Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
AFTERWORD – The lost history of Evandale 1821-1848: A pivotal time and place of early Tasmania and Australia? [Along with the related ‘forgotten story of Kennedy Murray’, also worth celebrating like recently recovered memories about KM’s eminent grandson Harry...
Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
[this was a Jan 2025 post to the ‘Tasmanian Victoria Cross Descendants and Comrades FB group’ – run by Kerri Statton who attended as an invited guest our Kennedy Murray descendants gathering in Evandale in early 2024 My great-uncle Harry Murray VC...
Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
Rediscovering the first house in Evandale (the original 1820 Prosperous House still hidden behind the 1836 Mansion house version now known as ‘Fallgrove’) [a post to the Launceston Pictures fb group] In our recent research into ‘the lost history of early Evandale’...
Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
Historic Evandale as a Norfolk Plains ‘overflow’: Three times a neighbor for lifelong best friends Kennedy Murray and George Collins and their inter-linked families [This is a post shared with the Norfolk Plains fb group last month with info excerpts from my...
Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
The close Evandale relationships of the town’s main founder Kennedy Murray and his two Lucas brothers-in-law James and Thomas Lucas c1818-1854 (etc) [Jan 2025 post to the Nathaniel Lucas facebook group] As many of you know, Peter Mackay’s excellent research and...
Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
Prosperous’ update – new information about KM Sr’s life on English prison hulks after his transfer from the Glasgow Tolbooth and whilst waiting to board the Pitt in July 1791 bound for NSW More new information has come in following the publishing of ‘Prosperous’. I...
