Wrathall Vital Records for Tasmania (1832 -1918)

This page contains Wrathall Vital Records for Tasmania, Australia.
TASMANIAN IMMIGRATION RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS

In August 2001, Hamish Lonsdale-Wrathall transcribed birth, marriage and death records for Tasmania from microfiches in the Geelong Centre. He had this to say about his extraction of this data:

[The data I recently extracted] contains the Wrathall entries in the Tasmanian record of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and one reference to a transported convict Stephen Wrathall. As far as I can see there are no Wrathall entries at all in South Australia, and only 2 in Queensland.
In September 2001, Hamish sent passenger lists from two sources, with the following comments:
The records of coastal passengers to Hobart list 11 Wrathalls arriving on the 'Rifleman' in April 1831, and a few others later that century. Interestingly, the newspaper report of arrivals only lists 10. Many of the names flow into the Tasmanian and Victorian record in subsequent years. This should assist Andrew, who may also have an insight into the individual missing from the newspaper account. BTW, I think 'IN' is the Launceston Inquirer.
Here is the list of Tasmanian records transcribed by Hamish, who sent copies of the supporting microfiche documents in Oct. 2001:

TASMANIAN CONVICT RECORDS

Also in August 2001, Hamish mentioned the following about convict records:
The Archives Office of Tasmania has a Convict Records fiche that confirms that there were two Wrathall convicts.

In October 2001, Hamish sent copies of the convict records for Stephen and William Wrathall that he obtained from the records centre in Hobart, Tasmania, which are those listed above in the first two entries for Stephen and William. Hamish mentioned this about the documents:
[Here are] the various Convict Records available for cousins Stephen and William. I requested further information from the Tasmanian Department of Education, who run the Archives Office of Tasmania from the State Library, and quoted names and reference numbers provided by the Geelong Historical Records Centre fiche [above].

These 1840 documents are a bit of a challenge to read; the problem is a mixture of genuine age in the real original, fading ink, and the most abominable handwriting I have ever done battle with. [In regard to the "Hulk Report" for Stephen], a hulk was a Napoleonic war line-of-battle warship, decommissioned and set up as a temporary gaol for convicted felons awaiting transport, perhaps for months. No masts or spars, no heating or plumbing, no headroom ... Awful!
Here is the list Tasmanian Convict Records supplied by Hamish. I put parentheses around illegible entries. The Hulk Report for Stephen (Con32/22) is mostly illegible.

 Some of the handwriting is difficult to read, but may eventually become clear. I may post scans of the illegible documents in case somebody else can decipher them. We have more clues from these documents as to William's origins. The convict Stephen is probably in our Linton/Burnsall/Conistone/Kettlewell records, as I recognise his siblings. If Stephen were released in 1851 and he were 31 in 1841, then he may have been a confirmed bachelor with all those scars and tattoos, so the various Stephens of Australia probably weren't his descendants.
In Sept. 2004, the following messages were available at the rootsweb.com mail-archives:

FW: Moderated} Stowaways 
From: Diane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 12 May 2000 15:20
To: London Mailing List
Subject: {not a subscriber} Stowaways
[Lon] Re: FW: Moderated} Stowaways 
*	From: Eve McLaughlin 
*	Subject: [Lon] Re: FW: Moderated} Stowaways 
*	Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 13:26:18 -0700
The second message contains Eve McLaughlin's reply to Diane's message: 
>Police Records) as to what would happen when a child 'stowed away'. 
by their nature, stowaways are not listed as passenger, though there
could be a mention in the ship's log, if you knew which ship it was. The
ships' logs are kept at the Public Record Office at Kew.
> We
>have come across a convict record which states that William WRATHALL
>arrived in Australia, as a 'free' person aboard the Denmark Hill in
>1826.  As William was only 14/15 at the time, I would think it unlikely
>that his parents would allow him to travel to the other side of the
>world with their blessing
14-15 was an age at which boys often were working, and if he happened to
have quarrelled at home, or be an orphan, then he may have found someone
to pay his passage (or even worked it as a cabin boy, so the crew list
just might show up something. 10-1 he will appear a Rathal, or Rethall
etc
>His father, Stephen WRATHALL (the ancestor I'm really interested in) was
>a butcher in Blackwall (next to Poplar), which according to the map was
>a dock area, therefore, I think William may have 'stowed away'.
  could be - a row with Dad, a new stepmother, the short step down to
the docks and sign on board.
>Transported for  Larceny,  stated this offence -  stealing a piece of
>pork.
 I am puzzled by the notation 'transported' - if he was already in OZ. 
-- 
Eve McLaughlin
Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
[Henry Baynton was apparently a butcher in Hobart, so by "transported" they probably meant "transported to the interior".]
In Apr. 2005, a message from David W. Weatherill was available at the rootsweb.com mail-archives with some data regarding the convicts William and Stephen. The data appear to be in general agreement with Hamish's contributions above.
In May 2007, the Tasmanian Archives Online had considerable Wrathall family data, including wills, census, emigration and convict records.