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Portraits and landscapes from T. J. Nevin's cohort

This selection of late 1860s to mid 1870s Australian portraits and landscapes was acquired from eBay sellers on behalf of the KLW NFC Group for © KLW NFC Imprint Private Collection 2017. They were scanned on a CanoScan LiDE 220 on 13th September 2017. Works displayed here are attributed to the following photographers:

ALFRED BOCK (1835-1920) Tasmania
CHARLES NETTLETON (1825-1902) Victoria
CHARLES A. WOOLLEY (1834-1922) Tasmania
SAMUEL CLIFFORD (1827-1890) Tasmania

Portraits: full length cartes-de-visite
Studio portraits of women and children from this era usually survive in family albums until they can no longer be remembered or identified by subsequent generations of the family. The people in each of these portraits have yet to be named and the provenance prior to purchase on eBay of each item is unknown.

ALFRED BOCK (1835-1920) Tasmania



Four year old child in frock coat and frilly bloomers 1858-1863
Photographer's stamp verso: Alfred Bock, Hobart Town

Above: A full-length studio carte-de-visite portrait of a fair-haired four year old child, possibly a girl, wearing a frock coat and frilly bloomers, her gaze direct to camera. In her right hand she holds a card, her left hand rests on the arm of a low chair where a white hat is placed. The verso carries Alfred Bock's studio stamp with the kangaroo emblem sitting on top of a small leather belt encompassing the initials "A.B". The wording of the stamp is " Alfred Bock, City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town". The stamp design dates from 1858 when Bock first moved to the studio at 140 Elizabeth St.  and predates his later stamp of 1865-1867 (see second cdv below) which Thomas J. Nevin modified on acquiring the business in 1867.
In poor condition. Provenance - eBay
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Verso of above: Four year old child in frock coat and frilly bloomers 1858-1863
Photographer's stamp verso: Alfred Bock, Hobart Town
Full-length studio carte-de-visite portrait of a fair-haired four year old child, possibly a girl, wearing a frock coat and frilly bloomers, her gaze direct to camera. In her right hand she holds a card, her left hand rests on the arm of a low chair where a white hat is placed. The verso carries Alfred Bock's studio stamp with the kangaroo emblem sitting on top of a small leather belt encompassing the initials "A.B". The wording of the stamp is " Alfred Bock, City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town". The stamp design dates from 1858 when Bock first moved to the studio at 140 Elizabeth St.  and predates his later stamp of 1865-1867 (see second cdv below) which Thomas J. Nevin modified on acquiring the business in 1867.
In poor condition. Provenance - eBay
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Woman in taffeta dress, left hand on elaborate plinth with metal fruit stand 
Photographer's stamp verso: Alfred Bock, Hobart Town ca. 1865

Above: A full-length studio carte-de-visite portrait of a woman in her thirties wearing a taffeta dress with a white collar and buttoned bodice, her gaze directed to the viewer's right.  She is standing with her left hand resting on an elaborately decorated plinth on which sits a metal fruit stand. Behind her to the viewer's left is the heavy floral-patterned drape featured in many of Bock's later studio portraits taken in Hobart between 1865 and his departure from Tasmania in 1867.  The verso carries the stamp in blue ink with the kangaroo emblem sitting on top of a leather belt. Above the kangaroo inside a ribbon strip is the motto in Latin "Ad Altiora" - which translates as something like "to the heights" - and inside the circular belt design is his business name - "The City Photographic Establishment" - which in turn encompasses the studio address - 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town. Below this in italics is the promise that "Further Copies can be obtained at any time". Thomas J. Nevin retained this stamp design on acquiring Bock's stock, studio, glasshouse, and business name in 1867, adding his name and "Late A. Bock" inside the belt.
Torn with piece missing on right side and top left. Provenance - eBay
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Verso of above of Woman in taffeta dress, left hand on elaborate plinth with metal fruit stand 
Photographer's stamp verso: Alfred Bock, Hobart Town ca. 1865
Full-length studio carte-de-visite portrait of a woman in her thirties wearing a taffeta dress with a white collar and buttoned bodice, her gaze directed to the viewer's right.  She is standing with her left hand resting on an elaborately decorated plinth on which sits a metal fruit stand. Behind her to the viewer's left is the heavy floral-patterned drape featured in many of Bock's later studio portraits taken in Hobart between 1865 and his departure from Tasmania in 1867.  The verso carries the stamp in blue ink with the kangaroo emblem sitting on top of a leather belt. Above the kangaroo inside a ribbon strip is the motto in Latin "Ad Altiora" - which translates as something like "to the heights" - and inside the circular belt design is his business name - "The City Photographic Establishment" - which in turn encompasses the studio address - 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town. Below this in italics is the promise that "Further Copies can be obtained at any time". Thomas J. Nevin retained this stamp design on acquiring Bock's stock, studio, glasshouse, and business name in 1867, adding his name and "Late A. Bock" inside the belt.
Torn with piece missing on right side and top left. Provenance - eBay
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CHARLES NETTLETON (1825-1902) Victoria



Seated woman with male child in trouser suit leaning against her knee
Photographer's stamp verso: C. Nettleton, North Melbourne ca. 1869

