Agency:
Bisdee Family
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1820
End Date:
31 Dec 1990
Description:
John Bisdee (1796 - 1862) , the eldest of thirteen children of Thomas and Elizabeth Bisdee of Oldmixton Manor, Somerset, England eloped to marry his wife Anne (nee Green) in 1819. They migrated to Van Diemen's Land via South Africa, arriving in Hobart on the ship 'Westmorland' in May 1821. He received a grant of land which he eventually took up at 'Hutton Park', Spring Hill. He also held public office in Hobart as governor of the goal and poundkeeper. He had two sons and four daughters (Elizabeth Anne, Mary, Sarah, Emma, Thomas and John). Anne died in 1848. He then married Henrietta Charlotte (nee Miller) - (1829 - 1909) by whom he had three daughters (Constance, Sarah, Rose) and a son Edward who died in infancy on 20 March 1860.;;;;John Bisdee persuaded his four brothers Edward, George, Isaac and Alfred Henry to also migrate. Edward (baptised 1802) owned 'Lovely Banks' at Melton Mowbay and 'Sandhill', Jericho. When he returned to England his younger brother inherited 'Sandhill'. Edward built 'Hutton Court' in Somerset, where memebers of the Bisdee family lived for another eighty years. He died in England in 1870 aged 68. His wife was Rose (nee Axford). George (baptised 1811) farmed at 'Woodspring' and 'Heston' in the Bagdad valley. He died in England in 1863 aged 51. Isaac (baptised 1813) farmed 'Lovely Banks' after Edward. He married Eliza Rose Kemp in 1862 and died in Tasmania. His son Edward O. Bisdee married Lilian Davies and they had several children. Alfred Henry married Sarah Butler (the daughter of Gamaliel Butler of 'Stowell' Battery Point and they had Sarah (born 1850), Thomas Gamaliel (born 1852) and Alfred James (born 1855). Alfred Henry died in England in 1898.;;;;John Bisdee also returned to England, where he died on the 18 November 1862. His son John Bisdee, born in 1831, inherited 'Hutton Park'. He married Ellen Butler and their nine children were: Winchester Munn Bisdee, who married Eva Dorinda Wright at St Paul's Church of England, Glenorchy on 15 Jan 1883 and had children Athol (born 1885), Bernard (born 1886), Stephen (born 1888) and Dorothy (born 1889); lived at 'Tedworth', 'Llanberis' and 'Heston'. Harold, unmarried, lived at Melton Mowbray. Lucy and Bessie both unmarried, Edith Mary, Reginald, E. Ina (born in 1878), Amy E. and John Hutton Bisdee.;;;;John Hutton Bisdee was born at 'Hutton Park' on 28 September 1869. In 1904 he married Georgina Theodosia Hale (9/12/1861 - 25/12/1926), the daughter of Bishop Hale of Brisbane. They had no children. He was the first Tasmanian to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his services in the Boer War. He attained the rank of Colonel in World War I and received an O.B.E. in June 1919. His diaries (and other Bisdee papers) passed into the possession of his great-niece Annie Bisdee (Mrs John Roderick Wayn), who was the daughter of Stephen Bisdee and his wife Beatrice Shaw, and granddaughter of Winchester Bisdee.
Information Sources:
'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; Archives Office of Tasmania records.
Functions Performed:
Family archives
Related Agencies:
Gamaliel and Sarah Butler and Family (NG2170) | 01 Jan 1816 | 31 Dec 1989 |
Ida S. Mcaulay (NG374) | 08 Sep 1898 | 08 Jun 1989 |
Series Created By Agency:
NS1420 Journal of John Bisdee,1820 | 01 Jan 1820 | 31 Dec 1820 |
NS2341 Bisdee Family History and Genealogy | 01 Jan 1820 | 31 Dec 1970 |
NS5764 Pencil Sketch of Hutton Park, Melton Mowbray | 01 Jan 1840 |
NS2350 Rent Roll for Tenant Farmers at Bisdee Properties "Hutton Park' and 'Tedworth' Melton Mowbray | 01 Jan 1856 | 31 Dec 1876 |
NS2354 Farm Account Books for Bisdee Property 'Hutton Park' Melton Mowbray | 01 Mar 1857 | 13 Dec 1969 |
NS2362 Bisdee Family Photographs | 01 Jan 1860 | 31 Dec 1964 |
NS2359 Photo Album of Bisdee Property 'Wihareja', Near Bothwell | 11 May 1863 | 31 Dec 1980 |
NS2353 Medical Prescription Book for Bisdee Family | 01 Jun 1863 | 31 Dec 1889 |
NS2357 Photo Album of Eva Bisdee | 01 Jan 1870 | 31 Dec 1890 |
NS2352 Map | 01 Jan 1877 | 31 Dec 1877 |
NS2355 Bisdee Family Photograph Album | 01 Jan 1880 | 31 Dec 1890 |
NS2349 History of Bisdee Property 'Hutton Park' Melton Mowbray | 01 Jan 1881 | 30 Mar 1984 |
NS2356 Photo Album of 'Eva Bisdee, Llanberis - 16 January 1883' | 16 Jan 1883 | 31 Dec 1890 |
NS2342 Diaries and Letter Book of John Hutton Bisdee, V.C. | 12 Mar 1898 | 31 Dec 1903 |
NS2344 Biographical Information on John Hutton Bisdee | 01 Jan 1901 | 31 Dec 1990 |
NS2348 Maps of Bisdee Properties | 01 Jan 1904 | 31 Dec 1958 |
NS2358 Photo Album of Visitors to Bisdee Property 'Hutton Park' Melton Mowbray | 27 Jun 1904 | 16 Mar 1914 |
NS2347 Documents relating to Land, Leases and Management of Pastoral Properties Owned by Bisdee Family | 01 Jan 1910 | 31 Dec 1980 |
NS2361 Bisdee Photo Album of New Zealand and Tasmanian Scenes | 01 Jan 1912 | 31 Dec 1922 |
NS2343 Copy of John Hutton Bisdee's War Service Record World War 1 | 17 Apr 1915 | 08 Jun 1921 |
NS2346 Stephen John Bisdee Papers | 09 Jun 1924 | 30 Aug 1973 |
NS2360 Bisdee Photo Album of Tourist Scenes | 01 Apr 1927 | 31 Dec 1927 |
NS2345 Bernard Hutton Bisdee Papers | 20 Feb 1954 | 24 Feb 1954 |
NS2351 Notes on Melton Mowbray | 13 Dec 1969 | 21 Jul 1987 |