Ancestry of Ian & Cath Jeanneret
BELLETT, George
1812 - 1885 (73 years)
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Name BELLETT, George [1, 2] Christened 1812 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 
[2] Born 3 Mar 1812 Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia [1, 2] Gender Male Died 16 Mar 1885 Sorell, Tasmania, Australia [1, 2] Buried Sorell, Tasmania, Australia [2] Person ID I25412 My Genealogy Last Modified 16 Sep 2023
Father BILLETT, Jacob, b. 24 Jan 1765, Webs Square, Shoreditch, London, England , d. 2 Dec 1813, Hobart, Van Diemens Land, Australia (Age 48 years) Relationship natural Mother HARPER, Ann Harrison, b. 10 Sep 1772, Bristol, Somerset, England , d. 10 Sep 1842, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia (Age 70 years) Relationship natural Married 5 Nov 1791 Norfolk Island, Tasmania, Australia [3] Family ID F3107 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 LARSON, Jemima, b. 24 Nov 1818, Clarence Plains, Tasmania, Australia , d. 6 Aug 1891, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia (Age 72 years) Married 11 Feb 1835 Clarence, Tasmania, Australia Children 1. BELLETT, James, b. 21 Feb 1838, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia , d. 6 Jul 1923, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Age 85 years) [natural]2. BELLETT, Mary Ann, b. 17 May 1840, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia , d. 19 Sep 1884, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia (Age 44 years) [natural]3. BELLETT, Eliza, b. 11 Aug 1842, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia , d. 14 Jun 1927, Lilydale, Tasmania, Australia (Age 84 years) [natural]4. BELLETT, Elizabeth, b. 5 Aug 1844, Tasmania, Australia , d. 19 Aug 1862, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia (Age 18 years) [natural]5. BELLETT, Jemima Louise, b. 25 Oct 1846, Richmond, Tasmania, Australia , d. Sep 1894, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia (Age 47 years) [natural]6. BELLETT, Grace, b. 21 Feb 1849, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia , d. 28 Jul 1938, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Age 89 years) [natural]7. BELLETT, Adelaide, b. 15 Feb 1851, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia , d. 19 Nov 1922 (Age 71 years) [natural]8. BELLETT, George Arthur, b. 22 Nov 1852, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia , d. 27 Feb 1913, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Age 60 years) [natural]9. BELLETT, Emma Lavender, b. 15 Jul 1854, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia , d. 20 Nov 1855, Copping, Tasmania, Australia (Age 1 years) [natural]10. BELLETT, Lilly, b. 15 Jul 1854, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia , d. 6 Apr 1885, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia (Age 30 years) [natural]11. BELLETT, Dinah Maria, b. 28 Jun 1856, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia , d. 1 Jun 1888, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia (Age 31 years) [natural]12. BELLETT, Emma Lavender, b. 15 Nov 1858, Port Sorell, Tasmania, Australia , d. 1941, Copping, Tasmania, Australia (Age 82 years) [natural]Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 Family ID F6582 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 LARSOM, Jemima, b. 24 Nov 1818, Clarence Plains, Van Diemen's Land, Australia , d. 6 Aug 1891, Sorell, Tasmania (Age 72 years) Children 1. BELLETT, Lilly, b. 15 Jul 1854, Spring Bay, Tasmania, Australia , d. 6 Apr 1885, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia (Age 30 years) [natural]Last Modified 26 Jul 2022 Family ID F6581 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Bellettes believed to be by Charles Henry Theodore Constantini Bellettes believed to be by Charles Henry Theodore Constantini
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Notes - George Billett (also Bellett, Bellette and Billet, 1812–1885) was a farmer and landowner, an early settler of Sorell in Tasmania, and the son of two ex-convicts. His father, Jacob Bellett (1765–1813), was a Spitalfields weaver transported to New South Wales for seven years for stealing silk, and came to Sydney aboard the Scarborough, one of six convict transports among the vessels forming the First Fleet. George’s mother, Ann Harper (1772–1842), arrived in New South Wales in June 1790 having been found guilty of stealing silverware in Bristol in February 1788. Both were later sent to Norfolk Island, where they married and acquired land and, eventually, pardons. They were among the settlers relocated to Van Diemen’s Land in 1808 following the British government’s decision to close the Norfolk Island settlement. Along with other evacuees, Jacob was granted land at Sandy Bay in compensation for the substantial Norfolk holding he had relinquished; later, he acquired 60 acres east of Hobart at Pitt Water (renamed Sorell in 1821). George was the youngest of Jacob and Ann’s eight children and the only one of them born in Van Diemen’s Land. Following Jacob’s untimely death in 1813, the family appear to have moved to the Pitt Water holding, nearby to where other Norfolk Island ex-convict families had previously settled. George’s marriage to a daughter of one such family, Jemima Larsom (1818–1891), is registered as having taken place in the school house at Clarence Plains in February 1835; and the record of the birth of their eldest child, Ann, in 1836, lists George as a farmer resident in the district. By the birth of their next child, James, in February 1838, George and Jemima are recorded as living at Sorell, where their further ten children were born between 1840 and 1858. Newspaper reports offer the occasional proof that George maintained an active interest in local political and agricultural matters; served as a magistrate; and that he, along with his brothers John, Jacob, William and James, contributed significantly to farming activity in the district. In 1880, George sold his property – ‘A Farm, 76 acres, situated on the Sorell Rivulet … Good four-roomed cottage, a barn, dairy and out-buildings’ – and relocated to one east of Sorell, at Bream Creek. That George’s death there in March 1885 was noted in the Hobart Mercury and other papers suggests that he was a considerable, if not distinguished, citizen. ‘The deceased was a quiet, inoffensive man, and had all his lifetime followed the pursuits of a farmer’, one obituary concluded, while that in the Mercury stated that during the 50 years of his ‘farming pursuits’, George had ‘gathered around him many friends, while enemies were almost unknown to him’. Jemima died at Bream Creek in August 1891, her death certificate stating that she was 72 years old and a ‘farmer’s widow’.