Above: a full-length studio portrait of a woman seated in a voluminous dress with white collar and cuffs, a long thin chain reaching from around her neck to her lap. Her hair is parted centre and coiled at the back. She is holding a five year old boy who is leaning against her knee, her gaze direct to camera. The boy wears a trouser suit and holds a toy - a stick on wheels or possible cotton reels - in his right hand, his gaze directed across to the photographer's right. The studio decor features a floor to ceiling window with a backdrop painted with a patio scene. The verso is printed in lavender ink and very elaborately decorated with birds, branches and flowers. Included at the top is a stamp encircled in a wreath with the wording "1862 Londini Honoris Causa"  and below that at centre is the Royal Arms insignia and the wording "C. Nettleton Photographer by Special Appointment to H. R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh" flanked on either side with Nettleton's many medals won at London (1862) and Melbourne (1867) exhibitions. When this portrait was taken, his business address was No. 1, Madeline St. North Melbourne where he remained from 1863 until the late 1880s, although he had three other studios in Melbourne, including an office in the Victoria Arcade, Bourke St (Kerr 1992: 568). This portrait probably dates from the visit by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868 up to the early 1870s. Charles Nettleton, like Thomas J. Nevin in Tasmania, provided the Victorian police and prison administration with prisoner mugshots for more than two decades.
Fair condition. Provenance - eBay
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Verso of above: Seated woman with male child in trouser suit leaning against her knee
Photographer's stamp verso: C. Nettleton, North Melbourne ca. 1869 A full-length studio portrait of a woman seated in a voluminous dress with white collar and cuffs, a long thin chain reaching from around her neck to her lap. Her hair is parted centre and coiled at the back. She is holding a five year old boy who is leaning against her knee, her gaze direct to camera. The boy wears a trouser suit and holds a toy - a stick on wheels or possible cotton reels - in his right hand, his gaze directed across to the photographer's right. The studio decor features a floor to ceiling window with a backdrop painted with a patio scene. The verso is printed in lavender ink and very elaborately decorated with birds, branches and flowers. Included at the top is a stamp encircled in a wreath with the wording "1862 Londini Honoris Causa"  and below that at centre is the Royal Arms insignia and the wording "C. Nettleton Photographer by Special Appointment to H. R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh" flanked on either side with Nettleton's many medals won at London (1862) and Melbourne (1867) exhibitions. When this portrait was taken, his business address was No. 1, Madeline St. North Melbourne where he remained from 1863 until the late 1880s, although he had three other studios in Melbourne, including an office in the Victoria Arcade, Bourke St (Kerr 1992: 568). This portrait probably dates from the visit by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868 up to the early 1870s. Charles Nettleton, like Thomas J. Nevin in Tasmania, provided the Victorian police and prison administration with prisoner mugshots for more than two decades.
Fair condition. Provenance - eBay
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Above: Entry on Charles Nettleton pp 566-567 and entry on Thomas J. Nevin, pp 568-9
The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr.
Publisher: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description: xxii, 889 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 27 cm.

CHARLES A. WOOLLEY (1834-1922) Tasmania



Young girl, nine years old in dark dress with lacy bloomers and spats
Photographer's stamp verso: Chas A. Woolley, Hobart ca. late 1860s

Above: a full-length carte-de-visite studio portrait of a young girl, possibly nine years old wearing a dark dress with a white collar and braiding along the sleeve, showing the lace of her bloomers at the hem against her bare legs. Spats cover her shoes. Her hair hangs loose in ringlets, and her gaze is slightly dropped and held steady to the viewer's left. The studio decor includes an occasional table on wheels to the viewer's right of frame on which sits a book, and a dining chair on the left on which the child rests her right arm. In her left hand she holds a thickly folded card. Charles Woolley's signature technique was to produce prints in rich dark tones which made his portraits especially appealing. The verso bears Woolley's "Advance Tasmania" studio stamp with emu and kangaroo animal iconography flanking the Tasmanian colonial insignia. His studio address for more than two decades was 42 Macquarie St. Hobart where he also ran a furniture business with his father. He must have supplied furniture, carpets and wall-hangings to all the Hobart photographic studios during the 1860s, and even sold items from his own studio when he ceased professional practice in the 1870s, because the same items appear in different photographers' studio portraits.
Good condition. Provenance - eBay
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Verso of above: Young girl, nine years old in dark dress with lacy bloomers and spats
Photographer's stamp verso: Chas A. Woolley, Hobart ca. late 1860s. 
Full-length carte-de-visite studio portrait of a young girl, possibly nine years old wearing a dark dress with a white collar and braiding along the sleeve, showing the lace of her bloomers at the hem against her bare legs. Spats cover her shoes. Her hair hangs loose in ringlets, and her gaze is slightly dropped and held steady to the viewer's left. The studio decor includes an occasional table on wheels to the viewer's right of frame on which sits a book, and a dining chair on the left on which the child rests her right arm. In her left hand she holds a thickly folded card. Charles A. Woolley's signature technique was to produce prints in rich dark sepia  tones which made his portraits especially appealing. The verso bears Woolley's "Advance Tasmania" studio stamp with emu and kangaroo animal iconography flanking the Tasmanian colonial insignia. His studio address for more than two decades was 42 Macquarie St. Hobart where he also ran a furniture business with his father. He must have supplied furniture, carpets and wall-hangings to all the Hobart photographic studios during the 1860s, and even sold items from his own studio when he ceased professional practice in the 1870s, because the same items appear in different photographers' studio portraits. 
Good condition. Provenance - eBay
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Stereographs: views along the River Derwent
With the departure of Thomas Nevin's senior partner Alfred Bock to Sale, Victoria in 1867, and then the departure of Robert Smith to Goulburn, NSW in 1868 after his brief partnership with Nevin while operating as the firm Nevin & Smith at the former premises of Alfred  Bock, the City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth Street, Hobart, Thomas Nevin's closest relationship as both a business partner and personal friend was with the prolific stereographer Samuel Clifford. Many of Clifford's and Nevin's stereographs - and they produced thousands between them from the late 1860s to the early 1870s - are identical.

SAMUEL CLIFFORD (1827-1890) Tasmania

"The New Wharf" ca. 1867



Views in Tasmania. The New Wharf, Hobart ca. 1868
Photographer's label and stamp verso: S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town

