{"id":22,"date":"2024-11-26T00:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2024-12-21T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T15:36:36","slug":"contents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/contents\/","title":{"rendered":"Contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#e8e8e8&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;31px||27px|||&#8221; bottom_divider_style=&#8221;asymmetric3&#8243; bottom_divider_height=&#8221;60px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Contents<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;14px||13px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_4,3_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||8px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/served.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;served&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; height=&#8221;245px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_2_font_size=&#8221;34px&#8221; header_2_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PROSPEROUS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">The Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in early Colonial Australia<\/h2>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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open=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\"><strong>No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%; height: 24px;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\"><strong>Page<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Introduction: How the unveiling of the \u2018Harry Murray VC\u2019 statue in 2006 opened the door to remember the largely forgotten role of the Kennedy Murrays in the early history of Evandale<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Background: From Norfolk Island to Norfolk Plains in \u2018Tasmania\u2019 (1813)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">How and why Kennedy Murray ended up \u2018building a village\u2019 (Prosperous) on the very farming land obtained through initial 1820s farming grants<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Kennedy Murray\u2019s 1830s promotion to District Constable and the formation of an Evandale Anglican Parish as well as the Morven Police District<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">The late 1830s \u2018annus horribilis\u2019 of Kennedy Murray: How Governor Arthur\u2019s \u2018Evandale deals, plans, and shams\u2019 were also linked to the town\u2019s (and Australia\u2019s) \u2018magnificent Evandale-Launceston Water Scheme\u2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">128<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Kennedy Murrays as Anglican vs. Scottish Presbyterian? The \u2018Murray school\u2019, the Evandale Subscription Library, and \u2018the town they forgot to gazette\u2019 in the 1840s<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">The further related responsibilities of Chief District Constable Murray 1834-1853: From the threat of bushrangers to later challenges of \u2018pubs &amp; politics\u2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">209<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Retirement of an early native-born Australian gentleman, local community leader, and significant Tasmanian pioneer: The 1850s \u2018heyday\u2019 of KM Jr<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">254<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">The \u2018temporary downturn\u2019 in post-1850s Tasmania? The \u2018Kennedy Murray legacy\u2019 before and after the sale of Prosperous House in the early 1860s<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">284<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Postscript to the loss of Prosperous House: A new beginning for Hannah Goodall Murray and her \u2018second family\u2019 of Kennedy Murrays<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">326<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Part 2:  Related reflections &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\"><strong>No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%; height: 24px;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\"><strong>Page<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">11<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Was G.W. Evans another casualty of the \u2018bunyip aristocracy\u2019? How and why \u2018Evan\u2019s Dale\u2019 (Evandale) was named in a confusing way in honor of one of Colonial Australia\u2019s most