HULL, George

1786 - 1879  (92 years)

• Name	HULL, George  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	13 Aug 1786	Iwerne, Dorset, England   [1, 3]
  Christened	Abt Sep 1786	Iwerne, Dorset, England   [1]
  	src gravesoftas.dynup.net "George Hull was born 21st August 1786 at Iwerne Dor England and was christened by a traveling minister from the Lyndhurst Baptist Chapel."
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Jun 1879	Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia   [1, 3]
  	"Royston Cottage",
  Buried	New Town, Hobart City, Tasmania, Australia   [3]
  Person ID	I10408	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	HULL, Thomas,   b. 1757, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England ,   d. Oct 1845, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England  (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	SHORT, Catherine,   b. 17 May 1761, Iwerne Minster, Dorset, England ,   d. 10 Aug 1832  (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	17 Apr 1782	Shaftesbury, Holy Trinity, Dorset, England   [5, 6, 7]
  	Holy Trinity Church
  Family ID	F1556	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MUNRO, Anna,   b. 9 Feb 1800, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, England ,   d. 27 Jan 1877, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 76 years)
  Married	27 Aug 1815	London, England
  	St Pancras Church
  Children	1. HULL, Georgina Rose,   b. 23 Aug 1816, Westminster, London, England ,   d. 20 Jul 1886, Hamilton, Victoria, Australia  (Age 69 years)  [natural]   2. HULL, Hugh Munro,   b. 19 Apr 1818, Romney Terrace, Westminster, London, England ,   d. 3 Apr 1882, Macquarie St, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 63 years)  [natural]   3. HULL, Frederick George,   b. 28 Dec 1819, Launceston, Van Dieman's Land, Australia ,   d. 11 Apr 1876, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia  (Age 56 years)  [natural]   4. HULL, Robert Edward,   b. 2 Jun 1821, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 18 Jul 1841, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 20 years)  [natural]   5. HULL, Harriet Jane,   b. 5 May 1823, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 10 Jan 1912, St George's Church, Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 88 years)  [natural]   6. HULL, George Thomas William,   b. 8 Oct 1825, Launceston, Van Dieman's Land, Australia ,   d. 17 Mar 1914, Clunes, Victoria, Australia  (Age 88 years)  [natural]   7. HULL, Temple Pearson Barnes,   b. 22 Aug 1827, Launceston, Van Dieman's Land, Australia ,   d. 11 Sep 1888, Ararat, Victoria, Australia  (Age 61 years)  [natural]   8. HULL, General Henry Jocelyn,   b. 16 Jul 1829, Launceston, Van Dieman's Land, Australia ,   d. 3 Sep 1893, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 64 years)  [natural]   9. HULL, Anna Munro,   b. 19 Jun 1831,   d. 5 Dec 1887, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 56 years)  [natural]   10. HULL, James Douglas,   b. 21 Jul 1833, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 5 Nov 1881, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 48 years)  [natural]   11. HULL, John Franklin Octavius,   b. 8 Apr 1836,   d. 17 Mar 1874, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 37 years)  [natural]   12. HULL, Alfred Arthur,   b. 16 Feb 1839,   d. 18 Nov 1890, Robert Street, Toowong, Queensland, Australia  (Age 51 years)  [natural]   13. HULL, Mary Emily (Polly),   b. 25 Jun 1841,   d. 13 Jun 1928, Mount Tamborine, Queensland, Australia  (Age 86 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F2785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Documents		Hull
  		The life of George Hull

  
  

