The James Gammell Chronicles

Welcome to The James Gammell Chronicles. The purpose of this blog is to provide a gathering place for the living descendants of James Gammell and his siblings, as well as interested friends and historians. If you are a new visitor, you may want to begin by reading the Preface, posted January 4, 2010, and then proceed chronologically through James' life story.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Port Arthur

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Penitentiary at Port Arthur, Tasmania taken 2008 GNU Free Documentation License, Wikimedia Commons Linus Miller and Joseph Stewart had not ...

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Green Ponds and Bridgewater

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After Lieutenant-Governor Franklin’s visit to Lovely Banks in September (springtime in the Southern Hemisphere), he ordered that the Canadia...

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Lovely Banks

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Sometime in June 1840, the rest of the group (minus the four escapees from Sandy Bay) made a three-day forced march into the interior, thirt...

Monday, March 15, 2010

Sandy Bay

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Linus Miller continued to press Mr. Gunn for permission to join his seventy-eight countrymen at Sandy Bay Convict Station, located three qu...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Brown’s River Convict Station

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In February, just four weeks after James’ arrival in Van Diemen’s Land, an answer came from His Excellency, Lieutenant Governor John Frankl...

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Monday, March 8, 2010

Hobart Town - Sweeping the Prison Yard

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On the second day each new prisoner was called individually into Superintendent Gunn’s office and notified that, having been sentenced for l...

Friday, March 5, 2010

Upon Van Diemen’s Land

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The very day we landed upon the Fatal Shore, The planters stood around us, full twenty score or more; They ranked us up like horses and sold...

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Liz: When I have completed my research and writing, I plan to publish this material in a hard copy book that can be passed down to future generations. -Elizabeth Gammell Hedquist, d. of Raymond William Gammell, s. of Horace Blake Gammell, s. of William Andrew Gammell, s. of James Gammell.

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