Part B.
1822 - 1829 Bagdad: Louisa marries John Hayes & Charlotte marries Francis Flexmore
Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser (Tas. : 1821 - 1825) Fri 19 Mar 1824 Page 3
SEE: Chart of Van Diemen’s Land from the best authorities and from actual surveys and measurements, by Thomas Scott Assistant Surveyor General. London, 1824.
BAGDAD 1824
BAGDAD 1828
On 2nd January 1828 Louisa Peters, the 4th daughter of Thomas and Mary ‘Ann’ Peters, married John Hayes. It was ten years since her eldest sister Elizabeth had married George Armytage, (by then five of that couple’s 12 children had been born). John Hayes’ parents had been free settlers with Lieutenant-Governor David Collins' expedition. He has the distinction of being the first Free Born white male child born in Tasmania. John Hayes and Elizabeth Hayes nee Peters lived at Marlebrook, Bagdad. They had 10 children.
Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser (Tas. : 1821 - 1825) Fri 10 Dec 1824 Page 4
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954)
Thu 6 Mar 1884 Page 2
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The Tasmanian (Hobart Town, Tas. : 1827 - 1839)
Fri 28 Nov 1828 Page 4
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BAGDAD 1829
Thomas Peters was prospering around this time as he is reported to have spent almost fifty pounds at the auction of Colonel Andrew Geils’ belongings, eleven guineas was spent on seven cedar cane-bottom chairs. http://www.tasmanianaboriginal.com.au/liapootah/bowen-reconciliation.htm
Charlotte, the 3rd daughter of Thomas and Mary ‘Ann’ Peters married Francis Flexmore Jnr. on 12th May 1829. Francis Jnr’s parents were Francis Flexmore and Elizabeth Anderson nee Bruce. Francis Snr. and Elizabeth had both been sent to Norfolk Island as convicts. They and their five children (including 7 year old Francis Jnr.), left Norfolk Island for Hobart aboard the City of Edinburgh in Sept 1808.
Francis Jnr. Flexmore and Charlotte Flexmore nee Peters lived at ‘Glenfern’ Green Ponds (Kempton). They had 14 children.
The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas. : 1835 - 1880)
Fri 15 May 1874 Page 5
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954)
Wed 13 May 1874 Page 2
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History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume I. Page 178 via ancestry.com
The Hobart Town Courier (Tas. : 1827 - 1839)
Sat 21 Mar 1829 Page 2
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Research - Part B
29. RESEARCH Part B - A story of Thomas and Ann Peters.
30. RESEARCH Part B - Thomas Peters is transported for the term of his natural life
31. RESEARCH Part B - Mary Ann Peters accompanied her convict husband
32. RESEARCH Part B - 1803 Thomas, Mary Ann, & Elizabeth (2yrs) came to Port Phillip aboard the Calcutta
33. RESEARCH Part B - 1804 Peters family transferred to Van Diemen’s Land & Martha is born
34. RESEARCH Part B - 1805 Hobart Town: Mary Peters receives a Land Grant on New Town Rivulet
35. RESEARCH Part B - 1806 & 1807 The Peters have a farm with 4 cattle 2 sheep & a goat.
36. RESEARCH Part B - 1808 - 1812 Hobart Town: Martha dies, Thomas is pardoned, & 3 babies are born.
37. RESEARCH Part B - 1814 Hobart Town: Property deals, Horse races & a baby.
38. RESEARCH Part B - 1815 - 1816 Hobart Town: A juror, a boat race, supplying wheat & meat + 8th child
39. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town & York Plains: Thomas Peters receives a Land Grant
40. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town & Bagdad: the Duke of York & Baker’s farm
41. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town,York Plains, Bagdad & Tarrets’s farm
42. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town & Bagdad: Education, an executor, & stock moved from Herdsman’s Cove.
43. RESEARCH Part B - 1818 Hobart: A heavy cart and a ferry accident
44. RESEARCH Part B - 1818 Hobart: A court case, a house for sale. & Elizabeth marries George Armytage
45. RESEARCH Part B - 1818 Hobart: Stock on Birch’s land + Kickerterpoller & the Friendly Missions
46. RESEARCH Part B - 1819 Hobart: Rents to Supreme court & Mary Ann Peters (nee Hews) dies aged 39
47. RESEARCH Part B - 1819 - 1821 Hobart: Found guilty of ‘contumacious conduct in court’.
48. RESEARCH Part B - 1824 - 1829 Bagdad: Louisa marries John Hayes & Charlotte marries Francis Flexmore
49. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 Tasmania: The Black Line.
50. RESEARCH Part B - Nov 1930 Many Aborigines slip through the Black Line and the Peters house is raided.
51. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 Bagdad: As the Black Line advances settlers houses are attacked
52. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 Bagdad: Sophia Peters (16) and Ann Peters (14) are speared & Ann dies of her wounds.
53. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 - Following the Tasmania Wars the surviving traditional owners are rounded up
54. RESEARCH Part B - 1831 - 1839 Bagdad: Mary Ann Peters & Sophia Matilda Peters both got married,
55. RESEARCH Part B - 1839 Bagdad Thomas Peters dies
56. RESEARCH Part B - The 8 Children and 48 Grandchildren of Thomas & Mary Ann Peters
57. RESEARCH Part B - A Story of Thomas Peters and ‘the Brady Gang’
58. RESEARCH Part B - Where to next? Choices, choices, choices.