significant if forgotten surveyor explorers<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">337<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">12<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Evandale as an \u2018historic Georgian village\u2019? The Kennedy Murrays (and Norfolk Plains family and friends) as also pioneers of \u2018Vandemonian architectural styles\u2019 in early colonial buildings of Australia<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">375<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">13<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">\u2018Long way home\u2019 taken by Kennedy Murray Sr c1831: From Dundonald to Glasgow, Scotland and later Norfolk Island then Windsor NSW (\u2018the Hawkesbury\u2019) before his \u2018return\u2019 to Prosperous House<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">409<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">14<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Evandale as \u2018home\u2019 for not just celebrated \u2018local son\u2019 Harry Murray VC but all the Kennedy Murrays (one of modern Australia\u2019s larger family trees)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">427<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">15<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">The astonishing further story of the recent discovery that KM Sr\u2019s \u2018Ayrshire Murrays\u2019 ancestral tree is one of post-1603 \u2018hidden MacGregors\u2019 (i.e. the Glenlyon lineage of the Scottish Highlands\u2019 \u2018royal is my blood\u2019 clan tradition)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">444<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Final note (re \u2018corrections\u2019 and \u2018further information\u2019)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10%; vertical-align: middle;\">467<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Detailed Content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1. Introduction: How the unveiling of the Harry Murray VC statue in 2006 opened the door to remember the largely forgotten role of the Kennedy Murrays in the early history of Evandale<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>1.1 The link between the Harry Murray VC statue unveiling in 2006 and a related family memorial that week to \u2018the Kennedy Murrays\u2019<\/p>\n<p>1.2 The focus on the Kennedy Murrays in Karl Von Stieglitz\u2019s \u2018Evandale histories\u2019 ?<\/p>\n<p>1.3 Related gaps in the contemporary record?<\/p>\n<p>1.4 The 2022 \u2018Kennedy Murrays Descendants Gathering\u2019 in Tasmania<\/p>\n<p>1.5 Organisation of this book Part 1. How the Kennedy Murrays family history can help fill in \u2018the gaps\u2019 in early Evandale (and Australian) local history<\/p>\n<p>1.6 Organisation of this book Part 2. Further reflections<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2. Background: From Norfolk Island to Norfolk Plains in \u2018Tasmania\u2019 (1813)<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>2.1 Introduction: Norfolk Plains the first \u2018future Australian food basket\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>2.2 Kennedy Murray\u2019s 1799 birth and early childhood on Norfolk Island<\/p>\n<p>2.3 Did Kennedy Murray Sr desert his first \u2018wife\u2019 Ann White in March 1802 or did he arrive in NSW in 1804 on the Brig Harrington seeking a mainland grant for his family?<\/p>\n<p>2.4 The 1813 move to Tasmania\u2019s Norfolk Plains from Norfolk Island<\/p>\n<p>2.5 Kennedy Murray\u2019s activities at Port Dalrymple and Norfolk Plains leading up to (and after) his first successful land grant application made in 1818<\/p>\n<p>2.6 The Piper brothers and the pivotal role of Collins\u2019 brother-in-law\u2019 David Gibson (and half-sister Elizabeth Nicholls) in the developing \u2018Norfolk Plains overflow\u2019<\/p>\n<p>2.7 The related story of John Youl \u2013 the first Anglican Church permanent appointment to Port Dalrymple (who performed the marriage of Kennedy Murray and wife Sarah &#8211; and baptised their eldest children).