FERRAR, William Moore

1823 - 1906  (83 years)

• Name	FERRAR, William Moore  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	22 Jun 1823	Dublin, Ireland   [1, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	14 Aug 1906	Ross, Tasmania, Australia   [1, 3, 4]
  Buried	Ross, Tasmania, Australia   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I20299	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	FERRAR, Edward MD,   b. 1785, Newry, Down, Northern Ireland ,   d. 25 Mar 1857, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland  (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	MOORE, Jane,   b. 4 Jul 1789, Dromore, County Downs, Ireland ,   d. Between 1828 and 1877, Ireland  (Age 38 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	10 Dec 1812	Dromore, Down, Ireland
  Family ID	F1005	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	DICKSON, (Eliza) Elizabeth Charlotte,   b. 16 Apr 1819, St Johns, Limerick, Ireland ,   d. 5 Sep 1907, Ross, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 88 years)
  Married	24 Feb 1847	Ross, Tasmania, Australia   [2]
  	'Plassy'
  Children	1. FERRAR, Jane Porter,   b. 10 Dec 1847, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 22 Dec 1893, Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 46 years)  [natural]   2. FERRAR, Elizabeth,   b. 12 Mar 1849, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 10 May 1886, Parattah, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 37 years)  [natural]   3. FERRAR, Anna Katharine,   b. 16 Jul 1850, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 16 Dec 1944, Penselwood, Somerset, England  (Age 94 years)  [natural]   4. FERRAR, Bassett Dickson,   b. 19 Nov 1851, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. Apr 1935, Mt Cook, Canterbury, New Zealand  (Age 83 years)  [natural]   5. FERRAR, Mary Massey,   b. 31 Aug 1853, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 11 Oct 1946, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand  (Age 93 years)  [natural]   6. FERRAR, Edward,   b. 22 Apr 1855, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 29 Jun 1929, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 74 years)  [natural]   7. FERRAR, Alicia Florence Nightingale (Floy),   b. 20 Oct 1856, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 10 Jul 1950, Stowport, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 93 years)  [natural]   8. FERRAR, William Moore,   b. 1 Oct 1858, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 28 Sep 1915, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 56 years)  [natural]   9. FERRAR, Richard William Binns,   b. 20 Oct 1860, Ross, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 20 Aug 1951, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 90 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F5472	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		William Moore Ferrar 3
  		William Moore Ferrar 2
  		William Moore and Eliza

  
  

  Documents		2nd Obituary William Moore Ferrar
  		The Mercury - 16 Aug 1906 - Obituary for William Moore Ferrar

  
  

• Notes

  William Moore Ferrar was born in Dublin in 1823, the son of a medical practitioner. He attended Dr. Geoghgan’s School, after which he commenced employment as a bank clerk. At the age of nineteen he immigrated, first to Sydney and then to Tasmania, having accepted the invitation of his Dickson cousins to take up residence and assist with farm duties at their pastoral estate, Plassy, on the outskirts of Ross, in the northern midlands. After only a few months, in 1843 he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Salt Water River Probation Station on Tasman’s Peninsula. He returned to Plassy in 1847, marrying the eldest daughter, Eliza Dickson, and subsequently taking ownership of Plassy, where he and Eliza lived for the remainder of their lives. Footnotes: 1 Bassett Dickson, a cotton-mill proprietor, of Limerick, immigrated to Tasmania with his wife Elizabeth and five children, arriving 16 February 1830 with capital of £1200 and £200 in furniture; they were granted 2000 acres in the Ross district, which they named Plassy. The family lived for the first seven years in the three room hut they built on the property. The present homestead was completed by 1837. William’s reasons for leaving Ireland were likely a failed love affair, alluded to in his diaries, and knowing of his cousins’ success in the colonies. At the time of William’s arrival in 1842 the two Dickson sons, Bassett junior and Samuel, had left home, pursuing farming ventures He records his sea journey to the Australian colonies only briefly: “On the tenth of October 1841 I set sail from Liverpool in the bark Hope. Captain Duncan McLachlan, bound for Sydney, and on the tenth of October 1842 I entered my cousin Bassett Dickson’s house in Van Diemen’s Land.” The Ferrar Diaries: William Moore Ferrar and his Books Keith Adkins

  
  

• Sources

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