Tasmania names 1832–1837

Index of names in Tasmania mentioned by Backhouse

James Backhouse and G.W. Walker were Quaker missionaries to Australia and Tasmania (then known as Van Diemens Land) from 1832–1837. An account of their trip is given in James Backhouse’s A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies.

They visited many people, but unfortunately most are not named. This is an index of personal names mentioned in the Tasmania sections of the book. Dates are given by month/ year or day/month/year.

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Forename Surname Location Comments Date
James Allen George Town From Tyrone, new Surgeon to Establishment for Aborigines Flinders Island 12/1833
James Allen Hobart Surgeon to Aborigines on Flinders Island 6/1837
James Allen Hobart Lately Surgeon on Flinders Island 10/1837
Mary Ansty Ansty Barton Sheep estate near Oatlands 2/1834
Thomas Ansty Ansty Barton Sheep estate near Oatlands 2/1834
  Archer Lake River Branches of family owned land, successful agriculture & sheep farming 2/1833
Col. George Arthur Hobart Lieutenant Governer 2/1832
Colonel Arthur Hobart Trying to rule prisoners on Christian principles 2/1833
P. Ashburner Near Westbury Respectable magistrate lately returned from India 1/1833
George P Ball Westbury Officer lately returned from India 1/1833
Thomas Bannister Hobart Sheriff, Jail at Hobart 5/1834
Theodore B. Bartley Kerry Lodge Pious man. 2/1833
John R. Bateman Flinders Island Master of the brig Tamar before 11/1833
Michael Bates Break-o' Day Farmer, provided meal 5/1833
John Batman Buffalo Plains Formerly employed by Government to take Aborigines 5/1833
Major Baylee Macquarie Harbour Commandant of penal settlement 5/1832
William Bedford Hobart Senior colonial chaplain 5/1832
William Bedford Hobart Colonial Chaplain 6/1834
John Bisdee Jordan Prosperous settler, sheep farmer 2/1834
Captain Charles O'Hara Booth Port Arthur Commandant, disciplinarian 11/1833
Captain John Burns Hobart Captain of The Tamar 5/1832
Jacobina Burns Elengowen Fine old Scotch woman, noted for hospitality 4/1832
John H. Butcher Richmond Magistrate, unfinished stone house, had imported fruit trees 8/1832
John H. Butcher Richmond Welcomed them back 4/1833
John H. Butcher Richmond Accompanied visit to settlers on Coal River 3/1834
Thomas Buxton Prossers Plains Hospitable family 8/1834
Benjamin Carvasso Hobart Wesleyan minister, preached to condemned prisoners before 2/1833
  Clark Ouse/Big River Old man, died when hut burnt by Aborigines 1830
John Clark George Town Provided accommodation 10/1832
Colonel Collins (unknown) Marines, first settlement before 7/1834
Anna Maria Cotton Kelvedon Provided accommodation, large family 4/1833
Anna Maria Cotton Hobart Accompanied them on journey to Lauderdale 11/1835
Anna Maria Cotton Kelvedon Peaceful habitation, large family 5/1837
Anna Maria Cotton Hobart Visiting from Swan Port 10/1837
Francis Cotton Kelvedon Provided accommodation, large family 4/1833
Francis Cotton Prossers River Guided them 4/1833
Francis Cotton Great Swan Port Started his ministry 4/1833
Francis Cotton Kelvedon Met them on beach, accommodation for a few weeks 1/1834
Francis Cotton Little Swan Port Accompanied visit to central Tasmania 2/1834
Francis Cotton Lauderdale Accompanied their visit 8/1834
Francis Cotton Hobart Accompanied them on journey to Lauderdale 11/1835
Francis Cotton Kelvedon Peaceful habitation, large family 5/1837
Francis Cotton Hobart Visiting from Swan Port 10/1837
Anthony Cottrell Woolnorth Assistant to G.A.Robinson 11/1832
Anthony Cottrell (various) Reconciled Aborigines before 5/1833
James Crear South Esk Residence with views of Ben Lomond 6/1833
Richard Crocker Prossers Plains Provided accommodation 4/1833
Sarah Crouch Hobart Pious, provided lodgings 6/1832
Sarah Crouch Hobart Now in Bathurst Street 2/1833
Sarah Crouch Harrington St, Hobart Increased family 1/4/1837
Thomas J. Crouch Hobart Pious, provided lodgings 6/1832
Thomas J. Crouch Hobart Now in Bathurst Street 2/1833
Thomas J. Crouch Harrington St, Hobart Increased family 1/4/1837
