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BELLETT, Jacob

BELLETT, Jacob

Male 1802 - 1835  (32 years)

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  • Name BELLETT, Jacob  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] 
    Christened Dec 1802  Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Born 7 Dec 1802  Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 20 May 1835  Rokeby, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Buried Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 8] 
    Person ID I23908  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 

    Father BILLETT, Jacob,   b. 24 Jan 1765, Webs Square, Shoreditch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Dec 1813, Hobart, Van Diemens Land, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother HARPER, Ann Harrison,   b. 10 Sep 1772, Bristol, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1842, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 5 Nov 1791  Norfolk Island, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    Family ID F3107  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 FREE, Susannna,   b. 25 Jul 1801, Norfolk Island, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jan 1833, Clarence Plains, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 31 years) 
    Married 16 Apr 1827  Clarence, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. BELLETT, Elizabeth Ann,   b. 29 May 1825, Clarence, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Nov 1907, Queenborough, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)  [natural]
     2. BELLETTE, James Henry,   b. 27 Jan 1828, Clarence, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Nov 1905, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)  [natural]
     3. BELLETT, Mary Ann Sarah,   b. 12 Apr 1829, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Apr 1918, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years)  [natural]
     4. BELLETTE, Jacob William,   b. 11 Jun 1830, Clarence Plains, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1916, Runnymede, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)  [natural]
     5. BELLETT, Samuel James,   b. 14 Sep 1831, Clarence, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Sep 1911, Moruya, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F6273  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 FISHER, Mary Louise,   b. 1803, Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1826, Clarence, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 23 years) 
    Children 
     1. BELLETT, Elizabeth Ann,   b. 29 May 1825, Clarence, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Nov 1907, Queenborough, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F6274  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    1824 marriage Jacob Bellette    		1824 marriage Jacob Bellette
    1835 death Jacob Bellett    		1835 death Jacob Bellett

  • Notes 
    • After the death of Jacob Bellet's second wife, Susannah, John Bellet took in Jacob's daughter Mary Ann Sarah as Jacob was unable to care for her. When Jacob himself passed away in 1835, John took in Jacob's boys. As of 1835 there were 11 children living at their property on the Sorell Rivulet.

      Information from "That Yesterday was Home" by Roy Bridges.

      City of Edinburgh

      The City of Edinburgh was an immigrant ship used to remove settlers and convicts from
      Norfolk Island to Hobart in 1808. It was not the convict transport later used to ship convicts
      from Ireland to Australia, a ship of 366 tons which was built at Coringa in 1813.
      The City of Edinburgh was a ship of upwards of 500 tons burthen. She arrived in Hobart
      Town on 2 October 1808, under the captaincy of Simeon PATTERSON, carrying 83 settlers
      and free persons, 39 women, 96 children and 8 male prisoners; a total of 226 persons,
      comprising 28 families.

      By all accounts the journey was miserable – cold and wet.

      The City of Edinburgh in September 1808 carried twenty-eight
      families to the Derwent, in Van Diemen’s Land, where, according to
      Governor Bligh, ‘she left them, in a state of wretchedness, almost naked’.
      (Nobbs, 1988)

      A letter sent on 23 October 1808 per City of Edinburgh by Lieutenant Governor COLLINS
      from Hobart to Lieutenant Colonel FOVEAUX in Sydney, who acknowledged receipt on 10
      December 1808, stated:

      … I have now to inform you that, on the 2nd instant, the City of
      Edinburgh arrived from Norfolk Island, having on board 242 Persons
      belonging to that Settlement. They arrived in some distress with respect to
      dry provisions, their passage hither having been longer than they expected
      at their sailing. Several of the settlers complaining – some, that their
      property had been plundered on the voyage; others, that it was not
      forthcoming – I directed an investigation of their claims to be entered into by
      a bench of magistrates, the result of which is herewith enclosed. It has been
      found necessary to hold a survey upon some part of the provisions and slop
      clothing received by this ship, a copy of the report which is likewise
      enclosed, together with the Commissary’s return of the several articles of
      Provisions and stores he has received, and a general statement of the
      inhabitants within the settlement with an account of the time the provisions
      now in store will last for their support at the established ration …

      On 10 May 1809, Lieutenant Governor COLLINS sent a letter from Hobart Town to Viscount
      CASTLEREAGH, London.

