Peter MacFie had an abiding interest in the music of Tasmania of all eras. In 2008 he was funded to begin a special collection for the State Library of Tasmania on Popular Music Culture (especially Rock Music as a place to start) for the era 1950-1985. He presented a summary of this work to the Australian Institute of Music Librarians, Conference, Hobart, 2008 and it is now available for download at Popular Music Culture in Southern Tasmania 1950-1985.
MacFie, Peter H., 2004, 2022: Military Pensioners of Richmond, https://petermacfiehistorian.net.au/publications/military-pensioners/
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……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Illustrations……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
Index…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 56
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.
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
MacFie, Peter, 2022, See No Evil, https://petermacfiehistorian.net.au/publications/see-no-evil/
Peter MacFie was born in Launceston in 1943 and lived there with his mother and grandmother until his father returned from fighting World War II in New Guinea. His father, Henry Hector MacFie, went to work with the Hydro-Electricity Commission and studied Engineering at UTAS. Peter’s mother kept house on the edge of The Glebe overlooking The Domain and increased the family. This is Peter’s view of his world as he ran free and gained an education from the children he played with while his father worked himself into the ground to try to cope with his nightmares of war, and his mother was dreadfully lonely and unhappy far away from her own close-knit family. Despite this, Peter recounts his childhood adventures with a golden glow.
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A small boy in a red brick house on the hilly Glebe, perched on top of a hill overlooking Hobart.
A neat brick cottage in a row of larger weatherboard houses, some of two storeys with high gables, front steps and verandas facing ‘The Domain’.
Wild grass and native orchids, gum trees and open space, divided by a road, lined with ordered pine trees, all heading to the TCA – Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground.
From the back sunroom windows of the house perched on The Glebe he looked towards The Mountain.
In between was the Valley of Houses, smoky in winter, church bells ringing across the valley on Sundays from Trinity Hill in North Hobart and, nearer the harbour, the full chimes from St David’s Cathedral. Sometimes they rang out on evening practice nights, loud as if they were next door.
Houses clustered over the hills under the bushy silhouettes of Mount Wellington and Mount Nelson.
Down Aberdeen Street to the south was the Regatta Ground and then The River, where the town met the water. Wharfs and docks with big ships and fishing boats in small docks, factories around them.
It’s summer. The red brick cottage is hot. A hazy, clear day and the roar of some single-propeller aeroplanes coming down the valley, sounding low and echoing louder and louder. He rushes out onto the back steps over-looking the valley of houses:
‘The War is over – isn’t it?’
Hands across his eyes – he can’t see for the sun.
Hands across his ears – because the noise is so loud.
Hands across his mouth with …
The propellers on the fighters spin, matching the ‘bulls-eyes’ on their sides.
But it’s not war, not anymore.
There’s a victory celebration in Hobart, and it’s Regatta Day on the River Derwent across the other side of The Domain. The Navy is in, there’s an aircraft carrier at the big wharf, smaller warships in the river and – best of all – the circus is in The Hollow.
