Her family arrived in VDL in 1822 or 3. I can’t find her birth on familysearch .org in England. Was she registered in Hobart in either of those two years? There was a family rumour she was born on board ship but I don’t know how to substantiate that. Can anyone help, please? Cheers, Susan

Hi Susan, Registration of births in VDL/Tasmania did not begin until December 1838. (In England it was July, 1837.) Before this time we rely on baptism/christening records. In 1991 Alexander Buchanan compiled a list of births/baptisms in Tasmania from 1803 to 1840. He used other resources than church registers including a census in 1827 of children. This gives their place of residence and age, but not their date of birth. The reference was CSO1/122A; some references have changed slightly from when it the holding was known as Archives Office of Tasmania (AOT) to Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office (TAHO). Maria is listed as being born 1821 and going on the reference with page numbers, possible siblings appear to be Sarah born circa 1815 and Louisa born circa 1824. There are three male Ware children who may or may not be related. I hope this is of help? Maree On 8/02/2015 12:08 PM, Susan Patterson via wrote: > Her family arrived in VDL in 1822 or 3. I can’t find her birth on familysearch .org in England. Was she registered in Hobart in either of those two years? There was a family rumour she was born on board ship but I don’t know how to substantiate that. Can anyone help, please? > Cheers, > Susan > ------------------------------- > 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 University of Tasmania Electronic Communications Policy (December, 2014). This email is confidential, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone outside the intended recipient organisation is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of the University of Tasmania, unless clearly intended otherwise.