tasmania

Susanna was born 9 Nov 1796 at Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire and was baptised at All Saints and St John, Huntingdon on 27 Jan 1797. Her parents were William and Mary Manton. She married Charles Manton on 11 Aug 1825 at St Marylebone, Middlesex and they had six children. On 4 Feb 1839 Charles...

Mary Ann Foley married James Benjamin Smith at North Farm, Port Sorrell, Tasmania on 3 Mar 1859; Reg No. 603; the image of the marriage record on the Tasmanian Names Index shows that she was age 18 and he was 24. James died at Bridgewater, Victoria on 17 Apr 1895 and his will left everything...

Initially the colony of Victoria was known as the Port Phillip District (or 'Australia Felix') of New South Wales (NSW) and although there were petitions for the colony to be separated from NSW from the 1840s it was not till 1850 - 1851 that things started to happen. Queen Victoria signed the...