My Family History

Thomas Fincher

2012-01-09T17:10:00.000-08:00

Thomas Fincher seems to have died in the 1830s. He married Jemima Saxby at St Andrews, Holborn, London in 1800 and they had about 8 children. His daughter Ruth emigrated to Tasmania in 1834.

Jemima Saxby

2012-01-09T16:51:00.000-08:00

Jemima Saxby seems to have been born in Norfolk around 1781. She was baptised at Newton Flotman according to another descendant, her parents being Philip Saxby and Ann Mitchell. She married Thomas Fincher at St Andrews, Holborn, in London in February 1800. They had about 8 children, with my ancestor Ruth being born about midway in 1812.
Pigots Directory in 1839 lists her as a Shopkeeper at 2 Globe Terrace, Lower Road, Islington. She died in 1860, leaving a will.

Remembrance Day 11111111

2011-11-11T11:00:00.000-08:00

Remembering those relatives [siblings of my grandparents] who served in the Great War 1914-18.

Walter Patterson, second son and third child of Walter and Louie Patterson. Born 1893 and lost at Mouquet Farm in the first week of September 1916.

Harry Clark 1883-. Second son of Alexander and Elizabeth Clark. Lucky to survive when a bullet hit a cigarette tin in his chest pocket.

Alf Clark 1890-1966. Sixth son and my grandmother's twin brother. Wounded.
George Clark 1893-1935. Youngest son. He got a bullet in his lungs and died of TB.

Claude Cawthorn 1888-1975, youngest son of John Henry and Martha Cawthorn.

Duncan McRae 1892-1959, second son of Hector and Fanny McRae. Shot in the spine at Gallipoli, the day after the landing, he hauled himself around on sticks and became a noted yachtsman.
His cousin Jack Cook, who transferred to the British army, was awarded a Military Cross in September 1916, and was killed at Cortrai in Belgium in October 1918. He was the only son of Fanny's sister, Clara.

Robert Springham

2011-07-17T23:02:00.000-07:00

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (Revised Edition), the surname originated at Springham Farm, Hellingly, Sussex.

Robert and Mary Springham appear to have married circa 1760 and had three sons and a daughter between 1964 and 1771. They were living at the old artillery ground when their daughter Mary was christened at St Leonards, Shoreditch in 1768. In 1786, the Old Bailey records show that Mary's mother was living at Baker's Row, Whitechapel. It also mentions that she had breakfast at her brother's. There was no mention of her father.

David Keswick

2011-01-30T19:30:00.001-08:00

According to his daughter's death certificate in 1856, Frances Keswick's father David was a Captain RA. She was born in Whitehaven, Cumberland in 1792 and her mother's name was Mary.

James Milne 1667

2011-01-18T21:35:00.000-08:00

James Milne was baptised at Montrose, Scotland in May 1667. His son George, baptised in 1686 at Benholm, became a merchant in nearby Johnshaven.
James Milne's grandfather, also James Milne, born about 1590, was a merchant in Montrose. He died there in 1665, two years before his grandson of the same name was born.

George Milne

2011-01-18T21:27:00.000-08:00

George Milne, merchant of Johnshaven was baptised in 1686 at Benholm, a mile from Johnshaven, and 26 miles south of Aberdeen in Scotland. His son, James was born there in 1721 and continued there in the same occupation.
George's father James Milne came from Montrose.

James Milne 1721-1810

2011-01-18T21:21:00.000-08:00

James Milne, a merchant in Johnshaven, south of Aberdeen, was born in 1721, the son of George Milne, merchant of Johnshaven. He married Isabel in January 1752 at Garvock Church in Kincardineshire. They had six children, two of whom died young.
James died in 1810, leaving a detailed will. Isabel died seven years later.
Thankyou David L Milne, for sharing your research.

Philadelphia MARTIN

2009-11-30T00:28:00.000-08:00

Philadelphia MARTIN married Robert GOODSON in Chelmsford in 1759. It is possible that their families were neighbouring farmers near Sandon in Essex. Their daughter Sarah was born in 1760.
Research is continuing! At this stage we have no proof that she is the mother of our ancestor Sarah.

Robert GOODSON

2009-11-30T00:16:00.000-08:00

Robert GOODSON was one of five sons and three daughters of Joseph GOODSON, a farmer who leased Gibracks Farm near Sandon and Colchester is Essex. His brother John was a Quaker and it seems likely that the whole family was.
He was born around 1730 and married Philadelphia MARTIN at St Mary Magdalene in Chelmsford in 1759. He was baptised as an adult shortly before his marriage, suggesting that he came from a dissenting family.
They had one daughter, Sarah, that we know of so far.
At this stage we have no proof that this daughter is our ancestor Sarah.

Sarah GOODSON

2008-12-08T19:53:00.000-08:00

Some recent and thorough research by descendents has now found that a Sarah was baptised at Great Baddow in Essex in January 1760. Her parents were Robert GOODSON and Philadelphia MARTIN.
We do not however have any proof that this is our Sarah GOODSON who married Edward REYNOLDS at Chelmsford in November 1785. They had five children that we know of, four of whom accompanied her on board the female convict ship William Pitt, which arrived in Sydney in April 1806. The eldest son, Edward, remained in England. It now seems likely that they also had a daughter named Sarah baptised in Chelmsford Parish in October 1786.
As well as 120 female convicts, the free passengers on this ship included Gregory Blaxland and his family. It has been suggested that Sarah and perhaps her eldest daughter Mary Ann, were the two servants listed as travelling with the family.
Sarah must have had a liaison during the 220 day voyage as she had another daughter born in July 1806. According to our new research, she would have been 46.
In September 1808, Sarah Reynolds advertised in the Sydney Gazette -
CAUTION - It having been reported to me that Edward Reynolds of Hawkesbury, has tendered a security in his own behalf upon a House situated on the Rocks at Sydney, the same being my property, I do hereby warn all persons against accepting any security whatever thereupon, as the said Edward Reynolds has no title to, or property in the said house, which was purchased on my account, of and from one Michael Keaton, and so registered in due form.
Her two elder daughters married in Sydney in 1807 and 1812. Her son David sailed for Hobart Town in 1813. In 1814, Sarah auctioned her house at 58 Gloucester Street in The Rocks and returned to London with her two younger daughters on board the whaler Seringapatam, arriving at Gravesend in February 1815. Her elder son had married in 1812 so perhaps she returned to live with him.

