The Legacy of John Headlam of Egleston, Macquarie River, Tasmania

John Headlam and his family arrived in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land from Eggleston, County Durham, England, in 1820, and established a boarding school in the town. In 1830, after retiring as headmaster of a government school in Launceston, Headlam took up 775 acres on the Macquarie River — not far from here in the Tasmanian Midlands — naming the property Egleston after his home village.

This book, researched and written by Carol Bacon over five years, is in two parts: a chronicle of the Headlam family and its descendants through five generations, and John Headlam's own letterbook — a book in which he transcribed copies of the letters he sent and received, along with other contemporaneous notes — published here in full for the first time. Among its contents is Headlam's own transcription of "The Life of Thomas Jeffrey," the notorious Van Diemen's Land bushranger and convicted murderer, executed in Hobart in 1826.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Hardcover book.
• Published 2021.
• 443 pages, indexed.
• Illustrated throughout.

CONDITION
New.

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