<\/p>\n<p>2.8 David Gibson \u2013 one of Kennedy Murray\u2019s first local neighbours as well as an early mentor with extended family links<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3. How and why Kennedy Murray ended up \u2018building a village\u2019 (Prosperous) on the very farming land he obtained through initial 1820s farming grants<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>3.1 Introduction: The close relationship of Kennedy Murray and George Collins<\/p>\n<p>3.2 29 May 1821 \u2013 the day Governor Lachlan Macquarie apparently founded plans for a future \u2018Evans\u2019 Dale\u2019 district (and a related town in this)<\/p>\n<p>3.3 The several distinct stages in which the town of Evandale emerged (mainly) from an initial \u2018Murray village\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3.4 The links between Murray\u2019s early land grants and the sites of both his Prosperous House built and the \u2018early Murray Street\u2019 axis of emerging Evandale<\/p>\n<p>3.5 Kennedy Murray\u2019s 1831 land grant application<\/p>\n<p>3.6 George Collins\u2019 first land grant and two adjacent acquisitions<\/p>\n<p>3.7 The 200 acre \u2018Collins Hill\u2019 farm adjacent to Prosperous Farm that was originally an 1820 grant to Joseph Childs?<\/p>\n<p>3.8 And what about Collin\u2019s 60-acre first land grant at South Esk: Where was it exactly and what happened to it?<\/p>\n<p>3.9 The adjoining hamlets as well as farms of Murray and his brother-in-law George Collins &#8211; an initial basis for the emerging \u2018Prosperous villages\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3.10 Different interpretations of \u2018community-building\u2019? Murray\u2019s c1830 school Vs. Collins\u2019 1829 \u2018public house\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3.11 \u2018Morven\u2019 in the 1842 Census \u2013 still one of the biggest towns in VDL at that time, so why was there no (needed) town survey plan or (required) town allotment plan?<\/p>\n<p>3.12 The significance of the 1842 Census re: the historic origins of Evandale?<\/p>\n<p>3.13 Early \u2018town planning policy\u2019 practiced by the Van Diemen\u2019s Land government<\/p>\n<p>3.14 The wider implications of the Bryan vs. Lyttleton \u2018battle of Westbury\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3.15 The refusal of the first known Evandale \u2018non-farm\u2019 land allotment application<\/p>\n<p>3.16 The connection between the \u2018shoemaker\u2019 William Sidebottom\u2019s business activities and the Kettle farmland just outside the future town of Evandale<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4. Kennedy Murray\u2019s 1830s promotion to District Constable and the formation of an Evandale Anglican Parish as well as Morven Police District<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>4.1 Introduction: Kennedy Murray\u2019s changing relationship with James Cox?<\/p>\n<p>4.2 Connections between Murray\u2019s promotion to Chief District Constable and the Arthur government\u2019s plans for a new Cornwall County Parish<\/p>\n<p>4.3 The mid-June 1834 first survey map of a planned secondment of Murray farmland for an Anglican Parish glebe<\/p>\n<p>4.4 The key roles of Port Dalrymple Magistrates James Cox and Thomas Archer on Governor Arthur\u2019s initial VDL Legislative Councils.<\/p>\n<p>4.5 What did the position of a southern Port Dalrymple Poundkeeper entail and why did it also really require Murray become a \u2018police constable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>4.6 Murray\u2019s further appointment as a \u2018Division Constable\u2019 in what was about to become the Morven Police District<\/p>\n<p>4.7 The 1830s and 1840s \u2018roaming emancipist\u2019 problem in the Morven district<\/p>\n<p>4.8 Becoming part of Arthur\u2019s new centralised policing regime in 1830s VDL<\/p>\n<p>4.9 The role of Launceston Police Magistrate William Lyttleton (Hortle\u2019s brother-in-law) in Murray\u2019s series of police constable appointments<\/p>\n<p>4.10 Promotion to Chief District Constable in 1834 as part of related \u2018deals\u2019 to create the new Evandale Parish<\/p>\n<p>4.11 Murray\u2019s Chief District Constable role as a supervisor as well as monitor of emancipists, convicts, and also \u2018convict policemen\u2019<\/p>\n<p>4.12 Why the first published mentions of an Evandale Parish are at the same time as the June 1834 \u2018promotion application\u2019 by Kennedy Murray<\/p>\n<p>4.13 The 1837 opening of the inaugural Evandale Anglican Chapel<\/p>\n<p>4.14 The related plans to make the Cornwall County a pivot of the new 1836 Colony-wide system or network of existing Anglican Parishes<\/p>\n<p>4.15 Caught up in Hobart politics? The protracted delays and \u2018obstructions\u2019 evident in Kennedy Murray\u2019s correspondence with VDL Surveyor General George Franklin and Colonial Secretary John Montagu<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4.1.1 Disconnection #1: Ongoing confusions about whether the \u2018deal\u2019 to second