In Tasmania (42 page)

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Authors: Nicholas Shakespeare

Books and articles:
Round the World Cruise Holiday
, by S.P.B. Mais and Gillian Mais, Alvin Redman, 1965;
We Wander in the West
, by S.P.B. Mais, Ward Lock, 1950;
Lorna's Author: Letters by R.D. Blackmore to his sister
, by David Blackmore, Blackmore Books, 2003;
R.D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone
, by Waldo Hilary Dunn, Robert Hale, 1956;
Bushlife in Tasmania
, by James Fenton, Regal, Launceston, 1970;
My Home in Tasmania
, by Louisa Meredith, Sullivan's Cove, 1979;
Louisa Anne Meredith: a tigress in exile
, by Vivian Rae-Ellis, Blubber Head, 1979;
Ulverstone, An Outline of its history
, by Bruce Ellis, Latrobe, 1988;
Pioneers of Tasmania's West Coast
, by C.J. Binks, Blubber Head, 1988;
King of the Wilderness: the life of Deny King
, by Christobel Mattingley, Text, 2001;
Trampled Wilderness: the history of southwest Tasmania
, by Ralph Gowlland, C.L. Richmond, 1977; ‘The Castra Scheme' by Geoffrey Stilwell, in
Tasmanian Insights, essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell
, State Library of Tasmania, 1992;
Letter to the Officers of H.M. Indian Services, Civil and Military
, by Lt Col. Andrew Crawford, Hobart, 1865;
Under the Southern Cross
, by H. Cornish, London, 1880; ‘A Home in the Colonies', by S. Bennett, T.H.R.A. vol. 27, no. 4, 1980; ‘From Raj to Rustic', by P. Mercer, T.H.R.A. vol. 25, no. 3, 1978;
The Unexpected
, by Frank Penn-Smith, Cape, 1933;
A Divided Society: Tasmania during World War I
, by Marilyn Lake, Melbourne, 1975;
Chrissie Venn: ‘Suffer Little Children'
, by L. & N. Smith, Ulverstone Press, 1999;
On the Black Hill
, by Bruce Chatwin, Cape, 1981.

Part IV: Oyster Bay

Daughter of Tasmania

Based on conversations with Gloria Andrews, Ian Jack, Lynn Johnson, Doone Kennedy, Edyth Langham, Peter Lawrence, Bill Penfold, Cassandra Pybus, John Ward, Bev Warren.

Unpublished source material:
St Helen's History Room.

Newspaper:
Launceston Weekly Courier.

Books and articles:
Princess Merle: The Romantic Life of Merle Oberon
, by Charles Higham and Roy Mosely, Putnam, 1983;
Queenie
, by Michael Korda, Warner, 1986;
Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree
, by Cassandra Pybus, Queensland, 1998; ‘Errol Flynn', by Bob Casey in
40 degrees south, 27
;
Errol Flynn, The Tasmanian Story
, by Don Norman, Hobart, 1981.

TV:
‘The Trouble with Merle', ABC documentary, August 27, 2002, written and directed by Maree Delofski, producer David Noakes.

Tigers and Devils

Based on conversations with Bill Bleathman, Buck and Joan Emberg, Geoff King, Marlene Levings, Menna Jones, Nick Mooney, David Owen, Laurelle Shakespeare.

Books and articles:
Touch the morning: Tasmanian Native legends
, by Jackson Cotton, Hobart, OBM Pty Ltd, 1979;
Tasmanian Tiger: A lesson to be learned
, by Eric Guiler and Philippe Godard, Abrolhos Publishing, Perth, 1998;
Thylacine: the tragic tale of the Tasmanian tiger
, by David Owen, Allen & Unwin, 2003; ‘Tasmanian Tiger Sighting', by Nick Mooney, Australian Natural History, 1984; ‘Dining with the Devil', by M.E. Jones, Australian Natural History, 1994;
Valley of the Giants, a guide to Tasmania's Styx River Forests
, by Bob Brown, Brown, 2001;
Groundswell: the Rise of the Greens
, by Amanda Lohrey,
Quarterly Essay
, issue 8, 2002.

Oyster Bay

Based on conversations with Helen and Malcolm Boyd, Bill Matthewson, Michael Stutchbury, Bruce Sullivan, Rueben Wells.

Unpublished source material:
Balliol College; Swansea History Room.