Mary SPRINGHAM

2008-03-04T19:00:00.000-08:00

Mary was baptised at St Leonard's Shoreditch, parents Robert and Mary SPRINGHAM of ye old artillery ground, in 1768. She was a hawker when she was convicted of stealing in 1787 and transported on Lady Penrhyn, one of the ships of the First Fleet, which arrived in New South Wales in 1788.
At Port Jackson she formed a relationship with William HAMBLY a carpenter's crew on HMS Sirius and they had a son William in 1790. They accompanied him to Norfolk Island on Sirius when it was wrecked in 1790. William chose to remain when the crew was relieved and returned to England. He farmed his land grant of 60 acres, supplying the government. Mary probably cared for the two breeding sows, six hens and one cock which they were supplied with, while her husband cleared the land and erected a hut, with the help of two assigned convicts. They had a daughter Elizabeth in 1794, and another Mary who died in infancy in 1795. Mary died in 1796, so her daughter probably did not remember her.
There is an old headstone on Norfolk Island with initials MH and a cross, which may have been Mary's.

William HAMBLY

2008-03-04T18:44:00.000-08:00

Born about 1763 at Truro, Cornwall, William was a carpenter's crew on the naval ship Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, which arrived at Port Jackson in 1788. He formed a relationship with Mary SPRINGHAM and they had two surviving children, William and Elizabeth. They went to Norfolk Island on Sirius when it was shipwrecked in 1790 and he elected to remain as a settler when the crew was able to leave the following year. They married in November 1791 when Rev. Johnson visited the island. He obtained a grant of 60 acres at Little Cascade and farmed successfully. Mary died in 1796.
The family of three left Norfolk Island for Hobart Town in 1807 on HMS Porpoise and William received a grant of land at Sorell.

He remarried another First Fleeter in 1810, Jane MEECH, the widow of First Fleet convict William MOULTON, but she died in 1812.
His son William died in 1817, and he died at Sorell in 1835.
"There is no headstone to mark William Hambly's grave. He is recorded as the only First Fleeter to be buried at the old Graveyard on the edge of Pittwater at Sorell. It is said that many of the graves there were marked by wooden crosses and that these were lost in bushfires." [Trish Wood - the Convict and the Carpenter]

Elizabeth HAMBLY

2008-03-04T17:48:00.000-08:00

Born on Norfolk Island in 1794, she was the daughter of William HAMBLY and Mary SPRINGHAM. Her mother died in 1796. Her father was farming on 60 acres and she had a brother who was four years older. The family left for Hobart Town on HMS Porpoise in 1807 after the government decided to abandon the Norfolk Island settlement.
Elizabeth married John DUNCOMBE in Hobart Town in 1808 and they had three daughters. After he was sent to Sydney in 1819, she formed a new relationship with William STEER and had five more children. They moved to Launceston around 1825, leaving her DUNCOMBE daughters at Pittwater, where they all married. They returned to Sorell around 1838. She died there in 1853.
For more information see Trish Wood's book The Convict and the Carpenter.

John DUNCOMBE

2008-03-04T17:28:00.000-08:00

Perhaps born in London in 1772, the son of Edward and Mary DUNCOMB, John DUNCOMBE was convicted of stealing at the Old Bailey in 1787 and transported on Albemarle, one of the Third Fleet ships, arriving in Sydney in 1791. He was transferred to Norfolk Island on Atlantic the following month and remained there as a carpenter after his sentence expired.
He left for the Derwent with the HAMBLY family, on HMS Porpoise in 1807 and married Elizabeth HAMBLY in Hobart the following year. Neither was able to sign their name. They had three daughters. He built mills with William HAMBLY and the family moved to their 60 acre land grant at Pittwater in 1815.
Unfortunately John DUNCOMBE became deranged and was sent to an asylum in Sydney in 1819. he died in Sydney in 1835.

Mary DUNCOMBE

2008-03-04T17:15:00.000-08:00

Mary was born in Hobart Town in 1813, the second of three daughters of John DUNCOMBE and Elizabeth HAMBLY. Around 1815 the family moved to a farm at Pittwater. Her father was sent to Sydney due to mental illness in 1819 and her mother formed a new relationship. Mary and her sisters were left, presumably with her grandfather William HAMBLY, when her mother moved to northern Tasmania in 1825.
Mary married Charles RICHARDSON, at Pittwater, in 1827. I wonder if the facts that they married in the schoolhouse and all her children learned to read and write, are connected? Both Mary and her sister were able to sign their names.
Mary and Charles lived on the HAMBLY farm and raised eleven children. Her grandfather died in 1835 and left half his farm at Sorell Rivulet to her. In her will she left it to her husband for life, then her youngest son. She died in 1874 aged 61.

Charles RICHARDSON

2008-03-04T16:56:00.000-08:00

Charles RICHARDSON's arrival in Van Diemen's land has not been established but Trish Wood, who researched and wrote The Convict and the Carpenter, concluded that he was probably Charles MOORE who was convicted at Aylesbury in 1816 and transported to Port Jackson on Almorah then VDL by Pilot in 1817. He was an illiterate labourer and received a ticket of leave in 1823.
He married Mary DUNCOMBE at Pittwater in 1827. He was a bout 29 and she was 13.
They lived on the property at Sorell which had belonged to her uncle William HAMBLY Jnr. and had six daughters and five sons. When her grandfather William HAMBLY died in 1835, he left her half his farm at Sorell Rivulet, and they built a small house on it. All the children learnt to read and write.
Charles died at Sorell in 1875, a year after his wife, who left the farm to him for life, then to her youngest son.

Emily RICHARDSON

2008-03-04T16:40:00.000-08:00

Born in 1843 at Sorell, Tasmania, Emily was the seventh child and fourth daughter of Charles RICHARDSON and Mary DUNCOMBE. She married George PATTERSON at Sorell in 1860. They had six children, of whom three sons survived infancy.

The family moved across the Derwent to Southport about 1876 and later took up land at Snake Plains. Her husband died in 1890 and she remarried in 1894, a widower and friend of the family, William SKINNER who was 21 years younger than her. Bill was born a couple of months after Emily's first [deceased] child. They continued to live at Snake Plains near her family. Emily was a midwife and kept in touch with her family with frequent letters. She also had a lovely garden. She died in 1925, age 82.

