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TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC. formerly Genealogical Society of Tasmania PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 State Secretary: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.tasfhs.org Patron: Dr Alison Alexander Fellows: Mr Neil Chick, Mr David Harris and Mrs Denise McNeice Executive: President Mr Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Vice President Mr Ray Hyland (03) 6431 7404 Vice President Mrs Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 Executive Secretary Miss Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Executive Treasurer Miss Betty Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Committee: Mrs Judy Cocker Mr John Dare Mrs Rosemary Davidson Mrs Betty Fletcher Mr John Gillham Mr David Harris FTFHS Mr Alan Leighton Mrs Jill Poke Miss Beverley Richardson Mrs Anita Swan By-laws Officer Mrs Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 Exchange Journal Coordinator Mrs Thelma McKay (03) 6229 3149 Home Page (State) Webmaster Mr Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Journal Editor Mrs Rosemary Davidson (03) 6278 2464 Journal Despatcher Mr Leo Prior (03) 6228 5057 LWFHA Coordinator Miss Jenny Gill (03) 6326 1622 Members’ Interests Compiler Mr John Gillham (03) 6239 6529 Membership Registrar Mr John Dare (03) 6424 7889 Projects & Publications Coord. Mrs Anne Bartlett (03) 6344 5258 Public Officer Mrs Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 Research Coordinator Mrs Kaye Stewart (03) 6362 2073 State Sales Officer Mrs Pat Harris (03) 6344 3951 Branches of the Society Burnie: PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 [email protected] Devonport: PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 [email protected] Hobart: GPO Box 640 Hobart Tasmania 7001 [email protected] Huon: PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 [email protected] Launceston: PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 [email protected] Volume 23 Number 1 June 2002 ISSN 0159 0677 Contents Editorial . 2 President’s Message . 3 Annual General Meeting Notice and Agenda . 4 Branch News . 5 Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart, Tasmania, Maree Ring . 8 Advertising Rates . 12 Luke Richard Castray, Lyn Workman . 13 New Release—An Index to Early Coastal Newspapers . 17 The Tasmanian Braille Writers’ Association, Joy Smith . 18 Lydia Solomon 1812–1880, Sally Steel . 23 Do You Have a Convict from Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire? . 26 Mary Maria Brown, Women Publicans of Hobart Town, Part Two, Lou Daniels . 27 New Release—Cemeteries in Southern Tasmania, Vol V, Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart, Indexes to Headstones & Memorials, Part I . 31 Correction and Apology!, Women Publicans of Hobart Town, Lou Daniels . 32 Irish Origins, New service available on Origins.Net . 35 Standards for Using Records Repositories and Libraries . 36 Queries, New Members’ Interests and New Members . Insert Supplement . Insert Graves/Turnbull Families, Cec Quinnell . 37 Bishop Family, Thomas Norman Echo Bishop . 40 Recent Release—My Most Interesting Ancestor . 50 The Maternity Hospital at Derby, Allison Carins . 51 Spilled Milk! . 52 Genes on Screen, Vee Maddock . 53 Tasmaniana Library, State Library of Tasmania, New Acquisitions . 55 From the Exchange Journals, Thelma McKay . 59 Reunion Notice—Marsden and Stonehouse . 61 Lost, Stolen or Strayed … and Found! . 62 Coming Events . 63 Library Notes . 65 Society Sales and New Branch Publications . 68 Deadline dates for contributions: 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October Journal Committee Editorial Leonie Mickleborough, Rosemary Davidson, Cynthia O’Neill, Jeannine Connors, David Hodgson, Charles Hunt, Lucy Knott, Vee Maddock, Denise McNeice, Leo Prior We welcome Leonie Mickleborough to and Kate Ramsay. the journal committee, especially to the Journal address position of editor. I hope she enjoys the PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 challenge and gains as much as I have. or email Leonie and I worked together on this [email protected] issue but as I still have the computer it has fallen on me to write the editorial. I would like to thank Maurice Articles are welcomed in any format— Appleyard for his work on the journal handwritten, typed or word processed, on over the past six years as he has recently disk or by email. Disks and photographs resigned from the committee due to other will be returned on request. commitments within the society. Special Deadline dates are: thanks also to those people, both 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October members and non-members, who have happily undertaken proof reading and The opinions expressed in this journal are always delivered on time. not necessarily those of the editorial Lou Daniel’s first article on Women committee nor of the Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. Responsibility rests Publicans of Hobart Town in our last with the author of a submitted article and issue certainly created