BAGDAD 1839
Thomas Peters died on 21st July 1839. He was 64 years old. He was buried in the cemetery at the rear of St Marks (later St Mary’s) Anglican Church at Green Ponds (now Kempton). His grave is marked by an altar tombstone and it is located close to the grave of his daughter Anne Peters. She was buried in 1830 and her grave is marked by an obelisk.
At the time of his death Thomas Peters had 6 surviving children, and 24 grandchildren. The eldest grandchild being the 19 year old Thomas Armytage, and the youngest being 2 month old Alfred Thomas Pillenger.
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954)
Sat 1 Jan 1938 Page 10
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The Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land Gazette
Fri 20 Dec 1839 Page 4
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Detail from Map - Monmouth 95 - Somerset, Wincarton, Ross, Glen Morriston, Peel, Gibbs, Maxwell, Cornwallis, Durham, East Grinstead, Sligo, Bandon, Brisbane, Oatlands, Dulverton, Bath, York, Newick, Spring Hill, Winterton, Somerton, Dysart and Huntingdon AF396/1/304 via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF396-1-304
Detail from Map - Somerset 33 - plan of York Plains and Sorell Springs
- surveyor T Scott landholder LIVISTON W AF396-1-978
via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF396-1-978
The land in York Plains that Thomas Peters was granted on 1st January 1817 is shown on both these maps. The neighbouring properties were owned by: John Vincent, Joseph Wright, William Maum and Richard Kimberley.
BAGDAD 1851
Thomas Peters’ only son, Richard Giles Peters (1812-1889) married Rebecca Cuffe in 1851 when he was 39 years old.
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.