Murray lands in the emerging \u2018Evandale\u2019 was mainly for an Anglican Parish<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4.1.2 Disconnection #2: An additional secondment of land for \u2018a new jail\u2019 as well as Anglican glebe in a new location shown on the revised 1835 \u2018secondment map\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4.1.3 Disconnection #3: Extensive delays and then a paltry \u201834 acre compensation\u2019 five years after Arthur\u2019s assurance of a \u2018generous and timely resolution\u2019<\/p>\n<p>4.16 How the \u201934 acres compensation figure\u2019 compensation was eventually decided years after Frankland \u2018refused\u2019 to follow up (and Montagu failed to assist)<\/p>\n<p>4.17 Kennedy Murray\u2019s growing disillusionment with the \u2018Arthurite clique\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>4.18 Postscript: Kennedy Murray\u2019s \u2018deals\u2019 with Arthur\u2019s VDL government re-visited<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">5. The late 1830s \u2018annus horribilis\u2019 of Kennedy Murray: How Governor Arthur\u2019s \u2018Evandale deals, plans, and shams\u2019 were also linked to the town\u2019s (and Australia\u2019s) \u2018magnificent Evandale-Launceston Water Scheme\u2019<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>5.1 The \u2018gazetting\u2019 of Murray\u2019s private road: The Water Scheme and the accelerated growth of the Murray emancipist village along \u2018White Hills Road\u2019<\/p>\n<p>5.2 The forgotten \u2018magnificence\u2019 of the Evandale-Launceston Water Scheme<\/p>\n<p>5.3 \u2018Arthurite\u2019 Colonial Secretary Montagu again pivotally involved in the \u2018failure then erasure\u2019 of the ELWS from memory and generally from the records also<\/p>\n<p>5.4 The \u2018lost records\u2019 of the emerging Murray emancipist village in the mid 1830s (and those of the linked Evandale-Launceston Water Supply Scheme)<\/p>\n<p>5.5 Why was Murray so upset in his 1838 letter to Surveyor General Frankland?<\/p>\n<p>5.6 How the Barclay estate came to \u2018accidentally acquire\u2019 Murray farmlands in 1839<\/p>\n<p>5.7 The c1820 \u2018mud map\u2019 inaccurately imposed on Murray farmland grants by the 1837 \u2018re-surveys\u2019 also contradicted by the 8 Nov 1838 \u2018sketch\u2019<\/p>\n<p>5.8 James Scott\u2019s 1839 admissions about earlier district survey map \u2018discrepancies\u2019 and \u2018unreliable methods\u2019 open to abuse<\/p>\n<p>5.9 How \u2018inappropriate conflicts of interest\u2019 were also a basis for James Scott to achieve great wealth and a career in politics as a mere Tasmanian Survey Office \u2018contractor\u2019<\/p>\n<p>5.10 Where did the inaccurate \u2018zig zag\u2019 that was mistakenly imposed on the Murray Prosperous grants (and also the Evandale district) come from?<\/p>\n<p>5.11 James Scott\u2019s additional Survey Map error in the \u2018\u2018Williatt 37 \u00bd acres\u2019 (originally 30 acres) on the South-Western corner of Kennedy Murray\u2019s Prosperous farm<\/p>\n<p>5.12 \u2018Robert Russell\u2019s 8 acre grant\u2019: The scandalous, secretive and second \u2018government secondment\u2019 of Murray-Collins land 1843 in central Evandale without compensation<\/p>\n<p>5.13 The clumsy attempt to create a planned new Evandale commercial area \u2018on top of\u2019 lands already owned by others in an existing commercial area of a town the government refused to recognize<\/p>\n<p>5.14 The \u2018what, how and why\u2019 of the \u2018sham Evandale village\u2019 plans (including the related sham plan for the \u2018Kennedy Murray 34 acres compensation grant\u2019 in this)<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">6. Kennedy Murrays as Anglican vs. Scottish Presbyterian? The \u2018Murray school\u2019, the Evandale Subscription Library, and \u2018the town they forgot to gazette\u2019 in the 1840s<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>6.1 Why did the foundation Anglican Warden Murray end up paying for a family crypt in both the local \u2018Church of Scotland\u2019 and Anglican cemeteries?<\/p>\n<p>6.2 Historical background: The 1837 VDL Church Act and the Scottish Presbyterian challenge to the Anglican Church in the \u2018Evandale Parish\u2019<\/p>\n<p>6.3 Kennedy Murray marries again (but in the new Church of Scotland) just months after burying his first wife in the Murray family \u2018Anglican crypt\u2019<\/p>\n<p>6.4 Some related push factors behind Murray\u2019s decision to relinquish his Anglican Warden position<\/p>\n<p>6.5 The central \u2018pull\u2019 factor for the Kennedy Murrays &#8211; why \u2018Scottish values\u2019 seem to have increasingly resonated with him compared to English ones?