These stories are all great, and we must make sure they're passed on. My family no longer live in the bush but I feel a sense of loss, as my kids found it hard to believe I spent time shooting with dad, fishing, woodcutting and swimming in the river. My dad rode a horse to 'town' and grew up without electricity despite being only just over 60. Thanks everyone for sharing. Amanda Wenn > On 20 May 2014, at 8:44 pm, "Lyn" <chedoona@beagle.com.au> wrote: > > What wonderful memories, thankyou for sharing Bob > cheers > Lyn > a 'City slicker' turned "Bush woman' :-) > > > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Julie This obit of Mr Heritage contains quite a lot of info (see below) Cheers Bob http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/29927845 -----Original Message----- From: aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Julie Gough Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 6:02 PM To: AUS-Tasmania Subject: [AUS-Tas] Seeking Mrs HERITAGE [Heritage surname], Longford, Tasmania, 1870s-1880s Hello I am trying to find if there was a Mrs *Heritage*, Longford in 1879 and/or 1873 who it seems took in an 'orphan' Catholic girl from St Joseph's Hobart - and any more about her. Thanks for any help with this - the "Heritage" surname is giving me an online headache ! Julie ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

What wonderful memories, thankyou for sharing Bob cheers Lyn a 'City slicker' turned "Bush woman' :-)

Calling someone a "Bushman" or such term, was meant to be derogatory to who they were addressing, just as much as it was being called a "City-Slicker" by a Bush person. My father who was born in 1896, was brought up on the land on the East Coast of Tassie where he learned all the various Bush-crafts needed in those days to survive in the wild. He related numerous stories about the various activities of the early days around Swansea. Poaching Swan Eggs, bark stripping, possum shooting, timber cutting, farming and sheep shearing, were but a few. I was raised in the hills some 30 miles south of Mansfield, in Victoria, the youngest of 10 children, we all quickly learned the Bushman's way of life, largely through necessity. Coo-eeing was common, but when it came to dinner time, dad and the kids were summoned from the bush by Ma who blew down the front of a shotgun barrel, the loud noise reverberating for miles through the hills. I was often called to leave my correspondence schooling to plough the paddock with a horse and single share plough, or, to drag firewood in from the bush with the trusty old draught horse. Dad would "go bush" for weeks on end with his high powered rifle and come back with several dingo pelts. They were actually wild dogs that had bred with dingo's and their scalp was worth 50 shillings, even in those days. Wombats and wallabies were considered vermin back then and they too met their fate by way of snares. Ma, using the hind quarters of a wallaby, made great rissoles. Dad was a competing axeman, who made his own axe handles from local timber, usually wild cherry. He would season the logs in a waterhole for a year or two before carefully shaping the handles using glass from broken beer bottles and finally sandpaper. I still have his "Plumb" racing axe, with his home-made handle, holes he drilled in the head and filled with lead for balance. I am now a "city slicker" who texts his sons on an I-Phone and who does not regret his "bush" upbringing one little bit. Being called a "Bush person" is indeed a compliment in my eyes. Cheers Bob -----Original Message----- From: aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ainslie Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:19 PM To: aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] OCCUPATION: BUSHMAN My maternal grandfather, James Jesse Stroud, was a poet, songwriter and great musician, originally from Invercargill in NZ he roamed the world as a young man, served with the NZ Forces in WW1 and lived for a time in India as the leader of the Viceroy's Orchestra/Band at the turn of the century (early 1900s) before coming back to NZ with his English bride. He was engaged to write patriotic music by the NZ Defence Dept and one of his pieces was a song called Coo-ee - based on the Australian bushman's habit of calling out to their mates in the bush with this distinctive call which could be heard great distances away. What a thrill I had one evening a year or so back when I heard the broadcast from the Sydney Opera House of a concert marking an anniversary of the Anzac landing in Gallipoli (I think it was) and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra played this piece during the concert! It was a great pity for me that I was only a child of about 6 or 7 when he came to Tasmania to live with his daughter (my mother) and our family at Blackmans Bay. Unfortunately I was too young to remember all of his yarns of life in the bush in NZ, and his time in the British India Army and his 1st world war experiences. However, I used to sit at his feet and listen as he played his beloved violin for hours every morning and then he'd take me on a bush ramble along the cliff tops near our home, at Blackmans Bay, as he told me stories of his exploits and travels. Cheers Ainslie ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello I am trying to find if there was a Mrs *Heritage*, Longford in 1879 and/or 1873 who it seems took in an 'orphan' Catholic girl from St Joseph's Hobart - and any more about her. Thanks for any help with this - the "Heritage" surname is giving me an online headache ! Julie