Henry Mylam COCKERILL

2008-03-01T16:38:00.000-08:00

Born in London in 1806, Henry was the second son of Edward COCKERILL and Susanna BEELS. He had the benefit of an education but was convicted of stealing in 1823 and transported to Hobart Town on Phoenix in 1824. He was appointed to the Lieutenant-Governor's or Colonial Secretary's office as a clerk with a salary but was sentenced to 3 years hard labour at Macquarie Harbour in 1827 when he was caught altering the sentence of another convict. He was fortunate to have been useful as assistant clerk in the Commandant's Office there and left there for Bothwell in 1829 where he was a clerk in the police office.
By 1831 he was settling down, with some land, a garden and a house commenced. In 1832 he sought permission to marry, but already some in Bothwell were objecting to him. He married Eliza VINCENT that year and received his conditional pardon in 1836 so he was able to leave his position as a clerk and become licensee of his father-in-law's inn. They had 15 children with only two dying as children.
In 1841 Bothwell was rocked by an attempt to rescind his recently approved membership of the Bothwell Literary Society. By 1843 he was seeking to give up innkeeping and obtain a position with the government, with an eye to the future of his children.
The family moved to the New Norfolk area in 1851 and may have tried farming. They were living at the Cawthorn property Arundel at Macquarie Plains in 1864 when his wife died.
Eighteen months later, he remarried to Alicia CORRIGAN, the widow of Dr Kenneth MaCLEAY who had been at Bothwell in 1848.
Henry died in New Town in 1873 and was buried at Cornelian Bay.
Janet Miller, one of his New Zealand descendants, wrote a COCKERILL family history in 1994.

Eliza VINCENT

2008-03-01T16:24:00.000-08:00

Born in 1816, the fifth child of John VINCENT and Susannah RIVERS, she arrived in Hobart Town with her family from London in 1823. In 1832 she married Henry Mylam COCKERILL. He was granted a licence for the Castle Inn, built by her father, from October 1836 to 1846.
Life with Henry was not dull as some people in Bothwell objected to his convict origins. They moved to the New Norfolk area in 1851.
They had 15 children so it is perhaps not surprising that she died in 1864 at 47 of a liver complaint. They were living at the Cawthorn property, Arundel, at Macquarie Plains at the time.

Penelope PITT

2008-02-29T22:59:00.000-08:00

- a possible ancestor - I have not done this research but it is a good story.
Penelope Pitt born 23 Feb, 1749 1st married to Edward, Earl Ligonier on 16 Dec, 1766, at the British Embassy in Paris.
She was divorced by Act of Parliament 7 Nov, 1771 (The cause was her adultery with Vittorio Amadeo, the well-known Count Alfieri with whom the Viscount accordingly fought a duel, 7 May, 1771, in the Green Park, with a sword which he borrowed from a cutler in Bond Street.
Later she had an intrigue with a postilion (man riding one of a pair of horses drawing a carriage). I wonder if this is my ancestor?
Her daughter[source?] Susannah RIVERS was born about 1779.

Penelope PITT was the eldest child of George PITT, Esq of Strathfieldsaye, MP for the Co Dorset. A diplomatist of the first grade, who was elevated to the peerage of Great Britain, 20 May, 1776, by the title of Baron Rivers of Strathfieldsaye. His Lordship obtained a second patent, 1 April, 1802, creating him Baron Rivers of Sudeley Castle, Co Gloucester. George PITT died in 1803 and was succeeded by Penelope's brother, one of the Lords of the bedchamber, who died unmarried in 1828.

Susannah RIVERS

2008-02-29T22:31:00.000-08:00

Susannah was born around 1779 and it has been suggested that her parentage related to the PITT family. She married John VINCENT in about 1803 and their first child was born at Gloucester in 1804. They emigrated with 8 children to Hobart Town in 1823 as free settlers with £869 in assets.
The Rivers name has been passed down through the descendants, including my grandfather Charles Frederick Rivers CAWTHORN, but no fortune or title accompanied it. Perhaps her share was a passage to the other side of the world with her family?
She had nine children, the youngest one being born in Tasmania.
She died at Green Ponds in 1860.

John VINCENT

2008-02-29T22:17:00.000-08:00

Born about 1779, possibly near Callington in Cornwall, John VINCENT married Susannah RIVERS around 1803. Their first child was born in Gloucester in 1804.
They had eight children when they arrived in Hobart Town on Elizabeth in 1823 as free settlers from London. He was granted a town allotment in Bridge Street and set up trade as a builder.
In ensuing years he applied for land grants and built at houses at Browns River and Sorell Springs, the Castle Inn at Bothwell, the London Inn at Spring Hill and the Callington Mill at Oatlands.
He died at Green Ponds in 1857.

David MILNE

2008-02-29T22:06:00.000-08:00

The son of James and Isabel MILNE, he was baptised at Benholm, Kincardineshire, Scotland in 1756. He moved to London with his younger brother George in the early 1780s and they became merchants.
He was elected as a member of Lloyds of London in 1797 and listed in the London Directory of 1808 as a merchant and insurance broker of Copthall Court.
He and his wife Sarah had ten children, the eldest dying in infancy in 1792. The family moved across the Thames to St Pauls Place, Walworth after the new London bridge was built at the turn of the century. The London and County Directory for 1811 listed him at Wandsworth Common.
David Milne was a witness at his daughter Maria's wedding in 1814. His business address from 1821 was 37 Old Broad Street, the same as his brother George, who was also a merchant and underwriter member of Lloyds.
David Milne died before 1836. His wife died in 1851 and was buried at St Peter, Walworth.
Thankyou David L Milne for sharing your research.

Frances FORD

2008-02-29T21:50:00.000-08:00

Born at Littlehampton in Sussex in 1754. Her parents were Richard FORD, a mariner possibly from Findon, and Mary.
She married Peter LEGGATT at Steyning, in Sussex in 1776. He had been previously married.
She later married John CAWTHORN around 1785 and they had three children, one daughter dying in infancy.
Her daughter Frances emigrated to Van Diemen's Land on Adamante in 1816 with her husband Richard BARKER and 3 sons as free settlers.
The following year, Frances arrived in Hobart Town on Cochin with Lieutenant-Governor SORELL and his children. They had travelled to Port Jackson on Sir William Bensley.
In 1818, her son John Henry CAWTHORN, and her nephew John FORD also arrived as free settlers.
She received a grant of 200 acres of land on the southern side of the Derwent, upstream from Bridgewater, on which Richard Barker built a two-story brick cottage. It later became an inn, then a haunted house and was demolished around 1940.
Frances died at Macquarie Plains in 1831 and was buried at New Norfolk.

