Individuals marked with a red dot are direct ancestors of Oliver Michael JACOBS
For privacy reasons, Date of Birth and Date of Marriage for persons believed to still be living are not shown.

LEAR, Isaac {I01782} (b. 05 APR 1809, d. 01 JAN 1868)

Note: From Hobart Sands Directories
(State Library of NSW)
1833
LEAR, William, Baker, Elizabeth St., Hobart
LEAR, James, Albion, Wellington St., Hobart

1835
LEAR, William, Yeoman, Hobart (not sure what yeoman implied in TAS at this
time)
LEAR, James, licensed victualler, Hobart

1847
LEAR, W, Elizabeth St., Hobart
LEAR, J., Murray St., Hobart
LEAR, S., Argyle St. Hobart (is this Samuel Lear?)

1854
LEAR, Isaac, Miller, Argyle St. Hobart (is the above a misprint for Isaac
given the same Street name?)
LEAR, James, Baker, Murray St. (seems like William has moved to Vic. and
James has taken over the bakery?)

1867/8 Residents of Hobart
LEAR Isaac 67 Warwick Street Hobart
LEAR James 81 Murray Street Hobart
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Colonial
Secretary's Index to Correspondence 1788-1825.

BAKER Jane per "Morley" 1820

29 Dec 1824 Petition for mitigating sentence; request to proceed with her
son Isaac to the Derwent (Fiche 3239; 4/1872 page 8).

5 Sep 1825 Re her application to proceed to Van Dieman's Land (Reel 6015;
4/3515 page 271).

13 Oct 1825 Re permission to proceed with her son Isaac to Hobart per
"Elizabeth Henrietta" (Reel 6015; 4/3515 page 404; Reel 6019; 4/3522 page
183).
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From: "Rosemary Davidson"
To: "Michael Jacobs"
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: Albion Hotel, Hobart 1825-1835

At 08:03 AM 24/05/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>Rosemary, thanks a million for your response. This is extremely helpful.
>The book you mention, is it readily available? Sounds like an excellent
>resource.

Don't think it is still available. It was published 1997 by Davidia
Publishing, PO Box 637 Rosny Park TAS 7018
>
>When the book defines someone as a publican - does that mean the owner of
>the establishment?

Don't know about the definition of publican. But from personal instance I
would say that they may have only been the licensees. I have a couple of
rellies who owned the buildings but were not listed as the licensees.
>
>Also, thanks for mentioning Isaac Lear because he too was a bother of
>William and James. What does the book have to say about Isaac?

Isaac LEAR The index actually says "Good Woman Inn" Argyle and Warwick
Streets, 1880 but there is no mention of him on the relevant page!? The
hotel is still in existence and until a year or so ago was the home of one
of the bikie gangs. Has now been reopened after renovations I believe.

Isaac LEAR "Seven Stars" Campbell Street 1838-39. The "Seven Stars" is
believed to have been sited next to the "City of London Arms" in Lower
Campbell Street, opposite the present City Hall.

There are poor quality, and small scanned pictures of both the above. These
were taken from drawings by A T Fleury (1861-1947) which appeared in The
Mercury newspaper.

Isaac LEAR is listed as the licensee of "Good Woman Inn" in 1879 in the
index but not on the relevant page. This could be checked in the card index
at Archives Office - may have them listed there. I will try and remember to
look next time I go in.

>
>I will try to get my own copy of the book ASAP so I don't have to bother
you
>so much.

No problem!
>
>Again, my thanks
>
>Michael
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rosemary Davidson"
>To: "Michael Jacobs"
>Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7:09 AM
>Subject: Re: Albion Hotel, Hobart 1825-1835
>
>
>Albion Hotel, Elizabeth Street
>1828 William LEAR
>1834-35 James LEAR
>1838-46 William LEAR
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Lear, Isaac Jury Duty Tasmania, 1839,40

Source: (Birth)
Author: Unknown (probably Peter Peterson)
Title: Petrol Book
Publication: Name: c 1900;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: low
A school exercise book containing a fabricated family history of the LEAR family containing mostly facts but hiding the fact that several family members were convicts.Repository:

Name: Originally held by Bill Piper

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Hanham & Oldland*, Gloucestershire. Baptism register 1796-1812Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: 1810 Apr 29 Isaac s/o John/Jane LEAR

Source: (Individual)
Title: CensusSource Medium: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: Almanacs - UnidentifiedSource Medium: Book

Source: (Individual)
Author: Archives Office of NSW
Title: Colonial Secretary's Index (NSW)Source Medium: Internet

Source: (Individual)
Title: Tasmanian State Archives Web SiteSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium

Source: (Death)
Author: O'Shea
Title: O'shea Index to Hobart MercurySource Medium: Book
Source Quality: low