Alex, The first two items on your list are consistent with Thomas occupying a building on the hospital side of Bridge/Campbell Street, until his move to Liverpool Street, "near the Government Domain" in 1822, presumably to the named lot. The name Campbell Street was being used instead of Bridge Street in the late 1820s and is shown on the grant chart of 1827 (copy of the 're-drawn' chart sent to you). The numbers on Frankland's map are NOT street numbers as we know them. They may be land parcel numbers (they are repeated in each section). The street numbering of today is not consistent with the numbers they used then for several reasons. Hobart's population was only 2-3000 in the early 1820s, and individuals were not hard to find if you asked around. Thus numbers were not important - lots of adverts from the time just gave the street name. Some of the streets we know today were not fully constructed then - nearly all the streets ending at the port are now longer. The council has changed the street numbering at least twice since then. On Tue, 20 May 2014 00:24:59 +1000, Bev & Alex Stone <thestones@adam.com.au> wrote: > Thank you to everyone who has taken such an interest in my query. > -- Regards Mike Hurburgh --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

My maternal grandfather, James Jesse Stroud, was a poet, songwriter and great musician, originally from Invercargill in NZ he roamed the world as a young man, served with the NZ Forces in WW1 and lived for a time in India as the leader of the Viceroy's Orchestra/Band at the turn of the century (early 1900s) before coming back to NZ with his English bride. He was engaged to write patriotic music by the NZ Defence Dept and one of his pieces was a song called Coo-ee - based on the Australian bushman's habit of calling out to their mates in the bush with this distinctive call which could be heard great distances away. What a thrill I had one evening a year or so back when I heard the broadcast from the Sydney Opera House of a concert marking an anniversary of the Anzac landing in Gallipoli (I think it was) and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra played this piece during the concert! It was a great pity for me that I was only a child of about 6 or 7 when he came to Tasmania to live with his daughter (my mother) and our family at Blackmans Bay. Unfortunately I was too young to remember all of his yarns of life in the bush in NZ, and his time in the British India Army and his 1st world war experiences. However, I used to sit at his feet and listen as he played his beloved violin for hours every morning and then he'd take me on a bush ramble along the cliff tops near our home, at Blackmans Bay, as he told me stories of his exploits and travels. Cheers Ainslie

You must write a book Julie, you have the bushman's nack of telling a yarn! Ron Hume Adelaide SA