• Notes

  HULL, GEORGE (1787-1879), assistant commissary general, was born on 13 August 1787 in the parish of Iwerne, Dorset, England, son of Thomas Hull, a farmer and an officer in the county militia, and his wife Catherine, née Short. After receiving a classical education he was articled to a solicitor at Mitcham with the intention of following a legal profession, but learnt of the demand for accountants on the Commissariat Department staff in the war in Spain. Through the influence of Sir Mark Wood, he was offered and accepted a Treasury clerkship. He sailed for Lisbon in 1810. In 1814 he received from the Duke of Wellington a commission as assistant to the commissary-general. At the end of the war he returned to England, and married Anna (1800-1877), only daughter of Lieutenant Hugh Munro, formerly of the Scots Guards. For three years he served at Somerset House. In 1818 he was ordered on foreign service and was given an option of proceeding to Canada or to New South Wales. He chose the latter and with his wife and two children reached Sydney in the Tyne on 4 January 1819. He took up the administration of the Commissariat Department at Parramatta, but in September was transferred to Van Diemen's Land. Here, in the opinion of Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell, Hull assumed unwarranted powers, just as Commissary Frederick Drennan was trying to do in Sydney and the matter was referred to Macquarie. The governor, whose own position in the dispute had been supported in London, now backed up Sorell in his turn, although Commissioner John Thomas Bigge agreed that the lieutenant-governor should not refuse Hull the usual indulgences if he decided to settle in the colony. In 1824 Hull applied for a land grant under conditions offered to army officers on half-pay in New South Wales. For his military and other services he received 2560 acres (1036 ha) near Glenorchy. Here he built his home Tolosa, traditionally named because a workman's remark that the house was 'too low, sir' reminded Hull of the name of the Spanish town in which he had served. In 1828, in addition to other official duties, he was called upon to act as collector of internal revenue at Launceston and to unravel confusion in the accounts of a defaulting Naval Officer in Hobart Town. Next year he applied for the position of postmaster at Launceston but was refused. In 1831 he was obliged to retire from the Commissariat Department, as he was becoming too deaf, but in July 1832 was appointed a justice of the peace, and in 1837 held the position of assistant to the director-general of roads. In 1839 he was fulfilling the duties of sitting magistrate and in 1841 suggested that he might be appointed visiting magistrate as well. He then spent many years seeing to the cultivation of his large property but when his health began to fail he moved to live with his daughter at Battery Point and died there on 23 June 1879. He was survived by 10 children, 75 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. He was buried with his wife in the grounds of St John's Church, New Town. Select Bibliography Historical Records of Australia, series 1, vol 10, series 3, vols 2-5; Hobart Town Gazette, 3 Aug 1832; Hobart Town Courier, 13 Oct 1837; E. R. Pretyman, Notes on the Life of H. M. Hull (privately held); OD 27/670, 67/147 (Archives Office of Tasmania); CSO 1/155/2275, 1/442/9846, 1/839/17775, 5/56/1239, 5/289/772 (Archives Office of Tasmania). More on the resources Author: E. R. Pretyman —— Extract from Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825, State Records NSW HULL, George. Deputy Assistant Commissary General, Hobart Arrived per "Tyne" in 1819 and was sent to the Commissary of Parramatta; in September 1819 he was transferred to Van Diemen's Land; he received a land grant at Glenorchy in 1824. 1819 May 1 To receive forage allowance for weekly attendance at Windsor to pay for supplies received into H.M. Magazines (Reel 6049; 4/1745 pp.30-1) 1819 May 1 Re forage money for attendance at Liverpool (Reel 6020; 4/1093.2 pp.29-30) 1819 Jun 9 William Bennett requesting clothing and bedding for inmates of Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum (Reel 6048; 4/1743 pp.332-4) 1819 Jun 11 Regretting unable to supply clothing or bedding to Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum, there being none in the Store at Parramatta (Reel 6048; 4/1743 p.335) 1819 Aug 31 Passage to Hobart on "Admiral Cockburn" requested for George Hull, family and servants (Reel 6048; 4/1743 pp.277-8) 1819 Sep 1 Requesting that prisoners William Moore, Ann Pink and A M Johnstone be allowed to accompany him to Hobart as servants (Reel 6048; 4/1743 p.279) 1819 Sep 3 Passage arranged for himself and family to Van Diemen's Land per "Admiral Cockburne" (Reel 6006; 4/3500 p.243) 1819 Nov 6 Re passage to Van Diemen's Land aboard the "Admiral Cockburn" (Reel 6007; 4/3501 p.16) 1819 Dec 18 Abstract of sums advanced to (Reel 6049; 4/1745 p.4) 1820 Apr 24 Departmental Orders requesting duplicates & triplicates of store receipts issued since 25 Jan 1819 & respecting new method of attaching store receipts to vouchers (Reel 6049; 4/1744 p.375 & 4/1745 p.69) 1820 Sep 18 Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy (Fiche 3304; 4/1712A pp.14-6) 1821 May 4-Oct 12 Account of sums received as imprests to Frederick Drennan, Deputy Commissary General (Reel 6054; 4/1757 pp.16-7) 1821 Jul 28 Re his delay in getting vouchers signed (Reel 6008; 4/3504 pp.181-2) 1821 Aug 4 Re receipt of Deputy Assistant Commissary General Hull's accounts for Hobart (Reel 6051; 4/1748 pp.127-8) 1822 Jan 25 Dispute with Deputy Commissary General Drennan (Reel 6054; 4/1757 p.2) 1822 Feb 1 Recommended that he be placed under arrest (Reel 6054; 4/1757 p.4) 1823 On list of persons owing quit rents in Van Diemen's Land; for land in the Districts of Argyle and Glenarchy (Fiche 3270; X19 pp.4, 20, 21, 23, 25) 1823, 1824 Correspondence re wheat to be received by him from Simeon Lord's agent John Smith (Fiche 3310; 4/1099.2 pp.55-69) 1823 Sep 13 Requesting to be reimbursed for expenses incurred in official duties (Reel 6057; 4/1766 pp.143a-143b) 1823 Nov 6 Re travelling allowances (Reel 6011; 4/3509 p.540) 1824 Feb 7 Complaint to Deputy Commissariat General re conduct of John Smith in charging Hull with refusal to receive wheat (Fiche 3310; 4/1099.2 pp.49, 50) 1824 Mar In charge of issuing stores from 25 Sep 1819 to 30 May 1823 (Reel 6057; 4/1776 p.116) 1824 Jun 28 Acknowledgement of wheat received from Simeon Lord (Fiche 3310; 4/1099.2 p.41) —— St Mathews Presbyterian Church Designed by James Blackburn, who had been convicted for forgery and transported in 1833 and built by the Hobart firm of Kirk & Fisher on land that was donated by George Hull at a cost of one thousand five hundred pounds the foundation stone was laid by Sir John Franklin on the 20th December 1839 and the building was ready for worship by 1841. http://ontheconvicttrail.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/st-matthews-church-glenorchy.html

  
  

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