A House Through Time - Newcastle

[goldnutmeg]

Playing the devils advocate..

If he was freed in NSW why would he go to Tasmania?

If you google the surname of the Tasmanian employer, Lillico, it’s a family from Scotland and Northumbria including Newcastle upon Tyne ... Jus’ speculatin’ ...

[mckha489]

They could have talked about this for a good 5 minutes on the programme. 

[bugbear]

I watched this on catchup this afternoon. A couple of questions and points occurred to me.

This thread answers all my questions, and (mainly) agreed with my points.

Thanks to all - for unknowingly helping me!

 BugBear

[goldnutmeg]

They could have talked about this for a good 5 minutes on the programme. 

‘Richard was transported to Van Diemansland, now Tasmania, which was a major exporter - tariff free as part of the Empire - of wood including ironically - for umbrellas ... [rest of Richard’s story]. The newspaper seems to have embellished Stuart’s story. He was a 16 year old miner described in later paperwork as [Stuart’s description]. He may be the Edward Stuart, freed by this time, who at the age of 50 worked for another family from the North East but absconded from his work as a hired hand and, according to the local newspaper, was on the run from the law.’

Obviously the presenter is a bone fide historian who could have done the research and written the script. But he is also a ‘poster boy’ and I suspect may have been handed a script which he then executed very convincingly. I doubt whether bone fide archivists etc would have spiced up the script with fictional Dickensian tabloid details. But somewhere someone may have done the deed (‘It doesn’t matter, they’re all dead...’) between the research and the finished script ...

[jfchaly]

Thanks Nova67 for link to previous series.
I got to watch two episodes on a cold & wet Sunday morning.
Excellent series.
Jfch

[Nova67]

I am actually watching the first series on You Tube

[mckha489]

For us down unders has episode 2 shown yet? Any further challenges to solve?

[davidft]

For us down unders has episode 2 shown yet? Any further challenges to solve?

Yes shown on Monday 15 April. No real challenges I think although several grandchildren of a family that fell on difficult times ended up in NZ and Aus. It seems the comfortably off grandmother sent them there to get a new start in life and did provide for them financially.

What seems to be the main thread is at

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=811141.63 

but no one seems to have felt the need to comment on this episode. Funnily enough I thought the second episode was better than the first, still what do I Know ….. 

[goldnutmeg]

Did I overlook something in both programmes? Did the residents of the house own or rent? The presenter brought up about the landlords in the second episode, seeming to assume we knew who they were?

Interesting that Dr Hardcastle’s wife was Mary Colbeck’s daughter. Her other son-in-law was a timber merchant before entering in the bottling trade - touching wood once again, altho’ not necessarily for brollies!

His name was Frederick Swan Todd - only one ‘n’ but still wonder whether he was connected to the Swann shipping family altho’ it may be a coincidence. Some of the children went to New Zealand and Australia which may mean there were relatives there already.

Did anybody catch the middle name or surname of the fine  upstanding pillar of the community solicitor who Freddy was convicted of stabbing? Something beginning with ‘T’? I got the Gilbert bit!