Books and articles:
A General Collection of the best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all parts of the world 1808-1814
, by John Pinkerton, London, 1817;
Letters from the Southern Hemisphere
, by F.J. Cockburn, London, 1856;
My memoirs laced with East Coast tales of Van Diemen's Land
, by Edward C. Shaw, Shaw, 2000;
Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth
, ed. Dora Heard, T.H.R.A., 1981; the story of the Japanese submarine is printed in
Battle Surface: Japan's Submarine War Against Australia, 1942-44,
by David Jenkins, Random House, 1992.

Doubles

Based on conversations with Max Chatwin, Michael Mackenzie, Nevin Shakespeare.

Books:
Chatwin: 6 generations in Tasmania
, researched and compiled by Daisy Chatwin, Barbara Pendrey and Vince Scarcella, privately printed 2001;
Memories
, by Julian Huxley, George Allen & Unwin, 1970;
We Europeans
, by Julian Huxley, Cape, 1935;
Tasmania
, by Peter Collenette, D. & L. Book distributors, 1990.

List of Illustrations

Map of Tasmania (Professor Pat Quilty, University of Tasmania)

Anthony Fenn Kemp on enamel (Courtesy of Professor Murray Kemp)

Alexander Pearce: Sketch by Thomas Bock (State Library New South Wales)

Ross Bridge (Courtesy of Matthew Kneale)

Tom Arnold: Daguerreotype made shortly before his departure to New Zealand in 1847 (Dove Cottage, The Wordsworth Trust)

Julia Sorell: A watercolour by Thomas Wainewright, c.1847 (Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)

Mount Vernon (Courtesy of Barrie Paterson)

Necklace (author's photograph of Gillian's necklace)

Tongerlongetter, chief of the Oyster Bay Tribe in 1831: Reproduction of pencil on paper sketch by Thomas Bock c.1832 (Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. Launceston)

Mr Robinson on his conciliation mission (Etching from Mr Duterreau's great picture)

The Jetty at Wybalenna (Courtesy of Matthew Kneale)

Colonel Andrew Crawford taken by J.W. Beattie (Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts)

Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (Davis Whillas, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Cape Grim)

Merle Oberon on her visit to Tasmania in 1978 (Newspix. Tony Palmer historical)

Tasmanian tiger: Thylacine. A juvenile male at Hobart Zoo, taken by Ben Sheppard in 1928. The animal died the day after it was photographed (Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)

Alfred Chatwin and Elizabeth Chatwin (Daisy Chatwin's Collection, Sprent, Tasmania)

Index

3rd Bombay European Regiment

3rd Infantry

9th Australia Division

21st Dragoons

21st Regiment

46th Regiment

99th Regiment

102nd Regiment of Foot (later New South Wales Corps)

Abergavenny

Aboriginal Committee

Aboriginal Land Council

Aboriginal place names

Aborigines

Black Line

Black War

extinction

genocide

grants

handclasp of

Kemp and

land and

Maria Island, on

population

revisionist version of history

Tasmania, in

William Lyne and

Windschuttle's ‘Telling Histories' lecture

women

Abyssinia, Tasmania

Active
(brig)

Africa

Agnarsdottir, Anna

Ainsworth, Elizabeth

Albion
(ship)

Albuera Street Cemetery, Hobart

Aldgate, London (No 87)

Alice Springs, Australia

ammonium sulphates

Amos, Adam

Amundsen, Roald

Anangarra waterhole, Australia

Anchor tin mine, Lottah

Andes

Angus (a birder)

Anstey, Thomas

Antarctic explorers

Antarctica

Antient Masonry
see also
freemasonry

‘Apple Isle'

Appledore, Devon

Appledore, Tasmania

Aracataca, Colombia

Argentina

Aristotle

Arnold, Dr Thomas

Arnold, Julia (née Sorell; Kemp's granddaughter)

Arnold's Catholicism

portrait of

Arnold, Mary
see
Ward, Mary Augusta

Arnold, Matthew

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Arnold, Thomas

Catholicism

death

New Zealand, in

Resolution

Arnott, Col John

Arthur, Lieutenant Governor George

Aborigines and

Arthur River

asthma

Atkins, Judge

Atlas
(supply ship)

Auckland, New Zealand

Auden, W.H.

Austin, Alexander

Australia

Baudin discovers new zoological species

Commonwealth of (1900)

first complete map

first literature printed in

Australia Day

Austrialia del Espiritu Santo

Avoca

 

Babel Island

Bacon, Jim

Bagdad

Bagdad News

Baghdad, Iraq

Bahama
(a hulk)

Baker, Corporal Arthur

Baker, Ethel (née Hordern; Hordern's daughter)

Ballarat

Balliol College, Oxford

bandicoots

Bank of Van Diemen's Land

Banks, Sir Joseph

Barnstaple, Devon

Barossa Valley

Barrie, Sir J.M.