<\/p>\n<p>6.6 The Rev. Robert Russell and the Evandale St. Andrew\u2019s Church of Scotland<\/p>\n<p>6.7 The Murray-Martin-Russell \u2018partnership\u2019 in Evandale community-building from the early 1840s to the late 1850s?<\/p>\n<p>6.8 How support for the idea of an Evandale Subscription Library was not just limited to \u2018the local Presbyterians\u2019 but was also embraced by the Anglicans etc.<\/p>\n<p>6.9 The active roles of Martin and Murray in the Evandale Benevolent Society<\/p>\n<p>6.10 John Saffery Martin\u2019s decade-long role as the first librarian for the Evandale Subscription Library<\/p>\n<p>6.11 Adkins\u2019 doctoral thesis \u2018the early years of the Evandale Subscription Library\u2019<\/p>\n<p>6.12 Some key errors and omissions in Adkin\u2019s otherwise effective 2010 book<\/p>\n<p>6.13 The \u2018hasty, confused and demonstrably inaccurate middle pages\u2019 of his book that pertain to Atkin\u2019s central argument about a \u2018Russell plan\u2019<\/p>\n<p>6.14 The c1830 Murray Anjou Villa school \u2013 another \u2018lost story\u2019 of how this was one of the first community schools in VDL outside Launceston and Hobart<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">7. The further related responsibilities of Chief District Constable Murray 1834-1853: From the threat of bushrangers to later challenges of \u2018pubs and politics\u2019<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>7.1 Kennedy Murray\u2019s other professional responsibilities<\/p>\n<p>7.2 Kennedy Murray\u2019s main responsibility? Why the need for so many extra police constables at Morven District\u2019s \u2018Murray emancipist village\u2019 by 1837?<\/p>\n<p>7.3 Bushrangers in the Tasmanian midlands up until the late 1840s<\/p>\n<p>7.4 The \u2018bushranger bounty-hunting\u2019 activities in the late 1820s of five \u2018locals\u2019 who were the core group of the Port Philip Association which \u2018founded\u2019 Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>7.5 A focus on John Batman\u2019s role in the VDL \u2018Black Wars\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>7.6 Constable Kennedy Murray\u2019s later recorded encounters with bushrangers<\/p>\n<p>7.7 The appointment of Robert Wales as police magistrate to \u2018assist\u2019 Murray<\/p>\n<p>7.8 The changing responsibilities (and allegiances?) of Robert Wales?<\/p>\n<p>7.9 Wales\u2019s controversial role in the Morven magistrates\u2019 \u2018annual licensing\u2019 meetings<\/p>\n<p>7.10 Dealings by Wales with \u2018other\u2019 Evandale public houses<\/p>\n<p>7.11 The Morven magistracy\u2019s obstructions also against Morrison\u2019s The Royal Oak<\/p>\n<p>7.12 How and why the police magistrate Robert Wales (directed to by James Cox?) called for the retrospective gazetting of the town as \u2018Evandale\u2019 in 1848<\/p>\n<p>7.13 How \u2018Evandale\u2019 effectively got missed twice with the gazetting of roads in the Northern VDL settlements.<\/p>\n<p>7.14 Alterations needed for some Evandale-related national trust listings and a tourism-related digital repository planned for the village \u2018heritage walk\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>7.15 Evandale\u2019s \u2018pubs and politics\u2019 after the 1853 retirement of Kennedy Murray<\/p>\n<p>7.16 Related Evandale community \u2018fault lines\u2019 for the Cox Vs. Sinclair battle to be the first Member for Morven in the new VDL\/Tasmanian Legislative Council?<\/p>\n<p>7.17 The bizarre case of Sinclair becoming the second elected Member for Morven after Cox\u2019s 1854 resignation \u2013 before departing the Colony for good in 1855<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">8. Retirement of an early native-born Australian gentleman, local community leader, and significant Tasmanian pioneer: The 1850s \u2018heyday\u2019 of KM Jr<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>8.1 Introduction: The 1853 retirement dinner of Kennedy Murray Jr<\/p>\n<p>8.2 Murray\u2019s 1853 \u2018gold watch\u2019 \u2013 the testimonial by leading Evandale citizens<\/p>\n<p>8.3 How local Irish Catholic emancipists also found refuge under Murray<\/p>\n<p>8.4 A notable Irish Catholic in 1840s Evandale \u2013 John \u2018Red\u2019 Kelly (Ned\u2019s father)<\/p>\n<p>8.5 Evandale \u2018Irish Catholics\u2019 and the Irish convict contingent in VDL pre-1852<\/p>\n<p>8.6 The 1852 Kennedy Murray \u2018sabbatical\u2019 \u2013 The initial trip to Melbourne and Geelong (and the \u2018Victorian goldfields\u2019)<\/p>\n<p>8.7 The Sodens move to California in 1850-1852 prior to the visit by Murray<\/p>\n<p>8.8 Murray\u2019s related overseas trip in 1852 to visit the Sodens<\/p>\n<p>8.9 The death of Kennedy Murray Sr at Prosperous House in 1853<\/p>\n<p>8.10 \u2018One of the patriarchs of Tasmania\u2019 turns his focus to family \u2013 the drafting of Murray\u2019s \u2018last Will and Testament\u2019<\/p>\n<p>8.11 The 1853 Kennedy Murray Will (largely retained in the final 1859 version)<\/p>\n<p>8.12 Who was Kennedy Murray\u2019s \u2018son\u2019 William Ussher Goodall Murray?