LIST 23 - 1822 MUSTER - HOBART TOWN
The third of the three musters covering Van Diemens Land is the 1822 Muster
at Hobart Town. The list contains 182 members of the First Generation; 77 males and 105 females, 169 colonial born and 13 childhood arrivals.
The information presented for each entry includes:
family name Christian nameyear of birth
place of birthparents' names
parents' civil status at the time of the child's birth parents' marital status at the time of the child's birth date of arrival in Hobart Town ship of arrival in Hobart Towncivil status
husband's name(females) surname as it appears in the original muster.The list is ordered alphabetically; firstly on the father's name, secondly
on the child's Christian name. As in the source document the women have been
separated from the men.
The list presented here is a combination of two separate lists from Mrs
Schaffer's book; "Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists, Van Diemens Land,
1803-1822":
Hobart Town Muster, Men, 1822 Hobart Town Muster, Women, 1822 As with all the Van Diemens Land "musters", the lists are restricted
to 'free' persons, whether by arrival or by servitude. This is not a problem
in the case of the First Generation because hopefully they were all free,
although if any had colonial sentences they would be missing from the list
and unknown to researchers unfortunately.
Unlike the previous two "musters" for Van Diemens Land the First Generation
were relatively easy to identify in this muster because they were noted
as "born in the colony (b/colony)" in the status column. The problem with the women on this occasion was that no indication was given as to whether their
surname was a maiden name or a married name and spouses were not recorded.
Once again with the help of the Pioneer Register Project most of the women
have been sorted out.
Regretfully the original muster gives very little information about each
entry other than the fact that they were at Hobart in 1822 and their colonial born status. Not even 'on or off stores' on this occasion. Thus the year and
place of birth, details of parents, name of spouse in the case of females,
are all value added fields not found in the original muster.
Charles Dowdell had no civil status recorded; Mary Boothman(Westlake),
Leonard Darkes, William Hambley, James & John Kelly, James & William Mitchell
were all recorded as "came free" when they were colonial born. Julia Ann Abel(Hibbins), Charlotte Burrows(Loveridge) and Sarah Cox(Edge) were recorded as "colonial born" when they arrived in the colony as young children. Susannah
Porter(Mortimore) is incorrectly recorded as "free by servitude". Ann Anson
senior is incorrectly recorded as "colonial born" when she was an free adult arrival.
For seven men and six women their parents remain unknown:
Thomas Anglim
Isaac Hall
Michael Lackey
James McCormack
William Nichols
Thomas Smith
James Williams
Mary Adams
Elizabeth Connor
Charlotte Cowarth
Margaret Nichols
Mary Ann Mullins
Mary Thomas
The fathers are unknown for four men and six women: James Hannaway
Richard Larsom
Thomas Smith
William Smith
Ann Evans
Elizabeth Burn
Elizabeth Evans
Sarah Lee
Charlotte Loveridge
Susannah Mortimore
as is the mother of:
James Joseph.Thomas Ellis, James Hannaway, John Kelly, Thomas & William Smith and George
Wood are listed in the muster under their mother's surnames. Richard Shaw
is listed in the muster under his stepfather's surname of Alwright.
Elizabeth Evans used her stepfather's surname of Walford as well.
The names of the women's husbands has been researched and included in
order to make the women's listing more comprehensible.
Only nine of the women were unmarried and nearly all the married women used
their husbands' surnames although sometimes with an interesting
interpretation of the spelling, eg Rebecca Reibey(Lucas) is listed as
Ruby ! Only 14 women did not use their husband's surnames, the reason being unclear. Mary McCarthy was never married to her soldier lover, and what Ann
Moore(Podmore) was doing in Hobart at the time is a mystery. Three of the single
women; Elizabeth Evans, Susannah Fisher & Jane Pigott are known to have gone
on to marry.
Only Elizabeth Gordon(Arndell) and Harriet Humphrey(Sutton) were recipients of an honorific 'Mrs' in this muster.
Since Hobart Town was not founded until 1804, all the First Generation
located there in 1822 of necessity had to sail thence from either Norfolk Island or Port Jackson. Appendix I at the end of this work lists shipping movements between colonies and this has been the source of the information of shipping
arrivals to Hobart Town. Nearly all the arrivals from Norfolk Island came on
one of four ships; 'HMS Porpoise' 1807, 'Lady Nelson' 1807, 'City of Edinburgh'
1808, 'Estramina' 1808.
It has not been possible to identify the ship to Hobart Town in every case.