Above: two images which differ slightly - i.e. the image on the right includes a little more of the landscape on its left border than the image on the left. Captured with a stereoscopic camera perhaps, or with a single camera moved slightly for the second capture, and mounted for viewing through a stereographic viewer in a double-arched frame on yellow card. The subject shows mercantile success: five merchant traders - probably three-masted barques - lined up port side along New Wharf (now Salamanca Place) Hobart. Crates and and timber (deal) are visible on the wharf. Two horse and cart carriers wait in the street pointing towards the town. The verso carries Samuel Clifford's printed label "Views in Tasmania, S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town" and the hand-written title of this item - "The New Wharf". The stamp on the verso carries a circle  enclosing a cartoon of Romans receiving  an award, framed by a Latin motto [?] beneath which is the wording "Medal Awarded to S. Clifford Intercolonial Exhib. Victoria 1866" and inside the ribbon above the stamp is printed "And Honourable Mention" . Below all this are the awards: New Zealand, 1865, Melbourne 1866, For Architectural & Landscape Photograph, Samuel Clifford, Liverpool Street, Hobart Town Tasmania"
The stereograph therefore was taken or produced sometime after the last-mentioned award won at Melbourne in 1866.
Faded. Fair condition. Provenance - eBay
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Verso of above: Views in Tasmania. The New Wharf, Hobart ca. 1868
Photographer's label and stamp verso: S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town
Two images which differ slightly - i.e. the image on the right includes a little more of the landscape on its left border than the image on the left. Captured with a stereoscopic camera perhaps, or with a single camera moved slightly for the second capture, and mounted for viewing through a stereographic viewer in a double-arched frame on yellow card. The subject shows mercantile success: five merchant traders - probably three-masted barques - lined up port side along New Wharf (now Salamanca Place) Hobart. Crates and and timber (deal) are visible on the wharf. Two horse and cart carriers wait in the street pointing towards the town. The verso carries Samuel Clifford's printed label "Views in Tasmania, S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town" and the hand-written title of this item - "The New Wharf". The stamp on the verso carries a circle  enclosing a cartoon of Romans receiving an award, framed by a Latin motto [?] beneath which is the wording "Medal Awarded to S. Clifford Intercolonial Exhib. Victoria 1866" and inside the ribbon above the stamp is printed "And Honourable Mention" . Below all this are the awards:New Zealand, 1865, Melbourne 1866, For Architectural & Landscape Photograph, Samuel Clifford, Liverpool Street, Hobart Town Tasmania"
The stereograph therefore was taken or produced sometime after the last-mentioned award won at Melbourne in 1866.
Faded. Fair condition. Provenance - eBay
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"The Government Slaughter Yard &" ca. 1870



 Views in Tasmania. Hobart Town. From Queen's Domain
The Government Slaughter Yard & ca. 1870s
S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town 

 Above: Unlike the stereograph of New Wharf above, this is not a true stereograph because the two images are exactly the same. One single capture has been printed twice and overlaid one on the other at the centre where the wide opaque vertical line shows the overlay. The consumer of this item would have had a less than authentic stereographic viewing experience. Given the clarity of the print and its well-defined dark tones, it would have been printed from the single negative a decade or more after the original capture, and for the tourist trade, whereas the original photograph was taken for the Lands and Survey Department and the Hobart City Council who owned the slaughter yards, specifically for documentation of government assets. This view which Samuel Clifford's studio titled "The Government Slaughter Yard &" appears in many collections: it was not only mounted on different coloured cards with square or arched frames, it was printed in deep black, white and grey tones, as well as with dark sepia and deep lilac fixer. Some of these extant examples were either labelled by Clifford or left blank. Some are attributed to Thomas Nevin, for example, the heavily coloured one held at the TMAG. Some were given new titles such as "Cattle Jetty Abbatoirs" or "Sandy Bay from the Domain" though not quite apposite, and yet others were included in what are known as the Clifford Albums at the State Library of Tasmania despite versions by other photographers and variations in the scene.
Good condition. Possible reprint from Nevin's original negative.
Provenance - eBay
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Verso of above: Views in Tasmania. Hobart Town. From Queen's Domain
The Government Slaughter Yard & ca. 1870s
S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town 
Unlike the stereograph of New Wharf above, this is not a true stereograph because the two images are exactly the same. One single capture has been printed twice and overlaid one on the other at the centre where the wide opaque vertical line shows the overlay. The consumer of this item would have had a less than authentic stereographic viewing experience. Given the clarity of the print and its well-defined dark tones, it would have been printed from the single negative a decade or more after the original capture, and for the tourist trade, whereas the original photograph was taken for the Lands and Survey Department and the Hobart City Council who owned the slaughter yards, specifically for documentation of government assets. This view which Samuel Clifford's studio titled "The Government Slaughter Yard &" appears in many collections: it was not only mounted on different coloured cards with square or arched frames, it was printed in deep black, white and grey tones, as well as with dark sepia and deep lilac fixer. Some of these extant examples were either labelled by Clifford or left blank. Some are attributed to Thomas Nevin, for example, the heavily coloured one held at the TMAG. Some were given new titles such as "Cattle Jetty Abbatoirs" or "Sandy Bay from the Domain" though not quite apposite, and yet others were included in what are known as the Clifford Albums at the State Library of Tasmania despite versions by other photographers and variations in the scene.
Good condition. Possible reprint from Nevin's original negative.
Provenance - eBay
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Thomas Nevin's print of the cattle yards, and the others



Stereograph on arched buff mount of the Abbatoir, Queen's Domain, Hobart
Photographer; Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1870 for the HCC, Lands and Survey Dept
Unstamped, and hand-coloured possibly by family members of a commercial client.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection
TMAG Ref: Q1994.56.25



Verso of above: Stereograph on arched buff mount of the Abbatoir, Queen's Domain, Hobart
Photographer; Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1870 for the HCC, Lands and Survey Dept
Unstamped, and hand-coloured possibly by family members of a commercial client.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection
TMAG Ref: Q1994.56.25



This stereograph of the same location was printed in black and grey tones and mounted in a pair of square frames, again with the opaque vertical line at centre showing the overlay of the single print mounted twice to appear like a stereograph. Titled simply "The Domain", it bears Samuel Clifford's label (blue) on verso. It dates from before 1878. Sourced from eBay March 2016

Cattle slaughtered at the Domain abbatoir found their way to the shipping butchery in Morrison Street, behind the Hobart Wharves, where government contractor J. Callaghan proudly displayed the Royal Arms insignia as his business credentials above his shop entrance.



Photograph - J Callaghan's Butcher's shop, Morrison Street, Hobart
Description: 1 photographic print
ADRI: NS1013-1-1075
Source: Archives Office of Tasmania



[Above]: Just as the butcher J. Callaghan displayed his government contract credentials above his shop entrance, Thomas J. Nevin would have displayed a similar sign at his studio in Elizabeth Street. This is one of many extant examples of T. J. Nevin's government contractor stamp with the Royal Arms insignia which he was required to display on the versos of at least one photograph per batch supplied on commission to the Lands and Survey Department and the Municipal Police Office, Hobart City Council, between 1865 and 1876.