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: High

Page: RGD35 1868 #7101
Data:
Text: Aged 58

Source: (Individual)
Author: Referred to as the HTG
Title: Hobart Guardian Newspaper
Publication: Name: Early Hobart Newspaper;Source Medium: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: Victorian Outward Passengers 1852 - 1886Source Medium: Book

Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 30 SEP 1820
Place: Morley (3) with his mother

Event: Type: Departed
Date: 30 MAR 1853
Place: From Hobart to Melbourne on "Tasmania" gold seeker aged 33 with son James

Event: Type: Departed
Date: 14 SEP 1829
Place: Hobart for London on ship "Alice" as a seaman under the name Isaac Baker

Event: Type: Departed
Date: OCT 1853
Place: Aged 38 on Clarence III from Melbourne to Launceston

Occupation: Date: 1854
Place: Miller, Argyle St. Hobart

Occupation: Date: 1822
Place: Parramatta NSW Apprentice Brickmaker

Occupation: Date: BET 1838 AND 1839
Place: Publican Seven Stars Hotel, Campbell St.

Census: Date: 1822
Place: Muster in NSW

Census: Date: BET 1823 AND 1825
Place: NSW Muster

Census: Date: 1842
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Census: Date: 1848
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Note: The Mercury, Hobart, Tuesday 22 July 1890
Mssrs Facy and Fisher have been advised by cablegram from Batavia of the safety of their barquentine Guiding Star. She left Mauritius on the 7th May, and her non-arrival caused much anxiety. All doubts about the safety of the vessel are now set at rest. She is anchored at Anjer near Batavia, but the cause of her putting into that port was an outbreak of fever which totally disabled the crew. Captain J. Ikin succumbed, the mate Isaac Lear, the steward Williams; and one seaman was also struck down by the fell disease. Tossing about with no-one to control her movements, she was sighted by the ship Lancefield and conveyed in safety to the port. The following are copies of the cablegrams received by the owners, delayed no doubt by the breakage in the wires.
"'Batavia July 11th, Guiding Star anchored near Batavia. Captain, Mate, steward and one sailor dead. Rest of crew disabled. Saved by ship Lancefield.' The one absorbing topic in Hobart for the past three weeks has been the non-arrival of the Guiding Star. The news received yesterday cast an awful gloom over the place...
"Mauritius fever is a disease easily contracted in that island and quick in its results."
GUIDING STAR left Hobart 11th February, arrived Adelaide 17th February. Sailed March 8th, with flour, arrived Port Louis April 17. Left with sugar 7th May. GUIDING STAR built Banff, November 1869 length 117 ft. tonnage 249, crew 10. Mate Isaac Lear age 44, Captain Joshua Ikin, age 53.
The mate Lear was born in Hobart, his father being in business as a baker. He served an apprenticeship with Mr Wiseman, saddler, now in Auckland. Lear then entered the whaling trade, the last vessel on which he was engaged being the Aladdin, on which he occupied the position of chief officer and navigator. He was afterwards mate of the brig Fairy Rock and later walked the deck of the Camilla. On the Empress of China he served with Captains William and Milford MacArthur, Evans and Chaplin, being on that vessel when she was wrecked on the Pyramid Rock on December 31st 1888. He later on joined the barques Marie Laurie and Pet, and the barquentine Guiding Star. He [also] leaves a widow and six children, most of them of tender years, the eldest being a girl of about fifteen years of age.
Flags were half-masted yesterday out of respect to the deceased seamen.

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The Mercury Wednesday October 29th 1890.
Survivor Interviewed

(Alexanderr Murray, A.B., first to catch the fever, arrived in Hobart from Batavia yesterday.)

"... All that time I was lying in my bunk suffering, but I did not like the Captain to go without seeing him so I asked to be allowed to do so. Mr Lear, the mate, assisted me to go aft... [The Master] passed away Sunday and the crew buried his remains. We had no prayer book and performed no special burial service, the only words being used by the crew being "God rest his soul, Amen." Though the Skipper was dead we had no misgivings about the safety of the vessel, for the mate attended to the navigation. But after Captain Ikin's death, Mr Lear began to show signs of the fever, and as it got a proper hold of him he had to give up work. He succumbed about 12 days after the Captain. I was just able to move about the forecastle a little, being still very bad. When the mate died his body was carried on to the poop to be sewed up in canvas. I managed to crawl to the door of the forecastle to have a look at the corpse, and saw the men at work on the shroud. Such sights and surroundings were not at all conducive to my recovery, but I felt strength returning slowly."

Note: Mauritius Fever is Yellow Fever
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Now, I have just found another note about Clarence Chester LEAR. (My
earlier comment was from a chart.) This note, from Hobart registers, says
that he was born on 3 March 1880. His father was a Licensed Victualler of
Argyle Street.

