Sunday School I grew up in a Methodist family and have remained a member all my life, although since 1976 is now known as the Uniting Church in Australia. My baptism occurred at the Bracknell Methodist Church on 28 November 1943, travelling there by horse and jinker. Bracknell was four miles from Bishopsbourne but the […]
For 7 years, 2001 to 2008, I worked as Administrator for the Launceston Benevolent Society. The Society is the oldest of its kind in Australia, being established in September 1834, for purpose of providing assistance to the destitute and poor in Launceston and such other parts of Tasmania as the committee of management may determine. […]
The plough is an important implement in farming and has been so for centuries. Its purpose is to help in preparing a seedbed for crop planting. It is uncertain when the first plough reached Northern Tasmania, the Colony’s major cropping region. In 1805, with the settlement facing starvation, Lieut. Gov. William Paterson wrote to Gov. […]
A history written c1988 for inclusion in the French-Badcock family history book Go ….. Be Fruitful and Multiply.
On 19 May, over 80 years ago, my father, Eric, recorded my birth in his diary “……….. the baby, which was a son, was born about 1 o’clock, weight 8lbs. 6¾ozs, length 22½ inches”. With no phone service at the farm, mother wrote a letter to Dad advising details “Baby was born somewhere about dinner […]
William Chapman was born at Hatfield Broad Oak in Essex, England the eldest son of Isaac Robert Chapman (1761-1850) and Elizabeth Catharina nee Blandy (1770-1847). At the age of 13, he was convicted of stealing one sheep and two lambs and received the death penalty but was reprieved and transported to Australia for life. He […]
This article includes a list of Ivan’s British Forbears, including when they arrived in Australia and on which ship, along with other interesting information about each person. Many are featured in expanded articles on History Over Dinner. YEAR/SHIP NAME RANK RESIDENCE U.K. & NOTES 1788Scarborough (First Fleet) Herbert, John Alexander Convict London (1767-1846), tried at the […]
The Pieman River is to be found near Rosebery and in 1963 was still free flowing but has since been dammed to produce electricity and is now covered by water and known as Lake Rosebery. The Pieman River commences at Tullah with the joining together of the McIntosh and Murchison Rivers. They have 21 tributaries […]
In 1963, the Mt. Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd decided to close their rail line between Queenstown and Strahan, due to the high cost of maintaining the line. Closure was scheduled by the end of June 1963. A group from our Rosebery Methodist Church decided to take the very scenic trip before closure and […]
Tullah is located on the West Coast of Tasmania around five miles north of Rosebery but separated by mountainous terrain limiting contact between the two centres. There probably was a walking track enabling some limited contacts. A connecting road was opened around 1960. Tullah was a mining town and very isolated. The only main access […]