Cover image for Tanner Family
Agency:
Tanner Family
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1856
Description:
Peter Tanner emigrated to Hobart in December 1856 per the ship Sir W.F Williams and on 23 February 1857 he married his childhood sweetheart, Mary Scoles (daughter of William and Euphemia Scoles from Ayreshire, Scotland). When Peter Tanner died in 1890 his occupation was Manager of the Hobart Gas Company. His obituary also stated that he had been born in 1834 at Cunnock, Ayreshire in Scotland. His wife Mary died in 1909. Together they had 12 children, four of whom died as youngsters. The eight surviving children included Euphemia, Peter (born 1859), Mary Jane, David, John, Henry, Thomas and James (born 1877). All the children, except Mary Jane married. She, however, brought up the younger members of the family.
Information Sources:
Notes supplied by Peter Forster, son of Lillian Forster (nee Tanner).
Functions Performed:
Family archives
Series Created By Agency:
NS5713 Postcards collected by Mary Jane Tanner10 Nov 190105 Oct 1919

NS7172 Miscellaneous Material from the Tanner Family01 Jan 190331 Dec 1982

NS7173 Photographs01 Jan 192031 Dec 1949