40_B_RESEARCH

Part B.

1817 Hobart Town & Bagdad: the Duke of York & Baker’s farm

HOBART 1817

The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter (Tas. : 1816 - 1821)

Sat 22 Mar 1817 Page 1 TROVE - National Library of Australia

In late March 1817 Thomas Peters placed an advertisement for an Overseer and two stockman to work on his land at Bagdad which was known as Baker’s farm. At this time he was still located in Hobart Town where he ran the Duke of York in Elizabeth Street,

William Baker’s Farm, Bagdad. - parish of Strangford, county of Monmouth.

Bagdad Landholders listed in the sequence shown on the map to Left (AF396/1/220 ):

• William Baker
• William Stanfield 52 acres
• Thomas Stanfield 54 acres
• William Cockerill 57 acres
• George Robley 53 acres
• John Robley 44acres
• John Eddinson
• John Pipers

• Samuel Nash 100 acres

• Hayes 30 acres
• Thomas Hayes 50 acres
• Augustus Morris 50 acres
• T. L. Richardson 50 acres

Detail from 1907 Map - Monmouth 197 - parish of Strangford, Bagdad plan of lots for sale AF396-1-407

via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF396-1-407

Detail from Map - Monmouth 13 - parish of Bagdad landholders AF396/1/220

via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF396-1-220

Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) Wed 29 Apr 1903 Page 8

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"SURVEY OFFICE, Nov. 13, 1834. NOTICE is hereby given, that the undermentioned claims for grants will be forwarded for approval or investigation to the Commissioners appointed to examine into applications for titles to land, on the 13th day of December next, before which day any caveat, which must be in writing, will be received in his office.

George Armitage, 154 acres, Strangford parish, originally granted to John Robley, George Robley, and William James Cockerill.”

- The Hobart Town Courier 21 November 1834. ~ via Carol Brill

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-Tasmania/2014-11/1415582482

Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899) Sat 9 Jul 1842 Page 4

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The Bagdad Congregational Church was erected in 1842 on land given by George Armytage. Map AF396-1-407 (above Right) shows the church site marked on land that had been part of the 54 acres of Thomas Stanfield. George Armytage acquired the Stanfield land, (and that of William Cockerill, George Robley and John Robley ). This would have made him a neighbour to his father-in-law Thomas Peters who owned Baker’s farm.

The Congregational Church building still stands at 2 Chauncy Vale Rd, Bagdad TAS. The deconsecrated church with its hall is now privately owned. See: http://bit.ly/2zoLEUj As Thomas Peter’s land, known as ‘Bakers Farm’, was two farms north of the location of the chapel I think it would have been in the area of Heritage Highway Roadhouse, Bagdad. http://bit.ly/2A0laZE The articles below indicate that the land of the early Coach Builder, Mathew McMahon, ran beside Baker’s land. The planned branch road (between their properties) may well be East Bagdad Road.