<\/p>\n<p>8.13 The \u2018extended Murray family\u2019 households in and near Prosperous House in the early 1850s (and the role of the \u2018Murray women\u2019 in these)?<\/p>\n<p>8.14 The surviving Kenndy Murray family portrait (by John Glover?)<\/p>\n<p>8.15 The mid-1850s \u2018final effort\u2019 by KM son-in-law David Rogers to rescue the \u2018sham 1843 Evandale village plans\u2019<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">9. The \u2018temporary downturn\u2019 in post-1850s Tasmania? The \u2018Kennedy Murray legacy\u2019 before and after the 1860s sale of Prosperous House<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>9.1 Introduction: The sale of Prosperous House following the 1860 passing of KM<\/p>\n<p>9.2 The link between the fate of the Kennedy Murray estate and the \u2018temporary downturn\u2019 in post-1850s Evandale and Tasmania?<\/p>\n<p>9.3 How after 1857 Kenndy Murray needed to assist several extended Murray family members with their emerging debt problems with the onset of a new local \u2018depression\u2019<\/p>\n<p>9.4 One outcome of the loss of the Prosperous House (and Murray family estate) &#8211; William Kennedy Murray\u2019s \u2018secret second family\u2019 in Victoria?<\/p>\n<p>9.5 Money, debts, insolvency and mortgages in VDL and early Australia<\/p>\n<p>9.6 The mortgage debt problems of Annie Murray Martin following her husband\u2019s tragic drowning in 1858 (and what happened next)<\/p>\n<p>9.7 Why we think that David Murray likely agreed to several related \u2018mortgage\u2019 deals with Kennedy Murray &#8211; and also Hannah Goodall Murray<\/p>\n<p>9.8 David Murray\u2019s \u2018maneuvers\u2019 to separate Hannah Goodall Murray\u2019s \u2018part-ownership\u2019 to his own mortgagee disposal of the Blanchfield farm<\/p>\n<p>9.9 Kennedy Murray\u2019s last Lot sales from his two Prosperous farmland grants &#8211; and two \u2018mysterious\u2019 (or unexplained) mortgages months before his death<\/p>\n<p>9.10 Kennedy Murray as \u2018mortgage creditor\u2019 to others for the very mortgage debts that resulted in his own posthumous insolvency?<\/p>\n<p>9.11 How did KM come to be persuaded by Russell to act as a mortgage creditor to others?<\/p>\n<p>9.12 What did the Executors of KM\u2019s Will do or not do that should have been done?<\/p>\n<p>9.13 The apparent agreements of key debtors as well as creditors of the KM Jr estate with \u2018main Executor\u2019 Robert Russell before his departure to Scotland late February 1861<\/p>\n<p>9.14 What responsibility did Russell (and some Murray debtors as well as creditors close to Russell and the Ralstons) have for the fate of the Kennedy Murray estate?<\/p>\n<p>9.15 Actions by David Murray to sell Blanchfield and James Scott the \u2018second\u2019 Prosperous farmlands \u2013 before the announcement in mid-August 1861 that the family estate had been declared insolvent by the Executors of Murray\u2019s Will<\/p>\n<p>9.16 The \u2018insolvency\u2019 acquisition by G.T. Matthews of the main Prosperous House and the remaining part of the first Murray farmland grant in and around Evandale<\/p>\n<p>9.17 The related dilemmas of Evandale\u2019s first \u2018Rector\u2019 (Mayor) John Ralston?<\/p>\n<p>9.18 The true story of how Thomas Fall came to acquire Prosperous House \u2013 re-naming this Fallgrove House after his daughters took up residence by 1880<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">10. Postscript to the loss of Prosperous House: A new beginning for Hannah Goodall Murray and her \u2018second family\u2019 of Kennedy Murrays<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>10.1 Introduction: Kennedy Murray\u2019s most significant legacy?