LIST 26 - 1822 MUSTER - DEUXIEME DIZAINE - HOBART TOWN

 
 
The third of the three musters covering Van Diemens Land is the 1822 Muster 
at Hobart Town. The list contains 164 members of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" ; 89 
males and 75 females, 128 colonial born and 36 childhood arrivals.
 
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 
 date of arrival in Hobart Town
 ship of arrival in Hobart Town
 civil status
  husband's name(females)
 surname as it appears in the original muster.
 
The list is ordered alphabetically; firstly on the father's name, secondly 
on the child's Christian name. As in the source document the women have been 
separated from the men.
 
The list presented here is a combination of two separate lists from Mrs 
Schaffer's book; "Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists, Van Diemens Land, 
1803-1822":
 
 Hobart Town Muster, Men, 1822
 Hobart Town Muster, Women, 1822 
 
As with all the Van Diemens Land "musters", the lists are restricted 
to 'free' persons, whether by arrival or by servitude. This is not a problem 
in the case of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" because hopefully they were all 
free, although if any had colonial sentences they would be missing from 
the list and unknown to researchers unfortunately. 
 
Unlike the previous two "musters" for Van Diemens Land the "Deuxieme 
Dizaine" were relatively easy to identify in this muster because they were 
noted as "born in the colony (b/colony)" in the status column. The problem with 
the women on this occasion was that no indication was given as to whether their 
surname was a maiden name or a married name and spouses were not recorded. 
Once again with the help of the Pioneer Register Project most of the women have 
been sorted out.
 
Regretfully the original muster gives very little information about each 
entry other than the fact that they were at Hobart in 1822 and their colonial 
born status. Not even 'on or off stores' on this occasion. Thus the year and 
place of birth, details of parents, name of spouse in the case of females, 
are all value added fields not found in the original muster.
 
There are ten men whose parents are unknown at this time;
 
 James Anderson 
 Hugh Cassidy 
 John Crook 
 John French 
  James Innis 
 Jacob McCoy 
 David McGuire 
 George McGuire 
 Edward Nichols jnr 
 James Yates 
 
The mother of James Grimes is unknown as well. 
 
There are seven women whose parents are unknown, and there is a possibility 
that some may in fact be married and listed under their married names;
 
 Louisa Atkins 
  Elizabeth Collis
 Rebecca Dalton 
 Mary Hemmings 
 Sarah Kirby 
 Caroline Lord 
 Susannah Smith 
 
The father of Elizabeth Mack is unknown although he was assumed to have been 
a marine. The mother of Ann Easton is also unknown at this time.
 
The two Jillett brothers, James & William, are listed under their mothers surname 
as Bradshaw. Likewise Sophia Collins is listed as Daniels.
 
The christian name of "Guire" is not recorded and she remains a mystery.
 
The maiden name of the Maria who married John Thompson is unknown at this time. 
There is a possibilty that it is Maria Risely but she was a convict and is listed 
in her own rite in anycase.
 
The names of the women's husbands has been researched and included in 
order to make the women's listing more comprehensible. There are 
19 married women, most listed under their husband's surnames but 5 for some 
reason still used their maiden names; Hannah Chaffey, Arabella Cockerill, 
Ann Easton, Sarah Fletcher and Sophia Meredith.
 
For some reason, just as in the 1818 Muster, Mary Skelthorn, the wife of John 
Petechey, is recorded as Sarah Petchey.
 
The only recipient of an honorific 'Mr' in this muster was Edward Abbott. 
 
Of the 36 childhood arrivals, 25 came with Van Diemens Land's 'First Fleet' 
on board 'HMS Calcutta' and 'Ocean' in 1803. 
 
It is hard to know if William Thorne should be listed as "colonial born" 
or "came free" because he as born at Port Phillip Bay before the settlement moved 
to Hobart.
 
Harriet Beaumont (Evans) is shown as "Coming Free" when she was born in Port 
Jackson, perhaps she meant came free to Hobart. Elizabeth Faulkner is shown 
as "colonial born" when she came on board 'HMS Calcutta'.
 
Jemima Robley (Wilson) is recorded as "Born in the Colony" when it is believed 
she came as a convict.
 
The places of birth of the 128 colonial born are as shown in the Table below.
 
 Table 26.1. - Place of Birth
 
 Place No. 
 ----------------------
 Norfolk Island 68
 Port Jackson 19
 Hobart Town 16
 Risden Cove 2
 Sulllivan Cove 1
 Port Phillip Bay 1 
 
From the above table it can be seen that 87 (53%) of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" 
located in Hobart in 1822 of necessity had to sail thence from either Norfolk 
Island or Port Jackson. Appendix I at the end of this work lists shipping 
movements between colonies and this has been the source of the information 
of shipping arrivals to Hobart Town. Nearly all the arrivals from Norfolk 
Island came on one of four ships; 'HMS Porpoise' 1807, 'Lady Nelson' 1807, 
'City of Edinburgh' 1808, 'Estramina' 1808.
 
It has not been possible to identify the ship to Hobart Town in every case. 
In some cases a date is given before which (<)  or after which (>) the person 
was known to have been in Hobart Town. The dates chosen are based on other 
muster entries, the most frequent being before or after the 1811 muster but 
there are some people who are known to have arrived after the 1806 muster 
or after the 1814 muster.
 
The only additional piece of information provided by the original muster on 
members of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" is the number of children each person 
had as at 1822, divided into males and females (no names, no ages). Whilst 
this is interesting in one sense, it left the researcher with the problem of 
identifying who the children enumerated actually were. Other sources had to 
be relied upon entirely to tease out the "Deuxieme Dizaine" - the Pioneer 
Register project being indispensable as always. In some cases the children 
could be identified but no all. In other cases more children for a particular 
family would be eligible for inclusion than the number specified in the list. 
In this instance, those children with known later life events such as marriages 
or child birth have been selected and failing this, the youngest children have 
been selected.
 
Only about half of the "Deuxieme Dizaine" from the 1818 Muster appear in 
this muster (56 of the 119 males and 45 of the 97 females).

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