The twin cattle jetties were first built on the Domain shortly after Thomas Nevin's uncle-in-law, Captain Edward Goldsmith, began the erection of a patent slip in 1854. The McGregor brothers acquired the government lease in 1856, and the jetties were constructed next to the slipyards soon after for unloading cattle into the abattoirs and stock yard on site.
"A vessel with cattle on board lies alongside both (jetty) Ts, and discharges cattle into the water between the jetties, and they swim ashore and walk along a railed enclosure straight into the slaughter yards. This arrangement is made so that if a beast suffering from any disease it is in practically quarantine..."
The Marine Board assumed responsibility for the jetties in 1886,
"resulting in the jetties being restored with stone approaches and were about 120 feet with T ends, measuring 40 feet by 12 feet".
Source:  Hudspeth A.and Scripps L (2000). Capital Ports, A History of the Marine Board of Hobart 1858-1997. Hobart Ports Corporation.



State Library of Tasmania Collections
Cattle Jetty Abbatoirs [i.e. Abattoirs] c1872[?]
Publication Information: [Hobart : s.n., c1872][?].
Physical description: 1 photographic print mounted on card : b&w ; 104 x 181 mm. ; on mount 115 x 190 mm.

The black and white print (above) from another negative which was taken from the same viewpoint of the same location, is identified at TAHO as the abbatoirs at Cattle Jetty, Queens Domain, but the date 1872 is incorrect. Because of the telegraph pole (?) now evident in the centre of the image, it was probably taken ca. 1880.  Thomas Nevin would have taken the original photograph a decade earlier under commission as government contractor for the Lands and Survey Dept. of the HCC, and supplied the Council with prints in various formats including a stereograph and unmounted cdv, with at least one photograph printed verso with the Royal Arms insignia of his official government contract stamp. The hand-coloured stereograph to survive bears no stamp verso, which suggests it was randomly saved from the HCC archives, or even studio rejects, and subsequently coloured by family members of a commercial client. The same image mounted with squared corners was sold as a commercial item by Samuel Clifford's when reprinted from Nevin's original sometime before Clifford's retirement in 1878.

A print from the same negative is held at the State Library of Tasmania which ostensibly bears verso Samuel Clifford's label, and the generic title "Sandy Bay ... from the Domain". Without an online digital image of the verso, key information about the label and accession date cannot be verified. Samuel Clifford and Thomas J. Nevin collaborated on the production and reproduction of stereographs and studio portraits from the mid 1860s until Clifford retired in 1878, but whether this negative and stereograph format was produced as early as 1865, is open to question, as is the poor reproduction by the State Library of Tasmania, which leads the viewer to assume that lilac fixer was the dominant or preferred print tone of the photographer's studio.



State Library of Tasmania Collections
Sandy Bay ... from the Domain
Publication Information: ca. 1865.
Physical description: 1 stereoscopic pair of photographs : sepia toned ; 8 x 7 cm. each, on mount 9 x 18 cm.
Series: Views in Tasmania
Format: photograph image (online)
Notes: On verso: title printed on centre of label ; printed above title: Views in Tasmania ; printed below title: S. Clifford, photographer, Hobart Town.
Date and accession number in pencil upper right corner of verso.
Exact size 76 x 62 mm. each, on mount 83 x 175 mm.

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John Nevin senior's land grant 1859 at Port Cygnet

JOHN NEVIN snr: LAND GRANT at HUON VALLEY (Tasmania)
JOHN NEVIN snr at KANGAROO VALLEY (Tasmania)



A farmer and friend surveying his sown crop
Stereograph by Thomas J. Nevin ca, 1870
Blind stamp on border at right "T. NEVIN PHOTO"
TMAG Collection Ref: Q1994.56.22

John Nevin snr (1808-1887) was born at Grey Abbey, Ireland and served with the Royal Scots 1st Regiment of Foot in the West Indies from 1825 to 1838. He then served at the Canadian Rebellions from 1839 until 1841 when he was invalided out to the hospital at Chelsea, England, and thence to Ireland. He married Mary Ann Dickson, pursued the vocation of gardener in his wife's brother's business, Alexander Dickson's nurseries at Newtonards, taught school, and contributed to journals with surveyor John Hurst, proprietor of the Freeman newspaper. By the time he arrived in Tasmania in 1852 as a free settler, he had become the father of four children. His eldest, Thomas James Nevin (1842-1923) who became a professional photographer in Hobart from the 1860s, survived all members of this immediate family group, including his wife Elizabeth Rachel Day, dying in his 81st year, his beard still red, his eyes still clear, according to his grandchildren.

The House at Kangaroo Valley
Their grandfather John Nevin snr had arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, as a pensioner guard on board the convict transport, Fairlie, in 1852 with his wife Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson and their four children - Thomas James, Mary Ann, Rebecca Jane and William John, all under 12 years old . He was granted a parcel of land in 1859 in the shire of Buckingham, near Cradoc, in the Parish of Bedford, on the Huon River. Although John Nevin snr was able to settle his wife and their four children who had all arrived with him in 1852 on the land grant in the shire of Buckingham, he settled them instead on land granted to Dr. E.S.P. Bedford situated just above the Lady Franklin Museum at Kangaroo Valley (now Lenah Valley, Hobart). He was employed by the Trustees of the Wesleyan Church to teach school at Kangaroo Valley, and granted permission to use the one acre of land on which to establish orchards and build a house. John Nevin snr resided at Kangaroo Valley until his death in 1887, firstly with his wife Mary Ann Dickson and young family, and four years after her death in 1875, with his second wife Martha Nevin nee Genge and his grandchild Minnie Carr.



Detail of map below; location of the Lady Franklin Museum within the 10 acre land grant of E.S.P. Bedford and J. Price. John Nevin snr was granted the lease of the Wesleyan Chapel, the school house and land on which to build his cottage in 1854. By 1872, John Nevin had leased an additional acre of land nearby for gardens and orchards from Maria Nairn, wife of William Edward Nairn (1812-1869), assistant comptroller of the Convict Department in 1843, in charge of prisoners in Tasmania and on Norfolk Island, and sheriff of Hobart in 1857-68. His wife Maria Nairn was a sister of John Swan, Inspector of Police in the 1870s.