Maria MILNE

2008-02-29T21:27:00.000-08:00

Maria was the eldest daughter of David MILNE, an insurance underwriter with Lloyds of London, and his wife Sarah. She was born in London in 1792 and was baptised in the Scots Church.
She married John Henry CAWTHORN in 1814. Their first daughter was born around this time and died soon after.

John Henry CAWTHORN

2008-02-29T21:11:00.000-08:00

The son of John CAWTHORN, a spectacle maker in London, and his wife Frances FORD, he was possibly born at Walthamstowe in Essex in 1786.
He married Maria MILNE in 1814.
They emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1818 on Lord Melville with their infant son, his cousin John FORD and her brother George MILNE.
He received a grant of 1000 acres at Macquarie Plains and became a farmer, naming his property Arundel, after his mother's family location.
They had seven children, but the eldest died in England and two sons also died in infancy.
John Henry CAWTHORN was a successful settler but he was accidentally killed in 1850 when his gun discharged as he was climbing through a hedge to kill some birds in his grain crop. He did not leave a Will.
He did however leave a heavily mortgaged property, as the 1840s had been poor years. It passed to his only surviving son, who died six months later, leaving it to his wife Ruth, as his sole beneficiary and executor.

Martha Ann COCKERILL

2008-02-29T20:59:00.000-08:00

Born at Bothwell in Tasmania in 1841, Martha was the second daughter of Henry Mylam COCKERILL and Eliza VINCENT.

The family moved to New Norfolk in 1851 and were living at the Cawthorn property Arundel in 1864 when her mother died.

She married John Henry CAWTHORN in 1870. They had 10 children.
They moved from Macquarie Plains to Wattle Grove in 1879. Her older brother moved his family to Diamond Hill near Cygnet, perhaps also around that time.

High Arundel c. 1916

Martha died in 1925 and is buried at St Marks Anglican Church in Cygnet.

Henry David CAWTHORN

2008-02-29T20:51:00.000-08:00

Henry David CAWTHORN was the eldest, and only surviving son, of John Henry CAWTHORN and Maria MILNE. He was born in London in 1816 and emigrated in 1818 with his parents, maternal uncle George MILNE and his father's cousin John FORD. They travelled on a convict ship, Lord Melville to Van Diemen's Land where his father obtained a large grant of land on the Derwent River at Macquarie Plains. Initially they probably lived at New Norfolk where they had taken over the ferry. They later moved up river to their property Arundel, adjacent to his cousins, the Barkers.
In 1839, David married Ruth FINCHER and they had six children, all born at Macquarie Plains and christened at St Marys Gretna.
In 1850, nine months after his father died, David died from cancer, leaving his wife to manage a heavily mortgaged property and a family of small children. At some point her mother-in-law moved next door to live with her daughter at the Barker property.

John Henry CAWTHORN

2008-02-29T20:49:00.000-08:00

Born in 1840 at New Norfolk, he was the eldest of three sons of Henry David CAWTHORN and Ruth FINCHER. His father died in 1850, the same year as the accidental death of his grandfather, on whose original grant, Arundel, they lived.
John Henry married Martha Ann COCKERILL in 1870. They had 10 children, the first 6 being born at Arundel. They moved to High Arundel at Wattle Grove above the Huon River in 1879, where they grew small fruits and a general orchard.
Martha died in 1925 and John Henry in 1929 (in his 90th year).

Ruth FINCHER

2008-02-29T20:27:00.000-08:00

Born in London about 1814, her parents were Thomas FINCHER and Jemima SAXBY. Her brothers and sister lived at Islington and it seems likely that she was living there when she was recruited for one of the first groups of free emigrant women to the Australian colonies in the 1830s.
Unfortunately, the Princess Royal women turned out to be a generally bad lot from the streets of London and the respectable few among them , including Ruth, must have had a trying time. The ship ran aground in Frederick Henry Bay when it arrived in 1832 and there was a scramble to secure the cargo of 200 women.
Ruth was employed as a governess by the Lewis family of Pittwater, according to family legend. She married Henry David CAWTHORN, the only surviving son of a free settler, at New Norfolk in 1839. They lived at the family property Arundel, at Macquarie Plains, on the Derwent.
They had six children, but her husband died shortly before the last child was born in 1850.
Ruth remarried William Henry PRICE in 1853. She died in 1876 and is buried at St Mary's at Gretna.

Mary HINGERTY

2008-02-29T20:00:00.000-08:00

Mary probably came from Tipperary in Ireland. Born about 1812, she signed up as an assisted immigrant in 1834. By this time in the history of the Australian colonies, there was a desperate shortage of women so they introduced schemes to bring out some sober industrious, hard working women ... for servants in settlers families and for wives to the lower ranks of life. She was 22 year old laundress when she arrived in Hobart Town from London on Sarah in 1835 and went to work for Mrs Johnson.
Eight months later, she married George PATTERSON, a baker in Hobart Town. They had two children, George, born in 1836 and Victoria Mary Ann, born in 1839.
Shortly after their daughter was born, he was charged with gross misconduct and neglect of duty and sentenced to dismissal from the police and six months hard labour. He was sent to Spring Hill and was accidentally killed near Avoca in November 1839.
In 1841 Mary married William LUCAS, a farm servant, aged 30, at Swansea. She signed with a cross. The following year, her daughter was baptised by the visiting Catholic priest at Brighton.
Mary died of consumption in Hobart in 1850.
Her husband, a butcher, remarried the following year and moved to Victoria a couple of years later.
Her daughter married in Melbourne in 1855.

George PATTERSON

2008-02-27T22:51:00.000-08:00

Born in Edinburgh about 1805, he may have been the son of William PATERSON, a tailor and Hellen DICKSON, who also baptised a son William at St Cuthbert's Edinburgh in 1812.
He was a baker living in South Fould Close on High Street when he was convicted of stealing in 1832 and arrived in Hobart Town on Surrey (3) in 1833.
He married Mary HINGERTY in Hobart in 1835 and they had two children.
He died in an accident near Avoca in 1839.

