinclair, 11th Earl of Caithness (1757–1789)James Sinclair, 12th Earl of Caithness (1766–1823)Alexander Campbell Sinclair, 13th Earl of Caithness (1790–1855)James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness (1821–1881)George Philips Alexander Sinclair, 15th Earl of Caithness (1858–1889)James Augustus Sinclair, 16th Earl of Caithness (1827–1891)John Sutherland Sinclair, 17th Earl of Caithness (1857–1914)Norman Macleod (Sinclair) Buchan, 18th Earl of Caithness (1862–1947)James Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness (1906–1965)Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness (b. 1948) (elected into House of Lords, 1999)

The heir apparent is the present holder’s son Alexander James Richard Sinclair, Lord Berriedale (b. 1981)

Sir John Sinclair, 11th Earl of Caithness

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother first saw what was then Barrogill Castle in 1952, while mourning the death of her husband, King George VI. Falling for its isolated charm and hearing it was to be abandoned, she decided to save it. Having acquired the most northerly inhabited castle on the British mainland, The Queen Mother renovated and restored it and created the beautiful gardens you see today. For almost half a century she spent many happy summers here and shorter visits at other times of the year.

03 Feb 1844 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Alexander Murray (1st Baron) MACGREGOR and Frances PASCAL had the following child:

1. ALEXANDER MURRAY MACGREGOR (MAJOR GENERAL 4th CEYLON) was born on 27 Nov 1778 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He died on 27 Feb 1827 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Was Major General of 4th Ceylon Regiment at time of death). He married LADY CHARLOTTE ANN SINCLAIR (RIGHT HON.), daughter of James Sinclair of Mey 12th Earl of Caithness SINCLAIR and Jean (Jane) CAMPBELL on 21 May 1810 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was born on 11 Mar 1792 in Barrogill Castle, Mey, Canisbay, Caithness, Scotland. She died on 07 Apr 1854 in Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland (Died at No 5, Brighton Cres, Portobello).

Alexander Murray (1st Baron) MACGREGOR and Grace HAY had the following child:

1. JEANETTA MACGREGOR.

2. SIR JOHN (MACGREGOR) MURRAY (18TH CHIEF OF CLAN GREGOR 1st BARONET) was born on 10 Apr 1745 in Lanrick, Scotland. He died on 28 Jun 1822 in Scotland. He married Anne MACLEOD on 10 Apr 1775 in Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland. She was born about 1755 in Roro, Scotland. She died on 05 Feb 1830 in Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland.

SIR JOHN (MACGREGOR) MURRAY (18th Chief of Clan Gregor, 1st Baronet) and Anne MACLEOD had the following child:

1. SIR EVAN JOHN MURRAY MACGREGOR (2nd BARONET & 19th CHIEF OF CLAN

GREGOR ) was born on 02 Jan 1785 in Lanrick, Scotland. He died on 14 Jun 1841 in Windward Islands, Barbados. He married Lady Elizabeth MURRAY on 28 May 1808 in Portman Square, London, England. She was born on 19 Apr 1787 in Scotland. She died on 12 Apr 1846 in Hanover, Edinburgh, Scotland.

ALEXANDER MURRAY MACGREGOR (MAJOR GENERAL 4th CEYLON) was born on 27 Nov 1778 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He died on 27 Feb 1827 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Was Major General of 4th Ceylon Regiment at time of death). He married LADY CHARLOTTE ANN SINCLAIR (RIGHT HON.), daughter of James Sinclair of Mey 12th Earl of Caithness SINCLAIR and Jean (Jane) CAMPBELL on 21 May 1810 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was born on 11 Mar 1792 in Barrogill Castle, Mey, Canisbay, Caithness, Scotland. She died on 07 Apr 1854 in Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland (Died at No 5, Brighton Cres,

Lady Charlotte Ann Sinclair

Portobello).

Alexander Murray MACGREGOR (Major General 4th Ceylon) and Charlotte Ann SINCLAIR had the following children:

1. EVAN MURRAY MACGREGOR (MAJOR GENERAL) was born on 02 Jul 1822 in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England. He died on 28 Feb 1885 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married SOPHIE MARY ANN COLLIER, daughter of Charles Frederick COLLIER and Anna Sophia STRONGE on 07 Mar 1848 in Rajkote, India (Exact Entry: MacGregor, Lieut. Evan M. 2nd L.C. to Sophia Mary Anne, d. of C.F. Collier, surg. 2nd L.C. at Rajkote, March 7.). She was born on 18 Oct 1830. She died on 05 Feb 1885 in 101 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. ALEXANDER NUGENT MURRAY MACGREGOR (CAPT. 66th BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY) was born on 19 Feb 1811 in Kinsale Barracks, Kinsale, Ireland. He died on 13 Nov 1845 in Hansi, East Indies (Register Entry: At Hansi on the 13th Nov Brevet Captain ANM MacGregor 66th Regt NI & Adjutant of the Hurrianah Light Infantry Battalion). He married Eleanor HOPPER, daughter of Henry Hudson HOPPER (Sgt H.M 38th Foot) and Sarah on 10 Jul 1835 in Chunar Church, Chunar, Uttar Pradesh India. She was born in 1817 in Ireland.

3. CAITHNESS EVAN EDMUND MURRAY MACGREGOR was born in 1812 in Cawnpore, Uttar Pradesh, India. He died in Sep 1834 in Kent, England.

4. HELEN JANE CAMPBELL MACGREGOR was born about 1821 in England. She died on 13 May 1860 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. She married ALEXANDER KERR. He was born between 1811-1831.

5. FRANCES (FANNY) GRACE HAY MACGREGOR was born about 1817 in Scotland. She died on 30 Nov 1889 in Middlesex, England. She married EDWARD

EVERY MILLER. He was born about 1809. He died in Oct 1877 in Samford, Suffolk, England.

6. JOHN SETON MURRAY MACGREGOR (GENERAL MADRAS ARMY) was born on 04 Mar 1814 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He died on 18 Dec 1891 in Laurick, Folkestone, England.

7. CHARLOTTE MACGREGOR MURRAY was born in Aug 1820 in Stockton-On-Tees, Durham, England. She died on 01 May 1821 in Stockton-On-Tees, Durham, England (As per Edinburgh Advertiser, May 1821).

8. CHARLOTTE MURRAY MACGREGOR was born in 1826 in Stockton-On-Tees, Durham, England. She died on 31 Aug 1850 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Advertised in Family Notices in Caledonian Mercury, on 5 Sept 1850.). She married James Alexander CRUICKSHANK (3rd of Langley Park) on 31 Dec 1844 in Portobello, Edinburgh, Midlothian,

Major General Evan Murray MacGregor

Scotland. He was born on 22 Mar 1823 in Langley Park, Scotland. He died on 25 Apr 1849 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

9. JOHN (GENERAL) MACGREGOR was born on 12 May 1819 in Stockton-on-Tees, Yorkshire, England. He died in 1891 in Folkestone, Kent, England. He married BARBARA FEATHERSTONE. She was born between 1809-1829.

SIR EVAN JOHN MURRAY MACGREGOR (2nd BARONET & 19th CHIEF OF CLAN GREGOR ) was born on 02 Jan 1785 in Lanrick, Scotland. He died on 14 Jun 1841 in Windward Islands, Barbados. He married Lady Elizabeth MURRAY on 28 May 1808 in Portman Square, London, England. She was born on 19 Apr 1787 in Scotland. She died on 12 Apr 1846 in Hanover, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sir Evan John MURRAY MACGREGOR (2nd Baronet & 19th Chief of Clan Gregor ) and Lady Elizabeth MURRAY had the following children:

1. EVAN JOHN WILLIAM MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 16 Jul 1819 in India. He died on 28 Jun 1850.

2. ERNEST AUGUSTUS MURRAY was born on 17 Oct 1825 in Brussels (Bruxelles), Belgium. He died on 17 Jan 1869 in India.

3. JAMES STRATHALLAN MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 26 Dec 1821 in 5138, Macau. He died on 12 Jan 1843 in Dominica.

4. FRANCIS ALEXANDER ROBERT MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 17 Oct 1823 in London, England. He died on 25 Sep 1857 in Jubbulpoor, India.

5. ELIZABETH MARY ANNE MURRAY MACGREGOR was born in 1817.

6. LOUISA ISABELLA MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 07 Dec 1815 in India. She died on 03 Jul 1830.

7. RODERICK DHU ALEXANDER MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 23 Sep 1813 in India. He died on 11 May 1814 in Died young.

8. JANE ANNA MARIA MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 08 Apr 1812 in India. She died on 19 Jul 1880.

9. SIR JOHN ATHOLL BANNATYNE MURRAY MACGREGOR (3RD BARONET LIEUT. GOVERNOR VIRGIN ISLANDS) was born on 20 Jan 1810 in Scotland. He died on 11 May 1851 in Tortola.

EVAN MURRAY MACGREGOR (MAJOR GENERAL) was born on 02 Jul 1822 in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England. He died on 28 Feb 1885 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married SOPHIE MARY ANN COLLIER, daughter of Charles Frederick COLLIER and Anna Sophia STRONGE on 07 Mar 1848 in Rajkote, India (Exact Entry: MacGregor, Lieut. Evan M. 2nd L.C. to Sophia Mary Anne, d. of C.F. Collier, surg. 2nd L.C. at Rajkote, March 7.). She was born on 18 Oct 1830. She died on 05 Feb 1885 in 101 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Evan Murray MACGREGOR (Major General) and Sophie Mary Ann COLLIER had the following children:

1. ISABELLE MARGUERITE (ELLA MURRAY) MACGREGOR was born on 28 Feb 1856 in Nusseerabad. She married Colonel BELL in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland.

2. CHARLES FREDERICK MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 28 Dec 1852 in Scotland. He died in Dec 1928 in Pontefract, W Yorkshire, England. He married Mary Douglas CROSSMAN on 07 Sep 1880. She was born in 1860 in Cape Colony. She died on 20 Mar 1920 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

3. CHARLOTTE FRANCES MACGREGOR was born on 22 Aug 1850 in Rajcote, India. She died in 1918 in Nelson, New Zealand. She married DR. ALFRED LEGGATT.

4. EVAN (EVIE) MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 12 May 1860.

5. JANET LUCIE MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 02 Sep 1864 in Kullidgee, India. She died on 28 Jun 1937. She married Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON, son of Bassett (3) DICKSON

and Mary Skuse BROWN on 31 Aug 1889 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 01 Dec 1860. He died on 14 Jul 1939 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. “MURRAY-MACGREGOR was born on 02 Sep 1864 in Kullidgee, India (Exact Entry: September 2nd at Kulludjee the wife of Major E Murray-Macgregor Southern Mahratta Horse of a daughter).”

6. SOPHIE GRACE (GRACIE MURRAY) MACGREGOR was born on 24 Oct 1858. She died on 28 Oct 1860.

7. EVAN JOHN MACGREGOR.

8. SOPHIA MACGREGOR was born about 1867. She died about 1867.

ALEXANDER NUGENT MURRAY

MACGREGOR (CAPT. 66TH BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY) was born on 19 Feb 1811 in Kinsale Barracks, Kinsale, Ireland. He died on 13 Nov 1845 in Hansi, East Indies (Register Entry: At Hansi on the 13th Nov Brevet Captain ANM MacGregor 66th Regt NI & Adjutant of the Hurrianah Light Infantry Battalion). He married Eleanor HOPPER, daughter of Henry Hudson HOPPER (Sgt H.M 38th Foot) and Sarah on 10 Jul 1835 in Chunar Church, Chunar, Uttar Pradesh India. She was born in 1817 in Ireland.

Alexander Nugent MURRAY MACGREGOR (Capt. 66th Bengal Native Infantry) and Eleanor HOPPER had the following children:

1. GRACE CHARLOTTE MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 04 May 1836 in Baitool, East India. She died on 23 Feb 1846 in Cawnpore, Bengal, India.

2. ALEXANDER CAITHNESS RONALD MUNRO MACGREGOR (BENGAL UNCOVENANTED CIVIL SERVICE) was born on 28 Jan 1838 in Hussingabad, India. He died on 22 Jul 1873 in West Bengal, India. He married Jessie Miller BAIRNSFATHER, daughter of Peter BAIRNSFATHER (Writer to the Signet) and Sarah Every MILLER on 19 Nov 1867 in Abbeyvilla, St Andrews, Scotland. She was born on 13 May 1848 in Rescbie, Angus, Scotland. She died on 19 Oct 1905 in Glenross, Havelock North, New Zealand.

HELEN JANE CAMPBELL MACGREGOR was born about 1821 in England. She died on 13 May 1860 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. She married ALEXANDER KERR. He was born between 1811-1831.

Helen Jane Campbell MACGREGOR and Alexander KERR had the following children:

1. JOHN (COL.) MACGREGOR KERR was born on 05 Apr 1839 in India. He died on 30 Dec 1915 in Folkestone, Kent, England. He married JANETTA MARGARET NAIRNE in 1879. She was born in 1850 in Collace, Perthshire, Scotland.

Janet Lucie, Evan and Charlotte Frances MacGregor

2. CHARLOTTE SARAH FRANCES KERR was born in 1841 in Penang, Malaysia. She died on 16 Apr 1924 in 8 Park Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. She married JOHN (DR.) PRINGLE about 1866. He was born about 1818 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He died on 23 Aug 1898 in 13 Abbotsford Park, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

3. HELEN ISABELLA RAMSAY KERR was born in 1843.

4. AMELIA KERR was born in 1845.

FRANCES (FANNY) GRACE HAY MACGREGOR was born about 1817 in Scotland. She died on 30 Nov 1889 in Middlesex, England. She married EDWARD EVERY MILLER. He was born about 1809. He died in Oct 1877 in Samford, Suffolk, England.

Frances (Fanny) Grace Hay MACGREGOR and Edward Every MILLER had the following children:

1. CHARLOTTE JANE SOPHIA (LADY) MILLER was born about 1839 in Madras, Kamptee. She died in 1880. She married Frederick Paul HAINES Field Marshall, son of Gregory HAINES and Hannah ELDRIDGE in 1856. He was born on 10 Aug 1819 in Kirdford, Sussex, England. He died on 11 Jun 1909 in Hartlepool, Durham, England.

2. EDWARD (COL.) MILLER was born in 1841. He married DOVA S CLARK. She was born between 1831-1851.

3. FANNY JESSIE MATILDA MILLER was born about 1844. She died on 30 Mar 1911 in Suffolk, England.

4. HENRY EVERY MILLER was born in Australia.

5. AMY SINCLAIR MILLER. She died on 02 Feb 1940 in Surrey, England.

6. FRANCIS MILLER. He died in 1911.

JOHN (GENERAL) MACGREGOR was born on 12 May 1819 in Stockton-on-Tees, Yorkshire, England. He died in 1891 in Folkestone, Kent, England. He married BARBARA FEATHERSTONE. She was born between 1809-1829.

John MACGREGOR and Barbara FEATHERSTONE had the following children:

1. John (General) MACGREGOR and Barbara FEATHERSTONE had the following children:

2. CHARLOTTE MACGREGOR was born in 1843.

3. CHARLOTTE MACGREGOR was born on 20 Nov 1861. She married JOHN ELPHINSTONE.

4. ALEXANDER MACGREGOR was born on 10 Jun 1845. He married Gertrude Lawrence PRICE on 09 Jan 1863.

5. JANET MACGREGOR was born in 1847. She married Dr Arnold SMITH-WYNNE in 1867 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

6. JOHN NUGENT MACGREGOR was born on 15 Mar 1861.

HELEN JANE MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 11 Jun 1868. She married Frederick Robertson TWYNAM, son of Thomas Holloway TWYNAM and Mary Cecilia SUMMERFIELD on 11 Jun 1868 in St George’s Cathedreal Tamil Nadu. He was born on 25 Jun 1842 in Point-De-Galle, Galle. He died on 28 May 1916 in Harlyn, Waldron, Sussex, England.

Helen Jane MURRAY MACGREGOR and Frederick Robertson TWYNAM had the following children:

1. FANNY MACGREGOR. She married ALEXANDER CHORLEY DAVIDSON.

2. FRANCES MACGREGOR was born about 1851.

ISABELLE MARGUERITE (ELLA MURRAY) MACGREGOR was born on 28 Feb 1856 in Nusseerabad. She married Colonel BELL in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Isabelle Marguerite (Ella Murray) MACGREGOR and Colonel BELL had the following children:

1. ALECK BELL.

2. MARY MARGARET BELL.

3. WILLIAM BELL.

4. ERIC SINCLAIR BELL.

5. HARRY BELL.

6. CARLYLE BELL.

7. MURIEL BELL.

CHARLES FREDERICK MACGREGOR was born on 28 Dec 1852 in Scotland. He died in Dec 1928 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. He married Mary Douglas CROSSMAN on 07 Sep 1880. She was born in 1860 in Cape Colony. She died on 20 Mar 1920 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

Charles Frederick MACGREGOR and Mary Douglas CROSSMAN had the following children:

1. KENNETH MACGREGOR was born about 1886. He married (1) FLORENCE GRIFFITHS. He married (2) KATE HUTTON.

2. CONSTANCE HELEN MURRAY MACGREGOR was born in 1892 in Bristish Bechuanaland.

3. ATHOLL MURRAY MACGREGOR was born about 1888. He married Gladys DEWHURST on 29 Dec 1917.

4. EVAN DOUGLAS MACGREGOR was born about 1890. He died about 1890.

5. SHEILA GWYNETH MACGREGOR was born about 1894. She died about 1894.

CHARLOTTE FRANCES MACGREGOR was born on 22 Aug 1850 in Rajcote, India. She died in 1918 in Nelson, New Zealand. She married DR. ALFRED LEGGATT.

Charlotte Frances MACGREGOR and Dr Alfred LEGGATT had the following children:

1. HUGH SINCLAIR LEGGATT was born in 1880 in Sunbury, Victoria, Australia. He died in 1960 in Nelson, New Zealand.

2. IRENE LEGGAT.

3. EVAN LEGGAT.

4. ASHLEY LEGGAT.

5. VERA LEGGAT.

6. ERIC ALFRED LEGGATT was born on 29 Nov 1874 in Rajkot, Gujarat, India. He died in Jun 1949.

JANET LUCIE MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 02 Sep 1864 in Kullidgee, India. She died on 28 Jun 1937. She married Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON, son of Bassett (3) DICKSON and Mary Skuse BROWN on 31 Aug 1889 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 01 Dec 1860. He died on 14 Jul 1939 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania,

Australia.

Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR and Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON had the following children:

Janet Lucie Murray MacGregor

1. BASSETT (5) RICHARD DICKSON was born on 07 Sep 1890. He died on 29 Mar 1907 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

2. ROY SINCLAIR DICKSON was born in Nov 1891. He died on 21 Oct 1938 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Ellen HARE on 19 Oct 1918 in West Cholderton, Wiltshire. She was born in 1895 in Norfolk, England. She died on 10 Jun 1984 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia.

3. SOPHIA MARY DICKSON was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Alan Francis JEANNERET, son of Francis Edward JEANNERET and Augusta Bassett HULL on 03 Feb 1926. He was born on 05 May 1899 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

ALEXANDER CAITHNESS RONALD MUNRO MACGREGOR (BENGAL UNCOVENANTED CIVIL SERVICE) was born on 28 Jan 1838 in Hussingabad, India. He died on 22 Jul 1873 in West Bengal, India. He married Jessie Miller BAIRNSFATHER, daughter of Peter BAIRNSFATHER (Writer to the Signet) and Sarah Every MILLER on 19 Nov 1867 in Abbeyvilla, St Andrews, Scotland. She was born on 13 May 1848 in Rescbie, Angus, Scotland. She died on 19 Oct 1905 in Glenross, Havelock North, New Zealand.

Alexander Caithness Ronald Munro MACGREGOR and Jessie Miller BAIRNSFATHER had the following children:

1. ALICK EVAN CAITHNESS MURRAY-MACGREGOR was born in 1869 in West Bengal, India. He died on 02 Nov 1899 in Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. He married Ritihia (Letitia or Titiha) PONGO (PAORA) on 11 Apr 1896 in Wellington, New Zealand. She was born about 1870 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. She died about 1918 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

2. KENNETH ROBERT MUNRO MURRAY-MACGREGOR was born on 17 May 1871 in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan. He died on 15 Oct 1945 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. He married Jessie Maud COLE in 1906 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

JOHN (COL.) MACGREGOR KERR was born on 05 Apr 1839 in India. He died on 30 Dec 1915 in Folkestone, Kent, England. He married JANETTA MARGARET NAIRNE in 1879. She was born in 1850 in Collace, Perthshire, Scotland.

John (Col.) Macgregor KERR and Janetta Margaret Nairne had the following children:

1. IDA ELIZA MELLIS KERR was born about 1886 in Secunderabad, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. She died on 12 Aug 1937 in London, England.

2. LORRINE M KERR was born about 1893 in Scotland.

3. EVAN SINCLAIR KERR was born about 1892 in Scotland. He died in Sep 1990 in Chichester, Sussex, England.

4. ALEXANDER (COL.) NAIRN KERR was born on 07 Jun 1882 in Secunderabad, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He died in 1964 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. He married an unknown spouse in Dec 1922 in Kensington, London.

Alick Evan Caithness Murray Macgregor

5. IDA MARGARE (LADY) KERR was born about 1888. She married Charles John (5th Baronet) OAKELEY on 20 Jan 1934. He was born on 14 Aug 1862. He died on 20 Jul 1938.

6. LORRAINE MACGREGOR KERR was born about 1890. She died in 1957. She married Ellen Beatrice OAKELEY on 15 Jun 1922. He was born on 16 Jan 1891. He died in 1967.

7. JANE FRANCES KERR was born about 1886 in Madras, East Indies. She married Archibald George Blomefield RUSSELL on 25 Nov 1915. He was born on 20 Jun 1879 in England. He died on 30 Nov 1955.

CHARLOTTE SARAH FRANCES KERR was born in 1841 in Penang, Malaysia. She died on 16 Apr 1924 in 8 Park Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. She married JOHN (DR.) PRINGLE about 1866. He was born about 1818 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He died on 23 Aug 1898 in 13 Abbotsford Park, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Charlotte Sarah Frances KERR and John (Dr.) PRINGLE had the following children:

1. AMY CHARLOTTE PRINGLE was born about 1868 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. She died on 27 Apr 1947 in 1 Arboretum Road, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2. GRACE ROSE PRINGLE was born about 1871 in 27 Ruthland Square, Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Midlothian, Scotland. She died on 05 May 1926 in Corisande, 8 Park Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.

3. HELEN MARGARET FRANCES PRINGLE was born about 1874 in Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland. She died on 16 Jan 1941 in Heath Bank, Boat of Garten, Edinburgh, Scotland.

4. GEORGE LORRAINE (DR.) KERR PRINGLE was born about 1869 in 27 Rutland Sqr, Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Midlothian, Scotland. He died on 06 Nov 1961 in 16 Charles Cope Road, Orton Longueville, Huntingdonshire, England. He married (1) EMILY WILKIE about 1895. She was born on 28 Nov 1870 in 191 Bath

St, Glasgow Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland. She died on 26 Nov 1920 in 2 Springfield Avenue, Ripon Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. He married (2) DOROTHY ISABEL GRADON on 30 Sep 1923 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. She was born in 1894 in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India. She died after 1961 in 16 Charles Cope Road, Orton Longueville, Huntingdonshire, England.

CHARLOTTE JANE SOPHIA (LADY) MILLER was born about 1839 in Madras, Kamptee. She died in 1880. She married Frederick Paul HAINES (Field Marshall & Commander in Charge India) son of Gregory HAINES and Hannah ELDRIDGE on 2 Sept 1856. He was born on 10 Aug 1819 in Kirdford, Sussex, England. He died on 11 Jun 1909 in Hartlepool, Durham, England and was buried at Brompton Cemetry 16 Jun 1909. Charlotte Jane Sophia (Lady) MILLER and Frederick Paul HAINES Field Marshall had the following children:

1. FREDERICK EDWARD GRANT HAINES was born on 22 Jul 1857 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He died on 13 Oct 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2. GREGORY SINCLAIR HAINES was born on 14 Nov 1858 in East Indian, Baughurst. He died on 04 Feb 1921 in Farnham, Surrey, England.

3. EVAN PAUL ARBUTHNOT HAINES was born on 19 May 1860 in Madras. He died on 08 Dec 1896 in Coolgardie, Western Australia, Australia. He married ELLEN BARRIS. Notes for Evan Paul Arbuthnot HAINES: Evan P. A. Haines was Gazetted as 2nd Lt. in the Royal Cheshire Infantry on March 15, 1880. On Nov. 23, 1881, the Gazette reported that he had resigned his commission. Extract: London Gazette 22/11/1881. Five years later, Haines accidentally drowned in a causeway canal of the Swan River near Perth, Australia. He had been attempting to fetch a bucket of water and had slipped down the steep

embankment into the water. He was just 36 years old.

EDWARD (COL.) MILLER was born in 1841. He married DOVA S CLARK. She was born between 1831-1851.

Edward (Col.) MILLER and Dova S CLARK had the following children:

1. AMY MILLER was born about 1877.

2. CHARLOTTE MILLER was born about 1875.

3. PATRICK MILLER was born about 1880. He died in 1912 in Thailand.

4. EDWARD THOMAS EVERY MILLER was born about 1872. He died in 1923. He married Alicia M RUSSELL in 1898. She was born between 1862-1882.

5. GRACE MARGARET MILLER was born about 1870. She married ALFRED FOSTER GRAYDON. He was born between 1860-1880.

HELEN JANE MURRAY MACGREGOR was born on 11 Jun 1868. She married Frederick Robertson TWYNAM, son of Thomas Holloway TWYNAM and Mary Cecilia SUMMERFIELD on 11 Jun 1868 in St George’s Cathedral, Tamil Nadu. He was born on 25 Jun 1842 in Point-De-Galle, Galle. He died on 28 May 1916 in Harlyn, Waldron, Sussex, England.

Helen Jane Murray MACGREGOR and Frederick Robertson TWYNAM had the following child:

1. THOMAS MCGREGOR TWYNAM was born on 11 Jun 1869 in Tamil Nadu, India. He died on 29 Jan 1932 in Lanrick, Crossin hand, Sussex.

KENNETH MACGREGOR was born about 1886. He married (1) FLORENCE GRIFFITHS. He married (2) KATE HUTTON.

Kenneth MACGREGOR and Florence GRIFFITHS had the following children:

1. IRIS MACGREGOR.

2. IAN SINCLAIR MACGREGOR.

SOPHIA MARY DICKSON was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Alan Francis JEANNERET, son of Francis Edward JEANNERET and Augusta Bassett HULL on 03 Feb 1926. He was born on 05 May 1899 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Sophia Mary DICKSON and Alan Francis JEANNERET had the following children:

1. RUTH FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 15 Mar 1929. She married (1) JOHN COULSON in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married (2) JOHN C.W. THROWER. He was born in England. He died in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. ROBIN ALAN DICKSON JEANNERET was born on 09 May 1931. He died on 29 Apr 2011 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) CHRISTINE REED. He married (2) MABEL BROWN on 16 Jun 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Rosemary PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

ALICK EVAN CAITHNESS MURRAY-MACGREGOR was born in 1869 in West Bengal, India. He died on 02 Nov 1899 in Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. He married Ritihia (Letitia or Titiha) PONGO (PAORA) on 11 Apr 1896 in Wellington, New Zealand. She was born about 1870 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. She died about 1918 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

Alick Evan Caithness MURRAY-MACGREGOR and Ritihia (Letitia or Titiha) PONGO (PAORA) had the following children:

1. JOHN CAITHNESS MURRAY-MACGREGOR was born in 1897 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. He died in 1966 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

2. HUGH EVAN MURRAY-MACGREGOR was born on 01 Jan 1899 in Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. He died in 1968 in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

3. WALTER ROBERT PETER MURRAY-MACGREGOR was born on 28 May 1900 in Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. He died on 17 Mar 1974 in Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.

JANE FRANCES KERR was born about 1886 in Madras, East Indies. She married Archibald George Blomefield RUSSELL on 25 Nov 1915. He was born on 20 Jun 1879 in U.K. He died on 30 Nov 1955.

Jane Frances KERR and Archibald George Blomefield RUSSELL had the following children:

1. CHARLES JAMES LENNOX RUSSELL was born on 19 Apr 1920. He died between 1940-1945.

2. JOHN ANTHONY PEREGRINE RUSSELL was born on 15 Nov 1916 in U.K.. He died between 1940-1945.

EDWARD THOMAS EVERY MILLER was born about 1872. He died in 1923. He married Alicia M RUSSELL in 1898. She was born between 1862-1882.

Edward Thomas Every MILLER and Alicia M RUSSELL had the following children:

1. SHEILA MILLER was born about 1899.

2. KENNETH EVERY MILLER was born about 1902.

GRACE MARGARET MILLER was born about 1870. She married ALFRED FOSTER GRAYDON. He was born between 1860-1880.

Grace Margaret MILLER and Alfred Foster GRAYDON had the following child:

1. DOROTHY ISABEL GRAYDON was born about 1895.

COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Rosemary PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Colin Bassett JEANNERET and Rosemary PHILP had the following children:

1. NEIL JEANNERET was born on 08 Feb 1956 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) Carolyn Jarvis, (2) Gwenda PEARCE, daughter of Edwin John PEARCE and Elsie Ellen BEALE on 02 Oct 2004. She was born on 07 Nov 1954.

2. IAN KEITH JEANNERET was born on 10 Jan 1958 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Catherine Sally MAXWELL, daughter of Alan Peter MAXWELL and Heather Mary PARKER on 27 Dec 1980 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 03 May 1961 in Hobart.

3. GUY JEANNERET was born on 07 Nov 1962 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Tana Kracjinga. She died and guy married Carol BARTON. They have four children.

4. LINDA JEANNERET was born on 05 Nov 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married RONALD LEACH.

Diary of Mrs Sophie Mary Ann Murray McGregorIn the year 1837 I parted with my dear Father who accompanied Fredericke & myself to Bombay from Ahmedabad, and on the 14th of March following I embarked for England on the Ship “Gilmore” Captain Lyndsey in charge of Miss Handcock. After a voyage of five months we arrived at Brighton & immediately went on to Hastings, Miss Handcock’s home. On our road there I saw the Lilac the first flower I had ever seen in England & it afforded in me such delight. I hence think I even now like any other flower so much. I remained with Miss Handcock almost a week and truly sorry I was to leave such a kind friend. She put me onto the Hastings Stage Coach & “under the care of the Coachman I arrived in London in the evening”, scarcely had the Coach stopped when an old Lady with a formidable large wig looked in at the window & exclaimed “Oh Charlotte I declare if she is not the image of her Father”. She then introduced herself to me as my Grandmother, she took in a Coach to my Aunt Thompsons house, the door was scarcely opened when a young Lady of about 14 (with one side of her hair braided & the other curled) ran out & very nearly choked me with kisses, this I found was my Cousin Charlotte - she was the kindest Friend I ever possessed, for five years she was as kind & good to me as anyone could be and gave me a very good foundation on one’s education. After remaining in London a few days I went in with my Grandmother to Leicester, Soon after our arrival I saw my Brother James who was then a great big boy of about twelve years old. After looking at me for some minutes he came (at my Grandmothers request) & gave me a fine fat kiss, he afterwards never took any more notice of me except to tease me as much as lay in his power. The next years of my life were spent in learning lessons & going every 22nd of July to Leicester and returning to London the next September and I must not omit to say that during the whole of that my Aunt & Uncle were all kindness to me - Unfortunately my Father and my Mothers relations never could agree and after much unpleasant correspondence, she desired me to be sent to his Sister in Paris who henceforth

took me under her charge, this was in July 1843 and from that to July 1847 I spent as unhappy a time as possible. Soon after my arrival in Paris I was taken very ill and I was for three year’s scarcely even out of my bed I suffered much in mind and body, for my Aunt was not possessed with an amiable temper, and our quarrels were frequent and long. She had certainly had many misfortunes to sour her temper and I must strive to forgive her, her great unfriendliness to my poor old Grandfather and myself, in him I found a truly kind and loving heart and he was the only one I regretted when I left France. When not ill I went to parties on all nights of the week and spent the whole of my time in company, however my health became worse day by day and the last Winter I was in Paris only able to get out of the house six times, I became so weak and ill I could scarcely walk, when to my inexpressible joy Major Brooks arrived from India with instructions from my Father to have me sent out as soon as possible. So after much fitting on of dresses I at last started with my Aunt Elaine for Southampton. After a stay of three days I was put on board the P. & O. S. N. L. Steamer the “Sultana” and under the care of Mrs Barr. My Aunt cried much & was almost the last on the pier to shake a very pretty blue pocket-handkerchief at me. A month before I left France my Aunt & Uncle & Cousin came to see me I was very glad to see them, but my ideas were so altered that I am sorry to say I laughed much then and was astonished at their homely ways and old fashioned dress that made me quite ashamed of them before my fashionable French Friends.

-- Voyage to India

in August 1847--

Steamer “Sultana”, Captain Brooks, Passengers General & Mrs Barr, Mrs Duff, Misses Ferguson & Miss Keys, Mr & Mrs Sodwick, Captain Inglefield & Misses McLester, Clements, Woodhouse, Wainright & Keys.

The weather was rough & stormy till we arrived at Gibraltar on the 6th. I scarcely saw it as we started again before morning, but it was the most beautiful

sight I can recollect to watch the little private boats with many coloured lights slide silently into the different clubs on the opposite coast & then to turn round & see Gibraltar lighted up & looking an immense place by moonlight. We arrived at Malta in ten days that passed very pleasantly & smoothly past. We immediately landed and went to see the Governors gardens, a very pretty place well filled with fruits and flowers but nothing else remarkable. We then went to visit St. Johns Church and were

shown all through it by a friend of Mrs Barr who was kind enough to have it all uncovered for us, it is without exception one of the most beautiful and interesting Churches I have ever seen. The upper part is entirely hung with silk tapestries & pictures. Along the sides of the Church (which were of immense length) were small chapels dedicated to the principal Knights of Malta & beautiful statues of each. The one that struck me most was a statue of the brother of Louis Phillipe, he is represented by lying down with a cross & sword in his hand.

We embarked again the same evening & after a pleasant voyage arrived at Alexandria on the 24th We spent the day with a friend of Mrs Barr, a very pleasant gentlemanly man, his house has suites in the Egyptian style. A large front yard with flowers surrounded on all sides by extensive galleries and verandahs the rooms large and beautifully furnished but we were obliged to leave the same evening & get into the wretched boat that took us down the Mahmoudie Canal, we reached the Nile during the night & were delighted to get into another little boat or rather steamer which though not much larger; we were accommodated with

a room for the ladies a very great comfort. We reached Cairo on the 26th and truly glad I was to get there for I suffered more during these few days than the whole of the rest of the journey for the heat was fearful & the cabin was so small & full of legions of insects of all kinds that all were obliged to remain on deck all day with only a thin canvas awning over our head & the blaze of the scorching sun of Egypt on the water was fearful. On arriving at Cairo we went to an excellent hotel & from the windows I saw the pyramids, which I thought dirty old things. We started next day at two o’clock in vans which took us at a very good pace through the desert; we halted at every twelve miles at places they called hotels but which were more like barns there was a good dinner ready at each of them, & good beds for those who did not mind all kinds of insects. We arrived at Suez the next day at ten o’clock & a more uninteresting place I never saw, there were no sights to be seen, so we remained grumbling at the hotel all day.

In the evening we embarked in the steamer

“Atlanta”, Captain Gordon & arrived after a dreadfully hot voyage at Aden on the 28th We did not land but changed ships & went on board “H.M.S. Semeitas”, Captain Daniel and after a pleasant voyage of eight days we arrived in sight of Bombay harbour. Scarcely had the vessel anchored when my Father & Fred came on board, and once with them I felt that all my troubles were over for immediately saw that my Father was the good tempered kind hearted (man) I ever after found him. We all three got into a frantic state of delight, & kissed each other till my bonnet was almost

Mahmoudie Canal

Byculla Club, Bombay, India

knocked to pieces by my Father I took leave of all my fellow passengers half crazy with joy, the novelties of the scene the questions and answers of my Father & Fred. In the Bundee boat I had a good cry of joy & felt much better when I landed. After being placed by my Father in three different sorts of conveyance at last a man agreed to get me to Mrs Brooks where he was staying. Miss Budd, now Mrs Brennan, showed me every kind of attention & I spent a most delightful time in Bombay. A few days after my arrival Fred gave a dejeuner a la fumiletta (but hot) which would here seem very pleasant in a different place & with a few different persons, I was fried alive & truly glad to get out of the ship, this display was given in honour of his new ship the “Sarah” as a kind of ship warming. On September the 19th a grand ball was given by “the members of the Byculla Club” at which I liked that part of the Bombay Society who were not gone to Poonah & Mahabeleshwar & such a set of plain dirty & ill mannered Ladies I never saw. The Ball was however very good and went off exceedingly well, although there were only half a dozen Portuguese cooks who played some old fiddles for us to dance to.

On the 20th my Father, Miss Budd & myself set off to Khandola we sailed through the harbour which is a beautiful one intersected with islands covered with green trees. We sailed till evening when we arrived at Panerell, a curious looking Native town with a dirty Bungalow for travellers. Immediately on arriving we got into a crazy old cart and continued at the peril of our

necks to reach the bottom of the Bece Ghat in it. We then got into palanquins that took us to Khandola in a few hours, on getting to the bungalow they immediately brought us dinner & never in my life was I so hungry for my poor Father with his usual management had not brought provisions enough

for us. Early the next morning we went to see the beautiful mountains that surrounded us, & such a grand sight I never saw in all my life for we stood on the top of one of the highest mountains in the world all covered with majestic trees and a roaring stream ran down between the mountains, but a heavy shower set forth to our great regret we were obliged to leave. A few hours after Mrs Budd left us for Poonah and about four o’clock we began to retrace our steps home. I now first began to be really sensible of a great change in my health from my kind Fathers excellent treatment, the change of air, for I managed to walk a long way down the side of these beautiful ghats. We reached Panerell later at night nearly dead with hunger & managed to get a sudden death (that is a chicken filled & roasted & brought on the table at five minutes notice) Scarcely had we done when my Father as usual insisted on getting on in such a desperate hurry, so we had to get into the wretched Bundee boat & as soon we were

comfortably settled found we could not start till three or four the next morning, so we did not reach Bombay till twelve o’clock on Sunday morning.

On the 22nd we went to dine at Dr. Brennons & had an excellent dinner but the poor man after looking remarkably stupid & unhappy gave me a letter as I

left his house, which I found was in plain words “an offer” But although I greatly esteemed him & loved him as a Brother I had Not the slightest intention of marrying him & my Father was quite delighted at having such a negative letter to write. A few days after we embarked in Fred’s Vessel & arrived at Gogha a day & half after on the 28th. After a fearful bustle about getting Carts Bullocks etc. after having to send for half the luggage that had been forgotten & left on board Fred’s ship we continued to allay our craving appetite although we had nothing but penknives to cut our dinner with and the hamper had been forgotten.

On the 1st of October I mounted my Father’s old “Black” & went 16 miles to Waitigo rather a pretty little place with plenty of Mangoe trees & parrots, the village is rather a large & industrious one.

On the 3rd. arrived at Barbara, a small village with a smaller river, & a great many Peacocks a very unhealthy & cholera catching place. The same evening went on to Ancota a Village with a large river & beautiful fish that no one is allowed to catch on account of the number of Brahmins that live there. We found Carts waiting for us so we only stopped to get a cup of milk & reached Rajcote desperately tired the next morning at 8 o’clock the 5th October 1847

The Camp Rajcote is a small & ugly one, few trees, no gardens, no fruits or flowers but it is a beautiful climate. I must however say I was much disgusted with it on my arrival. The 2nd Cavalry & 21st nfantry were there & amongst other Visitors Mr. Macgregor & Captain Simpson called on me a few days after my arrival.

On the 3rd of November the Cavalry gave a pretty little Ball in their Mess room & Mr Macgregor & myself danced a great deal together ……………………

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We went to a good sized Tent lighted up by numerous torches & oil lights, the tent was lined down the sides with the infantry native officers in full dress (as the Nautch was in their honor) at the further end of the tent were some half dozen girls & a few men with instruments the drum & the tom toms with which they made a deafening noise. After throwing rose water over us one girl in a dress very short & full covered with spangles & gold & silver tinsel came forward & began a melancholy sort of song & walked slowly from one side of the tent to the other shuffling her feet to make a noise with bells on her toes, this entertained for some minutes when she became more & more animated threw her arms about put her head and body in many positions, & the song became louder & louder, she kept this up till she was tired & then another one takes it up & goes through exactly the same performance. I must say I was greatly disappointed for the girl was ugly & old.

Evan and myself spent the next three months till our marriage very uncomfortably. My health was so bad I reproached myself for not telling him and that was impossible & sometimes I thought I should be obliged to tell him I had too bad health to marry & let him off his engagement unless he would wait till I was better.

1848 In January we went to another ball at Major Langs we used to be so delighted at giving many balls & parties, as it was almost our only opportunity of having a little tete a tete

On February the 7th I was bridesmaid to Miss Simpson the breakfast did not go off very well for they heard about a few hours before they were married that his brother, “ The Squire”, was dead. At five o’clock Mr & Mrs Moyle went off for their honeymoon in a bullocks Sharree together to a village about ten miles from here called Peronis.

We were much shocked to hear that day of the murder of poor Lieut. Lock who had left for a change of air after having the jaundice. He was

murdered by 12 Macrannies about 10 miles from Porteunder. They shot him (probably) as he rode along for he was shot through the neck. The Servant that accompanied him was also shot dead through the chest, but none of their things were stolen. The Macrannies were afterwards caught & put in prison at Poretunder, but as they tried to shoot their sentinels to make their escape, the rest of the sentries came up & shot them all.

March 6th Today the Reverend H.Shwabb came to lunch & brought the license to which some signatures were required & the “Marriage Settlement “ as my Father was pleased to call it was settled & signed.

March 7th was my wedding day. At half past ten we got into dear Evan’s carriage & got to church I am afraid rather late for I felt very unwell. Major & Mrs Finlayson, Mr &. Mrs Moyle, Mr & Mrs Simpson, Captain Prescott & Mr. Hunter who was our best man were at church. Mrs Simpson acted bridesmaid for her little girl “Fanney”. We were of course told several times during the service what to do & as soon as it was over returned together & followed Evan at his particular request to cross the threshold first.

The Breakfast was very good & neatly laid in the mess tent. Major Henly made a speech about “Streams of life & waves of misfortunes” which though not very intelligible we knew wished us all kinds of happiness. The band was playing Scotch tunes all breakfast time & everything went off exceeding well. After breakfast there was dancing till nearly two o’clock when the Ladies retired & the Gentlemen went into the tents & drank Evan & my health till four o’clock. The persons present at my wedding were Colonel & Mrs Landwith, Miss Leyland, Major & Mrs Neulyan, Mr & Mrs Barr, Mr & Mrs Simpson, Mr & Mrs Moyle, Mr & Mrs Barnswell, Tucker Blair, Smith Lawrie, Drs Fraser & Davidson.

When the Ladies left our house I went into my room & sat down quite tired & after all the excitement quite in low spirits, but as my Ayah had gone on I was obliged to set to work immediately folding my

dress of which consisted in a white silk dress with three flounces the body open in front with a small feather, I wore a veil with a wreath of white flowers around my head & a bunch of orange blossoms on my dress. My room looked so miserable & my poor Father was really very sorry at my leaving him & so I was truly sorry for it so I cried well & felt the better, we then went to the drawing room too. Soon after my husband came I think I shall never forget what a strange thing it seemed to think he really was my husband, at four o’clock just as I had gone to put on my dress to start poor James came very dirty & tired after having travelled as fast as he could in Coventry carts & doing his very best to arrive at my wedding. I was indeed truly glad to see him but how altered to what I recollected him a healthy overgrown boy brought up at ---- with large nailed shoes, corduroys, he was now a fine tall fellow, very good looking, but had a hoarseness in his throat from the wound he had acquired at the fight at Levant Warrie his voice was rough & very low, I was so sorry to be obliged to leave him in about half an hour after not having seen him for eight years! At five o’clock we went off in the carriage & drove for about two miles when the roads being too bad we got into a palanquin & Evan rode by my side till eight o’clock when we arrived at our destination, a small village with a large bunch of trees & a pretty little river with plenty of fish. We found the tents very nicely pitched and everything was as arranged with such regard to my comfort that I thought impossible in such an out of the way place. We found dinner ready for us but were not much inclined for it. We remained in the pretty place till the 18th, and truly sorry I was to leave it for we had spent a very pleasant time there but a few light showers set in & my Father wrote up to say it would be very unwholesome to remain there although I do not indeed I am sure it would not have been. So we started early the next morning and rode all the way back into camp the heat was tremendous & I was quite hunched up when I arrived at home at 8 o’clock. I now have for the first time my future home & the first house I was ever Mistress of, it consists in one drawing room, one bedroom & two dressing rooms. Evan had furnished it very handsomely & with great taste & it looked so pretty I was quite delighted. As our servants had not

arrived we spent the first day at my Fathers & he gave me a beautiful white cashmere shawl.

On the 21st of March James returned from a shooting excursion of a few days & I was so glad to see him, and although he only made a stay of about 20 days after I had time to find in him an excellent heart, a perfect gentleman in his thought & ideas & a very affectionate brother.

Nothing of any note happened for the rest of the year.

1849 Fred having been taken very ill in Bombay came here for my Father’s advice and a change of air but I am sorry to say he had such a high idea of himself that he did not think we treated him with sufficient respect however one evening poor Evan had had fever and sent to tell him not to come after a great many uncomfortable explanations with them we have made it up as to take them out to a picnic with us to Herontalow a village about 19 miles off. We started together on horseback at 3 in the morning and I had a delightful ride for a few miles when my dear father’s horse as usual went dead lame but after meditating some time how we should get him on, some grosscutters of the regiment came by and we made one of them get of his foltoo and my father mounted it however he would not allow us to wait for him as he could only get on at a slow pace so after a good canter we came to our tents that had been pitched halfway at 8 o’clock and grilling hot it was. My father came up at 9 and we rested till five o’clock, when we mounted our gallant steeds and arrived at Herontalow at about eight o’clock at night.

Dear Evan shot a good many Black Bucks, Deer, Culeemb. Oh but I cannot say much for the shooting of the rest of the party but they succeeded very well in the fishing line. We had been here about 7 days when Fred received a letter from Bombay that he said compelled him to go immediately, & he was I think very glad to be off, we should not have cared for his going away but that he took my Father with

him. We remained out our ten days & then followed him.

On the 7th March (our wedding day) we went to a dinner party at my Fathers who had promised us a piece of bacon, as we had never had a quarrel during the whole year, the bacon certainly was on the table but unfortunately we never had it given us. During this month Captain Jackson of the 9th Cavalry a man with a large red beard & and as plain as one can fancy arrived here from Bolimere. We gave a large dinner party in his honor that all acknowledged was a capitol one & our silver looked beautiful.

In April my Father went to Bally Churia, a village on the sea coast about 40 miles from here it is a beautiful climate but a barren country like all the rest of Hotyawar

In this month we heard that my poor dear Grandfather had fallen down & broken his arm, but was getting well fast. Little Elaine trying to make me believe “forget & forgive” her conduct toward Father I do forgive her with my whole … her conduct to me & I would do … good in my … but I cannot … behavior to her kind hearted old … to her & sweet unfortunate sister!

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On May the 28th my dear Husband sprained his foot at parade, & was home two (weeks) before he got over it. It was certainly very wrong but I was really delighted to have an opportunity of showing him how pleased I was to be of any use to him, & it also gave me a great deal of his company, which though I have been married so long I am as pleased to get as the first day of our ‘wedded life’.

On June 6th the rain set in in good earnest, and on the 23rd of this month we heard of the death of Mr Cruickshank from Mr Miller (I think).

July 1st was dear Evan’s birthday when he arrived at the reverend age of 27.

July 28th the rains began terribly today & continued for a long time the lightning was frightful & the

frogs croaked (I should think) to their hearts delight for they made a terrible noise in a pool in our compound. Fred went to England, the month before last & has improved wonderfully.

On October the 1st stopped with Mrs Trevalyan started with dear Evan on horseback at five in the afternoon & rode five miles then got into the bullock chaisie & after changing bullocks three times arrived at my Fathers tents at half past 10 the next morning. Just past Derole we met all our luggage as the rains had been so heavy that every time they arrived at a large river, they were obliged to unpack everything & carry it on their heads to prevent their being soaked through. The poor servants although they started two days before us did not arrive till the evening they had walked the whole way 40 miles & the Ayah had an upset! We were delighted with Bolly cherries for we were pitched at the edge of a cliff & the sea washed up close under our tents.

Mr Trevalyan & Mrs Burr W.Simpson, Misses Ingham, Burr, Simpson, Passwall, Hunter Brown & Prescott were there also. Evan went out shooting every morning but there was little Game however on my Birthday the 18th he brought us home 2 deer & 2 Culeemb. Three days before we left Evan had a slight bilious attack but was soon right again. We left at the end of the month & were truly sorry for we passed a very pleasant month. This is the most sickly season I have yet passed in India everyone has had fever & we were (I think) the only ones that escaped it in all camp.

How thankful might we to be to Him ‘That doeth all things well’. We heard that poor Major Brooks was killed at Naples in falling from a carriage he died two days after the accident. Everyone was truly sorry for him as he was a kind-hearted man.

November

We have just received the news of my dear Grandfather’s death, the poor old man died of Dropsy after a long & painful illness, & without one relation or kind friend to console him in his last

moments. He died at 11 o’clock at night on the 3rd of October.

“Friend after friend departs”

“Who hath not lost a friend!”

“There is no union here of hearts”

“That finds not here an end!”

We hear that we are to remain here another year, but half the Regiment leaves next Month for Deesa, I am sorry for it is such a pity to divide a Regiment that agrees so well.