What lovely stories. Thank you for sharing them. My thoughts bushmen were the craftsmen and workers in the bush, much the same that there farm labourers and others whose know how and skills, and there were skills to some of these so called 'lowly' occupations, yet important at the time to society, have been lost over time. Similarly, I expect, some of the home keepers tips and tricks have been lost over time; the cooks of their wood stoves; the housemaids who has special ways of cleaning with natural products, not the chemicals of today, etc.. Maree On 20/05/2014 9:04 AM, Delaney wrote: > Hello, > > Amanda's wonderful "find" just about says it all, especially regarding the Tasmanian variety. > More than half a century ago two "bushmen" crossed my path - at different times. > I was a "city" girl and my father had taken on his own father's bicycle shop in Tooronga, Melbourne. > Each year a "bushman" used to come from "up country" and give Dad a chance to look at his bicycle > for any repairs that might need doing. Whatever Dad found would be done free because this man was an old > Boer War comrade of my grandfather. I never knew the man's name but he was of slight, wiry build, with > long, unkempt hair, beard and of a shy disposition. He wore a battered hat and always brought Matilda with him. > While Dad fixed the bicycle, the old man would sit on the public seat near the local bus stop opposite our home, for we lived above the shop, and my mother would ply him with food and drink - but he would not come into the house. > > The other occasion was brief but its recollection is still vivid. > > I was having a meal in a Collins Street restaurant and was sitting at an outside table. > I was able to watch the man who had come to sit at the table more or less opposite mine. > He wore a dark, old-fashioned well-worn suit and proceeded to eat a chop. Eschewing the > neatly laid cutlery provided by the establishment, the man groped in one of his pockets and produced a pen knife. > He opened the knife and proceeded to carve out the meat from the chop bone and relay the meat to his mouth on the edge of the knife. This rough manner of eating was, my mother explained later, almost certainly because the man was from the bush where such niceties and knives and forks might be in short supply. He had never needed to learn "city" manners. > > Remember, this is more than 50 years ago - and longer than that, I can recall my grandmother telling me: "Julie, don't do that - you are not in the bush now". (And so soon after her own family had come "to town" from Rochester in 1881, she, too, was affecting gentility), > > So, back to a man being "only a bushman" is, by my way of thinking, high praise indeed. Without all their skills, knowledge and experience, where would be today? For these intrepid country dwellers provide the marrow of our being in the sense of our national identity. > > Of course, in the sense the word was used in the two instances offered, the idea of being a "bushman" was meant to imply something "lower" class - "only fit for bushwork" or similar - was indeed derogatory. > > In recruiting for the Boer War, bushmen were actively pursued by the organizing powers. And the nominal rolls for our splendid turnout for the Great War would have seemed pretty thin, at a guess, if all the bushmen had been removed. > > As a closing remark, to see bushmen aplenty - and bushwomen - don't forget to re-read your Henry Lawson. > > Regards, > Julie > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi again Alexander - Yes, the named block was definitely where Thomas held his school in Liverpool in 1822. His first 'Academy' may have been in what is now Campbell Street close to Liverpool, or even in the same block as that where Withers set up shop. (See the ad. below.) Thinking about the bridge I mentioned in an earlier email - it must have been built almost as soon as Hobart Town was settled, to gain access to the Domain across what was later described as the Park Street Rivulet. The present Park Street was built over the rivulet, which now runs underground. I recently found that my ancestor William Cockerell purchased part of that block from one of Surgeon Matthew Bowden's sons in 1814 if I remember correctly. That land would have included the block on the corner of Liverpool and Bridge Streets where George Withers set up his first business in 1819 according to the following notice, and possibly where the Academy was also established, before Stone bought the block delineated on the map. The Public are respectfully informed, that J. WITHERS, recently from England, has commenced his Business as a Cooper, at a new brickhouse in Bridge-street, corner of Liverpool-street, where every Article in that Line will be made in the neatest Manner, and on the most moderate Terms. - Tubs, Buckets, Pails, Churns, &c. ready made, - Jobs, and Work by the Day, performed reasonably. N. B. - Old Casks, Staves, Iron-hoops, &c. bought, or taken in exchange. - The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter 13 November 1819 Hospital Hill was named after the hill on which the hospital still stands, and which appears on the map I sent as well. Best wishes, Carol. From: Bev & Alex Stone [mailto:thestones@adam.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2014 12:25 AM To: mike_robin@aapt.net.au; Dean Hodge; Carol Brill; AUS-TASMANIA; splashpoole@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town Thank you to everyone who has taken such an interest in my query. Before I read some of the later emails I sent the following information to Dean. Would the named block at the end of Liverpool Street answer to the description Thomas Stone gives of the address of his school? Thomas's first ad in the Hobart Town Gazette was on the 27 Nov 1819, not long after he had arrived in Hobart and he stated his intention of opening a school at his cottage on Hospital Hill. Then on 26 February 1820 he refers to his Academy in Bridge Street. On the 21 September 1822 he announces the reopening of the school at his house in Liverpool Street. On the 10 November 1821 he advertised a sale of goods at his house in Liverpool Street near the Government Domain. In 1824 Thomas and Ann Stone were appointed master and mistress of the Public School first of all at Macquarie Point and then at 18 Liverpool Street. It would appear that the two houses he had previously occupied were at 3 and 4 Liverpool Street and were then occupied by Mr Young a solicitor and Mr Fox a bright smith. In 1831 Thomas and Ann were appointed temporarily to take charge of the Male Orphan School which was later made permanent. He left the school in 1836 to take up farming in Green Ponds and need to raise capital for his new venture. Hence the sale of land. The ten acres offered for sale in 1838 were on Elphinstone Road, New Town and had been granted to him in 1836 after an application going back to 1828. The 1839 Frankland map of Hobart shows 3 and 4 Liverpool Street in two different places which is awkward. Regards, Alex Alexander E. H. Stone Milang, South Australia http://stones-in-tas.webplus.net/ On 19/05/2014 10:49 PM, Mike Hurburgh wrote: Alex, I think the attached map is the one Carol was thinking of - she sent it to me several years ago! This is a section of a Grant chart, an index map showing parcels and their owners when first granted by the Governor. It doesn't show subsequent owners. You can just make out the name Stone on a parcel in Liverpool Street to the east of Campbell Street. Without other confirmation, we can't be certain this is the land your ancestor occupied, but it seems likely. His name doesn't show up on later maps I have of the area, so he may not have completed the requirements for his grant. -- Regards Mike Hurburgh No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4577 / Virus Database: 3950/7517 - Release Date: 05/18/14