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Film 1669458 (L.D.S.) Crew Discharges

Ship Conduct Pay
Nov 3 1882 Isaac Lear, Aladdin Mate VG VG VG £67
Nov 25 1882 Isaac Lear Camilla Mate VG VG VG £10-13-4
29 Apr 1884 Isaac Lear Charles & Arthur Mate VG VG VG £39-4-0
14 Apr 1885 Isaac Lear Pet Mate £39-9-4
7 May 1886 Isaac Lear Empress of China 1st Mate VG VG VG £10-2-8
27 July 1886 Isaac Lear ? ? ? Mate £18-2-8

(Very small print. Difficult to read the comment over ?mate? each time.
N.B. No mention of Guiding Star.)
per Bill Piper

Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: RGD33 1842 #1150

Source: (Individual)
Author: Govt. of Tasmania
Title: Archives Office of TasmaniaSource Medium: BookRepository:

Name: 77 Murray St, Hobart, TAS

Source: (Death)
Title: AnecdotalSource Medium: Unknown
Source Quality: Low
Verbal or handwritten (unpublished) family stories, letters, conversations etc. Dubious quality - all require substantiation.

Page: Per Bill Lear

Source: (Death)
Author: O'Shea
Title: O'shea Index to Hobart MercurySource Medium: Book
Source Quality: low

Page: 24/5/1890

Event: Type: Banns
Date: 1871
Place: St. John the Baptist, Hobart

Occupation: Date: 1876
Place: Application, Examination & Certificate for First Mate ticket

Occupation: Date: 1880
Place: Licensed Victualer, Argyle St. Hobart, TAS

Occupation: Date: 1889
Place: Application, Examination & Certificate for First Mate ticket

Residence: Date: AUG 1867
Place: 67 Warwick St. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Source: (Individual)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: High

Page: RGD35 1 12 1838 Aged 0 years
Data:
Text: Aged 0 years

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 13 MAY 1838
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Religion: Place: St. Davids, Hobart, TAS, AUS (same grave as Abraham d:1833

Source: (Death)
Title: Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUSSource Medium: Internet
On Line index direct from Cemetery
http://www.fcmp.com.au/

Data:
Text: Fawkner Crematorium And Memorial Park wishes to advise that the location of the buried remains of the late Isaac James Lear aged 69 are located at Church Of England: Compartment R Grave 0668.

Address: 18 Gibdon St / Burnley, Vic. /

Religion: Place: Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUS

Note: In Memory of
ISAAC JAMES LEAR
Private
4130
59th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died on
Wednesday, 19th July 1916. Age 22.
Additional Information: Son of Isaac James and Maria May Lear, of 18, Gibdon St., Burnley, Victoria. Native of Yarram, Victoria.
Bootmaker
Church of England
School. No. 615 Yarraville State School, South Gippsland

Commemorative Information
Memorial: V.C. CORNER AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY MEMORIAL, FROMELLES, Nord, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: 16.

Location: Fromelles is a village 16 kilometres west of Lille and VC Corner Australian Cemetery is 2 kilometres north-west of Fromelles on the road to Sailly. V.C. Corner Cemetery was made after the Armistice and contains the graves of 410 Australian soldiers who fell in the Attack at Fromelles and whose bodies were found on the battlefield, but the identification of even a single body proved to be impossible. It was therefore decided not to mark the individual graves, but to record on a screen wall the names of all the 1,298 Australian soldiers who fell in the engagement and whose graves were not known. Of these, 314 belonged to the 60th Battalion, 241 to the 59th, 190 to the 53rd, 163 to the 32nd, 373 to other Infantry Battalions, eleven to the Australian Machine Gun Corps, and six to the Engineers. The cemetery consists of a grass lawn on which the burial space is outlined, a rubble wall and a hedge. On the further side of the road is a stone terrace, on which the Cross of Sacrifice stands, flanked by two buildings; and behind the Cross is the screen wall bearing the names with the inscription: "IN HONOUR OF 410 UNKNOWN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS HERE BURIED, WHO WERE AMONG THE FOLLOWING 1,299 OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE, KILLED IN THE ATTACK AT FROMELLES, JULY 19TH AND 20TH, 1916"

