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MacFie, Peter H., 2004, 2022: Military Pensioners of Richmond, https://petermacfiehistorian.net.au/publications/military-pensioners/
Abstract
Originally presented as ’Mill Cottage to Peppercorn Gallery: A History of the Military Settlers of Richmond’ and other variations including ‘Colonial Soldiers’ or ‘Pensioner Soldiers’.
Right from the early days of British soldiers being sent to Van Diemen’s Land to guard the convicts, some of the military personnel sought permission to retire and take up land in the colony when their service ended. Some settled in the Coal River valley on the road to Port Arthur and became the core of today’s Richmond. By 1850 the British Government formalized the practice, and offered retired soldiers the chance to earn their fare (and those of their families) back to Van Diemen’s Land by working as ‘Convict Guards’, with the promise of small land grants and the chance to join the police. This is the story of those who settled at Richmond or nearby. Men of limited means who were in a class of their own. Not convicts or emancipists, and not wealthy or members of the ruling classes, but often skilled tradesmen who became a strength of the community.
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Contents
Contents……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Illustrations……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
- Mill Cottage – A Creative History……………………………………………………….. 7
- An Irish Redcoat & a Dressmaker………………………………………………………. 8
- The Morans Settle in Richmond’s “Irish Town”………………………………..14
- Mill Cottage – The Dress-Makers Shop c 1854………………………………. 23
- Morans on the Move………………………………………………………………………….. 28
- Private Edwin Anderson, Cooper, Royal Engineers……………………….. 30
- Richmond’s Crafty Anderson Brothers…………………………………………….. 36
- Other Military Pensioners and their Cottages………………………………… 42
- Peppercorn Gallery – A New Life for Mill Cottage………………………….. 55
Index…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 56
Excerpt
1. Mill Cottage – A Creative History
Until the 1930s, Richmond had a variety of traditional crafts and trades, ranging from coach building wheelwrighting, blacksmithing, shoemaking, saddle and harness making. The inns which once brewed their own beers employed coopers and related trades. Skill and crafts associated with women in the 19th century include dressmaking and embroidery. A short-lived ginger beer making operation was started by a female Richmond resident.
Many of these trades were recalled in 1977 by the late Alf King, (1894-1908), a local identity with a marvellous and reliable memory, who remembered the Richmond of his childhood pre-World War I. Using the names of residents listed in the 1902 Post Office Directory, Alf described to Peter MacFie who lived where in the various houses, shops and pubs of the Richmond of his boyhood.
He recalled that Mill Cottage – the Peppercorn Gallery at 58 Bridge Street – was at that time the home of James ‘Jimmy’ Anderson, village wheelwright and master builder. Subsequent research years later has revealed that Jimmy Anderson was probably related to the original owner. The cottage stayed in the Moran/Anderson families until 1953.
The land on which the cottage stands was first allocated c 1830 to J.K. Buscombe, the early Richmond entrepreneur, publican, developer and miller who lived in the home he built for his family, Prospect House.
Maps of the period show a small building on this site. However, information taken from the 1842 census indicates the cottage was probably erected in 1841-2. Edward Moran later called the house Mill Cottage, to distinguish it from the nearby Millers Cottage (1837) located at the end of Mill Lane and which gave access to the now vanished Tower Windmill. Mill Cottage was probably expanded around 1854, when two dressmaking sisters, Catherine and Bridget Moran, opened a shop there.
Alf King also recalled the bootmakers, undertakers, blacksmiths and other tradesman who lived and worked in Richmond. Most of these were based in Bridge Streets, Richmond’s main thoroughfare.
