1831- 1837 Bagdad: Mary Ann Peters & Sophia Matilda Peters both got married.
BAGDAD 1831
Thomas Peters’ only son, Richard Peters, is named several times when he impounds stock at Bagdad. His brother-in-law George Armytage is the Bagdad pound keeper.
The Hobart Town Courier Sat 26 Feb 1831 Page 3
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The Hobart Town Courier Sat 26 Feb 1831 Page 4
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BAGDAD 1832
On 19th June 1832 Thomas Peters’ 22 year old daughter, Mary Ann Peters, married a 42 year old widower, William Holt. William Holt was a free man who had arrived from England aboard the Royal Admiral just two months earlier.
The Hobart Town Courier (Tas. : 1827 - 1839)
Sat 5 May 1832 Page 2
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BAGDAD 1836
Thomas Peters’ daughter, Sophia Matilda Peters, married James (Jnr)Rochfort Pillenger in 1836.
…’They [the Pillengers] were most respectable, pillars of the local church: Sophia used to go round the local township of Tunbridge with bags of sweets to lure children to Sunday School.” ~ ‘Tasmania’s Convicts: how felons built a free society’ by Alison Alexander, p. 314.
Their second born, Alfred Thomas Pillenger ,was ‘the member for Oatlands in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 17 July 1876 until his death on the 6th of May 1899. In October 1888 he joined the Philip Fysh Government as Minister of Lands and Works.’ ~ www.monumentaustralia.org.au
Bent's News and Tasmanian Three-Penny Register (Hobart Town, Tas. : 1836 - 1837) Sat 10 Sep 1836 Page 4 TROVE - National Library of Australia
BAGDAD 1837
Mr A. Bent, who had been the proprietor of the Colonial Times is still owed money by Thomas Peters and many others. He states “what is comparatively trifling individually, is in the aggregate , a heavy loss to the Father of a large family.”
Bent's News and Tasmanian Three-Penny Register (Hobart Town, Tas. : 1836 - 1837) Sat 25 Feb 1837 Page 1
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The Colonist and Van Diemen's Land Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser (Hobart Town, Tas. : 1832 - 1834)
Tue 24 Jun 1834 Page 1 TROVE - National Library of Australia
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.