Barrow, Margaret Louisa (Kemp's daughter)

Barrow, Samuel (Kemp's son-in-law)

Bartley, Major-General Sir George

Bass, George

Bass Strait

Batavia

Bathurst

Bathurst, Lord

Bathurst Harbour

Battery Point

Baudin, Nicolas

BBC

Beagle
survey ship

Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart

Beauty Point

beech, southern

Bellerive, Hobart

Bengal rum

Benjafield, Harry

Benjamin (a Tasmanian tiger)

Bennelong (sick Aborigine on the
Reliance
)

Bent's News

Beothuks of Newfoundland

Bering Straits

Bernacchi, Diego

Berry, Roland

Bertie (Hordern's sister)

Bertrams, The, Hobart

Betjeman, Sir John

bettong

Bidencope, Con

Bidencope, Zel

Big Dog Island

Big River tribe

Binney, Sir Hugh and Lady

Binzemann, Bruce

birding
see
mutton-birds

Bismarck (later Collinsvale)

‘black armband' school

Black Line

‘Black Mary' (Howe's companion)

Black Panther of Emmaville

black swans

Black War

blackberries

Blackmore, Richard

Lorna Doone

Blainey, Geoffrey

blasphemy

Bligh, Governor William

Blinking Billy Point, Tasmania

Bliss House, Lindfield

Blum, Maître

boat-building industry

Bodenham, Thomas

Boer War

Bombay (Mumbai)

Bond, Ernie

Bonwick, James

Boode House, Devon

Boode House, near North Motton

Boomer Creek, Tasmania

boomerangs

Boon, David

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de

Boullanger, Charles-Pierre

Bounty
(a ship)

Boyce, James

Boyd, James

Boyes, George

brachiopods

Braddon, Sir Edward

Brady, Matthew

Braunton, Devon

Brazil

Bredell, Maurice

Breton, Midshipman François Desiré

Bridport, Devon

Bridport, Tasmania

Briem, Dr Helgi

Briggs, ‘Dolly' Dalrymple

Brighton, Tasmania

Bristol Guardians of the Poor

Britain

France, relationship with

Britannia

British Zionist League

Broad Arrow Café, Port Arthur (Carnarvon)

Brown, Bob

Brown's beach

Brown's Hotel, London

Bruny Island tribe

Bryant, Martin

bubonic plague

Buckingham

Buckland

Buckley, William

Buenos Aires

Buffalo
(ship)

Bunker, Captain Ebor

Burchill, Julie

Burnie

Burnie Advocate

Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne

Burgess, Anthony

Burke, Edmund

bushrangers

Bust-Me-Gall Hill

Butler, Alban:
Lives of the Saints

Buxton family

 

Cainey, Jill

Calais

Calcutta

Calder, James Erskine

The Natives Tribes of Tasmania

caloplaca
(orange lichen)

Cambria (George Meredith's house)

Cameron, Patsy

Campbell Town

Campbell Town Inn

Canada

cancers

cannibalism

Cape Barren Island

war memorial

Cape Grim

Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station

Cape Horn

Cape of Good Hope

Cape Péron

Cape Town

Carew, Dudley

Carew, Gillian (née Doughty; Mais's second wife; author's grandmother)

Carnarvon (previously Port Arthur)

Caruso, Domenico

Cassell Dictionary of Slang

Cassidy, Thomas

Castra settlement

casuarinas

Celestials

Cellar barn, near Swansea

Central Highlands

Centre for Aborginal Education

Chaffey, Zacharias

Chalmers, Geoff

Chamberlain, Neville

Chambers, L.E.

Chapman, Peter

Chapman & Hall

Chappell Island

Charles, Devon

Chatwin, Alfred

Chatwin, Bruce

On the Black Hill

Chatwin, Max

Chatwin, Mrs:
Chatwin:
6
generations in Tasmania

Chatwin, Myrtle Ilma

Chiffet, William

Chigwell, Tasmania

Chile

Chinese workers

Chintock, Alfred Ernest

Chintock, Charlotte ‘Lottie'

Chintock, Ronnie

Christ Church, Oxford

Christianity

Christie, Agatha

Chugg (Irish axe-murderer)

Church Rock

Churchill, Sir Winston

Circular Head

Clark, Sir Ernest and Lady

Clarke, Marcus:
For the Term of His Natural Life

Clem (an Australian Aborigine)

climate change

Close, Bebe

Clough, Arthur Hugh: ‘The Bothie of Tober na-Vuolich'

Coal River

cockatoos

Cockburn, F.J.