Index
alcohol, 14, 20, 39
Alexander, L, 21
Allcock, Martha, 26
Anderson children, 18
Anderson family, 53
Anderson, Amelia (Mrs Martin), 40, 41, 47
Anderson, Edward, 52, See Anderson, Edwin
Anderson, Edwin, 18, 30, 31, 33, 34, 43, 46
Anderson, George, 31, 32, 39, 40, 54
Anderson, James. See Anderson, Jimmy
Anderson, Jimmy, 6, 7, 31, 32, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 52, See Anderson, James
Anderson, John, 31, 32, 40
Anderson, Martin, 30, 31, 32, 39, 40, 41
Anderson, Mary (Mrs Edwin), 18, 30, 31, 33, 34, 46, See Moran, Mary Ann
Anderson, MaryAnn, 31
Anderson’s Cottage, 30, 40
Anderson’s Cottage #1, 30, 32, 54
Anstey, Thomas, 52
Arthur, Lt. Gov. George, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20
Ashmore, William, 52
Bailey, Robert, 46
Bailey, Sam, 54
Barrow, ? (Mrs William Warre), 14
Barrow, Lt William Warre, 10, 11, 14
Black Line, 9, 10, 14
Black Wars, 10
Blackburn, Mark, 54
Blowfield, James, 44
Blowfield, Sarah (Mrs James). See Mason, Sarah
Bothwell, 11
Bradshaw, Henry, 21
Brown Mountain, 10, 11, 14, 15, 29
Brown’s River. See Kingston
Brushy Plains. See Buckland
Buckland, 25, 27
Buckley, James, 51
Burn, George, 15, 22
Burns, Herbert, 38
Burrell, Walter, 38
Burridge, John, 47
Buscombe, J. K., 7, 10, 11, 23
bushrangers, 16, 46
Byron, Jane (Mrs ?), 26
Cain, ? (Mrs ?), 18
Campania, 14, 50
Campania Estate, 51
Cane, ? (Mrs ?), 17
Carey, Bridget (Mrs William), 47
Carey, William, 47, 51, 52, 54
Carey’s Cottage, 47, 54
Cassidy family, 18
Cassidy, Bridget (Mrs John). See Moran, Bridget
Cassidy, Hugh, 51
Cassidy, John, 15, 16, 17, 27
Catholics, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 26, 29, 33, 36, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 51, 52, 53
Chessington Boarding House, 27
Clifford, James, 44
Congregationalists, 52
Connell, Margaret. See Moran, Margaret (Mrs Charles)
Connolly’s Marsh, 13
Conroy allotment, 54
Conroy, Bridget (Mrs John), 45
Conroy, Bridget jnr, 53
Conroy, John, 45, 52, 53
Conroy, Mary, 53
Conroy, Patrick, 45
Conroy’s Cottage, 45, 53
constables, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51
convict guards, 8, 43, 46
Cooley, Brassy. See Cooley, Charles
Cooley, Charles, 36, 46
Cornish children, 45
Cornish grant, 54
Cornish, Hannah (Mrs William), 44, 45, 46
Cornish, Mary, 45
Cornish, William, 43, 44, 45, 52, 53
Cornish’s Cottage, 53
Cotham, Father James, 17
Cotham, Lawrence, 52
Cousins, Phil, 37
cricket, 20, 21, 26
Cullen, William, 18
Cunningham, Margaret, 17
Cunningham, Michael, 18
Dale the water carrier, 26
Daniell, Captain ?, 30
Denton, James, 52, See Dunton, James
Devitt, Alf, 39
Devitt, Amelia. See Anderson, Amelia (Mrs Martin)
Devitt, John, 40
Devitt, Julia (Mrs John), 40
Dickson, Bassett, 51
Dickson, Henry, 37
Dodge, Ralph, 43
Dodge’s Ferry, 43
Douglas, Major ?, 11
Dumas, Captain ?, 14
Dunton, Florence, 25