Map – Buckingham 116 – parish of Hobart, allotments fronting New Town, Humphry’s (Humphrey), Guy Fauks (Fawkes) and Hobart Town Rivulets and Brushy Creek, landholders HULL GEORGE, BROWN W C, BYE H, CUNNINGHAM, GEE, BRINDLY J, BROWN, MEZGER J and others
Description: 1 photographic print
ADRI:AF396-1-123
Source:Archives Office of Tasmania



Source Citation: Nominal registers of the hiring and disposal of immigrants with details of marital state, age, children, trade, employer, wages and term of employment.; Film: SLTX/AO/MB/143; Series: CB7/16/1

The record (above) shows that John Nevin snr, schoolmaster at Kangaroo Valley, Hobart, Tasmania, paid £5 (five pounds) for a family ticket of 2 [?] individuals on 11th July 1854. These tickets may have been issued for any number of purposes: payment for John Nevin's return to Tasmania from his unhappy venture at the Californian gold mines; payment for the arrival or departure of family members to or from intercolonial ports; or payment for the assisted passage of teachers' assistants, servants etc for the school at Kangaroo Valley.

So, by 1854 John Nevin was registered in the Hobart Gazette as resident schoolmaster and leasee of the school house at Kangaroo Valley, and by 1858 he had built a house there, which he called "My Cottage in the Wilderness" in a poem he published in 1868. The house was located inside the boundary just above the Lady Franklin Museum, on land which was sold by the Hobart City Council on it acquisition from the Church Trustees (those originally designated by Lady Jane Franklin) in the 1920s. The area is visible in this Southern Met map of 1973:



Lenah Valley (1973).Ref: 5172-18.
Southern Met maps
AUTAS001139610562-5172-18
Archives Office Tasmania

John Nevin snr remarried in 1879, four years after the death of his wife Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson, to widow Martha Salter nee Genge, daughter of his friend, William Genge,lay preacher at the Wesleyan Church in Melville Street, Hobart . With his second wife Martha Nevin nee Genge, he adopted his grand-daughter, Minnie Carr, daughter of his daughter Mary Ann Carr nee Nevin, who died days after giving birth to her in 1878 at Sandridge, Victoria. and brought her to the house at Kangaroo Valley in 1879 where she resided until his death there in 1887. His widow Martha Nevin and granddaughter Minnie Carr then moved to Patrick Street, North Hobart, where Minnie, just 20 years old, died suddenly of gastric poisoning and haemorrhage in 1898.





The cottage that John Nevin built at Kangaroo Valley
“T.J. Nevin Photo” inscribed on verso, 1868.
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The bridge in the foreground crosses the rivulet. The Lady Franklin Museum sits below the site where John Nevin built his cottage (now demolished), next to the house (pictured) above on the rise at 270A Lenah Valley Rd. Photos copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2012 ARR.

The Land Grant in the Parish of Bedford
In 1859, John Nevin snr was granted ten acres one rood and seventeen perches in the parish of Bedford on the Huon River near Cygnet, about 60 kms south west of Hobart, but it appears he never moved his family from Kangaroo Valley to take up permanent residence on the grant. He may have used the land, however, to cultivate orchards, grow vegetables, and make jam for export. In 1870 he exhibited marrows at the Industrial Bazaar at the Hobart Town Hall. His eldest son Thomas Nevin exhibited photographs as well. In 1873 he presented an exhibit of peat to a meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania, and in 1877, he exported jam on the Southern Cross to the colony of Victoria. The peat may have been extracted from Kangaroo Valley, known originally as Sassafras Gully in the 1840s, a valley rich with the type of flora that grows as ‘wet’ and/or mixed forest in Tasmania. In 1891, the orchards on the land leased from Maria Nairn at Kangaroo Valley may have produced fruit in quantities large enough that John Nevin's sons Thomas and Jack, may have attempted mechanised packing. Their application for a patent of their fruit packer was tabled by the Hobart Fruit Board in June 1891.

1870: Marrows and Photographs



Vintage Botanical Print Antique PUMPKIN, MARROW, botanical print 1960s
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The Mercury newspaper recorded the opening of the Bazaar in a detailed report on 31st March, 1870. Exhibited on the same Table 8 as John Nevin's marrows were apples from his neighbour W. R. Giblin, Attorney-General, President of the Working Men's Institute and the Nevin family 's solicitor.

The ceremony of opening the Industrial Bazaar at the Town Hall took place yesterday afternoon with great success. The resolution to have an exposition of local industries and products was come to many months ago, after much consideration by the members of the Working Men's Club, but it being the first of the kind, the difficulties and labour attending it could hardly have been anticipated by the promoters. Indomitable perseverance on the part of Mr. Walker, the Secretary, Mr. Crosby, and the committee generally, has,however, enabled them to achieve the object, and the experience gained cannot fail to be of advantage on future occasions, for after the co-operation and kindly spirit shown by all classes, not excepting the members of the Government, and the city authorities, the Working Men's Club will no doubt be encouraged to have more exhibitions of an industrial character, the benefits of which must be diffused in a variety of ways. The capacity of the club to sustain a bazaar has been favourably tested ; the public have had the opportunity of witnessing for themselves what the artisans and working classes can achieve; industries of which the general community may have heard, but which they had but imperfect conceptions of, have been represented in one grand Exhibition, brought into a focus within the general comprehension, and producing a spirit of emulation, no doubt, on the part of many who have stood aloof, or at all events have not participated in this industrial exposition. It is not easy to say how extensive the influence such a concentration of local products and manufactures will have on tho public mind ; but we may safely predict that the enthusiasm displayed on the occasion will have a salutary effect on producer and consumer, and lead to a more grateful recognition of the dignity of labour, and its bearing on tho enterprise and prosperity of the community. The Bazaar was announced to be under the patronage of a number of distinguished persons, including His Excellency the Governor and the Hon. Mrs. DuCane, Sir Francis and Lady Smith, the Lord Bishop of Tasmania and Mrs. Bromby, Sir Robert and Lady Officer, and the Mayor and Aldermen of Hobart Town, all of whom have directly or more remotely evinced an interest in measures for promoting the solid and social welfare of the industrial classes generally, and the Working Men's Club in particular. The appeal of the committee for exhibits and contributions was cheerfully and generally responded to, as demonstrated by the large and varied samples and specimens with which the Town Hall was crowded yesterday. Cabinet work, agricultural implements, coopers' and turners' work, hats, boots, and clothing, basket anil tin ware, leathers and furs, saddlery, horological and photographic art were all represented ; printing, in letter press, and lithography, and machine work, were in practical operation, which "the million" had the opportunity of seeing for themselves. The committee adopted the idea of one or two of its active members of having a capital centre-piece, in the shape of a trophy of suitable dimensions, to display some of the principal products of the colony. There were also stalls for the exhibition and sale of lighter articles, presided over by ladies ; and the tables, platform, and available ground space were allotted to the different commodities, which were sent in for show. Had the space available been more extensive, the goods would have shown to much greater advantage ; but those who had the arrangement of affairs did their best to give a fair and equal chance to all tho exhibits according to their relative value and importance, and towards the last, it became necessary for Messrs. Crosby, Walker, Ellis, and the other workers to devote night and day to the preparation for the opening. As we intend to subjoin a detailed description of the various features in the Bazaar,this general introductory notice will suffice, and we proceed therefore to record the proceedings at the opening ceremony.,,



