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In 1832 he issued a Sketch of the history of Van Diemen's Land, illustrated by a map of the island, and an account of the Van Diemen's Land Company, [1] octavo, the map is by John Arrowsmith. [ 2 ] In 1836 he published an essay on Marine Insurances, their Importance, their Rise, Progress, and Decline, and their Claim to Freedom from Taxation ...
Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in the 19th century. The island, inhabited by Aborigines, was first encountered by the Dutch ship captained by Abel Tasman in 1642, working under the sponsorship of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
The Founders and Survivors project began in 2007 as a collaborative initiative between several universities, government agencies, demographers, genealogists, and population health researchers. The project extracted data related to convicts in Australia who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land or born there between 1803-1900.
Known as Van Diemen's Land, the name changed to Tasmania, when the British government granted self-governance in 1856. [1] It was a colony from 1856 until 1901, at which time it joined five other colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia .
Map of Van Diemen's Land, 1828. Allen took up his first grant of land at Milton, in Glamorgan, near Swansea. [2] In March 1828, in the context of mutual ongoing violence, when he had finished reaping and secured all his crops, and when all hands were away except one boy, some aboriginals came and burnt all the buildings, the stacks of wheat, and nearly everything Allen possessed; the loss ...
Van Diemen's Land Gazette and General Advertiser: Hobart: 1814 Van Diemen's Land Chronicle: Hobart: 1841 Van Diemen's Land Monthly Magazine: Hobart: 1835 Voice: Hobart: 1927–1953 Waratah Whispers: Waratah: 1981–1989 Weekender: Burnie: 1968–1976, 1987–1992 Weekly Courier: Launceston: 1901–1935 Weekly News: Hobart: 1868–1869 Weekly ...
George Augustus Robinson (22 March 1791 – 18 October 1866) was an English born builder and self-trained preacher who was employed by the British colonial authorities to conciliate the Indigenous Australians of Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District to the process of British invasion and colonialisation. [1]
Once the Nautilus reached the Cape it was refused docking or supply during the convict crisis of 1849 and remained anchored off the coast for 5 months before sailing on to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania, Australia) [53] to which O'Brien, Martin, Meagher, and other Young Irelanders, had been transported in the wake of ...