Dunton, James, 25, 26, 27
Dunton, James Alfred, 25
Dunton, Mary Ann (Mrs James), 25, 26, 27
Eaglehawk Neck, 9
East Bay Neck, 11, 13
Eumarrah, 10
Eureka Rebellion, 46
Evans, Samuel, 47
Fagan children, 51
Fagan, ? (Mrs Michael), 51
Fagan, Michael, 31, 51
Fergusson, Peter, 10
Fielding, Anne (Mrs Robert), 55
Fielding, Robert, 55
Findlay, John, 11, 12
Fitzsimmons, Eliza (Mrs Richard), 53
Fitzsimmons, Richard, 53
foot-racing, 22
Gaby, Thomas, 52
Gard, Walter, 39
Gavin, Roger, 15
George Anderson’s Cottage. See Laurel Cottage
Geraldine Cottage, 48, 54
ginger beer, 7
Glen Ayr, 22, 51
Glover, Thomas, 44
Godfrey, Margaret (Mrs Peter), 55
Godfrey, Peter, 55
Goldie children, 27
Goldie, Francis, 27
Goldie, Mary Ann (Mrs Francis), 27
Gordon, James, 11, 12
Gracey, ?, 15
Grass Tree Hill Road Gang, 20
Green Ponds. See Kempton
Green, Bill, 36, 37, 38, 39
Gregory, Alice (Mrs John snr). See Wroe, Alice
Gregory, John snr, 50
Gregson, Thomas, 51, 52
Griffiths, Henry, 13
Guy, Benjamin, 14
Half Way Hill, 20
Hamilton, 26, 27
Hanna, Eliza, 22
Hannan, Miss ?, 17
Harris, Martin, 55
Hatfield, James, 22
hawkers, 38
Hawkes, Earnest, 40
Hayes, Catherine. See Moran, Catherine (Mrs Edward)
Herbert, Thomas, 52
Horsham, Mary, 13
Horsham, Private ?, 13
Horsham, Robert, 13
Hussey, ? (Mrs William), 51
Hussey, William, 51
inns
Bridge Inn, 11, 16, 33, 40
Commercial Hotel, 38
Glen Derwent, 24
Jolly Farmer, 16, 32
Prince of Wales, 16, 53
Richmond Inn, 52
Union Hotel, 16, 30, 32, 51, 52, 53
Inverquarity, 51
Irish people, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 24, 32, 46, 51, 53
Irish Town, 16, 31, 32, 39, 51, 52
Jacobs, Philip, 21, 22
Jameieson’s Cottage. See Geraldine Cottage
Jamieson, James, 48, 52, 54
Jamieson’s Cottage, 48, 53
Jerusalem, 11, 23, 29, 53
Jones, Jeffrey, 55
Joseph, George, 38, 39
Kate, 6
Keady, Patrick, 45, 53
Kearney, William, 14, 43
Kelly, Mary (Mrs Robert), 52, See Cornish, Mary
Kelly, Reg, 54
Kelly, Robert, 45, 52
Kelly’s Farm, 46
Kempton, 26, 27
killings, 10, 11
King, Alf, 7, 32, 36, 37, 38, 39, 43
King, George, 38
Kingston, 20, 47
Knight, Edward, 33
Larnder, William, 43
Lauderdale, 47
Laurel Cottage, 39, 54
Leils, Thomas, 47
Lester, Bill, 38
Lisson, Adam, 32, 46, 47, 51, 52
Lisson, Elizabeth (Mrs Adam), 32, 46
Little Jack. See Netherwood, John
Lloyd, G.T., 11
Malcolm’s Huts Road Station, 20
Marchant, ?, 22
Marengo Estate, 37
Margate, 47
Maria Island, 24
Mason children, 43
Mason grant, 54
Mason, Charlotte, 43, 44, 50
Mason, Eliza (Mrs Samuel), 43, 44
Mason, Ellen, 43, 44
Mason, John Walter, 43, 44
Mason, Samuel, 43, 44, 51, 53
Mason, Sarah, 43, 44
Mason’s Cottage, 53
McCullagh, Mary (Mrs Simon), 32
McCullagh, Simon, 32
McCulloch, Anne (Mrs Simon), 16
McCulloch, Mary Ann, 17
McCulloch, Simon, 16, 52, 53
McCullugh, Simon. See McCulloch, Simon
McDougall, Lindsay, 55
McDougall, Sue (Mrs Lindsay), 55