https://www.portrait.gov.au/people/jemima-bellette-1818
Bellett, George (1812–1885)
Another has been added to the long list of old identities who have passed away. At an early hour this morning, 16th inst., George Bellette [Bellett], sen., of Upper Carlton, formerly of Sorell, died. He was born at Sorell, in the year 1811, since when he had carried on farming pursuits for over 50 years in the Sorell district. He had gathered around him many friends, while enemies were almost unknown to him, Some few years, ago he disposed of his farm at Sorell and came to Bream Creek where the majority of his family were residing, and there ended the remainder of his life. During the last few days his health, which had hitherto been good, began to fail, and after about six days illness, he quietly passed over to the majority at the advanced age of 74.
- George Billett (also Bellett, Bellette and Billet, 1812–1885) was a farmer and landowner, an early settler of Sorell in Tasmania, and the son of two ex-convicts. His father, Jacob Bellett (1765–1813), was a Spitalfields weaver transported to New South Wales for seven years for stealing silk, and came to Sydney aboard the Scarborough, one of six convict transports among the vessels forming the First Fleet. George’s mother, Ann Harper (1772–1842), arrived in New South Wales in June 1790 having been found guilty of stealing silverware in Bristol in February 1788. Both were later sent to Norfolk Island, where they married and acquired land and, eventually, pardons. They were among the settlers relocated to Van Diemen’s Land in 1808 following the British government’s decision to close the Norfolk Island settlement. Along with other evacuees, Jacob was granted land at Sandy Bay in compensation for the substantial Norfolk holding he had relinquished; later, he acquired 60 acres east of Hobart at Pitt Water (renamed Sorell in 1821). George was the youngest of Jacob and Ann’s eight children and the only one of them born in Van Diemen’s Land. Following Jacob’s untimely death in 1813, the family appear to have moved to the Pitt Water holding, nearby to where other Norfolk Island ex-convict families had previously settled. George’s marriage to a daughter of one such family, Jemima Larsom (1818–1891), is registered as having taken place in the school house at Clarence Plains in February 1835; and the record of the birth of their eldest child, Ann, in 1836, lists George as a farmer resident in the district. By the birth of their next child, James, in February 1838, George and Jemima are recorded as living at Sorell, where their further ten children were born between 1840 and 1858. Newspaper reports offer the occasional proof that George maintained an active interest in local political and agricultural matters; served as a magistrate; and that he, along with his brothers John, Jacob, William and James, contributed significantly to farming activity in the district. In 1880, George sold his property – ‘A Farm, 76 acres, situated on the Sorell Rivulet … Good four-roomed cottage, a barn, dairy and out-buildings’ – and relocated to one east of Sorell, at Bream Creek. That George’s death there in March 1885 was noted in the Hobart Mercury and other papers suggests that he was a considerable, if not distinguished, citizen. ‘The deceased was a quiet, inoffensive man, and had all his lifetime followed the pursuits of a farmer’, one obituary concluded, while that in the Mercury stated that during the 50 years of his ‘farming pursuits’, George had ‘gathered around him many friends, while enemies were almost unknown to him’. Jemima died at Bream Creek in August 1891, her death certificate stating that she was 72 years old and a ‘farmer’s widow’.
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Sources - [S309] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;).
Record for Lilly Bellett
https://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1030&h=26082165724&indiv=try - Database online.
Record for Jacob BELLETT - Database online.
Record for Jacob Bellett
- [S309] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;).
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