Historical Information: The village of Fromelles was captured by French cavalry and the 2nd Royal Irish on the 17th October, 1914, but when trench warfare began it was behind the German lines. V.C. Corner was the name given to the crossing of the Rue Delvas and the Rue du Bois, about 3 kilometres North-West of Fromelles village and within the British lines. On the morning of the 19th July, 1916, after a preliminary bombardment, the 5th Australian and 61st (South Midland) Divisions undertook what is officially known as the Attack at Fromelles, advancing from the Rue Tilleloy near Picantin. The 61st Division attack failed in the end, with the loss of over 1,000 officers and men out of 3,410 who took part in it. The Australian left and centre reached the German trenches and held their second line during the day and night, but the right was held off by a fierce machine-gun barrage and only reached the front line in isolated groups. The action was broken off on the morning of the 20th, after the 5th Australian Division had lost over 5,000 Officers and men. It was the first serious engagement of the Australian forces in France, and the only one which achieved no success; but the losses alone would prove that no other Division could have fought for success more heroically. V.C. Corner Cemetery was made after the Armistice. It contains the graves of over 400 Australian soldiers who fell in the Attack at Fromelles and whose bodies were found on the battlefield, but the identification of even a single body proved to be impossible. It was therefore decided not to mark the individual graves, but to record on a screen wall the names of all the Australian soldiers who fell in the engagement and whose graves were not known. There are now over 1,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery consists of a grass lawn (on which the burial space is outlined), and a rubble wall. On the further side of the road is a stone terrace, on which the Cross stands, flanked by two buildings; and behind the Cross is the screen wall bearing the names with the inscription: "In honour of 410 unknown Australian soldiers here buried, who were among the following 1,299 Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Australian Imperial Force, killed in the Attack at Fromelles, July 19th and 20th, 1916. "

Occupation: Date: 1915
Place: Bootmaker

Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: Reg # 12326

Source: (Burial)
Title: Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUSSource Medium: Internet
On Line index direct from Cemetery
http://www.fcmp.com.au/

Data:
Text: Fawkner Crematorium And Memorial Park wishes to advise that the location of the buried remains of the late Isaac Maitland Lear aged 74 are located at Church Of England: Compartment K Grave 1876.

Religion: Place: Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUS

Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: RGD32 #138

Source: (Burial)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: Aged 74, resident Pine St. NewTown Independent Church

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: High

Page: 1912 Folio 0403
Data:
Text: Born 1838

Source: (Death)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: First names : Isabel Surname : LEAR Age : 74 Date of death : Service type : Burial Service date : 2-Jan-1912 Last residence : NEW TOWN Grave location - Cemetery : Cornelian Bay Area or denomination : Independent Section : G Site number : Number 3,

Religion: Place: Southern Regional Cemetery, TAS

Note: Lear Mr. Arrived Hobart on the Arab 17 Feb 1832 from London (is this our James?) source=Index to Arriving/Departing Passengers Launceston Papers, 1829-1840 "Mr. Lear, Arab, Hobart from London, 17 Feb 1832"
Film 1 P231 SLTX-AO-MB-1. Departed London 18/9/1831. No additional info in Newspaper article (Independent)

1. LEAR, James, licensee of the Albion Hotel, Hobart Town ("Colonist" Dec
10, 1833)

2. Lear James visited Albion (inn), Elizabeth Street 25 Sep 1834; 2 Oct 1834; 8 Oct 1835
Index to HTG
3. Albion Hotel, Elizabeth Street

1828 William LEAR
1834-35 James LEAR
1838-46 William LEAR

Also Isaac and Lawrence LEAR were publicans.

From "Pubs in Hobart from 1807" David J Bryce

The "Albion Tavern" was sited approximately where 'Katies' fashion boutique
is currently located, on the western side of the Elizabeth Mall, two doors
south-east of Cat and Fiddle Arcade. Although having a narrow frontage on
the street, it has been said that it went 'well back' from the street.

Under the sign "Albion Tavern", it was licensed in 1823, and was immediately
regarded as a first-class eating house for nautical people in the 1870s,
serving a really tip-top luncheon for 1/- (10c). Other hotels at that time
did the same, but some were as high as 5/-(50c). Pay your money and take
your choice' as they once said!

As a coaching inn, Burbury's coaches set out from the "Albion" in Hobart,
and the "Criterion Hotel" in Launceston in competition with Page's coaches.

The "Albion" blossomed into a notable coaching house in the 1840s, through
to and including portion of the 1880s, being the New Town 'bus terminus' for
"Cooley's Hotel" for over half a century. Later, c. 1917, the "Albion" was
reported to be a 'First class coffee and eating house.' The land on which
the "Albion in 1915, was reported to have been valued at £300.0.0 - £400.. 0.
0 perfoot.

The "Albion" was demolished in the early 1960s, along with a great deal more
of the central business district of Hobart.

