Tasmanian Tiger Snake There are only three species of snakes in Tasmania, the tiger, copperhead and the whip snake, the latter being the smallest and the least seen. The tiger snake is so named as it sometimes has striped bands around its body. It is the largest and most aggressive of the three varieties and […]
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McGiveron Family
James McGiveron (1823-1889) and Sarah Jane Goodyer (1846-1927) James McGiveron, sometimes known as McGivern, arrived in the Australian Colonies as a convict, reaching Norfolk Island on 11 January 1846. He departed from London on 29 August 1845 aboard the 528-ton convict transport, “Mayda”, captained by Master May and was carrying 195 male prisoners. The voyage […]
William & Susan Ann (nee Scrivener) Badcock
William Badcock (1 August 1841 – 18 May 1911) and Susan Badcock (nee Scrivener) (22 July 1843 – 18 October 1922) were my great-grandparents. William and Susan, after marriage in 1864, lived all their lives in the Glenore, Tasmania district, first going to the property “Mayfield” on the now known Hagley Station Road but soon moving south on that road to […]
Ploughing in Tasmania
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. […]
M.V. Cartela – An Historic Vessel
The Cartela (the Tasmanian Aboriginal name for a bull seal) became well known to me when travelling daily to work from the eastern shore to central Hobart on the western side of the River Derwent. This became necessary due to the Tasman Bridge becoming badly damaged and unusable when the bulk ore carrier, Lake Illawarra, […]
Ivan John Badcock at Work in Banking
Towards the end of the 1960 year, my Secondary Schooling education was ending, with the focus shifting to future work. I was 17 years of age and had completed 5 years at the Launceston Technical High School/Queechy High School, where I had attended academic subjects plus a required technical subject, which for me was metal […]
Eskleigh, Perth (Home of Peace)
Eskleigh, previously named Scone, was provided by William Gibson Jnr in 1944 to be a home for permanently incapacitated people and continues to operate today. The Home, built in 1870 for William Gibson, features a two-story residence with 18 rooms overlooking the Perth township and the South Esk River, Tasmania. The surrounding distant mountains add beauty to […]
Members of Rosebery Methodist Church in 1963
Rosebery Methodist Church On arrival at Rosebery in 1963, I soon joined in with the Methodist Church. It was a small group of some 16-20 attending services of which only six had Methodist membership with the remainder coming from a variety of other denominations, apart from Anglicans and Catholics who had their own churches. The […]
A Strasburg Clock Replica built by Sidney Roy Boon (1893-1944)
Around 1915, 22-year-old Sid Boon of Longford visited a display touring Tasmania, where a replica of the famous Strasburg clock was being displayed. He was so impressed that he was inspired to build a replica. With only a photograph and a glimpse of the exterior and working operations, coupled with his inventive genius, he set to work. After […]
HINGSTON: James & Family
James and six of his children arrived at Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in August 1842, travelling aboard the 95-ton brig, “Scout”, from Port Phillip, Melbourne to Launceston. Besides James, the children were Henry, William, Elizabeth, John, James and Robert. The Hingston name is now widely known across the north of Tasmania. In Devon, England […]