Hello, Amanda's wonderful "find" just about says it all, especially regarding the Tasmanian variety. More than half a century ago two "bushmen" crossed my path - at different times. I was a "city" girl and my father had taken on his own father's bicycle shop in Tooronga, Melbourne. Each year a "bushman" used to come from "up country" and give Dad a chance to look at his bicycle for any repairs that might need doing.  Whatever Dad found would be done free because this man was an old Boer War comrade of my grandfather.  I never knew the man's name but he was of slight, wiry build, with long, unkempt hair, beard and of a shy disposition.   He wore a battered hat and always brought Matilda with him.  While Dad fixed the bicycle, the old man would sit on the public seat near the local bus stop opposite our home, for we lived above the shop, and my mother would ply him with food and drink - but he would not come into the house. The other occasion was brief but its recollection is still vivid. I was having a meal in a Collins Street restaurant and was sitting at an outside table. I was able to watch the man who had come to sit at the table more or less opposite mine. He wore a dark, old-fashioned well-worn suit and proceeded to eat a chop.    Eschewing the neatly laid cutlery provided by the establishment, the man groped in one of his pockets and produced a pen knife. He opened the knife and proceeded to carve out the meat from the chop bone and relay the meat to his mouth on the edge of the knife.  This rough manner of eating was, my mother explained later, almost certainly because the man was from the bush where such niceties and knives and forks might be in short supply.   He had never needed to learn "city" manners. Remember, this is more than 50 years ago - and longer than that, I can recall my grandmother telling me:  "Julie, don't do that  - you are not in the bush now".   (And so soon after her own family had come "to town" from Rochester in 1881, she, too, was affecting gentility), So, back to a man  being "only a bushman" is, by my way of thinking, high praise indeed.  Without all their skills, knowledge and experience, where would be today?  For these intrepid country dwellers provide the marrow of our being in the sense of our national identity. Of course, in the sense the word was used in the two instances offered, the idea of being a "bushman" was meant to imply something "lower" class - "only fit for bushwork" or similar - was indeed derogatory.  In recruiting for the Boer War, bushmen were actively pursued by the organizing powers.  And the nominal rolls for our splendid turnout for the Great War would have seemed pretty thin, at a guess, if all the bushmen had been removed. As a closing remark, to see bushmen aplenty - and bushwomen - don't forget to re-read your Henry Lawson. Regards, Julie

Thank you to everyone who has taken such an interest in my query. Before I read some of the later emails I sent the following information to Dean. Would the named block at the end of Liverpool Street answer to the description Thomas Stone gives of the address of his school? Thomas's first ad in the /Hobart Town Gazette/ was on the 27 Nov 1819, not long after he had arrived in Hobart and he stated his intention of opening a school at his cottage on _Hospital Hill_. Then on 26 February 1820 he refers to his Academy in _Bridge Street_. On the 21 September 1822 he announces the reopening of the school at his house in _Liverpool Street_. On the 10 November 1821 he advertised a sale of goods at his house in _Liverpool Street near the Government Domain_. In 1824 Thomas and Ann Stone were appointed master and mistress of the Public School first of all at Macquarie Point and then at 18 Liverpool Street. It would appear that the two houses he had previously occupied were at 3 and 4 Liverpool Street and were then occupied by Mr Young a solicitor and Mr Fox a bright smith. In 1831 Thomas and Ann were appointed temporarily to take charge of the Male Orphan School which was later made permanent. He left the school in 1836 to take up farming in Green Ponds and need to raise capital for his new venture. Hence the sale of land. The ten acres offered for sale in 1838 were on Elphinstone Road, New Town and had been granted to him in 1836 after an application going back to 1828. The 1839 Frankland map of Hobart shows 3 and 4 Liverpool Street in two different places which is awkward. Regards, Alex Alexander E. H. Stone Milang, South Australia http://stones-in-tas.webplus.net/ On 19/05/2014 10:49 PM, Mike Hurburgh wrote: > Alex, > > I think the attached map is the one Carol was thinking of - she sent > it to me several years ago! > > This is a section of a Grant chart, an index map showing parcels and > their owners when first granted by the Governor. It doesn't show > subsequent owners. > > You can just make out the name Stone on a parcel in Liverpool Street > to the east of Campbell Street. Without other confirmation, we can't > be certain this is the land your ancestor occupied, but it seems > likely. His name doesn't show up on later maps I have of the area, so > he may not have completed the requirements for his grant. > > > -- > > Regards > > Mike Hurburgh

