A different life

Some of the names included in our family history are Burrows, Cole, Collins, Fanning, Fisk, Forbes, Lush, Meehan, McGillivray.


My paternal grandmother, born Annie Forbes Fisk, comes from a rather large collection of convicts including some from the First & Second Fleets also the First Victorian settlement at Sorento. Convict names include Elizabeth Cole, Cornelius Richard Burrows, Sylvester Lush, James Tucker, William Gay, Robert Coad.

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen’s Land Advertiser, Saturday 7 December 1822


 Notice from Ann Lush [ nee Burrows]

Hobart Town Gazette and Van Demon's Land Advertiser - Saturday 12 April 1923, page 2

Notice from Ann Lush

Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser-Saturday 14 September 1822, page 2

Court case of Sylvester Lush- charged with Assaulting his wife.

Sylvester Lush was ordered to find security to keep the peace, and be of good behavior; himself in £50, and two sureties in £25 each, being charged with assaulting & beating Ann Lush, his wife.

Hobart Courier - Friday 30 March 1838, page 3

 Although this article is not about Sylvester Lush, it does describes the position of land owned by Sylvester Lush and his neighbor.

 Mr. T. Y. Lowes
WILL SELL BY AUCTION
All that tract or parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 50 acres, be the same more or less, situate lying and being in the district of Glenarchy, Van Diemen's Land, bounded on the west side by a grant to William Leach, on the south side by a line bearing east 10 degrees south to Lush's grant, on the east side by a grant to Sylvester Lush, and on the north side by the river Derwent, together with the messuage or dwelling-house thereon erected and built, lately used as an Inn, and kuown by the name of the " Fox Inn." For further particulars apply to John Dobson, Esq , solicitor, Macquarie-street, Hobart Town.