5. From Hobart Sands Directories
(State Library of NSW)
1833
LEAR, William, Baker, Elizabeth St., Hobart
LEAR, James, Albion, Wellington St., Hobart (Albion is almost certainly the
Albion Hotel, which James was reportedly the proprietor of - see my earlier
report to you " licensee of the Albion Hotel, Hobart Town ("Colonist" Dec
10, 1833"

1835
LEAR, William, Yeoman, Hobart (not sure what yeoman implied in TAS at this
time)
LEAR, James, licensed victualler, Hobart

1847
LEAR, W, Elizabeth St., Hobart
LEAR, J., Murray St., Hobart
LEAR, S., Argyle St. Hobart (is this Samuel?)

1854
LEAR, Isaac, Miller, Argyle St. Hobart (is the above a misprint for Samuel
given the same Street name?)
LEAR, James, Baker, Murray St. (seems like William has moved to Vic. and
James has taken over the bakery?)
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Index to Tasmanian Convicts, Archives office of Tasmania
Lear James 25 Aug 1828 Woodford (2) 02 May 1828 Portsmouth 41808
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Lear, James Jury Duty, 1835,1855

Source: (Birth)
Author: Unknown (probably Peter Peterson)
Title: Petrol Book
Publication: Name: c 1900;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: low
A school exercise book containing a fabricated family history of the LEAR family containing mostly facts but hiding the fact that several family members were convicts.Repository:

Name: Originally held by Bill Piper

Page: Bill Piper
Data:
Text: Hale's "Petrol Book"

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Hanham & Oldland*, Gloucestershire. Baptism register 1796-1812Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: 1808 Apr 10 James s/o John/Jane LEAR

Source: (Burial)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: Aged 87, Resident Melville St., Hobart

Source: (Burial)
Title: Hobart Mercury News
Publication: Name: Early Hobart Newspaper referrred to as the HTM;Source Medium: Book

Page: 18/9/1894
Data:
Text: Funeral Notice: Buckingham Distric IOOF MU (I suspect this is Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity). Members of above district lodges are invited to attend the funeral procession of their brother James Lear, of the Southern Star Lodge.

Source: (Individual)
Title: CensusSource Medium: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: Almanacs - UnidentifiedSource Medium: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: EstimateSource Medium: Other
Estimate based on other known records

Source: (Individual)
Title: Index to Arriving/Departing Passengers, Launceston Papers, 1829-1840Source Medium: Book

Source: (Death)
Author: O'Shea
Title: O'shea Index to Hobart MercurySource Medium: Book
Source Quality: low

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmanian State Archives Web SiteSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium

Page: 220368

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: High

Page: RGD35 #1334
Data:
Text: Aged 87

Source: (Death)
Title: Hobart Mercury News
Publication: Name: Early Hobart Newspaper referrred to as the HTM;Source Medium: Book

Page: 18 Sep 1894
Data:
Text: Death Notice: Died at his daughters residence 154 Melville St. Hobart, aged 88 years

Source: (Individual)
Author: Referred to as the HTG
Title: Hobart Guardian Newspaper
Publication: Name: Early Hobart Newspaper;Source Medium: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: Sands Directories, HobartSource Medium: Book

Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 17 FEB 1832
Place: Hobart Town, TAS on "Arab" departed from London 18/9/1831

Occupation: Date: 1854
Place: Baker, Murray St. Hobart

Occupation: Date: BET 1834 AND 1835
Place: Publican Albion Hotel, Elizabeth St, Hobart

Occupation: Date: 1835
Place: Licensed Victualler

Residence: Date: AUG 1867
Place: 81 Murray St. Hobart

Residence: Date: 1847
Place: Lear J. Murray St. Hobart

Residence: Date: 1894
Place: Melville St. Hobart

Address: Melville St. / Hobart, TAS /

Religion: Date: 1894
Place: Cornelian Bay Cemetery, TAS, AUS

Census: Date: 1842
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: RGD33 1851 #323
Data:
Text: Father James, Mother Mary Johnson

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: High

Page: RGD35 1852 #1431
Data:
Text: Father - James. Age 1

Religion: Place: St. Davids, Hobart

Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: RGD32 # 6806

Source: (Individual)
Title: Tasmanian State Archives Web SiteSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium

Source: (Death)
Author: O'Shea
Title: O'shea Index to Hobart MercurySource Medium: Book
Source Quality: low

Data:
Text: Deaths

Source: (Death)
Author: New South Wales, Birth, Death and Marriage Registrar
Title: NSW DeathsSource Medium: Book
Source Quality: High

Data:
Text: 10946/1909 LEAR JAMES S 72 YRS ROCKDALE ROCKDALE

Event: Type: Departed
Date: 30 MAR 1853
Place: Departed Hobart for Melbourne on "Tasmania" with his father Isaac aged 14 on the "Gold Seeker"

Note: Had a long affair with Beryl Kook.
Involved with the theater. (per Moya King 7/29/94))
Comedian in theatre. Rosemary Lear has newspaper articles
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Interview Adrian St Leon - 10 and 12 August 1975

MARK: These Wirths you saw then were not the same ones that had the circus?