<\/p>\n<p>10.2 Kennedy Murray\u2019s \u2018Anzac grandsons\u2019 at the WW1 Battle of Mouquet Farm<\/p>\n<p>10.3 Kennedy Murray\u2019s most significant legacy? His personal as well as family and community vision of future Australian \u2018prosperity\u2019 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">11. Was G.W. Evans a casualty of the \u2018bunyip aristocracy\u2019? How and why \u2018Evan\u2019s Dale\u2019 (Evandale) was named in such a confusing way in honor of one of Colonial Australia\u2019s most significant if forgotten surveyor explorers<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>11.1 Introduction: Why was Evandale named in honor of G.W. Evans?<\/p>\n<p>11.2 Background: How the story of G.W. Evans might also be recognized as part of a battle between post-colonial \u2018visions of a future Australia\u2019 and the intransigence of \u2018the bunyip aristocracy\u2019 in the national history<\/p>\n<p>11.3 An \u2018Arthurite chapter\u2019 of the bunyip aristocracy? How the 1835 dispute with Surveyor General Frankland contributed to the recall of Governor Arthur<\/p>\n<p>11.4 The \u2018Evans case\u2019 in light of the dispute with new Surveyor General Frankland that contributed to the recall of Governor Arthur in 1835<\/p>\n<p>11.5 How Arthur left Van Dieman\u2019s Land in 1836 a very rich man &#8211; thanks to the gross hypocrisy and dishonesty of his nephew-in-law John Montagu as well as himself?<\/p>\n<p>11.6 G.W. Evans\u2019 earlier and later surveying experiences at Port Dalrymple, Norfolk Plains and the future Evandale<\/p>\n<p>11.7 Revisiting Arthur\u2019s \u2018claims\u2019 against Evans (and his assistant Thomas Scott) as part of a strategy to retrospectively \u2018discredit\u2019 Macquarie and Sorell?<\/p>\n<p>11.8 Evandale connection of Wedge as a key \u2018witness\u2019 for Arthur against Evans<\/p>\n<p>11.9 The early 1820s survey map produced for David Gibson and apparently accessed by Evan\u2019s new VDL Survey Office assistant Wedge?<\/p>\n<p>11.10 Evidence of Evan\u2019s future plans to settle down with his family in \u2018Evandale\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>11.11 Arthur\u2019s related claims of corruption against Evan\u2019s assistant Thomas Scott?<\/p>\n<p>11.12 G.W. Evans and the Glovers: VDL as a \u2018paradise for pastoralist painters\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>11.13 Epilogue of a cultured \u2018nature\u2019s gentleman\u2019 (never a mere \u2018bunyip aristocrat\u2019)<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">12. Evandale as a \u2018historic Georgian village\u2019? Links between the Kennedy Murray (and other local) buildings and the influential \u2018Vandemonian architectural styles\u2019 of early colonial Australia<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>12.1 Introduction: Evandale a \u2018historic Georgian village\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>12.2 What is a typical \u2018Georgian style\u2019 of cottage, residential house or other type of building in an early Australian colonial context<\/p>\n<p>12.3 How Kennedy Murray went being from an exemplar in the 1820s to an innovator in the late 1830s of the Evandale Georgian cottage<\/p>\n<p>12.4 Was Murray\u2019s main contribution to the emerging \u2018Evandale Georgian village\u2019 in setting a distinctive tone as well as quality standard?<\/p>\n<p>12.5 The 2nd post-1837 cluster of stone and brick Georgian cottages built for Murray<\/p>\n<p>12.6 Who did Murray get to help build \u2018quality buildings\u2019 c1820-1850?<\/p>\n<p>12.7 Was John Glover\u2019s Patterdale garden the inspiration for the \u2018parterred\u2019 cottage garden model in Murray\u2019s Prosperous House and Williatt\u2019s The Laurels?<\/p>\n<p>12.8 The \u2018English Georgian House\u2019 style at Evandale?<\/p>\n<p>12.9 Is the 1836 Prosperous (now Fallgrove) House a \u2018Georgian building\u2019? And what of the other exemplary late 1830s \u2018Evandale mansions\u2019 that followed?<\/p>\n<p>12.10 Links to the \u2018neoclassical\u2019 Evandale St. Andrews Church of Scotland (etc)<\/p>\n<p>12.11 Robert Russell and the Dennistoun House \u2018center\u2019 of emerging VDL Scottish settler networks influencing \u2018Vandemonian architectural styles\u2019<\/p>\n<p>12.12 The \u2019native born optimism\u2019 of the earlier VDL Georgian cottages?<\/p>\n<p>12.13 Did Murray\u2019s \u2018humanism\u2019 exemplify a more basic layer to emerging Australian cultural perspectives and practices?