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From: "Milton Froggatt" <>
Subject: [AUS-Tas] HIDDLESTONE
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 19:37:30 +1200

Thanks to all those who replied to my query re: Hiddlestone.
Below is some interesting history for those interested..!!
C/- the kind persons who passed this info on to me.
Cheers...Milton Froggatt...NZ.

P.S. Isaac Chapman was my GGGGG Gfather.


The Burial Ground

(My) interest in the Hill Street Cemetery began when I discovered that
it was the last resting place of my 4 x great uncle, John Hiddlestone
and according lo the Minutes of the Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church, he was the previous owner of the land.

Ten years after his arrival in Hobart Town he wa.s joined briefly
by a sister Sarah and in 1841 by his brother William and sister
Isabella with her four children. Between 1854 and 1859, brother
Robert with his wife and seven of their children arrived, several
already with families of their own. Altogether, thirty-one members of
the Hiddlestone family made the journey to Van Diemen's Land.

John Hiddlestone arrived in Van Diemen's Land on board the Heroine
in September 1822. after originally setting sail in October 1821 from
the London docks on the ill-fated Hope owned by Peter Degraves and his
brother-in-law, Major Hugh Mcintosh. Among his fellow passengers were
Henry Hopkins, Robert Mather, John Dunn, Joshua Eynon Drabble, George
Can- Clarke and Mr Bigge. i Hiddlestone, along with others of the
West cyan Methodist Society, hoped to relieve the moral destitution of
the colonists who were living in a state of ignorance, misery and
sin,' With Hiddlestone was his wife, Jane Elizabeth, a daughter of
Isaac Chapman who, with most of his family, also made the voyage lo
Van Diemen's Land. Sadly, John and Jane Elizabeth were to remain
childless.

In October 1822 it was recorded that John Hiddlestone was the
Superintendent of the Wesleyan Sunday School which was then held in
Argyle Street, the first committee meeting being held in May 1823. ">
The building of a chapel began in Melville Street on 18 January 1823
and on 25 July 1823, seven men

... engaged to become Trustees of the property of
the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion in this town\ These men were
Jesse Pullen, Esh Lovell, William Kneale, William Shoobridge. Isaac
Chapman, John Hiddleslone and Robert Houshold. On 4 September the
names of John Dunn, Robert Mather, David Lord and John Dean were added
to the list making a total of 11.44

A meeting of the Trustees was held 8 May 1833 and John BarretL
John Dunn and Esh Lovell were elected to be a sub-committee to select
a piece of land for a burial ground. On 15 October 1833 an application
was made to the Trustees to allow a piece of ground attached to the
Chapel to be used, but it was not until 13 June 1836 that

Mr. Hiddlestone having offered for Sale a plot of Ground in
Butterworth and Lansdowne Crescent to this Trust it was resolved that
the same be purchased.

John Hiddlestone purchased two pieces of land in 1834. One from
Anthony Fenn Kemp on 5 March for 70 pounds

... bounded on the north East side by six hundred and fifty eight
links along Hill Street on the North West side by Three hundred and
twenty links along Arthur Street on the South East side by three
hundred and twenty links along Queen Adelaide Street and on the South
West side by a line to Arthur Street and containing by admeasurement
one acre three roods and thirty nine perches or thereabouts.

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