ADRIAN: No ? I think they were Johnny, Harry, Phillip and George's brothers. I think so, but it could have been their uncles or cousins or something like that ? In those days they used to wander up and down Castlereagh Street and Pitt Street ? and play. They were good musicians, all brass of course. It was common for a lot of musicians to busk in those days outside of hotels ? They were pedal organ players ? Bud Atkinson was our advance agent in New Zealand ? I do know that one of my family went to Milan. I would think it would be Cass. He went over there to bring back photos of the statues which we used to copy ? The Tivoli wanted a special act so we decided to put on The Rentfrew Statue act. We engaged, with the act, a little boy called Jimmy Lear, Ward Lear's son ? So we put together the statue act and we practised at St George's Hall, Newtown ? We had always had a statue act in the circus and, after I finished my carpentry, I joined the statue act. I was the baby statue in FitzGerald's Circus when I was two years old. I used to come in just at the last moment when they was making the last pyramid and they would pull me right up to the top. Then we'd get in line, walk three paces forward, three paces back and then strike a position, a statue position. If by accident you landed out of position you immediately struck that position and stayed there ? We was there every morning practising to each bar, each note as a matter of fact, of Tannhauser ? They had this metronome and orchestra there. Imagine what it cost to present this act. They had great trouble in making a groundcloth in black that wouldn't rub off on our white costumes ? We used to put the circus up and down many a time with kids' labour after the schools were over. Then they'd give the kids complimentary tickets to come and see the circus ? My father and Sammy Bernard started a small circus in New Zealand with about four wagons and a specially imported American buggy with a fringe around the top ? Siddy and Eileen Bernard used to play cornet very well and we used to parade into town with this buggy, ahead of the show ? My father used to play the concertina for the two Wingate girls to do Spanish dances in the middle of the ring ? I used to go, being the drummer, to a station and get a sheepskin and get it buried in the ground with quick-lime, get the wool off it and then scrape it and stretch it over the drum. I do remember my father being considered the best talking and singing clown that Australia ever had ? We nearly always had fourteen in our band. It was a big circus band

Source: (Death)
Title: Ryerson Index of Newspaper Obits and Deaths NSW
Publication: Name: Sydney Morning Herald index;Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: LEAR,James Ward 14JUL1978 Death at Surfers Paradise 17JUL1978 SMH

Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: RGD32 1834 #5414

Source: (Burial)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: Aged 70, resident of Otorama, Bell St. Glebe, TAS Cornelian Bay
Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994, Aged 70, resident of Otorama, Bell St, Glebe, TAS.

Source: (Death)
Author: O'Shea
Title: O'shea Index to Hobart MercurySource Medium: Book
Source Quality: low

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: High

Page: 1906 Folio 0124 Hobart
Data:
Text: Born 1835

Source: (Death)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: First names : Jane Surname : LEAR Age : 70 Date of death : Service type : Burial Service date : 13-Feb-1906 Last residence : Grave location - Cemetery : Cornelian Bay Area or denomination : Independent Section : N Site number :

Religion: Place: Southern Regional Cemetery, TAS

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: Australian Vital Records Index (AVRI)
Publication: Name: Published c 1998;Source Medium: Family Archive CD
Source Quality: Medium - transcription of birth marriage and death records
Australian Vital Records Index 3 CDs
BDMs for Tasmania, Vic, NSW and Qld

Page: WA Births 1898 4401
Data:
Text: Father Cecil Augustus Lear Mother Rose Bowhill Born Guilford WA

Source: (Death)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: Australian Vital Records Index (AVRI)
Publication: Name: Published c 1998;Source Medium: Family Archive CD
Source Quality: Medium - transcription of birth marriage and death records
Australian Vital Records Index 3 CDs
BDMs for Tasmania, Vic, NSW and Qld

Page: WA Deaths 1899 2243
Data:
Text: Aged 12 months Father Cecil Augustus Mother Rose Bowtell Place Guilford WA

Note: The "petrol record" gave Jane Luton [sic] as born in Bristol in 1777, died
(place not stated) 30 May 1842. It gave John (wrongly named Isaac) as dying
22 Nov 1838. Again, place not given. However the Bitton/Hanham register has
him baptised 5 Feb 1804, aged 29. That makes him born about 1775.

Bill Piper (holder of the "Petrol Book"

email data:

LEAR of Kingswood

1768 Francis Lear == Jane Britton 1768 Bitton

1772 Thomas Britton == Nancy Lear Bitton St Marts

1768 Francis Lear OTP ==Jane Britton OTP SP Banns Dec 26th 1768¨
Bitton

1773 William Lear == Mary Hobbs 3 july 1773 Bitton Spin & Bach ¨
Botp Banns

1799 Samuel Lear died from a broken neck afterfalling seventeen¨
fathoms frpm the land way at Baughs and co pit inquest 10/5/1799¨
at the crown Warmley.

