A new Facebook page has been created to provide an open forum for members to share photographs, anecdotes, family history as well as ask questions relating to ancestors of the Tasmanian Northwest. So bring your recent discoveries or any other genealogy related topics you want to discuss, share or collaborate. The web address of the Facebook page is at the following link.

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In the lead up to Remembrance Day on 11 November 2018, this blog will feature three stories to commemorate three brothers who served with the 40th Battalion during the Great War.

The stories will trace their individual and collective experience, ordinary and extraordinary, at a critical time of their lives and our history.

The first story will feature Francis Leopold Gale, son of George Gale and Catherine Grace Fleming, born at Elliott on 6 September 1897.
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A new page has been added to this website listing museums and heritage centres in regional Tasmania. Nearly all receive limited or no Government funding and as such rely on public donations and dedicated volunteers to maintain the museum and its collection.

Some museums and heritage centres will also have genealogical and local history material as well as reading rooms and research facilities. Refer to the link for more information.
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Amos Eastwood, who was from Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, was serving in the British military when he was sentenced to seven years transportation after striking a superior officer. A wheelwright by trade, he was with the 78th regiment for a period of six years, whereafter he received court martial for 28 days and then transported from India on the Royal Saxon, arriving in Tasmania in 1851.

​After his release in 1858, Amos went to live in the West Tamar district where he began to raise a family. In 1872 he accepted a position at a sawmill in Elliott. In those days, timber was drawn out of the forest by high-wheeled iron arched jinkers, and it was for building and repairing of such wheels that Amos was engaged in.

​After several years in Elliott, Amos and his family moved to Burnie, where he began working for John Tatlow making and repairing wheels for different classes of vehicles.