Table of Contents
Table of Photographs
Cover Images
References
Robbitee Bobbitee
Introduction
1 – Our Glebe Home
2 – Family and Home
3 – The Hydro
4 – The Domain
5 – Two Nannas
6 – Holidays
7 – School
8 – The City
9 – Moving House
Afterwards
Postscript
Addendum – How to spell MacFie
Father’s Family
Mother’s Family
Index
accidents
ammonia, 48
barbed-wire, 21
rabbit trap, 65
alcohol, 34, 36, 59, 109
Anzac Day, 31, 96
Archer, Edward, 118
Archer, Frank, 119
Archer, Gerald, 63, 120, 123
Archer, Heather (Mrs Rob), 63
Archer, Hedley, 63, 120, 124
Archer, Lilian Elsie, 113, 122, See MacFie, Lilian Elsie (Mrs Henry 2)
Archer, Lillian (Mrs Hedley), 18, 28, 120, 121
Archer, Margery (Mrs Frank), 119
Archer, Martha (Mrs William), 117
Archer, Mary Margery. See Archer, Meg
Archer, Meg. See Robertson, Meg (Mrs Ron)
Archer, Rob, 123
Archer, Susannah (Mrs Edward), 118
Archer, William, 117
Armstrong (Thomas), 121
Armstrong, Agnes (Mrs Alexander), 121
Armstrong, Alexander, 121
Armstrong, Diane, 70
Armstrong, Dulcie (Mrs Stan), 69
Armstrong, Effie (Uncle Stan), 122
Armstrong, Ethel Lillian May). See Archer, Lillian (Mrs Hedley)
Armstrong, Lillian. See Archer, Lillian (Mrs Hedley)
Armstrong, Mary, 122
Armstrong, May (Mrs Thomas), 113, 121
Armstrong, Norman Stanley. See Armstrong, Stan (Great Uncle Stan)
Armstrong, Ross, 70
Armstrong, Stan (Great Uncle Stan), 69, 70
Armstrong, Thomas, 113
Auntie Aida, 67, 69, See French, Aida (Mrs Chris)
Auntie Dulcie. See Armstrong, Dulcie (Mrs Stan)
Auntie Heather. See Archer, Heather (Mrs Rob)
Auntie Jean, 57, 60, See McFie, Jean (Auntie Jean)
Auntie Jessie, 41, 69, See Shegog, Jessie (Mrs Sam)
Auntie Meg (Uncle Ron), 35, 38, 41, 42, 62, 63, 64, 70, 71, 72, 77, 81, 83, See Robertson, Meg (Uncle Ron)
Auntie Nancy, 97, 98, See Wilson, Nancy (Uncle David), See McFie, Nancy (Uncle David)
bikes, 54, 74, 76
billycarts, 22, 23
Boat Harbour, 81
books, 28, 50, 60, 68, 85, 96, 97
Botanic Gardens, 44, 46, 49
Brickendon, 66, 118
Bricknell, Mr Harry, 19, 20
Burnie, 35, 62, 71
Burnie Park, 74, 85
Cam River, 80
Cameron, Joyce (Mrs Neil), 41, 72
Cameron, Neil, 41
Campbell Town, 71
cars, 34, 61, 99, 102
Cattle Jetty, 46, 55
Cenotaph, 46, 96
Chapman, Captain William, 111
Chapman, Hannah Elizabeth, 111, See McFie, Hannah (Mrs Henry 1)
Chapman, Martha (Mrs William), 111
chooks, 35
Christmas, 40
circus, 15, 38, 39, 96
Coles Bay, 62
Collins, Dickie, 89
Connor, Bridget. See McFie, Bridget (Mrs Hector 1.1)
Cooee, 74, 75, 76, 81
Cooee Sale Day, 74
Cordner, Miss, 91
Cornelian Bay, 46
Coronea, Hadspen, 121
Coronea, Invermay, 121
Corraville, 66, 67, 68, 69
Cracker Morris. See Morris, Mr Eric K. (Cracker)
cricket, 16, 46, 47, 48, 53, 70, 81, 89
Crisp, Selena Susan Ida. See McFie, Susan (Mrs Teddy 1.1)
Crooke, Richard, 43
Dad, 99, See MacFie, Henry 2
bad memories, 18, 32, 34, 47
good memories, 22, 38, 39, 47, 51, 52, 62
war damage, 18
Dawson, Smoky, 76
Deacon, Ann. See Spurr, Ann (Mrs James)
Denovan, Christina. See Johnson, Christina (Mrs Alexander)
Denovan, Elizabeth (Mrs William), 119
Denovan, William, 119
Detention River, 81
Devonport, 99, 110, 112
dogs, 21, 29, 37, 40, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 67, 68, 69, 75, 77, 92, 102
Dumbarton, 58, 102, 103, 115
Father, 16, See MacFie, Henry 2
