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From: "Ian Westergaard" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] WILMOTT on Tam O'Shanter
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:05:46 +1200
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Hi Louise

TAM O'SHANTER [20 November, 1836] The 360 ton TAM 0'SHANTER was privately
chartered and commanded by Captain Whiteman Freeman. (Another source said
she was 383 tons). She sailed from London on 20 July, 1836 and arrived at
Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, on 20 November, 1836. She then proceeded to
Holdfast Bay (Port Adelaide) and tried to enter the Port River, only to run
aground on a sandbar. Four days later she was refloated and moved up to her
landing place. Fifty nine passengers were listed. One of them was Robert
WILMANT, wife and two children.



I don't know if the Tam O'Shanter made any other voyages to Australia.



Using the search criteria ""Tam O'Shanter" Australia Ship" in Google gives
850 hits.



Ian Westergaard
In Sunny & Mild Central Otago
New Zealand





----- Original Message -----
From: "Louise Leslie" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: [AUS-Tas] WILMOTT on Tam O'Shanter


> Hi everyone,
> I am looking for any clues or advice which might help to get to the bottom
> of this.
> Some of the 'story' I have shared before, but hope some of you will bear
> with me and might have some idea of where to from here.
>
> Robert WILMOTT married Mary SMITH in Launceston 5 June 1858
> Their first child's birth was registered under WILLMOT, and then the next
> four are registered as SMITH, father Robert, mother Mary Francis, Mary
> Salter (it changes from birth to birth)..
> Robert (WILLMOT) SMITH died on 13 Dec 1895 at (from memory) Table Cape,
and
> his death was notified, by letter from his son, noting WILLMOT also known
as
> SMITH.
> Why change from WILMOTT to SMITH?
>
> now to the other snippets we have found...
>
> 23 May 1853
> Robert WILMOTT (Ship 'TamO'Shanter') and Mary O'BRIEN (Ship 'BlackFriar')
> sought permission to marry, but they don't seem to have actually followed
> through and married.... (would anyone know if records are kept to say why
a
> marriage wouldn't have occurred after seeking permission?).... and it
would
> seem that a month later the same Mary O'BRIEN is seeking permission to
marry
> Patrick CURTIS (free), and this marriage did go ahead.
>
> Can some-one see if Robert WLMOTT was indeed a convict, arriving on the
> TamO'Shanter... (One story we have been told, is that he arrived freely on
> the TamO'Shanter and later committed a crime in Launceston, in the 1840's
or
> 1850's, and was convicted.)
> Would the Launceston library have a record of this, or is there an index
to
> search?
> And, if he arrived 'freely', then committed a crime, does it seem right
that
> on the permission to marry, the ship would be noted?
> And is there a passenger list, or even some dates of when the TamO'Shanter
> came... (A limited search at the archives, yesterday proved fruitless)...
>
> This man, and his eventual wife in Mary SMITH (also Salter, or Francis)
are
> proving to be more mysterious as we try to find out more about them.
> They registered the birth of their first child in Morven, under WILMOTT,
and
> then the other four sons were registered under SMITH at Emu Bay, having
been
> born at Table Cape.
> (and of the five sons, only two have been given names ont heir birth
> records, so tracing what becaome of them all is, once again, frustrating)
>
> So, any thoughts, at all, would be really appreciated.
> regards
> Louise
>
>
>
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