1806 Nancy Lear dau of John and Jane Lear bap April 6 1806 Hanham
Abbots(Could this be the Jane Lear mentioned in the will of Ann Bateman as
living on land nearby)

1810 Isaac son of John and Jane Lear 29 April 1810 Hanham Abbotts

1811 John Lear 35 killed by a fall of the roof at Mr¨
Whittucks pit. Inquest 30/10/1811 Oldland

1819 Thomas Britton == Hannah Leare (Bach & Spin) (217) 9/11/1819
Bitton

1821 Francis Lear == Sarah Jeffreries 2/4/1821 St James

1822 Thomas Davies bach == Jane Lear spin

1822 John Lear (widower) == Ann Beattman (wid) BOTP Banns 331¨
17/7/1822 Bitton
(I think this is the mother of 3 Greats grandfather william¨
Bateman who Married Mary ann Williams 1841.

1828 Samuel Lear ==Sarah Golding BOTP Banns 15/11/1828 Bitton

1833 Samuel Davis == Mary Lear Botp Banns 24/11/1833 Bittond
EAR
1856 John son of Francis and Jane Lear of North Common Warmley (Haulier)
Oct
7 1856 ,

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KINGSWOOD & BITTON - GENERAL LOCAL HISTORY

The Kingswood miners were a rough and tough lot. John WESLEY made a name for himself in the early days of Methodism.

The following is extracted from Bristol and Avon FHS Journal "Parish, Chapelry and Hamlet: The Bitton Area and Its Records" by M. McGREGOR (Asst. Archivist, BRO):

Parish of Bitton: mother church of St. Mary.
Within the parish: Chapelries of Hanham and Oldland, where baptisms and burials could be performed (marriages to 1754 only). One register covered both chapelries, entries being marked 'at Hanham' or 'at Oldland'.
Later elevated to status of independent parishes which led to individual records. The old register was not split, but passed to Hanham. Hanham became a separate parish in 1844.

Hamlets of Hanham and Oldland had separate civil identity since 1601. Ecclesiastical parishes not established for a further two hundred years. St Anne was not formed until 1861. As a chapelry of Bitton its registers run from 1813, but in combination with Hanham from 1572; civilly distinct since Tudor times.

Bishop Transcripts: to 1813 are held at Bristol RO. Bitton and its chapelries are entered on the same sheet. Parish lay in the rural deanery of Hawkesbury, which until 1826 formed part of Gloucester Diocese. BT's sent to Gloucester. From 1836 Hawkesbury was in the Bristol Archdeanery, and records were transferred to Bristol. Post-1813 BT's bound into annual volumes with other Gloucs. parishes remain in Gloucester.

Holy Trinity, Kingswood consecrated in 1820.
Christ Church, Hanham consecrated 1841.
St Barnabas, Warmley 1855.
Ref: ELLACOMBE, Rev. H T "The History of the Parish of Bitton in the County of Gloucester" Exeter, 1881.

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Other Background Reading:

- "History of Kingswood Forest" Rev. BRIANE, writing of the old families of Bitton mentions their unusually large and giant-like proportions and the old saying 'He was one of BATMAN's gurt uns'.

- "Annals of Kingswood" & "Killed in a Coalpit" by D. P. LINDEGAARD.
The "Kingswood Index" as held by the same researcher.
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Source: (Birth)
Title: EstimateSource Medium: Other
Estimate based on other known records

Data:
Text: Based on Inquest age at death

Source: (Burial)
Title: St. Mary's Bitton Gloucester Burial RegisterSource Medium: Book

Data:
Text: 1811 Oct 31 John LEAR

Source: (Individual)
Title: Hanham & Oldland*, Gloucestershire. Baptism register 1796-1812Source Medium: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: AnecdotalSource Medium: Unknown
Source Quality: Low
Verbal or handwritten (unpublished) family stories, letters, conversations etc. Dubious quality - all require substantiation.

Page: Email
Data:
Text: 1811 John Lear 35 killed by a fall of the roof at Mr¨ Whittucks pit. Inquest 30/10/1811 Oldland

Source: (Death)
Title: St.Mary, Bitton, Gloucestershire. Burial register 1808-1812Source Medium: Book

Data:
Text: 1811 Oct 31 John LEAR

Event: Type: Baptised
Date: 05 FEB 1804
Place: Bitton, Gloucestershire, England

Event: Type: Inquest
Date: 31 OCT 1811
Place: Aged 35 killed in a roof fall at Mr Whittuck's pit

Religion: Place: Buried St. Mary, Bitton, GLS (Bristol Record Office)

Cause: Killed by a roof collapse at coal mine

Note: From the Gippsland Guardian Newspaper.