Fern Glade, 79
Fern Tree, 59, 61
ferries, 19, 44
fishing, 41, 65, 80
Floating Bridge, 35, 40, 44, 49, 90
Flynn, Errol, 22
Follies, 42
football, 46, 110
Ford family, 20, 36, 37, 40, 50, 88, 102
Ford, (Mrs George (Jack)), 19, 40
Ford, Barry, 19, 47, 86
Ford, George (Mr Jack), 19, 37, 40
Ford, Graham, 19, 37, 40, 41, 86
Ford, Ross, 19, 40, 41, 53
French, Aida (Mrs Chris), 66
French, Chris (Uncle Chris), 66
French, Geoff, 67, 68
Frog Hole, 49
gambling, 71
Gangell, Lillian (Mrs ?), 18, 19, 45, 99
Gaol, 18, 88, 98
Geard family, 55, 99
Geard, Colin, 22, 54, 99
Geilston Bay, 90
Girls, 53
Glebe Town, 16, See The Glebe
Government House, 46, 49
Grandfather Hedley Archer, 57, See Archer, Hedley
Grandfather McFie, 57, 106, 112, See McFie, Hector 2
Grandmother Archer. See Nanna Archer
Grandmother McFie. See Nanna McFie
Grant, Captain John, 109
Grant, Ellen (Mrs John), 109, See McFie, Ellen (Mrs Hector 1.2)
grass igloos, 48, 49
Great Grandfather Frank Archer. See Archer, Frank
Great Grandfather Henry McFie 1, 100, 106, 112, See McFie, Henry 1
Great Grandfather Price. See Price, Thomas William
Great Grandfather Thomas Armstrong. See Armstrong. Thomas
Great Grandmother Emily Price. See Price, Emily (Mrs Thomas William)
Great Grandmother Hannah McFie. See McFie, Hannah (Mrs Henry 1)
Great Grandmother Margery Archer. See Archer, Margery (Mrs Frank)
Great Grandmother May Armstrong. See Armstrong, May (Mrs Thomas)
Great Nanna Hannah McFie, 100, 112, See McFie, Hannah (Mrs Henry 1)
Great Uncle Gerald Archer. See Archer, Gerald
Great-great Grandfather Alexander Johnson. See Johnson, Alexander
Great-great Grandfather Armstrong. See Armstrong, Alexander
Great-great Grandfather Edward Archer. See Archer, Edward
Great-great Grandfather John Hall jr. See Hall, John jr
Great-great Grandfather John Price. See Price, John
Great-great Grandfather Spurr. See Spurr, James
Great-great Grandfather Teddy McFie. See McFie, Teddy
Great-great Grandfather William Chapman. See Chapman, Captain William
Great-great Grandmother Armstrong. See Armstrong, Agnes (Mrs Alexander)
Great-great Grandmother Chapman. See Chapman, Martha (Mrs William)
Great-great Grandmother Christina Johnson. See Johnson, Christina (Mrs Alexander)
Great-great Grandmother Mary Hall jr. See Hall, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs John jr)
Great-great Grandmother Price. See Price, Jane (Mrs John)
Great-great Grandmother Spurr. See Spurr, Ann (Mrs James)
Great-great Grandmother Susan McFie. See McFie, Susan (Mrs Teddy 1.1)
Great-great Grandmother Susannah Moore. See Archer, Susannah (Mrs Edward)
Great-great-great Grandfather Hector 1, 108, See McFie, Hector 1
Great-great-great Grandfather Henry Rockliff. See Rockliff, Henry
Great-great-great Grandfather James Moore. See Moore, James)
Great-great-great Grandfather James Sayers. See Sayers, James
Great-great-great Grandfather John Hall sr. See Hall, John sr
Great-great-great Grandfather Joseph Johnson. See Johnson, Joseph
Great-great-great Grandfather William Archer. See Archer, William
Great-great-great Grandfather William Denovan. See Denovan, William
Great-great-great Grandmother Bridget Connor. See McFie, Bridget (Mrs Hector 1.1)
Great-great-great Grandmother Edith Hall. See Hall, Edith (Mrs John sr)