interest. Lou has we do not intentionally print inaccurate responded quickly and follows on with information. The society cannot vouch for another article—Correction and Apology! the accuracy of offers for services or goods Also included is a second instalment, that appear in the journal, or be responsible Mary Maria Brown, page 27. for the outcome of any contract entered into We are fortunate to be able to publish with an advertiser. The editor reserves the Thomas Bishop’s account of his life, right to edit, abridge or reject material. particularly around Osterley and the highlands of Tasmania, in the early part If you wish to contact the author of an of the last century. Current generations article in Tasmanian Ancestry please write will find it difficult to relate to the care of the editor, enclosing a stamped envelope and your letter will be forwarded. hardships he had to overcome but may be able to gain some insight into the way of The contents of Tasmanian Ancestry are life of many early white inhabitants, subject to the provisions of the Copyright especially in the harsher areas of the Act and may not be reproduced without state. See page 40. written permission of the editor and author. Don’t forget to register for the State Annual General Meeting on 22 June if you require any catering. No late regi- Cover: Temple House, corner of Argyle strations can be accepted. Payment for and Liverpool Streets, Hobart. Now part catering must be received by 14 June. of the Tasmania Police complex. See Lydia Solomon 1812–1880, page 23. Rosemary Davidson Pencil drawing © Alex Wanders 2002 Assistant Editor 2 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2002 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ECENTLY, all branches applied and Branch publications. You will for an eHeritage grant that was an probably note that in future sales lists R initiative of the State Library of discounts to members will be shown, if it Tasmania. I have much pleasure in applies to that item. announcing that all branches were On behalf of all the members I would like successful in obtaining a grant. From a to thank Rosemary Davidson for her total of forty-eight submissions, twenty- contribution and the effort that she has nine local history organisations were put into the production of Tasmanian chosen, including our five branches, to Ancestry in her role as Editor. receive special software and training for Rosemary’s first edition as Editor was the members to support the preservation and September 1996 Journal and her last documentation of Tasmania’s history. ‘official’ Journal was the March 2002 Branches will be advised of full details of edition. During her time as Editor our the project as it progresses. Funding for Society won the coveted international this project came from the Common- FFHS Elizabeth Simpson Award for Best wealth Department of Communications, Family History Journal. This was for the Information Technology and the Arts, via June 1997 edition. (See article in the Networking the Nation Program. Tasmanian Ancestry, September 1998, I would like to make another exciting p. 71.) announcement. Our Society has at last It is with pleasure that we welcome been able to make constructive headway Leonie Mickleborough as the new Journal with the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Editor. Leonie has had a long association Marriages on the release/access of with the Society, being a foundation Tasmanian Vital Records post 1900. It is member and also a previous member of anticipated that a joint pilot program the editorial panel for Tasmanian between our Society and the Registrar Ancestry some years ago. I am sure that will be started. This will involve entering Leonie will receive plenty of help and Birth, Death and Marriage information guidance from Rosie as she tackles the from the index books into an electronic task of Editor of our journal. format. The aim is to initially make Recently I was able to attend a forum in available an index of BDMs up to 1929. Burnie run by our Parliamentary This index will contain similar information to the microfiche that has Ministers. I took the opportunity to arrange an interview with the Premier. I already been released covering the period was pleasantly surprised with his 1900 to 1919. knowledge and understanding of issues As a member of our Society there are that we as family historians deal with. As various benefits that you enjoy, such as the Bicentennial for Tasmania will be four editions of Tasmanian Ancestry each next year, he will keep our Society year, use of Branch libraries and informed as to what celebrations are reciprocal rights with some other planned and how we could be involved. organisations. We would like to extend the range of benefits to members and one such way is to offer discounts on State Peter Cocker TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2002 3 NOTICE OF MEETING Notice is hereby given in accordance with Rule 14, that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. is to be held on Saturday, 22 June 2002 at the LDS Church Hall, Young Street, East Devonport commencing at 1:30 p.m.