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Australia / Re: Tasmania BDM
« on: Monday 15 September 14 02:01 BST (UK)  »
Andrew,
This article from 1854 shows that there was a school for the children at the Barracks. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2240306?searchTerm=barracks school&searchLimits=l-state=Tasmania|||l-decade=185
Regards,
David

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Australia / Re: Tasmania BDM
« on: Sunday 14 September 14 23:32 BST (UK)  »
Andrew,

Just clarifying that the school I am currently at has been on this site since the 1950s and replaced an earlier one across Albuera Street that opened in 1914. One of the things I am hoping to discover is whether the children of the military in earlier times were educated at the Barracks or at the Battery Point School (which itself had two sites - one attached to St Georges Church from around 1849 and one in Hamden Road from the early 1880s). The Barracks has part of it's land fronting Albuera Street and the 1914 school is beside the Barracks buildings.

I will be in touch.
Regards,
David

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Australia / Re: Tasmania BDM
« on: Sunday 14 September 14 23:25 BST (UK)  »
Merlin,
Thanks for the additional information. This will be extremely useful in piecing together the chronology of the family against the events they lived through while at the Barracks.

Andrew,
I will follow up with an email when your message is forwarded by the office staff. I am not aware of any school photos of the time but there are certainly photos and paintings of the Barracks at various periods which I will send copies of and will let you know what else I discover. The building that was the hospital built between 1818 and the mid 1820s is still in existence and now used by the army as a private residence (usually for the commanding officer) I have found references to a schoolroom at the Barracks but need to do more research on this.

Regards,
David

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Australia / Re: Tasmania BDM
« on: Sunday 14 September 14 12:20 BST (UK)  »
I neglected to mention in my last message that you can send an email to the email address on the school website requesting it be directed to me. http://education.tas.edu.au/albuerastreetprimary/Pages/home.aspx. I will then reply using my own email rather than posting it publically on this site.
Regards,
David Boon

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Australia / Re: Tasmania BDM
« on: Sunday 14 September 14 12:13 BST (UK)  »
Hi Boomeranger,
I am a teacher at Albuera Street Primary School across the road from Anglesea Barracks in Hobart and have a collaborative funded project with the military museum there to develop an education resource. It is through looking for information for this that I came across information on Robert Robertson written by Ken who has replied to your message. (Thanks Ken). I was particularly interested in Robertson as his son, James, broke his leg falling down the stairs in the Barracks and would have been taken to the military hospital there. Part of the education resource features profiles on children at the Barracks over the years and I am hoping to include James and his siblings in these profiles so any information you have in terms of dates of birth, etc. would be useful in developing a chronology of their life and linking that to the broader events that happened while they were at the Barracks, I know James was the youngest son when a letter was written in 1856 just after he broke his leg (thanks to Ken) but don't have a great deal more information apart from general info on the movement of the regiments Robertson was in. I am also interested in providing information on what became of these children in their later lives. Any help you (or Ken) could provide would be greatly appreciated and acknowledged in the final resource.
Regards,
David

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Australia / Re: Ann Maria BELLAMY
« on: Sunday 20 March 11 23:27 GMT (UK)  »
Robyn,
The fishing net option sounds a real possibility. I only went on what soemone else said in terms of a resemblance to a silk bobbin, but they seemed to have far more grooves and definite places to loop the line. This looks much more like something that only has line attached to the end. I have a friend in Scotland who is interested in fishing history who may be able to help.

I have read the Great Shame, which is where I first came across the story of Thomas Meagher. Meagher's memoire, Meagher of the Sword, is also freely available online. The song that I wrote with my son, The Irish Pier won the Tasmanian Folk Federation's annual prize for best song and you can see my son's band playing it on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USYdEJkmO18

Regards,
David

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Australia / Re: Ann Maria BELLAMY
« on: Sunday 20 March 11 07:27 GMT (UK)  »
Here is an image of the object

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Australia / Re: Ann Maria BELLAMY
« on: Sunday 20 March 11 07:15 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Robyn,

I hope to get some expert advice on the object soon and am also amazed that you have mentioned the Irish Political prisoners who escaped from Tasmania. My son plays in a band called the Blue Mosquitoes and I have just arrived home from Westbury where they played at the Irish Festival. They play a tune called 'Meagher's Escape' about Thomas Meagher's escape from Van Diemen's Land. They also play a song called the 'Irish Pier' which I wrote the lyrics for and tells of Meagher meeting one of his fellow-rebels by the middle pier of the Tunbridge Bridge. Each remained in their respective districts on either side of the pier as required by the regulations, but here they met for lunch served by the local publican.

I will try to find time to take a photo of the object and post it later.
Regards,
David

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Australia / Re: Ann Maria BELLAMY
« on: Friday 18 March 11 10:13 GMT (UK)  »
Neil and Robyn,
Thanks for your responses. I tried to respond from work earlier today but the system was playing up. I certainly think this is a possibility. I live in Hobart, so did know about the whalers and the American connection and so this does seem an avenue worth pursuing. I don't think it is whalebone and I am not totally convinced it is a bobbin, so it may have had another use. I will take a photo and post it. I will also see if I can find more by taking it to TMAG. Thanks again.
David

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