tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65134611264738237492024-03-14T17:18:31.969+11:00Thomas J. Nevin | Tasmanian Photographer19th century Australian police and commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-66333240366352056332023-11-12T15:10:00.057+11:002024-02-04T11:24:32.872+11:00First Mate James DAY on the "Panama" to California 1850-1851Parents and siblings Elizabeth DAY and James DAY, York, England
Master mariners, Captains DAY, James and GOLDSMITH, Edward 1830s-1870s
Voyages of Captain James DAY to the Californian gold fields and San Francisco great fires
Title: Signals Hobart Town / by Edward Murphy Private 99. Regt
Creator: Murphy, Edward, 1823-1871
Publisher: [1855]
Description: 1 painting : watercolour, pen and ink Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-64182212794508060182023-07-23T18:15:00.015+10:002023-09-27T14:01:08.598+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith's vote of support for James Alexander Thomson 1853J. A. THOMSON, transported convict, arrived Hobart 1825
J. A. THOMSON, building contractor 1835-1857
J. A. THOMSON, Hobart City Alderman and Captain GOLDSMITH 1853
Captain Edward GOLDSMITH's twin ferry Kangaroo, costs and critics 1856
Detail, left image of stereograph of the pile bridge over River Derwent at New Norfolk, with male figure hiding his face seated in immediate foreground on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-91687288066705096212023-05-31T16:14:00.021+10:002023-10-02T17:47:36.748+11:00"HOPE": John Nevin's poem on slavery 1863 and the U.S. Proclamation of EmancipationFamily of John NEVIN at Grey Abbey, Ireland 1820s-1850s
Original poetry by John NEVIN written in Tasmania 1860s-1880s
The U.S. Emancipation Proclamation 1863-1866
John Nevin, parish clerk
"Yes, my brother, many did say you made a foolish step but they do not say so now."
Letter from Nevin family, Grey Abbey, Ireland, to John Nevin, Hobart, Tasmania, May 1855.
John Nevin (1808-1887) was born at Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-16188785917489424312023-01-17T15:38:00.017+11:002023-05-04T12:21:04.433+10:00Preview of new research 2023John NEVIN snr's letter from Ireland (1854)
Captain James DAY first mate of the Pryde and Panama at the San Francisco fires (1851)
Elizabeth GOLDSMITH sale of Captain Edward Goldsmith's estate (1870)
Thomas and Elizabeth NEVIN's grandchildren's private collections (20th century)
New Research 2023
This year we cross the globe to visit the Great Fires of San Francisco, California, USA with Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-35138775994315005272022-04-13T16:14:00.062+10:002022-04-30T13:37:10.889+10:00Thomas J. Nevin at William Snelling's inquest 1875Transported convict William SNELLING (ca. 1814-1875), a lifer, coach maker and businessman
Photographer Thomas J. NEVIN, inquest juror and government contractor
Photographer James CHANDLER, beneficiary of the Nevin family collections
Source: Archives Office of Tasmania
Photograph - Hobart- Butcher shop - W. Snelling c 1870s
Item Number:NS869/1/452
Start Date: 01 Jan 1870
Creating Agency: JamesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-44223503203534833042021-10-10T10:26:00.043+11:002022-08-09T09:11:26.473+10:00Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-1843 in Hobart, VDLCaptain Edward GOLDSMITH on the Janet Izzat
Lt. Charles HEXT on the Cape Packet
PRISONERS on the Emily and Moffatt
George O'BRIEN, spy, on the Sir Charles Napier
Bounty emigrants the JUDD family on the Sir Charles Napier
Thomas NEVIN, Joseph THOMAS and John NEVIN snr at Cygnet, Tasmania
Artist: William Clark (Scottish, 1803–1883)
Title: The barque "Sir Charles Napier", Pladda Island in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-33154816182125787392021-09-24T16:29:00.056+10:002024-02-02T09:46:51.966+11:00Best of friends: Emma PITT and Liz O'MEAGHER 1866SEMIOSIS: deixis
PITT, Emma nee BARTLETT (1847-1899)
PITT, Albert, solicitor (1840-1906)
O'MEAGHER, Liz (1847-1906) and Arthur BELL (1839-1921)
WOOLLEY, Charles, photographer (1834-1922)
EPIDEMIC New Zealand 1906
"I say Captain Mackie is not to show his face in Nelson without you Liz O'Meagher.