Lear, John - Voter Legs. Assemb. 9.5.1856

Lear, John J. - signs petition 25.7.1856 p3 c4

Lear, John James ? purchased town lot at Tarraville 16.10.1857 p2 c5

Tarraville ? Catholic Church 28.8.1857 p2 c5

Tarraville ? land auction 18.9.1857 p3 c5 (and papers thereafter)

Tarraville - land to be sold 30.5.1856 p2 c3

Tarraville - National school - subscriptions sought 30.11.1855 p 4 c2

Tarraville - poem 30.11.1855 p 4 c1

Tarraville - Presbyterian manse additions 19.10.1855 p1 c2

Tarraville - report of soiree 3.6.1856 p1 c1

Tarraville - result of land sales 18.7.1856 p2 c3

Tarraville ? Royal Hotel ? drunkenness 21.8.1857 p3 c1

Tarraville ? Royal Hotel foe auction 14.8.1857 p1 c1

Tarraville ? sales of town lots 15.10.1857 p2 c4

Tarraville - school - tenders called 19.10.1855 p1 c2

Tarraville - see also schools

Tarraville - tenders for Govt forage 7.11.1856 p3 c3

Tarraville - title deeds awaiting collection 5.10.1855 p3 c3

Tarraville - title deeds for collection 19.12.1856 p2 c3

Tarraville Farmers Club ? first meeting 21.8.1857 p2 c5

Tarraville Farmers Club ? first meeting 28.8.1857 p1 c1

Tarraville Survey ? rents due 18.9.1857 p3 c4
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Source: (Burial)
Title: AIG Cemetery IndexSource Medium: Microfiche

Data:
Text: 27/3/1899, Tarraville, buried Alberton Spouse Susannah Priscilla

Source: (Individual)
Title: Victorian Probate RecordsSource Medium: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: Victorian Probate RecordsSource Medium: Book

Page: 71 856
Data:
Text: Died 27/3/1899 Probate 18/7/1899

Event: Type: Christened
Date: 20 DEC 1828
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Event: Type: Moved
Date: BET 1854 AND 1857
Place: From TAS to VIC

Occupation: Place: Saddler

Religion: Place: Alberton, Victoria, Australia

Probate: Date: 18 JUL 1899
Place: Tarraville, Victoria, Australia

Source: (Burial)
Title: Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUSSource Medium: Internet
On Line index direct from Cemetery
http://www.fcmp.com.au/

Data:
Text: Fawkner Crematorium And Memorial Park wishes to advise that the location of the cremated remains of the late John J Lear aged 53 are located at Garden Of Remembrance 3 Wall Niches Section 2 Compartment C Niche 55.

Religion: Place: Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUS

Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: 1919 Reg No. 18705
Data:
Text: Jno Wm, son of Keith Babbington and Eliz. Kerr

Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Victorian Births: 1874 26294

Source: (Burial)
Title: Cemetery IndexSource Medium: Book

Data:
Text: Springvale Cemetery Ref # 179316, Cremated, remains scattered

Source: (Death)
Title: Victorian DeathsSource Medium: Book

Page: 1952/21962
Data:
Text: Aged 75 Toorak

Religion: Place: Springvale Cemetery, Victoria, AUS

Note: 52804 Pte LEAR Lawrence Wishart, 8th L.H. 10.4.18 Returned to Australia (RTA) 3.7.19

Source: (Birth)
Author: Australian Federal Government
Title: Australian National ArchivesSource Medium: Internet
Source Quality: Good
Index available on line:
http://www.naa.gov.au/
Primarily records after Federation (1901)Repository:

Name: Canberra Australia

Data:
Text: War Record

Source: (Burial)
Title: Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUSSource Medium: Internet
On Line index direct from Cemetery
http://www.fcmp.com.au/

Data:
Text: Fawkner Crematorium And Memorial Park wishes to advise that the location of the cremated remains of the late Lawrence Lear aged 81 are located at Garden Of Remembrance 3 Wall Niches Section 5 Compartment C Niche 173.

Source: (Individual)
Author: Australian Federal Government
Title: Australian National ArchivesSource Medium: Internet
Source Quality: Good
Index available on line:
http://www.naa.gov.au/
Primarily records after Federation (1901)Repository:

Name: Canberra Australia

Occupation: Date: 1918
Place: Accountant

Religion: Place: Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUS

Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: Book

Page: Reg # 28570
Data:
Text: Father: Thomas Mother: Williams Susanna Event Place: Warr Reg Year: 1884 Reg State: Victoria Ref Number: 28570