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  2. James Bischoff - Wikipedia

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    Bischoff, who married in 1802 Peggy, daughter of David Stansfeld of Leeds, carried on business as a merchant and insurance broker for many years in London, and died at his home, Highbury Terrace, on 8 February 1845 aged 69. [3] He became Chairman of the Van Diemen's Land Company in 1828 and Managing Director from 1832 until 1833.

  3. Founders and Survivors - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Van Diemen's Land - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Thomas Lempriere - Wikipedia

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    Thomas James Lempriere (11 January 1796 – 6 January 1852) was a British colonial administrator in the Australian colony of Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania).He is known for his diaries depicting the convict period in Van Diemen's Land, his work as a portrait and landscape painter, and his work as a pioneering naturalist.

  6. Australasian Anti-Transportation League - Wikipedia

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    The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was an organisation that opposed penal transportation to Australia. [1] It was established in Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania) in the late 1840s, and expanded rapidly with branches in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney in Australia, and Canterbury in New Zealand.

  7. British colonisation of Tasmania - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Henry Savery - Wikipedia

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    Arriving in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land at the end of 1825, Savery was retained in government service and worked for the Colonial Treasurer, an appointment which caused controversy among other colonists. [6] In 1828 his wife and son came to the colony, and arguments between them culminated in his attempted suicide. [7]

  9. Matthew Flinders - Wikipedia

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    Chart of Van Diemen's Land produced by Matthew Flinders; it is now called Tasmania. In 1798, Flinders, by then a lieutenant, was given command of the sloop Norfolk with orders "to sail beyond Furneaux's Islands, and, should a strait be found, pass through it, and return by the south end of Van Diemen's Land". Flinders and Bass had, in the ...