Letter C challenge

There were so many choices for this letter:

Christmas traditions, convicts, certificates

But I chose two that were more specific to my research.

Cemetery at Cockle Creek near Catamaran

Many of you know I have been researching my whaling captain, William SMITH. But this post is more about his wife’s family. Sarah Ann TEDMAN and her sister Rosetta Caroline Tedman married on the same day, one to William Smith and the other to Domingo Jose EVORALL.

The marriage took place on September 30, 1874 in Burnett Street, Hobart Town, under the rites of the Congregationalists. Witnesses to the marriages were William Tedman, William John Tedman and Mary Ann Tedman. They all made their mark on the license.

Both William Smith and Domingo were mariners of full age and bachelors who could write their own names, while Sarah Ann age 19 could not and left her mark instead; her sister age 17 could write her own name. Both girls were daughters of a splitter.

Now that you know the closeness of these two families you will see my reason for choosing these words for this week’s letter.

My grandmother on the Smith side had property left to her at Cockle Creek and we would often go down to camp there when I was younger. We knew there was a cemetery in among the sand dunes but had never really looked at it until I started doing the family history. It was then we found the following graves. These are the before and after shots from a day of clearing around the graves.

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The three graves with headstones belong to William Tedman and Mary Ann Tedman and John Edward Louis Evorall. We don’t know who the other grave spots are for as there were no headstones or footstones to give us clues.

William Tedman
William Tedman
John Edward Louis Evorall
John Edward Louis Evorall
Mary Ann Tedman
Mary Ann Tedman

 

Readers: Please leave a comment about my post or something beginning with C that relates to your family history or your research.

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Family of William and Mary Anne Tedman

1. William TEDMAN (1813 – 17 Dec 1893) & Mary Ann SWAIN (1813 – 16 May 1899)

1. William John TEDMAN (6 Sep 1846 – 30 Sep 1919) & Emily Jane SMITH (1849 – )

1. TEDMAN (15 Sep 1868 – )

2. TEDMAN (14 Dec 1870 – )

3. TEDMAN (14 Oct 1871 – )

4. William John TEDMAN (3 Sep 1872 – )

5. Charles William TEDMAN (3 Nov 1873 – 1935) & Hannah CRANFIELD

6. Mary Ellen TEDMAN (1 May 1876 – )

7. Emily Jane TEDMAN (11 Apr 1879 – )

8. Edward James TEDMAN (28 Jun 1881 – )

9. Clara TEDMAN (3 Oct 1883 – )

10. Florence Amelia TEDMAN (14 Mar 1886 – )

11. Alice Maud TEDMAN (26 Oct 1887 – 23 Apr 1889)

12. Grace TEDMAN (28 Nov 1890 – )

2. William TEDMAN (2 May 1848 – 18 Jun 1848)

3. Lavinia TEDMAN (22 Mar 1850 – 6 Jun 1850)

4. Mary Ann TEDMAN (7 Apr 1851 – ) & Churn ARGENT (1837 – )

1. Mary Ann ARGENT (1869 – 1870)

2. Sarah Ann ARGENT (1870 – ) & Adolphus HARDY (1866 – )

3. William John ARGENT (1876 – )

5. Joseph TEDMAN (21 Aug 1855 – 13 Jun 1856)

6. Sarah Ann TEDMAN (18 Apr 1857 – 7 May 1902) & William SMITH (25 Mar 1840 – 27 Oct 1913)

1. James Henry SMITH (17 Nov 1876 – 12 Aug 1924) & Alice Maude ADAMS

2. Mary Ann SMITH (8 Jul 1878 – 3 Mar 1951)

3. Thomas Alexander SMITH (2 Dec 1880 – 15 Sep 1885)

4. William Demingo SMITH (13 Feb 1883 – 16 Sep 1885)

5. Robert Edward SMITH (21 Dec 1884 – 4 Aug 1964) & Irene Nellie SOMMERS (CLARK?) (20 May 1889 – 4 Jun 1952)

6. Alexander SMITH (2 Oct 1886 – 18 Sep 1937)

7. Sarah Ann Jane SMITH (29 Jun 1889 – 7 Jan 1890)

8. Amelia Rosetta Violet SMITH (31 Oct 1890 – 17 Dec 1965)

9. Charles Ernest Louis SMITH (19 May 1894 – 26 Dec 1975)

10. Arthur Frederick SMITH (31 Jan 1899 – )

7. Rosetta Caroline TEDMAN (1 May 1860 – 23 Jul 1928) & Domingo Jose EVERALL

8. Amelia TEDMAN (1 May 1860 – 11 May 1860)