LIST 27 - 1822 MUSTER - TROISIEME DIZAINE - HOBART TOWN

 
 
The third of the three musters covering Van Diemens Land is the 1822 Muster 
at Hobart Town. The list contains only six members of the "Troisieme Dizaine"; 
two males and four females, five colonial born and one childhood arrival.
 
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
 surname as it appears in the original muster.
 
The list is ordered alphabetically on the father's name.
 
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 
 
Unlike the previous two "musters" for Van Diemens Land the "Troisieme 
Dizaine" were relatively easy to identify in this muster because they were 
noted as "born in the colony (b/colony)" in the status column. 
 
It is not surprising that there are so few listed because the eldest of the 
"Troisieme Dizaine" would only have been twelve at the time of the muster. 
The wonder is that there are any listed at all.
 
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.
 
The year of birth of Thomas Pennington remains unknown at this time.
 
The only childhood arrival was Lucy Davey who arrived with her father, the 
Lieutenant Governor of the colony, on board the 'Indefatigable' in 1812 
although recorded as the 'Minstrel' in the muster. Why she did not appear 
under the surname of her husband James Scott is also not explained.
 
Only Elizabeth Cullen did not also appear in the 1818 Muster.

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