Captain Prescott & Taylor, Lieut Bannister & Jackson, Corporal … & Kennedy are leaving on the 26th of November the tartans came round & half the Reg’t left under the Command of Captain Prescott

My father gave me a beautiful lapis lazuli brooch of Deche work and the cold weather set in about this time.

This day on Evans return from Beport he told me the delightful news that he was a Captain! From the death of an old General Dunbar, it is so delightful to think he has got rid of all adjutants ranks.

---- Newspaper clipping ----

2nd. Regiment Light Cavalry

Captain C.F.Jackson to be Major, Lieut. E.M. McGregor to be Captain, and Cornet J.C. Farquharson to be Lieut., in succession to Trevelyan, promoted. Date of rank, 19th October 1849.

1850 Soon after Evans promotion he was ordered to Bombay on a Committee on horses. So much to our regret we had to start on the 1st January, we were as usual 7 days on our journey to Gogoin. Bullock carts and had a short voyage of three days to Bombay in a Pattyman.

We spent the first day in Bombay at the Simpsons who were living in tents on the Esplanade, we had some pitched for ourselves opposite them, but the Esplanade is an unpleasant part of Bombay, the heat is very great from the soil being so sandy & perfumes at times anything but pleasant from having horses picketed in front of our tents, there is also a great want of privacy for from dawn to sunset there are constantly Borahs going about and they look in at the tents door no matter what tent, or what time & callout “Want anything, sari, got plenty new things Cherochau Kossack, long clothes new ribbon all kind things”

Evan went to the Committee once during the stay to see 2 horses, but as it was near the races, of course the people could not get the horses ready, this detained us a long time, then just as they were signed & we thought we might start he was ordered on another, so we could not leave Bombay before two months, we had not yet in our married life spent two months so uncomfortably.

A few days after our arrival Fred came back from Europe most improved both in body and mind he had a tent pitched close to ours & we all got on capitally together.

On February the 28th Fred received a note from Colonel Hendrickson telling him that my Father was appointed Staff Surgeon to the Paypootanah Field Force” that is Staff Surgeon at Nuserabad I was very glad for his sake but sorry to leave such a kind Father. Fred left us to go to Herrochee in command of his new steamer, so we started two days after him. We were delighted to get on board although it was one of those miserable Pattymans.

We spent the 7th March our second wedding day on board & had another allowance of Mullagatawny in honour of it as we had nothing else to eat on board for we were five days and a half on the voyage. We started from Gogon the 10th (at night) got to Wastige same night arrived at Durca on the 11th Dhossa 12th Barbra 13th Ancote 14th Lindarh 15th and travelled always at night. Arrived at Boporte at midnight on the 16th my Father we found had been obliged to leave on the 11th we found a collection

of shells he had left us, We missed him very much indeed. We found our house very much improved from painting & were once more comfortably settled in our dear & happy home.

Evan had a new room made for a nice iron turning lathe he had bought in Bombay for 270 Rupees & he began working at it very determinedly.

My brother arrived at Deesa on the 22nd all right in health but complaining a great deal of the heat, he sent us a beautiful set of dessert knife & forks from there. On our arrival at Bopkote found the new Doctor and his wife Dr. & Mrs Kirk had arrived. He was a very kind man and she a smart naïve kindhearted person.

My brother delighted with his appointment but only gets 1639 Rupees a month.

My dear Evan frightened me terribly on the night of the 23rd of May, on awaking he said he felt cold; his hands & feet seemed quite dead & he looked so horribly white & ill, we thought he had caught Cholera; which just then was very prevalent. We settled him well & put a hot water bottle to him & to my unspeakable joy the warmth of his body returned by degrees & he fell asleep & thanks to God for his kind & wise providence got up all right the next morning.

July 1st Evans birthday he is 28.

After a long & very hot season the rain began slightly on the 17th July, just enough to cool us & allow dear Evan to turn his lathe.

Fred finding it useless to keep up the sailoring time, turned Lawyer & Mr. G. Handcock has kindly articled him to himself for three years. I sincerely trust he may prosper better in his new profession than he did in his old one.

In September James taken very ill with fever and rheumatism & obliged to go to Karsachia where Fred, as it was the holidays, joined him and he returned to Khayhur at the end of this month.

On the 22nd August my first-born child Charlotte Fanny was born at 12 o’clock at night (Wednesday) Lorraine and Dr & Mrs Trevelyan attended me with motherly kindness & I had only two hours of great pain. The babe was thin but a fine little thing very tall & Mrs Trevalyen remarked how very white & lively she was & quite wide awake and well knowing the use of her lungs.

Newspaper cutting

BOMBAY

Birth - At Rajcote on the 22nd of August, the wife of Captain E. Murray Macgregor, 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry, of a daughter.

About an hour afterwards Evan came to see me & I cannot tell how glad I was to see him again for it seemed an age since I had seen him although it was only four hours & he then went to see the little one who he remarked looked very red and was winking her poor little eyes in front of a large candle.

Mrs Trevalyen kept the Baby one day & night without anything to eat & gave her on Thursday evening a little confee of arrowroot & water. The Doctor would not let me nurse so we had an Amah, she however left in three days as she was obliged by Mrs. Free to take an enormous dose of oil & nothing agreed with her, she thought she would have no more so left, I was therefore obliged to nurse the child myself for about a fortnight when we were delighted to find the Amah wanted to come back again. I got up about three weeks after my confinement & was laid on a couch in the Drawing Room till the month was out when I gradually began to walk about, I continued with pains in my back for about six weeks.

On (I think) the fifth Sunday after her birth we had her christened by Mr. Boyes, Lady Charlotte & Mrs Hess Godmother & James God Father we named her Charlotte Frances after her Grandmother & Mrs. Millar.

September. In this month September Mr Lippie died of fever & premature confinement, poor Colonel Boyd died last month, this is a bad

beginning for the fine months & appears as if we should have a very unhealthy season; there are too many fevers about.

On the 18th October we heard of the death of Evan’s Sister Mrs Cruickshanks, on this day I was 21 years old.

On the 20th of this month dear Evan was taken ill with fever we had 4 dozen leeches applied to his head & in 10 days he was out of sick quarters, but he did not get up his strength for some time.

In December I had my turn of fever for ten days, it knocked me up very much made me very weak & then I had 18 Leeches on my temple & that did me much good. When I was a little better dear Evan took me for a months change of air, we started on the 22nd of December & returned on the 20th January The weather was cold all the time but exceedingly pleasant; we travelled about from place to place all the time. Evan had a good deal of shooting but I have put his Shikar journal in on the next page.

Shikar Journal

Saturday 21st December 1850 Solaria 2 cofs (1 Carnatic cof = 2.5 miles; 1 Sultany cof = 4 miles) from Rajcote

Left Rajcote at ¼ past 6 o’clock A.M. on the Saturday 21st December 1850, Wife & self in one cart Baby Ayah and Ama in another arrived at Kotaria a small village 2 cofs from Rajcote at 10 minutes to 8 o’clock found the tents pitched in a pair of fine trees, went out exploring with Nigel & Archie did not see any signs of game except one wretched Painted Partridge, no use going out shooting so, shall eschew my powers for places game is more plentiful, and propose starting for a place called Loontra 2 cofs further South where we shall halt Sunday.

Sunday 22nd December Loontra 2 cofs

Arrived at Loontra a small farm 2 cofs from Kotaria about 8 o’clock P.M. last night and halt here today, pitched our tents under a small clump of trees

to the South West of the Village, a small place with scarcely any supplies the surrounding dry country is very hilly and covered with fine grass, no appearance of game and being Sunday I have not gone out to search for any.

Monday 23rd December Badoona 3½ cofs

Arrived at Badoona 3½ cofs from Loontra passed a village called Rajpoor 2½ cofs, found our tents pitched under some apologies for trees near an old well to the N.W. of the Village; have seen a few Black Buck, went out and had one shot at a fine black one and made an infamous knife had two other shots but did not hit anything, one at a Red doe, another at a B. buck, both with the 150 light up; went out near the game in the evening to see if we could get any courting but did not see anything; my wife on the Sotto and in a desperate fright imagining all sorts of dangers, this is not a good place for game, only a few lots of buck and very wild, they have a rumour of fish being in what is called a river flowing in front of the tents it does not look much like a fishy place. Returned simpson cart.

Tuesday 24th December Badoora

Still at the same place, went out this morning about 9 o’clock to try my luck & shot a Red doe close to the tents, went over a good deal of ground without seeing anything but a solitary hare, which I shall try and come across in the Evening, going towards home saw a lot of B.buck. Shot one, a very fine one, broke his hind leg and as he was too strong to get hold of, and being near the tents I got my --- and a couple of dogs, Luke & Puggy slipped away, and after a short run they pulled him down in fine style his horns measure 20¾ inches and 10½ inches distance between the points, went out in the evening to try and get a hare, startled two buck they ran to earth sharp, broke one of my reins and was nearly facing to mother earth alas. A Sappab from Reg. --- came in the evening, my leave is I find in --- for one month so now I can go on as soon as I like.

Wednesday 25th December 3½ cofs

Today is Christmas day, did not go out shooting, sent on our Sleeping tents about 3 o’clock P.M. to

Basjara 3½ cofs between Joondul and Chandadar; Sent the Child and ayah on ahead in the two bullock carts about 4, and started ourselves at ½ past 5 o’clock when it got dull found some difficulty in tracking the roads, arrived at Manackuarrow 3 cofs and took guides who evidently did not know a pretendice not the road and led us a very bad one, when in sight of the game heard people calling on one side of the road, and discovered much to our regret that it was our cart, the guides having lost the road, went on to the tents to get men, and found the ayah & child had arrived on foot the cart having been upset and the ayah in getting out had cut her knee very badly luckily the Child escaped, found our tents pitched under a solitary tree close to the gamie got to bed about 9.P.M.

Thursday 26th December Vasara

Nothing particular taken place today, plastered up the wound on the Ayah’s leg and I hope she will be soon well again. Stayed at home all the day went in the evening to fish at a small pool near the Village had not much success. Caught a small animal, sent of our man to camp with a note to the Doctor asking for some plaster and ointment.

Friday 27th December Vasara

Went out shooting today killed one young black buck and made a few misses a very indifferent place after all for sports

Saturday 28th December Vasara

Went out today expecting from the reports of the possie to find no end of Black deer, had only one shot and that at a large toleo near Goondul, knocked over two Cullum and that was the total of this days sport, went out in the evening but could not even find a hare for the days to come.

Sunday 29th December Vasara

Today being Sunday of course I shall not go out, my kit is to be packed up this evening and to start for a place called Juttapoor, I go on --- knowing to have back my Wife and Child in the bullock carts.

Monday 30th Dec. Juttapoor 5 cofs

Arrived here at a ¼ to 9 o’clock, left Vasara at 8 minutes past 6.A.M. this is a small fortified village on the banks of the large river Badur passed Goganudda 1 cofs where there are fine trees and I should fancy plenty of deer shooting, I saw a great number of Antelope near the road, Passed Bundlah 2 cofs on, a nice looking place, also a village called Cutcheek to the right of the road about ½ a cofs off; when we arrived at our ground found our tents pitched near the river to the east of the village, there are not any trees here to pitch under otherwise it would be a very nice place. The river is a very fine one but not very full of water, a good many Cullum about but not much appearance of anything else, went out in the evening expecting to find some courting hare, one fox which Puggy killed in a very short time.

Tuesday 31st December Bhaunsanar 4 cofs

Left our ground at 6 o’clock en route to Bhaunsanar 4 cofs and passed the following villages Dolliah 1½, Menya 1½ and arrived at our ground at 8 o’clock found our tents pitched on the further side of the river on a piece of high ground to the S.E. of the village the Servants complained of great difficulty in getting provisions & no wood to be had for love or money & no appearance of Huikan, the farm is a large one with a fine river, the farm belongs to three parties under charge of one Kandhar.

Wednesday 1st January 1851 Peepilia 5 cofs

Left Bhaunsanar at 6 o’clock A.M. and arrived at this place about ½ past 8, passed Dundalla 2 cofs Runprade 1 cofs Trimbalia 1 cofs --- appear very small the road not very good, my Muffie reports plenty of Black Buck I shall go out tomorrow morning and see what can be done in the way of killing them, this farm is under the rule of a woman a perfect monster of fat.

Thursday 2nd January Peepilia

Went out this morning to see if I could get anything found some black buck but so wild I could not get a shot at them wounded a Cullum but it got off

at the expense of a broken leg, when I came home heard the old lady of the village was anxious to pay us a visit. She came about 2 o’clock and a fine old lady she was but not so fat as I expected, hearing I wished to buy a bullock she offered me one of hers a very fine one at the small price of Rupees 200.

Friday 3rd January Peepilia

Tried my luck again this morning shot a black buck and a red one, the horns of the former measure 21¾ inches long and 19¾ between the points a very fine buck , 14½ between the points. I saw the Goyo Road from where our tents are pitched to the next village.

Saturday 4th January Peepilia

Made a round of the village as far as the hills on one side and symbolic village had two shots and bagged one black buck horns 19¾ long 14½ between the points.

Sunday 5th January Peepilia

This day did nothing but sat at home.

Monday 6th January Loonkee

Arrived this morning about ½ past 8 o’clock distance 5 cofs did nothing.

Tuesday 7th January Loonkee

Broke the leg of a black buck this morning slipped Luke & Puggy after him and after a short round they brought him down Puggy first, I got a bad fall as my Tattoo at speed put his foot on a stone and down we came, no bones broken. Buck horns 15½ by 10½

Wednesday 8th January Loonkee

Went out today about 8 o’clock and returned at 11 Shot 3 black buck and wounded one Chikard in the leg but could not be bothered to follow him up had 6 shots, 1st broke a B.B. hind leg 2nd shot him through the body, and bagged him. 5 hit a Chikard on the fore leg fired a miss walking and went under him, I was much too close, 5 B.B. through the shoulder and bagged him, 6th broke a B.B. hind

leg and ran him down with Oscar and Luke, near caught him, I broke my stirrup leather in the chase; 1st Buck horns 19¼ by 14¼ 2nd 9½ by 13¾ 3rd 21 by 13¾

Thursday 9 January Loonkee

Tried my luck again this morning but did not manage to bag anything wounded a young red buck in the fore leg tried to separate from the rest of the herd so as to run him down with the dogs, but could not, so was obliged to let him go off.

Friday 10th January Kotra 6 cofs

Left Loonkee at 5 minutes past 6 o’clock this morning and arrived at this place at 20 minutes past 9 o’clock a very good 12 miles and the first really cold morning we have had since starting, No Chikar to be had at this place, but I saw plenty of Black deer at or near Chamurrie on the road a fence about 2½ from Loonkee.

Saturday 11th. January Rajaroola

Arrived at this place about ½ past 9 o’clock this morning a very long 5 cofs found our tents pitched near a small farm or rather between the farms of Rajaroola and Nortialla. I saw a good many deer both black and red on the road here and the country has every appearance of being a first rate courting country if the hares have not all been drowned in the last heavy rains; in the evening I sent off the Buggie to Camp for supplies and letters.

Sunday 12th January Rajaroola

Sunday did nothing but change our tents from where they were pitched, close to an unhealthy pool, to higher ground.

Monday 13th January Rajaroola

Went out coursing this morning but only saw two hares, the first was caught by Frolic and the second last by Luke and Oscar in a cotton field.

Tuesday 14th Jan Rajaroola

Tried the coursing today but in another direction and caught 3 hares, the first by Puggy the second by Oscar this hare was under a rock and was pulled out by him, the 3rd by Puggy. Two men arrived today from Rajcote bringing a whole lot of papers and books etc.

SirdIar Wednesday 15th Jan 6 cofs

Today is a very cold one, started off my sleeping tents to Sirdhar at 11 o’clock and left myself at 2 found part of the road very bad all over hills and of course very stony and bad for carts, was here at 6 o’clock, the rest of the kit did not come up till 2 in the morning.

Thursday 16th Jan Sirdlar

Went out this morning to see what could be done in the duck line, visited a few little tank near the Bungalow and shot 3 Teal and four Snipe; paid the tank another visit in the evening and shot 3 duck and one Snipe, pretty well for such a small place.

Friday 17th Jan Sirdlar

Tried the tank again this morning and shot 3 large ducks, 1 teal, and 3 snipe.

Saturday Laomba 18th Jan 4 cofs

Got one Snipe today at the tank sent on our sleeping tents to Laomba and left ourselves at ¼ past 3 o’clock. Arrived at 20 minutes past 5, the rest of the kit got up at 8 o’clock. Sunday. The total amount of Shikar has been:

Black Buck 8 Red buck 1 Red doe 1 Cullum 2 Wild duck 2 Teal 7 Snipe 9 Hare 4 Fox 1 Total: 35 Wounded 1 Cullum & 2 Red buck

10 days deer shooting 2 days duck 3 days·coursing

(End of Shikar Journal)

In February I was much grieved to hear my Grand Mother Stronge was no more, On Sunday she was taken ill, went to bed & died on the 17th November; she was very kind to Jim & me & (though I did not know much of her) I was very sorry for her. On the 3rd February in the evening Evan felt very unwell with the fever so next day Dr. Kirk came, he was taken worse & worse with dreadful pains in his head which the Doctor said was a coup de soleil for three days he scarcely ate spoke or moved, we put him on 7 doz & a half leeches & after three weeks of dreadful pain & bad spirits he became a little better; but was unable to leave his bed for a month & I then was obliged to remain in a chair in his own room, We had his hair cut off & he became very weak that he could not recover himself, so the Dr. said he must go to Europe, so after many consultations, we agreed to go on sick certificate, so we sent round a list of our furniture & a good deal was bought (of course very cheap) The cutcheron was sold by Auction & it all went for nothing, the whole amounting to only 817 Rupees. No one can imagine how much I felt at seeing all my pretty furniture going away & the thought of leaving Rajcote. All the bustle of moving & making his accounts square worked up poor Evan very much for he was very weak indeed & suffered almost always from low spirits & headaches.

On the morning of the 23rd of March we left our dear home & truly sorry I was to leave it, perhaps as I thought for ever, Evan of course did not feel it so much as he had had many times before, but this was my first one, my Child was born in it & I had spent three years of such happiness there with my kind dear Husband. I scarcely dared to cry but I have never I think felt so desolate & such a wanderer as when we turned our backs to it.

We started from Rajcote the 23rd of March in two Bullock carts one for us and the other for the Baby. We arrived at Surdhar at 9 o’clock on the 24th in

the evening after complaining for some time of a headache I was taken with a violent fit of hysterics for nearly two hours but at last I fell asleep and never awoke until 7 the next morning however I had quite recovered myself I was thankful to say. I suppose it was brought on by the great mental & physical fatigue I had gone through in the last few weeks or rather months.

We arrived at Chudcote on the 27th At Barbra on the 28th we saw a large fire here, it was a curious scene, the fire broke out in a clump of trees, the flames seen towering about the trees, the dreadful screams of the Natives, made it really a very awful scene.

We arrived at Dhupsa on the 27th

At Dharoke on the 30th

At Wastese on the 31st

At Gogo on the 1st of April

Soon after our arrival here the Captain of a Steamer that was lying at anchor called on us, & said he would take us down to Bombay for 221 Rupees, So after a long consultation we decided on taking his offer, as the Season was very bad for sailing. So the same evening we & 4 horses & 4 servants embarked on board the “Diraska”, Captain Fisher Commander. Our fellow passenger was General Robertson a very nice old gentleman.

We arrived at Lursat the next day at 4 A.M. & found to our great disappointment we were not go on till the 4th The General landed immediately we anchored & the next morning sent us an invitation to break fast with him at the Marvellous Bungalow which appeared so pleasant after the Steamer that he persuaded us to remain. Lursat is a curious looking place such large houses painted all over in bright colours in the Dutch style, and every here & there are old fortifications. It was the greatest possession of the Dutch & was where the first English Merchants settled, it was also the first landing place of the Partee who are now the principal inhabitants.

We went on board The” Diraska” at 4.P.M. on the 4th and found Dr. & Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Fawcet, Mr. Phillips were our fellow passengers.

We arrived in Bombay Harbour after 28 hours passage, Fred’s Ghorauella & Mr Dunlop came on board immediately but it was 8 o’clock so we decided on remaining on board till next morning.

At 7 oclock on the morning of the 7th we got into a palanquin & arrived at Fred’s house on Malabar Hill about an hour after. We found it a very pretty little house, with beautiful sea-breezes blowing all day. Fred too was looking very well & in good & even spirits. He kindly gave us up his house & lived in tents in the Compound

Evan bore the journey pretty well but was a good deal knocked up.

Baby I have forgotten to say cut her two lower teeth before she was 7 months old. On the voyage she caught cold & on arriving here was very ill for 2 or 3 days so we sent to Dr Smith & he lanced her gums which repaired her much but she still suffered from a cough. Although we arrived on Sunday Dr. Smith did not come to see Evan till Tuesday & after all our trouble & expense says he “thinks a slight change will be sufficient”

April 10 had a letter from Capt. Simpson, Sofa & round table sold & Bullocks went for 40 Rupees but no news. After Dr. Smith had attended Evan 14 days Evan asked him if he was or was not to go to Europe? Dr. Smith said no he thought a change to Marbleshire or Poona would be sufficient to restore him to his usual health. Upon hearing this I immediately wrote to my Father telling him all about it. He as usual took up the matter warmly & wrote as he styled it “a strong letter” to Dr MacLennan & requested him to come and see Evan. The next day he accordingly called & gave his opinion of course (as quite private) that he should go home, at all events he recommended Evan to insist on being taken before “The Medical Board”. Evan was not so well again & Dr Smith now agreed that he should go home so he informed the Medical Board immediately. As this had of course taken a

long time & we had only two or three days before starting, so we procured an Amah at 300 Rupees for the baby & I had luckily prepared all her clothes so we were quite ready.

Evan complaining much of his head. I was very, very sorry to leave India. --- it, but still I was truly glad we were to go to England for nothing mattered me so long as I could see my dear kind Husband well once again

My second voyage from India Started from Bombay at 7 P.M. on the 3rd May 1851 on board EJC Steamer “The Victoria” Captain Bennis Commanding. Passengers The Hon. J.P. Willoughby, Colonel Mant, Brigadier Bentson, Capt. & Mrs Morris, Mr. & Mrs Bosencroft, Mrs Brodie, & Mrs Knowles, Misses Landon, Camball, Wallace, Tilbrook, Hurst, Townsend, McKenzie, Anderson, Landen.

The vessel was a very small one and we all suffered much from want of room. The heat was also fearful so we had not a very pleasant voyage, We dined on deck, & it was very amusing after dinner to see the gentlemen seizing upon the couches as all that could slept on deck & after a few days the Captain kindly allowed me a small tent on deck to sleep in with Evan, for I as usual suffered a great deal from Sea sickness & Evan from his head that tested him much. Mr. Lamb the mate on board took a great fancy to little Fanny and used to call her “Billy Blue” After 4 days we arrived at Aden at eleven o’clock on the night of the 12th we immediately landed & went to the Hotel and got into bed where we had a most comfortable night, On getting up the next morning went to see the Shop that adjoins the Hotel, I believe the only thing to be seen, it is full of bad & dear Indian & Chinese things. The Hotel is a good one & the day fortunately was very cool (for Aden) so we spent the greater part of it in sleeping & washing.

Went on board again at 5 P.M. & found everything of course very dirty & black as they had been coaling all day. We all continued the “even tenor of our ways” with the exception of a desperate flirtation between the Widow & Mr Camball.

After six grilling days arrived at Suez landed at about 12 o’clock on the morning of the 19th spent a couple of hours & lunched at the Hotel there, which is a fine large place: but they gave us a wretched tiffen & made us pay 6 shillings each. Evan then got the tickets & paid for our journey across the desert & we got into the van at half past two. Our party consisted in Mr. & Mrs Leurant &. Mr. Landon, we bought oranges & away we went as fast as four horses could take us. There are Hotels every 6 miles where we change horses, which now & then were very fresh, one kicked in the window of the carriage the Brigadier was in. The horses immediately they are taken out are left to wander about just as they are, tied up by fours.

We halted twice during the night for an hour and a half each time, when we dined & had a comfortable sleep.

The Hotels are really wonderfully well fitted up, both in furniture & Cuisine.

The Gentlemen got out at all the Stations & gallantly brought us water, which was in such demand that Mr.Camball stole a --- to put in his van. Poor little Duchess as usual behaved beautifully & was quite contented when she could

get a little bit of orange to cool her poor little mouth.

After the usual delays, musty horses breaking of harness etc. we arrived at Cairo at seven A.M. We put up at “Shepards” we were too tired to go out but from what I could see from the windows I was quite struck by the French troops constantly going about. “Shepards” is not at all a good Hotel, nothing to eat & very dear. We took our departure from it in Vans & soon arrived at the little Steamer that was to convey us up the Nile, we were fortunate to have the Pasha’s pleasure boat, a very pretty little ship.

We had rather a long voyage up the Nile, for at this season of the year there is scarcely any water in it, Our unfortunate Pilot was told he would receive 100 Lashes if the ship struck, I know not if he received them or not but we struck several times during the night. We arrived at Benha in the middle of the

day & immediately got into another smaller boat tugged by 4 horses that was to take us up the Mahmoudiah Canal We arrived at Alexandria at 2 in the morning of the 23rd . At seven the Vans arrived for us It took us to the Hotel De L’Europe a very comfortable place indeed. We found on arriving to our great delight that the Calcutta passengers had not yet arrived - so we determined to await it. Mr. Willoughby, Col Grant, Mr Selbrook & Mr Anderson were the only ones remained with us, the rest all dashing off by

the French Mail via Trieste.

We spent four very pleasant days at Alexandria, we rested ourselves during the two firstly for we were greatly in need of it specially poor baby who was quite done upon. On the other we went to see “Bombay Billie” (as the Natives call it) & Cleopatra’s Needle.

Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland

I was quite disgusted at seeing written on the top of the former “J. Scott “.

The next evening we went with Col. Grant & Mr. Willoughby to see the Pasha’s Palace, it is really a most beautiful place done up by French workmen & with French taste. Quite European in every thing but the harem that is at a few yards distance, & well grilled in. The next morning the Calcutta passengers arrived 57 of them! The main ones were Major & Mrs Hamilton from Aden, Dr. & Mrs Dobson, Dr. & Mrs Mackintosh, Mrs Garden, Mr. & Mrs Ellis, Mr. & Mrs Anstruther, Mr. & Mrs Palmer, Major Farmer, Mr. Barnes, Mr. & Mrs MacLeckin, Capt & Mrs MacGregor, Mr. Macgregor Mr. deWallstein, Lord Vane & others

whose names I forget. We went on board immediately after their arrival. The Ship was the “Ganges” a beautiful fast going vessel & curiously enough commanded by the same Captain Brooks I came out with. We had a fast sail of three days to Malta, the Brigadier still in the Lageretto & much rest follows at our arriving while still there. Many of the Passengers had a sail around the Island, but we remained quiet by our board, poor baby very ill indeed with a bad cold she had caught at Alexandria

Sailed again the same night. Arrived at Gibralter on the 3rd of June but of course no one allowed to land so as soon as coaling was over sailed again & arrived at Southampton on the 8th Sunday. And truly glad we were to get to the end of our long journey for we were very tired & poor baby still suffering very much. We were obliged to remain till Monday as we could not get our luggage cleared before so started by the 3 o’clock train for London, going along we were quite surprised by the beauty of the Country it was so green with such pretty sunny nooks a thing I had not seen for three & Evan for 11 years! Arrived in London on the 9th of June at 6 P.M. and went to the Berlington Hotel, but the next morning went to my Aunt Thompson’s as she was very pressing in her invitation & the Hotel was a very clean one. We stayed with her about twelve days, I only

went out a few times but Evan began to take long walks although his head was very bad still. My dear Aunt as kind & fond of me as ever & Charlotte also I think in her way; but am sorry to add she has become dreadfully conceited & self opinioned, had she seen a little of the world of course wear off but I fear she will get worse & worse now living as she does amongst a lot of Antiquated Old Maids, of course went to see the “Great Exhibition of all Nations”, & truly surprised I was by its grandeur & beauty.

I started from London on the 21st June by the Steamer “Leith” and arrived at Granton Pier in the evening of the 23rd brought Little Teddy Millar with us. We found Colonel Sinclair waiting for us at the

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pier so got into a “Noddie” and soon arrived at Lady Charlotte’s in Portobello. Sent the Amah back on the 15th July she is going back with a Lady that is to give her 4 or 5 pounds for her services, she went in the “Queen Glendower”.

After hunting about for a long time for a house we decided as Lady Charlotte was such an invalid & Evan not well to remain at Portobello for this year at all events so we took No.16 Brighton Place a furnished house for 9 months & paid 75 pounds a year for it. It consisted of a dining room, two bedrooms, a kitchen & servants bedroom on ground floor & above a bedroom, a drawing room, & two small rooms I began working a quilt just before coming here in crochet work. We dislike this country exceedingly as yet & long for the time to get back again to dear old India.

Evan’s head getting worse & worse daily so we persuaded him at last to go to Professor Millar, he paid him his first visit on the 14th of August, Professor Millar says it all proceeds from stomachs. At the second visit prescribed Mustard Foot Baths every night and three times a day something like ‘Denovan’s Gascier’, this did him much good.

August 22nd Baby’s birthday, she has 5 teeth & can walk well all round the room, say what the pig in the garden, the sammie gray the dog & the clock say, poor little thing, it being so odd to Evan & me that it is our own child’s birthday dear little thing may she have many, many of them & grow up a religious woman.

On the 27th we received the plates my Grandmother left me, it consisted in an antiquated old cream jug, & sugar basin, 15 table spoons, 5 tea ditto 4 salt spoons 2 gravy spoons, they seem to have collected all the odd ones that had been in the family during the last couple of hundred years for scarcely any two are alike except the tea spoons. It came in a most extraordinary dirty little box ever seen under the sun & I was quite ashamed of receiving it. I had a letter from my Father & Fred soon after this.

In August I had a bad fall from a high stool I was sitting on, with baby on my lap, I of course thought

of nothing but saving her, she was slightly bruised on the arm I felt more the worse for it, but was taken ill about a week after & had to lay up a week nearly.

The 22nd. August my dear child’s birthday she had a doll, a tumbler, a dress petticoat presented to her & she appeared to spend a pleasant day, her accomplishments at this early age consist in imitating what the Cow says? what the Samie grey says what the clock says & where she puts her porridge. Soon after she was 13 months old she cut 12 teeth, she has already had many accidents such as tumbling out of bed, down the kitchen steps & burning her first finger in which the poor little thing holds up to have kissed whenever it pains her.

In September I had to turn off our Cook for drunkenness & staying out for 3 nights luckily she was not a thief, so much for my first Cook!

In October dear Evan’s health appeared to have taken a good turn & he has been getting much better ever since I am thankful to say. Dr. Millar says he has nothing the matter with his head, but that the Mucous membrane of his stomach is all raw & out of order, he however adds that with patience he will be as well as he ever was.

October the 18th was my 22nd birthday and my dear kind Husband with his usual goodness & delicate attention had bought me two beautiful bracelets which I found on getting up in the morning, one was a silver chain with locket, the other was a beautiful pebble one, also with a locket, I do not think I have ever been so pleased with a present before as they were very beautiful, & I thought it showed such kindness & affection in him to think of my birthday.

In the Indian News of the 18th of October we observed that Captain Hunter & Marte had applied for leave to return, I hear Mr Boswell was to come home by the 3rd of October. Mrs Boswell & Brett came home in October. About the 20th of October poor Lady Charlotte was taken very ill indeed, but after a weeks great suffering she rapidly recovered the attack although of course still very weak.

November 18th We had this day the first fall of snow although the weather has been very cold for the last month with a great deal of rain & fog. Evan thinks he is not so well as he was, has had a few bad nights & has the same constant nagging in his head.

In the night of December the 28th my little son was born at 20 minutes past ten o’clock, I had only about half an hours severe pain, and he was born before the Doctor arrived and I was thankful today all went on very well. The child was tall (19 inches long, very like dear Evan; his body and neck nice and fat but his legs very thin indeed). I nursed him myself and he seems to thrive very well indeed He is much quieter than even my little Fanny. I left my bed the second week after my confinement and in two days walked to the drawing room, I had a Mrs Murdoch for my nurse and a very good one she was. Evans turning lathe arrived the 30th of January and very glad I was to see it arrive for I knew how long he had wished for a good one.

My little Fanny cut her two upper eyeteeth in January, she is now 17 months old, and has 14 teeth, she is wonderfully quick at everything, is very generous & good tempered, and begins to be an interesting and amusing little thing. My diet as a nurse consists in milk & water and two pieces of toast in the morning --- gruel for breakfast, a basin of mutton broth or beef tea at eleven o’clock mutton chops for lunch at two, dinner at five milk & water & toast for tea boiled milk and bread for supper and tumblers of milk & water or barley water at intervals. No teas or --- but a couple of glasses of sherry wine to back up my strength. As yet I feed the little one in the night at three & again at six, He left off --- at three weeks or a month old. The Nurse left me after five weeks & a few days.

On Wednesday February the -- my little Son was baptized by Mr. Boyle at our house, he was named Charles Frederick after my Father & Fred who were its God Fathers & Mrs Miller its God Mother Miss Sutton was sponcer, the little thing had plenty of bread & water & milk before it was christened so he did not cry. 2 feet 7 inches round. Had a fine large Cake, 4 shillings worth!

Many people say the end of the World is near, it has made a great impression upon me, & I sincerely trust & hope for my eternal good for I have tried more to tread in God’s ways than I ever did before.

March the 2nd I wrote to my Aunt Elaine a reconciliatory letter, as I think it unchristian to keep up such an old quarrel. I told her I hoped she would take my note as it was meant, that is with the kindest intentions & a sincere wish for a humble reconciliation.

Sorry to hear from Mrs Boyes that poor “Nigel” is not so much of a pet as when with us & “Jim Crow” had a good many pills & was at last given to a Pattywaller who keeps a hospital for lame & ill horses. I have always forgotten to write down the names of our acquaintances so will do so now:

Miss Gordon, Mrs & Capt MacGregor, Mr Mackandlish, Mrs Brice & the Miss Brices, Mr & Mrs Pringle, Mrs Chalmers, Mr Liddon, Sir J & Lady Sinclair, Mr. & Mrs Gorden, Mr & Miss Leslie, Mr. & Mrs Mackintyre, Mr & Mrs Seaton, Major & Miss Begbie.

In February I wrote to little Elaine for I really began to think it was very wrong to have such a long standing quarrel with anyone especially such a near relative, I received a most friendly & polite reply in a few days & now I am in hopes we shall keep friends in future.

March 18th I had a letter from my Father saying he, Col Stalker, Col Lawrence were on their way to Adeypore & were to meet Col Lowe (the chief political Agent of the Bospotane) and to settle Bana in his time, as his chiefs had --- troops & to protect our authority.

In April James arrived in London after a pleasant & short overland journey, & went to most of the remarkable places in --- & says he feels better; whiIe in London he lived with Aunt Thompson then went to --- while there he was invited to dinner given by Lord Bathurst to his tenants & much to Jim’s delight drank the health of a “Stranger present who had served Sincerely in India”

In this month an old Friend of Evans Capt Geils came & stayed with us a short time (3 or 4 days) & persuaded Evan to accept his invitation & go down to Dunmberton so the week after Evan went down there I remained ten days; they were very kind & he enjoyed himself very much.

We went to the first party I had ever been at in England soon after this return it was a party at Mrs Pringles; I had a pink & white sarega dress with white flowers; I was considered such an old Lady that no one asked me to dance so I spent a dull evening in talking to a few old Ladies. I made the acquaintance of Mrs Hutchinson, Mrs George’s Mother.

April

My dear Evan in turning sent a splinter of iron in his eye, he went to an oculist a Mr. Walker who took out what Dr Hull who had tried with a pen, had left but he suffered very much poor fellow & could not see distinctly for two or 3 days.

He now is getting fat & appears strong he has also quite lost the pain in his side that used to come on when he laid down, he takes a shower bath regularly every morning but still he complains as much as ever of the singing & bugging in his head & a soreness in his side or (top of stomach). I am thankful to say quite strong once

more & my Baby though not fat is strong; firm & even good tempered poor little fellow.

May

Evan’s Sister, Mrs Kerr has arrived in London after three months & a half voyage round the Cape & feels slightly better tho’ still complaining of her rheumatism.

My little pet Fanny is now beginning to speak; her vocabulary consists in ‘Mama dear’ Biby & Nurse, Bibby Boy” Bag one, two, pretty Biby: & poor Biby. She is getting very pretty & will if it pleases God to spare her I think a very fine Girl.

My Father writes me he has been after a tiger with Col. Delormaine & --- Brie & succeeded in killing him.

Went to see Mrs Kerr she appears a very fine person & will be I should think handsome when she gets rid of her rheumatism.

The same evening went out to see some horsemanship that was being performed on the ---

and were rather ashamed of joining in at first but on entering found all the elite of Portobello assembled The performance consisted in the old way of kicking up legs on horseback, then a man that endures & went thro’ the character of “Paul Boy” a “Sailor” a Lady putting on her bustle & dressing then a hag in brooms” & lastly in tights.

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We then saw a man that rolled a ball up some planks to the top of the tent with his feet Then we had an Ostrich hunt & last tho’ not least a man that put 5 x 165 pound weights on his stomach & chest besides 5 people standing on him, one on each knee one on each elbow & one his stomach, We also saw some tight-rope dancing.

My little Fanny’s first speech was” A Penny for the Boy. Towards the end of this month (May) we had the pleasure of seeing poor James; he looked better than I expected but pale & thin & sickly. A few days after his arrival we removed to our house No 7 Craigie Terrace Newington it was very nicely furnished had a very large dining & drawing rooms, 5bedrooms & took my fancy very much poor little Fanny delighted with the Garden, In a day or two after June came down with her two children to their new house No. 14 Minto St.

Evan & James went to the Theatre Royal & saw “The Dreams of Cramondbrig” The triangle & her oriental games, The invisible Prince “The Italian

Brothers” & Adrine gratis. The names in the Invisible Prince took Evans fancy they were Mrs Sneeratall, ---, quitealittlepet, Toalotolittiedoilles, & I toaprettypetticoat.

Saturday June 12th. We all went to see Robert Hall Van. What astonished us most was a glass ball with a --- at the side that struck any number said by anyone; another thing was a portfolio that he opened & took out 3 saucepans full of water, 2 bonnets, 2 pictures, 1 cage, 4 pigeons.

In this month I had my two diamond rings sold for 22 pounds & I bought 1 bracelet (gold with turqoises) 7 pounds, 1 brooch set with a Carbuncle, 3-18-0 & what gave me the greatest pleasure of all was getting a stamp for my dear kind Husband on his birthday which was on the 1st of July when he was 30 years old, his Mother gave him a --- Glass & James gave him a pen knife.

James left us on the 23rd of July to go down to meet the Thompsons at the Isle of Wight. I forgot to say that for the last 6 months we have had Alick, Evans poor Brothers Son, staying with us; he is a good tempered obliging Boy but very plain & childish, he has been very badly treated poor fellow & so I hope he will improve when he gets to a respectable school his Grand Mother has sent him several times to a Mr. Stevenson to convert him but I fear he can do Alick but little good till he grows more & has more sense.

My little pet Fanny begins to talk so nicely & is really a very nice Child; as for the little one he is the best tempered dear smiling little being that ever lived & Everyone falls in love with him he is so pretty & such a darling. I feed him myself four times a day & the other four times he gets boiled bread with half hot water & half milk. I certainly never saw such a dear little fellow, he certainly quite beats Fanny.

In the beginning of this month we went to spend ten days at Dumberton I was delighted with them all. Bella is a dear kindhearted nice creature; Mrs GeiIs the best old Lady I ever saw &. Mr Geils, Capt Tom, &. Capt Geils they are all most good tempered

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& gentlemanly I enjoyed the stay there very much & so did Missey who was delighted with the “Pigeons”, “Duckey Ducks” & the garden she made a great conquest of Billie who promises to take care of & bring her up for us when we are gone & I hope she will remember her promise. Mr. Nepean is the best tempered gentlemanly Man I ever knew. While we were there a Capt & Mrs Bowland & Miss Mellband stayed a few days. As Capt Geils was going to Germany to try the water there, They persuaded Evan to accompany him there, so we returned sooner than we had intended.

When we came home Lady Charlotte persuaded Evan he had better take me with them but nothing more was thought of it till a couple of hours before starting when it was settled I was to go too so Evan went off for my passport & I packed up & we all started together from Leith on Saturday the 21st of August at 7 o’clock at night on board a Screw Steamer “The Holyrood” bound for Hamburgh. We had a very pleasant sail & arrived at our destination at 10 o’clock on the Tuesday following. We went to the Hotel Hreits and remained all that day at the hotel; we went to a large “table d’ hote” in the Hotel, a capital dinner served up but what shocked an English person was that scarcely had we finished the pudding when all the Gentlemen began smoking as if there were no Ladies present.

After dinner we took a walk about the town which we admired very much, we went into some public Gardens but they were dusty & ill kept, the view from the Hotel windows at night was very pretty, there was a large lake in front with little boats gliding about & letting off bright fireworks & on each side of the Lake were two public promenades filled with people. At 8 o’clock on Wednesday we got into the train that took us to Liepzig we were struck by the great unity of the Guards willing to show us what to do, altho’ we could not speak a word of German. We arrived at Liepzig at 7 in the evening & went to the Hotel Belvedere, had dinner & went to bed. On Thursday morning got up & caught the train about 7 o’clock & arrived at Luicbrau at 10 then took the most broken down old Noddy, with two Superannuated old Horses & proceeded at the rate of five miles an hour for 5.5 miles with the same

poor brutes, we stopped 3 times en route & arrived at Carlsbad at 11 o’clock at night, we stopped at the Hotel du agne d’or, the place looked so wretched & the people being poorly dressed we wanted to go on to another but they were all shut at that time of night. After Breakfast Evan & Capt Gul went in search of lodgings & with the aid of a little Mr Socfert a Bookseller who knew Bill Geils they got us some comfortable ones at 460 Alte Weise. We spent our days there. Capt Geils & Evan got up at 6 then went to the Water Drinking place & drank 8 cups at intervals of a quarter of an hour between each then they came home at 8 & generally took me with them a walk to the Port Half, in coming home we bought some broats & had coffee & the delicous bread for breakfast at 9 o’clock.

Evan then & I dressed & Capt Geils smoked till about half past 1 when we all set out to get our dinner, for some time we went to the “Lur Soale”, then to the “Hotel d ‘ Alemayne”, then to the”3 Faisans” had a capital dinner ‘a la table de hote’ for 2 Gouldens the 3 persons we then sauntered a little much to Evans disgust then came in at 3 & as before read, dressed and smoked till 5 then went to the Port half on the Friendsheeps “Soale” for our coffee, we then came home & went to bed at 9 or half past. Sabity band was there & played every morning at the Sprudel & the Whal Bren from 6 to 8 & two or three times a week on the --- opposite our house, we had a capital Gallop to it one evening. After a time Capt Geils went upstairs & as there was a white piano I made use of it on agreeing to pay 1 guilder a week for the use of it. Capt Geils was obliged to leave for Burmoleon. He went by the Diligence to Prague then to Vienna & on to Trieste arrived on the 4th May dreadfully tired & found after all his trouble & expense that no Steamer would sail for 10 days! So he started & got to Egypt to catch the Steamer. We missed him very much but he was much better when he left. We remained nearly a month after he left & I think & trust Evan has benefitted very much by the “Les eau de Carlsbad” that Dr. Price talked about so much. The King of Greece & the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Lady Jersey & Lady Clementina Villiers were there whilst we were, we made acquaintance with a

Countess Leichert & her Mother who insisted on it that we were Murrays relation of some big wig at Court! We also made acquaintance with Mr. & Mrs Lambert who invited us to go and see them at Ham Common “Richmond”. A Sir Harry Willick one of the Court of Directors & Podices Barns & The Doctor recommended Evan to come back next May and we left Carlsbad on Tuesday morning the 19th October at 4 o’clock in the morning with the rain coming down like ---, we travelled as hopes in the tumble down old Voiture & arrived at Gouelears at 5 then went on to Leipzig & the Hotel Belvedere, we started next morning at 6 & after 16 hours rail arrived at Cologne Dutch. Started again next morning and arrived at Ostend the same evening about 6 o’clock, got on board immediately and after a few hours steaming arrived at Dover. Gave our keys to a Commissioner who passed all our luggage for us for five shillings, and we put up at the “Ship” Hotel which we liked very much. Got into the Train at 9 P.M. next morning and arrived in London at about one or two. Got into a Cab and drove to some Lodgings at No. 4 Warwick St Charing Cross kept by a fat talkative old Lady nominee Mrs Wilbar; the lodging had been recommended to us by Capt Geils; Evan was disgusted with their being so small & dirty but it was in a good part of London, we stayed a week. I went out one day & saw Mrs Toussaids Wax works the Poletume & the Prince of Wales’ Bogar. The weather was so bad I could not get out so I stayed at home and worked on my bed Quilt. Left London on Saturday by the “Clarence” on arriving on board found Mrs Pringle & her son were going too; had a nice passage and arrived at Granton on Monday evening found the children still up & little Missey knew us almost immediately & told “too soon to go to bed!” She looked such a bundle with her little plaid dress & knitted pullover, the little one looked at us & seemed pleased so long as we did not come too close.

In December our little Ones were both very unwell, they were both teething & had the “thrush” the little Man was very bad indeed for about a week.

On the 24th Teddy arrived to pass the holidays with us so we had enough to do with him & Alick, the latter left on 3rd of January.

January 1853

On the first of this year Evan gave me a pretty gold locket with his hair in it and a little Scotch ---, it was so good of him to think of it & I felt it deeply. Teddy gave me a pair of bracelets; & Alick a Lady’s companion.

The next day we went to church being Sunday & heard a beautiful Sermon. New Years ought to be so deeply felt when we think what mercy has been shown in allowing us to have lived through another year & not to have been cut off like thousands in the midst of our lives. I began this year in truly praying to God to lead me in his ways and giving me true repentance for all my past sins & lead me a humble & repenting creature to trust in him & his great Mercy.

We drank to my dear Father’s health & our own, and my sincerest wish was that Evan might live many of them & have happy ones.

Baby Boy had 7 teeth a few days after his birthday.

Little Missey’s first story was about Dickory Dock the mouse that ran up the clock.

January 24th Bequest the Lawyers papers about Mr Mather’s money to secure 224 pound each.

February 5 Heard from Charlotte tells me that June has neuralgia in the nerves of the head & is to go to Brighton for a short time for a change of climate.

February 7th Saturday Poor Lady Caithness taken very ill with paralysis all down her right side but has her memory clearer & better than for some time past. The Colonel stopped there thro’ Saturday night & Miss Tritten attends her, she will not see anyone else.

We both took the Holy Sacrament at Mr Coventry’s Church on the Sunday before. Jane has come back to live with Lady Charlotte after a months or six weeks stay in lodgings at 10 Castle, she is very bad with rheumatism in the hands.

A short time since I persuaded Evan to consult Dr. Duncan & after two visits the Dr. says Evan has nothing the matter with him, & adds that he has known people hear a singing in their ears (just as he has) all their lives! I am indeed thankful to hear all this but it appears strange to say the least of it that he should have suffered so long & have nothing the matter. Dr. Duncan says it may be a derangement of the Stomach a few nights hence as he was turning he became suddenly giddy, a thing I have never known him have before; the Dr. says oh! its stomach! However I am happy to say he has not had any return of it.

Poor Mr Patrick Sinclair died after a long illness of a couple of months or more.

In March I received 50 pound from my dear old Father to get myself a nice outfit. I must almost reproach myself for it. Altho’ I think he having no children can better afford it than Evan.

It was during February that Evan made the distribution of his poor Sister Charlottes things our share was 6 rings, 2 chains, 1 hat & a dressing case that Evan most kindly had fitted up for me as a Jewel case it is the handsomest one I ever saw & my stocks of jewelry that was put into it consists in 1 Chain, 1 Watch, 1 gold bracelet, 1 peble ditto, 3 silver some garnet ditto, 1 smelling bottle, 1 garnet broach, 1 cameo, 1 silver, 1 carbuncle, 2 of kinds & a silver --- broach, 1 card case, 1 jet neck Cross, rings & 2 pair hair pins.

On the 3rd (Saturday) April poor old Lady Caithness died from old age & paralysis in her side, she was buried at Holyrood Abbey on Thursday the 7th, poor Evan & Capt John much affected at the funeral, Lady Janet was with Lady Caithness thro’ her illness, the poor old Lady quite --- from 12 in the day till 8 at night when she died very quietly. --- Miss Willie to live with Mrs Paton. Lady Charlotte & all of them to get about 3000 pounds at the division of the property.

On Monday 23rd of April Jim arrived here at half past two by steamer from London he was not looking so well as he did, indeed he was far from

well but a few doses of Dr Duncan’s medicine put him all to right.

In May Jane left by the “Clarence” Steam Ship for London she had a very rough passage & everyone was ill, She suffered severely from Cold en route and was very bad when we last heard.

--- at a Miss Mackenzie at Morningside, Chatty at Miss Larimonts & took the Baby with her to Germany where I doubt not she will be in her own as well as everyone else’s way.

I forgot to say in March & April Evan signed the papers of release to Warman the --- or whoever he is. Joan & Jenny were interested to our signing it.

