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Welcome to Morgan’s Barn Mead
This is just a fast hello to anybody who stumbles across Morgan’s Barn Mead during our fast and furious weekend web development. The objective isn’t to provide the greatest bling site on the Web right...
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Catherine Marriott Watson (1851-1943)
Catherine (Kate) Marriott Watson was the grandmother of our mazer’s paternal grandmother Elvie Ruth Bonner (1901-1986). Catherine Marriott Watson was the daughter of Brereton Ross Porter Pemberton...
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The Mazer at Morgan’s Barn Mead
Our mazer is the great great great great great grandson of the First Fleet convict Richard Morgan and his third partner, Catherine Clark. Through the Morgan line, our mazer is also connected back to...
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William Bligh (1754-1817) Part 2
William Bligh’s strength was charting and surveying, skills honed under Cook on HMS Resolution. And by 1800 Bligh had built a successful career in the Royal Navy with a reputation for maintaining...
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Reg Watson – Historian, Writer & Journalist
Local identity, Reg A. Watson, has authored a number of publications about Tasmanian history, including the Watson family history and an essay on our shared forebear Richard Morgan. Reg is a fifth...
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Elvie Ruth Bonner (1901-1986)
Great great great granddaughter of Richard Morgan, Elvie Ruth Bonner. The mazer’s grandmother. This photograph was made when she was around 14 years of age.
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Ceramic Stout Mug
Drinking stout, porter or dark ale from a handle-less ceramic stout mug dramatically changes the consumption experience. It’s hard to describe if you’ve always consumed commercial beer in a glass....
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RIP Aunty Lenna “Teeny” Clark
Lenna “Teeny” Crossin (nee Clark) was an older sister of my father Lionel Bruce Clark and four times great granddaughter of the First Fleet Convict Richard Morgan. She was a Watson of the branch from...
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John & Kate Bonner, Scottsdale
My grandmother’s grandparents were Ebeneezer John Bonner (1858-1938) and Catherine Marriott Watson (1851-1943). Above is a photograph of John and Kate at Scottsdale, Tasmania. In turn, Kate was the...
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Envelopes of Photographic Negatives
Elvie Ruth Bonner (1901-1986) was a three times great granddaughter of the First Fleet convict Richard Morgan (1748-1837), later granted a good parcel of land at Kangaroo Point during the settlement...
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The Many Varied Histories of Australia
Richard Morgan was convicted at Gloucester of assault and robbery (some say wrongfully) on 13 March, 1785 and sentenced to 7 years in Africa. For a time he rotted on the prison hulk Ceres in the...
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