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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.
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.
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]
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.
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 ...
Thomas was finally transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on August 5, 1837 out of Spithead aboard the ship Susan. The Ship Master was Henry Neatby and the ship surgeon was Edward Hilditch. The voyage lasted 108 days: 300 persons embarked, 1 re-landed, 6 died en route, and 293 were landed safely in Van Diemen's Land.
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 ...
Colonel Andrew Geils (c. 1773 – 11 February 1843) was a military officer of British (Scottish) heritage, who served as Commandant (acting governor) of Van Diemen's Land (subsequently Tasmania) between 1812 and 1813; prior to that time he served in Madras, India, and subsequently spent 2 years with his regiment in Ceylon.