In March Evan had a Master for me to teach me drawing; I had 12 lessons & got on pretty well. I then had a masters lesson in materials from a Mr. Bichter that cost 6-6-0. The drawing for 12 lessons was 1 pound 11 shillings & six pence. All that on a miserable witch like me, I know not what it is but fight against it as I will I have a perpetual feeling of indifference about me I feel myself to be such a wicked creature & I feel what I never did before there is, there is no happiness in this world & no true friend in it, & still I am not a true repentant Christian & all this worries & makes me unhappy I scarcely know what to do & somehow I have no pleasure in anything nothing pleases me nothing makes me happy I try to get over these feelings for it seems very ungrateful when I have what so few have a xxxxxxx xxx & fine Children & enough to eat & drink, I think sometimes I must have something the matter with me for this sort of unhappy feeling has truly come on 3 or 4 months ago I try to appear pleased when I know nothing pleases me were I only fit for it I can fancy no happiness Iike that of giving out of this would of come of service. My Lord of his mercy to turn my heart that I may be what I do belong to a true & penitent creature with a firm faith in our Lord & looking to him only as my Friend & happiness. I have also begun to try & check my feelings & my tongue & I really hope I may be enabled to check my --- & my temper during the few months to come when I fear it will be well tried.

On the 23rd of May we left Newington at half after 3 o’clock; poor little Missey quite frantic at the fun of seeing all the packing. The house at Portobello No.5 Brighton Crescent is a very nice one Drawing room & 1 Bedroom upstairs on the ground floor a dining room 2 bedrooms & a dressing room altogether a very nice house indeed, Jim left us on Saturday 2 days before we left Newington he went to Bolan a place represented as being capitol fishing but the village consisted in 1 barn & 2 --- so he left for Melrose & from there went on to Kelso.

On Wednesday the 8th of June Jim & Evan started for Balquidder and enjoyed their --- greatly, Evan’s health improved by it but the noise in his weary head continues the same. They returned on Saturday the 8th and as Jim was to leave us on the Saturday following Evan thought he had better go with him so they started on Saturday the 25th by the Steamer Leith, and had a nice voyage of three days & arrived on Monday Evan took lodgings in Jennings Street 118 with Jim and went about to the theatres, Cool Cellars, Concerts, & a great dual and appears to have enjoyed himself very much. I had a horrid weary time of it with the Children and the poor old Lady who had the jaundice from Gall Stones breaking twice and was in great pain, I was very unwell too for some time then Missey was not quite right then little Boy was very unwell cutting his eyeteeth; I do not think Portobello agrees very well with the Children, they have never been right since they came here. The House is a very bad one, no water and everything out of repair in the whole house, oh I hate Scotland as I do London but it is Gods will that I should be here & in these peculiar circumstances, and I even since am thankful everything has been as it should has been for I think it has turned me more towards Religion than anything else did before & I hope that with Gods mercy I may be a more religious & better Creature in future.

Greatly to my astonishment Mr. Meahan called one morning, I did not know him with his head shaved. Poor Bella had been in. I can some time seem very ill indeed. I went up to see her very often but she left in about a fortnight afterwards. Poor Mr Geils died in July of inflammation of the bowels

On July 21 Evan began the water cure at Malvern & left it.

Heard from poor Fred in September that he had passed his examinations in July (I think) & was a fine Lawyer. Fine Fellow I hope he will have better luck in his new profession than he did in his old.

The following letter pasted on diary page…

Monday July 19th 1853

My Dear Sophy,

You will be grumbling at me for not having written to you by the last two mails, unless you happen to guess the cause. I have been pushing on my studies just at the last, like a jockey who gives his horse the spur before coming up to the finishing post, but I am happy to say I have passed it with ease, and was home in a few days ago. Attorney solicitor and Proctor of Her Majesty’s Supreme Court! Added to which dignities you may also now consider me a gentleman, which I am ex officio. The examiners gave me no end of praise - the judge before whom I was sworn in, complimented me, the solicitors welcomed me amongst their body. Friends congratulated me on all sides, and in short my dear Sophy I have entered upon my profession with flying colours, and my three years of severe application have not been thrown away. Hancock takes me into Partnership I believe in the 1st of next month, but it is not yet settled what share I am to have in the business, I have no doubt however considering that I shall have nearly all the work to perform, as I have had during the last year, that Hancock will give me a liberal portion of the profits. Prospects not as bright as they were when I first entered into articles, but all this I have told you over and over again and will not now comment upon it. We will see. The pleasure which I should have otherwise felt at my hiccup so far, has been awfully damped by an event which has shocked me more than I can express. My poor friend Brooks is no more; he was ill for a few days with dysentery, but not dangerously; what is called serious apoplexy unexpectedly attacked him and he suddenly expired, I sat up with him the night before

his death little dreaming there was any danger, his last words were breathed in my ear about 3 o’clock in the morning after which he fell asleep, became apoplectic, insensible, and died at 1 o’clock next day.

He has left about eight thousand pounds to his two daughters and son, to the latter merely enough to set him up in a profession, the former having about three thousand each; his step daughter he considered provided for by their marriages and only left them, in the event of his property realizing upwards of ten thousand pounds, a thousand each, the property having fallen so much short of what was expected of course they receive nothing. I am so sorry for poor Miss Budd she is at home and about to be married, but this sad event will most likely compel them to put it off for some time, if the news reaches them before the ceremony is performed. Everyone was astonished at poor Mr. Brookes leaving so little money for 8000 pounds will be the very outside I am informed but he was a liberal, generous, kind hearted man, and never allowed his family to want for anything. I have lost in him a steady and kind friend who was ever ready to assist me; he just lived long enough to see me pass. Peace be with him.

If I tell you that I have commenced a lawsuit on our father’s account you will no doubt consider it an ill omen on my first starting in my profession. Yet so it is. I am trying to get back the twelve or thirteen thousand rupees of his which the Medical Retiring Fund have confiscated. After long and anxious consideration of his case (for it is a complicated one) I came to the conclusion that it was a good one and so advised the Board, at the same time however I discussed taking the responsibility upon myself, so we took the opinion of the finest counsel here Mr. Howard who confirmed all I had said, and since then a second counsel has taken the same view of the case. The Board decided upon trying his right and I am now ‘hard at it’. I was most careful not to use any persuasion as it could give me great uneasiness if I had done so and we lose, it is his own deliberate choice. If we succeed it will be, as he says the foundation of the future he has so long promised to achieve, and I should

have the happiness of having been the instrument of accomplishing that object. You must join with me in praying for success. If we succeed I am to be perfectly smothered with fees and no doubt you will be remembered in the moment of success and have a handsome present.

Jim and our old burp are getting on better together and I do hope & trust that they will be as loving as ever in a short time. It is a sad thing to see disagreement in families. Such a small one as ours ought to be bound together by the strongest ties. Give my best love to Mac, kiss the children for me and believe me ever.

Your most affectionate Brother

C. FRED. COLLIER

Jims trip in Scotland

Letters pasted in Diary

Cross Keys Hotel, Kelso

24th May 1853

My Dear Sophie

Really this rapidity of correspondence on my part is perfectly marvelous, are you not astonished at it? You received a letter from me on Monday and here am I writing another on Tuesday. Wonders will never cease.

Yesterday morning I was to my determination of fishing in spite of Mr. Broadwoods Keepers. I sallied forth armed with a new rod , and an ample fishing basket strapped across me, to commit slaughter dire on the finny inhabitants of the Tweed. The morning was delightful and I felt in the light of good spirits; on my way along the waterside I met a gent mustachioed like myself, so we entered with conversation; he proved to be a Bengallee Cavalry Officer home on furlough. We did not as the saying is shoot and tye together but fished and waded together from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and the mighty produce of all this resulted in one very diminutive trout caught by my friend. This days effort confirmed my resolution to leave Melrose,

so this morning at 10 a.m. left for this place. On arrival I immediately questioned the landlord of the hotel concerning the fishing here, and was told that it was very good, so I again shouldered my rod, strapped on the basket and started off to a place on the river about two miles from this; a promising looking place but I was told that I should get nothing without wading, off went the shoes & socks, trousers turned up etc. and after an hour whipping the water I found that I had caught six young salmon!! Now six young salmon sounds fine, but they were very young indeed about three inches long, and are by the natives here called Smote and like smelt. Smite me! If my conscience did not smite me when I smote one of these poor little things. Show this to Evan, he will fully appreciate this pun or puns, and of course be convulsed with laughter which will do him good considering the depressing tendency of Portobello air. Now these little salmon are delicious eating but if you are caught with them in your basket, the law of this free and liberal nation , makes you pay two shillings each fish and a fine of two guineas in the bargain, the consequences is that people generally throw them in again; I did the same. So much for fishing. Kelso is a remarkably pretty place, almost as pretty as Melrose, such a better life; in fact the Cross Keys is a very decent place for such a small town. I shall remain here two or three days, and then back I believe.

Today is the Queens birthday and Kelso is quite in a state of effervescence there is a large bonfire going on, and the effigy of the postmaster (who does not appear to be very popular) is being burnt in it. Such an opportunity I guess could not of course be allowed to escape by the loyal inhabitants of the place; they are feeding in the room above, drinking toasts, stamping with their feet and singing, Auld Lang Syne. Now I think I have given you a perfect account of my proceedings and having nothing more to write I will conclude.

Love to Evan and tell him to come out here it will do him good I’m certain. I hope you are quite settled down comfortably in Brighton Crescent. Write to me sharp and direct to the Cross Keys Hotel, Kelso as I shall be here for three days at least.

I hope Lady Charlotte is all right and that you ditto. Nearly bed time so good night again,

Your very affectionate brother

JAMES A COLLIER Melrose (Thompson Hotel)

27th. May 1853

My dear Sophie

Your note reached me today just as I was packing up to leave Kelso. Many thanks to you for replying so promptly to my epistles, and also for the compliment you pay me regarding the style of my literary effusions. Well! here I am back again. I left Kelso at 5 p.m. today and was very nearly going on to Edinbro instead of stopping here, the fact is had been wading all the morning and the water was cold, that together with a very substantial meal that I eat previous to my departure made me fall asleep on the train. My nap luckily ended just in the nick of time fortunately for my character had not taken any whiskey toddy after my dinner.

In my last letter stated that a convivial dinner party was going on in the room above & well it ended in the landlord getting a thrashing; at least he made his appearance next morning looking frightfully seedy & with a tremendous black eye. It strikes me the Scotch are given to drink. I do not remember ever to have seen so many tipsy people in so short a time as have done lately. What is more remarkable they appear to labour under such peculiar delusions when in that happy state. Today for instance (it was market day at Kelso) a farmer who was sitting in the Commercial room, I suppose he had seen some person drinking during the day and was effected thereby, took it into his head that the table was moving away from him, and I conclude not being able to account for such absurd antics on the part of the table he rose to summon the waiter, but fell down in a terrible struggle to reach the bell rope. I nearly burst with laughter, and was obliged to go away to a private room.

Do you not enjoy this delightful weather! I’m sure you do, would that you and Evan could join

me here; the lovely scenery and peace is delicious and would do you both good; but I fear the hotels are not quite commodious enough for a married couple, though very comfortable for a batchelor. You must feel quite delighted at being settled again and having that park to walk in, barring the cows. I shall be with you again in the beginning of next week; as for the fishing, I look upon that, to use a lovely and expressive phrase, as gammon.

The son of Duncan, Flockhart MD is a very excellent medico, and knows his profession, it delights me to see that he is getting you all right; persevere my dear girl in the walks and physic so that when I return my eyes may be delighted in seeing you in such health as I wish to see you.

Kiss the bairns for me, and with love to Lady Charlotte who I trust is well.

Believe me

Your ever affectionate brother

JAMES A COLLIER Melrose. 27th May 1853

My dear Evan,

I received today a letter from you. Ah! said I to myself, he is a brick for writing. Little did I think that your object in writing was to tamper with my feelings. A basket of trout from Anderson indeed! I scorn the insinuation. Couldn’t have filled my basket with salmon every day but for the laws of this oppressive land. A basket of trout indeed, and from Andersons too - a good joke - I have been out & greater part of the day up to my middle in water and caught what? Nothing. It is really too bad after going to the expense of some two pounds sterling in the purchase of rod, flies, fishing basket, hob nailed shoes etc. to catch nothing. Tomorrow I intend having a last trial at it. I met the Bengallee whom I mentioned in my last letter, and tomorrow we start off up the river, perhaps to catch fish, though I much doubt any such luck. nous venons.

I’m your man for a trip to Balquirrie as soon as you like. If we can get Sophie to join us so much the

better, it would do her much good. We’ll talk it over on my return which will be in the beginning of next week.

Will you like a good fellow look out for a decent little room for me on Portobello. I suppose there is such a thing to be found in that lively locality. I would go to Edinbro, but I want to be as near you as possible, but if you cannot succeed in getting the above I’ll manage to get on at Ramplin’s Waterloo Hotel.

The Arelphic Theatre tree is burnt down, the people about here appear to think intentionally.

Make up your minds about the Balquirrie trip as shall be ready for a start whenever you are. Hoping to find you all right about Tuesday. Believe me my dear Evan.

Your affectionate

JAMES A COLLIER

P.S. Haven’t had a twinge of rheumatism, and feel as strong as a horse. I give great credit to Duncan.

Started with my two Children & Joan for Dunnbrook on the 21st (Wednesday) of September, started by the quarter past 11 Train & arrived in Glasgow at half past one, where we joined Mr. Nepean who got us all safely on board, the Burling boat & we reached Dumbuck at about ---

Found Bella very ill & suffering frightfully with neuralgine in her side. I spent a most pleasant 6 weeks with them, took long walks everyday up the hill etc. & I became fatter & stronger than I have ever been. Little Boy was complaining a good deal at first not having done cutting his eye teeth, after he had he quite lost his voice, but he improved too from the change of air & Missey was quite a different Creature. I went to make breakfast for all the party and was quite at home indeed; nothing could have exceeded their kindness to me & my Children. I came home on the 2nd of November & Evan arrived on the 4th (Friday) at half past three

P.M. Just as I was beginning to think he must be drowned.

He left the water cure on the 12th of October & remained at Clifton with Mr. Witton & Melor for about 10 days then was in London for a couple of weeks. He came home looking quite well indeed better than I had seen him for years but certainly very thin. Did not appear in the least ?refaced to see me after nearly 6 months absence & The Children knew him again & he bought Boy a bag of tricks, ‘Missey a “beautiful doll” as she called it. He had with his usual generosity bought me a very pretty little chain with locket to go round my neck set with French topaz.

Lady Charlotte had an operation performed on her for cattaracts in the latter end of November & had it cut with great fortitude. Dr. Walker performed & Drs Hill & another medico held her. She suffered much from sickness some time after it was done. Nothing particular happened till the 24th December when we left for Dumbuck with the two Children & the two Nurses and arrived all safe tho’ the cold was dreadful, found Bella still suffering a good deal, went to Dunbarton Church on Christmas Day which was on a Sunday, found them kind as ever. The weather became most intensely cold the Clyde was nearly impassable for steamers on account of the ice. Spent New Years Day very cheerfully till night when poor Bella left being too dismal at the remembrance of her Mother. All the party there & a young lass. Girls sat up & drank the Old Year out & the New one in, with some hot elder wine of poor Mr Nepean’s brewing & we drank the health of all such absent friends Missy did not sleep well that night as the Servants made a noise in drinking their elder wine & awoke her.

About the end of the year Jim wrote to tell me that when visiting at a Mr. Pauls he met a number of nice Girls, one he liked so much that at the railway station before parting he had popped the question & an agitated “yes” had been her reply. She is one of 5 Daughters & is a Vicars Daughter this is as yet all I can make out about her. Fred also passed his examinations about October with great credits tells

me he is doubling the practice soon after he passed Mr Handcock left for Europe.

In December poor old Thompson died after only a weeks illness Uncle Stronge & Jim were the only mourners - poor old Man he was a Curious Being but was very kind to me when I was a poor little Creature without any to care for me.

My Father sent me a letter to Uncle Stronge telling him to send me 50 pound from some money of my Mothers.

Fred sent 1 pound 10 shillings for the Children on new years day but being at Dumbuck we could not spend it till we return. And now I come to what I cannot bear to think of, that is that when I look back upon this year I cannot see that I have improved in any one way! May the Lord listen to my daily earnest prayers & for his merciful Son’s Sake give me a better heart within me & renew a light spirit within & make me think more of acting up to what we sinfuls for I have looked more within me lately & Oh how bad are my best thoughts &. I do hope God will increase my good resolutions & determination to keep up to them

1854 We left Dumbuck 16th of January in a Post Chaise & had great difficulty in getting all our luggage on it, when it was managed at last & we left about 12 o’clock & got on alright till we came to Milgarie where the snow was so deep we could not turn the carriage so we got into a little Cottage by the seaside, but they broke the pile of the carriage but we got on pretty well till about a mile from Craigend Castle where the Horses refused to go on, poor dear Evan ran across the snow to some cottage houses; one of Mr Buchanans Horse’s was --- & we put it on to ours as leader & got on pretty well till we came near the House when it --- to go on & we had to get out & walk in the snow knee deep, however a nice fire put us all right. We found Clair Forbes and Edward &. James Buchanan there, the two latter were great pets of mine. Whilst we were there Dr. Jardine the former’s School Master came & stayed a few days

with us we liked him very much his address is The Chestnuts, Tiernham Green, near London.

We left Craigend castle on the 1st Feb & found the old Lady looking very sad but she got better soon after our return. On February 16th Dr. Cristisan came and saw the poor old Lady & gives a very bad account of her but says there is no immediate danger. A few days since she had an attack of the Gall Stones which knocked her up dreadfully & now her mind wanders so much.

She became a little better soon after & then got gradually weaker & weaker daily till about March 29th then she broke down dreadfully every day for more than the last till April 7th (Friday) when she died at a quarter past 1P.M. We all sat up with her all night & during some time she appeared in great pain rolling her head & knitting her brows & groaning dreadfully but for some hours before her death tho’ perfectly conscious till about 7 oclock I do not think she had any pain & died so peacefully! Poor Creature she has undergone dreadful trials & in almost every shape but she was so peaceful &. patient to the last. She Mr. Sinclair Miss Tritton & ourselves took the sacrament in her room on the Sunday preceding her death & she seemed most calm & contented. The last words she spoke she patted Evan & said”Poor Evie”, I was with her in her last moments & for the first time in my life saw death face to face, it was indeed truly awful & made as of course such a scene, much so especially for the first time a very deep impression upon me, Tho’ strange to say tho’ all the others had seen death repeatedly I was the only one who did not shed a tear. How did this arise, is it from a hard dispatch or was it to save Evan pain & not add to his grief? It is a grief I cannot settle but must pray to God to give me a soft & gentle heart, tho’ I must say it has a very very great effect upon me, more than I expected tho’ I could not shed a tear. The day before her death She kept always repeating ‘Oh take me home, take me home!’ Some of her last thoughts appear to have been about her daughter, Charlotte the indirect means as we poor mortals can see of her leaving illness & many, many trials, Evan of course suffered very severely & I feared at one time might injure himself by the intensity of his grief. Mr Boyle came

this same day & lunched with us & the calm & beautiful consolations of religion did him of course more good than anything else could have.

Enclosed in diary, a card

Lady Charlotte Murray Macgregor died here this morning at ¼ past 8 o’clock ...

5 Brighton Crescent, Portobello 7th. April 1854

Eleven Boxes left here on Saturday the --- of May

1 of Books, 1 of China & Glass, 1 full of desks & 2 of Turning lathe and tools, 1 of linen, 1 of pictures and 2 chests of drawers. They are to start for Ship “Mystery”.

We heard about 2 months since that poor Pitt had been wounded in a skirmish with the Burmese We heard of his death on Saturday 20th of May, he will indeed be deeply regretted by all who knew his worth but few knew that.

Paper cutting enclosed in diary.

We regret to announce the death of Captain A.A Geils, 1st Madras Fusiliers, from the effects of wounds received, a short time since, in a skirmish with the Burmese; Tonghoo, March 4, Capt. Andrew Ales Geils, 1st Madras Fus.

In August we left Portobello for England with our dear (how dear none can tell!) Children & Meta; started by train at 8 P.M. and reached --- at 4 P.M. next day. The poor children very good all the way, Jane came to the … to meet us, my impression of her was not near so favorable as it was of Meta, who is without exception the best woman I have ever met with, & should my life not be spared, she it is, & her alone that I should ever like Evan to marry. We remain with them at Portis… till the 28th this month. I will pass over the last few days of my stay there. They are too dreadful to be described indeed this was my first trial, but how thankful I have she to leave them in such hands & such care.

I spent 3 days at Leicester with my Uncle, Aunt Thompson & Charlotte, they were very kind as usual, then left for Southampton, were introduced to Jim’s Bride a fine looking Person, & her 2 sisters, Left Southampton for the 2nd time & began my 4th Voyage.

Voyage from Southampton to India, the second time.

Passengers. Mr & Mrs Mayne, Mr & Mrs Siller, Mr & Mrs Hamilton, Mr & Mrs Briggs, Mr Stuart, Miss Butler, Misses Ludin, Briden, Oates, Taylor.

The Steamer “Nubia” started on the 4th September, reached Malta on the … but not allowed to land, Cholera being bad there, stayed to coal & went on immediately, reached Alexandria on the … went to a Hotel with Mr & Mrs Mayne, Jim & his wife, in short all went on as these horrid voyages always do, We parted from all our fellow passengers who went to Calcutta & Madras, so only came on with about 24, including Mrs Bennet & her Mother Mrs Lawsen, the other passengers went on board the “Bentick”, a most unseaworthy vessel & we poor unfortunates went on board the “Adghar”, Capt. Drail which tho’ perhaps not so bad as the “Bentick” was any thing but a nice vessel to be in. Met the other passengers at Aden, for a few hours. Reached Bombay on the 6th October was much disappointed on landing to find that poor Fred had been very ill & obliged to go to Kerrachie (Karachi), he with great care & kindness had sent Jaffer Sulliman’s B--- to take care of our luggage & engaged Mr Handcocks house for us, remained in Bombay till the 7th of November.

On the … of November were visited (as the papers say) with a terrific hurricane, came on at 12 o’clock at night & raged with fearful violence till 2 when there was a lull & all hoped it was over, but at 4 it set in with renewed violence, our stables were blown down, windows blown bodily in, the doors shut & that dreadful sound like tin being rattled was heard over head. 700 Persons were killed that night, several steamers & European Vessels sunk or were dashed on shore. The native boats that were done for were without number almost.

James & his Wife left us on the 7th en route for Cambay, in a Patty Man we followed them on the 9th for the same destination. The getting on board is always so unpleasant, we sent the Servants & luggage on during the day but we remained at Mr. Handcock’s till 11 o’clock P.M. when we went to Jaffer Sulliman (that all useful man) found him asleep in an armchair in front of his Shop; woke him & went together to the Borree Bunder got on board all right but contrary to Evan’s wish did not Sail till 1 o’clock on Friday Morning. After two days, our “all nice” Brother came to tell us there was a large hole in the Boat, in short it was full of holes & that all his family had been drowned just there so to repair damages we allowed them to put in at Dommes. A great deal at lightning set in at night, after two days detention. Started afresh, after three days & discovered the water had been short, so anchored by a Village to take in some, I was just congratulating myself on having a comfortable night, when the “Jindal” came very mysteriously & asked if Evan had any guns as the Beels were fierce robbers & murderers in that place & we might be attacked, Evan made light of it all, but I insisted on having both guns put ready, said my prayers & thought every wild bird I heard was an approaching footstep & great was my joy to see the tide come up about 2 o’clock when for the first time I allowed myself to sleep, the anchor was taken up & on we went across this --- for another day or two, when one morning we discovered ourselves on the highest part of the Gulph & no provisions. Sent the Butler on the Cambay for food & the Sailors for water trusting to get off by next tide, however we soon found our hopes vain & had to remain till the following night, when my poor Husband had to get up & steer the Ship which was get off the Hill but not into Cambay, however all things have an end & we were saved by the effort of the Jindal & Sailors (After the former in his geal had fallen three times into the water.

The landing at Cambay a most unpleasant business, we stayed on board till all our kit & the two horses Agar & Sultan, were safely deposited in the mud when we left the woeful tub in Palanquins. Mr Summers most polite as in every way. Left Cambay two days after, ie the in our Bullock Cart at 9 P.M.

& reached --- at ½ past 7 next morning, Wednesday, roads very narrow & bordered with high prickly pear bushes, roads sandy. Started again at the same hour & reached Kacia 27 cofs very pretty but most unhealthy place & next evening got into Ahmedabad I think 15 cofs. Found the Barp (looking rather unwell from fever) sitting as usual in his Choga & everything in a horrible mess all round him, he was living in Colonel Stalker’s house, he’d procured another for us & Jim was in another where we all met at “Miols”. The Barp appeared much pleased with Evan & who could be else than pleased & proud of such a gentlemanly handsome Man? Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I was obliged to leave him much against my will for somehow I had a bit of presentment of something going wrong, however it could not be avoided so left Ahmedabad on Wednesday morning at 3 till a many a tear I shed during that day. & I’d reached Baipoor in a heavy shower of rain; the tents not pitched to stand on the Pallie

Next day Deggom - nice pitching place.

Friday Hursole amidst fearful thunder & rain dreadful old Bungalow, painted & should have fallen but for Sullimans timely aid, feeling ill for days.

Saturday Dakroolie 6 cofs road looks most unhealthy, quantities of vegetation & large stagnant pools of water. Had a sharp attack of fever all day, Jim doctored me & did me much good

Sunday- Barcasole

Monday Samelgie, very cold & frosty, now amidst the Mountains. A very pretty place, such fine trees & mountains; another bad attack of fever. Oh the misery of travelling all night in a little Pallie when one has fever & am so weak can scarcely walk. At 7 P.M. was awoken by a terrible noise & such shouting two tigers had met near us, so near the Teapoy saw & shot at them but was in such a fright he put a double load in his gun & knocked himself down. Bash got his gun & so did Jim, soon after a fine Tiger came so near (they say 20 yards) that Jim saw him quite distinctly, tho’ not very fine moonlight, and after his retreat a Panther. I thought it nonsense to

remain in this den of Lions so proposed (as they would probably take our Bullocks off next visit) that we should proceed, it appears all wished it most conveniently as it was at once agreed upon and we were off with marvelous rapidity, The two first Tigers on being frightened from us, went into the Village & crabbed off with a Bullock, scared the inhabitants & such a shouting ringing of bells & saying of prayers, never was, Bedlam let loose would be a Joke.

Beechora 10 cofs Carts upset bed & chairs smashed. Another bad attack of fever. Lots of Tigers.

Kairnarrow 12 cofs Nearly died en route, was supported from the Palkie to a room in a Bungalow. Mr.Green had got near ---. Bosse gave me a dose of Laudanum instead of Dorers powder, which made me sick all night, sent for him at 12 o’clock & even he now sure how very ill I was however his “hands of of compassion” are small, so went on very next day.

Beeckubuarat 5 cofs Started all the kit off during the day & only kept the light & necessary luggage with us.

Pensad Jim saw the remains of a Boar close to our encampment that had probably been a Tigers dinner; lots of them, one walked in front of the kit to the intense fright of our Servants. Hotel told us we should be attacked during the night, so the 2 Gentlemen were armed but we got off quite safely.

Jaiwar 12 Miles Very pretty place.

Kara 12 Miles Thunder heavy rain at night, roads inundated, & the head of a large river burst, all got separated, Back in a fury got out of the Cart quite needlessly would rider, & such an uncomfortable night never was.

Odeypoor I had visits from no end of Native Princes, one of whom insisted on calling me the “Missey” & Fanny the “Madam” they all went to the Palaces which are of white Marble & very fine. The City is really very large & with the finest buildings I have seen in India, we were in the Residency a fine cold looking place. Remain here till the 15th

Kerowda 22Miles I never spent such a night in all my life. Bullock as usual could not always trot. My Father got out in a rage mounted his Horse about 9 o’clock, left the Tepoy behind so could not procure Guides or anything good the most terrified I have ever heard of. The Servants got tipsey at Odeg just before leaving (at last the Barps & Jim’s 12, had a promising snuff, the Ayah interfering between her ---- the Cook & John, secured a good thrashing from both on reaching the halting place no tents! No end of miseries.

Marioan 18 Miles “Tiger seen en route by the Servants” Camel man died of 3 days fever!

Benrota 20 Miles. These long marches in my state nearly killed me, no one but my Father could have been hard hearted enough to make anyone do it. …fever was crippled with rheumatism. A Puttee had just been performed here 3 or 4 days ago. A chatty containing the Ashes was all that remained of the poor infatuated Woman. It seemed a favorite place it was surrounded with “Suttee Temples”

Neermuck about 20 Miles. Fell down in a fainting fit on trying to get out of the Palkie in bed all day & such a dismal little room no tent & very damp. Next day got up but had fever all night; poor Ayah so tired, there was no awakening her, & I sat up all night vainly trying to cool my head with water.

Heard from Evan, thank God for his mercy, he is well, from his fever.

Started on 4th January 1856, at four P.M. reached Nirogaum 9 Miles 7 P.M. same night went onto Mintera 7 miles 8 A.M.

Sultrenda 9 Miles

Philtire 9 Miles

Gunrile cart upset, very pretty place, not too many trees made it unwholesome.

Nusserabad Feb. 20 Evan arrived looking very well, and on the 28th, my Second Daughter was born - we had a Jiflin in honour of her baptism about a month after, at which all the Brigade, Fanny & Jim were

invited, she was baptised, Isabelle Marguerite, after her two God Mothers, Lady Nepean and Mr Brown of Balluck Castle, her God Father was Sir Molineaux Nepean. We remained in Nusseerabad about two years, which passed very peacefully and happily, the heat was never so great as we had been led to believe, the Baby had very good health there & so had we. In January we started for Beeselpine, a place almost 50 Miles from Nusseerabad , for a months leisure. Capt. Blair went with us, & Mr Sheph joined us afterwards, Evan shot a good many Sinder & we enjoyed ourselves very much.

“Boots & Saddle”

Hark to the trumpet sound! (the) Our Steeds impatient paw the ground The dawn of battle streaks the crimson sky With ready hands Our trusty bands The scabbards fly The foe is Nigh Forward to conquer- on to die! For since the trumpets sound Shall wake no more the echo sound Till sounds on high the great last revillee Born to the grave named by the brave Their memories still Our baswins thrill Forward Still to the trumpet sound (The Lancers) he once sang Our Squadrons shall ever be found To head the van of glorious victory Medah Melee roar Our standards soar Maintained fight For countries right

I have written out this composition of my Fathers, because it reminded me of that dreadful journey to Nusserabad when he sang it daily for our amusement!!

January 3rd we left for Meenuch, the first night on leaving camp, we were robbed, I awoke up, and found a Man standing near me looking to see if I was awakening, he had all my clothes, a large knife, and

my dressing case in his arms, I screamed out to Evan when he ran off, with Evan after him however the latter had to come back very quickly the night being so dark, he could see nothing when he came in. We found to our dismay that money box, dressing case, sword and nearly all Baby’s & my clothes had been taken, however glad to say, that next morning, nearly all the things were found in a field, but poor Evan lost his box containing some 300 Rupees & some jewelery. This was a very uncomfortable march, the cold was bitter, the poor Baby ill, and we for the first time experienced the pleasure of small tents! The mess gave a dinner to the Ladies, when we were mad enough to dance a couple of Polkas.

We reached Meermuch in about 15 days, before getting into Camp we had a most pressing invitation to stay with Dr & Mrs Hichin which we accepted, and spent a very pleasant time at their house, where no end of gaieties were going on. Baby was better, but still delicate. We lived for some little time in a house taken for Mr & Mrs Blair, and afterwards in a beautiful house formerly occupied by Lieut. Lock of the Lancers, we had however scarcely had time to get ourselves comfortably settled there, when the order came for the Second Cavalry to march to Rajcote. So in about six weeks from our arrival, we were once mare on the move, much to our regrets, for Neemuch was a beautiful Station, then with delightful gardens filled with fruit trees, violets daisies etc. We began our march on the 13th March, the prospect of a six weeks journey at this season of the year was anything but pleasant, however the Officers did their best to assist us in every way they could. We three Ladies (Mrs Limpton, Mrs Brett & self) always had our meals in the mess tent where the Tatties --- made the heat more endurable than in our Small Tents. The Regt. march on Sunday evening & after a march of 6 miles halted for the night & went on again at 9 till ten miles. Mr. Bretts’ horse fell & cut his knees frightfully & having lost for the time his tents the said unforgettable Gentleman slept under the practical but extremely uncomfortable “Canopy of heaven”. We spent the evening at Mr Hichins and started next morning Monday 14th at 1 A.M. After having the felicity of meeting part of our posts “en route”, and others in a hopeless State of

breakage, we reached our halting ground at 8 o’clock with the prospect of having nothing but our bare tents for all day.

Tuesday 15th reached Morwan 15 Miles, reached late, found things looking about as pleasant as they did the day before. The Butler (a Partee) was found like Marias lamenting, not his fortunes certainly, but over a lot of broken china! Chairs and things of that description were broken too often to excite even a comment.

Wednesday 16, 12 miles reached Bereanad today every thing appeared at a climax of the week. Poor Band People asking wildly after their Wifes and Children left --- en-route in broken Carts etc. Mr Bretts Cart was set on fire, and his couches, chairs, etc, lost for ever! 5 of our Tamils deserted us. Mrs Pelly very dangerously ill, her woe begotten husband quite heartbreaking to look at & last but not least the Colonel had caught a sore throat, and was in a terribly bad temper.

Thursday 17 Today was a halt and kind providence brought about many meetings between Parents and lost Children, Husbands and Wifes, gladly the hearts of others with the sight of Camels supposed to have gone astray etc. One of our Camels with erratic flight across country left us to lament not so much its absence personally but its load. Mr. Legres whose 15 Camels had most heartlessly deserted him were replaced, he was made happy by the return of all his goods of his life, we started

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BOMBAY

BIRTHS, - At Nusseerabad, on the 28th of February, the wife of Captain E.Murray MacGregor, 2nd. Regimant Light Cavalry, of a daughter.

Married on Tuesday 7th of March 1848

Missey born Wednesday 22nd August 1850

Charley born 28th December 1852

Ella born Thursday 28th February 1856

Gracie born Sunday 24th October 1858

Gracie died Sunday 28th October 1860

Evie born Saturday 12th May 1860

Janet born Friday 2nd September 1864

Evans birthday 1st July

Mine 18th October

Missey’s Godmathers - Lady Charlotte, Mrs Kerr,

God Father: Major Collins.

baptised in the Church at Rajcote by the Rev. Boyes, named Charlotte Francis

Charley - God Fathers: Dr Collier, C.F.Collier Esq.

Godmother - Mrs Edward Every Miller

baptised at Portobello in our house by the Rev Bayle, named Charles Frederick

Ella – Godmothers: Lady Nepean, Mrs Brown of Balloch Castle

God Father: Sir Molineux Nepean

baptised at our house in Nusseerabad by the Rev. Thirrick

named Isabelle Marguerite

Gracie - Godmother:

baptised in the Church at Deeta by the Rev. Allen

names Sophie Grace

Buried in the Graveyard Rajcote October 28th

Evie – Godmothers: Miss Tritten, Godfather Major John MacGregor 6th Cavalry & F.Stronge Esq. Liecester.

Baptized in the Church at Rajcote, by the Rev. Mitford, names - Evan John

Janet Baptised in the Mess house, at Kulladghee by the Rev’d G Allen on Sunday the – of October 1864

Godmothers: Mrs Prescott, &. Mrs James Collier,

Godfather: Colonel Millar, Madras Commissariat

names, Janet Lucie

Newspaper cuttings

- 96th Foot- Lieut. EDWARD RUSSELL COOPER retires from the service, receiving the value of an ensigncy; Lieut CHARLES FREDERICK MURRAY MACGREGOR retires from the service, receiving the value of an ensigncy.

- BELL- Aug. 30th, at Deesa, the wife of Captain Bell, 56th Regiment, Brigade Major, of a daughter.

- LEGGATT-Nov.29th, at Rajcote, the wife of Surgeon A.J.Leggatt, of a son.

- MacGregor, October 24, at Deesa, the wife of Captain E.Murray MacGregor, 2nd regiment light Cavalry, of a daughter.

- We regret to announce the death of (Brevet-Major) Edward Henry Simpson, 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry, which sad event occurred at Neemuch on the 24th instant. The deceased served with the Field Force in Sind in 1843; present at Nimbhara and Jeerun (severely wounded); in command of the fort of Neemuch while besieged by rebels (special thanks of Government, and Brevet-Major); at the siege and assault of Kotah, action of Purtabghur, and in pursuit of Tantia Topee.

Notes in Diary •....

Fred Married 12th. August 1862-

First Child born January/64 God Fathers, my Father & James,

I am God Mother.

The Edinburgh GazetteDecember 12, 1862

To be Inspector-General of Hospitals.Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Charles Frederick Collier. Dated 9th December 1862.

The Edinburgh GazetteNovember 10, 1865

INDIA OFFICE, November 6, 1865.Her Majesty has been pleased to approve ofthe following Alterations of Rank amongst the Officers of Her Majesty’s Indian Military Forces and of the Staff Corps :—BREVET.Major Edward Penfold Arthur, Bombay StaffCorps, to be Lieutenaut-Colonel; Captain BenjaminCampbell Hitchins, Royal (Madras) Artillery, to be Major, in succession to Lieutenant-General Sir S. W. Steel, K.C.B., MadrasInfantry, deceased. Dated 12th March 1865.Major Henry Le Poer Trench, Bengal Infantry,to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain John Harvey Elwyn, Royal (Madras) Artillery, to be Major, in succession to General R. C. Andrge, Bengal Infantry, deceased. Dated 28th March 1865. Major George Whittle Mackenzie Hall, Bengal Staff Corps, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain Thomas Mowbray Baumgartner, Bombay Staff Corps, to be Major, in succession to Major-General J. Matthie, Bengal Infantry, deceased.Dated 29th March 1365.Major James Alphonse Collier, Bombay StaffCorps, to - be -Lieutenant - Colonel; CaptainThomas Henry Stoddarcl, Madras Staff Corps, to be Major, in succession to General M. Boyd, Bengal Infantry, deceased. Dated 9th April 1865.

The Edinburgh GazetteDecember 18, 1868

BOMBAY STAFF CORPS.To be Lieutenant-Colonels.Major Anthony Benn Church. Dated 11th June 1868. Major Frederick Phillips. Dated 11th June 1868. Major (Brevet Lieutenant - Colonel) James Alphonse Collier. Dated 11th June 1868.

SophieMacGregor

Dickson

BASSETT DICKSON was born in 1710 in Ireland. He married ELIZABETH VOKES.

Bassett DICKSON and Elizabeth VOKES had the following child:

1. BASSETT (1) DICKSON was born in 1732 in Limerick, Ireland. He died on 22 Feb 1813 in Limerick, Ireland.

BASSETT (1) DICKSON married Alice SARGENT, daughter of Peter SARGENT and Elizabeth GUBBINS on 19 Nov 1760 in St Munchin’s Limerick, Ireland. She was born before 14 Dec 1731 in Saint John, Limerick, Ireland.

Noted as a gentleman of high respectability & immense property. In 1769 a Chandler in Mungret Street, Limerick.

Bassett (1) DICKSON and Alice SARGENT had the following children:

1. SAMUEL DICKSON was born on 23 Apr 1762 in Saint John, Limerick, Ireland. He died in 1799. He married Anne MOORE in 1779. She was born in 1760. Samuel was a dye & soapmaker whose will was probated in 1799.

2. JAMES DICKSON was born on 02 May 1763 in Saint John, Limerick, Ireland. He died on 22 Jan 1766 in Saint John, Limerick, Ireland.

3. JOHN DICKSON was born in 1765. He died on 06 Mar 1813 in Snugborough, Ireland. He married Miss COLLES. John Dickson was a Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin in 1782

4. MARY DICKSON was born on 07 May 1766 in Limerick, Ireland. She died on 27 Jul 1818 in Limerick, Ireland.

5. BASSETT DICKSON. He died on 06 Jan 1812. Limerick Evening Echo, Saturday 11 Jan 1812. Died on Monday night at his father’s house in Mungret St., Mr Bassett Dickson Jnr.

SAMUEL DICKSON was born on 23 Apr 1762 in Saint John, Limerick, Ireland. He died in 1799. He married Anne MOORE in 1779. She was born in

1760.

Samuel DICKSON and Anne MOORE had the following children:

1. ELIZABETH DICKSON was born before 01 Feb 1780 in Limerick, Ireland. She married Thomas JACKSON in St.John’s, Limerick, Ireland.

2. SAMUEL DICKSON was born before 18 May 1781 in Limerick, Ireland. He died on 15 Dec 1781. He married Susanah TUBBS on 09 Jul 1801 in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland.

3. ANNE DICKSON was born before 16 Jul 1782 in Limerick, Ireland. She married Maurice HARTNETT in Limerick Cathederal.

4. BASSETT (2) DICKSON was born on 12 Oct 1784 in “Ross Towers”, Limerick, Ireland. He died on 01 Sep 1863 in “Glen Ayr”, Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Elizabeth PORTER, daughter of James PORTER and Mary KENDALL on 28 Sep 1811 in St. Munchin’s, Limerick, Ireland. She was born in 1786 in Limerick, Ireland. She died on 27 Nov 1843 at Plassy, Kirklands, Tasmania, Australia.

5. SARAH DICKSON was born before 08 Sep 1789 in Limerick, Ireland. She married Peter COONERBY in St. John’s Limerick Ireland.

6. JANE DICKSON was born on 01 May 1791 in Saint John’s Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. She married James WILKINSON on 07 Nov 1819 in St. John’s Limerick, Ireland.

7. CHARLOTTE DICKSON was born on 16 Mar 1793 in Limerick, Ireland. She died on 21 Sep 1841. She married GABRIEL KENDALL ALLEY, son of William Yelverton ALLEY and Martha KENDALL on 14 Nov 1819 in St John’s, Limerick, Ireland. He was born in 1797. He died on 02 Mar 1847.

8. WILLIAM DICKSON was born on 08 Mar 1795 in Saint John Limerick, Limerick ,Ireland.

JOHN DICKSON was born in 1765. He died on 06 Mar 1813 in Snugborough, Ireland. He married Miss COLLES.

John DICKSON and Miss COLLES had the following children:

1. UNKNOWN DAUGHTER DICKSON was born on 03 Dec 1804 in Janesboro, Ireland.

2. UNKNOWN SON DICKSON was born on 18 Apr 1810 in Janesboro, Ireland.

BASSETT (2) DICKSON was born on 12 Oct 1784 in “Ross Towers”, Limerick, Ireland. He died on 01 Sep 1863 at “Glen Ayr”, Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Elizabeth PORTER, daughter of James PORTER and Mary KENDALL on 28 Sep 1811 in St. Munchin’s, Limerick, Ireland. She was born in 1786 in Limerick, Ireland. She died on 27 Nov 1843 at “Plassy”, Kirklands, Tasmania, Australia.

Note: Bassett Dickson (2) a cotton mill proprieter emigrated to Van Diemans Land on the ‘Medway’, a fully rigged ship of 435 tons, sailing from Cork 25th July 1829. Bassett Dickson and his wife, Elizabeth Porter, and 5 children arrived in Hobart Town after 131 days of travelling from Cork to Sydney. They spent 6 weeks in Sydney then sailed for Hobart on the 2nd February 1830, arriving 16th February 1830. On arrival Bassett Dickson deposited his capital of some 1200 pounds in gold with the Bank of Van Diemans Land and paid a courtesy call on Lieutenant Governor Colonel George Arthur. He applied for a grant of land which was approved 1 week later - 2000 acres in the Ross district. On the 17th March 1830 he travelled north by bullock wagon and chose a site for his home where he built a ‘sod’ hut and lived there for 7 years while building a substantial stone homestead. The property was named ‘PLASSY’. Mary Dickson , 10 years old, disappeared from Plassy, and was killed by bushrangers, as the body was found by searchers among their black haunts at the foot of the tiers. He later acquired further properties: Green Park, Lake Echo, Tervue (at eastern Marshes), Glen Ayr (Richmond), Ross Towers (Bruny Island), Meadowbank (Hamilton), Scottsdale (New Norfolk), Lawrenny and Campania

Estate (Campania).

Bassett (2) DICKSON and Elizabeth PORTER had the following children:

1. SAMUEL DICKSON was born on 18 Jan 1813 in Saint John Limerick, Limerick, IRELAND. He died on 09 Sep 1895 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. He married Julia WALTERS on 27 Apr 1839 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in 1815 in Chelsea, London, England. She died on 07 Feb 1850 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia.

2. BASSETT (3) DICKSON was born on 17 Dec 1815 in Limerick, Ireland. He died on 19 Jan 1869 at “Scottsdale”, New Norfolk, Tasmania. He married Mary Skuse BROWN, daughter of Richard BROWN and Margery SKUSE on 15 Aug 1851 in St. Georges Church, Battery Point, Tasmania. She was born on 01 Feb 1828 in Cork, Ireland. She died on 12 Dec 1898 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

3. MARY DICKSON. She died at “Plassy”.

4. ELIZABETH DICKSON was born on 16 Apr 1819 in St Johns, Limerick, Ireland. She died on 05 Sep 1907 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania, Australia. She married WILLIAM MOORE FERRAR, son of Edward FERRAR MD and Jane MOORE on 24 Mar 1847 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. He was born on 22 Jun 1823 in Dublin, Ireland. He died on 14 Aug 1906 in Ross, Tasmania, Australia.

Margery Skuse

“On the tenth of October 1841 I set sail from Liverpool in the bark Hope. Captain Duncan McLachlan, bound for Sydney, and on the tenth of October 1842 I entered my cousin Bassett Dickson’s house in Van Diemen’s Land.” William Moore Ferrar.

5. ANNE DICKSON was born on 03 Mar 1822 in Saint John Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. She died in Jun 1888 in Christchurch, New Zealand. She married Thomas MACORMICK, son of Thomas MCCORMICK and Jane WILSON on 23 Feb 1854 in House of Mr Dickson, Elizabeth Street, Hobart - Rites of Melville St Wesleyan Church. He was born in 1820 in Ireland (from death certificate). He died on 02 Feb 1875 in Edward St, Hobart.

6. ALICIA DICKSON was born on 23 Nov 1828 in Limerick, Ireland. She died on 28 Apr 1910 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She married Michael MURPHY on 15 Jan 1857 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born in 1833 in Dublin, Ireland. He died on 26 Nov 1914 in Chrischurch, New Zealand.

CHARLOTTE DICKSON was born on 16 Mar 1793 in Limerick, Ireland. She died on 21 Sep 1841. She married GABRIEL KENDALL ALLEY, son of William Yelverton ALLEY and Martha KENDALL on 14 Nov 1819 in St John, Limerick, Ireland. He was born in 1797. He died on 02 Mar 1847.

Charlotte DICKSON and Gabriel Kendall ALLEY had the following children:

1. MARY DICKSON ALLEY was born on 17 Jan 1827 in Kilfergus & Glin, Ireland. She died on 07 Jan 1915 in Olivette, Limerick (St John’s graveyard).

2. WILLIAM DICKSON ALLEY was born in 1827 in Isle of Man. He died in 1907 in New York, USA.

3. MARTHA ALLEY was born on 15 Dec 1820. She married (1) EDWARD KEANE on 12 Oct 1851

in Limerick, Ireland. She married (2) JOHN SPARLING on 31 Jul 1843 in Limerick, Ireland.

4. ANNE ALLEY was born on 23 Sep 1822 in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland. She died on 11 Sep 1910 in Limerick, Ireland. She married Thomas HOLLIDAY about 1850. He was born in 1823 in Cumberland, England. He died on 12 Nov 1862 in Liverpool.

SAMUEL DICKSON was born on 18 Jan 1813 in Saint John’s Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. He died on 09 Sep 1895 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. He married Julia WALTERS on 27 Apr 1839 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in 1815 in Chelsea, London, England. She died on 07 Feb 1850 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia.

Samuel DICKSON and Julia WALTERS had the following children:

1. SAMUEL THOMAS DICKSON was born on 03 Feb 1843 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 28 Mar 1924 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. He married Charlotte Maria LORD, daughter of Edward Robert LORD and Charlotte LOVEKIN on 12 May 1870 in Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 02 Mar 1850 in Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 17 Aug 1914 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

2. JULIA DICKSON was born on 19 Feb 1840 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 07 Sep 1907 in Cobargo, New South Wales, Australia. She married Joseph BERESFORD, son of Joseph BERESFORD and Bridget STEVENS on 24 Jul 1860 at “Glen Ayr”, Richmond, Tasmania. He was born on 25 Nov 1840 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 13 Mar 1905 at “Wilgoo“ in Cobargo, Bega Valley, New South Wales, Australia.

3. LUCY DICKSON was born on 07 Sep 1841. She married THOMAS ELLIOT.

4. ROBERT DICKSON was born on 24 Jan 1850. He married MARY SINDE.

5. WALTER DICKSON. He died on 27 Sep 1927 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He

married SARAH MC NULTY. She was born in 1851. She died on 24 Feb 1929 in Adelong, New South Wales, Australia.

6. CAROLINE DICKSON.

BASSETT (3) DICKSON was born on 17 Dec 1815 in Limerick, Ireland. He died on 19 Jan 1869 at ‘Scottsdale’, New Norfolk, Tasmania. He married Mary Skuse BROWN, daughter of Richard BROWN and Margery SKUSE on 15 Aug 1851 in St. George’s Church, Battery Point, Tasmania. She was born on 01 Feb 1828 in Cork, Ireland. She died on 12 Dec 1898 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. Bassett (3) DICKSON and Mary Skuse BROWN had the following children:1. ANNE JANE DICKSON was born on 17 Sep

1856 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died about 1887 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married James Henry McKay on 30 Mar 1891.

2. ELIZABETH DICKSON was born on 07 Jan 1853. She died on 22 Nov 1903 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She married David Napier JAMESON on 07 Aug 1875 in All Saints, Hobart, Tasmania. He was born on 04 Aug 1854. He died on 13 Mar 1888.

