Mary HINGERTY

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

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

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.