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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 – 4 September 1869) was an early Australian pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Australia.In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize.
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.