TRANSCRIPT

No 8 contained a butter tub, sent by Mr. Ivey, bag of flour by W. Green, and a bag of flour by G.Gibson, oatmeal from Ritchie's Perth Mills, contributed by G. R. Napier ; and malt, wheat, oats, and barley, the names of senders not stated. In the vicinity of this compartment were sundry farming implements from Harcourt's, Elizabeth-street, namely, spade, hayrick, patent scythe and reaphook.There were also specimens of stone from the Queen's Park and Ross, and some stone, muskwood and dogwood exhibited by the Royal Society's Museum. In front were collections of vegetable marrows, sent by Nevin, Dobson, Stabb and Lane, a sample of potatoes contributed by James Wardlaw, East Coast, from an early crop which realized 22 tons to an acre; collection of apples, "Court Pender Plat" and " Margal," sent by W. Thomas, Sandy Bay ; and another collection by W. Giblin, Providence Valley.
Source: INDUSTRIAL BAZAAR AT THE TOWN HALL. (1870, March 31). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8869213

The Bazaar was something of a family affair: John Nevin's eldest son, Thomas J. Nevin exhibited photographs and stereoscopic views together with portraits by his close friend Henry Hall Baily, noted next day in the Mercury:
There are also photographs and stereoscopic views by Mr. Nevin. A velocipede of approved construction is exhibited near, the platform, but the name of the exhibitor is not given.
Source: The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Fri 1 Apr 1870 Page 2 INDUSTRIAL BAZAAR AT THE TOWN HALL.

1873: Peat



12. From Mr. Nevin - A piece of Turf, or peat, used for fuel in Ireland.
Source: University of Tasmania ePrints

ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA.
The monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, the 12th August, the Right Rev. Bishop Bromby, D.D., in the chair.
...
The presentations were as follows :
1. From Mr. J. AVatson, Muddy Plains-A musk duck (ñiz'mra lobato).
2. From Mr. Aldred-A Nankeen night heron (Nyctkorax caledon kits).
3. From Dr. Huston-A " native companion," or Australian crane (Gnu auntralasianvs).
4. From Mr. Hissey-Two shells (Haliotis sp).
A silver pheasant, prepared and mounted.
5. From Mr. T. Askdl, Brighton-A swamp parakeet (Pezoporm forinosns).
6. From Mr. Gregory-Four young native cats
(Dasijurus v'werrimis) from the pouch.
7. From Miss Castray-Alga! and corallincB, from Port Arthur, dried and piessed.
8. From Mr. D. Girdwood-Fossil Ostrea (?) und
Terebratula, from Greymonth, New Zealand. fl. From Mr. F. H. Eckford-Copper ore, from
Yamba, Queensland.
10. From Mr. Nevin-A piece of turf, or peat,used for fuel in Ireland.
 11. From Mr. Mason-A fish, from Shipwright's Point, Huon.
12. From Messrs. Cawthorn Bros., Macquarie Plains-A lamb with eight legs. Two mountain thrushes (Oreocincla Ittnulata).
13. From Mr. R. M. Johnston. A collection of fossils, from near Launceston.
14. From Mr. S. H AVintle. A number of mineralogical specimens from various parts of the colony. Accompanying them was an "analysis" of a specimen of mineral incrustation from the inside of a boiler supplied by well- water during a period of three years -from ' the estate of J. Todd, Esq., Blue Hills.
A specimen of coal of a peculiar character from Rostrevor, Spring Bay, was exhibited by the Archdeacon. On testing, it was found to be incombustible. In appearance it resembled lignite,and contained no trace of bitumen. The Bishop brought forward some specimens of iron ore, from Mount Pleasant, Swansea ; and Mr. Allport exhibited a collection of tin ore from Mount Bischoff.
Source: ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA. (1873, August 21).The Mercury(Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 2. https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8919233

1877: Jam
EXPORTS.-February 19.
Southern Cross, for Melbourne-3 pkgs luggage, 1 es fruit, Murray ; 1 prcl, Count de ¿aba ; 1 prcl, J. Sly ; 1 cs fruit, W. Crosby and Co.; 1 cs fruit, Rev. It. D. Harris ; 1 bx, Lewis and Son ; 1 pkg, Blyth ; 2 bxs birds, Jacobs ; 1 prcl, 1 cs fruit, Walch and Sons ; 2 preis. Rev. W. W. Spicer ; 1 cs jam, J. Latham ; 1 prcl, U. Bank ; 1 cs fruit, Miss Webb ; 12 csks oil, 15 pkgs merchandise, A. McGregor ; 37 bis wool, 1 bg bacon, 1 pc machinery, A. G. Webster ; 12 csks black oil, I. Wright ; 50 ess jam, Geo. Peacock ; 2 csks ale, Degraves ; 1 es, Cole and Co. ; 42 cwt. ' willows, Bridges ; 1 cs bats, Bidencope ; 1 cs jam, J. Nevin ; 1 trnk boots, Blundstone ; 3 pkgs copper, Clarke ; 10,000 palings, T.S.N. Co. ; 1 tra drapery, J. W. Woolley ; 2 csks fruit, Creswell ; 1 ort tish, Barnett ; 2 ess birds, Ray ; 20 ess preserved fruit, C ess fruit, Johnson Bros.; 30 ess fruit, J, Milliken; 27 ess fruit, J. Osborne ; 34 ess fruit, W. Connor ; 40 ess fruit, W. Ikiu ; 9 ess fruit, J. Ikiu ; G ess fruit, 0. E Knight ; 2 ess jam, Hollinsdale ; 4 cages birds, Ornant ; 3 horses, %i'eng;3 horses, Lang; 1 horse, Goyder; 1 horse, JDi$n.
Source: SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (1877, February 20). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 2. https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8951353

1891: Fruit packer patent



"Nevin's patent fruit packer"
Source: The Mercury, 6th June 1891

TRANSCRIPT
HOBART FRUIT BOARD.- This board met last evening, all members being present. Minutes of former meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence was also read and dealt with. The chairman was instructed to insert notices in the papers, drawing attention of orchardists to the necessity of removing and cleansing all bandages on or before July 1 next. The annual fruit growers' roll, prepared by the chairman, was laid on the table for inspection. Nevin's patent fruit packer was also laid on the table. The business being concluded, the Board then rose.

