Cover image for Long Family of Woodvine
Agency:
Long Family of Woodvine
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1895
End Date:
31 Dec 1980
Description:
Woodvine is a material reminder and indicator of the area's involvement with the disposal of crown land under the Waste Lands Act 1858, whereby a policy of free selection of land before survey of up to 320 acres in previously unsettled areas of the state was made available to settlers.;;Mr Ernie Shaw's great grandparents Daniel Long and Elizabeth Tustin married in 1861 and moved to the selection in 1862 and established a farm. They had 14 children there, 13 of whom lived to adulthood. Daniel's father (also a Daniel) had been transported as a convict and from 1826 was licensee of the Plough and Harrow Inn at Sorell as well as a farmer and whaler. ;;Ella, Mary and Edgar Long, children of Daniel and Elizabeth, lived on the property and together brought up their grandnephew Ernie Shaw, eldest son of Bessie Long and Arthur Shaw. The property was handed down to Mr Shaw on the death of Edgar Long in 1977. In 1998 Mr Shaw donated the land (377 hectares) to the Crown as a nature reserve, proclaimed in 2001. Mr Shaw had a residential licence over the property and was the only person in Tasmania living in a nature reserve. Daniel and Elizabeth's first home, a shingle-roofed slab hut, was used as a shearing shed in later years. The main cottage was erected in 1902 and was Mr Shaw's home until 2003 when he left Woodvine due to health issues. Mr Shaw died on 5 August 2005.;;The family were self-sufficient and did not throw things out. There are many examples of magazines from the 1930s, postage stamps, Weet-bix collector cards, farm diaries, receipts from local businesses, local provenance clothing, farming equipment and domestic artefacts. There are also many photographs of the farm, family and Hobart as well as a large number of letters and cards.
Information Sources:
Family records; Woodvine Nature Reserve Management Statement 2010, Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service
Functions Performed:
Family archives
Series Created By Agency:
NS4239 Albums01 Jan 188531 Dec 1910

NS4237 Woodvine Estate Records01 Jan 188627 Feb 1987

NS4503 Photographs01 Jan 188611 Oct 2001

NS4238 Posters and Maps01 Jan 192431 Dec 1974