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Thursday, February 16, 2012

HENRY MAWBEY TO AND FROM TASMANIA?

I appear to have discovered when Henry Mawbey, forbear of the Victorian Mawbeys, arrived in Tasmania and left for Port Phillip.
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The Sydney Monitor, Hobart, Wednesday 31 July 1834
HOBART TOWN. JULY 31. Arrived the barque Edward Lombe, 347 tons, Captain Stroyan, from London the 21st of March, with a general cargo. Passengers - Mr and Mrs Hudson, Mrs E. Pere, Mr Alexander, Mr Groom, Mr and Mrs. Griffiths and six children, Miss A Woley, Mr and Mrs Stevens and eight children, Mr Gibbs, Mr Tebbett, Mr and Mrs Jones, Mr and Mrs Clemenant, Messrs Levitt, Douglas, Mawbey, Knight, Greenhill, and Lang.
[Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32147043]
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Mr Mawbey departed Launceston on 27 November 1838 on board the cutter Acquilla for Port Phillip.
[Source: http://ship47.site88.net/39/1838ship.html]
[This information unearthed by Ann Mobbs of Dural & District Historical Society.]