Royal Society of Tasmania, University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection
Abstract
George Meredith (l777 - 1856) was born near Birmingham, U.K. & served as a
Lieutenant in the Marines until 1806 when he retired on half pay. He arrived
in Hobart in March 1821 with his second wife Mary (nee Evans, d. 1842) and
five children, and settled at Oyster Bay on the East Coast. Meredith established
grazing stock and crops and also a flour mill and tannery at the Meredith River.
In 1827 they moved to Belmont, a mile inland and in 18.36 Meredith built a new
home, Cambria, near their original settlement. Includes notes of Meredith's exploration of the coast from Newtown to
Oyster Bay. They reached Meredith's Creek about 10th October.
Here the Surveyor measured grants and they dug foundations,
planted fruit trees etc. Meredith records a description of the
surrounding countryside and notes about future clearing and
planting etc. - RS 3