George PATTERSON

2008-02-27T22:34:00.000-08:00

Born in 1836 in Hobart Town, he was the son of a convict George PATTERSON and a free immigrant Mary HINGERTY. He had an infant sister when his father was killed in an accident in 1839. Their mother remarried in 1841 to George LUCAS, but she died in Hobart in 1850. George had probably gone out to work by then. He was working as a sawyer in the Sorell area , where he married Emily RICHARDSON in 1860 at Sorell. They were living at Cherry Tree Opening on land belonging to William HODGSON when their first children were born. Their first child, who died, in infancy was named after his sister who had moved to Victoria. They had six children but three died.
They later moved to Midway Point where he was employed in the construction of the Sorell causeway, then they moved across the Derwent to Southport in about 1876. Much of the timber for the causeway came from here. He later bought about 208 acres of land at Snake Plains and his three surviving sons worked as sawmillers.
He died in 1890 and was buried near his house.

Walter Charles PATTERSON

2008-02-27T22:26:00.000-08:00

Born in 1862 at Sorell in Tasmania, Walter was the oldest surviving child of George PATTERSON and Emily RICHARDSON. The family moved across the Derwent to Southport around 1876 and Walter probably followed his father into sawmilling. His father took up land at Snake Plains and Walter built a house on his own land across the road from his parents. In those days it was the main road to Dover.

He married Louisa DENHOLM at Bothwell in 1889. They had eleven children.
He worked as a saw doctor at the Stanmore mill and gradually planted an apple orchard.

He died in 1942 and is buried at Surges Bay.

Sarah Louisa Maria DENHOLM

2008-02-27T21:06:00.000-08:00

My great-grandmother Louisa was born in Bothwell, Tasmania, in 1867. I have vague memories of her as she died in 1954. Her parents were George DENHOLM, a farmer, who died when she was 16, and Mary Ann STEVENS, whose father was a builder and carpenter in Bothwell.
Louisa was the second of eight children. She married Walter PATTERSON of Snake Plains in 1889. They had eleven children, all of whom survived to adulthood. Unfortunately their second son, Walter was lost in France in 1916.

Elizabeth SCHUMACK

2008-02-27T03:48:00.000-08:00

Born around 1806 if her age at death is correct, I have at last found the origins of this ancestor. Her obituary tells us that she came to Van Diemen's Land with Captain Langdon in about1837. She was born at Martock, not far north of Montacute in Somerset. She married Samuel GEARD in 1837 in Bothwell, the witnesses being George and Martha CHIVERS. Samuel died in 1841, leaving her with a small son. She remarried John STEVENS in 1842 and had three more children.

Launceston Examiner Thursday 6 July 1893 page 4

A VERY old colonist has recently joined the majority in the person of Mrs John Stevens, of Bothwell, who passed away in her sleep on the 27th ult., at the age of 87. The deceased lady arrived in the colony with Captain Langdon and family 55 years ago, and at once took up her residence in Bothwell. The best years of her life she devoted to the sick and suffering, and any hour, day or night, in good, bad, or in different health, the call upon the " Good Samaritan" was never once in vain. Wonderfully gifted by nature with skill in the treatment of many ailments, in a district where medical aid was difficult to obtain, many trying times had been her lot. During her later years she had been a martyr to rheumatism, no doubt contracted by exposure to all weathers on her missions of mercy. But now her reward has come, for the Master hae said, " Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord, thou good and faithful servant." The deceased lady was a native of Martock, England, and was of a long- lived family. Her father died at the age of 87, her mother 98, her brother (accidentally killed) 72, her sister 68, making their united ages 412 years.

John STEVENS

2008-02-27T03:41:00.000-08:00

Born about 1812 if his age at death is correct, I have not been able to find the origins of this ancestor. So he is probably not a convict. He was a carpenter and builder and may have come to Bothwell with a contingent of workers accompanying a wealthy settler.
He married a widow, Elizabeth GEARD nee Schumack, in 1842 and they had three children.
In 1867 he built the Sunday School which is now used by the CWA in Bothwell.
He died in 1890.

The Mercury Tuesday 22 July 1890 p 3 Article

TASMANIAN TELEGRAMS

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

SUICIDE AT BOTHWELL

BOTHWELL, MONDAY.

John Stevens, a very old and respected resident of Bothwell, died this morning from the effects of a self-inflicted wound in his throat, which he most determinedly inflicted with a razor on Friday last. Deceased had been drinking rather heavily of late, which is said to be the cause of his committing so rash on act. Mr Coroner Langdon will hold an inquest to-morrow.

Until we see the inquest, we can only speculate on what drove him to this end? Perhaps he was suffering from a painful terminal illness?

Mary Ann STEVENS

2008-02-27T03:29:00.000-08:00

Born at Bothwell in 1843. Her parents were John STEVENS , a carpenter, and Elizabeth SCHUMACK. She married George DENHOLM, the younger, in 1863 at her father's house in Elizabeth Street, Bothwell. They had eight children, but her husband died in 1884 when her youngest was only 4 years old. She lived in a house in Elizabeth Street, on land originally granted to her father, until her death in 1912. Her parents died in 1890 and 1893, so I hope they helped each other. Her youngest daughter was widowed in 1904 and lived with her mother and two small children.

George DENHOLM II

2008-02-27T03:16:00.000-08:00

Born in 1838, George was the second son of George DENHOLM and Sarah BARNES. He worked as a farm overseer and married Mary Ann STEVENS in Bothwell in 1863. They had eight children.
George died in 1884, a few weeks before his father. His youngest son was only four years old when he died. Two of the older daughters became domestic servants.

Sarah BARNES

2008-02-27T03:07:00.000-08:00

Born in 1813 at Whitchurch in Shropshire, Sarah was convicted of larceny in the Shrewsbury market place and transported to Hobart Town on Borneo in 1828. She was notable as the youngest of 1675 convict women transported to VDL from 1803 to 1829. Her parents were Jonathan BARNES, a day labourer, and Mary.
She was assigned to Bothwell in 1834 and received her ticket of leave in 1835, marrying George DENHOLM in 1836. They had ten children - fitting the purpose for which she was transported.
She died in 1873 at her daughter's home near Oatlands.

George DENHOLM

2008-02-27T02:59:00.000-08:00

Born in 1808 at Currie in Scotland, he was the eldest son of Alexander DENHOLM and Margaret CHRISTIE. He was left behind at Currie with his two brothers when their parents went to Van Diemen's land in 1822, but they followed on Wanstead in 1828.
George married Sarah BARNES in 1836 when he was probably working with his father at Currie Banks. He later leased large areas for grazing sheep.
They had ten children. He died at Bothwell in 1884.