The Deeds of the Land Grant 1859



John Nevin (1808-1887)
John Nevin's Deed of Land Grant
Ten acres one rood and seventeen perches in the parish of Bedford in the County of Buckingham
Dated 15th September 1859
Item Number: RD1/1/44: page 16
Description: Deeds of land grants
Further Description:
Start Date: 15 Sep 1859
End Date: 29 Oct 1859

TRANSCRIPT
In the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land BE IT REMEMBERED that on the Fifteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, Henry Hardinge Clerk in the Office of the Inland Revenue Branch of the Colonial Treasury at Hobart Town brought into this Court a certain Deed Poll or Grant under the Public Seal of Tasmania and its Dependencies to be therein enrolled and recorded the tenor of which said Deed Poll or Grant is as follows (that is to say)

Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting KNOW YE that We of Our especial grace and favour have thought for to give and grant and do by these presents by these presents for Ourself Our Heirs and Successors give and grant unto John Nevin and his heirs ALL Those Ten acres one rood and seventeen perches of Land situate and being in the parish of Bedford in the County of Buckingham in Our Island of Tasmania and bound as follows (that is to say)

On the north west by thirteen chains and eighty five links south westerly along Lot 38 commencing at the east angle thereof on a reserved road on the south west by seven chains and forty eight links south easterly along parts of Lots 37 and 33 on the south east by thirteen chains and eighty five links north easterly along Lot 30 to the aforesaid reserved road and thence on the north east by seven chains and forty eight links north westerly along that road to the point of Connors Road [?]

Together with the Appurtenances TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Ten acres one rood and seventeen perches of Land with the Appurtenances unto and to the use of the said John Nevin his heirs and assigns for ever the same in free and common socage tenure of Us Our Heirs and Successors to be holden YIELDING AND PAYING therefore yearly unto US Our Heirs and Successors the Quit Rent of one peppercorn if the same shall be demanded IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Seal of Our said Island of Tasmania and its Dependencies to be hereunto affixed WITNESS Our trusty and well-beloved SIR HENRY EDWARD FOX YOUNG KNIGHT Our Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Island of Tasmania and its Dependencies at Hobart Town in the said Island the Twelfth day of August in the Twenty-third year of Our reign.

By His Excellency's Command
Wm Henty
Colonial Secretary

Public seal of Van Diemen's Land now called Tasmania and its dependencies affixed

H E K Young



John Nevin (1808-1887)
John Nevin's Deed of Land Grant
Ten acres one rood and seventeen perches in the parish of Bedford in the County of Buckingham
Dated 15th September 1859
Item Number: RD1/1/44: page 16
Description: Deeds of land grants
Further Description:
Start Date: 15 Sep 1859
End Date: 29 Oct 1859



Detail of above: Nevin, John

Thomas Nevin photographed the area around the Huon in the 1860s, and acted as a guide to the Salt Caves near the town of Victoria for surveyors, providing the Lands and Survey Department with photographs of the area on commission.



Stereograph by Thomas J. Nevin, ca. 1870 at Huon River
Verso stamp with government Royal Arms insignia,
T. J. Nevin Photographic Artist, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town
Pencil inscription verso "A. Pedder".
Photos recto and verso copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2014-2015
Taken at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 10 November 2014
TMAG Ref: Q16826.19





Stereograph by Thomas J. Nevin, ca. 1870 of five men in a cave
Verso stamp with government Royal Arms insignia,
Inscription: "Salt Rock Cave, Victoria, Huon"
T. J. Nevin Photographic Artist, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town
Photos recto and verso copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2014-2015
Taken at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 10 November 2014
TMAG Ref: Q16826.14

Did John Nevin's two sons inherit the original land grant at Cradoc and Port Cygnet on his death in 1887? Apparently not. Five years before John Nevin snr died in 1887, he sold the whole ten acres (10 acres, 1 rood, 17 perches) of his land granted in 1859 at Cygnet to Thomas Genge. The sale was registered on the 26th January 1882 for £10 (ten pounds). Thomas Genge was a successor ( a son or nephew perhaps) of John Nevin's close friend and fellow Wesleyan, William Genge (1808-1881),  Chapel keeper, sexton and stonemason who had died aged 73 yrs,on 16th January 1881, one year previously. John Nevin wrote a lament on William Genge's death titled "Lines written on the sudden and much lamented death of Mr William Genge who died at the Wesleyan Chapel, Melville-street, Hobart on the morning of 17th January 1881, in the 73rd year of his age.".

William Genge was also John Nevin's father-in-law, despite both men being born in 1808. He was 71 yrs old in 1879 when he married widow Martha Salter nee Genge, William Genge's daughter, who was 46 years old. They married just four years after the death in 1875 of John Nevin's wife Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson, mother of his two surviving children, photographer Thomas James Nevin and Constable John (William John aka Jack) Nevin. One reason for the marriage was the desire on John Nevin's part to provide a maternal presence for his grandchild Mary Ann (aka Minnie) Carr, daughter of his own daughter Mary Ann Carr nee Nevin who died in 1878 with weeks of giving birth at Sandridge Victoria. John Nevin brought his grand daughter back to Kangaroo Valley, near Hobart Tasmania, and raised her until his death. She then moved to 76 Patrick Street with her step-grandmother Martha Nevin nee Genge but died of gastric poisoning and haemorrhage in 1898.