<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">13. \u2018Long way home\u2019 taken by Kennedy Murray Sr c1831: From Glasgow in 1786 to Windsor NSW (the Hawkesbury) before his \u2018return\u2019 to Prosperous<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>13.1 Introduction: The 1853 death of an \u2018unlikely gentleman\u2019<\/p>\n<p>13.2 \u2018Going off the rails\u2019 south of Glasgow in 18th Century Scotland after being born in the Countess of Eglington\u2019s Auchens Castle<\/p>\n<p>13.3 The story behind the name \u2018Kennedy Murray\u2019<\/p>\n<p>13.4 Kennedy Murray\u2019s \u2018banishment adventure\u2019 to early New South Wales<\/p>\n<p>13.5 Kennedy Murray Sr. starts a \u2018second family\u2019 as a free settler in the Sydney Colony<\/p>\n<p>13.6 The fate of KM Sr\u2019s four young sons after Ann Parker was locked up in a lunatic asylum: The case of the \u2018stolen chickens\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>13.7 The later move to \u2018Coasters Retreat\u2019: The fate of KM Sr and eldest son John after the three younger sons were admitted to the Cabramatta Boys Orphan School?<\/p>\n<p>13.8 \u2018Australian royalty\u2019? Kennedy Murray Sr\u2019s life in context<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">14. Evandale as home for not just celebrated \u2018local son\u2019 Harry Murray VC but all the Kennedy Murrays (one of modern Australia\u2019s larger family trees)<br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>14.1 Introduction: One of modern Australia\u2019s larger family trees?<\/p>\n<p>14.2 The foundational family trees of the Kennedy Murrays \u2018tribe\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A. The two families of Kennedy Murray Sr (1771=1853)<\/p>\n<p>A.1 Children from KM Sr\u2019s common law marriage c1798 to Anne White (1771 \u20131820)<\/p>\n<p>A.2 Marriage &amp; children of KM Sr (1771-1853) &amp; Ann Parker (1786-1862<\/p>\n<p>B. The two families of Kennedy Murray Jr (1799-1860)<\/p>\n<p>B.1 Marriage &amp; children of KM Jr (1799-1860) &amp; Sarah McQueen (1805-1839)<\/p>\n<p>B.2 Marriage &amp; children of KM Jr (1799-1860) &amp; Hannah Goodall (1815-1904)<\/p>\n<p>B.3 Marriage and children of KM Jr\u2019s adopted son \u2018William Usher Goodall Murray\u2019<\/p>\n<p>C. Marriage &amp; children of Elizabeth Murray (1802-1878) &amp; James Lucas (1798-1869)<\/p>\n<p>D. Marriage &amp; children of William Murray (1815-1878) &amp; Cath. Foran (1819-1894)<\/p>\n<p>E. Marriage &amp; children of James Murray (1819-1970) &amp; Jane Carter (c1823-1911)<\/p>\n<p>F. Marriage &amp; children of Anne White (1771-1820) &amp; Richard Sydes (1776-1844)<\/p>\n<p>F.1 Marriage &amp; children of Mary Ann Sydes (1804-1873) &amp; George Collins (1801-1870)<\/p>\n<p>F.2 Marriage &amp; children of Thomas Sydes (1810-1872) &amp; Sarah O\u2019Neill (1818-1900)<\/p>\n<p>F.3 Marriage &amp; children of Margaret Sydes (1815-1887) &amp; Thomas Lucas (1807-1888)<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">15. The astonishing further story of the recent discovery that KM Sr\u2019s \u2018Ayrshire Murrays\u2019 ancestral tree is one of post-1603 \u2018hidden MacGregors\u2019 (i.e. the Glenlyon branch of the \u2018royal is our blood\u2019 Scottish Clan tradition) <br \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>15.1 Introduction: The Kennedy Murray Sr ancestral tree in Scotland?<\/p>\n<p>15.2 The further search for Kennedy Murray Sr\u2019s Ayrshire ancestry<\/p>\n<p>15.3 How the \u2018clincher\u2019 confirming this direct Kennedy Murray lineage in Scottish Ayrshire was also the answer to the \u2018Alex Murray mystery\u2019<\/p>\n<p>15.4 The DNA confirmation that Kennedy Murray\u2019s ancestor great-grandfather Hugh was a first cousin to the Robert Murray who first lived near Glasgow c1664<\/p>\n<p>15.5 Just who was KM Sr\u2019s verified ancestor 6X grandfather Sir James McGregor?<\/p>\n<p>15.6 \u2018Macgregor country\u2019 as also a cultural as well as geographical heartland (still) of both traditional \u2018Pictland\u2019 (Albann, etc) and \u2018modern Scotland\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>15.7 Postscript: Harry (MacGregor) Murray VC\u2019s 1917 \u2018homecoming\u2019 to Glen Lyon?<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ContentsPROSPEROUS The Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in early Colonial Australia6 No. Title Page 1 Introduction: How the unveiling of the \u2018Harry Murray VC\u2019 statue in 2006 opened the door to remember the largely forgotten role of the Kennedy Murrays in the early history of Evandale 1 2 Background: From Norfolk Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>under cosntruction<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29130,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/29130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}