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As well as serving as a biography of Kennedy Murray Jr (born Norfolk Island 1799, died Evandale 1860), the book also constitutes a foundational family history of \u2018the Kennedy Murrays\u2019 and a local history of the \u2018forgotten origins of Evandale\u2019 – and the many \u2018lost gaps\u2019 in both early Tasmania and wider Australian Colonial history\u2019<\/p>\n
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The unveiling of the statue of ‘Harry Murray VC’ (the most decorated soldier in Australian history) in Evandale in 2006 opened the door to remember the forgotten but significant role of the Kennedy Murrays in the early history of Tasmania and Australia – as well as the \u2018lost history of early Evandale\u2019. Now Australia’s ‘quintessential Georgian village’, Evandale was originally \u2018Murray\u2019s Prosperous village\u2019. Harry\u2019s grandfather Kennedy Murray Jr was born 1799 on Norfolk Island to Kennedy Murray Sr and Ann White who came on the first fleets to Australia by 1792.<\/p>\n
In 1818 Kennedy Murray Jr was a confident and literate ‘home-taught’ teenager when he wrote to Governor Macquarie successfully applying for a farmland grant as an early, proud, and free ‘native-born son’ of Australia. The book retraces how Murray’s farm hamlet Prosperous (also the original name of his surviving mansion house) emerged to become a pivotal Midlands village on his original land grant. Under Murray\u2019s watch as also a Chief District Constable across two decades (along with the local school he built in c1830 and his other community initiatives), Evandale had developed into one of the larger early towns of Van Dieman’s Land by 1840. A hero to the local emancipists, Murray’s story is also one of a ‘lost age’ of colorful adventures and significant initiatives such as the Launceston Water Scheme – at times involving tyranny, suffering, and betrayals which should also be remembered.<\/p>\n
The book helps shed new insights on and a better understanding of a number of related controversies in the early Tasmanian colony involving (a) such key historical figures as Governor Arthur, Surveyor Explorer G.W. Evans and Clarendon’s James Cox, along with (b) extended family connections to notables like area pioneer David Gibson, builder Nathaniel Lucas and famous painter John Glover. The book describes the dealings between ‘the Kennedy Murrays’ and many fascinating as well as influential characters in early Colonial Australia.<\/p>\n
Also a \u2018KMs\u2019 family history, the book reveals the discovery that the Murrays changed their name because of a famous historical prohibition in Scotland. The Murray ancestry was recently verified as descended from a key lineage of \u2018the MacGregors\u2019 (traditionally a most resilient and pivotal Scottish Highland clan). With well-researched new information and documentary evidence, the book is ‘chock a block’ with relevant maps, photos and sketches as well as an extensive use of ‘lost or rarely seen’ original records.<\/p>\n
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