Cover image for Bisdee Family
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
Gamaliel and Sarah Butler and Family (NG2170)01 Jan 181631 Dec 1989

Ida S. Mcaulay (NG374)08 Sep 189808 Jun 1989
Series Created By Agency:
NS1420 Journal of John Bisdee,182001 Jan 182031 Dec 1820

NS2341 Bisdee Family History and Genealogy01 Jan 182031 Dec 1970

NS5764 Pencil Sketch of Hutton Park, Melton Mowbray01 Jan 1840

NS2350 Rent Roll for Tenant Farmers at Bisdee Properties "Hutton Park' and 'Tedworth' Melton Mowbray01 Jan 185631 Dec 1876

NS2354 Farm Account Books for Bisdee Property 'Hutton Park' Melton Mowbray01 Mar 185713 Dec 1969

NS2362 Bisdee Family Photographs01 Jan 186031 Dec 1964

NS2359 Photo Album of Bisdee Property 'Wihareja', Near Bothwell11 May 186331 Dec 1980

NS2353 Medical Prescription Book for Bisdee Family01 Jun 186331 Dec 1889

NS2357 Photo Album of Eva Bisdee01 Jan 187031 Dec 1890

NS2352 Map01 Jan 187731 Dec 1877

NS2355 Bisdee Family Photograph Album01 Jan 188031 Dec 1890

NS2349 History of Bisdee Property 'Hutton Park' Melton Mowbray01 Jan 188130 Mar 1984

NS2356 Photo Album of 'Eva Bisdee, Llanberis - 16 January 1883'16 Jan 188331 Dec 1890

NS2342 Diaries and Letter Book of John Hutton Bisdee, V.C.12 Mar 189831 Dec 1903

NS2344 Biographical Information on John Hutton Bisdee01 Jan 190131 Dec 1990

NS2348 Maps of Bisdee Properties01 Jan 190431 Dec 1958

NS2358 Photo Album of Visitors to Bisdee Property 'Hutton Park' Melton Mowbray27 Jun 190416 Mar 1914

NS2347 Documents relating to Land, Leases and Management of Pastoral Properties Owned by Bisdee Family01 Jan 191031 Dec 1980

NS2361 Bisdee Photo Album of New Zealand and Tasmanian Scenes01 Jan 191231 Dec 1922

NS2343 Copy of John Hutton Bisdee's War Service Record World War 117 Apr 191508 Jun 1921

NS2346 Stephen John Bisdee Papers09 Jun 192430 Aug 1973

NS2360 Bisdee Photo Album of Tourist Scenes01 Apr 192731 Dec 1927

NS2345 Bernard Hutton Bisdee Papers20 Feb 195424 Feb 1954

NS2351 Notes on Melton Mowbray13 Dec 196921 Jul 1987