3. FANNY ROSINA DICKSON was born on 21 Oct 1854 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 10 Dec 1940 in 15 Grant St, East Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria. She married George Arthur LOOKER J.P., son of William Robert LOOKER and Margaret Anne READ on 08 Jun 1878 in All Saints, Davey St, Hobart, Tasmania. He was born on 12 Oct 1850 in “Pontesford”, near Kilmore, Victoria. He died on 25 Sep 1906 in Murrumbeena, Melbourne, Victoria.

4. EMILY FLORENCE DICKSON was born on 07 Aug 1858 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1921 in Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia. She married James Henry MACKAY on 30 Mar 1891. He was born on 17 Jul 1866 in New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1945 in Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia.

5. BASSETT RICHARD (4) DICKSON was born on 01 Dec 1860. He died on 14 Jul 1939 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. He married Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR, daughter of Evan Murray MACGREGOR (Major General) on 31 Aug 1889 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 02 Sep 1864 in Kullidgee, INDIA. She died on 28 Jun 1937.

6. MARY CAROLINE DICKSON was born on 05 Oct 1862. She died on 18 Sep 1932 in New Town, TASMANIA, Living at “Bassett” 32 Bay Road, New Town.

7. HENRY CHARLES DICKSON was born on 07 Jun 1866 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1893. He married Katie Venetia TAPP, daughter of John Charles TAPP and Annie Amelia BALL on 23 Apr 1907 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 21 Apr 1872 in Hobart, Tasmania. She died on 30 Nov 1952.

Note: The Mercury 20 September 1929 DISTRICT NEWS RICHMOND. The people of Richmond are regretting the departure from the district of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Dickson, who are now residing in Hobart. Mr. Dickson, whose father was the late Mr. Bassett Dickson, was born at Richmond and was formerly the owner of the valuable Marengo Estate, which, in a patriotic spirit, he disposed of at much below Its true value, for the benefit of returned soldier settlers, retaining only a small farm, which he recently sold. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dickson will be much missed, as they were ever ready to assist any charitable or worthy object. To show the esteem in which they were held their Richmond friends presented them With the following gifts:- A silver tea and hot-water service, a handbag, two cases of pipes, a tobacco pouch, and a bridge set.

ELIZABETH DICKSON was born on 16 Apr 1819 in St Johns, Limerick, Ireland. She died on 05 Sep 1907 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania, Australia. She married WILLIAM MOORE FERRAR, son of Edward FERRAR M.D. and Jane MOORE on 24

Mar 1847 at “Plassy”, Ross, TASMANIA. He was born on 22 Jun 1823 in Dublin, Ireland. He died on 14 Aug 1906 in Ross, Tasmania, Australia.

Elizabeth DICKSON and William Moore FERRAR had the following children:

1. ANNA KATHARINE FERRAR was born on 16 Jul 1850 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She died on 16 Dec 1944 in Penselwood, Somerset, England. She married Harry Kerr BINNS, son of Richard William BINNS and Elizabeth Frances FERRAR on 13 Feb 1878 in St Clement, Worcester, England. He was born on 29 Mar 1852 in Pershore, Worcestershire, England. He died in 1935 in Penselwood, Somerset, England.

2. BASSETT DICKSON FERRAR was born on 19 Nov 1851 in at “Plassy”, Ross, TASMANIA. He died between 1930-1935. He married (1) MARY HARRIET GREENHILL on 05 Dec 1877 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She was born in 1856. She died on 20 Apr 1881 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. He married (2) SELINA JENKINS on 04 Feb 1895 in Waikiwi, Invercargill City, Southland, New Zealand. She died in 1947.

3. EDWARD FERRAR was born on 22 Apr 1855 in Ross, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 29 Jun

1929 in Ross, Tasmania, Australia. He married MABEL TAPP. She was born in 1879. She died on 28 Mar 1945.

4. MARY MASSEY FERRAR was born on 31 Aug 1853 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She died in 1945 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

5. ELIZABETH FERRAR was born in 1849 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She died on 10 May 1886 in Parattah, Tasmania, Australia. She married (1) ALEXANDER BROCK on 09 Jun 1880 in “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. He was born on 10 Sep 1841 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 31 Mar 1904 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania. She married ALEC BROCK.

6. WILLIAM MOORE FERRAR was born on 01 Oct 1858 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. He died on 27 Sep 1915 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. He married Emily Harriet NICHOLS, daughter of George NICHOLS and Harriet WEEDING on 16 Apr 1892 in Sprent Church, Ulverstone, Tasmania. She was born on 10 Mar 1857 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 04 Apr 1940.

7. RICHARD BINS FERRAR was born on 20 Oct 1860 at “Plassy” Campbell Town, Tasmania. He died on 20 Aug 1951 in Hobart, Tasmania,

Australia. He married Margaret Ann TERRY, daughter of Thomas TERRY and Elizabeth WELLS on 07 Sep 1892 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 21 Oct 1859 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 10 Dec 1937 in Tasmania, Australia.

8. ALICIA FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FERRAR was born on 20 Oct 1856 in at “Plassy”, Ross,

Tasmania. She died on 10 Jul 1950 in Stowport, Tasmania, Australia.

9. JANE PORTER FERRAR was born on 10 Dec 1847 in at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She died on 22 Dec 1893 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. She

ANNE DICKSON was born on 03 Mar 1822 in Saint John Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. She died in Jun 1888 in Christchurch, New Zealand. She married Thomas William MACORMICK, son of Thomas MCCORMICK and Jane WILSON on 23 Feb 1854 in the house of Mr Dickson, Elizabeth Street, Hobart - Rites of Melville St Wesleyan Church. He was born in 1820 in Ireland (from death certificate). He died on 02 Feb 1875 in Edward St, Hobart.

Anne DICKSON and Thomas MACORMACK had the following children:

1. CAROLINE MACORMACK was born on 11 Mar 1863 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. JANE DICKSON MACORMACK. She died in 1883 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She married THOMAS WALTER WILKINSON.

3. JANE DICKSON MCCORMACK was born on 18 Jul 1859 in Hobart Town. She died before 1959.

4. ANNE ELIZA MACORMACK was born on 28 Apr 1861 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

5. CAROLINE MARY MCCORMACK was born on 11 Mar 1863 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died before 1963.

ALICIA DICKSON was born on 23 Nov 1828 in Limerick, Ireland. She died on 28 Apr 1910 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She married Michael MURPHY on 15 Jan 1857 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born in 1833 in Dublin, Ireland. He died on 26 Nov 1914 in Chrischurch, New Zealand.

Alicia DICKSON and Michael MURPHY had the following child:

1. EDMUND BASSETT DICKSON MURPHY was born on 22 Apr 1858 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1946 in Canterbury, New

Zealand. He married Alice NEWTON on 06 Oct 1881 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She was born in 1860 in Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, England. She died in 1886 in Australia.

MARTHA ALLEY was born on 15 Dec 1820. She married (1) EDWARD KEANE on 12 Oct 1851 in Limerick, Ireland. She married (2) JOHN SPARLING on 31 Jul 1843 in Limerick, Ireland.

Martha ALLEY and Edward KEANE had the following child:

1. CHRISTOPHER KEANE was born in 1859 in Limerick, Ireland. He died on 06 Sep 1905 in Bronx, New York, USA.

ANNE ALLEY was born on 23 Sep 1822 in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland. She died on 11 Sep 1910 in Limerick, Ireland. She married Thomas HOLLIDAY about 1850. He was born in 1823 in Cumberland, England. He died on 12 Nov 1862 in Liverpool.

Anne ALLEY and Thomas HOLLIDAY had the following children:

1. ALFRED DICKSON HOLLIDAY was born on 02 May 1862 in West Derby, Liverpool England. He died in USA.

2. THOMAS HOLLIDAY was born in 1856 in Cumberland. He died in USA.

3. WILLIAM HOLLIDAY was born in 1851 in Cumberland. He died in 1930 in Limerick, Ireland.

4. ELDRED CURWEN HOLLIDAY was born on 02 May 1862 in West Derby, Liverpool England. He died on 26 Jul 1912 in Limerick, Ireland.

5. GABRIEL HOLLIDAY was born in 1852 in Ireland.

6. SARAH HOLLIDAY was born in 1854 in Ireland.

7. CHARLOTTE HOLLIDAY was born in 1858 in Cumberland.

SAMUEL THOMAS DICKSON was born on 03

Feb 1843 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 28 Mar 1924 in Christchurch, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. He married Charlotte Maria LORD, daughter of Edward Robert LORD and Charlotte LOVEKIN on 12 May 1870 in

Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 02 Mar 1850 in Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 17 Aug 1914 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Samuel Thomas DICKSON and Charlotte Maria LORD had the following children:

1. CHARLOTTE LORD was born on 26 Jul 1868 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

2. EDWARD BASSETT DICKSON was born on 20 Nov 1871 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 16 Dec 1871 at “Glen Ayr”, Richmond, Tasmania.

3. JOHN OWEN DICKSON was born on 04 Mar 1873 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

4. ELIZA DICKSON was born on 22 Feb 1874 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

5. CHARLOTTE DICKSON was born on 05 Jul 1878 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 22 Sep 1882 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. Note: In loving Memory of CHARLOTTE DICKSON died at Glen Ayr 22 Sep. 1882 Aged 4 Years “For as the flowers show thee Blooming on thy cold still breast Pluckd by a Mother’s hands that loved thee Little Lottie”.

6. WALTER HENRY DICKSON was born on 14 Dec 1880 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

7. MILES DICKSON was born on 26 Mar 1883 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1958 in Wellington, New Zealand.

8. CATHERINE DICKSON was born on 14 Jan 1885 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

JULIA DICKSON was born on 19 Feb 1840 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 07 Sep 1907 in Cobargo, New South Wales, Australia. She married Joseph BERESFORD, son of Joseph BERESFORD and Bridget STEVENS on 24 Jul 1860 at “Glen Ayr”, Richmond. He was born on 25 Nov 1840 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 13 Mar 1905 at “Wilgoo”, Cobargo, Bega Valley, New South Wales , Australia.

Julia DICKSON and Joseph BERESFORD had the following children:

1. JOSEPH WALTERS BERESFORD was born in 1861 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1924 in Bega, New South Wales, Australia.

2. JAMES HENRY BERESFORD was born on 05 Jun 1862 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1934 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

3. ARTHUR PERCIVAL BERESFORD was born in 1864 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

4. CAROLINE EDITH BERESFORD was born in 1865 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1950 in Bega, New South Wales, Australia.

5. JULIA ANN BERESFORD was born in 1868 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

6. ELLEN FRANCES BERESFORD was born in 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

7. FLORENCE ADA BERESFORD was born in 1879 in Bega, New South Wales, Australia.

8. JOHN EDMUND BERESFORD was born in 1883 in Bega, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1937 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia.

Oast house, Glen Ayr, Richmond, Tasmania

ELIZABETH was born on 07 Jan 1853. She died on 22 Nov 1903 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She married David Napier JAMESON on 07 Aug 1875 in All Saints, Hobart, Tasmania. He was born on 04 Aug 1854. He died on 13 Mar 1888.

Elizabeth DICKSON and David Napier JAMESON had the following children:

1. MARGARET IRENE JAMISON was born on 16 Mar 1885 in Clarence, Tasmania, Australia.

2. DAVID HAMILTON JAMISON was born on 19 Dec 1886 in Clarence, Tasmania, Australia.

FANNY ROSINA DICKSON was born on 21 Oct 1854 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 10 Dec 1940 in 15 Grant St, East Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria. She married George Arthur LOOKER J.P., son of William Robert LOOKER and Margaret Anne READ on 08 Jun 1878 in All Saints, Davey St, Hobart, Tasmania. He was born on 12 Oct 1850 in “Pontesford”, near Kilmore, Victoria. He died on 25 Sep 1906 in Murrumbeena, Melbourne, Victoria.

Fanny Rosina DICKSON and George Arthur LOOKER J.P., had the following children:

1. MARY DICKSON LOOKER was born on 15 Jun 1879 in “Stanburn Downs”, Aramac, Qld. She died on 23 Jul 1949 at “Glen Derwent”, New Norfolk, Tasmania.

2. ARTHUR WILLIAM (CAPT) LOOKER DSO was born on 05 Sep 1880 at “Edgewood”, Oakleigh, Melbourne. He died on 07 Apr 1926 in Malvern, Victoria, Australia. Note: The death is announced from Melbourne of Captain Arthur William Looker, D.S.O., late 5th Cambridgeshire Regiment. On returning to Tasmania from the Great War he took up farming in the Copping district, and at Richmond. In September, 1924, he married Miss Dunbabin, of Hobart. He was a grandson of the late Mr. Bassett Dickson, of Richmond. Mrs. A. V. Downie, of New Norfolk, is a sister of the late Captain Looker.

3. HAROLD GEORGE LOOKER was born on 28 Mar 1882 at “Beauregard”, Holebrook Place, Hobart, Tasmania. He died on 23 Jul 1919 in Hedgeley Ave, East Malvern, Melbourne.

4. MARGARET EFFIE LOOKER was born on 24 Sep 1883 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 23 Jul 1962 in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.

5. FREDERICK KEITH LOOKER was born on 23 Jul 1885 in “Yambee”, Murrumbeena, Melbourne. He died on 15 Nov 1915 in Malta of wounds after Gallipoli, Turkey.

6. FANNY MARGARET LOOKER was born on 04 Feb 1887 in “Yambee”, Murrumbeena, Melbourne. She died on 08 Apr 1975 in Lindsay St, Murrumbeena, Victoria.

7. EUDORA MABA (“DORA”) LOOKER was born on 19 Dec 1888 in “Yambee”, Murrumbeena, Melbourne. She died on 11 Feb 1946 in Auchenflower, Queensland, Australia.

8. LYNNETTE ANNIE LOOKER was born on 17 Dec 1890 in “Yambee”, Murrumbeena, Melbourne. She died on 04 Jun 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

9. WILLIAM ROBERT LOOKER was born on 28 Sep 1893 in Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia.

Ann Jane Dickson

Mary Charlotte DicksonFanny Rosina Dickson

Elizabeth Dickson

Emily Dickson

Bassett (4) Richard Dickson

He died on 27 Nov 1916 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.

EMILY FLORENCE DICKSON was born on 07 Aug 1858 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1921 in Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia. She married James Henry MACKAY on 30 Mar 1891. He was born on 17 Jul 1866 in New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1945 in Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia.

Emily Florence DICKSON and James Henry MACKAY had the following children:

1. EMILY MARGARET MACKAY was born in 1893 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1979 in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia.

2. JAMES DONALD MACKAY was born on 01 Jan 1898 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 27 Jun 1964 in Wyong, New South Wales, Australia.

3. COLIN PATRICK MACKAY was born in Aug 1892 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died between 7 and 12 Aug 1915 in Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.

4. ANNIE MARY MACKAY was born in 1895 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1958 in Auburn, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

BASSETT RICHARD (4) DICKSON was born on 01 Dec 1860. He died on 14 Jul 1939 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. He married Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR, daughter of Evan Murray MACGREGOR (Major General) on 31 Aug 1889 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 02 Sep 1864 in Kullidgee, India. She died on 28 Jun 1937.

Note: Bassett Dickson ( 4th.) born Hamilton, Tasmania 1 Dec 1860. Died 14th. July 1939 at Lindisfarne, Tasmania. Resided with parents at “Meadowbank” Hamilton, Tasmania and educated at Horton College Ross, Tasmania. Later property owner of “Glen Ayr” Richmond, 1280 acres. 1888 married Janet Murray MacGregor daughter of Major General Evan Murray MacGregor & Sophie

Collier (Retired Indian Army) and Grand daughter of General Sir Alexander Murray MacGregor & Lady Charlotte Sinclair and Great granddaughter of the Earl & Lady Caithness of Scotland.

Bassett Dickson filed a petition for bankruptcy in 1892. Sale of Pastoral Property. That well known property Glen Ayr, belonging to Mr. Bassett Dickson, has changed hands, the purchaser being Mr. John Pace, late of Forcett House, Sorell. Glen Ayr was one of the first settled properties in the Richmond district, being originally granted to Captain William de Gillern and was purchased by Mr. Bassett Dickson’s father in 1849. The original Weero-na homestead and a small holding is being retained by the Dickson family. The negotia-tions were carried out through Messrs. A. G. Webster and Sons Ltd., of Hobart. Bassett Dickson 4th. died at Lindisfarne 1939

Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON and Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR had the following children:

1. BASSETT (5) RICHARD DICKSON was born on 07 Sep 1890. He died on 29 Mar 1907 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

2. ROY SINCLAIR DICKSON was born in Nov 1891. He died on 21 Oct 1938 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Ellen HARE on 19 Oct 1918 in West Cholderton, Wiltshire. She was born in 1895 in Norfolk, England. She died on 10 Jun 1984 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia.

Note: OBITUARY MR. R. S. DICKSON Notable War Service Mr. Roy Sinclair Dickson, only surviving son of Mr. Bassett and the late Janet Dickson, late of Glen Ayr, Richmond, now of Lindisfarne, died in a private hospital in Hobart. The Bassett Dicksons owned Glen Ayr and several other notable properties for several generations. Mr. Roy Dickson was in his 47th year, and had suffered many years from his war disabilities. He died on the 24th anniversary of the day on which the “originals” left Tasmania. He

enlisted in August, 1914, and sailed on the Geelong with the 3rd Light Horse, and was at the landing and evacuation of Gallipoli. He served at Lone Pine, Quinn’s Post, and Pope’s Head. He served for several months continuously on duty. After Gallipoli, he returned to Heliopolis and campaigned till April. 1916, when he suffered from Nile fever. In May, 1916, he joined the artillery and left for England. He was sent to France In January, 1917, and fought In the front line round Baupaume. Bullecourt, Messines, and Lagincourt. He served until wounded in September, 1917, and was then drafted to Cambridge Hospital, England. He returned to France In January, 1918, and served with the 38th Battery, 10th Field Artillery Brigade at Dermicourt, Wychet Bridge and Villers-Bretonneux till June, when he was gassed, and sent to base hospital In France, then to the Norfolk war hospital, England. He left for Australia in October 1918. on long service leave, and was demobilised in February, 1919. as he was medically unfit because of the effect of gas and wounds. He leaves a wife and family of three, Bassett, Roy, and Helen.

3. SOPHIA MARY DICKSON was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Alan Francis JEANNERET, son of Francis Edward JEANNERET and Augusta Bassett HULL on 03 Feb 1926. He was born on 05 May 1899 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

ANNA KATHARINE FERRAR was born on 16 Jul 1850 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She died on 16 Dec 1944 in Penselwood, Somerset, England. She married Harry Kerr BINNS, son of Richard William BINNS and Elizabeth Frances FERRAR on 13 Feb 1878 in St Clement, Worcester, England. He was born on 29 Mar 1852 in Pershore, Worcestershire, England. He died in 1935 in Penselwood, Somerset, England.

Anna Katharine FERRAR and Harry Kerr BINNS had the following children:

1. NELLIE BINNS was born in 1883. She died in 1955. She married R.K SHEPHERD. He was born in 1882. He died in 1946.

2. ALEC BINNS was born in 1880. He died in 1911.

3. WILLIAM ALEXANDER DALLAS BINNS was born on 25 Apr 1880 in Kisulutini, Rabai, E. Africa. He died on 13 Jul 1911.

4. ELEANOR KATHLEEN FERRAR BINNS was born on 08 Jun 1883 in Frere Town E Africa. She died in 1955 in Cardiff, Wales. She married Richard Kenneth SHEPHERD between 1899-1928. He was born in 1882. He died in 1946 in Cardiff, Wales.

5. ELIZABETH FLORENCE BINNS was born on 25 Sep 1884 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1967 in Crowborough, E. Sussex.

6. ELVINA MARION BINNS was born on 02 Dec 1885 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia. She

Sophia Mary Dickson

died on 23 Apr 1911 in Georgetown, Tasmania, Australia.

7. ANNA MAY BINNS was born on 10 Jul 1887 in Whittington, Worcestershire. She died on 23 Dec 1974 in Crowborough, Sussex, England. She married George W WRIGHT in 1910 in Mombasa, Coast, Kenya. He was born on 17 Dec 1873 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. He died on 11 Aug 1956 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.

8. GRACE LILIAN BINNS was born on 29 Dec 1889 in Taunton, Somerset. She died on 29 Oct 1967. She married ALFRED EDWARD CLARKE.

RICHARD BINS FERRAR was born on 20 Oct 1860 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 20 Aug 1951 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Margaret Ann TERRY, daughter of Thomas TERRY and Elizabeth WELLS on 07 Sep 1892 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 21 Oct 1859 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 10 Dec 1937 in Tasmania, Australia.

Richard Bins FERRAR and Margaret Ann TERRY had the following children:

1. ELIZABETH DICKSON FERRAR was born in 1893 in Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia.

2. THOMAS MOORE FERRAR was born in 1895 in Hamilton, Tasmania, Australia.

3. FLORENCE VICTORIA FERRAR was born in 1896 in Hamilton, Tasmania, Australia.

4. MARY KATHLEEN FERRAR was born in 1898 in Hamilton, Tasmania, Australia.

5. RUTH FERRAR.

6. ANNIE FERRAR.

JANE PORTER FERRAR was born on 10 Dec 1847 in at “Plassy”, Ross, TASMANIA. She died on 22 Dec 1893 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. She married William AUSTIN, son of Abel AUSTIN and Charlotte Sarah DYER on 05 Dec 1877 in Ross, Tasmania, Australia. He was born in 1843 in St Osyth, Essex, England. He died on 14 Apr 1922 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia.

Jane Porter FERRAR and William AUSTIN had the following children:

1. ELIZA MARGARET AUSTIN was born on 26 Sep 1878 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia.

2. EDGAR AUSTIN was born on 18 Jun 1880 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 25 Apr 1949 in Ruakaka, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand.

3. BASSETT HENRY AUSTIN was born on 19 Sep 1884 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1956.

4. ABEL DAVID AUSTIN was born on 17 Jun 1882 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 29 Dec 1960 in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.

BASSETT DICKSON FERRAR was born on 19 Nov 1851 at “Plassy”, Ross, TASMANIA. He died between 1930-1935. He married (1) MARY HARRIET GREENHILL on 05 Dec 1877 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She was born in 1856. She died on 20 Apr 1881 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. He married (2) SELINA JENKINS on 04 Feb 1895 in Waikiwi, Invercargill City, Southland, New Zealand. She died in 1947.

Bassett Dickson FERRAR and Mary Harriet GREENHILL had the following children:

1. WILLIAM NORMAN FERRAR was born on 09 Apr 1881 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 18 Apr 1881 in Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia.

2. BASSETT DAVID FERRAR was born on 26 Dec 1879 in Port Sorell, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 08 Aug 1902 in Somes Island, Wellington, New Zealand.

Bassett Dickson FERRAR and Selina JENKINS had the following children:

1. IRWINE WILLIAM MONTROSE FERRAR was born in 1896 in New Zealand. He died in 1971.

2. CHARLES MONTROSE FERRAR was born in 1898 in New Zealand. He died in 1977.

3. BASSETT D FERRAR. He died in 1902.

ELIZABETH FERRAR was born in 1849 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. She died on 10 May 1886 in Parattah, Tasmania, Australia. She married ALEXANDER BROCK on 09 Jun 1880 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. He was born on 10 Sep 1841 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 31 Mar 1904 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania..

Elizabeth FERRAR and Alexander BROCK had the following children:

1. SARAH ELIZABETH MARGARET BROCK was born on 06 Jun 1882 in “Compton”, Old Beach, Tasmania. She died on 18 Apr 1976 in 16 Powhiri Ave, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand.

2. ANNA KATHERINE (KATE) BROCK was born on 04 Mar 1884 in “Compton”, Old Beach, Tasmania. She died on 06 Oct 1966 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

3. WILLIAM COMPTON BROCK was born on 01 Apr 1881 in Mrs Cunningham’s, Hobart, Tasmania. He died on 27 Nov 1968 in Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.

WILLIAM MOORE FERRAR was born on 01 Oct 1858 at “Plassy”, Ross, Tasmania. He died on 27 Sep 1915 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. He married Emily Harriet NICHOLS, daughter of George NICHOLS and Harriet WEEDING on 16 Apr 1892 in Sprent Church, Ulverstone, Tasmania. She was born on 10 Mar 1857 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 04 Apr 1940.

William Moore FERRAR and Emily Harriet NICHOLS had the following children:

1. FERGUS MOORE FERRAR was born on 23 Oct 1893 in Peckham Vale, Hamilton, Tasmania. He died in 1959 in Tasmania, Australia. He married Agnes Doris Mavoureen AMOS in 1921. She was born in 1895 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

2. MICHAEL EDWARD FERRAR was born on 25 Sep 1895 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia.

He died on 25 Aug 1919 in Military Hospital, Caulfield, Victoria.

3. GLADYS MAY FERRAR was born on 25 Aug 1898 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 10 Jan 1926 in Ross, Tasmania, Australia.

EDMUND BASSETT DICKSON MURPHY was born on 22 Apr 1858 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1946 in Canterbury, New Zealand. He married Alice NEWTON on 06 Oct 1881 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She was born in 1860 in Monks Coppellham, Cheshire, England. She died in 1886 in Australia.

Edmund Bassett Dickson MURPHY and Alice NEWTON had the following children:

1. IVY ALICIA MURPHY was born on 22 Sep 1882 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She died in 1982 in Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand.

2. MYRTLE NELLIE KATHLEEN MURPHY was born in 1884.

3. BERNARD EDWARD MURPHY was born in 1884. He died in 1959.

ROY SINCLAIR DICKSON was born in Nov 1891. He died on 21 Oct 1938 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Ellen HARE on 19 Oct 1918 in West Cholderton, Wiltshire. She was born in 1895 in Norfolk, England. She died on 10 Jun 1984 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia.

Roy Sinclair DICKSON and Ellen HARE had the following children:

1. BASSETT EDWARD DICKSON

2. ROY SINCLAIR (Jock) DICKSON

3. HELEN JOAN DICKSON

SOPHIA MARY DICKSON was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Alan Francis JEANNERET, son of Francis Edward JEANNERET and Augusta Bassett HULL on 03 Feb 1926. He was born on 05 May 1899 in

Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Sophia Mary DICKSON and Alan Francis JEANNERET had the following children:

1. RUTH FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 15 Mar 1929. She married (1) JOHN COULSON in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married (2) JOHN C.W THROWER. He was born in England. He died in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Note: Ruth educated at Lindisfarne School and at Friends School, Hobart. Became Mothercraft nurse on leaving school. Married John Coulson and had three sons, Alan, Michael and Frank. Ruth later remarried John (Chuck) Thrower on 24 Mar 1962.

2. ROBIN ALAN DICKSON JEANNERET was born on 09 May 1931. He died on 29 Apr 2011 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) CHRISTINE REED. He married (2) MABEL BROWN on 16 Jun 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Note: Robin married Christine Reed in England, later divorced. Robin remarried to Mabel Brown at Hobart and has two children, Leeza & Robbie. Robin was educated at the Hutchins School, Hobart. Apprenticed as a carpenter and later worked at the Australian Broadcasting Commission until retirement.

3. COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Rosemary PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Note: Colin was educated at Lindisfarne State school and Friends School, Hobart. Commenced work at H.C. Heathorn & Co. a Hobart Motor dealer as a clerk, later moved to Interstate & Local transport with Jacksons Transport Services, then State Manager for Alltrans Interstate then to Frank Hammond Pty. Ltd. as Sales manager and finally as Office Manager for Hobart property developer, Emmanuel Kalis, until retirement in 1999. Married Rosemary Philp in 1955. Rosemary trained as a school teacher.

ELEANOR KATHLEEN FERRAR BINNS was born on 08 Jun 1883 in Frere Town E Africa. She died in 1955 in Cardiff, Wales. She married Richard Kenneth SHEPHERD between 1899-1928. He was born in 1882. He died in 1946 in Cardiff, Wales.

Eleanor Kathleen Ferrar BINNS and Richard Kenneth SHEPHERD had the following children:

1. RICHARD SHEPHERD was born in 1915. He died in 1942 in Missing in action World War 2.

Roy Sinclair Dickson

2. DUNCAN SHEPHERD was born in 1909.

3. JOHN SHEPHERD was born in 1916. He died in 1932 in Bourton, Dorset, England.

ANNA MAY BINNS was born on 10 Jul 1887 in Whittington, Worcestershire. She died on 23 Dec 1974 in Crowborough, Sussex, England. She married George W WRIGHT in 1910 in Mombasa, Coast, Kenya. He was born on 17 Dec 1873 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. He died on 11 Aug 1956 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.

Anna May BINNS and George W WRIGHT had the following children:

1. WILLIAM GORDON WRIGHT was born on 05 Sep 1911 in Mombasa, Coast, Kenya. He died in Nov 1944 in Templecombe, Somerset, England.

2. ELIZABETH MARGARET WRIGHT was born on 16 Oct 1912 in Mombasa, Coast, Kenya. She died on 29 Dec 1936 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

3. PHILIP VICTOR WRIGHT was born on 22 Sep 1914 in Mombasa, Coast, Kenya. He died on 17 Nov 1983 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England.

4. BASIL WRIGHT was born in 1917. He died in 1996.

5. HUGH WRIGHT was born in 1919. He died in 1940 in Belgium.

GRACE LILIAN BINNS was born on 29 Dec 1889 in Taunton, Somerset. She died on 29 Oct 1967. She married ALFRED EDWARD CLARKE.

Grace Lilian BINNS and Alfred Edward CLARKE had the following child:

1. JAMES CLARKE was born in 1919. He died in 1991.

FERGUS MOORE FERRAR was born on 23 Oct 1893 in Peckham Vale, Hamilton, Tasmania. He died in 1959 in Tasmania, Australia. He married Agnes Doris Mavoureen AMOS in 1921. She was born in 1895 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Fergus Moore FERRAR and Agnes Doris Mavoureen AMOS had the following child:

1. EDWARD MAXWELL FERRAR was born on 14 Aug 1923. He died in 1997.

BASSETT EDWARD DICKSON was born in 1920

Note: Bassett educated at Clemes College & Friends School, Hobart. Served in the RAAF 2nd World War Married Lorna Oliphant, youngest daughter of Harry Oliphant of Lindisfarne. Bassett conducted a Joinery business at Lindisfanre. The Mercury 10 October 1942 LINDISFARNE WEDDING Dickson-Oliphant The marriage took place at St. Aidan’s Church, Lindisfarne, on Saturday last of Lorna Stewart, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry W. Oliphant. Lindisfarne, and Bassett Edward Dickson, RAAF, elder son of Mrs Dickson and the late Mr Roy Sinclair Dickson, Lindisfarne, late of Glen Ayr, Richmond. The bride Was given away by her father, and wore a pretty frock of lavender blue wool with, an angora stripe. Her large hat of matching material was trimmed with veiling and cycla men toned flowers. For her “some thing old” she wore a pearl ring which belonged to the bridegroom’s great great-grandmother. Miss Mona Oliphant, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid. Her frock was dusty pink matched by a hip-length jacket and hat, and her accessories were burgundy. Sig Murray Marsh, RAN, was best man. Mr O. S. White was usher. Decorations in the church were arranged by Mrs Keith Wastell, Misses Helen Dickson, and Mollie White. After the ceremony, performed by the Rev A. E. Biggs assisted by the Rev A. Cutts, Mr and Mrs Oliphant entertained about 70 guests at their home. Mrs Oliphant was gowned in navy, with a large navy straw hat and grey fur coat. ‘ The bridegroom’s mother wore a pale blue frock, a wide brimmed black hat. and black accessories.

COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr

1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married Rosemary PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Colin Bassett JEANNERET and Rosemary PHILP had the following children:

1. NEIL JEANNERET was born on 08 Feb 1956 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Gwenda PEARCE, daughter of Edwin John PEARCE and Elsie Ellen BEALE on 02 Oct 2004. She was born on 07 Nov 1954.

2. IAN KEITH JEANNERET was born on 10 Jan 1958 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Catherine Sally MAXWELL, daughter of Alan Peter MAXWELL and Heather Mary PARKER on 27 Dec 1980 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 03 May 1961 in Hobart.

3. GUY JEANNERET was born on 07 Nov 1962 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

4. LINDA JEANNERET was born on 05 Nov 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married RONALD LEACH.

Bassett Dickson III

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY.Sir, -Having just returned from an excursion to the Gordon River, which I made, accompanied by Captain Ogilvy, and Mr, Michael Murphy, for the purpose of ascertaining by personal inspection whether the Gordon country could, or could not be made available for profitable pastoral occupation, and believing that an account of our journey would be interesting to some of your numerous subscribers, I therefore beg to forward you the following particulars.

We started from “Meadow Bank” at 4 o’clock a.m. on the 1st instant mounted each on a gallant steed, with our rugs and provisions strapped before us, and after riding about two hours came on to ‘Dawson’s Road’ at Dunrobin Bridge; we thence proceeded through the Dunrobin Estate, where there are so many tracks, and most of them so indistinct, that

we were very doubtful for a considerable time as to whether we were on the right or wrong one, however, we ultimately found ourselves “all right” and continued our course until we reached the Repulse River, which we crossed, and soon began to ascend a barren rocky mountain, the land on each side of the road being of the most sterile, gloomy character, while the road itself proved much better than we had previously anticipated, the ascent being very easy in consequence of the numerous curves; the whole displaying an amount of engineering ability which we little expected to find in so remote a locality. We next came to “Judy’s Marsh,” where there are several old huts, which had been occupied by the men employed in making the road; we next passed “The Mount” or “Mount Misery” as it was styled by Dawson’s party, and in truth it is a not inappropriate name, for the whole country around appears to be of the most miserable description, and has a most forbidding appearance. Our route continued for miles over a similar country, wearing a most repelling aspect until we began to descend towards the Florentine Valley, where the land began to improve, and improved more and more as we proceeded, until we entered into a most magnificent Myrtle forest, where nature seems to have exerted her utmost skill in creating a scene of incomparable beauty, where tho botanists of Europe might revel in delight. They would indeed he in their proper element, gazing with admiration on tho innumerable floral beauties which grow in such profusion around; for my part I feel utterly unable to give any adequate description of the rich scene of beauty by which we were surrounded and long for the gifted pen of the Authoress of “Nine Years in Tasmania” to aid me while attempting to describe the indescribable beauties of “the fine valley of the Florentine.” Around us were growing in unexampled magnificence gigantic Myrtle trees, with their beautiful ever green foliage, the intervals between being filled with innumerable Fern Trees, their graceful spinated leaves growing in the resemblance of beautiful baskets on top and umbrellas below, while Sassafras trees of large dimensions, celery-topped pine, and a multitudinous host of beautiful trees and shrubs were mingled among them in unexampled profusion, the whole forming a “coup-d-oeil” which may be imagined but never fully described. One of our party, Captain Ogilvy, who

had formerly rambled among the jungles of Bengal,’ where wolves and leopards crossed his path, declared that he had never seen any forest in India which could bear any comparison with the incomparable beauty of the one through which we passed. We were all filled with admiration, and while gaping at the extreme loveliness of the wonderfully mingled verdure around us, felt our hearts filled with a deep sense of the almighty power of the great Creator, who thus produced in this remote portion of a remote island, a scene of beauty, which might be sought for elsewhere all over the world in vain. We were forcibly reminded of the truth of that stanza of Gray’s Elegy, which says,

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air”

But we must not loiter too long on our journey, so we proceeded along the road descending towards the Florentine until at a short turn we met two persons with pack horses well laden with kangaroo skins, &c, &c, while their drivers seemed equally well laden with double barrelled guns, American axe’s, &c, &c. We halted and enquired the distance to Mr. Wing’s residence; the person we addressed proved to be Mr. Wing, and informed us that it was four miles to the Florentine Bridge, near his location, and that it was sixteen miles further to the Gordon, which he said we could reach before dark. He seemed a very intelligent person, full of energy and determination and in the most friendly manner gave us every information in his power, telling us among other things that travelling through those forests it was necessary to carry an axe, lest the road should become blocked up with some of the giants of the vegetable world, which often fall across the road, in which case it is indispensable to hew a fresh path around them; he also informed us that he and Mr Blyth had recently started from the huts at the

Gordon, with the intention of reaching a hut which Mr. Blyth occupies near “King William’s Mountain’’ but that they got lost in the bush and running short of provisions and matches to light a fire, were, during thirteen days reduced to great extremity and would probably have been starved but for meeting with a wombat which they killed and whose flesh they were glad to devour raw, otherwise they must have perished; and that he was at present very weak from the hardships he underwent, and was now on his way to the more favourably situated valley of Bagdad, where he intended to stay until his health should be sufficiently recruited. We then bade him good-bye and pushed forward and soon came to his hut, and his patch of cultivation, about a quarter of an acre in extent, the soil of which is evidently of the very richest quality, indeed the whole valley on the southern side of the Florentine is of the most fertile

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description, - being a deep, rich, chocolate coloured soil, while that on the northern side has a very inferior sub-soil, although the surface is composed of decayed vegetable mould, producing: a similar exuberant vegetation which will require the labour of ages to clear away. I fear the profits (if any) of the agriculturalist be small indeed in such a locality and land elsewhere must become very valuable before many settlers can be induced to settle down in the fine valley of the Florentine. It appears to me that greater inducements should be held out to any persons who may be willing to brave the hardships and perils necessarily attendant on locating amidst such gigantic vegetation and that instead of being compelled to clear and cultivate five acres per year, each settler should be entitled to a free grant if he clears and cultivates one acre each year, and resides five years thereon; as for thoroughly clearing five acres per year of such land, I deem it an impossibility, perhaps also if the grants were smaller, say 100 acres, with fewer restrictions as to capital and clearing, there would be a greater probability enticing settlers; as yet the much over praised liberality of our land regulations has only succeeded in inducing one individual to settle down in this locality. I would also suggest that £20 per year should be paid So Mr.

Wing, on condition of his keeping the line of road clear off falling timber from the Repulse River to the Gordon. But to proceed, we passed the Florentine River, (a fine stream which in future ages will become available for irrigation,) and continued our route to the Gordon, which we reached about 5 o’clock p.m., and received a hospitable reception from Messieurs. Blyth, and Bedford, juniors, who

showed us a secure post and rail paddock in which we turned our horses, and having made arrangements for ascending “the Thumbs” mountain next morning, we went down to the River Gordon close by, and crossed it on a recently constructed bridge, which, not having been built on scientific principles will probably be washed away by the floods of winter; it is very much shaken already by a tree which has been washed against it, and shows a decided inclination to plunge into the stream. The Thumbs Mountain is evidently a continuation of the Denison Range,

from which it has been torn by some convulsion of nature, and the Gordon River now flows through the rent thus made. In all probability it formerly flowed over the clear marshes, or swamps, which extend for miles in a southerly direction, and seem to be a continuation of tho Valley of Rasselas, through which the Gordon flows until it reaches the Great Bend, where it turns

from Poems by Bassett Dickson (1865)

off abruptly to the west, and runs through the gorge between the mountains. We next examined the vegetation in the neighbourhood, especially the villainous button grass which well deserves its un-promising appellation; it is an exceedingly coarse kind of herbage, and is only eaten by the stock when nothing better can be procured; it seems to be a species of cutting-grass which grows on a swampy, peaty surface soil, varying in depth from three to twelve inches, over a bad gravelly sub-soil, and will doubtless require the application of capital judiciously expended before any great results can be produced. A system of well arranged drains would doubtless have a good effect, and if the button grass could be eradicated, and English grasses substituted, the country would doubtless become well adapted for dairy purposes, or good fattening summer runs for sheep; but capitalists are not likely to embark in such schemes while the leases given by the Government are of so precarious a nature; in fact while tenants of the Crown can be dispossessed at any time by a six months’ notice, few persons will risk much capital on such terms. It has been stated that Alpacas will eat and thrive on much coarser herbage than sheep or cattle, it might therefore be worth while for the Government to make the experiment on a small scale, and by procuring a dozen from the neighbouring Colony of New South Wales, and placing them in charge of some intelligent and careful person at the Gordon, ascertain whether a fresh source of wealth might not thus be added to the resources of the Colony. But to return from this digression, we returned to the hut, and having had our appetites whetted by the keen air of the Gordon country, made a hearty supper of damper, tea, mutton, and kangaroo, (the latter kindly supplied by Mr. Blyth). We then began to think of sleeping quarters, and Dr. Sharland’s shepherds who live in an adjoining hut, having by this time returned from looking after their sheep, of which they have 900 in charge, it was arranged that one of our party was to sleep in their hut, while the two others took up their quarters with Messrs. Blyth and Bedford, which they did in a hut which would doubtless satisfy the most ample requirements of the most strenuous advocate of ventilation. The chimney was built of black marble beautifully streaked with white, but being only three or four feet in height, assisted the numerous chinks in the roof

and sides in giving free admission to the air and light. Next morning we rose early, and notwithstanding that it rained during the night went with the shepherd to see his flock, but alas! for human hopes the cup of enjoyment is often rudely dashed from our lips; so it was on this occasion, it came on to rain and snow, and we were glad to make a hasty retreat to the hut where we consoled ourselves as we best could with a breakfast similar to our supper of the previous evening. I should have mentioned that we saw only a small mob of sheep, about 20, which looked clean and in fair condition, but we were informed that Mr. Blyth’s sheep did not look near so well, that in fact some of them were dying in consequence of having, been brought up in very poor condition, and insufficiently dressed. We had also pointed out to us the several selections made by recent applicant’s for land, and to our surprise found the selections differed very materially from the localities marked on the chart, thereby showing the necessity of a proper survey of this part of the country, which however it will be extremely difficult to execute properly before next summer. Still I do not despair of seeing it well done, under the directions of our present able Surveyor-General. I will here suggest that Dawson’s road ought to be continued to Port Davey, so as to enable pack

bullocks, or horses to take rations to the several stations, which will be formed on this route, and also that a depot, or township be reserved at a suitable navigable part of Davey River, so that the sheep may be shorn there, and the wool or other produce shipped thence to Hobart Town; the expense, say from £5,000 to £10,000 would be amply re-paid by the great improvement of this portion of the Colony, and the increased revenue which would indirectly be derived therefrom. At present the greater part is a waste, - wilderness inaccessible even to pedestrians without hewing their path through the tangled forests; there is here a fine opening for Sir Henry Young to signalise his administration by leaving a memento to the Colony in the shape of a road to Port Davey.

But to proceed with our narrative. Finding from the thick covering of snow on the neighbouring mountains, and from the rain and sleet which were falling in the valley, that little could be gained by ascending the Thumbs, we therefore about one o’clock p.m. started amidst a heavy fall of sleet for Wing’s hut, where we passed the night, part of our time being occupied in killing bush rats, with which the hut is infested. We succeeded in destroying three of their number, and at early dawn started again on our homeward journey, but on reaching half-way up the Florentine Valley found the snow thickly strewed upon the ground, and it deepened as we proceeded, reaching in many places six inches in depth; all around was covered with a mantle of the purest white, very pleasing to the eye, but certainly not adding to our comfort; and to make matters worse, on proceeding further we found two trees had fallen across our path, whereby we were suddenly brought to a stand still, and held a consultation as to what was to be done, Three courses presented themselves, 1st to return to Wing’s hut, eight or ten miles back, for an axe to cut a path round the obstructions; 2nd to unsaddle our horses, and endeavour to force them to leap over, which it was very doubtful if it was possible for them to do; or 3rd to make a path around one of the trees, and leap the other, We chose the last, and ultimately succeeded with great difficulty in clearing the jungle, hoping the trees would bear their weight of snow at least until we passed through; we then rapidly pushed on, and meeting no further obstructions safely

reached Meadow Bank, where we enjoyed the luxury of a warm bath, and good beds, blessings little appreciated by those who have never experienced the want of such comforts. Thus terminated our journey to the Gordon. I am, Sir,Your obedient servant,BASSETT DICKSON, JNR.

RUSSELL FALLS. SIR,-As a resident here, permit me to say that Mr. N. J. Brown’s aoaount of the discovery of these beautiful waterfalls by Mr. James Browning is perfectly correct. Mr, Rex is in error when he supposes that Mr. Brown meant to convey the idea that Mr. Browning was the discoverer of the “Russell’s Falls River”. These waterfalls are not in the Russell’s Falls River as many suppose, but are on a tributary of that river now marked, on the chart in the Lands and Works Office as “Waterfall Creek,” and until recently were known In this neighbourhood by the name of “Browning’s Waterfalls,” the name given to them by the late Mr. Bassett Dickson who visited them with Mr. B. shortly after he found them. As a guide to tourists I would suggest that the name be altered from the “Russell Falls,” as I have heard of several this season following the river expecting to find the waterfalls. Yours, etc., G. J. SALTER. Glenora, January 30. The Mercury 5 February 1890

EXTRACT FROM ARTICLE “ELECTION GOSSIP”.A numerously attended meeting of Mr. Dickson’s supporters took place on Wednesday evening last at the half Way House between Richmond and Jerusalem . . . .. . . ”Gentlemen I will detain you a few moments longer to express my surprise and astonishment that any man should have the hardihood to attempt to fasten on me the imputation of a breach of faith, but henceforth I will be surprised at nothing. No artifices (however base and mean) of my opponents will surprise me I will smile at their futile efforts to injure me, and henceforth will deem such too contemptible to merit a reply, I will only add that the motto on my family coat of arms is “Sine Macula Fides.” Faith with- out a blemish, or unblemished Faith, this motto has been handed

down to me unimpaired from my ancestors and I hope to transmit it unsullied to my posterity”.RICHMOND. (1856, June 2). The Hobarton Mercury (Tas. : 1854 - 1857), p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3338341

DEATH OF MR. BASSETT DICKSON.-On Tuesday Mr. Nicholas Browne, of Bothwell, his brother-in-law, and Mr, Henry Frazer, now on a visit from Victoria, another brother in-law, were at Mr. Dickson’s residence at Scotsdale, and spent the afternoon with him. On rising to leave, about six o’clock in the evening, they took their departure without observing anything unusual in his manner, but they had not proceeded farther than the gate leading to his residence. before they heard the report of a pistol in the house, and they became alarmed. They went back, and at once saw what had happened. Mr. Dickson had put a loaded pistol to his temple, fired it off, and fell. Mr. Nicholas Browne at once lifted him, but all sign of life was gone. He neither uttered a word nor breathed. His family and friends are thrown into the deepest distress, and his loss will be regretted by many to whom he was a sincere friend. This is one of those cases in which the mind from being over-taxed has given way, and left its subject the victim of despondency. Mr. Dickson was a man of considerable literary ability, of unimpcachable integrity, and of deep religious feeling, until his nervous system became shattered. His family are well provided for. Deceased leaves behind him a large amount of property. Had he lived he would have been one of the largest landowners in Tasmania. It is believed by many that troubles he had relative to his property had impaired his mental faculties. It is not long since he concluded the purchase from Sir F. Smith of that gentleman’s estate known as Campania, in the Richmond district, and on terms which, when it was too late, he satisfied himself were, if not beyond its real value, at any rate not such as were likely to prove reasonably remunerative. On Tuesday Mr. Dickson was in town, and made a purchase of a firearm of some sort or other at the shop of Mr. M. Connell, who is understood to have remarked, jestingly, with a sort of involuntary prescience, “I wonder whether he’s going to shoot himself with it?” Deceased was about fifty-three years of age. The jury returned a verdict of “Died by a pistol-shot from his own hand while in a

state of temporary insanity.” The Launceston Examiner 23 January 1869

Campania Estate was the childhood home of Sir Francis Villeneuve Smith, Chief Justice and Premier of Tasmania. The property passed from the Smith family to Bassett Dickson of Richmond in 1868. James Brock purchased the Campania Estate from Bassett Dickson’s widow in 1873. In 1882 H.J. Brock, his brother William Brock and several other shareholders registered the Campania Gold Mining Company. H.J. Brock invested 5,000 in the unsuccessful venture.

SUICIDE OF MR. BASSETT DICKSON, J.P. We regret to announce that, on Tuesday evening last, Mr. Bassett Dickson, J.P., committed suicide, by shooting himself with a pistol, at his residence, Scottsdale, three miles from New Norfolk, under circumstances of a very distressing nature. It appears that Mr. Nicholas Brown, of Bothwell, and Mr. Henry Fraser, of St. Kilda, Victoria, brothers-in-law to Mr. Dickson, had been on a visit to Scottsdale, and after tea Mr. Brown, who had been pressed to remain for the night, but declined, having business to attend to, had taken leave, and was about to mount his horse, Mr. Fraser seeing him off, when the report of a pistol was heard in the house; both Mr. Brown and Mr. Fraser rushed in, and found that deceased had gone to his room, discharged the pistol at his temple, and lay weltering in his blood, on the carpet. Mr. Brown lifted him up, when Mr. Dickson muttered a few words about his children, and those were the last he spoke. A messenger was instantly despatched to New Norfolk for Dr. Moore, but not being at home, Dr. Huston promptly attended in his stead, and found on arrival that life was extinct. The cause of the rash and fatal act we are not in a position to state with any degree of certainty. Deceased had been some time ailing, and had been treated by Dr. Moore for a pulmonary complaint, but at the beginning of this week he rallied considerably, and on Monday went out in a boat on the river with some members of the family. Mr. Dickson had been latterly subject to depression of spirits, owing, it is said, to the multifarious cares incident to his large property which had been lately increased by the purchase of the magnificent estate

of Campania, in the Richmond district. In the course of Tuesday night Mr. Fraser came to town in order to apprise deceased’s sister, Mrs. McCormack, of the melancholy catastrophe; and yesterday morning accompanied that lady to Scottsdale. An inquest was to be held yesterday afternoon, at Scottsdale, before Mr. Jamieson, the coroner. Mr. Bassett Dickson has been a prominent colonist for a number of years. He will be remembered as the author of several poems; and also as having taken an active part in the political affairs of the district of Richmond; the parliamentary seat for which he contested several times with Mr. Gregson. His name appears in the Commission of the Peace, March 28th, 1854. The mournful event of Mr. Dickson’s death caused quite a sensation in New Norfolk, Hobart Town, and all the adjacent districts, which the intelligence reached with astonishing celerity. We understand deceased having occasion to make an alteration in his will, only executed it on Monday last; and it is expected that his wife and family are amply provided for. The Mercury 21 January 1869

INQUEST ON THE LATE MR. BASSETT DICKSON. -On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at Scottsdale, Now Norfolk, before Mr. Jamieson, coroner, and the following jury of seven, namely : -Messrs. R. Terry (foreman), W. G. Salier, Riddock, R. Thompson, Clewer, Price, and Oakley, touching the death of the late Mr.Bassett Dickson. Mr. Nicholas Brown, deceased’s brother-in-law, and Dr. Huston were the witnesses examined, and the jury returned a verdict of died by a pistol shot from his own hand while in a state of temporary insanity. The Coroner then issued his warrant for the interment of the remains.

