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TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC. PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 Society Secretary: [email protected] Journal Editor: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.tasfhs.org Patron: Dr Alison Alexander Fellows: Dr Neil Chick and Mr David Harris Executive: President Maurice Appleyard (03) 6248 4229 Vice President Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Vice President Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Society Secretary Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Society Treasurer Betty Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Committee: Helen Anderson Doug Forrest Libby Gillham Vanessa Blair Lucille Gee Sue-Ellen McGregor Judith Cocker John Gillham Colleen Read By-laws Coordinator Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Webmaster Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Journal Editor Rosemary Davidson (03) 6278 2464 LWFHA Coordinator Anita Swan (03) 6394 8456 Members’ Interests Compiler John Gillham (03) 6239 6529 Membership Registrar Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Publications Convenor Bev Richardson (03) 6225 3292 Public Officer Colleen Read (03) 6244 4527 Society Sales Officer Betty Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Branches of the Society Burnie: PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 [email protected] Devonport: PO Box 267 Latrobe Tasmania 7307 [email protected] Hobart: PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 [email protected] Huon: PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 [email protected] Launceston: PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 [email protected] Volume 31 Number 3 December 2010 ISSN 0159 0677 Contents From the editor........................................................................................................... 130 President’s Message .................................................................................................. 131 Branch Reports ......................................................................................................... 132 A Thirkell by Another Name, Part 1: Catherine Mack and Francis Southernwood, Richie Woolley ................................................................................................... 135 Moving On, Early Tasmanian Government Teacher Transfers, Betty Jones ............. 142 They Died on the Domain, Laurie Moody ................................................................. 148 Skene and Wilson, Family Surnames Gone but not Forgotten, Colleen Read .......... 151 Help Wanted ............................................................................................................. 158 New Members ........................................................................................................... 159 New Members’ Interests ........................................................................................... 161 Henry Woods, Old Man of the Mountain—Mt Wellington, Irene Schaffer ............... 163 Digging in the Rubble of a Fallen Brick Wall, Vee Maddock .................................. 172 Juvenile Grand Fancy Dress Ball, at T. D. Chapman’s, Esq., M.L.C. ...................... 177 Peter John Alexander Mullay, A Pilot at Low Head, Pamela Campbell ................... 179 Opening of Parliament 1901—Guests Bidden .......................................................... 182 Genes on Screen, Vee Maddock ............................................................................... 184 What is that Publication About? Maurice Appleyard ............................................... 186 Library Notes, Society Sales ..................................................................................... 189 Library Acquisitions ................................................................................................. 190 Deadline dates for contributions by 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October From the editor Journal address PO Box 191, Launceston TAS 7250 Another year is almost over. I say it email [email protected] every year but they do flash by faster and Articles are welcomed in any format— faster. Before I have time to recover handwritten, word processed, on disk or by from this issue I will be worrying if there email. Please ensure images are of good will be enough material for the next one. quality. We never have too many so please finish off those stories you have started and send them in. Thank you to all who have Deadline dates are: contributed already. 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October The beautiful residence of Sunnyside If you wish to contact the author of an in New Town has recently been for sale article in Tasmanian Ancestry please email which reminded me of the article I found the editor, or write care of the editor, in The Courier of 5 October 1854. (See enclosing a stamped envelope and your page 177.) Built about 1845, the house correspondence will be forwarded. was the residence of Thomas Daniel CHAPMAN, merchant and politician, The opinions expressed in this journal are and his wife Katherine née SWAN. The not necessarily those of the journal article reads like a list of ‘Who’s Who’ committee, nor of the Tasmanian Family and conjures up wonderful images in my History Society Inc. Responsibility rests mind. with the author of a submitted article, we do Many members of the Chapman and not intentionally print inaccurate inform- ation. The society cannot vouch for the Swan families were interred in St Johns accuracy of offers for services or goods that Burial Ground and I am continually appear in the journal, or be responsible for fascinated by the connections and the outcome of any contract entered into relationships to be ‘uncovered’ beneath with an advertiser. The editor reserves the the stones. A wonderful source of right to edit, abridge or reject material. material for articles. This time last year the cover of the © The contents of Tasmanian Ancestry are journal was a photograph of Amelia subject to the provisions of the Copyright WAYN. On a recent trip to NSW Joyce Act and may not be reproduced without Purtscher discovered a collection of written permission of the editor and author. Wayn family photographs held by the Society of Genealogists in Sydney. Enjoy reading, and our best wishes for a healthy and happy holiday and new Cover: year. Illustration supplied by Betty Jones for her article, Moving On, Early Tasmanian Rosemary Davidson Government Teacher Transfers, see page 142. 130 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY December 2010 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE s you may be aware, most of our The series CON37 has commenced Society’s Executive officers with volumes 1 and 2 now available. A carry out a number of different Additionally, I am advised that the North roles. In my case, I represent the society West Advocate (and its predecessor on a Joint Tasmanian Consultative Forum Wellington Times) and Launceston to the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Examiner master microfilms have been Office and the National Archives of outsourced to National Library of Australia. Australia (NLA) for digitisation as part of At a recent forum meeting, TAHO the Australian Newspaper Digitisation advised that a number of ‘new’ items Program, and will therefore be available have recently been made available online as part of the Australian Newspapers and are available to view through component of TROVE, the NLA’s new Tasmanian Archives Online, TALIS+ and discovery service, later this year. online indexes. As you read this, each branch of the Of particular interest to family history Society will be ‘winding down’ for our researchers are: traditional closure over the Christmas/ Tasmanian Police Gazettes (form- New Year holiday period. The average erly Reports of Crime) 1861–1933 closure period will be from mid- December to mid-January but exact dates Tasmanian colonial census records should be given in the Branch Reports’ 1840s–1850s overleaf. Tasmanian War Memorials I therefore take this opportunity to wish Database by Fred Thornett, 1996 you all a very happy Christmas and a Nurses Register, Launceston Gen- great New Year. eral Hospital, 1891–1912, AB612 Maurice Appleyard Additional convict conduct registers of male convicts arriving on non-convict ships or locally Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. convicted, CON37 (vols 5–7) 2010 Lilian Watson Wills: Over 100,000 linked to online Family History Award nominal index, Index to Wills & For a book however produced Letters of Administration 1824–1989 or published on paper, (AD960 and AD961) dealing with family history and having Convict Records: Continuation of significant Tasmanian content. the digitisation of these records listed Entries close: 1 December 2010 on the UNESCO Memory of the Further information World International Register has and entry forms available from occurred. Since the last update a further eleven volumes of Convict TFHS Inc. Branch Libraries or Appropriation Lists (CON27) have PO Box 191 Launceston TAS 7250 been added. TASMANIAN ANCESTRY December 2010 131 BRANCH REPORTS Burnie development of Burnie and the West Coast of Tasmania. http://www.clients.tas.webnet.com.au/ geneal/burnbranch.htm The Pioneer Village Museum, which is President Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 well known for its Streetscape scene Secretary Ann Bailey (03) 6431 5058 depicting early Burnie, also houses a very PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 important collection of other historical email: [email protected] documents. Included are the Winter Photography Collection, Emu Bay We have now well and Railway Collection, Burnie Paper Mill truly settled into our new collection, VDL Records to name a few. premises at the Portside The Branch committee extends all the building at Spring Street best for the coming festive season and in Burnie. For members trust the new