John Nevin's deed of sale to Thomas Genge
Tasmania Historic Deeds  Lands and Titles Office



Thomas Genge  from John Nevin *DEALING 06/9071 Bedford January 1882

NEVIN, John
* INDEX https://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/app/content/the-list/historic-deeds/index-files/1827-1926_NEI-NEW.pdf
*DEALING 06/9071 Bedford January 1882



Thomas Genge  from John Nevin *DEALING 06/9071 Bedford January 1882
Tasmania Historic Deeds  Lands and Titles Office

Detail below of above with signature of John Nevin and Thomas Genge



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Link: https://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/app/content/property/view-historic-document?dealingNo=06/9071

Martha Nevin (1833-1925) was most likely instrumental in suggesting the sale of John Nevin snr's ten acres at Cygnet to her relative Thomas Genge, a farmer and neighbour at Kangaroo Valley. Just months after the death of William Genge in January 1881, Thomas Genge's wife Annie Genge nee Brown (m. 1864) gave birth at Kangaroo Valley to a boy who lived just twelve hours. The informant was the midwife, Sarah Blatherwick, nurse of Kangaroo Valley, who registered the cause of death on 24th September 1881 as  "premature birth". John and Martha Nevin arranged the sale of his ten acrres at Cygnet to the bereaved couple in January 1882, which was probably the wisest decision at the time as neither of John Nevin's sons had shown any propensity for farming. Thomas Nevin's fourth son, George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957), on the other hand, who was born at the Hobart Town Hall during his father's residency as Keeper, purchased land at Penna, 20 kms north east of Hobart, near Richmond, and farmed potatoes, although neither he nor any of his siblings resided there. On the death of their father Thomas James Nevin snr from natural causes at No. 270 Elizabeth St. Hobart in 1923, George Nevin and four of his siblings - May, Thomas, William, and Albert - moved to 23 Newdegate Street, North Hobart. Thomas Nevin's younger brother Constable John Nevin resided at H.M Prison, Campbell Street, Hobart until his untimely death from typhoid in 1891.



George Nevin, son of Thomas Nevin, grandson of John Nevin snr
Sale of potatoes from Penna
Typo error? - 23 Newdegate St. not 63 -
Mercury 10th December 1940

TRANSCRIPT
FRESHLY DUG from my Penna Estate, limited quantity of New Potatoes, 10lb. for 1/-. Must bring own bags. Apply quickly, George Nevin, Potato Farmer, 63 [sic] Newdegate Street.



Rabiteers: George Nevin, extreme right, ca 1910
The photograph in its original tattered cardboard frame.
The verso is signed "George Nevn" [sic].
Copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2009 ARR.

Addenda 1: Maps
The PARISH of BEDFORD in the county of BUCKINGHAM





Archer, J. (Joshua), active 1833-1866.
Title:Van Diemen's Land or Tasmania [cartographic material] / drawn & engraved by J. Archer, Pentonville, London.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:1,584,000].
Publisher:London : H. G. Collins, [1855?]
Date:1855
Material Type:Map
Physical Description: 1 map ; 26.7 x 21.4 cm.
Notes:Map showing counties, districts and major land owners in Tasmania with relief shown by hachures.
Probably plate 55 from: College atlas for schools and families. London : H.G. Collins, [1855?.
Prime meridian: Greenwich.
Includes comparative lengths of Ireland and Van Diemen's Land.
Map has imprint: London : Published for the Proprietors by H.G. Collins, 22 Paternoster Row.
Includes insignia of compass rose and sphere.
Phillips, 272.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm1670
Subjects: Counties -- Tasmania -- Maps.
Tasmania -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 1670
To cite this item use: https://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm1670



Pensioner Allotmentsl Parish of Bedford 1855



Archives Office Tasmania
Item Number: AF396/1/173
Description: Map - Buckingham 163 - parish of Bedford, various landholders including soldier settlement partly bordered by Port Cygnet and town of Cygnet boundary (Field Book 56) landholders INNES E E, THE CLOSER SETTLEMENT BOARD, HALL R H, LAWLER E P,
Further Description: 87049
Start Date: 01 Jan 1917 End Date: 31 Dec 1917

 Addenda 2: 
John Nevin snr (1808-1887)

John Nevin 1879

John Nevin senior (1808-1887), aged 71 years, photographed on the occasion of his marriage to his second wife, Martha Genge (aged 46 yrs) by his son Thomas J. Nevin at the New Town studio in 1879. Held at the Archives Office of Tasmania Ref: NS434/1/155, Photo copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2012

John Nevin (1808-1887) died in the gardens of his much beloved cottage at Kangaroo Valley on 9th October 1887. His obituary was published in The Mercury on 11th October:

OBITUARY
John Nevin (1808-1887)

DEATH OF AN OLD VETERAN.- There passed away very quietly on Sunday, 9th inst., at the good old age of 79, Mr. John Nevin, who for the last 30 years has lived in the secluded shades of Kangaroo Valley, adjoining Lady Franklin's old Museum. He lived a retired life on his pension and in working his plot of garden ground at the Wesleyan Chapel, enjoying the respect of all in the neighbourhood as a consistent Christian. His latter days were spent in quietness among his family, and he leaves a widow (a second wife) and two sons and several grandchildren in Hobart. Only a fortnight ago two friends of his, who were boys in the Royals, and had known him in Canada 50 years ago, paid him a visit, and a pleasant time was spent with him in recounting feats of valour long since almost forgotten. He was then enjoying good health, but last Wednesday, while working in his garden, he felt tired, and rested awhile on the damp ground, which caused a chill. He took to his bed, and, after three days' sickness, quietly joined the majority. In his day he was a wielder of the pen as well as of the sword, and was some 50 years ago a contributor to the infant Press in London, Canada West, when the present city of that name was a struggling town of rough and rude buildings and log huts. As a soldier of the Royal Scots he served under his colonel, Sir G.A. Wetherall, and the present Sir Daniel Lyons [i.e. Lysons] was his ensign; and he did his duty in very stirring times in the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838. He was engaged in the storming and capture of St.Charles and St. Eustache and in engagements of St. Dennis, St. Benoit, and many other operations on the Richelieu River and adjacent country of Chambly, and at Terra-Bone [i.e. Terrebonne] he assisted in the capture of a large number of French prisoners during a severe winter campaign, often struggling with his comrades to the waist in snow in following his officers in the work of quelling the rebellion of Papineau. John Nevin's proudest boast was that he had been a soldier of the Royals.
Source: The Mercury, 11 October 1887

John Nevin died of pleurisy on October 8th, 1887: his death certificate recorded that he was a gardener when he died:



Registration of John Nevin's death 1887
Archives Office Tasmania: RGD 35/11 No. 1000

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