Hull

WILLIAM HULL was born in 1665.

William HULL had the following child:

1. RICHARD HULL was born on 18 Aug 1698. He married Anne ROBERTS on 16 Dec 1721 in St George the Martyr Southwark, ENGLAND.

Richard HULL and Anne ROBERTS had the following child:

1. THOMAS HULL was born in 1720 in Carshalton, Surrey, England. He died in 1789. He married MARY COWARD, daughter of Daniel COWARD and Anne GODDARD on 29 Nov 1757 in Gillingham, Dorset, England. She was born in 1735 in Shapwick, Dorset, England. She died on 11 Jul 1792 in Gloucestershire, England.

Thomas HULL and Mary COWARD had the following child:

1. THOMAS HULL was born in 1757 in Shaftsbury, Dorset, England. He died in Oct 1845 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. He married Catherine SHORT, daughter of Robert SHORT and Sarah SHORT on 17 Apr 1782 in

Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. She was born on 17 May 1761 in Iwerne Minster, Dorset, England. She died on 10 Aug 1832.

Thomas HULL and Catherine SHORT had the following children:

1. THOMAS HULL was born on 22 Mar 1786 in Iwerne Minster, Dorset, England. He died in 1786 in Dorset, England.

2. GEORGE HULL was born on 13 Aug 1787 in Parish of Iwerne, Dorset, England, United Kingdom. He died on 23 Jun 1879 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Anna MUNRO, daughter of Lieutenant Hugh MUNRO and Jane ROSE on 27 Aug 1815 in St Pancras Church, Middlesex, England. She was born on 09 Feb 1800 in St Marys, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England. She died on 27 Jan 1877 in “Tolosa”, O’Brian’s Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. ROSE HULL was born on 15 Mar 1789 in Iwerne Minister, Dorset, England.

4. JOSEPH HULL was born on 22 Nov 1790 in Iwerne Minster, Dorset, England. He died on 18 Apr 1874 in Kennington, Lambeth, London. He

married MARY DOWDING, daughter of John DOWDING and UNKNOWN on 20 Jun 1812 in St Mary at Lambeth, Lambeth, London. She was born on 20 May 1792 in Leather Lane, St Andrew Holborn, London, England. She died on 05 Feb 1876 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.

5. PHILLIP HULL was born on 05 Mar 1793 in Iwerne Minister, Dorset, England. He died in Jun 1800.

6. MARY ANN HULL was born on 20 Nov 1796 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. She died on 30 Jun 1819 in Lambeth, London, England. She married Reverend George Augustus MIDDLETON, son of Charles MIDDLETON and Mary POWELL on 17 Mar 1817 in St Mary’s Church, Lambeth, England. He was born on 31 Aug 1791 in Bourton, Wiltshire, England. He died on 15 May 1848 in Phoenix Park, Hinton New South Wales, Australia.

7. SARAH HULL was born on 25 Feb 1799 in Shaftsbury, Dorset.

8. PHILLIP HULL was born on 11 Jun 1800 in Shaftsbury, Dorset.

9. JAMES HULL was born on 12 May 1802 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. He died on 11 Jan 1861 in 12 Milton Villas, Millbrook Road, North Brixton, England. He married Elizabeth JONES on 12 Jun 1833 in St Mark’s Church, Kennington, Surrey, England. She was born about 1804 in Montgomeryshire, North Wales.

GEORGE HULL was born on 13 Aug 1787 in Parish of Iwerne, Dorset, England. He died on 23 Jun 1879 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Anna MUNRO, daughter of Lieutenant Hugh MUNRO and Jane DAVIS on 27 Aug 1815 in St Pancras Church, Middlesex, England, UK. She was born on 09 Feb 1800 in St Marys, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England. She died on 27 Jan 1877 in “Tolosa”, O’Brian’s Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

George HULL and Anna MUNRO had the following children:

1. GEORGINA ROSE HULL was born on 23 Aug 1816 in Westminster, London, England. She died on 20 Jul 1886 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. She married Philip George EMMETT on 17 Jan 1837 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 22 Oct 1810 in Parish of St. James Westminster London England. He died on 15 Jul 1871 in Corop, Victoria, Australia.

2. HUGH MUNRO HULL was born on 19 Apr 1818 in Romney Terrace, Westminster, London, England. He died on 03 Apr 1882 in 197 Macquarie St, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) ANTOINETTE MARTHA AITKEN, daughter of James AITKEN and Jane SYNNOT on 31 Oct 1844 in ‘Glen Esk’ Launceston, Tasmania. She was born on 12 May 1825 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 23 Jul 1852 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Hobart, Australia. He married (2) MARGARET BASSETT TREMLETT, daughter of William TREMLETT and Margaret AITKEN on 03 Jan 1854 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 05 Nov 1835 in “Glen Esk”, Cleveland, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She

died on 02 Dec 1891 in ‘Dunstanville’ Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. FREDERICK GEORGE HULL was born on 19 Dec 1819 in Launceston, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 11 Apr 1876 in Buninyong, Victoria, Australia. He married Sophia Louisa TURRELL, daughter of Charles TURRELL and Ann WALLACE on 14 Feb 1844 in New Town, St Johns Church, Van Diemans Land. She was born about 1816 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. She died on 03 Feb 1889 at “Glen Lyndon”, Lyons Street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia,

4. ROBERT EDWARD HULL was born on 02 Jun 1821 in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 18 Jul 1841 in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia.

5. HARRIET JANE HULL was born on 05 May 1823 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She died on 10 Jan 1912 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Frederick Arundel DOWNING on 01 Jun 1844 in New Town, St John’s Church, Van Dieman’s Land. He was born on 16 Jan 1809. He died on 03 Jan 1895 at “Royston Cottage”, Colville Street, Battery Point, Tasmania.

6. GEORGE THOMAS WILLIAM HULL was born on 08 Oct 1825 in Launceston, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 25 Mar 1914 in Clunes, Victoria, Australia. He married Caroline Robart ROBERT, daughter of John ROBERT and Elizabeth Ann Pritchard PERKINS on 23 Dec 1857 in Amherst, Victoria, Australia. She was born on 26 Aug 1839 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She died on 16 Jun 1905 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia.

7. TEMPLE PEARSON BARNES HULL was born on 22 Aug 1827 in Launceston, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 11 Sep 1888 in Ararat, Victoria, Australia.

8. HENRY JOCELYN HULL was born on 16 Jul 1829 in Launceston, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 03 Sep 1893 in “Glen Lynden”, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He

George and Anna Hull

married Mary Jane WILKINSON, daughter of John Norton WILKINSON and Sarah Anne WARE on 22 Nov 1861 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Dec 1836 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 10 Dec 1920 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

9. ANNA MUNRO HULL was born on 19 Jun 1831 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She died on 05 Dec 1887 in Campbelltown, Tasmania. She married Thomas Henry POWER on 10 Aug 1850 in New Town, AUSTRALIA, St John’s Church, Van Dieman’s Land. He was born in 1828 in Ireland. He died on 19 Apr 1901 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia.

10. JAMES DOUGLAS HULL was born on 21 Jul 1833 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 05 Nov 1881 in “Glen Lynden”, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He married Eliza Ann CLOTHIER, daughter of John Edward CLOTHIER and Anne ALDEN on 25 Oct 1855 in Holy Trinity Church, Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land. She was born on 13 Sep 1835 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 25 Apr 1873 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia.

11. JOHN FRANKLIN OCTAVIUS HULL was born on 08 Apr 1836 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 17 Mar 1874 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He married MARY ANN LESTER. She died in 1874.

12. ALFRED ARTHUR HULL was born on 16 Feb 1839 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 18 Nov 1890 in Robert Street, Toowong, Queensland, Australia. He married Mary Anna (Minnie) BARNS, daughter of William BARNS and Sarah BROWN on 27 Jun 1865 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. She was born on 25 Apr 1849 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England. She died on 12 Dec 1884 in Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

13. MARY EMILY (POLLY) HULL was born on 25 Jun 1841 in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She died on 13 Jun 1928 in Tambourine Mountain, Queensland. She married William Montgomerie Davenport DAVIDSON, son of Crisp Molyneux (Or Molineux) MONTGOMERIE and Isabella Davenport DAVIDSON on 01 Feb 1860 in

Tolosa

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 20 Jun 1830 in Richmond, Surrey, England. He died on 07 May 1909 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

JOSEPH HULL was born on 22 Nov 1790 in Iwerne Minster, Dorset, England. He died on 18 Apr 1874 in Kennington, Lambeth, London. He married MARY DOWDING, daughter of John DOWDING and UNKNOWN on 20 Jun 1812 in St Mary at Lambeth, Lambeth, London. She was born on 20 May 1792 in Leather Lane, St Andrew Holborn, London, England. She died on 05 Feb 1876 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Joseph HULL and Mary DOWDING had the following children:

1. THOMAS HULL was born on 04 Sep 1812 in St George in The East. He died in England.

2. ALFRED HULL was born on 29 Jun 1813 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. He married Georgina Maria Mathilde SCHWIND nee COQUILHAT on 24 Mar 1855 in London, St Marys at Lambeth. She was born in 1821 in Brussells, Belgium (Naturalised British Subject). She died in Jun 1908 in Southwark, Surrey, England.

3. MARY HULL was born in 1816 in England.

4. JULIA CATHERINE HULL was born on 02 Dec 1820 in Newington, London, England, United Kingdom. She died in Mar 1908 in Hampstead, Middlesex, England. She married an unknown spouse on 13 May 1841 in St Mary’s Church, Lambeth, Middlesex, England. She married THOMAS MADDOCKS NIGHTINGALE. He was born about 1817 in Chatham, Kent, England. He died on 20 May 1895 in Brighton, Sussex, England.

5. JAMES HULL was born in 1827 in Lambeth, London, England. He died on 05 Aug 1907 in London, England.

6. EDWARD HULL was born in 1829 in England. He died about 1917 in London, Hayes.

7. JOSEPH WILLIAM HULL was born in 1830 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.

8. ELIZABETH ROSE HULL was born in 1832 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. She died in Jan 1893 in Camberwell, London, United Kingdom.

9. JOSEPHINE HULL was born on 13 May 1839 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.

MARY ANN HULL was born on 20 Nov 1796 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. She died on 30 Jun 1819 in Lambeth, London, England. She married Reverand George Augustus MIDDLETON, son of Charles MIDDLETON and Mary POWELL on 17 Mar 1817 in St Mary’s Church, Lambeth, England, U K. He was born on 31 Aug 1791 in Bourton, Wiltshire, England. He died on 15 May 1848 in Phoenix Park, Hinton New South Wales, Australia.

Mary Ann HULL and Reverand George Augustus MIDDLETON had the following child:

1. GEORGE AUGUSTUS MIDDLETON was born on 11 Jan 1818 in Kennington, Surrey, England. He died on 16 Aug 1900 in “Green Wattle”, Woodville near Morpeth, N S W, Australia,. He married Frances TUCKER, daughter of John TUCKER and Frances TURNER on 08 May 1839 in Paterson, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 29 Nov 1822 in Albion Farm Paterson New South Wales, Australia. She died on 02 May 1896 in Green Wattle Woodville, New South Wales, Australia.

JAMES HULL was born on 12 May 1802 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. He died on 11 Jan 1861 in 12 Milton Villas, Millbrook Road, North Brixton, England. He married Elizabeth JONES on 12 Jun 1833 in St Mark’s Church, Kennington, Surrey, England. She was born about 1804 in Montgomeryshire, North Wales.

2. James HULL and Elizabeth JONES had the following children:

3. ELIZABETH THERESA HULL was born in 1834 in Surrey, England. She died on 01 Dec 1922 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.

4. ALFRED GEORGE HULL was born in 1837 in Lambeth, London, England. He died on 01 Jan 1897 in London, Middlesex, United Kingdom. He married (1) ALICE ALBRIGHT on 01 Oct 1864 in Parish Church of St Giles, Camberwell, London. He married (2) MARGARET MCGARVIE on 17 Oct 1874 in St Phillip’s Church, Lambeth, Surrey, England. She was born about 1838 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 03 May 1918 in Middlesex, England.

5. JULIA FRANCES HULL was born in 1839 in Lambeth, Middlesex, England. She died in Jun 1902 in Greater London, London, Surrey, United Kingdom.

GEORGINA ROSE HULL was born on 23 Aug 1816 in Westminster, London, England. She died on 20 Jul 1886 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. She married Philip George EMMETT on 17 Jan 1837 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 22 Oct 1810 in Parish of St. James Westminster London England. He died on 15 Jul 1871 in Corop, Victoria, Australia.

Georgina Rose HULL and Philip George EMMETT had the following children:

1. EDWARD PHILLIP HULL EMMETT was born on 27 Jan 1838 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 11 Dec 1910 in 24 Mcfarlane Street, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia,

2. GEORGIANNA MARY EMMETT was born on 24 Jun 1839 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 23 Aug 1923 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. She married W. O BURROWS in 1864.

3. JULIA JANE EMMETT was born on 18 Jul 1842 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 21 Aug 1913 in Karrakatta, Western Australia. She married Charles Edwin BOLTON on 07 Oct 1871 in Echuca, Victoria, Australia. He was born in 1843 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He died in 1901.

4. FRANK DELAWARE EMMETT was born on 24 Sep 1844 in Hobart, Van Diemans Land, Australia. He died on 17 Jul 1942 in 7 Osment

Street, Armadale, Victoria, Australia. He married Catherine Philemaenia CANNON on 09 Mar 1874 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. She was born on 07 Jul 1855 in Fryers Creek, Victoria, Australia. She died on 26 Apr 1945 in 7 Osment Street, Armadale, Victoria, Australia.

5. EDWARD PHILLIP EMMETT was born in 1914 in Ouyen, Victoria, Australia. He died on 17 Oct 1971 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.

HUGH MUNRO HULL was born on 19 Apr 1818 in Romney Terrace, Westminster, London, England. He died on 03 Apr 1882 in 197 Macquarie St, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) ANTOINETTE MARTHA AITKEN, daughter of James AITKEN and Jane SYNNOT on 31 Oct 1844 in ‘Glen Esk’ Launceston, Tasmania. She was born on 12 May 1825 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 23 Jul 1852 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Hobart, Australia. He married (2) MARGARET BASSETT TREMLETT, daughter of William TREMLETT and Margaret AITKEN on 03 Jan 1854 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 05 Nov 1835 in “Glen Esk”, Cleveland, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She died on 02 Dec 1891 in ‘Dunstanville’ Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Hugh Munro HULL and Antoinette Martha AITKEN had the following children:

1. HERBERT GEORGE JAMES HULL was born on 12 Jul 1847 in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 21 Jan 1901 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand. He married Harriet Louise (Hatty) TALL, daughter of John TALL and Eliza SHERSBY on 12 May 1892 in Riverton, Southland, New Zealand. She was born on 02 Feb 1868 in Riverton New Zealand. She died on 08 Aug 1948 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.

2. HUGH SYNNOT HULL was born on 23 Jul 1852 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Hobart, Australia. He died in 1931 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Laura Ann Race ALLISON, daughter of Francis Thomas ALLISON and Mary Ann WILLIAMS on 10 Jan 1880 in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 04 Jan

1858 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 05 Jul 1933 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia.

Hugh Munro HULL and Margaret Bassett TREMLETT had the following children:

1. WILLIAM DENISON HULL was born on 18 Feb 1855 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1930 in Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) THOMASINA SOPHIA ELLIS McCHRISTIE on 04 Dec 1919 in Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 09 Jan 1868 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 01 Aug 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. MARGARET ANNIE HULL was born on 04 Nov 1856 in Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 16 Jun 1950 in Barkston Ash, Yorkshire, England. She married William Archer KERMODE, son of Robert Quayle KERMODE and Henrietta ARCHER on 12 Dec 1888 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 12 Jan 1846 in “Mona Vale”, Ross, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 29 Jan 1901 in “Hampden”, Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia.

3. HENRY TREMLETT HULL was born on 22 Nov 1858 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 01 Nov 1933 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. He married Mabel Costance Josephine AMOS, daughter of Adam AMOS and Susannah LYNE on 20 Mar 1884 in Glen Gala, Cranbrook, Great Swanport, Tasmania. She was born on 31 Oct 1865 in “Glen Gala”, Cranbrook, Great Swanport, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 12 Jul 1931 in Tasmania, Australia.

4. MARIE ANTOINETTE HULL was born on 10 Oct 1860 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 09 Dec 1951 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

5. ARTHUR FRANCIS BASSETT HULL was born on 10 Oct 1862 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 22 Sep 1945 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. He married (1) LAURA BLANCHE NISBETT, daughter of Barchley Brown CAMDEN on 29 Apr 1891 in Congregational Church, New Town, Tasmania. She was born on 14 Apr 1867 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1893 in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. He married (2) DIANA CATER, daughter of William Wood CATER and Eliza BOWRING on 03 Dec 1926 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 21 Mar 1870 in Prahan, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1948 in New South Wales, Australia. He married (3) CAROLYN ANN LLOYD on 15 Jan 1902 in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. She was born in Mar 1842 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England. She died on 21 May 1928 in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia.

6. AUGUSTA BASSETT HULL was born on 15 Aug 1864 in “Tolosa”, Tolosa Street, Glenorchy, Tasmania. She died on 16 Oct 1933 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She married Francis Edward JEANNERET, son of Charles Edward JEANNERET and Julia Anne BELLINGHAM on 17 Apr 1888 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 28 Sep 1863 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales,

Australia. He died on 06 Dec 1933 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

7. EDITH BEATRICE HULL was born on 29 Jan 1867 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 18 Dec 1867 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

8. JOHN HULL was born on 08 Mar 1868 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in May 1868 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

9. ETHELBERT CHRISTIAN HULL was born on 27 Aug 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1949 in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. He married Florence Annie JEANNERET, daughter of Charles Edward JEANNERET and Julia Anne BELLINGHAM in 1906 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 21 Nov 1878 in ‘Wybalena’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She died in Nov 1942 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

10. FLORENCE MINA HULL was born on 18 Nov 1872 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 18 Jun 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Arthur KENNY in 1911. He died in 1939 in Sydney, Stutsman, North Dakota, USA.

11. GEORGE TREMLETT HULL was born on 15 Apr 1875 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 13 Jul 1954 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Constance Emily Muriel OLIPHANT, daughter of William James OLIPHANT and Emily STEWART in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in 1878 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 06 Oct 1986 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

12. WALTER AITKEN HULL was born on 02 Nov 1877 in 82 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 03 May 1960 in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia. He married Mona Zorilda MOSS, daughter of Henry Moses MOSS and Sarah Zorilda HYAM on 06 Jan 1904 in Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 28 Feb 1879 in Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 09 Aug 1962 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

FREDERICK GEORGE HULL was born on 19

Dec 1819 in Launceston, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 11 Apr 1876 in Buninyong, Victoria, Australia. He married Sophia Louisa TURRELL, daughter of Charles TURRELL and Ann WALLACE on 14 Feb 1844 in New Town, AUSTRALIA, St Johns Church, Van Diemans Land. She was born about 1816 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. She died on 03 Feb 1889 in “Glen Lyndon”, Lyons Street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Frederick George HULL and Sophia Louisa TURRELL had the following children:

1. LUCY EMILY HULL was born on 28 Dec 1844 in TASMANIA, Kensington Mill, O’Brians Bridge, Van Dieman’s Land. She died on 18 Jul 1907 in “Tolosa”, Williams Road, Balaclava, Melbourne, Australia .

2. WALLACE FREDERICK LOUIS HULL was born on 09 Aug 1846 in O’Brian’s Bridge, Van Dieman’s Land. He died on 05 Dec 1851 in “Stone House”, O’Brian’s Bridge, Van Dieman’s Land.

HARRIET JANE HULL was born on 05 May 1823 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She died on 10 Jan 1912 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Frederick Arundel DOWNING on 01 Jun 1844 in New Town, Australia, St John’s Church, Van Dieman’s Land. He was born on 16 Jan 1809. He died on 03 Jan 1895 in “Royston Cottage”, Colville Street, Battery Point, Tasmania.

Harriet Jane HULL and Frederick Arundel DOWNING had the following children:

1. GEORGE ALBERT DOWNING was born on 12 Jan 1847 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania. He died in Dec 1853 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point Hobart, Tasmania.

2. LOUISE EMILY DOWNING was born on 31 Dec 1847 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point Hobart, Tasmania. She died about 16 Dec 1937 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Tasmania.

3. ERNEST CHARLES DOWNING was born on 05 Dec 1850 in TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA, “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania.He died on 13 Aug 1914 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia.

4. HENRY ARUNDEL DOWNING was born on 26 Apr 1852 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point Hobart, Tasmania. He died on 01 Sep 1933 in New Town, Tasmania, Australia.

5. JULIA JANE DOWNING was born on 15 Sep 1854 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania. She died on 29 Dec 1863 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point Hobart, Tasmania.

6. FLORENCE ISABEL DOWNING was born on 08 May 1858 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania. She died about 05 Dec 1940 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania.

7. LAURA EMELINE DOWNING was born on 24 Mar 1861 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania. She died on 20 Mar 1942 in “Royston Cottage”, Battery Point Hobart, Tasmania.

GEORGE THOMAS WILLIAM HULL was born on 08 Oct 1825 in Launceston, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 25 Mar 1914 in Clunes, Victoria, Australia. He married Caroline Robart ROBERT, daughter of John ROBERT and Elizabeth Ann Pritchard PERKINS on 23 Dec 1857 in Amherst, Victoria, Australia. She was born on 26 Aug 1839 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She died on 16 Jun 1905 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia.

George Thomas William HULL and Caroline Robart ROBERT had the following children:

1. RICHARD HULL was born on 17 Dec 1857 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia. He died on 08 Dec 1916 in Talbot, Victoria, Australia.

2. EMELIE ELIZABETH HULL was born in 1859 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1950 in Warragul, Victoria, Australia.

3. MARY LOUISA HULL was born on 11 Sep 1861 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1948 in Clunes, Victoria, Australia.

4. WALTER GEORGE HULL was born in 1862 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia. He died on 06 Jan 1901 in Pretoria, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

5. ERNEST JAMES HULL was born on 26 Nov 1862 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia.

6. ANNIE HULL was born on 03 May 1867 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1888 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia.

7. JOHN HULL was born on 24 Apr 1871 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia. He died on 22 Mar 1953 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

8. ELLEN (NELLY) HULL was born on 25 Dec 1873 in Dunach, Victoria, Australia. She died on 17 Sep 1949 in Clunes, Victoria, Australia.

9. WILLIAM HULL. He died on 20 Jan 1876 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Eliza ATKINS on 13 Apr 1853 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

HENRY JOCELYN HULL was born on 16 Jul 1829 in Launceston, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 03 Sep 1893 in “Glen Lynden”, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He married Mary Jane WILKINSON, daughter of John Norton WILKINSON and Sarah Anne WARE on 22 Nov 1861 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Dec 1836 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 10 Dec 1920 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

Henry Jocelyn HULL and Mary Jane WILKINSON had the following children:

1. GEORGE WILINSON MUNRO HULL was born on 05 Oct 1862 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 07 Mar 1863 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. THOMAS JOCELYN MUNRO HULL was born on 22 Dec 1863 in Glen Lyndon. He died on 18 Sep 1950 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

3. ANNIE EMMELINE HULL was born on 26 Jun 1865 in Battery Point Tas. She died on 19 Nov 1930 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

4. DOUGLAS GEORGE WILKINSON HULL was born on 24 Jun 1867 in New Town, Tasmania. He died on 14 Jun 1942 in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) IDA GERALDINE FREMLIN, daughter of Henry Albert FREMLIN and Anne LUXFORD on 11 Mar 1895 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in Oct 1865 in Malling, Kent, England. She died in 1904 in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. He married (2) ALICE MAUDE FREMLIN, daughter of Henry Albert FREMLIN and Anne LUXFORD in 1906 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in 1864 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. She died on 01 Dec 1917 in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. He married (3) CATHERINE COOK LUMLEY, daughter of Thomas Shelley LUMLEY and Mary Bradbury NEWTON in 1924 in Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. She was born in 1867 in Patricks Plain, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1947 in Petersham, New South Wales, Australia.

5. LILIAN GEORGINA MARIAN HULL was born on 04 Mar 1869 in “Glen Lyndon”. She died on 21 Jul 1953 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia.

6. HENRY EVELYN BUTLER HULL was born on 14 Sep 1871 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 07 Dec 1903 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He married Amy Maria HALLAM on 20 Dec 1893 in New Town, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 11 Sep 1863 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 20 Jun 1947 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

7. ROBERT EDWARD MORRISBY LYNDON HULL was born on 20 Jan 1874 in “Glen Lyndon”. He died in 1949 in Republic of South Africa.

8. MARY EMILY HULL was born on 22 Nov 1875 in ‘Glen Lyndon’. She died on 09 Oct 1960 in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.

9. FREDERICK ARTHUR HULL was born on 13 Dec 1877 in “Glen Lyndon”. He died on 03 May 1958 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Hilda May WATERS in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 26 Jul 1970 in West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

10. LYNDON ERNEST HULL was born on 19 Sep 1880 in Tolosa. He died on 07 Mar 1917 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

ANNA MUNRO HULL was born on 19 Jun 1831 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She died on 05 Dec 1887 in Campbelltown, Tasmania. She married Thomas Henry POWER on 10 Aug 1850 in New Town, AUSTRALIA, St John’s Church,Van Dieman’s Land. He was born in 1828 in Ireland. He died on 19 Apr 1901 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia.

Anna Munro HULL and Thomas Henry POWER had the following children:

1. CHARLES JOHN HENRY POWER was born on 11 Mar 1852 in Hobart, AUSTRALIA, South Seaton, Van Dieman’s Land. He died on 02 Jan 1935 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. GEORGE ALFRED POWER was born on 28 Jan 1856 in Campbelltown, TASMANIA, Van Dieman’s Land. He died on 07 Sep 1902 in Tatura, Victoria, Australia. He married Kate Marion RUST on 24 Dec 1889. She died on 10 Aug 1945.

3. ROBERT DOUGLAS POWER was born on 23 Sep 1857 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 25 Dec 1941.

4. PERCY EDWARD POWER was born on 14 Nov 1859 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 07 Sep 1947.

5. LILLIAN ANNIE POWER was born on 24 Apr 1862 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 30 Apr 1940 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

6. ANTOINETTE MABEL POWER was born on 22 Feb 1865 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 30 Mar 1961.

7. ETHEL MANNERS POWER was born on 10 Jun 1868 in Tasmania, Australia. She died on 29 Jul 1868 in Tasmania, Australia.

8. MARGUERITE HELEN POWER was born on 06 Jan 1870 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 21 Nov 1957 in South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

9. AGNES MARY JANET POWER was born on 19 Apr 1873 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 12 Jan 1960 in Victoria, Australia.

10. PHYLIS DORA ROSE POWER was born on 25 Dec 1875 in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 05 Oct 1945 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

11. RUBY MARGARET POWER was born in Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia.

JAMES DOUGLAS HULL was born on 21 Jul 1833 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 05 Nov 1881 in “Glen Lynden”, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He married Eliza Ann CLOTHIER, daughter of John Edward CLOTHIER and Anne ALDEN on 25 Oct 1855 in Holy Trinity Church, Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land. She was born on 13 Sep 1835 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 25 Apr 1873 in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia.

James Douglas HULL and Eliza Ann CLOTHIER had the following children:

1. ANNA HULL was born in 1856 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 05 Dec 1946 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married UNKNOWN BELLETTE.

2. PERCY DOUGLAS HULL was born in 1871 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 17 Nov 1872 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

JOHN FRANKLIN OCTAVIUS HULL was born on 08 Apr 1836 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 17 Mar 1874 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He married MARY ANN LESTER. She died in 1874.

John Franklin Octavius HULL and Mary Ann LESTER had the following children:

1. AIDA ANGELINE HULL was born in 1859. She died on 01 Jun 1948.

2. MARY ANNA LESTER HULL was born in 1860. She died in 1949.

3. ALBERT EDWARD HULL was born in 1862. He died in 1914 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married UNKNOWN LESTER.

4. MADELINE HULL was born in 1865. She died on 11 Dec 1875 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

5. JOHN FRANKLIN MUNRO HULL was born in 1868. He died on 26 May 1918 in Rouen, FRANCE, St. Lever. He married MARJOREE JOSEPHINE BIRCH. She was born in 1886. She died in 1946.

6. ETHEL RUBY HULL was born in 1870. She married REG MORRISBY.

ALFRED ARTHUR HULL was born on 16 Feb 1839 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 18 Nov 1890 in Robert Street, Toowong, Queensland, Australia. He married Mary Anna (Minnie) BARNS, daughter of William BARNS and Sarah BROWN on 27 Jun 1865 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. She was born on 25 Apr 1849 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England. She died on 12 Dec 1884 in Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Alfred Arthur HULL and Mary Anna (Minnie) BARNS had the following children:

1. GEORGE WILLIAM MUNRO HULL was born on 16 May 1866 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. He died on 24 Sep 1928 in Tewantin, Queensland, Australia. He married Ethel Charlotte Maude FEURINGS on 31 Mar 1893 in Queensland, Australia.

2. MARY GEORGINA MUNRO HULL was born on 04 Nov 1868 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. She died in 1946 in Camden, New South Wales, Australia. She married Sydney Reynold GILES, son of George William GILES and Ellen REYNOLDS on 20 Oct 1897 in

Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was born about Feb 1867 in Mutford, Suffolk, England. He died about 1923 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

3. ARTHUR FREDERICK MUNRO HULL was born on 04 Feb 1874 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. He died on 10 Sep 1875 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.

4. FREDERICK ARTHUR MUNRO HULL was born on 21 Jan 1878 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He died on 23 Jan 1967 in Eumundi, Queensland, Australia. He married ALTHEA THERESA KARSLAKE FEURINGS. She died in 1934 in Queensland, Australia.

MARY EMILY (POLLY) HULL was born on 25 Jun 1841 in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. She died on 13 Jun 1928 in Tambourine Mountain, Queensland. She married William Montgomerie Davenport DAVIDSON, son of Crisp Molyneux (Or Molineux) MONTGOMERIE and Isabella Davenport DAVIDSON on 01 Feb 1860 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 20 Jun 1830 in Richmond, Surrey, England. He died on 07 May 1909 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Mary Emily (Polly) HULL and William Montgomerie Davenport DAVIDSON had the following children:

1. ANNIE ISOBEL DAVIDSON was born on 29 Oct 1860 at “Maryville”, New Town, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 16 Oct 1947 in Sherwood, Queensland, Australia. She married Allan Alfred SPOWERS on 04 Nov 1885 in St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 25 Aug 1857 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. He died on 08 Jun 1938 in Sherwood, Queensland, Australia,.

2. JULIA MARIE DAVIDSON was born on 27 Dec 1862 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. She died on 26 Jan 1950 in Tamborine, Queensland, Australia.

3. WILLIAM GEORGE HENRY DAVIDSON was born on 10 Sep 1865 in Queensland, Australia.

He died on 12 May 1929 in Tambourine, Queensland, Australia.

4. LUCY DAVIDSON was born in 1868. She died in 1920 in Queensland, Australia.

5. DR GUILFORD LINDSAY MONTGOMERIE DAVIDSON was born on 06 Jun 1871 in Queensland, Australia. He died on 11 Apr 1943 in Queensland, Australia.

6. LESLIE CECIL DAVIDSON was born about 1873 in Queensland, Australia. He died in 1952.

7. GEORGE ERNEST DAVIDSON was born on 26 Jan 1874 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. He died on 17 Apr 1952 in Tambourine Mountain, QUEENSLAND.

8. HUGH MONTGOMERIE DAVIDSON was born on 18 May 1875 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. He died on 28 May 1956 in Tambourine Mountain, Queensland.

9. MAY MONTGOMERIE DAVIDSON was born on 21 Mar 1877 in Oxley, Queensland, Australia. She died in 1965 in Tambourine Mountain, Queensland.

10. DORIS DAVIDSON was born on 23 Feb 1884 at “Springfield”, Oxley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1971 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She married UNKNOWN COLQUHORN.

ALFRED HULL was born on 29 Jun 1813 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. He married Georgine Maria Mathilde SCHWIND nee COQUILHAT on 24 Mar 1855 in London, St Marys at Lambeth. She was born in 1821 in Belgium, Brussells, Naturalised British Subject. She died in Jun 1908 in Southwark, Surrey, England.

Alfred HULL and Georgine Maria Mathilde SCHWIND nee COQUILHAT had the following children:

1. MATILDA MARY HULL was born about Dec 1855 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. She died in Dec 1900 in London, England.

2. ALICE HULL was born about Dec 1856 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.

3. GEORGINE (GEORGINA) HULL was born about Jun 1858 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. She died about Mar 1916 in London, Greenwich, England.

JULIA CATHERINE HULL was born on 02 Dec 1820 in Newington, London, England, United Kingdom. She died in Mar 1908 in Hampstead, Middlesex, England. She married THOMAS MADDOCKS NIGHTINGALE on 13 May 1841 in St Mary’s Church, Lambeth, Middlesex, England. He was born about 1817 in Chatham, Kent, England. He died on 20 May 1895 in Brighton, Sussex, England.

Julia Catherine HULL and Thomas Maddocks NIGHTINGALE had the following children:

1. THOMAS NIGHTINGALE I was born in Mar 1844 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.

2. ALBERT M NIGHTINGALE was born about Sep 1845 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. He died about Mar 1873 in Gravesend, Kent, England.

3. EDWARD ELDER NIGHTINGALE was born about Mar 1847 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.

4. JOHN ALFRED NIGHTINGALE was born about Mar 1850 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. He died on 21 Mar 1898 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.

5. FREDERICK WALTER NIGHTINGALE was born about Jun 1855 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.

6. ALICE NIGHTINGALE was born about 1865 in Edinburgh.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS MIDDLETON was born on 11 Jan 1818 in Kennington, Surrey, England. He died on 16 Aug 1900 in “Green Wattle”, Woodville near Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia. He married Frances TUCKER, daughter of John TUCKER and Frances TURNER on 08 May 1839 in Paterson, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 29 Nov

1822 in Albion Farm Paterson New South Wales, Australia. She died on 02 May 1896 in Green Wattle Woodville, New South Wales, Australia.

George Augustus MIDDLETON and Frances TUCKER had the following children:

1. GEORGE AUGUSTUS MIDDLETON was born on 18 Mar 1840 in Alnwick, Butterwick, Clarence Town, Middlehope, Raymond Terrace, Seaham, New South Wales. He died on 02 Oct 1906 in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.

2. ALFRED ERNEST ALBERT MIDDLETON was born in 1861 in Morpeth, New South Wales. She died in 1942 in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

3. ADELAIDE FRANCES MIDDLETON was born on 17 Jul 1849 in Butterwick, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1936 in West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.

4. JOHN GEORGE MIDDLETON was born on 01 Oct 1841 in Hunter Vally, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 10 May 1897 in Clermont, Queensland, Australia.

5. CHARLES EDWARD MIDDLETON was born on 25 Jul 1844 in Hunter Vally Nsw Australia. He died on 23 Apr 1926 in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.

6. MARY ANNE MIDDLETON was born on 06 Jul 1845 in Butterwick, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1847 in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

7. EMILIE LOUISE MIDDLETON was born on 19 Oct 1847 in Albion Farm, Buttterwick, New South Wales. She died on 04 Oct 1887 in Bexley, New South Wales, Australia.

8. HENRIETTA TURNER MIDDLETON was born on 11 Feb 1852 in Hunter Vally New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1934 in Five Dock, New South Wales, Australia.

9. FRANCES AUSTRALIA MIDDLETON was born on 10 Jul 1854 in Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 20 Jan 1939 in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia.

10. ALICE JULIANA MIDDLETON was born on 03 Apr 1857 in Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1901 in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia.

11. ALFRED ERNEST ALBERT MIDDLETON was born on 02 Dec 1860 in Hunter Vally New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1943 in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

12. OLIVE ADALIA MADELINE MIDDLETON was born on 30 Apr 1880 in Albion Farm, Paterson, New South Wales. She died on 26 Jun 1945 in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.

13. CHARLES ROBERT MIDDLETON.

ALFRED GEORGE HULL was born in 1837 in Lambeth, London, England. He died on 01 Jan 1897 in London, Middlesex, United Kingdom. He married (1) ALICE ALBRIGHT on 01 Oct 1864 in Parish Church of St Giles, Camberwell, London. He married (2) MARGARET MCGARVIE on 17 Oct 1874 in St Phillip’s Church, Lambeth, Surrey, England. She was born about 1838 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 03 May 1918 in Middlesex, England.

Alfred George HULL and Margaret MCGARVIE had the following children:

1. MARGARET ELIZABETH HULL was born on 23 Nov 1878 in London, Marylebone, Middlesex, England. She died about Sep 1969 in St Marylebone, London, England.

2. ALFRED JOHN HULL was born on 02 Sep 1875 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. He died on 15 Feb 1924 in Peshawar, India.

JULIA JANE EMMETT was born on 18 Jul 1842 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 21 Aug 1913 in Karrakatta, Western, Australia. She married Charles Edwin BOLTON on 07 Oct 1871 in Echuca, Victoria, Australia. He was born in 1843 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He died in 1901.

Julia Jane EMMETT and Charles Edwin BOLTON had the following children:

1. CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON was born on 14 Nov 1867. He died on 19 May 1950.

2. GEORGE VALENTINE BOLTON was born on 13 Feb 1869 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He died on 29 Jan 1935 in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.

3. ARTHUR PHILIP SEYMOUR BOLTON was born on 19 Aug 1872 in Echuca, Victoria, Australia. He died in 1874 in Hay, New South Wales, Australia.

4. LUCY JULIA GEORGINA BOLTON was born on 08 Dec 1874 in Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia. She died on 25 Aug 1959 in Coburg, Victoria, Australia.

5. CHARLES THEOPHILUS NASSUA BOLTON was born on 01 Jul 1876 in Serpentine Creek, East Loddon, Victoria, Australia. He died on 15 Sep 1954 in Brighton, Victoria, Australia.

6. REGINALD ALBERT FRANK BOLTON was born in 1879 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died on 31 May 1969 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

7. RUTH JESSIE CELESTE BOLTON was born in 1884 in Euro Victoria, Australia. She died on 16 Apr 1977 in Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia.

FRANK DELAWARE EMMETT was born on 24 Sep 1844 in Hobart, Van Diemans Land, Australia. He died on 17 Jul 1942 in 7 Osment Street, Armadale, Victoria, Australia. He married Catherine Philemaenia CANNON on 09 Mar 1874 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. She was born on 07 Jul 1855 in Fryers Creek, Victoria, Australia. She died on 26 Apr 1945 in 7 Osment Street, Armadale, Victoria, Australia.

Frank Delaware EMMETT and Catherine Philemaenia CANNON had the following children:

1. LAURA KATE EMMETT was born on 05 Jan 1875 in Sandbridge Victoria. She died on 01 Jun 1956 in Castlemaine, Casterton, Victoria.

2. ROBERT JAMES DELAWARE EMMETT was born on 22 Oct 1876 in Sandhurst, Sandridge,

Victoria. He died on 30 Jun 1974 in Ouyen, Victoria, Australia.

3. PHILIP EDWARD EMMETT was born on 28 Oct 1878 in Sandhurst, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. He died on 16 Nov 1966 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.

4. FRANCIS HAMILTON EMMETT was born on 26 Oct 1880 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died on 05 Jun 1965 in Footscray, Victoria, Australia.

5. ARTHUR MUNRO EMMETT was born on 09 Oct 1882 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died on 26 Jul 1917 in Pozières, Somme, Picardie, France. He married Evangeline Fanny FRANKLIN in 1905 in Victoria, Australia. She was born in 1883 in Minyip, Victoria, Australia. She died on 19 Jun 1962 in Ararat, Victoria, Australia.

6. HERBERT GEORGE DELAWARR EMMETT was born on 26 Dec 1884 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died on 02 Apr 1971 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.

7. AMY ROSE VICTORIA EMMETT was born on 12 Jan 1887 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. She died on 30 Mar 1987 in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia.

8. JOHN WILLIAM DOUGLAS EMMETT was born on 27 May 1889 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died in 1911 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.

9. ALFRED EBENIZER ROY EMMETT was born on 12 Aug 1891 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died on 29 Apr 1917 in Ploegstreet, France. Killed in action and buried near Messines.

10. MABEL IRENE EMMETT was born on 27 Nov 1892 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. She died on 22 Jul 1986 in Victoria, Australia.

11. HUGH NELSON EMMETT was born on 19 Jan 1895 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died on 02 Mar 1950 in Ouyen, Victoria, Australia.

12. GRACE LETITIA EMMETT was born on 27 Feb 1898 in Moyston, Victoria, Australia.

She died on 22 Apr 1972 in Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.

13. IVY GOLDENA EMMETT was born on 24 Mar 1901 in Mount William, Victoria, Australia. She died on 04 Oct 1902 in Mount William, Victoria, Australia.

HERBERT GEORGE JAMES HULL was born on 12 Jul 1847 in Hobart, Van Dieman’s Land, Australia. He died on 21 Jan 1901 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand. He married Harriet Louise (Hatty) TALL, daughter of John TALL and Eliza SHERSBY on 12 May 1892 in Riverton, Southland, New Zealand. She was born on 02 Feb 1868 in Riverton New Zealand. She died on 08 Aug 1948 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Herbert George James HULL and Harriet Louise (Hatty) TALL had the following children:

1. ALVA HERBERT MUNRO HULL was born in 1894 in Balclutha, Clutha, Otago, New Zealand. He died in 1971. He married Norma NEAL. She died on 12 Aug 1927.

2. JOHN VAUDREY GOODWIN HULL was born in 1896 in Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. He died on 10 Jan 1956 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand. He married Agnes Maitland WALLACE. She was born in 1899. She died on 09 Apr 1978.

3. MAVIS DOREEN TALL HULL was born on 02 Feb 1901 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand. She died in 1986 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand. She married Colin Ross SIM in 1922 in New Zealand.

HUGH SYNNOT HULL was born on 23 Jul 1852 in “Tolosa”, Glenorchy, Hobart, Australia. He died in 1931 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Laura Ann Race ALLISON, daughter of Francis Thomas ALLISON and Mary Ann WILLIAMS on 10 Jan 1880 in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 04 Jan 1858 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 05 Jul 1933 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia.

Hugh Synnot HULL and Laura Ann Race ALLISON had the following children:

1. HUGH MUNRO HULL was born on 24 Jul 1887 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 27 May 1929 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. FRANCIS ALLISON HULL was born on 17 Apr 1890 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. HERMAN ARTHUR MUNRO HULL was born on 24 Jul 1892 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 27 May 1929 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

4. MARCUS AITKIN HULL was born on 30 Jan 1895 in ‘The Pines’, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 05 Apr 1918 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia.

5. WILLIAM DENISON HULL was born on 21 Oct 1898 in Clarence, Tasmania, Australia. He died about 19 Jun 1976 in Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia. He married Winifred Ruby EYLES on 14 Jul 1926 in The Manse, Short Street, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 13 Jul 1905 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 02 Jan 1996 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

MARGARET ANNIE HULL was born on 04 Nov 1856 in Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 16 Jun 1950 in Barkston Ash, Yorkshire, England. She married William Archer KERMODE, son of Robert Quayle KERMODE and Henrietta ARCHER on 12 Dec 1888 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 12 Jan 1846 in “Mona Vale”, Ross, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 29 Jan 1901 in “Hampden”, Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia.

Margaret Annie HULL and William Archer KERMODE had the following children:

1. DOROTHY MONA KERMODE was born on 16 Oct 1889 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 14 Dec 1971 in New York, USA.

2. WILLIAM ARCHER KERMODE was born on 19 Oct 1894 in Longford, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 03 Feb 1959 in Ashford, Kent,

England.

HENRY TREMLETT HULL was born on 22 Nov 1858 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 01 Nov 1933 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. He married Mabel Costance Josephine AMOS, daughter of Adam AMOS and Susannah LYNE on 20 Mar 1884 in Glen Gala, Cranbrook, Great Swanport, Tasmania. She was born on 31 Oct 1865 in “Glen Gala”, Cranbrook, Great Swanport, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 12 Jul 1931 in Tasmania, Australia.

Henry Tremlett HULL and Mabel Costance Josephine AMOS had the following children:

1. SUSAN MARGARET HULL was born on 16 Oct 1884 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 08 Nov 1884 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia.

2. CARMEN CHRISTIAN HULL was born on 15 Jul 1886 in Port Sorell, Tasmania, Australia.

3. WILLIAM HOWARD HULL was born on 14 Dec 1891 in Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1955 in Beaconsfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He married Dorothy Emma HOCKIN in 1920 in Victoria, Australia. She was born in 1887 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1963 in Beaconsfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

4. IVOR HENRY HULL was born on 28 May 1894 in Mount Pleasant, South Australia, Australia. He died in 1940 in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

5. DOUGLAS MUNRO HULL was born on 09 Apr 1898 in Australia. He died in May 1962 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.

6. ROSS AMOS HULL was born in 1902 in St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia. He died in Sep 1938 in United States.

7. ALLAN GALBRAITH HULL was born in 1905 in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia. He died in 1975 in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia.

ARTHUR FRANCIS BASSETT HULL was born

on 10 Oct 1862 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 22 Sep 1945 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. He married (1) LAURA BLANCHE NISBETT, daughter of Barchley Brown CAMDEN on 29 Apr 1891 in Congregational Church, New Town, Tasmania. She was born on 14 Apr 1867 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died in 1893 in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. He married (2) DIANA CATER, daughter of William Wood CATER and Eliza BOWRING on 03 Dec 1926 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 21 Mar 1870 in Prahan, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1948 in New South Wales, Australia. He married (3) CAROLYN ANN LLOYD on 15 Jan 1902 in Annandale, New South Wales,Australia. She was born in Mar 1842 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England. She died on 21 May 1928 in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia.

Arthur Francis Bassett HULL and Laura Blanche NISBETT had the following child:

1. FRANCIS BASSETT HULL was born in 1893 in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1972 in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. He married (1) EVA MAY MULLER in 1939 in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia. She was born in 1899 in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1977 in Westmead, New South Wales, Australia. He married (2) DOROTHY DENSLEY in 1924 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was born in 1897 in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1934 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

AUGUSTA BASSETT HULL was born on 15 Aug 1864 in “Tolosa”, Tolosa Street, Glenorchy, Tasmania. She died on 16 Oct 1933 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She married Francis Edward JEANNERET, son of Charles Edward JEANNERET and Julia Anne BELLINGHAM on 17 Apr 1888 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 28 Sep 1863 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 06 Dec 1933 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

Augusta Bassett HULL and Francis Edward JEANNERET had the following children:

1. ERIC EDWARD JEANNERET was born on 21 Apr 1894 in Alexander Street, Hunters Hill,New South Wales. He died on 10 Aug 1961 in Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia. He married Anna Christina ALBERTSEN, daughter of Rasmus Sydney Sogaard ALBERTSEN and Christjane BALTZER in 1917 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Reference: N S W Marriages 1363/1917). She was born in 1890 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Reference: N S W Births 13430/1976). She died in 1976 in New South Wales (Reference: N S W Deaths 13430/1976).

2. UNA JEANNERET was born on 24 Jul 1889 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 13 Jan 1976 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She married Kenmore Dixon NICHOLAS. He was born on 14 Jun 1891 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 14 Sep 1950 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.

3. ALAN FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 05 May 1899 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Sophia Mary DICKSON, daughter of Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON and Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR on 03 Feb 1926. She was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

ETHELBERT CHRISTIAN HULL was born on 27 Aug 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1949 in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. He married Florence Annie JEANNERET, daughter of Charles Edward JEANNERET and Julia Anne BELLINGHAM in 1906 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 21 Nov 1878 in ‘Wybalena’, Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She died in Nov 1942 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Ethelbert Christian HULL and Florence Annie JEANNERET had the following child:

1. NESTA (JEAN) HULL was born in 1906 in Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1932 in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.

GEORGE TREMLETT HULL was born on 15 Apr 1875 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 13 Jul 1954 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Constance Emily Muriel OLIPHANT, daughter of William James OLIPHANT and Emily STEWART in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in 1878 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 06 Oct 1986 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

George Tremlett HULL and Constance Emily Muriel OLIPHANT had the following children:

1. EMILY CONSTANCE TREMLETT (TRIXIE) HULL was born about Sep 1903 in Greater London, Kent, London, United Kingdom. She married JOHN CLYDE ROGERS. She married an unknown spouse on 30 Sep 1925 in Tasmania, Australia.

2. DOUGLAS OLIPHANT MUNRO HULL was born in 1905 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 31 Aug 2002 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia.

3. JEAN CORDELIA HULL was born about 1907 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married Neale Henry EDWARDS on 10 Nov 1937 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born in 1905 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Tasmania, Australia.

4. LILLIAN HULL was born in London, England.

WALTER AITKEN HULL was born on 02 Nov 1877 in 82 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 03 May 1960 in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia. He married Mona Zorilda MOSS, daughter of Henry Moses MOSS and Sarah Zorilda HYAM on 06 Jan 1904 in Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 28 Feb 1879 in Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 09 Aug 1962 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Walter Aitken HULL and Mona Zorilda MOSS had the following child:

1. JAMES A HULL was born in 1912 in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1912 in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.