Coffin, Emma

Collinsvale (previously Bismarck)

Colonial Hospital, Hobart

Colonial Times

Colonist, The

Commercial Rooms, Hobart

Commercial Traveller's Association, Launceston

Commonwealth Games (1982)

Commonwealth of Australia

Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Conrad, Peter

Constitution Hill

convicts

see also
transportation

Cook's Beach

Coombend

Corinna, the Brave One

Coswell beach

Cottier, William

Cotton, Jackson

Cotton, William

Coulson, Damien

Coulson, Neil

cowries

Cradle Mountain

Cradle Mountain National Park

Crawford, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew

Castra settlement

Letter to the Officers of H.M. Indian Services

Crimean War

Critchley Creek

Crowther, Dr William

Croyde Beach, Devon

Cruikshank, George

CSIRO (Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation)

 

Daily Express

Daily Telegraph

Dalton (cannibalism victim)

Dampier, William

Dandridge, Mrs

Darlington, Maria Island

Darwin, Charles

Davey, Richard

Davey, Lieutenant Governor Thomas (‘Mad Tom')

Dawes, Eva

Dawson
(ship)

Dawson's Siding

de Banks, Lady Baroness

Dead Horse Gully

Deare, Lieutenant Colonel George

Dechaineaux Theatre, Hobart

Delaney, Bill

Deloraine Hospital

Delta Force

Demer, John

Denmark

Denmark, Crown Prince of

D'Entrecasteaux, Bruni

Derwent River

Devil Facial Tumour Disease

‘Devil's Island'

Devon

Devon Cattle-Breeders Association

Devonport, Tasmania

Devonport annual show

Devonshire, Duke of

Dial Range

Diana, Lady (Diana, Princess of Wales)

Dick, Zelda

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

Oliver Twist

dingos

Docker, Lady

Dog and Partridge Hotel, Hobart

Dolbey, Clement

Dolphin Sands

Donaldson, Mary

Dougan, George

Dragon School, Oxford

‘dreaming'

Drinkwater, John

drought

Drunken Admiral, The, Hobart

Du Cane, Sir Charles

Dublin, Archbishop of

Duck Hunt
(boat)

Dufresne, Marion

Dusty (tractor driver)

Dutch East India Company

Dynamometer, Régnier's

 

eagles

Eardley-Wilmot, Chester

Eardley-Wilmot, Lieutenant Governor Sir John

Earl, Robert

Early Closing of Liquor Bars League

East Germany

East India Company

Eastbrook, Mr (stockman)

Eastbrook, Mrs

eastern quoll

Eddystone Lighthouse

Edinburgh, Prince Alfred, Duke of

Edwards, Paul

Egg and Bacon Bay

Eisele, Bernard

electricity

Elliott, Lieutenant

Elysium

Emberg, Buck

Emberg, Joan

Emu Bay

emus

England
see
Britain

environmental friendliness

Eora language

Eora tribe

Equator

Eratosthenes

Erebus
(ship)

Ermans, Marcel

Ethel, Auntie

Eucalypt regnans

eucalypts

Everett, Jim

Examiner

Exmoor

 

Fanny (Hordern's sister)

Fauna (Animals & Birds Protection) Board

Female Factory, Hobart

Fenton, Elizabeth

Fenton, James

Ferntree Mudstone

Ferris, Doctor Fred

Film Pictorial

First Fleet

First World War

Fisheries

Fitzroy, Captain Robert

‘Fitzroy's crack'

Fitzroya tasmanensis

Flagstaff Hill, Flinders Island

Flanagan, Martin

Flanagan, Richard

Gould's Book of Fish

Fleet Prison, London

Fleming, Trooper Arthur

Flinders Island

Flinders, Matthew

floggings

Flying Martinetties, The

Flyn, Philadelphia

Flynn, Errol

My Wicked, Wicked Ways

Flynn, Professor Thomas

Forestier Peninsula

Forestry Tasmania

Forth Valley

fossils

‘Fox-free Tasmania' programme

foxes

Foxhunter's Return inn, Campbell Town

France

Britain, relationship with

England at war with

Kemp in

Frances (a birder)

Frank (friend and correspondent of Kemp's)

Franklin, Lieutenant Governor

Franklin River

Freeland League

freemasonry

French Revolution

Frenchman's Cap

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