KERMODE, Robert Quayle

1812 - 1870  (58 years)

• Name	KERMODE, Robert Quayle  [1]
  Born	28 Jan 1812	Port Erin St Columba, Rushen, Isle of Man
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 May 1870	Ross, Tasmania, Australia
  Person ID	I1257	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	KERMODE, William Esquire,   b. 1780, Rushen, Isle of Man ,   d. 3 Aug 1852, Ross, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	MOORE, Anne Quayle,   b. 2 Apr 1790, Isle of Man ,   d. 3 Aug 1852, Mona Vale, Ross, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1810
  Family ID	F3004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	ADDENBROOKE, Emily,   b. 1840, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 15 May 1900  (Age 60 years)
  Married	16 Jun 1859	Paddington, London, England
  Children	1. KERMODE, Henry Addenbrooke,   b. 16 Jan 1864, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 8 Jun 1903, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia  (Age 39 years)  [natural]   2. KERMODE, Arthur Cotton,   b. 28 Sep 1867, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 16 Jan 1895, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia  (Age 27 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	ARCHER, Martha Elizabeth Henrietta,   b. 10 Mar 1821, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 3 Jan 1853, Ross, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 31 years)
  Married	10 Nov 1839	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  Children	1. KERMODE, Thomas Archer,   b. 25 Apr 1848, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 23 Jun 1858, Exmouth, Devon, England  (Age 10 years)  [natural]   2. KERMODE, Robert Crellin,   b. 6 Jan 1847, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 10 Feb 1927, Ross, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 80 years)  [natural]   3. KERMODE, William,   b. 1848,   d. 1858, Devon, England  (Age 10 years)  [natural]   4. KERMODE, Robert Crellin,   b. 9 Mar 1843,   d. 20 Mar 1843  (Age 0 years)  [natural]   5. KERMODE, William Archer,   b. 12 Jan 1846,   d. 29 Jan 1901  (Age 55 years)  [natural]   6. KERMODE, Lewis Quayle,   b. 2 Oct 1852, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 9 Feb 1922, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England  (Age 69 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F335	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	ARCHER, Henrietta,   b. 1826, Longford, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 1 Mar 1853, Ross, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 27 years)
  Married	1839	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  Children	1. KERMODE, Robert Crellin,   b. 9 Mar 1843,   d. 20 Mar 1843  (Age 0 years)  [natural]   2. KERMODE, William Archer,   b. 12 Jan 1846,   d. 29 Jan 1901  (Age 55 years)  [natural]   3. KERMODE, Lewis Quayle,   b. 2 Oct 1852, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 9 Feb 1922, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England  (Age 69 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Robert Quayle Kermode
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  		Robert Quayle Kermode
  		Robert Quayle Kermode
  		Robert Kermode

  
  

• Notes

  'Mona Vale" Campbell Town Posted 15 jul 2013 by H_Boutell " In June 1827 the land commissioners reported that Kermode was improving and cultivating his 'excellent Sheep Walk'. After his wife and daughters joined him in May 1828 he was able to give the personal attention which was to make Mona Vale a show place. By 1834 his first modest timber house had been replaced by a substantial brick building; stone cottages and farm buildings were being erected and much of the estate laid out and fenced. According to The Centenary History of the Midland Agricultural Association (Launceston, 1938) 'Kermode was probably the most progressive of all the fine settlers who arrived in Sorell's time. He had vision and the energy and practical ability to bring his ideas into being'. With Saxon sheep from the Van Diemen's Land Co. he started his own stud in 1829 and later won many prizes for his sheep, horses and produce. The dry summers and negligible flow of the two streams which crossed the Salt Pan Plains led him to an early interest in water conservation. Both streams were dammed and hundreds of acres of irrigated pasture laid down to clover and grasses on hitherto useless land. Although the advice of such experts as Hugh Cotton on irrigation, and Count Strzelecki on soil analysis was not followed by the government, it was extensively used by Kermode who also gave generously of his time and energies to any practical proposals for improving farm production or standards. These achievements showed his strength of purpose. He had been friendly with Sorell, but his very decided views led to an estrangement from Lieutenant-Governor(Sir) George Arthur. Kermode's need of land and convict labour was often supported at the Colonial Office by the Duchess of Atholl, and in 1825 she even sought a government post for him. In that year, however, Kermode became involved in a threatened duel with his agent and Arthur refused him any further concessions. Two years later Kermode signed the protest against Arthur's restrictions on the press and was soon charged with harbouring runaway prisoners. Matters were not improved when the case was given much publicity by Robert Murray in the Austral-Asiatic Review, February 1828. In 1835 more trouble arose over the alleged use by Kermode of stone cut by convicts in the government quarry and laid by a convict mason on the landing at Mona Vale. Kermode again proved his innocence, but the charges rankled and soon afterwards he published Statement of Facts Relating to the Recent Altercation … (Hobart, 1836) a pamphlet vigorously supporting his friend, Thomas Gregson, who had been imprisoned and fined for horsewhipping Arthur's nephew, Henry. With Sir John Franklin Kermode had better relations. Although he failed to win the lieutenant-governor's support for a land bank or mutual protection society to raise funds in London, he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council in 1842. When the financial crisis deepened he was one of the Patriotic Six who in October 1845 walked out of the council in protest against Sir John Eardley-Wilmot's handling of the annual estimates. Reappointed in 1848, Kermode again resigned, according to Lieutenant-Governor Sir William Denison, 'to create embarrassment for the Government'. But Kermode's health was failing. He retired to Mona Vale, where he died on 3 August 1852. His wife survived him by four months."

  
  

• Sources

  [S308] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;;), Ancestry Family Tree.