Great-great-great Grandmother Elizabeth Denovan. See Denovan, Elizabeth (Mrs William)
Great-great-great Grandmother Elizabeth Moore. See Moore, Elizabeth (Mrs James)
Great-great-great Grandmother Hannah Rockliff. See Rockliff, Hannah (Mrs Henry)
Great-great-great Grandmother Janet Johnson (Mrs Joseph). See Johnson, Joseph
Great-great-great Grandmother Martha Archer. See Archer, Martha (Mrs William)
Great-great-great Grandmother Mrs James Sayers. See Sayers, Mrs James
Great-uncle Stan. See Armstrong, Stan
Greenhythe, 64, 69
greyhound racing, 21
Hadspen, 121
Hall, Edith (Mrs John sr), 121
Hall, John jr, 113
Hall, John sr, 121
Hall, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs John jr), 113
Hall, May Elizabeth, 121, See Armstrong, May (Mrs Thomas)
Hassett, Lindsay, 47, 89
Hayes, Mr Herbert, 100
Hector Cottage, 110
Heywood, Rev. G.T., 120
Hobart Railway Station, 72, 94, 96
Hobart Tigers, 46
Hooper, Christine, 89
Hooper, Mr Fred, 41, 42
Hope, Michael, 93
horses, 20, 21, 63, 70, 75, 76, 87, 90, 121
Hydro, 27, 29, 39, 44, 45, 102, See Hydro-Electric Commission
Hydro Picnic, 44
Hydro-Electric Commission, 27
Invermay, 69
Johnson, Alexander, 119
Johnson, Christina (Mrs Alexander), 119
Johnson, Janet (Mrs Joseph), 119
Johnson, Joseph, 119
Johnson, Margery. See Archer, Margery (Mrs Frank)
Keely, Jane. See Price, Jane (Mrs John)
Kensey, Martha. See Archer, Martha (Mrs William)
kite flying, 46
knife sharpening, 36
lamb marking, 68
Lamond, Stella, 43
Landfall, 63, 69, 113, 116, 120, 123, 124
Lane, Mrs, 91
Lawrence, ? Mrs ?, 92
Lawrence, Mr ?, 92
Leverington, 118, 119
Lillico, Mr A., 100
Lilydale, 120
Lindrum, Walter, 82
Longford, 72, 119
MacFie, Andy, 42, 101, 104
MacFie, Henry 2, 24, 123
MacFie, Jessie. See Shegog, Jessie (Uncle Sam)
MacFie, Josephine, 104
MacFie, Lilian Elsie (Mrs Henry 2), 24, 115
MacFie, Marg, 104
MacFie, Peter, 104
MacFie, Rob, 18, 22, 31, 38, 39, 51, 54, 62, 63, 68, 71, 78, 79, 100, 104
Mad Mick, 22
Maggs, Rev. Ivor, 42
magicians, 42
Martin family, 90
Martin, Roger, 89, 90
Mather, Chris, 89
McFee, Teddy. See McFie, Teddy
McFie, Alan (Uncle Alan), 57
McFie, Bridget (Mrs Hector 1.1), 108
McFie, Ellen (Mrs Hector 1.2), 109
McFie, Hannah (Mrs Henry 1), 99, 100, 112
McFie, Harriett (Mrs Hector 2.1, 28, 114
McFie, Hector 1, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112
McFie, Hector 2, 28, 58, 106, 112
McFie, Helen, 115
McFie, Henry 1, 57, 99, 106, 110, 112
McFie, Henry 2, 115, See Father
McFie, Jean (Auntie Jean), 57, 115
McFie, Jessie ( Auntie Jessie), 114
McFie, Jessie (Auntie Jessie), 57
McFie, Julia (Mrs Teddy 1.2), 110
McFie, Nancy. See Wilson, Nancy (Uncle David), See Auntie Nancy (Uncle David)
McFie, Paul (Uncle Paul), 57, 114
McFie, Susan (Mrs Teddy 1.1), 109
McFie, Teddy (Edward), 109
McFie, Toni (Mrs Hector 2.2, 115
measles, 45
Melba, Dame Nellie, 84
Menadue family, 19
Menadue, Jimmy, 19, 47
Menadue, Mr Jim, 19
mice, 17
Military Cross presentation, 28
Mill House, 120
Milligan family, 98
Milligan, Rev., 98
mischief, 39, 40
money, 21, 97
Moore, Elizabeth (Mrs James), 118
Moore, James, 118
Moore, Susannah. See Archer, Susannah (Mrs Edward)
Morris, Mr Eric K. (Cracker), 89, 91
Mother, 16, 94, 116, 122, See MacFie, Lilian Elsie (Mrs Henry 2)