Emma Pitt
June 6th 1866"
Subject: a young woman holding a summer hat, wearing a summer dress Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-65941694056006249072021-09-21T16:25:00.028+10:002023-11-30T05:48:55.656+11:00A missing photograph and missing letter: John SMITH (x 2) per "Mangles" and Lord CalthorpePrisoners called John SMITH per Mangles 1835
Lord CALTHORPE's missing letter
T. J. NEVIN's missing mugshot(s) of a John Smith
Convict ship Mangles, master John Coghill
Date [ca. 1858-ca. 1911]
Identifier(s) H92.410/20
State Library of Victoria
Link: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/132516
This is a very interesting ship with a colourful history. A logbook of the Mangles on this voyage, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-41610447717212821732021-06-14T01:00:00.015+10:002021-10-19T07:17:36.414+11:00Captain Goldsmith's "private friend" Edward Macdowell 1840sCaptain EDWARD GOLDSMITH master mariner, testimonial 1849
Attorney-General and barrister EDWARD MACDOWELL, cases 1840-1849
The mistrial of JOHN BUCHANAN indicted for rape of a child 1849
Edward Macdowell (1798–1860)
Source: Archives Office Tasmania RT52475
A Private Friend
In January 1849 Elizabeth Rachel Nevin's uncle, merchant mariner Captain Edward Goldsmith, was presented with a silverUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-33551120059914628542021-04-06T11:25:00.063+10:002021-06-20T07:10:34.934+10:00George and Matilda Cherry at Thomas Nevin's studio ca. 1872Captain Joseph JAMES and family 1815-1870s
Photographer George CHERRY cdvs
Photographer Thomas J. NEVIN cdvs
Subject: unidentified couple, possibly Matilda and George Cherry with dog
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Location and date: 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart, ca. 1872
Details: cdv on plain buff mount, hand colouring on carpet, woman's dress, man's fob and tie
Provenance: DSFB, Melbourne 2013Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-12822131732686790002021-03-04T16:54:00.009+11:002021-03-12T13:33:24.601+11:00Captain Hector Axup and the French lady of Green Island, 1888FURNEAUX and KENT ISLAND GROUPS, Bass Strait
CAPTAIN Hector C. AXUP (1843-1927) and the S.S. Linda
Mrs Elizabeth ROBINSON of GREEN ISLAND, formerly Davis and Virieux (born Perrin, Mauritius 1824)
WARNING & DISCLAIMER
The resources in this article contain offensive language and negative stereotypes. Such primary historical documents should be seen in the context of the period and as a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-26753539399984108462020-10-25T17:36:00.075+11:002023-05-18T16:49:12.478+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith's "unwieldy steamer", the twin ferry "Kangaroo"A short legal history of the vehicular paddle steam ferry "Kangaroo"
Described as "Denison's Folly" by the colonial press in 1855; a great lumbering vessel by Mr. A. Riddoch the City Coroner in July 1896; an unwieldy steamer by Justice Dodds in October 1896, and a hazard to shipping by shipwreck enthusiasts, the Kangaroo was built by Elizabeth Rachel Nevin's uncle Captain Edward Goldsmith at hisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-7588591898294064002020-08-25T09:45:00.011+10:002021-10-15T10:47:23.072+11:00Gifts for Prince Alfred's visit to Hobart, Tasmania, 1868PRINCE ALFRED in Tasmania; Children's album 1868
NEVIN & SMITH, photographers 1868, Children's portraits
MEREDITH, Mrs Louisa Anne Meredith, lyricist, Children's Song 1868
The firm of Nevin & Smith 1865-1868
