With a lot of help from others researchers I seem to have a good picture of John Dorsett in Tasmania. He went to Melbourne, came back to Tasmania, went again a couple of months later (with his wife, as Ann Davis) and then back to Tasmania at a later date. John joined the police. John's wife Ann(e) died in 1884; they don't seem to have had any children. John married again in 1886 at the age of 68 to the 22-year-old Emily Susan Hill and they had a daughter Marie Annie Constance four months later. John died in 1891. I am now hoping to find out what happened to Emily Susan(na) and Marie Annie Constance Dorsett. thanks again to all who have helped me with this research john Kate Spencer wrote: > Thanks to those who replied. > Already had their deaths and burial but as they married in 1849 thought > there could have been children on Tasmania CD but it seems they didn't > have any. > > Kate > > > Regards, Kate > "Jenny Chester" <jennychester@bordernet.com.au> wrote in message > news:4ac3dd5e$0$3253$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... >> Hi John >> >> See http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home >> The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954) Saturday 23 August 1884 >> DORSETT.-On August 19, at Upper Arthur street, Anne, the beloved wife of >> John Dorsett, late Sub-Inspector of Police, in the 54th year of her >> age. The >> funeral will leave her late residence THIS (Friday) AFTERNOON, at 2 >> o'clock, >> when friends are invited to attend. >> >> There are many articles about this John Dorsett, in the Tasmanian >> newspapers of the day from 1854 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home >> >> Index to Wills and Letters of Administration from 1824 >> http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/ >> Dorsett John 1891 AD960/1/18 470 4151 >> >> http://www.srct.com.au/ >> Ann and John are buried in the same grave. >> >> Hope this is your man! >> >> Jenny >> >> "Vivien" <viric@bigpond.com> wrote in message >> news:a5e91d25-6d80-46e1-ba66-48a5f3df6c34@h40g2000prf.googlegroups.com... >> On Sep 29, 6:24 pm, "Kate Spencer" <kate.spenc...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >>> It appears the convicts John Dorsett/Ann Davis did stay in Tasmania, so >>> perhaps some kind person with the records could search for children >>> after >>> 1849 >> (snip) >> >> From the Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database at >> http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8 >> >> it appears that Ann DORSETT died in Hobart in 1884, John then >> remarried in 1886 (to Emily Susan HILL), and they had a child in 1887 >> (Mary Annie Constance DORSETT). John died in 1891 in Hobart. >> >> Vivien >> >> >