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Mining Engineers in Tasmania

 GenTree has compiled a small booklet on the 14 men who received a Certificate of Competency  in Charge at Mining Plants in Tasmania between 1890 and 1905.

1. William Gifford Burrell son of William Christopher Burrell and Jane Adelaide Ellis
      wife: Edith Mary Hook
2. James Nimmo Dewar son of Robert Dewar and Grace Nimmo
     wife: Margaret Weir
3. Robert Evans son of Roger Evans and Anne Roberts
4. James H Dawson born 1867 Invercargill NZ.
5. Andrew Currie son of Edward Currie and Amelia Watts
    wife: Emily Caroline Morley
6. James Murdoch born 1867 Cambruslang, Glasgow, Scotland
7. Alfred John Todd  son of Alfred J Todd and Ellen,
   wife: Minnie Gertrude Bell
8. William Henry Hobby son of William Hobby and Mary Ann White
    wife Margaret Maria Fahey
9. Alexander Ranking McSkimming son of William McSkimming and Marjorie
   wife Catherine Jane Williams
10. William Albert John Briggs son of James Briggs and Anne Theresa Corcoran,
     wife Clara Ellen Allport
11. Arthur Samuels Judge son of George Judge and Christina Monk
     wife Catherine Maria McLennan
12. Hugh Astles son of Thomas Astles and Harriett
     wife Alice Helena Lewis
13. Joseph Hardy son Henry Thomas Hardy and Jane
14. Joseph Henry Levings son of John Leving and Ann Delaney
      wife  Louisa Victoria Delbridge

Below is a list of men who received certificates in Tasmania. Please note that this is not a complete list.