Mount Wellington, 16, 59
Mowbray, 69
Murfitt, Edith. See Hall, Edith (Mrs John sr)
music, 16, 42, 83, 84, 85
organ, 43, 83
singing, 43, 57, 83
Nanna Archer, 24, 28, 31, 56, 57, 70, 121, 122, See Archer, Lillian (Mrs Hedley)
Nanna McFie, 28, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, See McFie, Harriett (Mrs Hector 2.1)
New Norfolk, 44, 45
Northbury, 118, 119
Owen family, 19, 102
Owen, Kath (Mrs Jack), 19, 36
Owen, Mary, 36, 86
Owen, Mr Jack, 19, 20, 36
Owen, Trish, 36, 53, 86, 105
Pace, Mr Ron, 19
Palfreyman, Ian, 89
Paloona, 112
Panshanger, 118
Penna, 40, 41
pets, 37, 50
canaries, 36, 50, 92
rosella parrots, 50
Piesse, Miss, 87
Point Puer, 113, 114
police, 52, 55
Pollock, Janet. See Johnson, Janet (Mrs Joseph)
Port Arthur, 19
Potter family, 19, 50
Potter, (Mrs Arthur), 19
Potter, Janet, 19, 36, 53
Potter, Mr Arthur, 19
Potter, Stephen, 19
Powder Magazine, 49
Price, Emily (Mrs Thomas William), 113
Price, Harriett, 112, 114, See McFie, Harriett (Nanna McFie)
Price, Jane (Mrs John), 112
Price, John, 112
Price, Thomas William, 112
Pulp and Paper Mill, 74, 85
Queen Mary’s Rest Garden, 111
Queenstown, 57
radio serials, 35
Reddy, Max, 43
Regatta Day, 15, 38, 39, 76
Regatta Ground, 14, 46, 48, 55, 96
religion: Baptist, 59
religion: Catholic, 36, 113
religion: Methodist, 34, 36, 39, 41, 58, 83, 97, 120
religion: Presbyterian, 110
Repat. Hospital, 34
River Derwent, 49
roads: Memorial Ave, 48
roads: Midlands Highway, 66, 99
roads: Mount Wellington Rd, 59
Robert’s the Skin Merchant, 88
Robertson, Effie. See Armstrong, Effie (Uncle Stan)
Robertson, Geoff (Uncle Geoff), 42, 43, 83
Robertson, Meg (Mrs Ron), 41
Robertson, Ron (Uncle Ron), 71
Roches Beach, 35
Rockliff, Hannah (Mrs Henry), 113, 121
Rockliff, Henry, 113, 121
Rothesay, 99, 112
Royal Visit, 98
rude rhymes, 53
Salter, ? (Mrs Harold), 19
Salter, Mr Harold, 19
Salter, Steven, 19, 22
sandpit, 34, 36, 53
Santa Claus, 40
Sassafras, 113
Sawkins, Ellen. See McFie, Ellen (Mrs Hector 1.2)
Sayers, James, 111
Sayers, Martha. See Chapman, Martha (Mrs William)
Sayers, Mrs James, 111
schools: Friends’ Infant School, 87
schools: Friends’ Junior School, 88, 91
schools: Friends’ School, 50, 102
schools: Hutchins, 109
schools: Lenah Valley Primary, 102
schools: Methodist Ladies College, 42, 122
schools: Scotch College, 42
schools: St Mary’s Convent School, 36, 86
Scott, Heather. See Archer, Heather (Mrs Rob)
Sergeant. Miss, 88, 89, 91
Shegog children, 69
Shegog, Jessie (Mrs Sam), 41, 69
Shegog, Sam (Uncle Sam), 41, 69
Shepherd, Dulcie. See Armstrong, Dulcie (Mrs Stan)
ships: Amelia Francis, 111
ships: Aurora Australis, 109
ships: Cartela, 19, 20, 105
ships: Chili, 118
ships: Frances Charlotte, 113
ships: Gold Seeker, 109
ships: Greyhound, 113
ships: Jane, 119
ships: Medway, 117
ships: Naracoopa, 20
shops: Bailey St, 92
shops: Bidencope’s, 96
shops: Blackwood & Lowe, 96
shops: Brownells, 96
shops: Canes, 18
shops: Charles Davis, 18, 96
shops: Little’s, 96
shops: Mathers, 96
shops: O’Conors, 96
shops: OBM’s bookshop, 96
shops: Soundy’s, 96
Simmons, Julia. See McFie, Julia (Mrs Teddy 1.2)
Sisters Creek, 81
skinny-dipping, 81
smoking, 37, 81, 82, 92
Somerset, 80
Spurr, Ann (Mrs James), 113
Spurr, Emily. See Price, Emily (Mrs Thomas William)
