Barbados and Jamaica - George James Landells of Burke & Wills infamy

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Wondering if this is Elizabeth Rosa's father? http://tinyurl.com/y84ahg35
Tasmania death 1850
Name: BIGGAM, Holmes Age: 65
Date of death:: 10 Jun 1850
Registered: Hobart
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1188852
Resource: RGD35/1/3 no 144
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-3p15j2k

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Lieutenant  Holmes Biggam sold "unattached Lieutenancy" to settle NSW  1839.
 
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kh0/

Sue

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The Courier (Hobart Tas. 1840-1859) 26June1850 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2962595
To Let, with Immediate Possessions
A FARM, late in the occupation of the late Lieutenant Biggam, on the East Coast, known as " Cockle Bay," containing 320 acres; 60 of which are in cultivation and well fenced, and partly sown to barley. There is on the Establishment working bullocks, cows, pigs, and everything required to carry on the same, which the coming-in tenant can take at a valuation. For further particulars apply to the undersigned.
RICHARD CROCKER
Thorn Hill, Sorell, June 24.

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Can someone transcribe letter please?
1839 Irish immigrant to Australian penal colony
https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/37546495_1839-irish-immigrant-to-australian-penal-colony
Recommends "the merits of a respectable individual", Holmes Biggam, an Irish officer of Wellington‘s Army during the war against Napoleon in Spain, who was "intending to take out his family to Van Diemens Land", and, to "provide for a numerous family" in that penal colony, was "wholly desirous to obtain the protection and favorable opinion of the Colonial authorities both here and on the spot…"

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Is this your line?
http://www.thestewartsinireland.ie/author/georgevstewart1/
Marriage: Jane Catherine Odlum to Holmes Biggam of 29th Jun 1816

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Index of the above mentioned BIGGAM/ODLUM marriage  in 1816. Dublin Ireland
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kh3/

Liverpool, Lancaster Image 1841 marriage of Edward BIGGAM, a son of Holmes BIGGAM (Army officer)
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kh2/

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174525985 Melbourne Punch, 22 Nov 1860
aside from the rest of the cutting, seems someone in Melbourne ‘knew’ the following about George James LANDELLS' family history 

father : Captain George LANDELLS of HM 22nd Regiment, 
Grandfather: Quartermaster General of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich
Uncle: Captain W LANDELLS …

JM

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Index of the above mentioned BIGGAM/ODLUM marriage  in 1816. Dublin Ireland
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kh3/

Liverpool, Lancaster Image 1841 marriage of Edward BIGGAM, a son of Holmes BIGGAM (Army officer)
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kh2/

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This must be the daughter of Edward BIGGAM
Tas Birth: http://tinyurl.com/yddclcbd
Registration year: 1850
Name: Biggam, Jane Odlam
Father: Biggam, Edward
Mother: Dobson, Margaret
Date of birth: 26 Jun 1850
Registered: Westbury
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:993121
Resource RGD33/1/28/ no 1242
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD33-1-28-p710j2k


Tas marriage: http://tinyurl.com/y86svtbe
Date of marriage: 04 May 1876
Name: Biggam, Jane Odlem Age: 22
Spouse: Gullick, George Andrew Age:20
Registered: Launceston
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:884976
Resource: RGD37/1/35 no 528
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-35p261j2k

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And the letter to the press look who wrote it !   
M. J M. Landells Keating.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87947990  Bendigo Advertiser 15 Nov 1860

JM