McGowan, Anastasia (Mrs James), 32
McGowan, Honora, 17
McGowan, James, 16, 18, 32, 53
McGowan, Mary, 17
McLoughlin, Thomas, 13
Medlar, William, 46
military
01st Madras Regiment, 45
09th Regiment, 31, 51
11th Regiment, 47
21st Regiment, 16, 21
22nd Regiment, 46
36rd Regiment, 8
46th Regiment, 45
63rd Regiment, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
68th Regiment, 46
73rd regiment, 16
97th Regiment, 43
99th Regiment, 43, 48
Auckland Militia, 14
Royal Artillery, 49
Royal Marine, 51
Sappers and Miners Regiment, 30, 34
military pensioners, 16, 31, 32, 40, 43, 45, 46, 48, 51, 52, 53
Mill Cottage, 6, 7, 8, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 40, 41, 55
Millers Cottage, 7, 28
Montrose Cottage, 54
Moran children, 18
Moran, Annie Ada, 28
Moran, Arthur Ernest, 28
Moran, Bridget, 7, 15, 19, 23, 26, 27, 29, 48
Moran, Bridget (Mrs Thomas), 28
Moran, Catherine, 48
Moran, Catherine (Mrs Edward), 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 28, 31
Moran, Catherine (Mrs William), 28
Moran, Catherine 3, 22
Moran, Catherine jr, 15
Moran, Charles, 8, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 52, 53
Moran, Charles Connell jnr, 28
Moran, Edward, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 39, 45, 52, 53, 54
Moran, Edward 2, 22
Moran, Eleanor, 15, 19
Moran, Florence Lillian, 28
Moran, Isabella Margaret, 28
Moran, Kate, 7, 17, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, See Moran, Catherine jr
Moran, Margaret (Mrs Charles), 28, 29
Moran, Maria. See Moran, Mary Ann
Moran, Mary Ann, 6, 15, 17, 31, See Dunton, Mary Ann (Mrs James)
Moran, Mary Ann 2, 22
Moran, Richard Thomas, 28
Moran, Rose Helena, 28
Moran, Thomas, 12, 28, 29
Moran, Thomas 2, 15, 17, 19
Moran, William, 8, 9, 15, 17, 19, 27, 28, 30
Moran, William 3, 22
Moran’s Cottage, 19, 45
Moran’s Cottage. See Montrose Cottage
Moren, Edward. See Moran, Edward
Morin, Edward. See Moran, Edward
Mounted Police, 10, 11, 15
Mt Rumney, 20
Murphy, Daniel, 16, 33
Murphy, Patrick, 11
Muster Ground, 10
Native Corners, 46, 50, 51, 53
Netherwood, John, 19, 20
New Town Farm, 48
Nicholls, J. H., 52
Nichols, ? (Magistrate), 21
Nickols, Elizabeth, 23
Noonan, Bridget. See Moran, Bridget (Mrs Thomas)
Norfolk Island, 30, 49
Nugent Farm, 25
O’Keefe, David, 18
O’Keefe, Michael, 18
Oatlands, 11, 44, 52
Ogilvy, David, 51
Parramore, Owen, 54
Penrice, 43
pensioner guards, 30
Peppercorn Gallery, 6, 7, 55
petitions, 17, 24, 25, 52
Polding, Bishop John Bede, 16
Poole, Ann (Mrs Joseph), 20
Poole, Anne. See Shelverton, Anne (Mrs George)
Poole, Joseph, 20
Port Arthur, 9, 20, 24
Price, John, 49
Prospect House, 7
Protestants, 24, 26, 27, 29, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53
Pt Puer, 21
Quin, Mrs Jean, 54
Redding, Ellen (Mrs William). See Mason, Ellen
Redding, Richard, 43, 44
Redding, William, 44