Within months of acquiring Alfred Bock's stock-in-trade, equipment, furnishings, lease on the studio and the glasshouse at 140 Elizabeth Street, Hobart, Tasmania at auction in 1865 Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-32365000715459257522020-07-23T18:49:00.002+10:002023-02-22T11:07:51.231+11:00James McEvoy's fine fabrics ex Captain Goldsmith's "Parrock Hall" Sydney 1845ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW
JAMES McEVOY, merchant tailor, Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW
CAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH, master, Parrock Hall at Sydney, 1844
The Garment District, Sydney 1840s-1880s
Drapers, tailors and outfitters were well established along Pitt Street, Sydney between King and Market Streets from the 1840s to the 1880s in a city block that included the popular Royal Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-40506007223853346522020-07-05T14:22:00.002+10:002022-11-23T17:57:53.368+11:00Captain Hector Axup at the farewell to "S.S. Salamis" Sydney 1900CAPTAIN Hector Charles Horatio AXUP
S.S. SALAMIS to the Boxer Rebellion China 1900
SHIPWRECK of the barque ACACIA 1904
The Australian War Memorial holds a large collection of photographs, some quite shocking, relating to the Boxer rebellion. View more here at Collections.
CHINA, 1900-1901. A GROUP OF AUSTRALIAN NAVAL BRIGADE OFFICERS AND MEN SERVING IN CHINA DURING THE BOXER REBELLION, WITH Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-30468792974801175882019-11-07T17:40:00.006+11:002023-09-10T07:05:44.772+10:00Rosanna Domeney nee Tilley at Thomas Nevin's studio 1870sROSANNA and WILLIAM DOMENEY Recherche Bay, Tasmania
TILLEY and DOMENEY Title Deeds Warwick St. Hobart, Tasmania
MORRISON family Mary and Jane New Wharf, Hobart Tasmania
WILLIAM LEGRAND book seller and conchologist
THOMAS J. NEVIN highs and lows 1870s-1890s
Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914) born in London and baptised at St Mary, Rotherhithe UK, married Belfast-born photographer ThomasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-12449201896477130532019-06-20T16:32:00.002+10:002020-10-18T12:14:36.258+11:00Thomas Nevin, Sam Clifford and the Flying Squadron at Hobart, January 1870ROYAL NAVY SHIPS THE FLYING SQUADRON in Hobart 1870
MUSIC manuscript of the GALOP by W. H. SPILLER
BOOK The Cruise round the World of the Flying Squadron 1869-1870
PHOTOGRAPHS by ABBOTT, WOOLLEY, CHERRY, CLIFFORD & NEVIN
DIARY of Midshipman Marcus McCausland
Abbott Album
171. Flying Squadron in Hobson's Bay 1869 (Victoria)
https://stors.tas.gov.au/
Press Reports
Source: Launceston Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-27811465588240265552019-04-24T19:09:00.001+10:002023-05-26T08:45:37.915+10:00Joseph Somes, Captain Edward Goldsmith and the "Angelina" 1844-46FEMALE TRANSPORT Angelina 1844, owner Joseph SOMES
BARQUE Angelina 1845, Captain Edward GOLDSMITH and apprentice, son Richard Sydney Goldsmith
FRENCH WHALER Angelina 1849 ex Le Havre
Joseph Somes (1787-1845)
Joseph Somes, owner of the female convict transport Angelina, 366/433 tons, built at Hull in 1842, brokered the ship with Lachlans and Co. on 20th March 1844. The Angelina sailed from LondonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-76099283180974710332019-01-02T15:56:00.012+11:002021-11-24T13:29:22.648+11:00Captain Goldsmith, AWOL seaman Geeves, and HMS Havannah AWOL SEAMAN Henry Geeves, January 1851
H.M.S. HAVANNAH at Hobart etc December 1850-January 1851
AUTHOR Godfrey Charles MUNDY in Hobart 1850-1851
H.M.S. Havannah 1812
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Havannah_(1811):
