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From: Paul Kitson and Lynne Gillam< >
Subject: [COVENTRY-L] COVENTRY IN TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:15:09 +1000


Being new to genealogy, I hope I've interpreted your 'roll call' concept
appropriately ...

By the way, my grandmother began this research some time ago and hasn't
recorded all of her sources. I am still to verify some of the
information.

My great grandfather was Louis James Lyle COVENTRY (b Mersey, Tasmania
29 Apr 1889, d Latrobe, Tasmania 18 Jun 1975). He married Mabel
ANDERSON (b 5 Jun 1892, d 5 Dec 1968), the daughter of Robert ANDERSON
and Ruth CLARKE. They had 14 children. Louis James Lyle Coventry was
Bandmaster of the Latrobe Federal Band from 1919, having joined in 1899,
and held the position until his retirement in 1965. He also mined in
the local coal mines and worked as a bookmaker for a time.

Louis' father was James Henry COVENTRY, b abt 1846, Hawley, Tasmania.
He died 30 July 1927, Latrobe, Tasmania. He married Priscilla BOURNE (b
1850, d Mersey, Tasmania, 23 Oct 1899). I have yet to establish her
parents. Her mother's first name was Elizabeth and she had remarried a
GIRDLESTONE by the time Priscilla and James married on 17 June 1867 at
Tarleton, Tasmania.

James Henry COVENTRY and Priscilla had 10 children:
Ann Eliza (b 1868)
Amelia (b13 May 1870, d Jun 1870)
Priscilla Elizabeth (b 9 Sep 1871, married Leslie A Biggins 1891)
Alice (b 29 Dec 1873 Barrington, Tas, d 24 Sept 1926, married Arthur
George
PURDY 1899)
Louisa (b 6 July 1876, Port Sorell, Tas)
Mary Ann (b 9 Aug 1880, d abt 1900)
William Henry Thomas (b 2 Apr 1884, Latrobe, Tas, married Linda May
SNOOKS)
Victoria Belinda (b 13 Aug 1886, married James HEPPENSTALL, then
Arthur
George PURDY)
Louis James Lyle (see above)
John Bourn (b 13 Oct 1894, d 1904)

I have not been able to establish the parents of James Henry COVENTRY
(but I haven't been looking long and I'm still waiting on some
certificates from Tas Archives).

Some other family historians argue that James Henry was in fact Daniel
James COVENTRY and thereby link him back to the arrival of William
COVENTRY (1776 - 1830) in Sydney in 1802. William has a colourful
history - served time on Norfolk Island; entered into a common law
marriage with Mary MARTIN presumably in Hobart, around 1808-1815 and had
four children; took up farming in the New Norfolk district; later fined
for harbouring a runaway felon and later for stealing bullocks;
sentenced to 7 years at Macquarie Harbour for the latter offence;
absconded with four other convicts and was eventually killed and eaten
by his fellow escapees! I have further details of William and his
children if anyone is interested - but I have not been able to prove the
supposed connection between James Henry COVENTRY and Daniel James (or
any other member of this tree). Any information, suggestions etc would
be appreciated.

Hope there are some others out there interested in (and/or with
information on) Coventrys in Australia!

Lynne

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