Reid, Thomas, 39
Reynolds, ? (Mrs Roderick), 47
Reynolds, Roderick, 47, 52
Richmond Bridge, 11, 14, 43
Richmond Gaol, 10, 14, 44
Richmond Races, 22
Riley, Thomas, 45
Robertson, Gilbert, 10, 15, 43
Rose, John, 23
Roslyn, 15, 22
Ross, Simon, 52
Rows, Thomas snr. See Wroe, Thomas snr
Sampson, ? (Mrs ?), 54
Schaw, Charles, 21, 51
schools
Campania, 55
Catholic, 18, 40
Dame, 53
private girls, 23
public, 47
Searle daughters, 23
Searle, ? (Mrs ?), 23
Shaw children, 47
Shaw, Arthur, 47, 54
Shaw, Bessie (Mrs Arthur), 47, 54
sheep, 11, 12
Shelverton, Annie May, 26
Shelverton, George, 26
Shelverton, Georgina Lester, 23
Shelverton, Kate (Mrs William), 26, 29, See Moran, Kate
Shelverton, William, 26, 29
ships
Alice, 9
Blenheim, 43, 46
Coringa Packet, 46
Eliza 4, 30, 31, 43, 45, 47, 49
Lady Leigh, 49
Lord Goderich, 21
Maria Soames, 43, 48
Medway 2, 19, 20
Minerva, 15, 16, 17, 18, 32
Wave, 8
Simpson, Mary Ann. See Goldie, Marie Ann (Mrs Francis)
Smith O’Brien, William, 24, 53
Smith, Thomas, 50
soldiers, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 30
Sorell, 11, 12, 20, 26
Sparkes, William, 27
St John’s Cemetery, 12, 15, 34, 48
St John’s Church, 12, 15, 16, 17, 26, 40
St Luke’s Cemetery, 12, 13, 34, 44, 51
St Luke’s Church, 26, 45, 50
steam flour mill, 26
Stoney Creek tribe, 10
Styne family, 18
Tasmanian Aborigines, 10, 11
The Carlton, 13
The Old Place, 54, See Carey’s Cottage
trades
blacksmiths, 7, 36, 37, 38
bootmakers, 7, 9, 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, 32, 40
brewers, 33
bricklayers, 51
builders, 7, 37, 52
butchers, 47
carpenters, 6, 20, 37
charcoal burners, 38
coach-builders, 6, 37
coach-painters, 38
coopers, 7, 30, 33, 34, 36
dressmakers, 6, 7, 9, 23, 26
embroiderers, 7, 23
iron-founders, 46
javelin men, 44
laundresses, 49
millers, 7, 23, 26
millwrights, 10
ostlers, 33
plasterers, 51
shoemakers, 27, 39
stonemasons, 52
tailors, 46, 48
undertakers, 7
wheelwrights, 6, 7, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
Travers, Catherine. See Moran, Catherine (Mrs William)
Ulmer, Kurt, 6, 55
Ulmer, Shirley (Mrs Kurt), 6, 55
Villeneuve Smith, William, 51
Vine Cottage, 44
voting, 51
Wallace, Laurence, 18
Wharton, Pymbar, 27
Whelan, Frances (Mrs John). See Wroe, Frances Eliza
Whelan, John, 50
White Kangaroo Rivulet, 10, 15, 29
White, ?, 15
Wiggins, Arthur, 54
Williams, W, 21
Willson, Bishop Robert William, 17, 18
Wilson, William, 21
windmill, 7, 10, 23, 28
Woodburn, 15, 16, 51
Woolford, Billy, 54
Woolford, Louise, 54
Woolford, Mercy, 54
Wright, Cyril, 54
Wright, Walter, 39
Wroe grant, 54
Wroe, Alice, 50
Wroe, Charlotte (Mrs Thomas jnr), 50, See Mason, Charlotte
Wroe, Eva, 50
Wroe, Frances (Mrs Thomas snr), 49, 51
Wroe, Frances Eliza, 50
Wroe, Samuel, 49, 51
Wroe, Thomas jnr, 44, 49, 50
Wroe, Thomas snr, 44, 49, 51, 53
Wroe’s Cottage, 53
Young, Randel, 26