Edward Curr Circular Head Superintendant of Van Diemens Land Company 10/1832
Edward Curr Circular Head Obtained cottage for them, entertained them 11/1832
Ensign William J. Darling Flinders Island Commandant of Flinders Island 10/1832
William J. Darling Flinders Island Letter reporting on Wybalenna establishment 5/1833
Richard H. Davies Hobart Commanded the cutter Shamrock 11/1833
Ensign William J. Darling Flinders Island Sent 100 dried Brush Kangaroo skins to sell for Aborigines 5/1834
Rowland R. Davies Norfolk Plains Episcopal Chaplain 2/1833
Rowland R. Davies Longford Episcopal Chaplain, in charge of 4 Government day-schools 6/1833
William de Gillern Glen Ayr Provided accommodation 8/1832
Agnes Dixon Green Valley From Lewis, Scotland 3/1832
Esther Dixon Hobart From Skelton Castle 10/1837
George Dixon Green Valley Visit to his house with 3 nieces 3/1832
George Everitt New Town Secretary of Orphan School 5/1834
Major Fairtlough Launceston Commandant 10/1832
Abraham C. Flower Hobart Wanted to visit 3 condemned prisoners before execution 6/1834
Dr. Foreman Hobart In charge of female prisoners 10/1837
Captain Foster Hobart Chief police magistrate, examining convicts 2/1832
Lady Franklin Hobart Meals with 10/1837
Sir John Franklin Hobart New Lieutenant Governer 4/1837
Sir John Franklin Hobart Meals with 10/1837
Matthew Curling Friend George Town Port Officer, late of the Norval 10/1832
Andrew Gatenby Barton From Yorks, via Wales 5/1837
Son of Andrew Gatenby Barton Killed by Aborigines Before 1837
  Geiss New Norfolk Aged and pious man 3/1834
William Gellibrand South Arm Settler. 8/1832
Hugh Germain Muddy Plains Former Private in Marines, hunted Emu and Kangaroo 7/1834
Mary Germain Muddy Plains Neat cottage 7/1834
John Glover Buffalo Plains Celebrated landscape painter 5/1833
Mrs. Glover Buffalo Plains Aged wife of painter, does housework as convicts unreliable 5/1833
E. Gordon Pitt Water Provided accommodation 8/1834
James Gordon Pitt Water From Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire 8/1832
James Gordon Pitt Water Provided accommodation 8/1834
George Gorringe Broad Marsh Medical man, Catechist 3/1834
Major Grey Avoca Retired military man, formerly in West Africa 5/1833
Ronald Campbell Gunn Meander Botanist 1/1833
Ronald Campbell Gunn Hobart Amended Backhouse's article for VDL Annual 4/1834
Frances Halls Sorrell Town Fellow-passenger from England 3/1834
John Hawkins Little Swan Port Accommodation, formerly military man 4/1833
Henry Hellyer Emu Bay Late Surveyor to Van Diemens Land Company before 1832
Henry Herberg Hobart Mate of The Tamar 5/1832
William Holdship Hobart Held meetings for worship at his house on Newtown Road 3-8/1834
Michael Howe Oven Hills Former bushranger, lived in caves before 1832?
David Hoy Hobart Ship's carpenter of The Tamar 5/1832
Captain William Jacob Hobart Pious man from India, here for health 5/1832
John Johnson Glenorchy Aged man, from Leicester, transported 1800 for poaching 5/1834
John Johnson Glenorchy Very ill 8/1834
John Johnson Glenorchy Age 76, seriously ill 4/1837
John Johnson Glenorchy Died 28/9/1837
  Jumbo Preservation Island Native woman, one of 2 permanent residents 10/1832
William Kermode Mona Vale Opulent sheep-farmer 2/1833
Robert King Hobart Prisoner died in Hospital, formerly from London 10/1833
John Leach O’Briens Bridge Converted convict  before 2/1832
John Leach Hobart Wesleyan cabinet maker from Bradford, Yorks 2/1832
  Leigh Sorrell Town Inn-keeper, very clean and comfortable 3/1834
Mrs. Lyne Swan River Provided provisions 4/1833
William Lyne Swan River Guided them 4/1833
Captain Maconochie   Correspondence on penal discipline 7/1837
John Allen Manton Hobart Wesleyan Missionary 5/1832
John Allen Manton Hobart On board The Tamar 5/1832
John Allen Manton Sarahs Island Missionary at Sarahs Island 5/1832
William Marshall Hobart Surgeon of ship-of-war Alligator (died Niger expedition 1841) 11/1834
Dr. Martin Hobart Surgeon-superintendant with the Elizabeth 2/1832
Joseph B Mather Glenorchy Visited John Johnson 27/9/1837
Robert Mather Lauderdale Settler, invited them to hold Meeting 8/1832