DOUGLAS GEORGE WILKINSON HULL was born on 24 Jun 1867 in New Town, Tasmania. He died on 14 Jun 1942 in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) IDA GERALDINE FREMLIN, daughter of Henry Albert FREMLIN and Anne LUXFORD on 11 Mar 1895 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in Oct 1865 in Malling, Kent, England. She died in 1904 in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. He married (2) ALICE MAUDE FREMLIN, daughter of Henry Albert FREMLIN and Anne LUXFORD in 1906 in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in 1864 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. She died on 01 Dec 1917 in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. He married (3) CATHERINE COOK LUMLEY, daughter of Thomas Shelley LUMLEY and Mary Bradbury NEWTON in 1924 in Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. She was born in 1867 in Patricks Plain, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1947 in Petersham, New South Wales, Australia.

Douglas George Wilkinson HULL and Ida Geraldine FREMLIN had the following children:

1. DORIS HULL was born on 11 Jan 1896 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 25 Sep 1956 in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia.

2. DOUGLAS RONALD HULL was born on 14 May 1897 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 23 Jun 1979 in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia.

3. HUBERT DONALD HULL was born on 08 Feb 1899 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died in Jan 1924 in Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.

HENRY EVELYN BUTLER HULL was born on 14 Sep 1871 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 07 Dec 1903 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. He married Amy Maria HALLAM on 20 Dec 1893 in New Town, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 11

Sep 1863 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 20 Jun 1947 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Henry Evelyn Butler HULL and Amy Maria HALLAM had the following children:

1. MARJORIE AMY HULL was born on 07 Feb 1895 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 07 May 1976 in Cornelian Bay, Tasmania,Australia.

2. REGINALD HENRY HULL was born in 1897. He died on 07 Jul 1967 in Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia.

3. JESSIE HULL was born on 10 Aug 1899 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 04 Sep 1985 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

FREDERICK ARTHUR HULL was born on 13 Dec 1877 in “Glen Lyndon”. He died on 03 May 1958 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Hilda May WATERS in Oatlands, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 26 Jul 1970 in West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Frederick Arthur HULL and Hilda May WATERS had the following child:

1. JOHN LOCKE MUNRO HULL was born on 17 Feb 1913 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He died in Mar 2006 in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia.

GEORGE ALFRED POWER was born on 28 Jan 1856 in Campbelltown, Tasmania. He died on 07 Sep 1902 in Tatura, Victoria, Australia. He married Kate Marion RUST on 24 Dec 1889. She died on 10 Aug 1945.

George Alfred POWER and Kate Marion RUST had the following child:

1. CYNTHIA BLESSINGTON POWER was born in 1902 in Tatura, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1974 in Donvale, Victoria, Australia.

MARY GEORGINA MUNRO HULL was born on 04 Nov 1868 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.

She died in 1946 in Camden, New South Wales, Australia. She married Sydney Reynold GILES, son of George William GILES and Ellen REYNOLDS on 20 Oct 1897 in Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was born about Feb 1867 in Mutford, Suffolk, England. He died about 1923 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

Mary Georgina Munro HULL and Sydney Reynold GILES had the following children:

1. DORIS JOCELYN GILES was born on 13 Aug 1898 in Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She died on 03 Oct 1971 in Camden, New South Wales, Australia.

2. LEOFRIC HUGH GILES was born on 21 Apr 1901 in Toowong, Queensland. He died on 21 Jun 1978. He married GRETCHEN M FREEMAN. She was born on 08 May 1902 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

ANNIE ISOBEL DAVIDSON was born on 29 Oct 1860 at “Maryville”, New Town, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 16 Oct 1947 in Sherwood, Queensland, Australia. She married Allan Alfred SPOWERS on 04 Nov 1885 in St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 25 Aug 1857 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. He died on 08 Jun 1938 in Sherwood, Queensland, Australia.

Annie Isobel DAVIDSON and Allan Alfred SPOWERS had the following children:

1. BEATRICE HOWARD SPOWERS was born on 14 Sep 1886 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She died in 1888 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

2. ISABEL MONTGOMERIE HOWARD SPOWERS was born on 08 May 1888 in Hyning, Bayswater, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She died in Mar 1978.

3. JAMES HOWARD SPOWERS was born on 19 Nov 1889 in Corinda, Queensland, Australia. He died on 22 Mar 1977 in Queensland, Australia.

4. GLADYS MARIE HOWARD SPOWERS was born on 08 Feb 1891 in Queensland, Australia.

She died on 06 May 1974 in Queensland, Australia.

5. LEILA HOWARD SPOWERS was born on 21 Jul 1892 in Corinda, Queensland, Australia. She died in 1979 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

6. ERIC HOWARD SPOWERS was born on 09 Dec 1893 in Queensland, Australia. He died on 10 Mar 1966 in Queensland, Australia.

7. HILDA CLENDON HOWARD SPOWERS was born on 05 Nov 1895 in Queensland, Australia. She died in 1968 in Queensland, Australia.

ARTHUR MUNRO EMMETT was born on 09 Oct 1882 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He died on 26 Jul 1917 in Pozières, Somme, Picardie, France. He married Evangeline Fanny FRANKLIN in 1905 in Victoria, Australia. She was born in 1883 in Minyip, Victoria, Australia. She died on 19 Jun 1962 in Ararat, Victoria, Australia.

Arthur Munro EMMETT and Evangeline Fanny FRANKLIN had the following children:

1. IRIS CONSTANCE EMMETT was born on 12 Dec 1912 in Bangerang, Victoria, Australia. She died on 27 Aug 2008 in Ouyen, Victoria, Australia.

2. CLEMENT WILLIAM EMMETT was born on 05 Mar 1909 in Stawell, Victoria, Australia. He died on 26 Jul 1982 in Tugun, Queensland, Australia.

3. GEOFFREY RAYMOND EMMETT was born on 28 Feb 1911 in Stawell, Victoria, Australia. He died on 12 Jul 1943 in New Guinea.

4. MAY PHILOMENA FILEMINIA ANNIE EMMETT was born on 07 Dec 1906 in Stawell, Victoria, Australia. She died on 05 Mar 1990 in Ararat, Victoria, Australia.

5. VIOLET DARDANELLES EMMETT was born on 04 Sep 1915 in Campbells Creek, Victoria, Australia. She died in 1985 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

ALVA HERBERT MUNRO HULL was born in 1894 in Balclutha, Clutha, Otago, New Zealand. He died

in 1971. He married NORMA NEAL. She died on 12 Aug 1927.

Alva Herbert Munro HULL and Norma NEAL had the following child:

1. HERBERT JOHN LESLEY HULL was born on 26 Feb in Taihapi New Zealand. He died in Gympie, Queensland, Australia.

JOHN VAUDREY GOODWIN HULL was born in 1896 in Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. He died on 10 Jan 1956 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand. He married AGNES MAITLAND WALLACE. She was born in 1899. She died on 09 Apr 1978.

John Vaudrey Goodwin HULL and Agnes Maitland WALLACE had the following children:

1. ALLAN A HULL. He died in Nov 1928 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.

2. HERBERT NORMAN HULL was born on 09 Aug 1924. He died on 06 Oct 2005 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.

3. JOHN WALLACE HULL. He died on 11 Apr 1988 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.

WILLIAM DENISON HULL was born on 21 Oct 1898 in Clarence, Tasmania, Australia. He died about 19 Jun 1976 in Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia. He married Winifred Ruby EYLES on 14 Jul 1926 in The Manse, Short Street, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 13 Jul 1905 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 02 Jan 1996 in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia.

William Denison HULL and Winifred Ruby EYLES had the following child:

1. PHILLIP DENISON HULL was born on 22 Apr 1925. He died about 1998 in Franklin, Tasmania, Australia.

ERIC EDWARD JEANNERET was born on 21 Apr 1894 in Alexander Street, Hunters Hill, NEW SOUTH WALES. He died on 10 Aug 1961

in Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia. He married ANNA CHRISTINA ALBERTSEN, daughter of Rasmus Sydney Sogaard ALBERTSEN and Christjane BALTZER in 1917 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Reference: N S W Marriages 1363/1917). She was born in 1890 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia (Reference: N S W Births 13430/1976). She died in 1976 in New South Wales (Reference: N S W Deaths 13430/1976).

Eric Edward JEANNERET and Anna Christina ALBERTSEN had the following children:

1. ARTHUR THOMAS JEANNERET was born on 18 Sep 1920 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died in Nov 2010 in Ipswich. He married Dorothy MCLEAN on 09 Dec 1950 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

2. NORMAN JEANNERET was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He married MARGARET WALKER.

3. FRANCIS ERIC JEANNERET was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 31 Oct 1996 in Santuary Point, New South Wales, Australia. He married Yvonne Nellie LARBALESTIER, daughter of Norman Walter LARBALESTIER and Ida ROBBINS I in Apr 1943 in New South Wales, Australia. She was born on 08 Jan 1924 in Waverly Nsw. She died on 14 Mar 2009 in Berry, New South Wales, Australia.

4. MAX JEANNERET was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died in Apr 1990 in New South Wales, Australia. He married SHIRLEY SMALL.

UNA JEANNERET was born on 24 Jul 1889 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 13 Jan 1976 in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She married KENMORE DIXON NICHOLAS. He was born on 14 Jun 1891 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 14 Sep 1950 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.

Una JEANNERET and Kenmore Dixon NICHOLAS had the following children:

1. PHILLIP NICHOLAS was born on 02 Dec 1920 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 18 Jan 1993 in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia. He married JOAN MARONEY. She was born on 11 Aug 1918 in Young, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 08 Mar 1974 in Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He married JOAN UNKNOWN.

2. JUNE NICHOLAS was born on 22 Jun 1922 in New South Wales, Australia. She married Peter SPARK, son of David John SPARK and Elizabeth ENGEL in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was born on 26 Apr 1925 in Mile End, Greater London. He died on 21 May 2004 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

ALAN FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 05 May 1899 in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 08 Feb 1984 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Sophia Mary DICKSON, daughter of Bassett Richard (4) DICKSON and Janet Lucie Murray MACGREGOR on 03 Feb 1926. She was born on 20 May 1900 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 11 Apr 1977 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Alan Francis JEANNERET and Sophia Mary DICKSON had the following children:

1. RUTH FRANCIS JEANNERET was born on 15 Mar 1929. She married (1) JOHN COULSON in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married (2) JOHN C.W THROWER. He was born in England. He died in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

2. ROBIN ALAN DICKSON JEANNERET was born on 09 May 1931. He died on 29 Apr 2011 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married (1) CHRISTINE REED. He married (2) MABEL BROWN on 16 Jun 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

3. COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia.

He married Rosemary PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

LEOFRIC HUGH GILES was born on 21 Apr 1901 in Toowong, Queensland. He died on 21 Jun 1978. He married GRETCHEN M FREEMAN. She was born on 08 May 1902 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Leofric Hugh GILES and Gretchen M FREEMAN had the following child:

1. PATRICIA GILES.

COLIN BASSETT JEANNERET was born on 25 Apr 1934 in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. He married ROSEMARY PHILP, daughter of Keith William Alexander PHILP and Vallis Linda JOHNSTONE in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 27 Feb 1933 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Colin Bassett JEANNERET and Rosemary PHILP had the following children:

1. NEIL JEANNERET was born on 08 Feb 1956 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Gwenda PEARCE, daughter of Edwin John PEARCE and Elsie Ellen BEALE on 02 Oct 2004. She was born on 07 Nov 1954.

2. IAN KEITH JEANNERET was born on 10 Jan 1958 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Catherine Sally MAXWELL, daughter of Alan Peter MAXWELL and Heather Mary PARKER on 27 Dec 1980 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was born on 03 May 1961 in Hobart.

3. GUY JEANNERET was born on 07 Nov 1962 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He married Carol BARTON March 2013.

4. LINDA JEANNERET was born on 05 Nov 1964 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She married RONALD LEACH.

Munros of TeaninichA branch of the Munros of Foulis and Novar, Captain Hugh Munro of the Coldstream Guards was the father of Anna Munro who married George Hull on August 27th 1815 at St. Pancras Church, London.

Captain Hugh Munro saw service under Lord Heathfield at the Siege of Gibralter and also took part in the Walcheren Expedition where he suffered severe injury to both eyes as the result of a canon blast.

He wsa afterwards an officer of the 5th Royal Veteran’s Battallion and did garrison duty in the Scilly Isles where he met and married a Welsh lady named Jane Rose.

He was afterwards an officer of the Guard of the Tower of London. His uncle, Sir Hector Munro, was at one time Governor of Madras.

THE LIFE OF GEORGE HULL 1786-1879

PENINSULAR SERVICEGeorge Hull, born 22-8-1786, entered the army as a Treasury Clerk in the Commissariat Department in 1810, aged 24, through the interest of Sir Marcus Wood, Bart. M.P., at a time when Napoleon was rampant through Europe. He served under the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Fuentos d’Onore on May 5th 1811, and later at the Battles of Albuera, Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse, and remained at the seat of war until its termination at the Battleof Waterloo in June 1815.

In January 1814 he was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissary General to the Army, having received a commission from Lord Wellington. Of the various hairbreadth escapes and troubles he had to go through, he would often give his sons a most graphic account to their great delight. Unfortunately, through being so close to the scene of action, he suffered great inner-ear damage, so that he was practically deaf by the age of 45, and was troubled by awful dizziness in his old age.

At the close of the war in 1815 Hull returned to England and was employed for nearly three years in Somerset House in the Commissariat of Accounts, as auditor of accounts of the Penninsular War and the recent war in America. As can be imagined there was no great orderliness in the accounts kept at the scene of battle and it was his job to put chaos into order. Some officers had over-drawn their pay accounts, some were due for pensions, and the War Office was wanting to know what the final cost would be.

When this task was completed and his duties ended he was given the option of retiring on half-pay or going on Foreign Service. He was given the choice of service in Canada or New South Wales, and he chose the latter.

Soon after his return to London, on 27th August 1815, he had married Anna Munro, the daughter of Lieutenant Hugh Munro of the Royal Veteran Battalion stationed at the Tower of London. George had just turned 29 and Anna was barely 15½.

On 23-8-1816 their first child, Georgina Rose, was born; (Rose being the family name of Anna’s mother). Nineteen months later on 19th March 1818, at Romney Terrace, Westminster, a little son Hugh Munro Hull was born, and a few weeks after his birth the family was prepared to take up their position in the antipodes.

THE JOURNEYThe family packed all their belongings and took possession of their small cabin on board the “TYNE”, a convict ship which first sailed for Cork, in Ireland, to take on 350 convicts destined for N.S.W. Anna was only 18 years old and had scarcely ever been out of London, and the beautiful Irish scenery left an indelible impression on her, but the trip was far from pleasant. With a two year old daughter and a three week old baby, such confined quarters and a journey that took seven months, Anna proved she was a worthy wife for a soldier and pioneer.

At no port would the gruff old Captain touch for supplies. A mutiny broke out amongst the convicts, and when the plan was discovered by the treachery

of one of the conspirators, it was found that the fellows had determined to murder all on board who were not in the same condition as themselves, and to put the Hull family on shore at the first land they me. To this act of kindness they were moved by some civilities, which had been offered by Hull to some of the convicts who were, in Hull’s opinion, the best-behaved men on board.

Among the sailors the two little children were great favorites and it was pleasing to see the great “sea monsters” all striving to get the baby to nurse. As for the Captain, whenever there was a shark alongside, he, knowing that Anna was very nervous, used to callout to the sailors to bring the baby so that he might bait the ready line for the shark.

But from the perils of mutiny, and the sea, and of the sharks, they all survived and Sydney was most eagerly looked for by both convicts and freemen alike.

The “TYNE” arrived at Sydney on January 4th 1819, and Governor Macquarie went down to the wharf to meet George Hull and took the family back to his home until quarters were found for them.

Anna used to tell a joke against herself, about an event that happened that first day. While the Governor’s boat was coming over to the ship to fetch the family ashore, Anna observed another boat rowed by aborigines and she remarked what a strange livery they wore, being yellow and black. It was the custom in those days to issue to the aborigines yellow jackets and trousers, but the latter article the black gentlemen never would wear, and they could be seen daily going about the streets with nothing on but yellow jackets. This led Anna to suppose that they had yellow coats and black tights, and her remarks were met by roars of laughter by all hands.

There were only 30,000 people in the whole colony at this time, a greater proportion of them emancipists who had their own cultivated land and own stock, but due to Governor Macquarie’s building policy, and his employment of Greenway, Sydney Town had some beautiful and substantial public buildings, and was taking on the appearance of a permanent

settlement. The road had been built across the Blue Mountains only 4 years previous and the explorers and pioneers were pushing westwards searching for the inland sea.

A second settlement had been established at Parramatta, 15 miles west of Sydney, which has easy access by water and good pasturage, and was so prosperous that it nearly threatened to overtake Sydney. A large convict population with all necessary buildings and offices was well established there by 1819.

PARRAMATTAA few days after Hull disembarked the new Deputy Assistant CommissaryFrederick Drennan arrived on the ship “GLOBE”, and was immediately put in charge of the Commissariat Department for the whole colony of N.S.W., which also incorporated Van Diemen’s Land. He set about re-organising the system; he put George Hull in charge of the store at Parramatta and allowed him a free hand.

Hull commenced duty on January 25th and early in March Drennan wrote a glowing report praising his efforts.

Drennan told Governor Macquarie that the use of store receipts in the colony was not in accordance with treasury instructions; Macquarie was unconvinced, but agreed to proposals to change the system, store receipts were no longer to be regarded as cash vouchers or as saleable and transferable, and all payments were to be made in silver coin or in Drennan’s own notes drawn on the Treasury.

Drennan’s relations with the Governor quickly deteriorated and he offered so many criticisms of Macquarie’s rule that by March 24th Macquarie sent a lengthy criticism of Drennan’s conduct to the Treasury in London.

In August Hull was offered a transfer to Hobart which he was pleased to accept, as the climate was more to his liking. He had complained in N.S.W. of being burnt by the heat and dreadfully bitten by mosquitoes and was not looking forward to a second summer.

The Commissariat in V.D.L. had been run by Thomas Archer for several years but his commission had never been officiated and it was felt that the growth of Hobart warranted a commissioned officer, Drennan arranged passage for the family on the “ADMIRAL COCKBURN”, commanded by Captain Briggs, and after a voyage of 12 days the ship arrived at Hobart Town on September 18th 1819. PoorAnna was ill the whole voyage and could not eat a thing, and was most thankful to put her feet on land again.

HOBART TOWN 1819- 1823George Hull and his family arrived at Hobart Town three years after Lieutenant-Governor Sorell had taken command of the colony. Sorell immediately arranged for a weatherboard cottage, which stood where the museum now stands, to be placed at Hull’s disposal. Hull began at once to put it in order and make a garden; between the Museum and the Town Hall, in Argyle Street, was his potato patch and for many years two large gum-trees stood at the gate in MacquarieStreet, which he had planted on the day his son Frederick George was born, December 28th 1819. He had strolled up the bush to dig the little saplings up, to where the Catholic Church was later built all beyond that being thick scrub of tea-trees and prickly mimosa.

The old house was later pulled down and made into firewood, and according to Hugh its replacement was not much better.

On September 25th 1819 George Hull officially took over the running of the Commissariat and all accounts, though still subsidiary to Drennan in Sydney.

In 1819 Hobart Town consisted of about 100 houses, scarcely one of which was more than one story high; there were perhaps 15-20 dwellings worthy of the name house. But there were a number of fine solid government buildings; the new Barrack building, the new gaol, the Garrison Church, the Commissary store, the Guard House, and the Church of St. David.

Immigration of free settlers was increasing with the promises of free grants of land, the loan of stock, and seeds, and abundant and cheap labour (convicts). The plough had taken place of the hoe and grain was exported to Sydney; but only two farmers in the whole colony had fences protecting their land.

Government House was just along Macquarie Street from Hull’s first home, where lower Elizabeth Street now is, between the present Town Hall and Franklin Square. It was built of bricks made in the settlement but was so poorly constructed that Sorell would not move in until repairs had been carried out, and in 1824 Governor Arthur complained that it was totally unfit for occupation. Directly opposite the end of Elizabeth Street were the white wooden gate and the main guardhouse of the Governor’s house. Sentries at the gate stood stiffly in the red coats and shako hats topped with a white woolen ball. A white paling fence enclosed the garden and the area known as the Government Paddock, which usually contained a few Kangaroos and Tasmanian emus; this is now Franklin Square.

The Church of England was the established church in Tasmania for many years, and grew with government support and finance. Many people attended the services because it was the correct thing to do – fashionable - rather than a matter of conviction, but George Hull’s boyhood upbringing as a Baptist had given him solid foundations and strict morals. A rather scarce commodity in those days.

The main church in Hobart when the family arrived was St. David’s, which was built on the same block of land as the present Cathedral. The foundation stone of the first St. David’s was laid Feb. 19th 1817 and the first service was held in this building on Christmas Day 1819, although it was still without windows. Little Frederick was baptised here on January 21st 1820, and must be among the first few babies to have this honour.

In I820 Commissioner Bigge reported, “The new church at Hobart Town is respectable in appearance, but the workmanship, especially the building of the walls, is defective. It is estimated to contain 1,000

persons. The assistance of another clergyman will be desirable, on account of the increasing age and infirmity of the present chaplain”. (Dr. Knopwood). In 1822 a report in Sydney Gazette read, “In Hobart Town is a Church which for beauty and convenience cannot be excelled by any in the Australian Hemisphere; and which, moreover, we are credibly instructed to say, is now better attended than in days of yore.”

The soldiers sat in the galleries on three sides of the church, whilst on the central floor the “tall mellowed cedar pews with lockable doors, denied glimpses of elegance to the prisoners who crowded the body of the nave. Knopwood preached his last sermon in it on April 1823 before he retired, as his replacement Dr. Bedford had arrived in January.

From the time of his arrival in Hobart, until he was superseded on 12-5-1821, George Hull was in charge of the Commissariat Department of Van Diemen’s Land. He contracted for supplies of wheat and meat from the settlers, he issued Store Receipts, and he was in charge of the government herds. His predecessor, Thomas Archer, acted as his assistant at Port Dalrymple with Thomas Walker.

The state of the Commissariat in Hobart was far less organised than in Sydney. Every Commissary officer before 1819 was known to have fiddled the books, but Hull was a man of Righteousness and Regulations, if not Tact.

Lack of coin had meant a proliferation of paper money based on nothing more substantial than some-ones promise to pay, which in turn depended on chance. For a period rum was used as currency and the government used to settle its debts with rum. The usual exchange was: I bottle of rum equals £1. The price of tea was 40/- a pound; a large allotment of land in the centre of Hobart cost 5 gallons of rum.

Hull went to Hobart full of zeal and tried to re-organise affairs there. First he suggested to Lt. Gov. Sorell that some of the oxen in the government herds could be dispensed with and replaced by horses. The oxen were used in all heavy works, ploughing, road making, hauling timber, and carting stone etc.

But Sorell, beyond doubting that it was a question that concerned the Commissariat put the issue aside without any commitment until Commissioner Bigge had passed comment.

Then Hull really offended the Lt Gov. by preaching economy and morals, and questioning the custom of supplying an issue of rum to the constabulary and watchmen at Launceston and Hobart Town.

When Hull tried to re-organise the system of store receipts Sorell referred the matter to Macquarie in Sydney. The Governor, whose position in the dispute with Drennan had been supported in London, now backed up Sorell in his turn. Which was a good thing for Hull, for by September 1820 Drennan’s system was found sadly wanting by a committee of inquiry, and he was later dismissed with a deficit of over £6,000 on his books.

Hull must also have had many dealings with that prominent citizen Edward Lord, but it does not seem that he got tangled in any of his schemes. Edward Lord, as well as being the owner of thousands of acres, also owned three trading ships, which imported goods, particularly rum, for his warehouses at Hobart and Launceston. For years he was the largest supplier of grain and meat to theCommissariat, and his relations with the first two Commissaries, Fosbrook and Hogan, were, if not corrupt, certainly open to question and two later Commissaries, Broughton and Moodie, accused him of attempted bribery, At various times he was a magistrate, and a member of the Lieut. Governor’s court, but when Governor Arthur arrived in 1824, he realised he had met his match and bowed out gracefully.

It was the Commissariat’s responsibility to feed and clothe most of the predominately convict and military population. This meant that the colony’s main industry was the production of grain and meat for sale to the government store. When not enough was produced on the government farm at New Town, the Commissariat had to buy supplies from private settlers. The Commissary could wield strong influence; he could refuse to buy from people he did not like, and was also in a position to commandeer imports off ships.

Also, it was Hull who organised the first comprehensive muster (or census) of all people and stock in the colony in November 1819 and then another in October 1820; previously only convicts had been mustered. In those 11 months there showed an increase of nearly 2,000 persons.

On February 21st 1820 Commissioner Bigge arrived in Hobart to make his report on the state of the colony, and spent three months collecting information and statements. His final report was to change the convict system, cause much enmity and reveal many anomalies. Hull had left Sydney a few days before the arrival of Bigge on Sep. 26th 1819, and therefore had not met him personally but all people in the colony were aware of his importance.

Sorell and Hull each presented their version of their differences to Bigge, and although Bigge conceded both men had done a difficult job to the best of their ability, his final recommendation was for the replacement of both men.

To encourage a self-supporting society Bigge hit upon the idea of promoting the production of fine wool to be sold on the British market. To improve the flocks of Van Diemen’s Land Sorell sought the help and advice of Governor Macquarie. He in turn approached John Macarthur, who had returned to N.S.W. following his years of exile after the Rum Rebellion. Macarthur agreed to supply 300 rams to V.D.L. on the understanding that he would be paid for them in land. Consequently Macarthur received in return 4,368 acres of the Cowpastures to add to his already large property there.

In forwarding these 300 rams in July 1820 Macquarie left it to Sorell to distribute them among the settlers. More than a third of this shipment of what were in fact Macarthur’s inferior sheep died on board the ship “Eliza” where they were penned up for 19 days on their way from Sydney. The surviving 185 rams were subsequently distributed to those flock owners whom Sorell considered most likely to apply best attention and care to them.

George Hull was called upon to serve on the committee for the distribution of these rams, but

when he learnt that several ex-convicts were also on the committee he withdrew and lodged a complaint. Governor Macquarie in N.S.W. had seen fit to allow ex-convicts to play a part in the order of the colony and Sorell tried to follow his example. But the circumstances in Hobart were much different to Sydney and Hull was not the only colonist to object. CommissionerBigge also supported the colonist’s views and when Sorell threatened to withhold any claim to a land grant in retribution Bigge said Sorell did not have that power and recommended that Hull should have the usual privileges such as a land grant if he settled, and Hull immediately forwarded a claim.

The first free settlers had been granted land around New Town (then called Stainforth Cove) a settlement two miles north of Hobart where the government farm was already established. A little further along the north bound road the small settlement of O’Brien’s Bridge grew where the road crossed the Humphrey’s Rivulet, and this later became Glenorchy.

It was at O’Brien’s Bridge that Hull bought several small farms with the intention of building up a large estate and he chose 1,000 acres to the south-west of his purchased land in the heavily timbered hills, with a view to using and selling the timber, opening up a lime kiln, and eventually using the land for sheep pasturage.

In notifying the Lieut. Gov. of his choice, Hull complained that there was no land available, which could be classified as suitable for agriculture, and indeed, so freely had land been given that Sorell had to call a temporary halt until further outlying districts could be opened up.

The Lieutenant Governor Sorell could do no more than give Hull a Ticket-of-occupation, dated 1820, by which he was permitted to occupy the land by issuing in general terms a description of the land he chose. When Hull had sailed from England he carried with him a letter from the Under-Secretary-of-State dated May 1818, communicating Lord Bathurst’s decision leaving it to Governor Macquarie’s option to give him a grant of land as was customary. But before he could select his land in

N.S.W. Hull had been sent to Hobart.

So when Governor Macquarie toured V.D.L. in April 1821 he gave authority to the Lieut. Governor to make Hull a reserve of 2,000 acres, which was as good as a grant, and only subject to good behavior, until such time as Hull retired on half-pay, there having been issued new regulations forbidding granting land to serving military officers.

Governor Macquarie and his family had come to V.D.L. for a farewell tour, travelling the way overland from Hobart to Port Dalrymple (Launceston) and thus opening up much of the countryside and establishing a roadway that was many times later traversed by the Hull family, By the time Macquarie returned to Hobart Town in May, Hull had been superseded.

In April 1821 the Treasury in London had recalled Commissary Drennan from Sydney and replaced him with Deputy Commissar General William Wemyss, and at the same time sent Assistant Commissar General Affleck Moodie to take charge of the Commissariat Department in Hobart. As well as Moodie being Hull’s superior, there was the fact that Sorell had officially complained of Hull’s attempts to “assume unwarranted powers just as Drennan had tried to do inSydney”. So although there was no direct cause to replace Hull, he was considered Drennan’s protégée, and for the time was out of favour, Hull was now Moodie’ s assistant, and in charge of the Bond store. As King’s Bonding Warehouse Keeper he had charge of all spirits arriving in the colony, and some fees were paid in spirits, which accumulated and were used as money in purchasing some of the little farms of which Tolosa was made up. It was also part of his job to test the proof of the spirits, and several times a year he had to make the journey to Launceston to attend to the Commissariat affairs there.

Hull’s feelings were undoubtedly put out by the changes but now he had more time to attend to other affairs. He began the building of his home “Tolosa” on one of the small farms he had purchased, expending upwards of £600 on house and land, and started what was to become a long protracted paper battle for the titles to his “grant”.

The name he chose for his new home, “Tolosa”, comes from a little village in Spain where he stayed awhile during the Peninsular War when he was in Wellington’s entourage. When he had started the building his neighbor Dr Scott told him he thought it far too large, and that he would run to ruin building such a large house, neither men realizing then that the family would grow to 13 children.

It was made of hand-made pinch brick, the outer walls being triple thickness and the inside walls being double thickness. It was undoubtedly built by convict labour, and the lime for the mortar was burnt on the property. It had cedar floors, doors, shutters, and window ledges. The floorboards were 8 inches wide and great folding doors of cedar went right across the main rooms, each 16 feet square, to be opened when balls were held. When the house was demolished anoffer of £1,000 was made for the doors alone. There were fourteen rooms altogether, with attics in the roof, which had windows facing the mountains, and there was an eight feet wide passage running right through.

The fourth child, Robert Edward, was born in June 1821, at Tolosa in the beginnings of the house. Two years later a little daughter Harriet Jane was born in May 1823.

But Hull had been ordered to take charge of the Commissariat atLaunceston, as Fletcher and Roberts had been appointed as assistants to Moodie in Hobart, so he arranged for tenants to care for his land and home, and once more Anna had to pack her goods and chattels and set off into the wilderness.

In July 1823 the family moved to Launceston, with the 5 children travelling on a mattress in the chaise cart and with several other carts carrying luggage, the journey of 125 miles taking 4 days.

The history of Launceston runs parallel to that of Hobart. The northern part of the island was settled in 1804 and deemed a separate colony of Port Dalrymple until 1812 when it was united and subordinate to Hobart. Governor Macquarie

travelled the road between the two settlements first in 1811 and again in April 1821, but the road was not completed until 1822, when Lt. Governor Sorell set chain gangs to work, and tolls were introduced to help cover the enormous expense.

There were two settlements in the northern area struggling for survival - Launceston on the river flats and George Town on the headland near the sea. In 1819 John Youl was appointed the first Chaplin for Port Dalrymple and Gov. Macquarie insisted that he settle at George Town. However when Macquarie returned to England in Feb 1822 commonsense prevailed with regard to Launceston, which was growing rapidly in spite of orders into a sizable township of 900 people and the Youls and others came trooping back.

In those early days there was little communication between Launceston and Hobart. The mail carrier had two donkeys, one of which he rode; on the other he strapped the mailbags. He carried a horn, which he blew on entering a township or nearing a farmhouse. There were no postage stamps: letters were marked 3d or 4d in red to denote how much the receiver had to pay before delivery. Quite a number of escaped convicts were roaming the countryside as bushrangers and the aboriginals were considered as extremely wild.

In 1823 the number of houses at Launceston was given as 11 brick and 116 wooden, with 80 other buildings, inns, stores, government barracks and so forth. With the exception of a few houses in Brisbane Street, the building of the town was confined more or less between the banks of the North Esk River and the line of Cameron St. There was also what used to be called the Female Factory where women prisoners washed and mended clothes of Government officers and such others as were prepared to pay the government for those services. But there was no church and Rev. Youl used a blacksmith’s shop for his services on Sundays.

When Gov. Macquarie had visited Launceston in May 1821 he found the original public buildings in such a state of decay and dilapidation that he gave orders for the immediate erection of a new gaol, a Military barrack, a hospital, a Commissariat store

and Granary, a barrack for one Military officer, and a barrack for an Assistant Surgeon.

In January 1824 Hull became involved in what appears to have been Tasmania’s first “affair of honour”. Records of the Launceston Police Court reveal beside the name of John Smith; “Having sent a challenge to George Hull Esq. on the 18th instant; bound over to appear before a Bench of Magistrates on 1st Saturdayin Feb: P. A. Mulgrave Esq.” John Batman was charged with having conveyed the challenge. Duels were illegal, and all men were bound to keep the peace.

John Batman had left Sydney December 1821 to settle at Launceston, and his first settled work was as a supplier of meat to the Government Stores. By 1824 he had accumulated enough money to qualify for a land grant of 500 acres, which he selected on the timbered slopes of Ben Lomond, Batman was a forceful character and had many influential friends.

It was in 1824 that young six-year-old Hugh was enrolled at the Hobart Town Academy and Boarding School which had been opened in Feb. I823, and conducted by James Thomson from Edinburgh. Hugh boarded at the school and only rejoined his family at Christmas time when his father went the 125 miles there and back in the gig to collect him. A hard time for one so young.

In August 1824 a disagreement flared up between Hull and Richard R. Priest, the assistant Surgeon in the colony, Hull with-held the stores and rations of meat which were due to Priest, claiming Priest owed a large sum of money to the Commissariat; when Priest objected to this, Hull also threatened to with-hold his half years pay till the debt was discharged, and eventually the matter had to be settled by appeal to the new Lieut. Gov. Colonel Arthur.

All was not work in the busy office though. According to a contemporary news report, King George the Fourth’s birthday, 1825, was celebrated in the following manner: “The members of the county of Cornwall Club, pursuant of an Advertisement, dined at the Launceston Hotel on Saturday last (April 23) in honour of His Majesty’s birthday. The

Union (flag) was displayed at Fort Cameron at Noon, a Royal Salute was fired which was followed by a feu-de-joieby the detachment of the 40th Regiment here; the shipping participated in the general feeling by hoisting a diversity of flags and firing. The remainder of the day was spent in a manner highly demonstrative of the loyalty and affection of the Respectable Inhabitants of Launceston.”

But whatever the loyalty of the free citizens, the whole island was still one gigantic gaol, and convicts were still tempted to abscond into the bush. A frightening outbreak of bushranging in the 1820s was caused by a well-organised gang led by Matthew Brady. Riding on the best stolen mounts they moved north, raiding farms and eluding all efforts to capture them. By the time they arrived at the outskirts of Launceston “Brady’s Boys” had become a public menace. They did not enter the town, but their activities kept the nervous townsfolk in a state of alarm. Gov. Arthur took decisive action, and organized highly mobile groups who knew the country well. John Batman was placed in command of the Volunteers from Launceston, Colonel Balfour led a detachment of the 40th Regiment, and Arthur entered the field personally leading a group of horsemen called “The Flying Squad”. Brady was finally captured by Batman in April 1826, when he was wounded and surrendered without a struggle, but only after R.R. Priest had been killed.

The assaults of the natives, who had been antagonised into retaliation by harsh treatment and misunderstanding, also made journeying about the countryside a dangerous occupation. At this time the remote estates were guarded by soldiers, loop-holes pierced the walls, fierce dogs were stationed as sentinels, and the whole strength of a district was sometimes employed in pursuit of either natives or bushrangers.

In January 1825 Gov. Arthur travelled to Launceston and on the 25th laid the foundation stone for St John’s Church; it was intended to be a replica of St David’s at Hobart, but was arbitrarily reduced by a third to suit a smaller population. It was built by convict labour, with locally made bricks, and was first used for Divine Service on Christmas Day 1825.

It was capable of seating 550 persons, including the convicts seated in the two galleries along the sides, and during the services there was a constant interruption from the clanking of the chains by the prisoners in the galleries above. George Hull’s sixth child, George Thomas William Hull, was born at Launceston and christened January 18th 1826 by Rev. Youl in the new church three weeks after the opening. Two other sonsTemple and Henry were born at Launceston also.

An organ was installed in the church on September 1827 in time for the dedication of the church on March 6th 1828, but the tower was not built until 1830 (this tower is the only visible remaining part of the original church).

In his book of Reminiscence Hugh wrote, “My father was accustomed to play the organ in St John’s Church on Sundays, as there was no-one able or willing to take on the duty; and my sister and myself, with a number of the Commissariat Clerks used to form a very respectable choir. When my father had taught one of the clerks to play he transferred his duties and the Church wardens presented my father with a purse of sovereigns”.

Governor Arthur had taken charge of the colony on May 12th 1824, when Lieut. Gov. Sorell had been recalled on Bigge’s recommendation owing to his liaison with Mrs. Kent. In his zeal and insistence that government agents should also conform to his strict Calvinistic views, Gov. Arthur turned to examine the conduct of civil servants and other officers connected with the authorities and found a staunch supporter in Hull. At the end of 1825 V.D.L. was to become a separate colony from N.S.W. and Arthur was to be in complete charge, answerable to London, not to Gov. Darling in Sydney, and a complete new systemof Public Departments had to be organized. From the 25th September 1826, the Commissariat Department of V.D.L. became independent of the N.S.W. Commissariat. The hierarchy of the commissariat remained the same, with Moodie in charge, and on the 12th April 1828 Hull was also appointed to the position of Assistant Treasurer at Launceston, for 5/- per day, and it became part of his duty to collect the quit-rents for the government and

other revenue.

The old Commissariat building where Hull had his office (built in 1827) is now the military barracks, the Customs House and Bonded Store now house the Agricultural Department, It is recorded that Hull always attended the office in full uniform, a deep blue cloth coat, the breast covered in gold braid, large gold epaulettes, cocked hat, and steel sword. An official return made out 22-8-1826at the time of take-over shows that Hull received a pay of 9/6 per day or £149-10-0 a year.

In September, on 22nd 1827, another son was born, Temple Pearson Barnes - the name Barnes being in honour of his friend William Barnes who owned the Trevallyn estate and established the first brewery in Launceston beside the Tamar on Paterson St.

In 1828 the second son, Robert, was sent to join Hugh at Dr. Thomson’s school. Education was a point of status as well as an essential pre-requisite for an acceptable job, and the £100 a year for the two boys was the very limits that Hull’s wage could afford.

In 1830 when it was time for Fred to start school, Hugh was withdrawn and joined his father’s staff as a junior volunteer clerk (as apart from the convict clerks conscripted to work).

To Hugh these were happy years. He wrote later, “At night the Officers used to come down to our house from the barracks and spend their evening over the Commissary’s grog; whilst he told us long stories of his adventures in the war, much to the delight of us all. I remember the bower of Roses and the Willows in the garden, wherein he used to play the flute and we used to sing our little songs, for we were all musical children. Many a picnic we used to have in those years with music and dancing and merriment, all happiness.”

In 1829, on September 16th, another little boy was born, Henry Jocelyn, and like all men with a large expanding family Hull looked around for further income. When the Postmaster died suddenly Hull applied for his job as well but his application was refused.

Hull had constant thoughts of retiring on half pay and following pastoral pursuits, so on April 7th 1826 he memorialized Gov. Arthur to claim a further 1,000 acres in the wooded hills behind his farms. Sorell’s original order for his reserve had allowed 2,000 acres, the same as most officers, of which he had claimed half, and as no better opportunity seemed to present itself, he decided to claim the second portion before he lost the chance. At this time he had 30 cows and 800 sheep to support his claim.

Hull kept in constant touch with the tenant on his property at Hobart, and when he heard in September 1826 that a Mr. Simmonds was trying to take over 500 acres and his lime kilns, all part of the first reserve, he protested to the Colonial Secretary, who upon investigation found that Mr. G. Evans the surveyor had not marked the land off on the official maps. But as Hull’s claim was well-known Gov. Arthur supported his claim and Mr. Simmonds withdrew.

Six months later Hull asked for an official sketch of his land boundaries so that he could make arrangements with the lime burner to erect a bush-railing fence, in lieu of rent, to forestall any more pretensions.

But 12 months later he again had to lodge a complaint when his tenant wrote to him that a Mr. Walton was taking off two loads of wood a day from Hull’s reserve near the Lime Kilns. Upon inquiry it was found Walton had permission to cut wood on Emmett’s land adjoining Hull’s and he was given a warning to keep within the boundaries.

Gov. Arthur was tired of all the confusion that surrounded questions of land rights and in 1828 he set up a Land Board and appointed commissioners to survey and valuate all lands, and to set up a system whereby public lands could be leased by auction. All reserves were to be abolished, so Hull applied to the Governor to have his reserve acknowledged as a grant. Gov. Arthur felt bound topoint out that Macquarie’s orders of 1820 forbade issuing grants to military officers still serving the government, but at the same time he felt he was obliged to honour Sorell’s promise made when

the reserve was issued, so he compromised his conscience by back-dating the grant to 8th May 1824 (when Sorell was still in power). Grants were in fact far from free as the quit-rents asked in most cases were equal over the years to the purchase price.

In September 1830 Hull, like all military personal, was engaged in the government “muster” of all aborigines on the island. In an official letter he wrote: “When it was necessary to arm all the inhabitants of the country to check the assassinations by the Aboriginal natives, Colonel Arthur led the whole disposable convict population against them in military array, though necessarily without all that organisation adopted in the army. Every soldier in the colony was employed in the same duty, so that the military and treasury chests were left unguarded -, those in my charge at Launceston containing some thousands of pounds in British coin had been always kept in a weather-boarded building, and my servants, clerks, and storemen were convicts, and yet no disorder or robbery occurred. When the “Black War” as it was called, was terminated, every convict delivered up his arms and quietly returned to his former avocation.”

In 1831 Hull had completed 20 years service as an officer in the army, and suffering ill health as well as growing deafness (due to cannon blasts in the Penninsular War) he retired in March on half-pay of £90 a year, and bade farewell to his friends at Launceston. He left a town greatly changed from when he had first arrived, with a population, which had nearly trebled in the past 8 years.

RETURN TO HOBART.The return journey was a weary one. There were now eight children, some of them in the gig, some in the chaise-cart, some on the bullock cart. They were four days travelling, and arrived late at night at Tolosa, weary and bad-tempered. The house was in bad repair in the hands of a drunken tenant, and Hull immediately put in an application for convict servants, and was granted 21, to help put the place back into order and back into production, The assignment of convicts was an essential part of the convict system, but only to gentlemen who could give them a good example to reform. Prisoners were fed and clothed by the settlers, but

were not supposed to be paid or offered any other inducements.

Their first winter at Hobart was very severe, the ground being covered with snow for some days together, and the children made a snowball that lasted a fortnight. Hull and his three eldest sons had to work hard all day cutting down trees and bushes, which they heaped into large piles and set fire to them at night. There were no fences around the paddocks and the pigs and cows had to be herded every night. Hull proposed to turn his sword into a pruning hook, and not figuratively speaking, but actually did so. He was often to be seen cutting and slashing the willow bushes with his sword in a most masterly manner. In the next few years he spent about £1000 in the erection of extra lime kilns and cottages, clearing land, and putting in about a mile of fencing.

Only a few weeks after their return a third little daughter was born, to be called Anna Munro after her mother.

They found Hobart Town to be much altered and grown since they had left it eight years previous. Lieut. Gov. Arthur’s influence was to be seen in all directions. Essential community features had been established in the shape of roads, mail and banking services and religious and educational facilities. Arthur preferred military men as government servants and he had dismissed men who had shown an independent spirit. Affleck Moodie was still in charge of the commissariat and had built himself a spacious home at Battery Point. New Town was becoming a pleasant suburb, with brick and stone houses in large gardens surrounded by sweet briar and hawthorn. The pioneering atmosphere had changed for one of prosperity; it was an area of peace and restfulness where wives met for chatter about the inadequacies of domestic servants, whilst husbands commuted on horseback to city offices and warehouses.

Upon Offering his retirement Hull applied to the Secretary of State for a grant of land, in March l832, to mark his 20 years service, and was looking for something like 1-2,000 acres such as Yoeland, Boyes and Roberts had received being his fellow officers.

He was most disappointed on receiving a reply from the Colonial Secretary when he was only granted 560 acres. The Col. Sec. took into account the 2,000 acres he already held, but Hull considered that as being separate, as a grant for settling in the colony. The figure of 2,560 acres was established by Lord Bathurst in 1825 as the maximum for settlers without capital, those settlers with capital being expected to buy land. This third allotment Hull also took among the wooded hills north of Humphrey Rivulet; at the end or Chapel street.

In 1834 a new Board Of Inquiry for the Commission of Land Titles was established to settle locations of grants. Hull sent in all relevant letters and details, and his claim was recognised by general description, but as it had never been surveyed, and the problems presented to the surveyors were so great, his application for the deeds was put to the bottom of the pile.

The Commissioners had a large number of problems and disputes to unravel as much of the conveyancing had been done without legal advice or documents of any kind. On 15th December 1835 Hull wrote a letter to protest strongly against a claim on a farm he had bought from Captain Blythe, which was being claimed by the original grantee who had sold it to Blythe. Hull’s protest was upheld and he was given the titles to the 120 acres after I4 years possession.

For a while upon their return to Hobart the family attended their old church, St David’s in Hobart, but moves had already been instigated by Gov. Arthur towards the establishment of a new church to be built in conjunction with the new King’s Orphanage at New Town. Arthur was not entirely disinterested in making the proposal since the new proposed Government House was within the area, which would be served by the church.

On 6th January 1854 Gov Arthur laid the foundation stone, and it was opened for worship on 20th December 1835. The original seating consisted of high box pews in the centre of the church arranged in collegiate fashion facing a central alleyway. There were two galleries, that on the south facing the entrance accommodated the convicts and their

guards and was furnished with narrow backless benches with a division to separate male and female prisoners; the north gallery was intended for the orphans, but gradually as the church became more and more fashionable and so well attended the orphans were ousted and rented pews installed. Beneath this gallery were seats raised 3 steps above the floor level for servants and those who did not rent pews. Pew rents were handed over to the government and they in turn paid for all labour and repair work on buildings, mostly by convict labour. The clergymen were also paid by the government.

Hull insisted that because of his position he had the right to sit in the Lieutenant Governor’s pew in his absence. This was in answer to the church authorities writing that he did not have that right. The vergers also objected to Hull’s habit of allowing various other people to sit in his pew, when they had paid no rent. Hull refused to pay his rent for 12 months and was summonsed by the church authorities, but be must have capitulated because he was always considered a member of the church.

For most of the ensuing years the family walked to church, nearly two miles across country around the brow of the hill until they joined the Main Road to cross the bridge over New Town Rivulet. Although Hull naturally had several carthorses for farm work, he never kept a carriage, and the chaise was crowded with 3 persons and unsuitable for his large family to travel together to church. On many Sundays a church service was held in their own home, with Hull reading the service, attended by the children, servants, visitors, and sometimes neighbours.

By 1830 Gov. Arthur’s attitude had begun to make him many enemies. Arthur saw V.D.L. only as a gaol for the punishment and reformation of criminals; his self-imposed role as the improver of mankind exposed him to the hatred of many convicts and also stirred the wrath of free settlers who wanted to secure their land and claimed their British rights to settle their own affairs with an elected legislature.

There were many unpopular court cases concerning free settlers as opposed to Arthur’s very arbitrary authority. A government decree in June 11th 1831 stated that all land from that date was to be sold at

a minimum price of 5/- per acre. The new settlers objected claiming they had been promised free grants, but Gov. Arthur was relieved to be free of the duty of issuing grants which seemed to cause more discontent than gratitude.

Another decree, issued in May 1832, caused a storm of protest among the settlers already established. Arthur informed all landholders that government proposed to collect all arrears of quitrent. Petitions were signed all around the country claiming it would be unequal, unjust and intolerable. Its collection, they said, would in one fell swoop absorb the labour of years. Payment of quitrent would involve in ruin the prosperity and happiness of every landholder in the country. Quit-rents had been imposed in November 1823 and confirmed in Nov. 1824. All persons receiving grants of land were to be free of quitrent for the first seven years. After that time quitrent of 5% per annum on the estimated value of the land was to be paid. In the redemption of his quitrent the grantee was to have credit for one/fifth part of the sums he might have saved the government by the employment and maintenance of convicts.

At the same time it was found that the wording of all grants was illegal, and they had to be re-submitted. Many mistakes and frauds were discovered and many disgruntled landholders were encouraged to consider the idea that both revenue and expenditure should be in the hands of those who paid the taxes. Hull seems to have remained silent on issues where he could not support Governor Arthur, preferring not to censure a man he so respected.

The year 1832 also marked a great achievement in Hull’s personal career. Gov. Arthur, who knew Hull had the qualities he required of men who served him, placed his name on the roll of the Justices of the Peace in a List published in the “Hobart Town Gazette” on July 27th 1832. ‘The jurisdiction of the Lt. Gov. ‘s court was purely civil, and only extended to pleas where the sum at issue did not exceed £50; but no appeal lay from its decision. All causes for a higher amount and all criminal offences beyond the cognizance of the Bench of Magistrates were put before the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Pedder.

