Category: Tasmania

John William (William) Chapman 1792-1852

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date June 30, 2024
Categories In Chapman, Family History, Susannah Goodyer, Tasmania, Van Dieman's Land
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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 […]

Ivan John Badcock’s U.K. Forbears to Australia

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date June 8, 2024
Categories In Family History, Michael Walker, Sarah Goss, Sarah Walker, Tasmania
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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 […]

Pieman River, Western Tasmania – 1963

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date May 25, 2024
Categories In Tasmania
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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 […]

ABT railway excursion between Queenstown & Strahan – 1963

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date May 18, 2024
Categories In Tasmania
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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, Tasmania – 1963

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 […]

Commercial Bank of Tasmania – Zeehan Branch

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date May 4, 2024
Categories In Tasmania
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A branch of the Commercial Bank of Tasmania was opened at Zeehan in early 1891. The Bank, the second oldest in Australia, commenced in Tasmania with the opening of a branch in 1838 at Macquarie Street, Hobart. Further branches followed at a number of centres in Tasmania, and when they sold the business in April […]

Life as a bank teller in Rosebery, Tasmania – 1963

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date April 27, 2024
Categories In Tasmania
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At the age of 19, I reached Rosebery on the West Coast of Tasmania arriving at the beginning of January 1963 and would remain stationed in the town until late October in that year. It was my first transfer and first time living away from home and had not previously visited the town or area. […]

Launceston Junior Technical School, later (1949) known as Launceston Technical High School

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date April 15, 2023
Categories In Tasmania
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MOTO: CUM STUDIO ET HONORE – With Zeal and Honour. Beginnings – On 10 February 1919, when the school doors were thrown open to admit students, 55 boys were enrolled and soon after, increasing to 63. Later in the year, the Spanish flu struck, and the school was closed from late August till mid-October, and […]

Newman Williatt (1797-1832) & family

Post author By Ivan Badcock
Post date December 29, 2022
Categories In Family History, Tasmania, Williatt
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Amongst Longford’s early residents were Newman Williatt and his wife Eliza and one child, they moved there from Launceston, Tasmania around 1829. Newman Williatt and Eliza Towers married in Launceston on 29 July 1824. While living in Launceston, the birth of two children have been located, a girl, Janet Elizabeth, born on 1 October 1825 […]