Margaret CHRISTIE

2008-02-27T02:53:00.000-08:00

Born in 1785 in North Leith, Scotland, she married Alexander DENHOLM in 1807 at Currie. They had three sons and a daughter Janet who died in infancy. She decided to accompany her husband to Van Diemen's Land in 1822, but the sons were left behind when their sponsors withdrew. They followed five years later. Another son was born in 1825.
She died in 1838.

Alexander DENHOLM

2008-02-27T02:34:00.000-08:00

Born in Edinburgh or nearby Currie in Scotland around 1781. He appears to have been the youngest of seven children of George DENHOLM and Mary GLASGOW who married at Currie in 1767. His father died there in 1786.
Alexander married Margaret CHRISTIE at Currie in 1807 and they had 4 children whom they left behind when they emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1822 on Urania. Another son was born in 1825.
He was a wheelwright and carpenter and they were among the earliest settlers at Bothwell in 1824.
His three sons came from Scotland in 1828.
He received a 320 acre grant at Black Marsh in 1829 which he called Currie Banks.
He died in 1859.
see The Dwellers at the Farm in the Valley by Bernard Denholm 1979 for a history of the Denholm family.

This may be a picture of his son Alexander.

Thomas CLARK and Ann WALCH

2008-02-26T21:27:00.000-08:00

Born in Enborne, Berkshire in 1821, Thomas was a farm labourer. His parents were James CLARK and Sarah MUNDAY.
He married Ann WALCH, the daughter of Walter WALCH, a bailiff, at Enborne in 1841. They were both unable to sign their names. They had ten children and their youngest son, who emigrated to Tasmania, was my great grandfather.
Thomas died at Enborne in 1895. His wife died in 1899 at Crockham Heath near Enborne.
Ann WALCH was born in Enfield, Middlesex in 1821.

Daniel and Sarah Stanfield

2008-02-26T20:44:00.000-08:00

Daniel and Sarah Stanfield had three sons and three daughters baptised at St John the Baptist Church at Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England between 1755 and 1769; the youngest son, Daniel, in 1766. Their names, Thomas, William, Sarah, Mary and Ann correspond with those of our ancestor Daniel Stanfield, and his age also fits in with this family.
Although I have not seen any source which directly connects him to this family, it seems generally accepted that this is so.

Richard WIGMORE

2008-02-25T21:29:00.000-08:00

Born in Bucklebury in Berkshire in 1826, his mother Sarah MAY was a widow when she married his father, also named Richard, in 1825. He had also been previously married and they seem to have been elderly parents with some older half-siblings in the area. She was about 50 years old when he was born.
Richard married Elizabeth Bullock at Windsor in 1849. They had five children, moving from Bucklebury to Reading between 1852 and 1856.
His wife died in 1869 and he remarried, Elizabeth Hambleton, who was similar age to his eldest daughter, in 1873, and had another four children. She died in 1898 and he died in 1909.
He was my great-great grandfather.

Elizabeth Mary WIGMORE

2008-02-25T21:20:00.000-08:00

Born in Reading in Berkshire in 1856. Her father Richard WIGMORE was a wheelwright/coach painter. Her mother Elizabeth BULLOCK died when she was young as her father remarried in 1873. It seems likely that Elizabeth was in service near Enborne when she met her husband Alexander CLARK. They married in Reading in 1877 and had four children born in Enborne, before emigrating to Tasmania where another six were born.

Her husband died in 1918 and Elizabeth lived until 1945. Her house at Glendevie housed the local Post Office, boarded the local teacher and church services were also held there.

Alexander CLARK

2008-02-25T21:04:00.001-08:00

Born in the village of Enborne in Berkshire in 1854. He was the fourth son and one of ten children of Thomas CLARK and Ann WALCH.
He was a farm labourer and probably met his wife Elizabeth Mary WIGMORE when she was working in service nearby.

They married in 1877 in Reading and went to Tasmania in 1884 as assisted immigrants on SS Nurjahan. He was assigned to HB Evans' sawmill at Surges Bay near Geeveston and acquired land for a farm while working for the road trust. Four children were born in Enborne, then another six in Tasmania.
He represented Surges Bay in the first Esperance Municipal Council elected in 1907.
He died in 1918 and is buried at Surges Bay.

Helen CLARK

2008-02-25T20:58:00.000-08:00

Born in 1890 at Snake Plains [now Glendevie], Nellie was the ninth child and youngest daughter of Alexander Clark and Elizabeth Wigmore.

She married George Patterson, from down the road, in 1915, three years before her father died. Her mother may have hoped that she would care for her, but Nellie moved to Hobart and raised four children, before dying prematurely in 1936. She was buried at Cornelian Bay.

William George PATTERSON

2008-02-25T20:40:00.000-08:00

Born 1890 at Snake Plains, Tasmania, he was the eldest of eleven children of Walter PATTERSON and Louisa DENHOLM.

He went to work at the Stanmore sawmill with his father when he was 12 and later travelled to New Zealand and New South Wales with friends before returning to marry their sister Helen CLARK in 1915. He joined the police force then worked his way up in the State Public Service, becoming Director of the State Social Services Department before retiring in 1955.
They had 3 sons and a daughter.

Nellie died in 1036 and he remarried in 1946 to Flo Contencin.
George died in 1973 and is buried with Nellie at Cornelian Bay.

Alice MANSFIELD

2008-02-25T20:18:00.000-08:00

Born at Barkway in Hertfordshire, England in 1754. She married Thomas Harmsworth there in 1780. He was a marine private. In 1787 they sailed with their two children from Portsmouth in Prince of Wales, arriving at Sydney Cove in 1788. A second son was born at sea in December 1787. A month after their arrival, their three year old son died of a fever, then her husband died in April.
Alice married another marine, Daniel Stanfield and had six more children. They settled on Norfolk Island then were transferred to Hobart Town in 1808.
She died in 1830.

Elizabeth BULLOCK

2008-02-25T03:55:00.000-08:00

Elizabeth Bullock was born in Windsor, Berkshire around 1826. According to a tree submitted to the Wigmore mailing list in December 2004, her father was Thomas Bullock and she married on 6 February 1849 in The Parish Church, New Windsor, the witnesses being Thomas Bullock and Hannah Maria Lewis.
To date, the only information sources I have for her are the 1851 census, when she was living with her husband Richard Wigmore, their one year old daughter and his widowed mother Sarah at Biles Green near Bucklebury in Berkshire. They had a son, Richard, born in Bucklebury in 1852, then they moved to Reading where their third child, my great-grandmother Elizabeth Mary, was born in 1856 at 18 Somers Town, Reading. I have her birth certificate.
Her next child, Harriet, died in infancy in 1859 and her last child Louisa, was born about 1861.
It seems that Elizabeth Bullock died in 1869.