The popular movement, which started with land-rights and moved on to a bid for an elective legislature now turned to the problems of transportation. But this was one area where Hull, and a number of other landowners who looked for cheap labour, found they were in agreement with Arthur. Arthur dashed off thousands of words to the Secretary Of State to prove that transportation was the best secondary punishment ever invented by mankind. To address and convince a wider public of his personal views on the subject he composed a pamphlet entitled “Observations upon Secondary Punishment”, had it printed in Hobart Town, and sent copies off to London to join in the debate in England.

On October 1836 Gov. Arthur was recalled and temporarily handed over to Lieut.-Colonel Snodgrass. In his unusually long term as Governor the population had increased to 40,000, the revenue from £I7,000 to £106,000, the exports from £14,500 to £320,000, the colonial vessels from I to 17, and the churches from 4 to 18. He received praise for his efforts from London, and from his supporters in V. D. L., and on Saturday 29th October, 500 people assembled at Government House to bid farewell. He walked with Chief Justice Pedder down Murray St to the New Wharf followed by all the public officers and military, and several hundred town’s people, and embarked on the “Elphinstone” amid cheers and a salute from the ships in harbor.

The new Lieut. Governor who took up duty in January 1837 was the renowned explorer Sir John Franklin, a man who carried his culture and his civilisation with him. Almost the antithesis of Col. Arthur, Franklin considered his duties as Gaol Commander peripheral to his main pre-occupation which was developing scientific research within the colony.

A census paper filled in on December 31st 1837 shows that Hull still had 7 male and 4 female assigned convicts on his estate, the family was still growing, and the farm developing. Georgina, his eldest child, was married in the June to Phillip Emmett, and therefore does not show on this census.

In September Hull got a medical certificate to prove

that he was fit for full time employment, and for a time from Oct 11, I837 acted as assistant to the Director General of Roads and Bridges, Captain Cheyne. Hull was to superintend the correspondence and the stores and implements required for use in the Department, and received £300 per annum.He had asked Assistant-Commissary-General Moodie to consider his application for full time employment in the Commissariat and when Moodie suddenly died 27-11-1838 Hull petitioned the Governor for Moodie’ s position, pointing out that he was the most senior officer available, but D.A.C.G. Roberts returned from sick-leave and accepted the Advancement.

The Roads and Bridges Department was reorganized late in 1838 and Cheyne was designated Director Of the Department of Works, and Hull resigned from the position as his assistant. It had not been a very happy relationship and developed into a feud that carried on several years until Cheyne was dismissed in 1841.On March 23rd 1839, in response to an advertisement in the Gazette, George Hull submitted a tender to supply unslaked lime to the government in the name of his son Fred, with himself named as bondsman, at 6+3/16 pence an imperial bushel. This was in fact the only tender put forward, but it was not accepted, Cheyne maintaining that the quality or Hull’s lime was uneven, and he re-advertised for tenders and asked Mr Price to put in a quote. Hull objected to this snub, and listed the various buildings around Hobart where his lime had been used, principally the Queen’s Orphan School, St John’s Church, Trinity Church, the penitentiary wall, and the Custom’s House foundations. After much bickering Cheyne allowed Hull to have the contract being sure to write in the terms “to supply lime as required” and then found excuses not to use Hull’s lime as it was not required. Hull and Cheyne were still feuding until the end of 1841 when Montagu, the Colonial Secretary, who also had a great personal dislike of Cheyne, pressed for Cheyne’s dismissal.

In December 1838 a new Caveat Board under chairman W. T. Champ was established to finalise all claims to grants of land. Once again Hull was asked to forward all papers and certificates concerning his original grant of 2,000 acres, so that a title could be

drawn up, and a public advertisement had to be put in the newspapers 26-7-I839 describing the land that was claimed in his name, just in case anyone else also had a claim to that land, the early maps had been so haphazard. In 1834 it had been accepted on the description of Mr Frankland, the Surveyor General, and Hull thought this was sufficient “as the land was too rough for Surveyors to go through”, The titles were finally drawn up on 8-7-1840 but Hull objected to some of the charges the Commissioners claimed against him and the titles were not passed over until the matter was settled in 1841.

Lady Jane Franklin, like her husband, also believed in advancing the culture of the people. In 1839 she bought 54 acres of land in Lenah Valley from George Hull at from £1 to £3 per acre, to be used as a site for a botanical garden and a museum. In March 1842 Sir John Franklin laid the foundation stone of a new Greek Temple - a natural history museum with simple pediment columned in brown stone, which was called Acanthe. Ronald C. Gunn turned from office duties with the Convict Department to managing Acanthe for Lady Jane and editing theTasmanian Journal of Natural Science.

The philanthropic mood also caught Hull, who gave land for St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church at the corner of Tolosa St and Main Rd. It is a small but excellent example of Romanesque Revival architecture designed by convict architect James Blackburn. The foundation stone was laid by Sir John Franklin on December 20th 1839 and dedicated two years later. Years later one of the family gave the family bible to the church, but they first removed the family history entries.

In 1840 the world traveller and mountain explorer Count Strezlecki visited Van Diemen’s Land. Three miles north of Mount Wellington, in the county of Buckingham is a lofty mountain attaining the altitude of 2,300 feet above sea level; this mount is covered with timber and was named Mount Hull by Strezlecki after George Hull as Hull’s land encompassed the slopes and lower hills.

The year 1841 also brought great sadness to the family, for shortly after the last and thirteenth baby was born, their third son Robert contracted T.B. and

died aged 20 years. Consumption as it was generally known then, was very prevalent, and incurable, and was no respecter of class or age.

The 1840s was an era that was rich in cultural activities, unsettled with political agitation for the abolition of transportation, prosperous in trade revenue, yet depressed local prices had a serious effect on employment. After a period or speculation in stock and land payments to bank and other finance companies fell due; cattle bought at 6 guineas a head sold at 7/6; sheep were sold at 6d per head. Bankruptcy became widespread and unemployment and distress common.The situation in Tasmania was worsened by the release of prisoners who had completed their probation to compete for employment. Every branch of business was affected and there was a great falling off in many industries. By now Hull had four sons working as clerks in various Government Departments, but finances were getting harder and harder. For the previous decade he had been buying small lots of land to add to his farm, now he was forced to release them.

On 19-5-1843 Hull inserted an advertisement in the Mercury offering Tolosa for lease.

‘TOLOSA’ : - To Let or lease for 7-10 or more years and entered upon immediately, the House and Estate of Tolosa, 4½ miles from Hobart Town, together with the lime kilns and sub-tenancies. This Estate contains about 2,000 acres of land and affords an excellent run for a small flock of sheep and is well adapted from its vicinity to market for a dairy. About 70 acres are in crop and preparatory thereto and a considerable additional quantity may at once be ploughed up. The rent will be very moderate to a respectable tenant and further particulars may be known on application to P. G. Emmet.”

Hull evidently did not get a favorable response for the following year, in February 1844 he mortgaged 1,600 acres to the Commercial Bank to secure a loan of £500.

1844 was also a year of change within the family. Fred was married in February, Jane married Fred Downing in June, and in October Hugh was married.

George Hull was 58 years old, a grandfather of 4, and considered too old for Government employment except for the position he held as Justice of the Peace.

In 1839, after seven years in a mainly honorary position, Hull was fulfilling the duties of sitting magistrate on minor cases at Glenorchy. Colonel Arthur had divided the island into Police Districts with a stipendiary magistrate for each, but J.Ps still had a roll to fill.

In 1841 Hull memorialized the Governor suggesting that he might be appointed visiting magistrate with the purpose of dealing with the misdemeanors of the men in the road gangs, naturally with a slight remuneration to cover costs, to ease the burden of the overworked Police Magistrate, but his suggestion was not followed up.

In l859 there were 325 names on the Commission of the Peace in Tasmania, and twenty years later when he died, Hull’s name was fifth on the roll, his seniors being Capt. Malcom Laing Smith, Sir Robert Officer, Captain Dumeresq and Mr Thomas Mason. He always considered “Muster Master Mason” a friend and colleague, but never gained that gentleman’s notoriety, possibly because although stern, he was never harsh with those under him. He brought his children up with a compassion for the lower orders of mankind such as convicts, emancipists, and aborigines, while teaching them their duty in upholding the class of free settlers.

His sons were later to tell their children of the hours they spent being drilled in social etiquette, standing behind a chair and moving it out with just the right amount of deference for a lady to sit upon, etc.

In February 1848, by which time Hull had repaid £450 of the loan from the bank, he again approached the bank for a further loan and arrangements were made for the sum of £917. The property was made over to the Commercial Bank, and the Bank was to be permitted to lease the land, or part of it, and receive all income from the lease. The lease of the tenant, Lodder, was effective for ten yearsfrom 1st March 1847, and remained in force after Hull repaid the loan, but the lease payments were then payable to Hull. During this time the family retained

the use of the home and the surrounding orchard on the original purchased blocks.

Hull’s name appears many times in the record books as being involved in land transactions. On 3-8-I854 he sold his grant of 560 acres to Fred Downing, his son-in-law, with another 100 acres. On 10-8-1848 he sold a block to James Aitken who left it to his daughter Nettie (Hugh Hull’s wife) who in turn left it to her two sons Herman and Hugh, who held it many years. The Glen Lynden farm, established on a block in Chapel St was let and leased many times and other blocks re-appear several times as they were leased. Well-known names such as W. Dixon, W. Crowther, R. Grant, T. Grove and Henry Buckland show as having leased the big block of 2,000 acres on which Hull often raised ready cash.

From now on Hull led a life of a country squire, although without the comfort of an adequate income.

In August1843 Sir John Franklin was replaced by Sir Eardly Wilmot, and in January 1847 Sir William Denison took over the leadership. Hugh was clerk in Sir William’s office and counseled his father to write a long memorial on the benefits of transportation in the reformation of convicts, in support of views put forward by Denison. Hull, of course, had only to recall the arguments put forward byColonel Arthur, and in October 1851 presented a very lengthy treatise on the subject. But in the end the Anti-Transportation League won, and landholders such as Hull had to manage without assigned servants.

After the depression of the 1840s, the gold strikes at California in 1849 and on the mainland in 1850 gave a most welcome boost to trade and money once more circulated freely. The farmers and landholders were given good prices for their produce and Hull could redeem the land he had mortgaged, November 1850.

Three sons, Fred, George, and Temple, and a daughter Georgina who had married Philip Emmett went to Victoria in search of gold and settled there to start a new life.

Hobart had been growing and changing all the time

but one change that particularly interested Hull was the building of the new museum an 1861 on what had been the site of his first home in Tasmania. The little seedlings be had planted that first December were now fine big gums that had to be lopped so that they did not interfere with the building.

The little settlement of O’Brien’s Bridge had grown populous and independent of New Town, and in 1864 was declared the Municipality of Glenorchy. George Hull and his old friend William Fletcher were appointed as auditors to the new council and his son John Hull was appointed the first Council Clerk.

Cooley’s horse-drawn buses provided an hourly service between Albert Rd and central Hobart, a great boon for a family that did not keep a carriage, although up to his 80th birthday Hull could, and sometimes did, walk into Town, a distance of nearly 5 miles.

Most of the estate was now divided into small farmlets and let to tenants. Hull took great pride in his fairly extensive orchard, he cropped about 50 acres, kept an old horse and cart, and relied on local men for seasonal work.

The house was big and old and rambling, and several members of the family tried the idea of moving back in with their parents to care for them in their old age but George was too independent. Whenever he or Anna were ill, or in need of a change, they went to Jane and her family at Battery Point, where they always received a sympathetic welcome.

Anna died at Tolosa on 28th January I877, after a lingering illness and was buried at the New Town cemetery.

George stayed most of the time after that with Jane, troubled by bouts of dysentery and an awful dizziness as a legacy of his service in Spain. He died on Tuesday, June 24, 1879, at the advanced age of 93, and was buried in the church-yard adjacent to St John’s Church, New Town.

In George’s will he left instructions that Tolosa and its farms were to be sold and the money divided in

5 parts - one part to each of the four daughters and the fifth part to be divided between the six surviving sons.

It was all sold in 1880 according to the will and the new owner of the house had a verandah built across the front with a lot of iron lacework. Verandahs did not become fashionable in Tasmania until the 1870s because the summers there are not as severe as in N.S.W. A new driveway was put in from the street which was lined with fir trees, and it branched both ways around a circle before reaching the house. The Owens family lived there some time.

In 1950 Tolosa was put up for public auction by a Mr Pitt, the owner at that time, and it fetched £5,400 but by then there were only a few acres of land with the house.

The man who demolished the house in 1968, Mr Molineaux, died two years later and his wife maintained that Tolosa killed him, as he insisted on doing the whole job of wrecking alone.

The land was all subdivided and incorporated in the suburb of Glenorchy, and the only reminder left now is a street called TOLOSA ST, which used to lead up to the old house. A block of two-story flats is on the site of the old home.

Notes by Margaret (Tremlett) Hull...

Ricardus de Hull and his wife Alvira resided in Surrey in 1199.

Of their descendants, Thomas and Mary Hull were farmers. The farm was called “Childeoakford” at Carshalton near Micham in Surrey.

Thomas was an officer of the Surrey Militia and all his family were Baptists. They had 4 sons and 3 daughters. The youngest son, George Hull, came to Tasmania in 1819.

George received a good education and at an early

age was articled to a solicitor in the West of England. Later he obtained a clerkship in the Commissariat Department and proceeded to Spain in 1810. He saw service under Lord Wellington at the Battle of Vittoria and Talavera 1813-1814.

In 1814 he was appointed Deputy Commissary General under Lord Wellington. At the cessation of hostilities in 1815 he returned to England and on August 27th 1815 he married Anna Munro, daughter of Captain Hugh Munro. Anna Munro was then 15 years old.

For 3 years he was employed at Somerset House and in 1818 was ordered on Foreign Service.

He died on 24th June 1879 at the age of 93 and left 6 sons and 4 daughters living of a family of 13; 86 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, Anna, who died in 1877 aged 77 years.

A letter from George Hull (aged 87) to his son George Thomas William Hull in Victoria...

My ever dear George,I received your letter before I left home. I am now on a visit to Jane and although written on one page only of notepaper it gave me more pleasure, more real delight than a letter 20 pages could have done - crossings and all, from anyone in the world...

THE LIFE OF HUGH MUNRO HULL

1818 - 1882

The life of Hugh Munro Hull 1818 - 1875 as written by himself.

FOREWARD

I have been constrained to write a book of my recollections of my life for the information & instruction of my children; My Grandfather was a farmer at Carshalton in Surrey, the name of the farm was Childesoakford & he (Thomas Hull) & his wife Rose had seven children of which my father George Hull was the youngest.

My Grandfather was a man of commanding appearance 6 foot 2 inches high & was a member of the Surrey Royal Grenadiers. My Father George Hull was the youngest son & having received a good education was placed in a position with a Lawyer in Micham Surry, later on, on the influence of Sir Thomas Wood Bart, he was secured a position in the Commissariat office.

In 1810 he proceeded to Spain & Portugal & saw service there under the Duke of Wellington in 1814 he was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissary General & at the close of the war in 1815 he returned to England & married my mother, Anna Munro daughter of Lieutenant Hugh Munro then a Lieutenant of the Royal Veterans

Battalion & stationed at the Scilly Islands, he was previously a Captain in the Coldstream Guards but was practically blinded by a cannon blast in the Walcheren Expedition.

Anna Munro was 15 years of age when my Father presented a letter of introduction to Govt. Macquarie, from Earl Bathurst v Lord Goulburn, he remained some months as a guest of Govt. Macquarie & then as he stated being eaten up by flies in the day, & mosquitos by night & being most dreadfully burnt up by the heat he requested a transfer to Van Diemen’s Land & this being granted he and his family left Sydney in the Brig "Admiral Cockburn" for Hobart, the voyage took 12 days & bad weather all the time.

Arriving in Hobart he took up his duties as Commissariat Officer & remained there

until 1823, he was then transferred to Launceston with the position as Kings Bonded Warehouse Keeper & Treasury Official, there was seldom sufficient cash or currency to pay his salary so he had to take the balance out in Rum, the result was many convivial parties at his house.

In 1831 he retired, (on account of deafness) on half pay & took up farming at Glenorchy some little way out of Hobart, here he had built his home & called it ‘Tolosa’ while stationed in Hobart on the 2560 acres of land which had been granted to him

by Govt. Sorell. He died in 1879 at the age of 93, his wife predeceased him aged 77, he left 10 children living out of 13 & I was the eldest son.

I will commence my narative as follows

0 - 6 years Childhood 6 - 16 " Boyhood 16 - 30 " Manhood 30 - 40 " Prime 40 - ? " Going down hill

0 - 6 CHILDHOOD

My Childhood I believe was merry & happy I was a good looking child, healthy & full of life: I remember going to spend an afternoon at the Military Barracks with Colonel Bell's children, I was dressed in a white frock & red morocco shoes, I remember the grapes given some with strict instructions not to soil my frock, I remember bathing on the shallow sandy beach behind Government House where Franklin Wharf now stands, there I bathed with Governor Sorell's children & others, I remember old Stewart who drew me about in a little carriage made out of a cedar box, I remember going to Launceston in the Chaise cart on a mattress with other children & servants & until I went to school at Mr. Thomson's Academy of Learning in Hobart town in 1824 I remember very little else.

I was then 6 years of age & my Father having been transferred to Launceston we lived there, he holding the position of Kings Bonded Warehouse Keeper.

My Father drove me to Hobart town as I was to be a boarder at Mr. Thomson’s, he drove me in a Gig & the trip took 4 or 5 days to do the 120 miles, I can remember counting the mile posts of wood & the fear I had of the black natives on the road & I remember Jarvey the beautiful mottled gray gig horse of my Fathers one that he lent for a few horse rides to a dear friend Dr. Hamilton which returned home in an hour saddle empty, bridle broken, rider dead, smashed against a gum tree. I remember bivouacking beside Antill Ponds on our way, to eat some lunch & bait the horse, and the way in which Jarvey snorted & stared in the direction of a small

copse of wattles seemed beautiful to me but to my Father it was a caution to be up & away, out of danger.

Of an extremely fond mother, of little brothers & baby sisters, sugar-plums & happiness the sum of my childhood is made up.

The first residence of my father was in a wooden building which stood where the Royal Society’s Museum now stands, Argyle St. between the Museum & the Town Hall was his potato garden & for many years two large gum trees stood at the gate which he had planted in December 1819: He had strolled up to the Bush to dig the little saplings up & this was where the Hutchins School now stands, all beyond being a thick scrub of Ti trees & prickly Mimosas.

The best shop in Hobart town was then kept by Mrs Maria Lord the wife of one of the former Military Commandants & with whom I afterwards lodged at the Priory at Bothwell.

My Father received a grant of 2560 acres of land in 1821 & he selected his estate at O’Brien’s Bridge & built his house ‘Tolosa’ which has seen so many of us children grow up & go out upon the world.

I may add that in 1823, (then 5 years of age) I went to Miss Pitt's school & she was very kind to me, I remember the bread & honey which she used to give me & that I was her bed fellow when I stayed with her, she is now the wife of an old friend Capt. Bateman, the school house stood where Ballantine’s wine store now is & adjoined St. Davids parsonage garden.

6 - 16 BOYHOOD

In 1824 I was entered as a boarder at Mr. James Thomson's school in Melville St. where I had a large number of school fellows, I think 92, of which 25 were boarders.

Mr. James Thomson was the Head Master, Mr. John Thomson Second, Mr. Wm. Thomson the Drawing Master & Mrs & Miss Thomson to superintend the arrangement of the household. My nickname

was Frizzlewig, from my curly hair & old Susan the servant used to give me dips in the pan & wipe her greasy hands in my hair, I remember my dress of blue cloth jacket & trousers with lots of buttons on them & a wide broad brimmed leghorn hat & with a crimped white frill round my neck. Many of my then schoolfellows have risen in the learned professions or the Political Arena since then, I may name Sir Richard Dry M.L.C., Sir Francis Smith Pusine Judge & the Rev. Wm. Dry, the Honourable Wm. Archer M.L.C., Dr Edward Bedford, Dr Crowther, Wm. Race Allison M.H.A., David Lewis M.H.A., & many others.

Old Thomson was very severe, especially to me to whom his hand & cane used to be more frequently applied than to any other boy in the school, then the periodical doses of Salts & Sonna of Brimstone & Treacle to which we were all subjected & for which our parents were charged as Medical attendance, are all fully impressed on my memory & my weekly allowance of threepence in coppers was all my pocket money except what I got as presents at Xmas.

In 1826 I commenced my Latin Studies in which by the end of 1828 I had proceeded as having gone through Virgil’s Aneid, Cornelius Nepos etc. etc. My class fellows were Bushby, afterwards British Resident in New Zealand, John Lord M.H.A., Wm. Allison M.H.A., Dr. Crowther & Joseph Mather the Quaker, we were the first class.

In 1827 my brother Fred accompanied me to school at Mr. Thomsons & although he was only 8 years old, yet he was a companion & playfellow for me, He was bigger than myself though 2 years younger.

In December 1828, being then 10 years old I had completed my studies at school. I can remember little beyond the routine of work, floggings, physicking’s etc & my school days were not happy ones.

My Fathers income was not 500 pounds a year, and as my eldest sister was at Ellenthorpe Hall at 60 pound p.a. & my brother Fred & I cost 100 pound more he had to remove me from school to make

room for the younger boys who were now coming of an age to be educated.

I was taken into his office where I copied letters, counted out Dollars and issued Slops & Rations to the Military & Convict Establishments.

He brought Fred & I Timor ponies an which we rode after office, and at night the Officers used to come down to our house from the Barracks to spend their evenings over the Commissariats Grog whilst he told us long stories of his adventures in the war, much to the delight of us all.

I remember the Bower of Roses & Willows in the Garden where he used to play the flute & we used to sing our little songs for we were all musical children, my Fathers Commissariat uniform was very showy, of deep blue cloth the breast covered with gold braid, large gold Epaulettes ¬Cocked hat & steel sword.

He cut up the lace in after years to make fishing lines & many a little trout in the creek at ‘Tolosa’ has been captured by the golden thread.

He gave his cocked hat to his servant who managed the cattle & had broken in a young bullock to ride upon, this man Starkey, used to wear the cocked hat & ride his bullock at a fast pace & the figure they cut was most amazing.

This brings me to the year 1829 during which I served as a clerk in my Fathers office, I had plenty of holidays, I had the loan of a single barrelled flint gun with which I used to go shooting parrots & wattle birds at Trevallyn the residence of Mr. Barnes which was under the care of his nephew Tom Mansfield.

One day the Governor Sir George Arthur came over to Launceston and visited the office where he saw me & patting me on the head he promised to give me an appointment when I had arrived at a suitable age.

I remember going rat hunting near an old stack of hay at Trevallyn and one of my younger brothers brought a firestick to burn them out, we thought

it fine fun & were greatly surprised with the grand blaze we made, the fire was seen from Launceston and my Father thought it was Trevallyn House in which he knew we were staying, so rushing to the wharf he seized a boat & pulled like a madman over the river, but the tide was low & he ran the boat onto a mud bank where he stuck fast a hundred yards from the shore, to get on dry land was impossible & there he sat with feelings easily imagined, thinking that his children were being burnt to death, however as the tide rose the boat floated off & he arrived safe to find we were safe also.

We used to ramble out to Patterson's plains about 4 miles from Town to fish & bathe in the River & though we seldom caught much to bring home we sometimes caught a flogging for remaining out after dark.

In 1830 I went to Georgetown to stay a few weeks with Tom Mansfield at Kelso, my brother Robert was with me & here we passed a merry life, living in a tent, fishing every day, shooting birds, collecting oysters, mussels, cockles & shells of all sorts; Mansfield had a large fish weir which used to collect fish at high tides & when the tide was out there was about 18 inches of water in the hollow of the basin of sand & here we used to obtain hundreds of flatheads, silver fish, garfish, dogfish & one day we found in it a shark nearly 9 foot long; on the mud bank close by one morning the servant man saw a shark 18 foot long floundering about & he tried to kill it with an oar, but failed & the monster escaped. We never walked out in the neighbourhood without killing snakes & at that time some bushrangers were out and we were in fear of a visit from them.

About this time Mr. G.A.Robinson was engaged in the peaceful collection of the Blacks throughout the Colony & he & a party of them were bivouacking in a scrub on the banks of the Tamar where the friendly natives were engaged in cooking opossums etc. We had a chat with the party, who showed us how to use their spears & one of the black women on being told by Mr. Robinson rushed after me to kill me as I thought, but it was merely to kiss me, & her greasy face & hands gave my skin a nauseous smell for some days afterwards.

The black complexion, woolly matted hair of the men, the flat disagreeable features & shaved heads of the women only clothed with Kangaroo skins give these Aboriginals a most uninviting appearance.

I may say that the effect of removing these Blacks to Flinders Island where they were fed & well cared for, was that they died by dozens, until in a few years out of the 150 taken there in good health there were only 20 left alive, and now in 1864 there is but one man & three women left of the 5000 who roamed free & unrestricted over the whole Colony in 1814, or only 50 years ago.

My father was accustomed to play the organ in St. John's Church on Sundays, as there was no one able or willing to take the duty, and my sisters & myself with a number of the Commissariat Clerks used to form a very respectable Choir. When my father had taught one of the Clerks to play he transferred his duties and the Churchwardens presented him with a purse of sovereigns.

Many a joyous picnic we used to have in that year, with music & dancing & merriment, all happiness! Where are the happy faces, where are the light hearts, where are the clear eyes? Gone! And yet the world goes on the same.

The names we loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the Tomb.

In this year 1830 I had my skull nearly broken by a pig, and I shall carry the mark to my grave, another mark I got on my leg at school, on which an enormous boil had formed, and when it had been poulticed to a proper degree, old Thomson cut the head of with a pair of scissors, leaving a mark as large as a half crown for ever on my leg.

In 1831 month of April my fathers health having given away, he retired upon half pay of 90 pounds per year & we all moved from Launceston to Hobart; we had a weary journey of it some of the children in the Gig, some in a Chaise cart, some in the Bullock cart, we were four days on the journey and arrived late at night at ‘Tolosa’ weary & bad tempered. The house was in bad repair in the

hands of a drunken tenant Mr. Seagrim, but in a short time father obtained a number of prisoner servants, 21 I think, and all hands went busily to work, clearing paddocks, fencing burning off & ploughing, we all had to work hard, I minded the sheep and took them out to feed all day, bringing them home at night to be folded on newly ploughed ground with hurdles, Fred had the cows & the pigs and my father had the garden.

This winter was a very inclement one snow being heavy on the ground and we caught numerous small birds chilled with the extreme cold, Parrots came down in thousands around the stacks of corn, & many a parrot pie my Mother used to make, we used to kill them by taking a number of large stones to the top of the stacks and lying down quietly until the ground below was green with parrots then a storm of stones generally killed or wounded a dozen birds, Fred once shot 17 with one shot.

I did not like farm life being physically weak & the duties were hard, digging tired me and so I took to the light work in the garden & grafted successfully nearly all the trees now in ‘Tolosa’ orchard.

I remember one night being employed with one of the men burning down trees near the garden & we had succeeded in burning down one of them but it fell into another large tree & hung there, the night was beautifully moonlight & so we determined to burn down the other tree, I sent the man Paddy to get some brush wood and had just turned my back to the fire to warm myself when a puff of wind brought the first tree to the ground, I waited a minute or two for Paddy, and as he did not come I called him without reply, I jumped on the body of the tree which had fallen & walked ten or twelve yards along it when I saw under my feet a mass of matter which two minutes before had been my man, smashed into a heap by the tree, I was dreadfully shocked & hardly know how I found myself getting up to the house, he was cut out from under the tree, and we buried him in Town & raised a cross & heap of stones on the spot where he was killed.

This farming life lasted all 1831, 1832 & 1833 & up to April 1834 on which day at the request of Governor

Arthur my father presented me to his Excellency at Government House when the Governor was pleased to appoint me to be Junior Clerk in his private Secretary's office with pay at the rate of 3 shillings and six pence per day. I used to ride into town to office daily on my Timor pony & the office hours were 9 to 5 so that in winter of course I had to ride home in darkness.

There being no regular English mail in those days, the only way being to send a bag by Sailing Vessels going Home with wool or oil, we used to be kept on the occasions of Vessels sailing to a late hour in Office, sometimes until nearly day break before Captain Moriarty the Port Officer came for the Governors despatch bag.

The Governor took some interest in me, offered me the use of his library & suggested books for my reading, which I have found since to be of advantage to me.

I remained a resident of ‘Tolosa’ until the severity of the weather & the long office hours made me think of living in Town & in August 1835 my father having bought a small allotment in Macquarie Street on which was erected two small sheds, I came to Town lived in one of the sheds & kept an old man servant in the other, my salary was then 100 pounds a year, and Philip Emmett came to live with me.

We only lived in this small place till November when we took a cottage higher up the street where a large Blackwood tree now stands, planted by myself on 5th. November 1835.

Every Sunday I used to walk out to ‘Tolosa’ and it was here I met Emily Bostock the daughter of very old friends of our family, she was about 3 years younger than myself & was very beautiful, I remember one Good Friday having been out shooting with a flint gun & having killed a number of parrots was bringing them home, Emily ran down to meet me & in handing her the birds the gun went off & lodged a charge of small shot in her shoulder, the scream of terror & pain & the flow of blood on her white dress I shall never forget as long as I live; a man was despatched to Town for Dr. Bedford who

extracted the shot, but for a long while she was laid up & her shoulder was ever afterwards disfigured; She married in after years a merchant named Connolly old enough to be her father & she died childless in Victoria some years ago.

About this time I caught the measles & which laid me up for a few days.

In 1837 on the arrival of Sir John Franklin the official staff at Government House was reduced & I was sent to the Colonial Secretary’s Office on the 7th May with an increase of 20 pound to my pay, & Emmett, his brother & I took a larger cottage in Elizabeth Street where we kept a man servant; - My fellow clerks at Government House were Noyes afterwards collector of Customs at Torquay & Tom Thorneloe who died in Port Phillip where he was manager for Capt. Montague. At the Colonial Secretary’s Office my fellow clerks were Driscoll, dead & his only son in New Norfolk mad house, Low dead, Morrison drowned, Gallot dead, Logan dead, Knox afterwards Colonial secretary, dead, James Burnett dead, Nairn now Comptroller General & Sheriff & Mitchell now a M.L.C. in Victoria with 2000 pounds a year & the Colonial Secretary was Captain Montagu now also dead. Here my duty was to copy letters in a book & make myself generally useful.

In 1838 I was greatly affected towards a most agreeable blue eyed English Lady then 7 years older than myself she was the sister of my friend Fred Hayman who unfortunately was drowned in the Derwent near the new Govt. House; For her I bought flowers, copied music, sang songs with her, rambled, picnicked & had serious thoughts of marrying on 120 pounds a year, but a stern Uncle declined any arrangement & her father, an elder Brother of the Trinity House London sent for her & she went home in the ship Derwent. She left me on the day she went away a Myrtle tree in a flowerpot, which John Abbott had given her & I kept it for 13 years & gave it to Mrs Roofe who afterwards died suddenly on her father’s lawn.

In December of this year I had a very severe attack of Neuralgia of the lungs which a young Doctor

Stodart treated as inflammation & after getting over the attack a little I went across the Country to try the effect of Country air, my brother Fred accompanied me in a Gig; we went to Mr. Bostock’s at Vaucluse & a fit of constipation coming on I thought I should have died on the road from the agony I endured at the London Inn & also near ‘Tolosa’ was beyond expression. I got to ‘Tolosa’ & sent off to Town for Dr. Coverdale who bled & blistered me to a skeleton & I slowly recovered & then I moved to Town & lived with James Knox at 65 pounds a year.

In January 1839 my pay was increase to 150 pound. All this year I lived with Knox & nothing occurred either to cloud or brighten the dull monotony of a Government Clerks life. In this year my brother Alfred was born, the last boy of my father’s family & a small active little chap he was & still is.

In 1840 the office was under the care of Captain Forster, brother of Mr. Forster the Inspector of Police, he is dead & his family went to England by subscription amongst the friends of the late Colonial Secretary.

In May 1841 Capt. Montagu returned from England where he had been on leave of absence & he re-modelled the office making me Senior Clerk with two clerks under me & giving me pay at the rate of 200 pound per year & to be increased 25 pound a year. On the 18th. July of this year my brother Robert who had long been ill of consumption died quietly in his bed, he was a good-hearted boy and was a great favourite with all of us.

On the day he died I went out to see him & on parting with him to return to Town he said he would soon be well again as Winter was nearly over & warm weather would soon set him right, in the night Fred was reading to him & not hearing him breathing went over to his bedside & found him dead, the handkerchief in his hand not clutched but quite loose as if he died without any pain.

It is a mistake to say that Consumptive people feel no pain, for he suffered fearfully for nearly 6 months, the first cause of his illness was a cold which brought on a cough & in coughing he burst

a blood vessel on the lungs which never healed; He had been a few years in the Government Service Mauleys office, my sister Mary who was born in May of this year is the last of the Hull family of that generation; What is very remarkable in our family is the regularity with which sons & daughters occur of my fathers family thus, 1st. daughter, then 3 sons, then a daughter, then three sons, then a daughter, then 3 sons & lastly a daughter & out of 13 children ( in 50 years) only one dead.

In November 1841 Miss Antoinette Martha Aitken (afterwards my first wife) came to stay at ‘Tolosa’ with my sisters, she was the eldest daughter of a very old friend of my fathers, a Country Magistrate & a large sheep farmer & agriculturist, I found out her excellent qualities proposed to her & was accepted, I visited Glen Esk, made myself agreeable to the whole family & was received as the acknowledged future son in law, being required to undergo two years probation.

In the month of September 1842 I rode up to see my old friend Mr. Bostock of Vaucluse & whilst there I sent over to Mr. Aitken of whom I personally knew but little to say I would attend Divine Service at his house the next day which was Sunday, it being the custom of the Rev. Mr. Mackersey to preach at Glen Esk occasionally.

I was stiffly received by my future Father in Law, but I put on my best behaviour, I returned to Hobart Town after a weeks leave & quite satisfied with my journey & its results. On 7th. July 1842 Capt. Montagu advised the Governor Sir John Franklin to increase my pay to 225 pounds & I took a house in Fitzroy Crescent where Jervis & Harbroe came to live with me each paying one pound per week towards the housekeeping expenses, I furnished the cottage plainly & acted as caterer, but I lost money by the bargain.

On 7th. July 1843 my pay was increased another 25 pounds & on 1st. December 1843 I was made Secretary to the Committee of Officers with 50 pound per year; I left my cottage & took another higher up the Crescent, I had my rooms nicely furnished, kept wine & spirits in my cupboard

& my bachelor apartments were seldom without plenty of friends who played cards, drank my grog & led me into debt, how easy it is to get into debt and how long it takes to work out of it.

I may say that I held the office of Secretary for nearly 11 months on the same small salary and when I left I received a handsome letter of acknowledgement from the Chairman, owing to the office being given without pay to the Chief Clerk in the Comptroller Generals Office.

I kept up correspondence with Mr. Aitken and his daughter and looked forward anxiously to the termination of my two years probation.

In the year 1844 my brother Fred married Miss Turrell daughter of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, I went to the wedding at New Town Church & chartered a Cab with four grey horses which I filled with the Bridesmaids etc & drove out to O’Brien’s Bridge, this was on Valentines day 14th. February, coming home one of the horses fell & was killed & I paid two pounds ten shillings for the days work.

I took a house in Nile Terrace No. 3 & got a Constable & his wife as servants, in June 1844 my sister Jane married Mr. Downing a merchant & ships owner, in August 1844 I went on a visit to Glen Esk for a week & enjoyed myself very much & whilst there I arranged to be married on the 31st. October. I visited New Norfolk with Jervis & Eichbaum and spent a pleasant day there.

On the 31st. October 1844 having gone up to Glen Esk in a Gig with my brother George I was married about 9 a.m. by the Rev. John Mackersey to Antoinette Martha Aitkin; We came to town by easy stages calling at ‘Tolosa’ & Glen Lynden on the way home & soon settled down in our new position at 3 Nile Terrace.

It would not be out of place here to describe the wedding festivities, the evening before the event we kept it up most joyously, there were Mrs Doveton, Fanny Cox, Joanna & Helen Crear & Annie Bostock & also Frederick & Walter Synnot; Old Mr.Bostock & many others. Champagne flowed to a late hour, in the morning we arose with headaches; At 9.30

a.m. we breakfasted & then started in Mr Aitkens carriage for Oatlands, Marcus Aitken & a servant driving us; We stayed an hour at Hopes Inn at Ross to bait our horses which got tired before we reached Oatlands, the evening was very cold. We obtained the assistance of some road labourers to urge the horses up the hill for which I gave them two shillings and six pence & it was dark before we reached Pages Inn. Next morning George brought the Gig from Glen Esk & I took his place on the Coach for town, the carriage returned to Glen Esk & I drove on with my new wife towards home.

In 1845 in the early part of the year we lived in Nile Terrace, but my old friend John Abbott having a large house in Davey St. only occupied by himself, offered us the use of the rest of the house except two rooms & here we lived very comfortably. There was a nice greenhouse attached which I found much pleasure in managing. On some occasions we had our friends together for a dance & sometimes as many as 60 or 70 at a time in our large drawing room.

I then took a house in Davey Street with a pretty veranda covered with fuchsias & here I built a small greenhouse & stocked it with flowers. Our cousins the Misses Gage, Martha Fenton, Adelaide King, & others used to come in the evenings & many a merry little dancing party we had.

Mr. Aitken frequently came to town to see us, he was in bad health & came to get the benefit of Dr. Agnew's advice. On the 7th. January 1847 my pay was increased to 265 pounds & I still held my secretaryship of 50 pounds, so that my income was sufficient for a man & wife.

On the 21st. July 1847 my 1st. son was born; He came into this world before his time & was puny and delicate to the last degree, I could not feel proud of my 1st. born’s appearance. Mrs Wooller the nurse said he was the smallest baby she had ever seen alive, he was born about 2 p.m. & Dr Officer who attended did not think he would live, however with much care he got on well.

Mr. Bicheno the then Colonial Secretary used frequently to ask us to his home, he was an excellent good hearted old gentleman with a fund of bonhomie and good humour, he is dead & so is Mrs Cook his cousin who used to be very good to us.

In November 1847 I took my wife and her little one up to Glen Esk to introduce Herbert to his grand father, who inserted a legacy of 200 pound in his will in Herbert’s favour, but which he never received.

In May 1848 Governor Sir William Denison ordered me to be stationed as clerk in his office to copy despatches & conduct the business of the office under his Private Secretary, here under Capt. Stanley R.E. Captain Clarke R.E. Colonel Last 99th. & Mr. Jolly my official days passed pleasantly for 8 years & a quarter. Plenty of work however, Sir William Dennison was a man of active mind & never kept an idle man near him, he was always studying something or another for the good of the Colony, by the people of which he was never duly appreciated; He who serves the Public serves a Fickle Mistress; This I have found out in my own experience.

I had Frank Stanley Dobson now M.A. & a Barrister in Victoria as my junior in the office, my private hours were also happy, I had a good house, a good wife, a little son & hosts of friends; We used to form picnics to Fern Tree Valley, or Sandy Bay beach or Browns River & we used to really enjoy our holidays.

In January 1848 I insured my life in the Australian Company (Since transferred to the Liverpool London & Globe) for 500 pounds at an annual premium of twelve pounds three shillings & fourpence.

In November 1848 my wife’s father Mr. Aitken died at the early age of 54, I went up to his funeral with Downing, but returned to town immediately afterwards as my wife was ill, Mr. Aitken left my wife the little farm at Glenorchy for which he had paid 250 pounds to my father & he left her 250 pounds in cash & 200 pounds to Herbert.

Of the 250 pounds I got all in 5 years except 36 pounds, Mr. Grubb the lawyers bill for Administration.

The 200 pounds for Herbert was secured upon the property which did not realise by some hundreds of pound what it was expected to do & so Herbert lost his legacy; The Glen Esk property was left to Marcus Aitken who sold it for 10,000 pounds. The Athol Estate to Robert Aitken who sold for 1600 pound & each of the other children had 250 pound left to them, Mrs Aitken having an annuity of 150 pound chargeable upon Glen Esk & which she afterwards commuted for 700 pounds.

In June 1849 the Tasmanian Public Library was established by a number of gentlemen who met together in the Museum of the Royal Society & I was unanimously elected Secretary, a house was taken No. 1. Barrack Street attached to which was a large room filled with shelves as a Library & Reading room & the rest of the house, 8 rooms was given to me free of rent for my services as Secretary to the Library Committee, here I resided until August 1850 when on account of my wife's continued bad health I determined to move out to the country for a change of air & we went to reside at ‘Tolosa’ with my father, we were not very comfortable as I had to walk into town every day to the office, however I managed to rub along until April 1851

I again returned to the Library which in the meantime had been managed by Mr. Tribe to whom I gave 25 pound to return the office to me; Whilst we were at ‘Tolosa’ my sister Annie married Henry Power son of Capt. Power late Surveyor General & a nephew of the Countess of Blessington. On the 5th. December 1851 my brother Fred's only son died of Croup & Herbert had convulsions; While at ‘Tolosa’ I had a good bit of new ground dug & made into a garden & my crops of vegetables were worth looking at, but all my crop of onions being stolen & the cows having nearly destroyed the others I became disheartened & gave up gardening there.

On the 1st. January 1852 my salary was raised to 300 pounds a year; During this year my wife’s health

became very delicate, she suffered from painful presentiments of trouble from which she could not be driven, it was to no purpose to talk away her impressions, she was very religious & that consoled her, on the 23rd, July she was sitting on the sofa talking to my mother when she suddenly complained of illness & we carried her to the adjoining room to her bed, Dr. Officer was sent for but he was away from home, Dr. Agnews with a like result & meeting Dr. Huish in the street I took him home with me; but in the meantime Hugh was born about 4 p.m. before his time by 2 months, Nurse Robertson was sent for & all appeared to be going on well, Dr. Agnew had called & so had Dr. Officer & my mother was also with us, - Herbert had kissed his mamma & bid her good night & I had put him to bed in a adjoining room & the house was getting quiet for the night, when at 10 O'clock I heard a painful wail from the bedroom & on entering I found my unfortunate wife insensible and apparently in a fit.

We applied hartshorn, cold water, everything to try & recover her & sent off immediately for Dr. Agnew & Dr. Officer, they were both soon in attendance & pronounced it a fit of Apoplexy; They tried to bleed her in the arm & in the temporal artery, but to no purpose, then mustard plasters to the feet & legs but still to no purpose. They left in about 3 hours telling me to watch for consciousness but giving me no hope. I watched my wife breathing heavily with her eyes open but evidently unconscious, & feeling sick at heart I left the room for some wood to replenish the fire, & on my return my Mother told me that my good, virtuous, religious wife had gone to her last home. I heartily believe in Heaven.

Mrs Stewart a neighbour came over and nursed the baby till daylight & then nurse Robertson took him away with her, with faint hopes of being able to save his life with goats milk. On the 27th. July 1852 I buried my wife in Newtown churchyard & planting a tombstone at her head, I planted on her grave two pine trees from Glen Esk & a few roses & flowers. The nurse retained the baby for two months at 2 pound per week & then I obtained a wet nurse near ‘Tolosa’ who took him & nursed him till March 1853.

On the 20th. September 1852 Isabella Gage died just after the birth of a little son, she was a cousin of ours & had married a Mr. Lucas.

In February 1853 I went up to see Marcus Aitken at Fingal where he was Police Magistrate and had not long been married to Grace Lord; We visited the gold fields together & I bought some gold from the diggers.

On the 19th. March 1853 being my 35th. birthday I had asked my mother to come in & stay with us for a day or two when she brought Herbert in from ‘Tolosa’ & he had three fits of convulsions one after the other, so that I had to call in Agnew & Bedford; Whilst attending to him Mrs Clothier brought Hugh into Town suffering from inflammation of the lungs & diarrhoea of a horrible nature, my mother became seriously ill & had to go to bed; The nurse refused to keep Hugh any longer & left him with me, still unweaned, I thought my heart would break.

On 28th. March Mrs Tremlett departed for Campbell town with the intention of keeping school there, she took Herbert with her for whom I agreed to pay 100 pounds a year, I sold off most of my furniture and went to live with my sister Mrs Emmett at Newtown taking Hugh with me & hiring a wet nurse to whom I paid one pound per week to suckle him, I soon had to discharge her for drunkenness and sent a new nurse with Hugh up by coach to Mrs Tremlett's care, this was on the 4th. August 1853, I was sorry to part with the little fellow but I had no one to look after him while I was at the office; On 6th. April 1853 I paid the Newtown Churchwardens sixteen pound ten shillings for the 10 feet square of ground for my family burial place also White nine pound ten shillings for fencing it & Barclay two pounds ten shillings for the Headstone. Pearson’s bill for the funeral was 30 pound & Dr Agnew's for attendance five pound five shillings. I sold my late wife’s piano for 30 pound the same price I gave for it 7 years before & bought another for 35 pounds, which I presented to Margaret Tremlett.

On the 18th May 1853 I received a Bronze Medal, a certificate of Honourable Mention & a large book handsomely bound for my contributions to the Great Exhibition of 1851; On the 20th. June 1863 Captain Clarke the Private Secretary on going away presented me with a gold pencil Case & a handsome signet ring with some very complimentary expressions of my official services under him.

During this year I suffered a good deal from neuralgia which I relieved by the use of Camphor inwardly & mustard plasters outwardly.

On 13th. Sept. 1853 I moved into lodgings at Mrs Parkers upper Elizabeth St. at 30 shillings a week, and made two excursions this month to the top of Mt. Wellington, one with Mr. L'Estrange when we brought down a quantity of frozen snow from the top & presented it to Mrs Hall & Miss King at Hall's house where we spent the evening.

On the 10th December 1853 having just attended the funeral of Mrs Parker’s little girl who had died of scarlet fever I was taken ill with the same fever & kept to my bed in great pain under Dr. Agnew's care until the 21st. when I got up and soon picked up my strength.

On 26th. December 1853 I took possession of a house in Davey St. having arranged to be married early in January to Margaret Tremlett who had been so careful of my two little motherless boys.

Of our family at ‘Tolosa’ this Christmas there were at dinner 7 sons 1 daughter & a grandson, my brothers George & Temple came over from Victoria on a short visit to their father. They were full of adventures which they had met with during the years they had been away in California, Oregon, & the Rocky Mountains and in the Sandwich Islands.

On 1st. January 1854 having made all arrangements and furnished my house I started in the Coach for Campbell Town & on the 3rd. January I was married by the Rev. Mr. Ewing to my second wife Margaret Basset Tremlett cousin to my late wife, I had sat up till 1 in the morning helping lay out the wedding breakfast & as the house had shortly before been broken into & robbed I slept on the

sofa with a carving knife handy to protect the plate, the morning was excessively hot but neverless Dr & Mrs. Cameron, Mr. & Mrs Leake, Marcus Aitken & his wife Robert Aitken & his sister Mary Jane, Dr. Harrington & Mrs Bayley were all in attendance & the ceremony was performed according to the forms of the Church of Scotland as at my first marriage; I gave Mr. Ewing seven pound seven shillings for the affair & left for Ross with my new wife in Mr. Leakes carriage which he kindly lent us for the occasion.

We stopped at Hopes Inn at Ross, next morning Robert Aitken brought Herbert to us & we started in coach & went as far as Green Ponds where we stopped at Ellis's Inn, next morning by coach to Town.

We had not been home three weeks before the Measles & Scarlet Fever being prevalent my young wife took the measles & Herbert took Scarlatina both were very ill, Herbert was delirious for some days with Dr. Agnew & Dr. Downing attending him, Hugh was very ill at Campbell town with Dysentery attended by Dr. Harrington for which he charged me 6 pounds 6 shillings.

On the 8th. March 1853 George & Temple returned to the diggings in Victoria.

In June 1853 Hugh came down to his home with his nurse & in October Williamina Tremlett came to live with us.

During this year I suffered much from Tic Doloreux owing to cavious teeth which I relieved with Camphor & Laudamusin. In June 1854 I went to some expense and a vast amount of trouble to get up a Society to establish a fund for paying pensions to the widows of Civil Officers, my scheme was not well supported and I abandoned it, but it led to Mr. Champ then Colonial Secretary to bring in a Pension Bill in the Legislative Council, Governor Sir Henry Young refused to assent to it.

In January 1855 the Colony lost its best Governor Sir William Denison who had been promoted to the Governorship of New South Wales, - On going away his Excellency called me into his office & presented me with a letter of testimonial and a valuable gold

watch for my 7 years service under him. As a fellow of the Royal Society I attended a Deputation to present an address to him, and as one of the first members of the Public Library I again attended to present an address from that body; On 13th. January I saw his Excellency & his family off in the steamer Tasmania having with my wife attended in the morning at Government House to bid him & Lady Denison goodbye.

In this month my Mother in law came to live with me so that my family party began to be large, I also sent Herbert to Hutchins School under the Reverend J.R.Blackwood a clever but severe Master.

On the 18th. February 1855 at half past 10 a.m. my third son William Denison was born, I called him this name in honour of my late Patron.

The Rev. R. McLean baptised him on the 19th. March my 37th. birthday;

In March Mrs Tremlett & her daughter took rooms for themselves in Macquarie St. and tried to keep school, but it failed & they returned to my home in May.

In April 1855 my tenant Mr. Heiner paid me 22 pounds ten shillings to renew the lease of Herberts Farm & which I did for 10 years at 37 pound per year.

In May I insured my life for 500 pounds in the Professional Company

On the 2nd. June I moved out to a cottage at Newtown which I got at 52 pound a year, for my landlord Dr. Crooke wanted to charge me 90 pounds a year rent for the cottage I occupied & for which I was paying 80 pounds a year. Here I made a good garden, which produced splendid vegetables.

In office hours I got together all the old Gazettes & Papers and prepared a Statistical Account of Tasmania from 1804 to 1824, which the Governor ordered to be published by the Government Printer.