Given Surname Page
George Allender 84
Hugh Astles 62
William Bell 49
Silvanus Best 94
James George G Bradshaw 35
Charles Henry Branch 34
William Briggs 70
George Brown 82
John Bruce 51
Thomas Burke 26
James Thomas Cadcole 77
James George G Cannon 36
J Chadwick 33
William McMahon Chalmers 15
James William Connell 53
Christopher Hooper 17
George Bassey Cordell 75
Robert William Croft 21
George Davidson 91
Michael Devlin 28
Peter Dudgeon 19
Joseph Francis Eagan 52
Edgar William Eaton 9
E J Eddy 11
Thomas Ellis 64
Enoch Evans 80
George William Freeman 23
William Galvin 78
William Henry Gardiner 2
William Glass 59
Georeg William Gregory 42
William Grimshaw 79
George Guy 7
Richard Hancock 97
Joseph   Hankin 81
John Harvey 63
Edwin Hayes 24
George Higgs 86
Peter Irvine 72
Thomas Jardine 45
William Henry Jenkins 58
John Samuel Jepson 71
John Jobling 16
Charles Ross Johnston 39
George H Johnston 40
John Jorden Jones 20
Nathan Kay 25
Patrick Kelly 10
Oscar Charles Kinsley 48
Richard Henry Kitto 89
Thomas Luke Kitto 90
William Lamorton 65
George Henry Langerie 67
Albert Henry Lawson 57
John Lee 3
Charles Lewis 56
William Frederick Link 83
Alf Little 38
Lawrence W Lowe 88
Rupert John Lowe 87
Neil McLaurie 55
William McMillan 47
Daniel McPherson 50
John Middleton 98
Herbert Henry Mills 13
Thomas Murray 14
George Oaks 18
Charles James Parish 85
Peter  Pascoe 1
Robert Edward Payne 95
Frederick H Perry 43, 44
A G  Phelps 30
James Leggo Polglaze 4
W F Pope 12
Henry Posttetwaithe 96
Alfred Stephen Priest 92
William Richardson 27
Henry Rigby 54
Thomas Rohs 99
Thomas Ryan 46
Joseph George Sabelberg 100
William Edwin B Schott 68
Samuel Scott 29
Henry Semmens 22
Henry Rankin Shaw 69
John Slumare 41
Albert   Solomon 6
William G Spence 60
Eltringham Stephen 73
Joseph Stirland 93
Edwin Sturgess 61
Frederick H Terry 43, 44
Benjamin Thomas 37
Charles Tindall 76
John Ward 8
James Panton Willing 5
John Wishart 74
George Woolton 31
George Jnr Woolton 32
Richard Wright 66
Eli Allen 81
Henry George Allen 69
George Henry Atkins 97
Henry F A Baden 11
Charles Morris Barlow 73
Maurice John Bateman 39
William Ralph Bealey 65
Charles Belcher 22
Thomas Henry Best 12
William Bethune 21
Joseph Bowie 42
Henry James Bridley 45
John James Brown 43
John Jnr Bruce 17
William Gifford Burrell 5
William Clark 1
Daniel Col 9
James Patrick Crossin 28
James Lannock Dawson 19
James Patrick Delaney 68
Perce Digney 78
Denis Dunovan 10
John Earle 32
Edgar William Eaton 83
Amos Evans 79
Henry Blair Forbes 100
James Forbes 87
Louis Gatenby 98
John Geary 15
G T Gibson 85
Michael Glock 54
Robert David Grubb 93
Thomas Hall 8
William Hay  70
Henry J  Hodgson 55
Frederick H Hudson 47
John Hunter 90
Sydney Ibbott 86
Neil Irvine 40
William Irving 53
John Samuel Jepson 36
J H Johnson 75
David Phillip Jones 31
Aloysius Joyce 59
Arthur Samuel Judge 14
John Kennedy 23
Ralph Lamb 24
Sidney Lamb 51
William Snr Lamerton 44
George Henry Trupshire Lanngern 20
James Fisher Lennox 76
Rupert John Lowe 84
Thomas James Maddaford 7
Robert Russell McArthur 72
William McArthur 64
John McBride 27
Stephen McCarthy 99
John McLean 80
George McNeice 95
Donald McPhee 2
Henry Millar 26
Robinson Millican 25
William Offer 57
Daniel Penwright 96
Arthur Samuel Perkins 61
William Pettigrew 30
Thomas Pickett 52
Richard Pollard 56
Robert Pretty 60
Frederick William Prideaux 35
Charles Pringle 3
William John Prosser 74
Andrew Provan 6
Thomas Rampton 92
Henry George Reyer 29
Augustus Valentine Richards  34
John Riddle 37
Selby Riggs 89
Henry J Roberts 48
Arthur William Robinson 38
Richard Rogers 91
Carl Percy Francis Schmetzer 46
William Crispin Smith 16
Louis Gordon Snowdon 58
George Soutar 88
Alfred   Stokell 66
James Tanner 50
Alfred Harry Tollard 82
James Wasson 18
John James Watterson 13
Thomas Watterson 67
Francis Williams 71
Luke Williams 4
John Wilson 94
James Windsor 77
John Gustav Andreas Wisch 49
John Wishart 63
Enoch Woodward 33
George Hocking Woolcock 41
Frederick William Ziplinsky 62
Frederick Alcock 74
Thomas Henry Argus 11
L J H  Barrett 64
Nicholas Bartle 2
C J Bennett 72
John Berkery 34
George James Berlowity 44
William Beveridge 53
Frank henry William Bradshaw 27
Frederick Charles Bradshaw 19
Tobias Butter 78
Ewen Clemson 39, 75
James Just Coleman 42
E A  Coombe 73
Andrew Baskerville Curran 13
William James Deegan 29
E C  Dell 66
George   Dempster 20
James Henry Devlin 35
James Dobie 67
Charles Milne Donaldson 46
William Eastwood 50
Richard Ernest Eddy 18
Amos Evans 26
Gerald Farrelly 41
Wesley Goninon 77
Walter De Burgh Griffith 24
William Grueber 54
Melville Hamilton 59
William Hay 40
James Cobden Herrey 17
William Ernest Hitchcock 57
H L  Hoagson 63
Henry Hooley 49
Harold Rymer Hughan 33
John Jarmon 69
Robert Jennesson 62
Charles Henry Johnston 37
Henry William Judd 7
A J  Kellett 70
Thomas   Lamerton 9
William A Lane 71
George Alexander Lee 32
James Henry Lockwood 25
Frederick Crotty Lonergan 56
William Thomas Long 36
John  McBride 12
Malcolm McLean 5
Robert McLeod 8
Charles McQueen 6
W J Moyle 61
James Muirson 52
James O'Connor 65
Harry King Osborne 30
James O'Shea 60
Arthur L Page 55
John Parmenter 32
John Henry Payne 28
George Henry Postethwaite 51
John George Price 16
William Roberts 45
George Scott 80
James Charles Seannell 31
James Palmer Sharpe 58
George James Smith 76
Henry Clifford Penn Smith 3
Augustus George Sperring 1
Thomas Henry Stevens 10
John Taylor 81
Alfred J Todd 82
John Vickistaff 79
Alfred Henry Vincent 21
John Benjamin Walker 47
James Joseph Walsh 48
John George Wilson 23
Stephen Wisterman 43
Enoch Woodward 28
Charles Edward Wyett 14
Charles Henry Emmanuel Young 15
John Alfred Ziplinsky 4