Frances KESWICK

2008-02-24T21:11:00.000-08:00

Frances Keswick was born in Whitehaven in Cumberland in 1792. Her death certificate says that her parents were David and Mary Keswick. She married Edward HODGSON when she was nineteen years old and had borne him seven children, two of whom had died in infancy, when he was convicted and transported in 1827.
In August 1829, he applied for his wife and family to join him in Van Diemen's Land. It was eighteen months after he had arrived and two years after he had been convicted for uttering forged notes.On 3 May 1830, the Secretary of State's Office at Whitehall, sent a letter to Rev. Stanley at the Rectory House in Cumberland notifiying him that the family should be on board the ship Mellish at Woolwich on or before the 15th May, cleanly and properly clothed and with additional articles of wearing apparel for the voyage. The letter arrived on the afternoon of the 7th of May.
Rev. Stanley duly dispatched Frances and her five children aged from 3 to 15 years and they arrived in time for the ship's departure. They travelled on board with 115 female convicts, 13 other free women [convict wives] and 40 more children, arriving in Hobart four months later.
Her husband served as an overseer on the roads and may well have been transported for his road building experience. Once he received his full pardon in 1841, it seems likely that the family moved to Victoria.
Frances died from asthma at Belfast [Port Fairy] in 1856. She was living with her daughters, one of whom had married a solicitor. She was a widow but all five children were still living.

Daniel STANFIELD

2008-02-24T20:28:00.000-08:00

First Fleet marine, probably born at Peterborough, England in 1766. Married Alice MANSFIELD, widow of a fellow marine Thomas Harmsworth, in Sydney Town in 1791.
They had five children, and settled on Norfolk Island, later being relocated to the Derwent on the City of Edinburgh in 1808.
They farmed at Green Point near Bridgewater. This family has been well documented.
Daniel died in 1826 and was buried at St David's in Hobart.

The Alice Stanfield plaque attached by the Fellowship of First Fleeters incorrectly says that Alice was nee [born] Harmsworth, the name of her first husband.

see
Australia Dictionary of Biography
The Founders of Australia by Mollie Gillen 1989
The Stanfield Saga by Doug V Webster 1991
Our Stanfield Inheritance by Lorna M Stanfield 1992
De Stansfield~Stansfield~Stanfield 1788-1994 by Merle E Pinch 1994

William LAMPRILL

2008-02-24T20:11:00.000-08:00

Born 1801 at South Ockendon in Essex. His parents were William Lamprill and Mary Buttell
Although not an ancestor, I am on this fellow's tail. He was married to Mary Ann BISHOP when convicted of sheep stealing in Essex in 1827. He arrived in Hobart Town per Asia and was assigned to David Reynolds near Brighton in 1834 and was with him when he drowned on the Derwent. He married David's widow, my great-great grandmother, in 1836, although permission to marry was delayed. Four sons were born by 1843 and at some time, he returned to England. Mary and the two remaining boys went to London in 1846 but returned in 1847. William remarried in Essex in 1854 to his third wife, Sarah COTTON and died at Colchester six months later. In his will he left Tasmanian property and this does not seem to have been contested in Hobart.

Mary Ann STANFIELD

2008-02-24T20:02:00.000-08:00

Born on Norfolk Island in 1799, youngest child of Daniel Stanfield and Alice Mansfield. Her family arrived in Hobart Town in City of Edinburgh in 1808. They lived at Green Point on the Derwent near Bridgewater.
She married David Reynolds in 1866 and they had six children, one dying as a child. In 1834 he was drowned on the river and she married their convict servant William Lamprill in 1836 and had four more sons. Two of these children died in an epidemic in 1843. By this time three of her older children had married.
William returned to England and she was known as Granny Lamprill until she died in 1881. She was buried at St Marks in Pontville.

Edward REYNOLDS

2008-02-24T19:54:00.000-08:00

Born about 1765 in Middlesex, England, he was convicted of stealing cows near Uxbridge and transported on Royal Admiral to Sydney in 1800.
He married Sarah GOODSON in about 1787 and they had four children that we know of.
They joined him in Sydney in 1806 when he had a ticket of leave and was working as a gardener in the Hawkesbury area, but Sarah returned to England in 1814 with two of her daughters.
Edward died at Windsor, NSW in 1818.

David REYNOLDS

2008-02-24T19:43:00.000-08:00

Born in England, possibly near Uxbridge, in 1794, he arrived in Sydney with his mother Sarah and three sisters on William Pitt in 1806. His father had arrived as a convict in 1800.
He served an apprenticehsip as a cooper in Sydney and sailed to Hobart Town on Mary and Sally in 1813. It carried a load of cedar, and later left for Macquarie Island where they hunted seals. He would have been useful in making the casks for the seal oil but there is no evidence in the ship's log that he went.
Three years later he married Mary Ann Stanfield in Hobart. He was working for her parents at Green Point. They built Somerville near Brighton, which is still occupied. They had six children.
He drowned in the Derwent River in 1834 while ferrying a boatload of grain to Hobart.

Sarah REYNOLDS

2008-02-24T19:38:00.000-08:00

Was born, probably at Green Point near Bridgewater, in 1820, the second child and elder daughter of David REYNOLDS and Mary Ann STANFIELD. They lived at Somerville near Brighton.
She married William HODGSON in 1836 at Bourbon near Richmond and they lived at Burnside near Orielton. She had 13 children, losing three as infants.

She died at Burnside in 1879 and is buried at Richmond.

Edward Wilson HODGSON

2008-02-24T19:25:00.000-08:00

Born in about 1793 in the parish of Gilcrux in Cumberland, he married Frances KESWICK in her parish of Plumbland in 1813. They had 7 children, 2 dying in infancy.
In 1827, at the Westmoreland Assizes, he was convicted of uttering forged notes [a first offence], sentenced to life, and transported to Hobart Town on William Miles. As he said he had worked under Mr Macadam the roadmaster near Cockermouth, he became a sub-overseer on the roads in Van Diemen's Land. I wonder if this also influenced the life sentence he received, as road-building skills would have been very useful in Van Diemen's Land at that time?
He applied for his family to join him and also volunteered to go out to reconcile the aborigines in1830 during the Black War.
He seems to have moved to Victoria around 1843 and may have died there in 1849.

