LIST 25 - 1819 MUSTER - DEUXIEME DIZAINE - PORT DALRYMPLE

 
 
The second of the Van Diemens Land musters to be presented is the 1819 Muster 
for Port Dalrymple, taken in October of that year. The list contains 96 
members of the "Deuxieme Dizaine"  (86 colonial born, 10 childhood arrivals, 
50 males and 46 females).
 
The information presented for each entry includes:
 
 family name
 Christian name
 year of birth 
 place of birth
 parents' names 
 parents' civil status at the time of the child's birth
 parents' marital status at the time of the child's birth 
 whether on or off stores 
 date of arrival in Port Dalrymple
  ship of arrival in Port Dalrymple
 surname as it appears in the original muster.
 
The list is ordered alphabetically on the child's name.
 
The 1819 Muster of Port Dalrymple Van Diemens Land as presented here is an 
amalgam of four separate lists sourced from Mrs Irene Schaffer's book "Land 
Musters, Stock Returns and Lists of Van Diemens Land 1803-1822":
 
 a list of free men 
 a list of the wives of free men 
 a list of the children of free men
 a list of landholders
 
Note that the list does not include convicts, the wives of convicts nor 
the children of convicts - the greater part of the population of Port Dalrymple 
at the time, although fortunately for the purposes of this work, time expired 
and emancipated convicts were considered as 'free' so all the "Deuxieme 
Dizaine" people of interest would be included.
 
As was the case with the Norfolk Island musters, this muster was primarily a 
commissariat document to allow the authorities to determine who was drawing 
rations from the government store and who was not, thereby assisting with the 
planning and management of the settlement's food stocks.
 
Apart from stating whether the person was on or off stores, the "list of 
children" only provides the age of the child, the "list of wives" only provides 
the name of the spouse, the "list of free men", apart from identifying the 
person as being at Port Dalrymple, which is at least something because this 
is the only muster referring to this particular settlement, provides no 
further information.
 
Information which has been added to each person from the Pioneer Register 
project includes; date of birth, place of birth, parents names and status.
 
Hannah Hodgetts and John McNally both appear twice in the muster reducing the 
total to 94.
 
Six of the children had no age recorded in the muster and it possible that 
some may have been born after 1810.
 
 Elizabeth McNally 
 John McNally 
 William Monaghan 
 Thomas Quinn 
 David Williams 
 Sarah Wright  
 
For eight men and six women their parents remain unknown:
 
 Robert Beames Eliza Forster 
 Michael Humphrey Mary Piper 
 William Humphrey Rebecca Poore 
 William Monaghan Jane Quinn  
 John M Moulds Isabella Robley 
 Thomas Quinn Sarah Wright 
 John Quinn 
 David Williams 
 
For two men and one woman their mothers remain unknown:
 
 Patrick Kaine 
  Elizabeth McNally 
 John McNally 
 
Of the ten childhood arrivals, four came with Van Diemens Land's "First Fleet" 
on board 'HMS Calcutta' and 'Ocean' in 1803. 
 
The places of birth of the 86 colonial born are as shown in the Table below.
 
 Table 25.1. - Place of Birth
 
 Place No. 
 ----------------------
 Norfolk Island 31
 Port Dalrymple 14
 Port Jackson 13
  Unknown 24
 
For the 44 (51%) of children born on Norfolk Island or Port Jackson it 
was thought useful to include a column called "Whence came to Port Dalrymple", 
to indicate the ship sailed upon.
 
Mary & Samuel Feutril and Eleanor Murphy arrived from Port Jackson 
accompanying their soldier fathers in the founding voyage of 'HMS Buffalo' in 
1804. The last of the settlers from Norfolk Island were taken off the island 
in 1813 in the ships 'Lady Nelson' and 'Minstrel' and both came to Port 
Dalrymple. Fourteen of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" arrived on these two ships.
 
The Peck family is recorded as arrived in 1807 aboard 'HMS Porpoise' but 
this in all likelihood refers to their arrival in Hobart Town, they then probably 
made an overland journey to Port Dalrymple at some later date.
 
It has not been possible to identify the ship to Port Dalrymple in every case. 
In some cases a date is given before which (<)  or after  which  (>) the person 
was known to have been in Port Dalrymple. The dates chosen are based on 
marriage dates or the birth dates of their children.
 
There were 20 (21%) children 'on stores' in this muster.
 
Five older girls, (although Sarah How was only 14 years old!) who were married 
and  are thus listed in the muster under their husbands surnames were:
 
 Mary Feutrill George Smith 
 Sarah Howe Kennedy Murray 
 Catherine Jordan James Davey 
  Elizabeth Lee James Jessup 
 Elizabeth Murray James Lucas 
 
Unlike the list in Volume 1, the girls have not been separated from the boys 
because only these five were married and listed under  their husband's surnames. 
As a consequence the 'spouse' column is not used in this Volume 2.
 
Again unlike the list in Volue 1, there were only three of the "Deuxieme 
Dizaine" who held land; 
 
 John Pascoe Falkner 90 acres
 Henri Piroelle 60 acres 
 Richard Pitt 30 acres
 
As a consequence the 'acres held' column is not used in this Volume 2
 
The reader is directed to the original list which tabulates: the number of acres 
devoted to each type of land use; wheat, barley, peas/beans, potatoes & pasture 
- the number and variety of livestock; horses, cattle, sheep, goats & swine 
- the number of people supported by each farm. 

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