Orphan Number: | 1254 |
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Orphan: | Thomas CUDDY |
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Mother: | GOLDING, Ann |
Father: | CUDDY, Thomas |
Mother's ship: | East London |
Father's ship: | Richard Webb |
Age when admitted: | 3yrs |
Date admitted: | 19 Oct 1856 |
Date discharged: | 16 Feb 1868 |
Institution(s): | Queens Orphan School |
Discharged to: | Maurice Russell, Glaziers Bay |
Remarks: | won prize Jan 1868 |
References: | SWD6, 26/10, 28, 32/1, HAP1871/63, |
Thomas Joseph was my great grandfather. He became a miner and engineer, was involved in the establishment of some mines in the Derby and Queenstown area of Tasmania, married Susan Barnet, a granddaughter of Thomas Salmon, the first settler to charter and sail his own ship to Tasmania in 1812.
Following the death of Susan at a young age of 28 he moved with his son (my grandfather) to Victoria in 1904 to establish the state coal mines at Wonthaggi. He was a shift foreman/engineer there and later became a director of the Wonthaggi Hospital. He died in 1942.