      … In continuation of my former reports to your Lordship on the subject
      of the evacuation of Norfolk Island, I have the honour to acquaint you that
      early in the month of October last, a ship, the City of Edinburgh, which had
      been chartered for the purpose by Major Johnson, arrived here, having on
      board the greater part of the remaining settlers and inhabitants from that
      settlement; and as I have reason to suppose I have now received the whole
      of these people that will be allowed to come here, I beg leave to enclose, for
      your Lordship’s information, a general return of the numbers landed from the
      several ships and vessels employed in the removal.
      Of the settlers there are but very few who are not at this moment
      occupied in the cultivation of their new farms, and erecting habitations of
      some kind for their families. The few not so employed are troublesome,
      discontented characters, who refuse the trifling assistance I can give them,
      because they cannot obtain the whole to which they have a claim …

  • Sources 
    1. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7D4Y : 3 October 2018), Jacob Bellett in entry for Elizabeth Ann Bellett, 29 Sep 1825; citing Birth 29 Sep 1825, H.
      Jacob Bellett in entry for Elizabeth Ann Bellett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7D4Y

    2. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCR-48W : 10 February 2018), Jacob Bellett and Mary Fisher, 29 Dec 1824; citing Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,368,285.
      Jacob Bellett, "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCR-48W

    3. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTC5-XPT : 10 February 2018), Jacob Billett and Susan Free, 16 Apr 1827; citing Kangaroo Point, Tasmania, Australia, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,368,28.
      Jacob Billett, "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTC5-XPT

    4. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7JC5 : 3 October 2018), Jacob Billett in entry for Jacob William Billett, 11 Jun 1830; citing Birth 11 Jun 1830, C.
      Jacob Billett in entry for Jacob William Billett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7JC5

    5. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-9D5K : 3 October 2018), Jacob Billett and Susannah Free, 16 Apr 1827; citing Marriage 16 Apr 1827, Clarence, Tasma.
      Jacob Billett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-9D5K

    6. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTXW-M8S : 11 February 2018), Jacob Belbett in entry for Mary Ann Sarah Belbett, 31 May 1829; citing , , TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA; FHL microfilm 1.
      Jacob Belbett in entry for Mary Ann Sarah Belbett, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTXW-M8S

    7. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-963J : 3 October 2018), Jacob Bellett and Mary Fisher, 29 Dec 1824; citing Marriage 29 Dec 1824, Hobart, Tasmania,.
      Jacob Bellett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-963J

    8. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTXW-RPR : 11 February 2018), Jacob Billett in entry for Samuel Billett, 15 Oct 1831; citing , , TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA; FHL microfilm 1,368,234.
      Jacob Billett in entry for Samuel Billett, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTXW-RPR

    9. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTDQ-3Y5 : 11 February 2018), Jacob Belett, 16 Jan 1803; citing NORFOLK ISLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA; FHL microfilm 993,949.
      Jacob Belett, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTDQ-3Y5

    10. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7DG8 : 3 October 2018), Jacob Billett in entry for James Henry Billett, 27 Jan 1828; citing Birth 27 Jan 1828, Cla.
      Jacob Billett in entry for James Henry Billett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7DG8

    11. Database online.
      Record for Jacob Bellett (Billett)

    12. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-9DR8 : 3 October 2018), Jacob Billett and Susannah Free, 16 Apr 1827; citing Marriage 16 Apr 1827, Clarence, Tasma.
      Jacob Billett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-9DR8

    13. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7N1F : 3 October 2018), Jacob Billett in entry for Samuel Billett, 14 Sep 1831; citing Birth 14 Sep 1831, Clarence.
      Jacob Billett in entry for Samuel Billett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7N1F

    14. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7DRS : 3 October 2018), Jacob Bellett in entry for Mary Ann Sarah Bellett, 12 Apr 1829; citing Birth 12 Apr 1829,.
      Jacob Bellett in entry for Mary Ann Sarah Bellett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-7DRS

    15. [S307] FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-9D57 : 3 October 2018), Jacob Bellett and Mary Fisher, 29 Dec 1824; citing Marriage 29 Dec 1824, Hobart, Tasmania,.
      Jacob Bellett, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-9D57

    16. Database online.
      Record for Jacob Bellett


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