Spurr, Hannah, 121, See Rockliff, Hannah (Mrs Henry)
Spurr, Harriett. See Nanna McFie
Spurr, James, 113
Stenhouse, Peter, 28
stock whips, 75, 76
streets: Aberdeen St, 14, 16, 19, 37, 97
streets: Argyle St, 97
streets: Bailey St, 19, 54, 92
streets: Campbell St, 18, 88, 98
streets: Criterion St, 96
streets: Davenport St, 21, 92
streets: Edward St, 18
streets: Elizabeth St, 96
streets: Federal St, 93
streets: Fitzroy Pl., 59
streets: Glebe St, 21
streets: Lillie St., 16, 19, 20, 23, 36, 40
streets: Liverpool St, 52, 96, 97, 98
streets: Mary St, East Launceston, 56
streets: Murray St, 96
streets: Newlands Avenue, 102
streets: Park St, 91, 92
streets: Pillinger’s Dr., 59, 61
streets: Scott St, 48
sunburn, 65, 81
Sunroom, 39
swearing, 77
swimming, 54, 65, 79, 81
sycamore games, 50
Tapp family, 19
Tapp, Jimmy, 19
TCA Ground, 14, 16, 21, 46, 48, 89
telephone, 16, 62, 88, 99
The Depression, 28
The Dogs, 46, 49, See greyhound racing
The Domain, 16, 22, 46, 54
The Glebe, 14, 16
The Hollow, 15, 20, 38, 96
The Pulp, 81, See Pulp and Paper Mill
The River, 14, 46, See River Derwent
The Slippery Slope, 38
The War, 28, 32
Torquey, 111
tree climbing, 46, 48, 49
Trevallyn Dam, 45
Uncle Alan. See McFie, Alan (Uncle Alan)
Uncle Chris, 66, 67, 68, 69, See French, Chris (Uncle Chris)
Uncle David, 97, See Wilson, David (Uncle David)
Uncle Geoff. See Robertson, Geoff (Uncle Geoff)
Uncle Harky, 19, 37, 41
Uncle Paul. See McFie, Paul (Uncle Paul)
Uncle Rob, 123, See Archer, Rob
Uncle Ron, 35, 38, 41, 42, 43, 62, 64, 70, 71, 72, 74, 81, 83, 85, See Robertson, Ron (Uncle Ron)
Uncle Sam, 69, See Shegog, Sam
Uncle Stan. See Armstrong, Stan (Great Uncle Stan)
Upper Barrington, 57
Venus, Miss, 87
Vertigan family, 61
Walker, Jean (Mrs ?), 42, 101
Welch, Agnes. See Armstrong, Agnes (Mrs Alexander)
Wescombe, Dudley, 85
Western Junction, 72
White, ? (Mrs ?), 19, 23
White, Mr ?, 19
Whitemore, 66, 68, 101
Williams, Lyn, 105
Williams, Mr Chris, 75, 76, 77
Williams, Wanda, 18, 105
Wilson family, 64, 74, 80
Wilson, David (Uncle David), 97
Wilson, Margaret, 65
Wilson, Mr Tim, 64, 65, 74, 80, 81
Wilson, Nancy (Uncle David), 97
Wilson, Neville, 64, 74, 77, 78, 80, 81
Wilson, Wynn (Mrs Tim), 64, 74, 80, 81
Wockum, 21, 22
Woodside, 119
Woolmers, 66, 118
Wright, Mr Vern, 45
YMCA, 97
Long before his death, Peter MacFie wrote of his early life on The Glebe in Hobart. However, he had trouble deciding when to call it completed. His brother Rob then encouraged him to ‘set it free’ by helping select family photos and Peter was able to approve a draft print before it was too late. Here, Peter tells how the war’s aftermath was not always happy for his parents, but gave himself the freedom for a (mostly) magic childhood running wild on The Domain in Hobart. He was also particularly proud of his assorted convict ancestry and concludes with a family tree.
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With the aid of many friends and his editor, this remarkable story of the Wesleyan Chaplains who were appointed by the Government of the day to provide moral guidance to the convicts, military and civilians who lived at Port Arthur from 1833 to the end of 1843 has been completed.
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