HMS Havannah was a Royal Navy 36-gun fifth-rate frigate [948 tons]. She was launched in 1811 and was one of twenty-seven Apollo-class frigates. She was cut downUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-59918253089135176632018-12-09T16:51:00.001+11:002020-09-19T17:22:31.108+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith and wife Elizabeth's land deals in VDLLAND DEALS in VDL of CAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH 1839-62
DISAMBIGUATION: Elizabeth Goldsmith 1855 and Elizabeth Goldsmith 1921
Wrest Point casino and the area behind extending up through Lord Street Sandy Bay which Captain Edward and Elizabeth Goldsmith acquired in 1840 and sold in 1852. Taken from Battery Point. Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2014
THE LIST: HISTORIC DEEDS & TITLES
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-29952063105416390012018-06-06T17:57:00.003+10:002020-09-19T17:22:32.734+10:001854: a year on shore at Hobart Tasmania for Captain Edward GoldsmithCAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH master mariner and merchant
HOBART, TASMANIA (Van Diemen's Land) 1854
[Hobart Town from the Domain]
Author/Creator: Bull, Knud Geelmuyden, 1811-1889
Publication Information: [ca. 1854]
Physical description: 1 painting : oil on paper laid on canvas ; 34 x 51 cm.
Digitised item from: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office
The yearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-17580933485015581412018-04-30T16:14:00.001+10:002020-10-18T12:15:56.724+11:00John Nevin snr and family 1851-1854: shipping documentsJohn NEVIN: the ship Fairlie July 1852
Miss Mary NEVIN: the ship Columbus October 1854
Mr James and Mrs Mary NEVIN: the ship Kingston August 1854
1851-1852
Former soldier of the Royal Scots First Regiment, John Nevin snr (1808-1887), his wife Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson (1810-1875), and their four children all under 12 years old (Thomas James, Mary Ann, Rebecca Jane and William John) boarded the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-84619702048955067872018-02-07T19:26:00.002+11:002020-10-14T12:45:41.504+11:00Captain Edward Goldsmith puts household goods at auction 1855CAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH
19 DAVEY St HOBART TASMANIA 1855 and 1863
Large mirror and clock at Runnymede, New Town with reflection of house guide Bob
Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2012 ARR
1855: Captain Goldsmith's Auction
Auctioneer Wm. Gore Elliston considered himself "favoured" with the opportunity to sell the contents of Captain Edward Goldsmith's residence at 19 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-70174089094402131362018-01-31T11:10:00.017+11:002023-05-26T08:49:18.141+10:00The Will of Richard Goldsmith snr (1769-1839)RICHARD GOLDSMITH victualler
EDWARD GOLDSMITH master mariner
ROTHERHITHE Surrey and CHALK Kent
Smith' New Map of London 1830 - Rotherithe
https://mapco.net/smith/smith23.htm
THREE GENERATIONS of GOLDSMITHS named "RICHARD"
Richard Goldsmith snr, (1769-1839) father of Captain Edward Goldsmith
Richard Goldsmith, (1793-?) brother of Captain Edward Goldsmith
Richard Sydney Goldsmith (1830-1854), Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-66095062869774796522017-05-10T21:11:00.010+10:002023-11-01T12:53:42.744+11:00Serious Money: Captain Goldsmith and shipowner Robert BrooksCAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH merchant mariner
ROBERT BROOKS ship owner and wool merchant
ROBERT TOWNS and THOMAS CHAPMAN shipping agents
On left: Robert Towns, merchant and entrepreneur, 1873 / Creator Freeman Brothers.
Call Number P1 / 1797. Digital Order No. a4364097.
Mitchell Library State Library NSW
On right: Honourable T D Chapman
Description:1 photographic print [undated, unattributed]
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com