Robert Mather Lauderdale Accompanied their visit 8/1834
  Mather Lauderdale Visited them 11/1835
  Mather Hobart Recently moved to Hobart 2/4/1837
A. McLachlan Flinders Island Surgeon of Establishment for Aborigines 10/1832
Patrick McLean Spring Bay Accommodation, farmer, formerly soldier 4/1833
John McLeod Near Campbell Hospitable Scotchman 2/1833
Joseph Milligan Hampshire Hills Surgeon of Van Diemens Land Company 12/1832
James Munro Preservation Island Old sealer, one of 2 permanent residents 10/1832
Peter Murdoch Broad Marsh Fine dairy farm, Alderney cows 3/1834
James Norman Sorrell Town Colonial Chaplain 8/1832
Robert Officer New Norfolk Surgeon in charge of hospital 3/1832
Robert Officer New Norfolk Provided accommodation 3/1834
Philip Palmer Hobart Rural Dean 11/1834
Philip Palmer   Colonial Chaplain, visiting schools 4/1837
George Parramore Ross Venerable and pious settler 2/1833
George Parramore En route to Mona Vale   5/1837
William T. Parramore Richmond Police Magistrate 8/1832
William T. Parramore Richmond Provided guide 4/1833
William Pike Jericho Episcopal Chaplain 2/1834
Charles Price Pitt Water Independent Minister 8/1832
  Proper Circular Head Native man, on board cutter 10/1832
T. Purer ? Hobart Unitarian of Newport, converted at Meeting 6/1837
William Rayner Hobart Held Meetings at his house a few times before 3/1834
Samuel Reeves Woolnorth Superintendant of Van Diemens Land Company 11/1832
James Richardson Woolnorth Surgeon, studied in Leeds 11/1832
George Augustus Robinson Bruny Island Founded Aboriginal colony before 1832
George Augustus Robinson Circular Head Visiting natives 10/1832
Goerge Augustus Robinson (various) Reconciled Aborigines before 5/1833
George Robson Hampshire Hills Relative of GW Walker 12/1832
Mary Robson Hampshire Hills Relative of GW Walker 12/1832
  Roomtya Flinders Island Native woman, also called Bet 10/1832
Dr. Ross Hobart Edited Van Diemens Land Annual 1834 4/1834
Dr. Ross Hobart Editor of Hobart Town Courier 9/1834
Major Ryan Hobart Commandant of Launceston, Temperance Society Meeting 10/1837
William Schofield Macquarie Harbour First resident missionary before 1832?
James Scott Hobart Colonial Surgeon 5/1834
Isaac Sherwin Launceston Thoughtful young man 10/1832
Isaac Sherwin Launceston Provided accommodation 1-3/1833
Isaac Sherwin Launceston Visited by Backhouse 5/1837
Katharine Sherwin Launceston Provided accommodation 1-3/1833
Katherine Sherwin Launceston Thoughtful young woman 10/1832
Katharine Sherwin Launceston Visited by Backhouse 5/1837
David Stead Falmouth Overseer of estate belonging to gentleman in India 4/1833
David Stead Falmouth Visited him 12/1835
Henry Stephenson Emu Bay Employee VDL Company, from Richmond Yorks 1/1833
George Fordyce Story Kelvedon Resided with Cottons, District Surgeon 4/1833
Dr. Story Kelvedon Now following the principles of the Friends 1/1834
Dr. Story Kelvedon Meeting 5/1837
John Terry Macquarie Plains From Yorkshire, has corn mill at New Norfolk 3/1832
John Terry New Norfolk Mill owner, hospitable 3/1834
John Thornloe Hobart Commanding the Charlotte Cutter 9/1832
  Trigoomipoonenah Flinders Island Native man, also called Jackey 10/1832
Nathaniel Turner Hobart Wesleyan Minister 5/1832
Charles Wheeler Hobart Arrived on Henry Freeling for religious visit 9/1834
Charles Wheeler Hobart Arrived from Sydney on Mary Ann Watson, lodged Liverpool St 8/1837
Charles Wheeler Hobart Dined with Franklins 10/1837
Charles Wheeler Hobart Sailed to England 11/1837
Daniel Wheeler Hobart Arrived on Henry Freeling for religious visit 9/1834
Daniel Wheeler Hobart Ill with influenza 10/1834
Daniel Wheeler Hobart Recovered 11/1834
Daniel Wheeler Hobart Arrived from Sydney on Mary Ann Watson, lodged Liverpool St 8/1837
Daniel Wheeler Hobart Dined with Franklins 10/1837
Daniel Wheeler Hobart Sailed to England 11/1837

Note: T. Purer(?) is not mentioned by name in the printed text, but in a hand-written marginal note on the copy of the book from which this list was transcribed.

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