James BALDWIN

2008-02-24T19:14:00.000-08:00

Born in about 1793, possibly in London. Married Honor Heron about 1819 and had three daughters.
He was probably in service, as was his wife.
He arrived in Hobart Town as a seaman on the convict transport Sovereign in 1827 which carried his wife and children. They lived in Bothwell where he was appointed as gaol keeper. He died there in 1838.

Honor HERON or HERRING

2008-02-24T19:06:00.000-08:00

Born possibly at Clifton, Gloucestershire, England in 1803. She had a brother John HERRING who arrived in Hobart Town on the convict transport Medway in 1825.
Honor was convicted for stealing in London and arrived in Hobart Town on Sovereign in 1827 with her three small daughters. Her husband James BALDWIN signed on the ship as a seaman and accompanied them. He obtained a position as a gaol keeper in Bothwell and she was assigned to him.
She died at her daughter's home Selma in 1859.
A descendant has pointed out that fraternal twins have been passed down the female line in this family. At this time, Honor is the earliest female we have found on this line.

Honoria BALDWIN

2008-02-24T19:00:00.000-08:00

Born London, England in 1826. Third daughter of James BALDWIN and Honor HERON.
Arrived in Hobart Town on Sovereign in 1827 with her mother, father and 2 sisters. They lived in Bothwell.
She married Duncan McRAE in about 1843 and had 10 children.
Lived at Selma near Bothwell.
She died in 1909.

Duncan McRAE

2008-02-24T18:50:00.000-08:00

Born Lochalsh, Rossshire, Scotland about 1795. A son of Duncan and Isabella McRAE.
Arrived in Hobart Town on Resource in 1830 with his brother Hector, sister Flora, her husband Roderick McKENZIE and his brother Alexander.
He obtained a land grant on the Ouse river near Bothwell and married Honoria BALDWIN in about 1843. They had 10 children.
They lived at Selma near Bothwell.
He died in1887.

William HODGSON

2008-02-24T17:23:00.001-08:00

Born Cockermouth, Cumberland, England 1815. Eldest son of Edward Wilson HODGSON and Frances KESWICK.
Arrived in Hobart Town on Mellish in 1830 with his mother, brother and 3 sisters.
Married Sarah REYNOLDS in 1836 at Bourbon, near Richmond. They had 13 children.
Lived at Burnside near Orielton.
MHA for Sorell 1861-72, Richmond 1872-1881. MLC for Pembroke 1881 until his accidental death in 1891.

Fanny HODGSON

2008-02-24T17:13:00.002-08:00

Born Burnside near Orielton, Tasmania 1851. Fifth daughter of William HODGSON and Sarah REYNOLDS.
Educated at Mrs Searle's [Claremont College?], Hobart 1867

Married Hector McRAE in 1883 - six children.
Lived at Forest Green, near Bothwell, Burnside and Kintail on Maria Island

Died Hobart 1930

Hector McRAE

2008-02-24T16:47:00.000-08:00

Born Bothwell, Tasmania 1847. Eldest son of Duncan McRAE and Honoria BALDWIN of Selma near Bothwell.
Accompanied Julius Brockman in a Kimberley expedition in 1879 - ref. He Rode Alone by Joan Brockman.

Married Fanny HODGSON in 1883 - six children.
Farmer at Forest Green near Bothwell, Burnside near Orielton, and Kintail on Maria Island
He played the pipes "like a Gordon" and the sound wafted across to the mainland.

Died Hobart 1929.

Jean McRAE

2008-02-24T16:36:00.000-08:00

Born Hobart, Tasmania 1888. Second daughter of HectorMcRAE and Fanny HODGSON.
Lived at Forest Green, near Bothwell, Burnside near Orielton, and Kintail on Maria Island

Married Charles CAWTHORN in 1910 - six daughters.

Foundation President of Ardlethan Red Cross branch 1914
Died Hobart 1973

Charles Frederick Rivers CAWTHORN

2008-02-24T16:28:00.000-08:00

Born Macquarie Plains, Tasmania 1875. Fourth son of John Henry CAWTHORN and Martha Ann COCKERILL. Farmer
Second Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen 1901-2
Married Jean McRAE in 1910 - six daughters.
Carter at Ardlethan NSW 1913-1921. Farming at Dover, Tasmania 1921-1937

Died Hobart 1966

Fanny Ann CAWTHORN

2008-02-24T16:22:00.000-08:00

Born Ardlethan NSW. Second daughter of Charles Frederick Rivers CAWTHORN and Jean McRAE.
Dover primary school and Hobart High School.
WRAAF 1940-1945 - Hobart, Melbourne

Married Les PATTERSON in 1945 - five children.
Moved around with Commonwealth Bank until 1979 - Hobart, Devonport, Hobart, Maryborough Vic, Hobart, Mildura Vic, Sydney NSW, Ipswich Qld, Townsville Qld.
Retired to Mullumbimby New South Wales.

Leslie Alexander PATTERSON

2008-02-24T16:15:00.000-08:00

Born Hobart 1918. Third son of William George PATTERSON and Helen CLARK.
Princes Street primary school and Hobart High School.
Enlisted 1939-1945 - Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea.

Married Fanny Ann CAWTHORN in 1945 - five children.
Commonwealth Bank until 1979 - Hobart, Devonport, Hobart, Maryborough Vic, Hobart, Mildura Vic, Sydney NSW, Ipswich Qld, Townsville Qld.
Retired to Mullumbimby New South Wales where he died in 1997.

Sally PATTERSON

2008-02-24T15:48:00.001-08:00

I was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. My father; my mother
I started school at Devonport Primary in 1954.
Lansdowne Crescent Primary school 1955-6
Maryborough Victoria Primary school 404 1957-1959
Lenah Valley Primary school 1960
Hobart State High School 1961-2
Mildura, High School Victoria 1963-6
University of Melbourne B. Agr. Sc 1967-70

Married Richard STEEL in 1971 and moved to Brisbane.
Denpasar, Bali 1971-2
UQ St Lucia, Brisbane 1973-4 research assistant,
University of Queensland Dip. Ed. 1974 -
Honiara, Solomon Islands 1975-9
Brisbane 1979
Innisfail North Queensland 1979-1992
Mareeba NQ 1992-2003
Biloela Central Qld 2003-4
Toowoomba SQ 2004-