Duke, The - The Duke of Wellington, HOBART, TAS

Born 1791 Flore, Northamptonshire, England
Parents
Thomas Dunkley and Esther Stamford?

Name: David Dunkley
[Davidus Dunkley]
Event Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 18 Sep 1791
Baptism Place: Flore, Northamptonshire, England
Father: Thomas Dunkley
Mother: Esther Dunkley
Parish as it Appears: Flore
(Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England; Register )

Possible son of Thomas Dunkley, born 1796. He married Mary Smith

Death Registration
Name: Thomas Dunkley
Birth Year: abt 1798
Age: 58
Death Date: 18 Aug 1856
Death Place: Tasmania
Registration Year: 1856
Registration Place: Hobart, Tasmania
Registration Number: 940
(Tasmania Death Index)

Burial

Name: Thomas Dlinkley
[Thomas Dunkley]
Death Age: 62
Birth Date: abt 1794
Death Date: 18 Aug 1856
Cemetery: Hobart St Davids Anglican
Cemetery Location: Hobart, Tasmania
(Australian Cemeteries Index)

David Dunkley

Dunkley, David: David Dunkley was
tried in Leicester in March 1818 for
robbery. He was sentenced to seven years
transportation arriving in Hobart Town
on the Lord Melville in December 1818.
Aged 28 yrs, native place, Flore in
Northampton. His convict record lists
him as a sawyer (CON31/9;CON23/1).

A daughter Esther was born in 1830,
father David Dunkley, a dealer, and
mother Ann.

David Dunkley was a cart
manufacturer and a general dealer of
Liverpool Street, Hobart Town in the
1833-1835 directories. In 1832 D
Dunkley supplied 4,500 ft of timber to
the Public Works for the Female Factory
in Hobart Town (CSO1/773/16514, p
39).

David Dunkley, widower, married
Elizabeth Dutton the widow of Henry
Dutton, a carpenter, on 21 November
1836 at Trinity Church.

David purchased three acres of land
known as Dunkleys Point where he lived
until his death in 1860. David was
thrown out of his chaise cart, falling on
his head and died a few days later.
Dunkleys Point is where Wrest Point
Casino is today. He built the Duke of
Wellington Hotel on the corner of
Barrack & Macquarie Street, Hobart in
1846. The name of the hotel, plus
'Dunkley' and the date 'AD1846', can be
seen carved into the stone work on this
hotel which is still licensed today.

Elizabeth Dunkley later owned the hotel.
She died in 1880.

(Source:Appendix B, Free cabinetmakers, whose names appear in the records and may have been
involved in the furnishing of Government House between 1827 and 1840, From The Creation and furnishings of Government House, Hobart, Part 111. Lt. Governor Sir John Franklin (1837-1943), John Hawkins)

A daughter
Birth
Name: Esther Dunkley
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1830
Birth Place: Tasmania
Registration Year: 1830
Registration Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Registration Number: 3346
(Tasmania Birth Index)

Birth
Name: Dunkley, Esther
Record Type: Births
Father: Dunkley, David
Mother: Dunkley, Ann
Date of birth: 27 Feb 1830
Registered: Hobart
Registration year: 1830
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1080991
Resource
RGD32/1/1/ no 3346
(Tasmania Names Index)

Death
Name: Esther Luchman
[Esther Luckman]
Birth Year: abt 1830
Age: 62
Death Date: 16 Feb 1892
Death Place: Tasmania
Registration Year: 1892
Registration Place: Hobart, Tasmania
Registration Number: 1011
(Tasmania Death Index)

Name: Esther Luckman
Death Age: 62
Birth Date: abt 1830
Death Date: 16 Feb 1892
Cemetery: Queenborough Sandy Bay (book)
Cemetery Location: Hobart, Tasmania
(Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007 )

Name: George Luckman
Spouse Name: Esther Dunkley
Marriage Date: 13 Jun 1854
Marriage Place: Tasmania
Registration Place: Hobart, Tasmania
Registration Year: 1854
Registration Number: 385
(Tasmania Marriage Index)

Name: Luckman
Death Date: 16 Feb 1892
Parent/Spouse: George
Publication Date: 17 Feb 1892
(Tasmania, Australia, Index to Death Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1930 )

LUCKMAN.-On May 15, 1920, at his late residence, No. 45 King-street (West), Sandy Bay, George, relict of the late Esther Luckman, in the 91st year of his age
The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, Monday, 17 May 1920.

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