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GEORGE HULL  

George Hull was born 21st August 1786 at Iwerne Dor England and was christened by a traveling minister from the Lyndhurst Baptist Chapel.  He had been working in the commissariat department of the Duke of Wellington’s army in Spain fighting the French.

He arrived in Australia in 1819 on the “ Tyne ” and was sent to the commissary at Paramatah.  It wasn’t long before he requested a transfer to Tasmania because of the better climate and he arrived the following year with his wife Anna and their two small children.

He was stationed at Hobart and like many other government officials established a property at Glenorchy, conveniently near his work but still quite cheap at seven shillings an acre.  Hull bought four small farms along Humphries Rivulet and built a house there.  The story goes that when the house was built one of the workmen said to Hull ‘its too low sir’.  Hull was reminded of a Spanish village called Tolosa and gave the name to his property.

From 1821 to 1830 Hull was stationed in Launceston and ‘Tolosa’ was let.  In 1825 it was described “that eligible, delightful farm called ‘Tolosa’ with a house of five good rooms, cellar and kitchen with fenced paddocks of English grass and over 1400 acres of land.  Five hundred sheep and a small herd of cattle were kept there – “there cannot be a situation in the island which offers so many advantages.

In 1831 Hull ’s health broke down, apparently he became very deaf and he retired from the army on half pay. The family returned to Hobart and George Hull, now a Justice of the Peace was granted 2560 acres running back into the hills where he grew barley, oats and fruit.

Somewhere around this time he donated the land for the building of St. Mathew’s Church at Glenorchy.  It is interesting to note that the cemetery attached to the church was at the front and this land was later acquired by the Glenorchy Council for road widening.

The largest household in Glenorchy was George Hull’s whose family and servants numbered twenty five.  This included thirteen children of the marriage.  In 1841 his son Robert died of tuberculosis, the only one of the Hull children to die young.

Unlike most other colonists George Hull thought transportation of convicts to the colony should continue.  The Governor at the time was so pleased he sent Hull ’s views to London .  Hull said ex convicts were a credit to the community.

His grandson Henry Evelyn Butler Hull married Amy Maria Hallam.

George Hull died 24th June 1879 and was buried at St. John’s Newtown

 

 

 

 

 

 

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