In July 1855 my tenant offered me 175 pounds 15 shillings to commute the Rent for 10 years, I was

hard up, everything being so very dear, and I took the money; We were then paying 1 shilling per pound for meat & 10 pence for the 2lb. loaf.

In December 1855 I insured my wife’s life in the Australian Mutual Company for 300 pounds at a premium of 6 pounds 8 shillings.

On the 21st. December the Governor told me I might have either the Police Magistracy of Bothwell or Circular Head, but the Colonial Secretary said that Major Cotton or Lt. Forster had prior claims & were waiting for a vacancy and so I got neither.

During this year owing to the very high price of Food all the civil servants had an increase in aid granted to them owing to excessively high price of provisions, mine was 185 pounds making my income 485 pound.

In 1856 I commenced distributing all over the Colony some valuable Barley, the original seed of which was brought from California by my brother George.

On 9th. January Colonel Last who had been Private Secretary for two years came to bid me "goodbye" & left me a handsome letter of approval; I felt the old Colonels kindness when my 1st. Wife died, for on the 24th. July (Sunday) the Regiment passed my house on its way to Church & the Colonel ordered the Band to cease playing within hearing of my house, a military compliment which I duly appreciated. In February I got the influenza & was laid up in bed for 5 days, Willie took the fever in March, In May I prepared the Statistical tables for 1855 which the Government Printer published.

On the 13th. June 1856 I was duly elected a member of the United Brothers Lodge of odd Fellows; attended the lodge at the Hotel in Argyle St. & was duly initiated at a cost of 3 pound 6 shillings & 8 pence.

On 19th. June 1856 the Governor nominated me to be Police Magistrate of Hamilton & Bothwell with a salary of 400 pound a year & Forage for a horse & now after 22 years service as a Subordinate Clerk I was promoted to a higher grade.

On the 23rd. June the Governor put my name in the Commission of the Peace and on the 25th. I sat as a J.P. for the 1st. time in the Hobart Town Police Office and on 7th. July took my seat in the Court House to try Prisoners at the Quarter Sessions.

On the 11th. July 1856 I was gazetted as Assistant Police Magistrate, Deputy Chairman of Quarter Sessions & Deputy Commissioner of the Court of Request for Hamilton & Bothwell & also as a Coroner for the Colony; and on 17th. July started in the Green Ponds Coach for my new Home at Bothwell, - I stayed at the Royal Oak Green Ponds that night and next day at one o'clock arrived per conveyance through the mud at the Crown Inn Bothwell.

I made a humorous mistake on my arrival for I called in a passing Policeman and desired him to say to the Police Clerk Mr. Robinson that I wished to speak to him, but the policeman went to Mr. Robinson the Clergyman with my message, the result of which was a message in return to come down and take tea with him & have a chat; I accordingly went down & though perfect strangers to each other we passed a merry evening; I left my wife & children at Newtown till I could arrange to get them up to Bothwell.

On the 22nd. July I started on a hired horse for Hamilton and lost my road so that it took me 6 hours to get there; Here I found an old friend, Dr. Sharland in the Senior Magistrate, and I found that 13 shillings & 4 pence allowed for mileage by the Government notwithstanding that I dined with the Doctor fell some three shillings short of my expenses.

I found myself commanding two old Clerks, three Chief Constables & 21 Petty Constables & three Watchhouse-keepers, quite a Police staff; I had not been there long when I found we had more Cats than were required for the Mice, & so I advised a reduction in the Police Force of 8 men by which I made 8 enemies & saved more than 500 pound a year.

The position of a Country Magistrate is one requiring much diplomacy to please all parties, cases came before the Bench wherein justice requires a punishment of the Great and if this is done in all honesty, the man becomes your personal enemy.

I lived at the Crown Inn where I had pleasant rooms, until 29th. August when my whole family came up. I had taken "Enfield" a small cottage at 30 pound a year, here I made a good garden & stocked it well with vegetables & flowers & I bought a mare from Reid for 30 pound & had her broken in; I had 130 miles a week to ride, the climate of Bothwell is very cold, being so high above the level of the sea, snow storms are frequent & I got frequently wet through in my journeys between Hamilton & Bothwell.

I paid Andrews the Carrier for bringing my furniture, 25 pounds, and the Coach fare of my wife, children, Mother in law, Sister in law & servant was 7 pound more.

On the 18th September 1856 I rode to Victoria Valley to hold my first Coroners Inquest on a man named Stock, I got through a disagreeable duty pretty well.

On the 10th. October with much personal exertion we got up a Public Ball at Bothwell at which 50 of the Elite were present, we got a German Band from Hobart Town and nearly all our wine, ale, & cakes from Webb. The rain & snow came down heavily & spoilt most of our amusement, however we had a good supper & plenty of dancing.

On 4th. November 1856 at about half past 8 a.m. my first daughter was born, Dr. Tensh attended, & though the house at Enfield was a miserably cold & dilapidated building everything went on well; We used to see the stars through the cracks in the roof & on wet nights frequently had the umbrella over our beds.

On the 3rd. December 1856 came a letter from the Colonial Secretary offering me the Accountantship of Stores with the chance of permanency, I accepted it especially as Gellibrand told me in a private letter that the Police Magistery was to be abolished; when the Bothwell & Hamilton people sent petitions to the Government through the Member for there

District, Captain Langdon, requesting that I might be retained & their addresses were couched in very flattering terms, to these the Government listened & I was allowed to remain for the present.

On the 22nd. December 1856 the Reverand Mr. Robertson christened my daughter Margaret Annie after her two Grand Mothers & I had a champagne & cake lunch on the occasion. On the 29th. December myself & a party visited the Lakes & lunched on Lake Sorell where I got some beautiful Topazes and got home late at night after a ride of 46 miles.

I found by the Gazette that I had been promoted to a full Police Magistracy and got Her Majestys Commission styling me Her "dearly beloved" which I duly appreciated.

1856 was a year of much honour to me, but very little profit. 1857 This year entered upon its career with extraordinary changes of weather which I noted at the time, thus the 1st. was a very wet day, rain falling heavily all the day, the 2nd. was a hot day with loud vivid thunder & lightning & the 3rd. was fine but very cold, whilst on the 4th we had a perfect hurricane of wind; These sudden changes, exposed as I was to them by the nature of my duties affected my health and strength; - Up to this time I considered myself a hearty man at my culminant point of years health & honours, I was not quite 40 years old, I had no organic disease of any kind, weighed exactly 9 stone & could ride 50 miles without much fatigue.

I held a great many offices, some lucrative others only honourable or honorary.

I was Police Magistrate of Bothwell & Hamilton with 400 pound a year & forage allowance of 50 pounds, Deputy Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Deputy Commissioner of the Court of Requests, Coroner for Tasmania. Justice of peace for the Territory, Commissioner Under the Census Act. Returning Officer under the Electoral Act Member of the Literary Society of Bothwell Fellow of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1844. Corresponding Member of the Adelaide Philosophical Institute

Church Warden of Bothwell. Chairman of the Road Trust. Manager of the Savings Banks, Bothwell & Hamilton; For all these offices I had work to do and my sole income was 450 pounds.

In March 1857 my Sister in Law accepted Office as Governess in Dr. Sharland's family .

In April 1857 I headed a "Subscription " list with 5 pound and in a few hours raised 150 pounds to be given as a Bonus to a qualified Doctor to come & reside at Bothwell, Dr. Tensh having left for Oatlands. The Doctor who accepted was a Mr. Strong, a violent tempered young married man who was ungrateful, expensive in his charges viz: Two guineas for drawing my child’s tooth, insulted me on the Bench for which I reported him to the Government & he resigned the Commission of the Peace & soon after left the District.

In May 1857 having been invited to a Birthday Ball at Government House my wife & baby daughter & a servant & I all went down to Hobart town having hired Harvey's Dog cart & two horses to carry us down at the expense of 2 pound 10 shillings.

On the 8th. June I prepared with some trouble and delivered a lecture in the Schoolroom to the Bothwellites on the Stars & what we know of them, there was a room full of people.

During this month at the request of the Governor I prepared a full report on Irrigation in the Bothwell District & also a Statistical Account of Cumberland; His Excellency thanked me handsomely for my Reports & invited me down to read them to the Royal Society at a special meeting which was called for the purpose.

On the 27th. June 1857 I received from Mr. Henty Colonial Secretary a letter offering me the Collectorship of Customs at Port Frederick as the Government were about to do away with the Police Magistracies; Port Frederick was 160 miles away & I did not like the change so I went down to Town & saw the Governor & the Government; Mr. Henty told me of the absolute necessity of reducing the Establishment of Police, but said if I would undertake the Visiting Magistracy of Green Ponds

in addition to Bothwell & Hamilton I might remain, of course I consented & from 1st. August I got through a days work as follows:-

I held a Court of Requests at 10 a.m. in Bothwell Police Office, - then mounted & rode to Green Ponds 18 miles, tried several cases there, returned home through heavy rain, dined, & at 7.p.m. went down to the School room & gave a lecture on the rise & progress of Tasmania.

On the 29th. August 1857 we moved into larger & better Quarters at "The Priory" a fine large stone building which I got for 50 pound a year, the only drawback being that the Old Lady owner still required to occupy three rooms. We had a good garden and a lovely view of the whole Village.

I had too much work to do with the Bench duty of three Police Officers & having to ride 130 miles a week to do so, I had also Inquests to hold, some of which took me 40 miles from home & so in the middle of October with a sad pain in the leg I went to Hobart Town to consult Dr. Agnew, who told me to give up horse exercise, this virtually would be giving up my office.

Whilst in town I heard of George Turnbull’s death, he was Assistant Clerk of the House of Assembly with 330 pound a year; He was consumptive & delicate. I asked Mr. Henty to give me the Billet & to make the salary I was then receiving viz: 400 pound, when the Government were pleased to meet my wishes & on the 4th. November we moved into Town to No. 4 De Witt St., Hobart Town which I had rented at 60 pound a year. The year 1857 was one of great care, trouble, & annoyance; On the 28th. December 1857 my brother John's wife presented him with twin sons, both of whom died almost immediately after birth; In January 1858 I sent my second son to School to Mr. Edwin Pears at Battery Point.

On the 26th. February 1858 finding it exceedingly inconvenient to attend the Police Office at the frequent requests of the Police, I tendered my resignation of the Commission of the Peace, which the Government accepted on the 5th. March.

In March 1858 I commenced my little "Guide to Tasmania" which I finished in two months & of which the Publishers sold 1000 copies @ 2 shillings a copy.

In April 1858 my Sister in law returned to us having been badly treated at Dr. Sharlands house & as she was very ill she & her mother left for Campbell town for a change of air & scene, & I took a house in Macquarie Street from W.W. White at 40 pound a year & here I studied the most rigid economy. On the 19th. March 1858 I had completed 40 years in this world of trouble, - I came across a few words the other day which struck me forcibly & I noted them down :-

" Let us come forth, we who have known sorrow & even now are suffering from some hidden pain that we think is ceaseless as it is venomous & let us look into the World which God has made, if it hold not good for us or happiness it may hold something better, that even our humanity may rise to recognise as better, - So let us look it in the face, and travel the way that is appointed for us to go; The World may make a man unfortunate but it can never make him miserable, that is for himself to do." As a star shines impartially over the measureless expanse, tho' it seems to gild but one broken line to each eye, so, as our memory gazes on the Past, the light spreads not over all the waste, but falls narrow & confined along the single course we have taken. "

So I lean over the Raft on which I float, and see the sparkles of many a bright & happy hour, many a joyous scene reflected from the waves of memory commingled with the dark & deep waters of heavy sorrows; Oh memories of bygone days! How crowded & thronged are thy images, some of them how pleasant, some how painful!

Thus ends a brief sketch of my climb to the top of the Hill, taking 40 years to do it. The downward run will be more rapid, until my weary feet are staid at the foot of the Mountain, when before me will be the Home far beyond the twilight judgments of this World, high above its 'mists' ands its obscurities.

DOWN HILL

In my new House I sat down determined to economise; out of a large yard I made a beautiful garden & stacked it with flowers & vegetables, I grew onions weighing 2 pounds each & I had Broad beans higher than my head.

On 2nd September 1858 I was requested to hold an Inquest at Muddy Plains on a child who had been scalded to death; the day was stormy, I had a ride of 34 miles and cleared but little out of my fee in consequence of having to pay one pound for a horse and five shillings for a boat.

In November 1858 I commenced the Royal Kalandar and Guide for 1859 and sent it to Fletcher's to print for me, I engaged him to do so for eight pounds per sheet of 24 pages. On 22nd November 1858 my son Henry was born: Mrs Tremlett came down from Campbell town to be with my wife on the occasion. The event took place at quarter to two in the morning, Dr Agnew & Mrs Mann being in attendance.

On the 23rd. November I was appointed Secretary to the Royal Commission on Parliamentary Buildings.

On 1st. December I received an order from Walsh & Sons Launceston for 350 copies of my Royal Kalandar and on 10th December the Government ordered 100 more & Sir Henry Young eighteen.

On the 22nd December 1858 the Reverand McLean baptised my son as Henry Tremlett he & his daughter being the only strangers present. Christmas day 1858 fell on a Saturday and we met round our small table in full health & strength, thank God!

Myself & wife (and children as follows) Herbert Hugh Margaret Annie William Denison Henry Tremlett

and a good English dinner of Roast beef & Plum pudding.

On 28nd December 1858 my little Royal Kalendar and Guide for 1859 issued from the press with good hopes of success. The year 1859 commenced with a frightfully hot day, so much so, that everyone who could do so kept in doors, in our Parlour the Thermometer stood at 80 degrees, yesterday it rose in the sun to 136 degrees and this day 128 degrees in the Sun & 99 degrees outside in the shade.

On Sunday 9th. January 1859 I took Sacrament in St. John's Church, the Rev. Mr. McLean officiating, we had grumbling thunder, lightning, and rain all day.

On the 15th January I was caught with the children in a fearful Thunder Storm with forked lightning and heavy rain, there was another thunder storm with heavy rain on the 17th, and again on the 18th.

On the 19th. January I was taken ill with an attack of English Cholera and after taking 10 drops of laudanum sent for Dr. Agnew who gave me Catomel and morphine, I was in agony for 5 hours vomiting etc. without intermission. The morphine however did its work and after lying in bed for nearly two days I recovered.

On the 22nd January 1859 I received a letter from Sir Henry Barkly’s Private Secretary in reply to mine of the 7th telling me that the Governor would at once bring my qualification for the Office of Deputy Registrar General before his Advisers so that my claim might not be overlooked.

On the 24th. January the thermometer was 126 degrees in the sun and 91 degrees outside in the shade.

On the 26th. there was a heavy thunderstorm the rain came down in torrents for half an hour.

Sunday 6th. February 1859 was a frightfully hot day, the thermometer standing at 83 degrees in the Parlour, 99 degrees outside in the shade and 125 degrees in the sun. Wrote to Orger & Meryon as to the expense of publishing a small book on Tasmania

and illustrating it, I sent them a copy of the Guide for 1858 and Kalendar for 1859;

On 11th. February attended the funeral of Walter Synnots wife at St. Davids Church; On the 12th. received a letter from Silver & Co. of Cornhill forwarding to me a copy their Emigration Guide for 1858 in which my Guide is honourably mentioned.

Saw the funeral of old Fox the Boatman who has left 500 pounds to the Orphan School Children, 400 children of both sexes attended the funeral.

On the 13th. February there was snow on Mt. Wellington and the thermometer stood at 58 degrees in the sun.

On the 8th. March 1859 I moved into 93 Davey Street where I had lived in 1847-48 and I have now to pay 50 pound a year rent.

On 16th. March I completed my Alphabetical Index to the Statutes, which the Government ordered to be printed at the Government Printing Office.

On March 1859 I had completed 41 years, the day was bright & pleasant & I took my wife & five children & the maid servant in the steamer to Kangaroo Point where on the Beach we spent a pleasant day returning home by 5 o'clock & found the housemaid drunk & incapable.

On the 27th. March I sent my Post Office Directory to Fletcher to print for me, it has taken me 15 weeks to get it up, with hard work.

On 3rd. May 1859 I commenced duty as Secretary to the Church of England Synod for which I am offered 10 pounds 10 shillings.

On 23rd. June 1859 I read a lecture on the Capabilities of Tasmania at the Mechanics Institute, the Governor Sir Henry Young, Colonel Broughton, the Mayor & a very crowded assembly were present, & at the close of the Lecture the Governor called me to his Box and thanked me for my lecture. This lecture was published under the title of " Forty years experience in Tasmania" and the Parliament voted 100 pounds towards the expense of printing it & the

Emigration Commissioners gave 10 pound for 100 copies.

July 3rd. 1859 again took the Sacrament in St. Johns Church, Mr. McLean officiating.

October 20th. 1859 I took the M.S. of my Kalendar and Guide for 1860 to Fletcher who says that the expense of publishing will leave no margin for profit & so I don’t intend to publish anymore Calendars for I have only cleared 12 pound by the three 1858, 1859 & 1860 & in which the trouble & work has been immense.

November 7th 1859, Wife, Aunt Mary, Dot, Baby & Nursemaid started in the Coach for a months tour to Launceston, Herbert & I saw them off in the Green Ponds Coach.

On 15th. November 1859 Orgn & Meryon the Publishers in London, letter reached me stating that they had put my M.S, Pamphlet to Press.

On 4th. December 1859 the heat was excessive, the thermometer outside in the shade 103 degrees, Herbert & I walked over the hills to ‘Tolosa’ & when I got home I stripped & dried myself with towels.

7th. December 1859 Herbert & the young Forsters and myself ascended Mt. Wellington & cut our names on the Trigonometrical post; we started at 8.a.m. & got home at 5.30.p.m.

16th. December 1859, Wife & children returned home from Launceston.

Christmas 1859 Herbert went to ‘Tolosa’ to represent my branch of the family there, my last Christmas dinner at ‘Tolosa’ having been in 1853.

30th. December 1859 Received a Telegraphic message of the sudden death of my brother in law Marcus Aitken in Victoria, an excellent good-hearted friend & liked by all who knew him.

1860 Sunday 1st. January, having been elected as Manager of St John's Presbyterian Church I attended in my place morning & evening 144 persons attended church & the plate at the door produced 21 shillings & eightpence, the Revd.

McLean named me from the pulpit as the Church's agent to visit the Poor, I am sure I need only look in my mirror for a very good specimen.

1st. February 1860, Wife, Dot, & I drove out in a Cab to ‘Tolosa’ to be present at the wedding of my sister Polly to Mr Davidson the Architect, the day was fine, the Revd. Mr. Simson performed the Ceremony & 28 sat down to the Wedding breakfast.

On the 5th. March 1860 I attended a meeting at the Theatre at a meeting of Oddfellows for the purpose of getting up a Volunteer Rifle Company, I made a speech & was elected to the Committee to draw up the Rules & Regulations & on the 20th. March I enrolled myself as a Volunteer of the Oddfellows Rifle Corps.

On 31st. March I held an inquest on a tailor named Saville at Sandy Bay who had committed suicide by cutting his throat.

On 17th. April the English Mail brought me two copies of my Illustrated Pamphlet "Forty Years in Tasmania", I sent a copy to the Colonial Treasurer who said "that it satisfied him that it would be of great service to the Colony and that it both reflected credit on my industry & skill & justified the Parliament in the Vote which it had passed (in faith) to aid its circulation".

2nd. May 1860 I was examined by Dr. Agnew for an assurance on my Life & my Wife’s in the Australian Mutual Co. for 500 pound that sum being payable to the Survivor.

On the 14th. May the Colonial Secretary informed me that he had sent to England 100 pound to pay for printing my Pamphlet.

On 28th. May 1860 I was elected to be Quarter Master Sergeant of the Oddfellows Rifle Co. & on the 29th. we held a Court Martial on Charles Edmunds & dismissed him from the Company, In June 1860 I was again appointed Secretary to the Church of England Synod.

On 5th. June 1860 my sister in law Lucy Aitken was married to Ernest Bostock at Warrnambool.

I make a memorandum of the Salaries I have received since my appointment 25th. April 1834, 3 shillings & sixpence a day, Ist. January 1836 100 pounds, 1st. May 1837 120 pounds, 1st. January 1839 150 pound, 1st. January 1840 160 pound, 1st. July 1841 200 pound 1st. July 1842 225 pound, 1st. July 1843 250 pound 1st. December 50 pound as Seceretary to Committee of Officers 1st. Janaury 1850 265 pound, 1st. Janaury 1852 300 pound, 11th July 1856 300 pound & 50 pound for house & forage for a horse, 1st. January 1857 400 pound & forage for a horse 1st. November 1857 400 pound.

On 24th. July 1860 heard of the death on Sunday of Aunt Mary at Launceston, aged 60; During this month my Father, Mother & self & nearly all my family suffered severely from Influenza which has been very fatal this year.

On 30th. August 1860 I was elected first Lieutenant & Adjutant of the Oddfellows Company & received the Governors Commission under Seal appointing me in the name of Her Majesty.

On 4th. September 1860 I paid Mr. Knight my first quarters premium on the Life Policy in the Australian Mutual for 500 pound on my Wife’s life & my own.

My Father gives me the following short account of himself:¬ At 13 years of age he was sent to a Lawyers office in the West of England & then to Gatton in Surrey, then in 1810 he obtained a Treasury clerkship in the Commissariat; He had often heard his father speak of his Grandfather who was a Baptist as were all the family at that time; Some of the Hull's went to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell.

My Grandfather Hull was a man of 5 foot 11 inches & was second man in the Grenadier Company of a Volunteer Regiment raised during the war & my Grandfathers brother was 6 foot 2 inches, the family property was at Childe Okeford.

On the 4th. September Hugh went over to Launceston by Coach to School at Mrs Tremlett’s; I attended with a Guard of Honour under my command at the Theatre where the Governor was. His Excellency stepped up to me & expressed

himself highly gratified with our Military Appearance.

On the 10th October 1860 my second daughter Netta was born at 12.45 a.m. On the 8th. November 1860 I attended Lady Young's Ball at Government House in the full uniform of 1st. Lieutenant of the Rifles, and on the following day, being the Prince of Wales’ birthday the Governor inspected the Volunteers on the Domain, 200 were present & His Excellency complimented us on our Soldierlike appearance; In the evening at our Drill room we presented our Drill Sergeant with a purse & ten sovereigns as a present.

On 12th November Mr Storie baptised little Netty in the presence of my father, mother & ourselves.

On this day I received a letter from Mr. Alfred Hull a nephew of my father's in England writing to me in a very friendly spirit.

6th. December 1860 We had a Battalion drill on the Domain, 200 Volunteers were present, Colonel Russell selected me as Adjutant for the day & we went through our evolutions in a very credible manner.

Christmas day 1860 we drove out in a Cab to ‘Tolosa’ where we all dined together; There were

My Father & Mother 2 Ourselves 7 John Hulls 4 Davidsons 3 Alfred Hull 1 Henry Hull 1 Lesters 2 Spong 1 Downings 7

28 Tents were put up on the Lawn under which ale Wine & fruit of all sorts circulated, whilst outside the race, leapfrog, jumping & other games were actively engaged in; Four of us afterwards had a little rifle practice, these being Lt. of 2nd Rifles, a Cadet of Artillery and four Cadets of the Buckingham Rifles.

My retrospect of 1860 is. - that I had much sickness in family, Diarrhoea, Low fever, and influenza & my father has been dangerously ill, my wife’s Aunt Mary died; myself, my sister Polly, Robert Aitken's wife & Marcus Aitkens widow each have had a daughter born; I joined the Volunteer force & rose from the Ranks to be First Lt. & Adjutant & also heard of English Cousins & Relatives.

1861 On 1st. January we made a picnic to the Royal Society's Gardens, taking Mrs Mann to carry the Baby, little Netty, we enjoyed ourselves mightily notwithstanding the heat.

9th. January 1861 the Regatta took place, the weather was hot, but we enjoyed ourselves.

21st. January 1861, We had a fearful thunderstorm which lasted 2 hours, a house in Liverpool St. was struck by lightning; Old John Dunn died yesterday full of years & money, some say he left 100,000 Pounds.

27th. February, On this day our Captain Davies assaulted one of our Cadets named Prout Hill a member of the House of Assembly for some insulting expressions used by Hill & broke his head with a heavy walking stick - for which Captain Davies was arrested & taken to Goal, where he afterwards received from the Supreme Court a sentence of a months imprisonment & a fine of 100 pounds. The injury brought on Ersypetas in the head & of which Hill died, He is buried in St. Georges Church yard; the command of the 2nd. Rifles developed on me during the Captains imprisonment.

On 1st. March 1861 Mr. Archer the Secretary of the Royal Society who has 300 pound a year Salary, asked me to act for him for a month whilst he was absent & he would write "paid" opposite my name in the Society's books, I agreed to the arrangement.

On the 6th. March I attended in Command of the Second Rifles, and in company with the Artillery which dragged two of their brass guns up, we marched to the site of the new Waterworks where Sir Henry Young & his Staff laid the foundation stone of the Works under Royal Salute from our

Brass Guns & Rifles, then we had a grand lunch in a tent on the ground at the expense of the Corporation.

In the night Mr Hamilton the Supt. of Police brutally murdered his wife & when afterwards placed in Goal for the offence committed suicide.

On the 14th. March 1860 we all went down to the Steamer to bid good-bye to my sister Polly who with her husband Davidson & her child are going to Queensland, where he has received an appointment in the Survey Dept. at 600 pound a year, the steamer met with an accident to one of the men & put back and hour or so.

On the 16th. March our Company with the 1st. Rifles, Artillery, & Buckingham rifles went out to Mr. T.J.Lowe's place for a target match on a large scale, & where we made some good shooting, I killed a Gull on the water at 300 yards, after the match was over we had a splendid lunch in a large building where wine, ale & champagne flowed & merriment prevailed.

On 20th. March my wife & children & self with 150 Volunteers all went in the Monarch Steamer to New Norfolk, we were all in full uniform & were received on the landing by the Derwent Rifles & went through a number of Military Evolutions in the Square after which Dr Officer invited me & my wife to go to his house to lunch; We returned home by the Steamer in the evening & were overtaken by a tremendous thunderstorm of rain & lightning which just ceased as we reached the wharf.

On 9th May Dot was taken ill with measles, on her recovery on the 17th, Willie took them & on the 24th Henry took them & this was the Queens Birthday the Volunteers had a grand drill in the Queen's Domain, where we paraded the Volunteer Artillery with 3 Brass Guns & 300 Volunteers who went through marching in slow & quick pace, firing Royal Salute etc. in Military Style; We all then went to His Excellency’s Levee & the officers were presented.

Then our Company adjourned with the Derwent Rifles to a Marquee where we gave them a grand

lunch & then escorted them under arms to the steamer on their return to New Norfolk.

On 13th. June 1861 I was elected Paymaster of the Company of 2nd. Rifles & the Governor issued my Commission with rank & uniform of Captain; I managed by great practice to become a good rifle shot, for having been challenged by the Champion Rifle Shot of the Artillery, a Mr. A.B.Willis we fired a match at 2, 3 & 400 yards & I beat him by 4 points, we then fired at 350 yards & I again beat him by 2 points & a week afterwards gave him his revenge & beat him again by 3 points; pocketing his ten shillings & sixpence of which I spent 10 shillings in ale for the lookers on.

On 16th. July I fired in a match at Kangaroo Point at 700 & 900 yards & gained a point at 900.

In this month I published my Volunteer List & paid Davies 5 pound for printing it, Walsh & Sons took 100 Copies & I distributed the rest.

20th. July 1861, On the day Herbert whilst playing at School broke his leg above the ankle, Dr Doughty set his foot & he suffered long & much & all his birthday, 21st, was in great pain.

15th. August 1861. The new Parliament met today & after many divisions Dr Officer was elected Speaker.

17th. August, Attended the Ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Museum of the Royal Society in Macquarie St., which is to be erected on the site of my fathers first residence in the Colony.

October 1861, Willie was taken ill with Diarrhoea attended with fever, Dr. Agnew attended him. All this month busy preparing for Herbert’s departure for New Zealand where he is to be employed by his Uncle Robert Aitken.

On the 30th. November 1861, Governor Sir Henry Young & Lady Young held their farewell Levee at which my Wife & I attended & bid them good-bye; Sir Henry was kind enough to give me a handsome letter Testimonial.

5th. December 1861, Hugh & his Aunt Mima returned from Launceston & next morning I saw Herbert off in the Coach for Launceston on his way to join his Uncle.

On the 9th. December 1861 we had another field day at Mr. Lowe's to which we proceeded per Monarch Steamer & a grand Cold Collation afterwards at Mr. Lowe's expense.

On 10th. December 1861, we all attended to see Sir Harry Young off in the steamer for Melbourne, the day was fine & the Volunteers mustered strong in full uniform, whilst a number of girls in white strewed flowers in Lady Young’s path.

21st. December 1861, Dot went to her Grand Mothers at Launceston on a visit.

Christmas 1861 , We dined at home, there being only myself, Wife, Hugh, Willie, Henry & Baby; Herbert was on the great ocean on his way to New Zealand & Dot in Launceston; after dinner I took all hands up to the Valley near Dynnyrne where we all had tea 'alfresco', the weather being very fine & returned home about 7 p.m.

1st. January 1862 Went out with Wife & Children to examine Mary Vale which I had taken for 3 years from the 1st. February at 30 pound a year, and on 31st. January my wife & I dined at Government House with 16 others.

On 11th. March 1862, I was gazetted as Acting Clerk of the House of Assembly in the room of Mr. Henslowe who had temporarily taken Chester Wilmot's duties as Clerk of the Executive & Legislative Councils & I had moved out to Mary Vale on 20th. February.

During the week I held three inquests, one on a child at Ferntree Inn who had been killed by a sunstroke, another on Captain Clark & a third on a fire.

On 11th. April 1862 my Wife & Henry went to Launceston for a week or so & to bring home Dot & they returned home on 30th. April.

On 7th. June 1862 I resigned my Volunteer Commission, which the Governor accepted.

On 21st. August I paid my first half years premium on a Life Policy for 300 pound with Bonus & additions in the Liverpool, London & Globe Company.

On 17th September 1862 my Mother in law & Mima came to us from Launceston.

Christmas 1862 I dined at ‘Tolosa’ with all my family, servants included, there were:-

The Old Folks 2 Myself, Wife 6 children & two servants 10 Henry Hull, Wife child & servant 4 Downing & wife, 6 children & 2 servants 10 Mr. & Mrs Tremlett 2 Robt. Power 1

Total 29

1863 Early in January Mrs Tremlett took a house in Town. On March 7th my brother Henry's little boy died from Whooping Cough.

On 31st July I sent Hugh & Willie to the Hutchins School, boarding them with their Grand Mother Tremlett at 52 pound a year & the school fees were 24 pound more besides books. Mr. Henslowe informed me that he saw the Governor on the 19th. March 1864 (my birthday) & that the Governor had allowed him to retire on a pension & had nominated me to succeed him; Thus in my 31st. year of service I have reached the head of a Department in the Civil Service; I was only officially appointed on the 21st. April 1864 the day after Mr Henslowe retired from the Colony.

Maxwell Miller a Member of the House resigned and was appointed to succeed me as Assistant Clerk & Librarian.

On 22nd. July 1864 the House voted me 50 pound a year as a personal allowance in addition to my salary of 400 pound, paying me in their speeches some handsome compliments. In August I moved into Town having taken a house in

Wellington Crescent at 48 pound a year & Mrs Tremlett & her daughter also came to live with us, so we had a pretty large family to maintain.

On 15th. August 1864 little Gussie was born no doctor being present, only the Nurse Mrs Mann.

And now from this date I make notes of matters as they occur.

All 1864 & 1865 I remained at the Wellington Crescent House, where I succeeded in making a very pretty garden & got a hive of Bees from Rev. Mr. Simson, the house was close under the large Steam & Windmill the fans of which were very noisy & created a great draught, - A house in Macquarie Street was offered me at 40 pound & I removed there where I again made the wilderness into a productive & beautiful garden. This house was however badly drained & in winter the mud was dreadful & in the Summer the smell dangerous.

Our little daughter Edith Beatrice was born to us in January 1867 & grew a very beautiful & intelligent child until in her 10 month she was struck down with Diarrhoea & died on the 10th. December to our great grief; we buried her at Newtown alongside my First wife, the Rev. Mr Storie was the only stranger present with our own people at the Funeral.

At this time Prince Alfred came to visit Tasmania & I was selected to act as Secretary to his Reception Committee, I was invited on board the ' Galatea' & had lunch with the Prince & a number of the Elite, the Governor & Mrs Gore Brown being also present; The whole Colony was in a ferment about this Royal Visit, our Committee spent 7000 pound in the matter, Mr Kermode spent 1000 pound at Mona Vale & it is said that 2000 pound would not cover the cost of the affair. In May 1868 we had a little son born Dr. Smart & Mrs Mann being present, but he died the same evening about 14 hours old, I buried him at Newtown & as he had not been baptised I had prayers read over him at our house & then conveyed the little body to his last home, the Rev. Mr Storie accompanying us.

Herbert went to New Zealand in the month of November & obtained a situation on Mr Mannings Station.

In January 1869 we went over to Kangaroo Point & lived there for a month for change of Air & Scene and we had changed our residence from the sickly house in Macquarie St. to a larger one in Davey St., in this house another little son was born to us no doctor attended only Mrs Mann was present & Mrs Tremlett who had just returned from a visit she had been having with Mina to Victoria, she left Mina in Victoria in a situation as Governess.

We remained in the Davey St. house till the main Sewer under the house became dangerous & our two years lease being up we took a house in Fitzroy Crescent next door to that where I lived in 1842 and which is now in ruins & also close above the pretty house I lived in, in 1843 which was then No 14 Fitzroy Crescent, the same number as the house I now reside in.

In 1869 I insured my life for another 200 pounds in the Australian Mutual Co.

In 1870 Willie took the A.A. degree 1st. class & left school his education being completed, and Henry gained the Newcastle Scholarship of 12 pound for 2 years, Hugh is Library attendant in the Parliamentary Library having been appointed in 1868 at a pound a week salary.

I may here digress to extract from the "Courier" Newspaper an account of the 1st. King's Birth-Day Ball, which I attended as a Civil Servant.

I remember the night as if it was yesterday, I spent the afternoon at Commissary Boye's house where I dressed for the Ball, my jacket was dark blue & my trousers white duck with a white vest, when I arrived at Government House I stood in the doorway of the Drawing Room waiting for other boys to go in to countenance me & whilst so waiting Frederick Arthur the Aide de Comp (only two years older than myself) took me by the collar & trousers behind & gave me a flying leap into the room to the infinite amusement of Colonel Arthur & the ladies

around him, the Governor laughingly remarking on my unusual style of entering a Drawing room.

This is the description of the Ball supper

"The Ball & Supper at Government House on Thursday last, 24th. August 1834 in honour of the Kings Birthday was celebrated with unusual splendour, the enlarged arrangements keeping pace with the increasing population & growing importance of the Colony; Besides the numerous respectable arrivals since last year we were much pleased to see a large accession of the younger members of families who at least under the flattering circumstances of the lively scene promised not to fall below, if not to eclipse their progenitors in maintaining the fame & character of the Colony; after supper when the health’s of the King & Queen were given ( which were drunk with the strongest marks of loyalty & attachment several interesting & patriotic toasts were proposed as well by his Excellency as the other Gentlemen.

Among those given by His Excellency, which particularly pleased us, were " the Landed & commercial Interests of Van Diemen's Land & may the prosperity of each be daily promoted. May we regard our enemies as if they may one day become our friends, & may we regard our friends as though they may never become our enemies". The health of Mr Kemp was also given "as one of the most able advocates of our liberties" which was drank with loud acclamation; to which Mr Kemp replied in an appropriate speech & proposed in his turn the health of "Earl Grey" with Her Majesty's Ministers & may he never forget the principles that placed him in his situation. The evening passed off with the greatest cheerfulness & delight of all present.

His Excellency Colonel Arthur & Mrs Arthur & the other members of the family we were glad to see appeared to be in excellent health & naturally enjoyed the free and unrestrained amusement of their guests. A brilliant & very tastefully arranged illumination of variegated lamps all along the front of the building comprising a magnificent Crown over the entrance, the initials of His Majesty did much credit to Mr. Osborne the Contractor

but unfortunately the high & boisterous wind extinguished most of the lights; Before the lamps were removed however they were lighted up on Monday evening which proving to be calm allowed them to burn in all their beauty, being the first exhibition of the kind in this remote corner of the World; May it be often repeated from the same cause, celebrating Long Life & Health to our excellent King.

The year 1870 was one of interest to me in more ways than the success of Willie in taking his degree so creditably. Having in November 1869 applied to the Secretary of State in England for promotion I received copy of a Despatch in February 1870 in which Lord Granville enquired from the Sec. of State what my services had been, His Excellency Mr Du Cane replied favourably, and a reply came from Lord Granville in May telling me that my name had been noted for promotion as opportunities occurred, but that vacancies were few & candidates were numerous.

Then I set to work to get up a Pamphlet on Tasmania & the Mercury office printed it for me & the Government took 800 copies, I got nothing whatever for preparing it beyond a dozen copies.

Then I gave a lecture on the Aborigines of Tasmania at the Mechanics Institute & which pleased Graves the Lawyer so much that he had it printed as a Pamphlet & sent me many copies of it.

In August 1870 my little boy Berties was born, the Eleventh Child living & a very good specimen of the Hull's.

In 1871 I commenced a much larger Pamphlet with hints to Emigration & the Government approved of it so highly that Fletcher the Printer received orders for 20,000 copies at a cost of 135 pound of which he gave me 15 pound for drawing it up, during the remainder of the year whilst Parliament was not sitting I distributed these pamphlets to England, Scotland & Ireland & to India & the Australian Colonies & received letters of commendation from all quarters, the pamphlets brought me into collision with the Printer of my first pamphlet who

was annoyed that I did not employ him though his charge was double that of Fletcher & he only offered me 5 pound for my trouble. This man is a leading member of the House of Assembly & in October 1871 when our estimates were before the House he tried to cut off 50 pound from my Salary but failed because a majority of the House voted for me, - He however then moved that Hugh's salary be discontinued after 31st. December 1871 & in this he succeeded so that Hugh after four & half years of Government service was thrown out of his employment; But this was only temporary because he was again appointed Assistant Librarian at the same salary & he helped me through the Session of 1871 as Clerk of Office work, having Mr James Clarke as our Sessional Clerk Assistant.

We sent our Margaret to Mrs Garrett's school where she made good progress.

I took the Secretaryship of a Royal Commission on Charitable Institutions & earned 10 pound by my work in November.

In 1872 Willie was engaged by Henry Dobson as a clerk at 30 pound a year.

In this year I was fortunate enough to find Mrs Ward who at Bothwell in 1857 had bought 39 pounds worth of my furniture & gave her Bill for it & then had absconded, My Lawyer Henry Dobson made her pay up with costs amounting all together to 47 pounds for I had forgiven her the interest for 15 years.

In November 1872 our Little Florence Mima was born to us, No.12 of my Register.

Things went on during this year in the usual humdrum style, nothing particular to record; We still have good news of Herbert’s success, - & Hugh visited Victoria.

In 1873 I commenced a new & comprehensive Book on Tasmania & its products, - Hugh is still with Mr Manning at Wairaki, Henry & Arthur at High School at which Mr Harris had given Henry a Scholarship owing to the excellent position he held in the examinations for the Exhibition, Nettie

& Gussie at their Aunts School. Henry spent his holidays at Port Arthur with the Todds & whilst there injured his foot so as to lame him for the whole year. Matters went on quietly with us all, not much sickness & then only of a trivial character. In 1874 Wife & daughter Margaret went to the Country for change of air for a month & leaving me in charge of house & children it was gratifying to hear of all my old friends on the other side & to find them as kind as ever

On 5th. February 1875 obtained leave of absence from the Government on account of unsatisfactory state of my health, the work of preparing my new book " Tasmania as a field for Emigrants" which has occupied me from August 1873 to the present date, taking up all my leisure time, has been too great a strain & I need a change, so with some trouble I have succeeded in getting 21 days relaxation or partial relaxation from office work.

I want to make each day leave its mark, something attempted, something done, as Longfellows Village Blacksmith is said to have said.

On 6th. February I received the Official notification of leave for which I had applied on Dec. 3rd & in the afternoon rambled down to Sandy Bay & collected seaweeds; On Sunday in the afternoon heard the Rev. Mr Inglis from Ballarat preach from the words, "It was good when they said unto me let us go up to the House of the Lord". His sermon was such as we do not frequently hear & impressed me much; He is an Elocutionist of the first Calibre & has a good voice & a great command over it; The Church was well filled with an attentive congregation & a Minister such as Mr Inglis would soon fill the empty pews of St. Johns.

On Monday I went for a walk up McRobies Gully where I collected a number of pretty ferns & placed them between the leaves of a book; I also visited Stringy Bark Hill Stone Quarry & then climbed the pinnacle of Knocklofty where there is a cairn of stones, here was an extensive view of the City & harbour, also of Ralph's Bay, Norfolk Bay, & the Channel, looking North there was the Derwent sparkling in the sun & the line of Railway now

constructing could be traced along the Country by the small fires where the scrub was being burnt off; The further line of view was dimmed by the smoke from the bushfires but I could see Table Mountain, Spring Hill, Den Hill & Constitution Hill & also the high lands under cultivation about Green Ponds, now yellow with harvest; Returned home by Lansdowne Crescent past the Catholic Nunnery & Cathedral, a building which cost many thousands of pounds, of which Mr Roderick O'Connor gave 10,000 pounds & which is not so well or strongly built as could be desired.

The new Governor Mr Weld being a Catholic may possibly influence life & movement in the purses of the rich Catholics in Tasmania who however are very few in number, I also passed the Boys Home which seems to be an excellent institution in which the boys who would otherwise be larrikins are gradually trained to useful work, I also observed that a large portion of the East side of Stringy Bark Hill will never be of any use beyond being employed for stone quarries the soil being a mixture of sand & stone and altogether devoid of moisture & verdure.

Next day I started with the intention of going up to the Springs, but the heat was intense and after toiling up the Huon Road for a couple of miles passing the Mountain Lake and the Leslie Tollgate on my way I turned down off the road into the creek & after washing & drinking to cool myself I collected ferns & moss & seeds, I also captured a fresh water lobster nearly 6 inches long but subsequently lost him out of my pocket - I met no snakes, notwithstanding the heat & the neighbourhood of water being their favourite camping places, going down along the Creek I admired John Degraves’ well cultivated fields with the fat horses & cattle feeding on them; On visiting the Brewery I met Degraves who asked me to go in for refreshment & after half an hours chat with Spencer the Manager I went over the Building & saw the copper of boiling ale, with 3000 gallons in it, boiled by steam & then went down to the cellars & had a glass of good cold ale; Here they make 100 hogshead a week & this is not enough to supply their customers for the Hobart Town people have almost deserted the old rum cask & take the more

wholesome drink of ale; A wineglass of bad fiery rum costs sixpence whilst a working man can get two tumblers of ale for the same price; a small quantity of Degraves ale finds its way to favoured customers in Melbourne & Sydney.

FAMILY SKETCHES

My Father (George Hull) is the youngest son of Thomas Hull of Surrey in England and was born at Mitcham in Surrey in August 1790. In 1810 he was appointed Commissariat Clerk & went out to Spain & Portugal with the Army. In January 1814 he was appointed to be a Deputy Assistant Commissary General & shortly afterwards returned to England.

Of my fathers brothers I have heard very little, one was named Thomas and another James, of the latter we have a portrait in oils life size; My Fathers only sister Mary married the Rev. Mr Middleton & emigrated to Sydney where she died.

My Mother is the only daughter of Lieut. Hugh Munro late of the Royal Veterans Battalion & was born in February 1800, she had two brothers, one of who obtained the rank of captain in the 42nd. Highlanders and was sadly wounded at Talavera for which he received a pension of 100 pounds a year.

He was twice married, his son Hugh died Mate of an East Indian & his daughter Rosanna I do not know anything of, my mothers other brother was Robert Douglas who died of consumption at an early age; My grandfather Munro lived to 72 & my grandmother Munro to 76

My eldest sister (Georgina Rose) married Philip Emmett an officer of the Comptroller General's Dept. who left after 29 years service & retired on a pension of 145 pounds a year & went with his two sons & two daughters to Port Phillip where they now reside.

My brother Frederick married Miss Sophy Turrell the daughter of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy & who was some years older than himself; my brother was the first to commence manufacturing starch & blue in Tasmania; He had also a flour mill for some years; He then went into the service of the Local

Government & after a few years left it to go to Port Phillip, where he now keeps a store; He had a son who died of croup & a daughter Lucy.

My brother Robert was a clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s office in the Accountant of Stores Branch & was there for a few years & having taken cold he became consumptive and burst a blood vessel;- A Sea voyage was tried but to no purpose; He came home to die after about 6 months illness; He now lies in the Churchyard at Newtown, the only child of 13 that my parents lost in 43 years.

My sister Jane married a merchant named Frederick A. Downing, the son of Mrs Harriet Downing the author of several works & brother to Dr. Charles Downing also an author; Mr. Downing is a merchant in Hobart Town & is Justice of the Peace for the Territory. Their eldest son Albert died of scarlet fever and they now have 3 daughters & 2 sons.

My brother George was a clerk in the Government for some years & left the service to go to California on the breaking out of the Gold Diggings there, he was wrecked at the Sandwich Islands & lost everything; After some time he got to California where he got some gold & traded to the Oregon river where he was again wrecked & ruined; He travelled

over the Rockies, again dug for gold & from some wild part of the Country returned me 20 pounds which I had lent him. From California he came to the diggings at Melbourne where he still is; He is married & has a child.

My brother Temple after helping my father on the farm for some years went to Melbourne & then to California where he met with indifferent success, he also crossed the Rocky Mountains & tells wonderful stories of Indians & Grizzly Bears, he is at the Melbourne diggings & is still single.

My brother Henry entered the Government Service in 1847, he is still serving the Government; He is single.

My sister Annie married Henry Power ( the son of the late Surveyor General of Tasmania, Captain Power & who is a brother of the Countess of Blessington) he is now Bench Clerk at Campbelltown, they have 3 daughters.

My brother Douglas is a farmer at Richmond he married Miss Clothier & has one daughter Anna.

My brother John is a farmer at O'Briens Bridge, having been some years as clerk in the Comptrollers office; He married Miss Lester the only daughter of Mr. Lester of ‘The Grove’, O'Briens Bridge, they had twin sons but both died, they have one daughter.

My brother Alfred who has a considerable amount of artistic skill is apprenticed to a Land Surveyor & Architect.

My sister Polly is the only Miss Hull in the family & is at home at ‘Tolosa’.

LATER

George married Miss Roberts & has 4 sons & 4 daughters Henry married Miss Wilkinson & has 4 sons & 2 daughters Jas. Douglas married Miss Clothier & has 1 daughter

John Franklin married Miss Lester & has 2 sons & 3 daughters Alfred Arthur married Miss Barnes & has 2 sons & 1 daughter

HUGH MUNRO HULL was the author of the following publications.

1858 Hull's Guide to Tasmania, 1000 copies1859 Royal Kalendar & Guide for 1859 450 copies " An Alphabetical & Classified Abstract of the Acts of Council & Parliament of Tasmania. " The Experience of 40 years in Tasmania 100 copies " The Hobart Town Directory1860 The Royal Kalendar for 18601861 The Volunteers Army List for 18611863 An Index to the Acts of Parliament in force to 1863 1866 An index to the Acts in force to 1866 " Statistical Summary of Tasmania from 1816 - 18661869 Index to Statutes now in force " A Catalogue of the books in the Library " A Chronological list of Acts 1827 - 18691870 Tasmania in 1870; 2000 copies bought by the Government.1871 Hints to Emigrants 20,000 copies1872 A new Catalogue of the Parliamentary Library 1873 A New edition of the Statutes in force 1875 Tasmania as a Field for British Emigrants 20 copies only printed. 1876 Index to Statute Law.1829-31 Volunteer Clerk in the Ordinance Stores Branch of the Commissariat Dept. Launceston 1834 Clerk in the Government office, Salary £63 1841 Clerk 1st Class & Keeper of Records £200 p.a.1843 Clerk 1st Class to the Committee of Officers £501844 Statist of Tasmania (Honorary) Fellow of the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land.1849 Secretary Tasmanian Public Library1854-56 In charge of the Meteorological Observatory1856 Placed in Commission of Peace Assistant Police Magistrate for Hamilton & Bothwell Coroner for the Territory Deputy Chairman of Quarter Sessions Manager of the Hamilton & Bothwell Savings Banks, Honorary

Deputy Commissioner of Court of Requests Honorary1857 Gazetted as Police Magistrate £400 p.a. Returning Officer for Cumberland (Honorary) Chairman of Bothwell Road Trust Visiting Magistrate Green Ponds Assistant Clerk & Librarian to the House of Parliament £400 p.a.1858 Secretary to the Military Commission on Sanitation Secretary to the Royal Commission on the New Parliament Buildings1860 Quarter Master Sergeant of the Oddfellows Volunteer Rifles1862 Acting Clerk of the House of Assembly £300 p.a. Inter-Colonial Exhibition & Secretary to the Paris Exhibition Commission1867 Secretary to the Royal Commission on Education & the Queen's Asylum Secretary to the Committee for the reception of Prince Alfred Secretary to the Royal Commission on Railways 1868 Secretary to the Royal Commission on Distillation1870 Secretary to the Royal Commission on Charities1873 Elected Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute1875 Secretary to Royal Commission on Penal Discipline Secretary to the Philadelphia & Melbourne Exhibitions Royal Commission1876 Secretary to the Royal Commission on Lands & Works Secretary to the Tasmanian Rifle Association 1877 Member of the Local Schools Board1879 Secretary to Royal Commission on Sydney Exhibition1880 Secretary to the Melbourne Exhibition1881 Elected delegate of the Ethnological Institute of Paris Fellow of the Royal Society of Tasmania.