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From: "Liz Penprase" <>
Subject: Re: AUS-Tasmania-D Digest V04 #504
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:38:04 +1100
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Dear Geoffrey,
My 5th cousin recently published a book "Outback Heroes" by Evan McHugh,
Viking, published by Penguin Books, ISBN 0 670 04162 9. In the book Evan
spells your forebear's name as Julia EAGERS. In the book she is described as
a settler, whose husband had died and left her with a young daughter.
According to the Tasmanian Pioneer's Index (TPI), Julia Eagers married
William Buckley in Hobart on 27th January 1840.
If perchance, according to John Morgans book "The Life and Adventures of
William Buckley" published 1852 is correct, I hate to say that Daniel
Higgins, pre 1840, would have had to sail to Port Phillip via Bass Strait,
then he would have travelled overland with Sydney as a destination.

Finding a death pre 1840 on or near the Murray River might be somewhat hard,
it would certainly be part of NSW at that time, Victoria was not designated
a Colony in it's own right until laterl, you have the proverbial "none and
Buckley's". of finding a death for Daniel Higgins there.
Geoffrey, I have just got off the phone from Evan, he is going to speak to
me tomorrow regarding your Julia, stay posted I'll get back to you one way
or another ASAP.
Regards,
Liz Penprase

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff and Joan Stevenson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:17 AM
Subject: RE: AUS-Tasmania-D Digest V04 #504


> Hi there listers,
>
> I have a query and wonder if anyone may have some insights as to where I
> might research next.
>
> I am descended from Julia Buckley nee Higgins (or Egans) nee ?. She
> married the celebrated ex convict William Buckley of "Buckley's Chance"
> fame in March 1840 in Hobart. It was her second marriage. I am seeking to
> find out what is known of her first husband's demise. His name was Daniel
> Higgins and it would seem he died in 1839/40.
>
> In the book "The Life and Adventures of William Buckley" by John Morgan,
> 1852, which is in the Mitchell Library in Sydney, it says on page 150:
>
> " ..At the Immigrants Home (sic. in Hobart) I had become acquainted with a
> family - consisting of a respectable mechanic, his wife and daughter; the
> former of whom, thinking to better himself, went on to Sydney; but whilst
> on a journey he afterwards undertook overland to Port Phillip, he was
> killed by natives near the Murray River....". It goes on ..." The fact of
> his death being ascertained, I tendered myself to the mother..." and
> details his marriage etc.
>
> I am interested in whether it may be possible to find out the ship Higgins
> travelled to Sydney upon, and more importantly, how the knowledge of his
> murder would be conveyed and if it was published somewhere in a newspaper
> or perhaps in some other manner?
>
> All ideas and thoughts would be appreciated. I will be coming to Australia
> in February and it will be a good topic to research if I get a few leads.
>
> Thank you in anticipation, Geoffrey Stevenson (USA).
>

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