Hi Keith
Heres a bit to start with
CARTER, Lydia Tidmarsh CM 148885 Age: 21 Marriage
Spouse: ROOPE, Lavington Age: 25
Marriage Date: 14 Mar 1846
Reg Year: 1846 Reg State: Tasmania
Ref Number: 2313
FAMILY INFORMATION
Children: 438689 ROOPE LAVINGTON GEORGE 1847
438684 ROOPE F 1848
438685 ROOPE F 1849
438683 ROOPE F 1850
438693 ROOPE M 1851
438695 ROOPE RAYMOND HAMILTON 1857
438692 ROOPE M 1860
ROOPE, Lavington CD 768423 Death
Sex: Male
Age at Death: 60
Death Date: 29 Jun 1881
Reg Year: 1881 Reg State: Tasmania
Ref Number: 3197
death
ROOPE, Charles H CD 768421 Death
Father: Lavington
Mother: Lydia
Index Year: 1886
Reg Year: 1886 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 6802
ROOPE, Alice CD 768420 Death
Sex: Female
Age at Death: 11
Death Date: 08 Jan 1860
Reg Year: 1860 Reg State: Tasmania
Ref Number: 1866
ROOPE, Julian CD 768422 Death
Father: Lavington
Mother: Lydia T
Index Year: 1882
Reg Year: 1882 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 5215
see also
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jreynold/history.htmlMarriage: Frances Amy ROOPE 19 Jul 1882, St Johns Church, Newtown, Hobart, Tasmania 1 to Tetley Gant.
daughter of a well-to-do Hobart merchant, whose fine New Town residence, Wendover, was for a time the Gants' family home
Gant died on 7 February 1928 at Lower Sandy Bay. His obituarist in the Mercury described him as 'an ideal English gentleman … He had a fine personal presence, was debonair, affable and courteous in manner, liberally disposed, [and] was highly respected and esteemed by all classes'. He was survived by his daughter, his wife having died in 1926, and was buried in St John's cemetery. His estate was valued for probate at £4876.
Annie