Alex and Dean, Another reference confirms my previous submission - "TO be Sold by Private Contract, a Piece of Land, containing about 3 Acres, with the Dwelling Houfe thereon erected, fituate in Bridge-ftreet, Hobart Town, contiguous to the Wharf. - Application to be made to Mr. Rowe, Solicitor, Union Tavern, Bridge-ftreet." http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1089843 Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen’s Land Advertiser (Tas. : 1821 - 1825), Saturday 1 February 1823, page 2. The Union Tavern/Hotel was on the south west corner of Liverpool and Campbell Streets, in the same block as the hospital. Seems strange that a solicitor was operating out of a tavern, but maybe there was a shortage of suitable places for an office. -- Regards Mike Hurburgh --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Hi Chris I found this about bushmen for you. My grear grandfather was a bushman - I guess it might be an insult as it was a labouring job and not ‘skilled’ although it would have been very difficult. http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/history/bushmen/bushmen_1.htm My Dad still has his axe case and handles, and some old whips as well. Hope this helps, Amanda On 19 May 2014, at 3:38 pm, Chris El-Amir <umethaar@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi > A couple of questions please. In the 1940s electoral rolls in Australia I have someone whose occupation is given as 'bushman'. What would be his job? I also noticed a comment in a Hobart newspaper (1920s) regarding a divorce case where wife told husband he was only fit for 'bush work'. Would this be considered an insult - and why? > Many thanksChris - Doha > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Alex and Dean, Bridge Street is the earlier name of Campbell Street. There are numerous references in the newspapers to businesses and individuals living there so it wasn't just a small side alley. The clinch in identifying it comes in the article below - http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1089696 Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen?s Land Advertiser (Tas. : 1821 - 1825), Saturday 11 May 1822, page 1 The relevant excerpt is - "FOR Sale by Private Contract, a neat brick - built Houfe, containing three apartments a cellar, and a loft, with a large piece of garden with ground attached thereto, fituate in Bridge-ftreet, [oppofite the Prifoners' Barrack]." If it is opposite the Prisoners Barrack(s) it has to be Campbell Street (and the house is possibly one of the houses still there!). The other references in the same paper also support the proposition. The bridge it took its name from was the lowest crossing point of the rivulet, at the end (at the time) of Macquarie Street. -- Regards Mike Hurburgh --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

I would like to ask the list for some help with Harold George Bingham HILL born 2 Oct 1896 Hobart to Robert Hill and Elizabeth Bridges. On the 3 Apr 1920 he married Selina May GIBSON(Lena). Harold committed several crimes and was sent to jail several times the last being 1927 . Can any one find any mention of him after 1927 please any assistance would be most appreciated Rod

Dear All, I have just noticed, for the first time, that there was a bridge across the Park Street rivulet in Liverpool Street at the time that section of Campbell Street down had been called Bridge Street. I've had a bad p/copy of this particular 1827 map for at least a decade, and have never noticed that bridge before! So, now I finally understand why it was called Bridge Street from Liverpool Street down, rather than from Collins Street down, where the Hobart Town Rivulet crossed Campbell (then Bridge) Street - I always wondered about that! Just goes to show, you can look and not see over and over again..... Best wishes, Carol. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Poole [mailto:splashpoole@yahoo.com.au] Sent: Monday, 19 May 2014 4:43 PM To: 'Carol Brill'; 'Bev & Alex Stone'; AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town Well done Carol. That explains how Campbell St existed as well at that time. I had later found the Union Tavern was in Campbell St on the corner of Liverpool St in later years, so was puzzled how it could be. Cheers Bob -----Original Message----- From: aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carol Brill Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 4:26 PM To: 'Bev & Alex Stone'; AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town Hi Alexander, Years ago I had the same problem, as the first house of 'my' Captain William Bunster's was also in Bridge Street - after a great deal of research, I found that Stone Street was then the lower part of present-day Campbell Street. I also have a map showing Thomas Stone's property, which I will send you when I relocate it. I also contacted the Hobart City Council Heritage Officer, and passed my research on to him - he agrees with me that Bridge Street had been that part of Campbell Street during the 182os. Best wishes, Carol Brill. -----Original Message----- From: Bev & Alex Stone [mailto:thestones@adam.com.au] Sent: Monday, 19 May 2014 12:26 AM To: AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town My ancestor Thomas STONE and his brother-in-law Joseph WITHERS who arrived in Hobart Town in 1819 both lived or conducted their business in Bridge Street which intersected with Liverpool Street. I have not been able to find Bridge Street marked on any of the early town plans now available on the Internet so would welcome some assistance in identifying its position. Regards, Alex Alexander E. H. Stone Milang, South Australia http://stones-in-tas.webplus.net/ ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4577 / Virus Database: 3950/7517 - Release Date: 05/18/14

Well done Carol. That explains how Campbell St existed as well at that time. I had later found the Union Tavern was in Campbell St on the corner of Liverpool St in later years, so was puzzled how it could be. Cheers Bob -----Original Message----- From: aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carol Brill Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 4:26 PM To: 'Bev & Alex Stone'; AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town Hi Alexander, Years ago I had the same problem, as the first house of 'my' Captain William Bunster's was also in Bridge Street - after a great deal of research, I found that Stone Street was then the lower part of present-day Campbell Street. I also have a map showing Thomas Stone's property, which I will send you when I relocate it. I also contacted the Hobart City Council Heritage Officer, and passed my research on to him - he agrees with me that Bridge Street had been that part of Campbell Street during the 182os. Best wishes, Carol Brill. -----Original Message----- From: Bev & Alex Stone [mailto:thestones@adam.com.au] Sent: Monday, 19 May 2014 12:26 AM To: AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town My ancestor Thomas STONE and his brother-in-law Joseph WITHERS who arrived in Hobart Town in 1819 both lived or conducted their business in Bridge Street which intersected with Liverpool Street. I have not been able to find Bridge Street marked on any of the early town plans now available on the Internet so would welcome some assistance in identifying its position. Regards, Alex Alexander E. H. Stone Milang, South Australia http://stones-in-tas.webplus.net/ ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Alexander, Years ago I had the same problem, as the first house of 'my' Captain William Bunster's was also in Bridge Street - after a great deal of research, I found that Stone Street was then the lower part of present-day Campbell Street. I also have a map showing Thomas Stone's property, which I will send you when I relocate it. I also contacted the Hobart City Council Heritage Officer, and passed my research on to him - he agrees with me that Bridge Street had been that part of Campbell Street during the 182os. Best wishes, Carol Brill. -----Original Message----- From: Bev & Alex Stone [mailto:thestones@adam.com.au] Sent: Monday, 19 May 2014 12:26 AM To: AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town My ancestor Thomas STONE and his brother-in-law Joseph WITHERS who arrived in Hobart Town in 1819 both lived or conducted their business in Bridge Street which intersected with Liverpool Street. I have not been able to find Bridge Street marked on any of the early town plans now available on the Internet so would welcome some assistance in identifying its position. Regards, Alex Alexander E. H. Stone Milang, South Australia http://stones-in-tas.webplus.net/

Hi Alex On Trove, if you search for: "bridge-street" Hobart And confine your search to say, 1815 - 1823, you will come up with many mentions of Bridge St. Apparently the dash between Bridge and Street makes the difference. >From the fact that the articles below mention that Bridge St intersected both Liverpool and Bathurst Streets, that a 3 acre property in Bridge St was contiguous with the wharf, and that Argyle and Campbell St's were both in existence at that time, I would guess Bridge St was where Brooker Ave, formerly Park St, is now. The Union Tavern was on the corner of Liverpool and Bridge Sts, so if someone can verify where that stood, you have your location. Happy hunting Bob http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1089843 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1090290 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1089727 -----Original Message----- From: aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bev & Alex Stone Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:26 AM To: AUS-TASMANIA@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-Tas] Bridge Street, Hobart Town My ancestor Thomas STONE and his brother-in-law Joseph WITHERS who arrived in Hobart Town in 1819 both lived or conducted their business in Bridge Street which intersected with Liverpool Street. I have not been able to find Bridge Street marked on any of the early town plans now available on the Internet so would welcome some assistance in identifying its position. Regards, Alex Alexander E. H. Stone Milang, South Australia http://stones-in-tas.webplus.net/ ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message