In some cases a date is given before which (<) or after which (>) the person was known to have been in Hobart Town. The dates chosen are based on other
muster entries, the most frequent being before or after the 1811 muster but
there are some people who are known to have arrived after the 1806 muster
or after the 1814 muster.
As can be seen from the 'Birth Place' column, the vast majority of entries
on the list were born on Norfolk Island and even those not born on the island
many came to Hobart Town via Norfolk Island. Although when compared to the
1818 Muster there were more coming directly from Port Jackson, for example;
the Arndell sisters and the McKellar sisters and John Harmsworth the
returning veteran.
The only additional piece of information provided by the original muster on
members of the First Generation is the number of children each person
had as at 1822, divided into males and females (no names, no ages). Whilst
this is interesting in one sense, it left the researcher with the problem of
identifying who the children enumerated actually were. Other sources had to
be relied upon entirely to tease out the First Generation - the Pioneer
Register project being indispensable as always. Unfortunately there
were 185 cases in which the children could not be recognised and how many
of these were of the First Generation will never be known. It should also
be noted that the proportion with this detail recorded is very small and would
not represent the totallity of the childhood population of Hobart at this time.
Only one 'child' has been identified and included in this list from this
research, (Eugene Hibbins) which is not surprising since the youngest of
the First Generation were aged 22 by the time of the muster and she is marked
with an asterix '*' on the list.
There are 6 men and 11 women in the 1822 Muster whose civil status is
described as "colonial born" but as yet no birth details nor parents have
been identified. In the case of the women it is not even certain if the surname
is her maiden name or married name. It is possible that one or more could have
been of the First Generation. They are listed below in the hope that some might be identified by an informed reader:
John Crook Louisa Atkins
John French Elizabeth Collis
Jacob MacCoy Rebecca Dalton
George McGuire Sophia Daniels
Edward Nichols jnr - Guire
James Yates Mary Hemmings
Sarah Kirby
Elizabeth Russell
Susannah Smith
Maria Thompson ux John
Ann Wade
A respectable 63 of the 72 males and 82 of the 91 females from the 1818 Muster
appear in this muster. These higher proportions when compared to New South
Wales reflect the smaller and more closely knit communities in Van Diemens
Land.
There are 69 men and 36 women in the 1822 Muster whose civil status is described
as "came free" but as yet no ship nor year of arrival have been identified.
It is possible that one or more could have been of the First Generation. They
are listed below in the hope that some might be identified by an informed reader:
Thomas Antonio John Richardson
Thomas Appleton G F C Roberts
William Ashton Thomas Scott
Edward Fielder Bates Daniel William Stalker
Alexander Beuford John Summons
Frederick Bradley William Thomas
William Brazill Charles Thompson
Antonio Brian John Tindal
Abraham Briso Peter Tremaree
George Brooks William Vickery
John Brown William White
Andrew Bruce William Williams
William Burton Charles Wilson
Alexander Cameron William Wilson
Benjamin Carridge William Wylde
William Redmond Chace Henry John Young
Thomas Chance
Samuel Collins Jane Ambridge
Rum John Conn Jane Bailey
Michael Connor Ann Bisdee
Robert Corner Mrs Boyd
William Curry Charlotte Brist
Henry Daniels Mrs Jane Burns
David Diepett Mary Carley
John Donaldson Mary Carter
Michael Dowson Eleanor Cassidy
G W Eldredge Fanny Eliza Chanbers
George Emery Mary Clarke
James Emery Mary Ann Cundell
Patrick Flaherty Catherine Dogherty
William French Susannah Edwards
Thomas Garrell Mrs Mary Evans
Thomas Godwin Eliza Franks
Thomas Green Emma Franks
Mark Green Mary Glover ux Eli Beagant
Edward Moule Griffiths Eliza Gorder
George Gully Jane Gordon
Thomas Harour Sarah Greenon
Charles Horan Elizabeth Hoare
David Kelly Mary Holmes
George Kirby Elizabeth Horton
William Kneale Margaret Jamieson
Frederick Langloh Jane Jeffreys ux Charles ?
James Lewis Margaret Jones ux Richard Todd ?
James Lowe Mary Langloh ux Frederick
Allen McLeane Maria McCoy
William McMichael Mary Ann McGuire ux Henry Burgess
John McMillon Eleanor Manby
James Parker Mrs Lucy Murray ux Robert Lathrop
Charles Paterson M Payne
Thomas Pauley Ann Smith
Hugh Piper Harriet Louisa Thompson
Michael Purdon Margaret Wilson
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