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Alexander Thomas Bisset Blair (1818-1900)
Alexander, son of a Royal Navy Gunner, lived a full and eventful life. Enrolled by his parents Alexander and Tryphena in the Greenwich Hospital School at the age of 10, he sailed across the world on a whaling ship to Van Diemens Land, becoming a pioneer shipwright and one of Launceston's earliest builders, whose business premises were among the first built in St John Street.
On 22 February 1841 he married 18 year old Mary Ann Hedington. Their children were Alexander Henry (1841), Robert Sleeman (1843), Clara Elizabeth (1845), Rebecca (1848), Henrietta (Hetty) (1850) who was my great-grandmother, Emma Jane (1854), William Albert (1859), Maria Ann (1861), James Alexander (1863), Elizabeth Eleanor (1865). Alexander died on 16 June 1900 at 17 French Street Launceston.
I have just published Alexander's story in a book called Comfortable & Happy, and it includes accounts of the associated Couch, Sleeman, Dell, Hedington and Greene families. Please contact me if you would like further details
Alexander, son of a Royal Navy Gunner, lived a full and eventful life. Enrolled by his parents Alexander and Tryphena in the Greenwich Hospital School at the age of 10, he sailed across the world on a whaling ship to Van Diemens Land, becoming a pioneer shipwright and one of Launceston's earliest builders, whose business premises were among the first built in St John Street.
On 22 February 1841 he married 18 year old Mary Ann Hedington. Their children were Alexander Henry (1841), Robert Sleeman (1843), Clara Elizabeth (1845), Rebecca (1848), Henrietta (Hetty) (1850) who was my great-grandmother, Emma Jane (1854), William Albert (1859), Maria Ann (1861), James Alexander (1863), Elizabeth Eleanor (1865). Alexander died on 16 June 1900 at 17 French Street Launceston.
I have just published Alexander's story in a book called Comfortable & Happy, and it includes accounts of the associated Couch, Sleeman, Dell, Hedington and Greene families. Please contact me if you would like further details