Hi Don, Further to my earlier email. (sorry forgot to send to list) The Irish tenant families that Captain Fenton bought out with him arrived on the ship "Lindsays", 28th June 1832. If you go to the TAHO names search for arrivals - http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=91 and enter Lindsays into the ships name and 1832 into year of arrival you will get a list of 45 names including the Fenton's. This should give you a very good jumping off point for extended research. Cheers, Peter On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Peter Oakley <pete.j.oakley@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Don, > > I've had a passing interest in "Fenton Forest" over the years because of > my researches into William Clark and James Peevor Clark. The latter was > actually resident at Fenton Forest in the late 1840's according to church > records. Other families like the Browning's, etc. were also resident at > different times. > > I've been through a lot of archival records for the area and I'm amazed at > how little there is available on the estate itself. Captain Fenton just > doesn't seem to have left a legacy of records that have reached the > archives or perhaps are still in private hands or just did not survive time. > > I've come upon ledgers and letters by many other land holders like the > Bethune family from the same district that give a wealth of information > into farm management and tenant farmers but absolutely zilch as regards > Fenton. > > I don't know where you would find more info as regards the immigrant Irish > farmers who came out with him? > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Don Bradmore via < > aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Hi Listers, I'm interested in learning more about 'Fenton Forest', near >> Glenora, the estate of Captain Michael Fenton (1789-1874). Can someone >> tell >> me, please, what has been written about the tenant families that Fenton >> brought out from Ireland to work for him on his estate, please? I'm >> familiar with his brief biography in 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' >> and with the several obituaries published in newspapers after his death >> but >> require more detail. I'd welcome contact from others who have a research >> interest in Fenton, his estate or his former tenants. All good wishes, Don >> Bradmore, Central Victoria. >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > >