I was born on Flinders Island. Search for: Phones Addresses Emails Social Media Residences Family members Property records Bankruptcies Criminal records. She is considered to be the last fluent speaker of the Flinders Island lingua franca, a Tasmanian language, and her wax cylinder recordings of songs are the only audio recordings of any of Tasmania's indigenous languages. "Wybalenna was set up with an enormous sense of optimism and hope by the colonial government," historian Rebe Taylor from the University of Tasmania says. And the recordings play an important part in efforts to recover and reclaim Indigenous language in Tasmania over recent decades. The Smiths grew their own food but derived their income from timber. Was it in the name of science? Gathered from those who lived during the same time period , were born in the same place, or who have a family name in common. Discover your family history in millions of family trees and more than a billion birth,marriage, death, census, and miltary records. Fanny had one brother: . * spouse William Smith no dates, Children (no dates) You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. The Smiths grew their own food but derived their income from timber. Tasmania born Fanny Cochrane Smith was taken from her parents when she was only five years old and fostered. Fanny was born in 1834 on Flinders Island. Fanny Cochrane Smith, the last known speaker of the language, can be heard from the third minute of the recording. Fanny Smith. * Arthur Cockerill These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Fanny Cochrane Smith (Burwood/Barwood) family tree Parents Unavailable Sarah Ploorernelle Tingnooterre 1806 - 1858 Search for yourself and well build your family tree together, English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal especially iron such as a blacksmith or farrier from Middle English, Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Colonial Secretary's Office (CSO) 11/26/378, 11/27/658 (Archives Office of Tasmania). "In reality, Wybalenna became a place of death.". A research writer and author of the Isle of Dragons trilogy. Fanny spent her life navigating between the European world, and the world of her people. date of birth. She has the only available audio recordings of the local Aboriginal language, recorded on wax cylinders in the late 19th century. Cochrane Smith died of pneumonia and pleurisy at Port Cygnet, 10:mi (16:km) from Oyster Cove, on 24 February 1905. Amid incorrect claims that Tasmanian Indigenous people became "extinct" with Truganini, he heard of Fanny. Fanny Cochrane's mother and father, Tanganutura and Nicermenic, were two of the Tasmanian Aboriginals settled on Flinders Island in the 1830s by the Rev. Supporting evidence is needed to add Frances Florence to her name. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Fanny and William went on to have eleven children. "It's just a very, very cruel time in history.". * Elizabeth Henrietta Cockerill * Mary This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. "It was hoped that this would be a place in which the Tasmanian Aborigines would be able to become 'civilised', Christianised. What it means to be an Aboriginal Tasmanian has changed dramatically since the times of Fanny. Image credit: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Reading Time: < 1 Print this page Wax cylinders hold the only known recordings of any indigenous Tasmanian language. After decades of war and disease almost annihilated the Indigenous population, the remaining 300 or so survivors were taken to the settlement of Wybalenna on Flinders Island in Bass Strait in 1831. December 1834 Gregorian. As Kerry sums up this time: "It was just the all-pervasiveness of the thinking of the colonisers that the Aborigines were now gone. 76 . There is currently no evidence that she is the mother of Captain Thunderbolt who was born in NSW when she lived in Tasmania. But there was debate about her claim in some circles some said her cheeks were "too pink". And it got far more dehumanising than that. "It has been said that she was terrified that her body would be stolen and so she wasn't actually in the coffin that 400 people followed to the Methodist cemetery when she died that she was buried somewhere else," Kerry says. * Marina Emily Ward, There is currently no evidence that she married Henry COCKERILL and the children are listed under his wife Elizabeth JARVIS. Fanny successfully moved within two worlds. The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. She is considered to be the last fluent speaker of the Flinders Island lingua franca, a Tasmanian language, and her wax cylinder recordings of songs are the only audio recordings of any of Tasmania's indigenous languages. Fanny, who died in 1905, was the ultimate survivor of the abuse that the colonisers so freely gave in return for taking our lands. In 1847, Fanny and the other survivors of Wybalenna were moved to an abandoned convict settlement at Oyster Cove in Tasmania's south. 7/9/2021 at 9:52 PM. From the age of five to eight she lived in the home of Robert Clark, the Wybalenna preacher, and was then sent to the orphan school in Hobart to learn domestic service skills after which she returned to Wybalenna. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. * mrs Elsie Cockerill Photograph of Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson recording Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs: NS1553/1/1798; Illustrated Travelogue July 1919 - Ref: NS6853; Fountain in Governor's garden, Port Arthur - Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts; Drawing of George Meredith, Senior - Ref: LMSS12/1/72 149 . Cochrane Smith died of pneumonia and pleurisy at Port Cygnet, 10mi (16km) from Oyster Cove, on 24 February 1905. Research genealogy for Fanny Cochrane Smith (Burwood/Barwood) of Wybaleena, Aboriginal Establishment, Flinders, as well as other members of the Smith (Burwood/Barwood) family, on Ancestry. * Roland George Albert Cockerill After the loss of Triganini, Fanny felt the weight of an entire cultures legacy rested on her shoulders. Likely fearing this connection, the religious authorities removed Fanny from her parents care at only five-years-old. * Herbert Wellington Cockerill I have tried to move profiles to their appropriate places.If look at these profiles in profile view you should see a note at the top of the profile saying "This tree has been isolated from other trees on Geni: Tree is speculative / experimental " When you see that note you should consider the tree to be possibly incorrect. Fanny Smith (born Cochrane) was born in 1833, at birth place. * Herbert Wellington Cockerill, I have detached Charlotte Derby Bugg - she lived in NSW and not in Tasmania where Fanny was born and lived. Her mother was Sarah Tangnaturra. 1834 - 1905) was a Tasmanian Aborigine, born December 1834 after relocation of Tasmania's indigenous population to Wybalena, Flinders Island. On her marriage, the government of the colony gave Fanny a land grant of 100 acres at the nearby Nicholls Rivulet in recognition of her people's dispossession and a pension of 24 a year. The profile has been mastered and relationship locked to stop unsourced family being added. Many of the Tasmanian aboriginal community are their descendants. Following her marriage, Fanny and her husband ran a boarding-house in Hobart. Start a free family tree online and well do the searching for you. Fanny and William raised 11 children. PO Box 22, Coldspring, TX 77331. also known as Fannie C Walters. Archives & Manuscripts Collection Guides Search within Are you Black?" This profile appears to be more an experimental tree - Fanny Cochrane where the user has attached potential relatives to Fanny rather than where they should be. According to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, the recordings capture the "last fluent speaker of any one of the original Tasmanian Aboriginal languages". "He used to strip the Aboriginal children naked and flog us on the table I was flogged on my naked skin with a long stick. She served as Clark's servant until the station closed in 1847. * mother Mary Ann (Bugg) Baker - Burrows - McNally - Ward - Burrows [Bushranger] 1834-1905 Her recordings were inducted into the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register in 2017. What is the source for Frances Florence as her name? In 1847, the Wybalenna settlement was closed down. Abducted in early childhood, Fanny endured abuse and attempts to indoctrinate her and her family into Western beliefs. They had one daughter: Eleanor Smith (born Magee). Roth tried to acquire photographs of Fanny, descriptions of her teeth, and then samples of hair from her head and her pubic hair. She successfully combined her traditional skills with European ways and taught her family the traditions of hunting, shell necklace and basket making. The recording of Smith's songs was the subject of a 1998 song by Australian folk singer Bruce Watson, The Man and the . Source: From en:Image:Fanny Cochrane Smith.jpg: Author: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania: Public domain Public domain false false: She says of the 300 or so people taken there in 1831, just 47 remained alive in 1847, when the settlement was closed. Fanny Cochrane was born in 1834 at Wybalenna on Flinders island. Fanny (Cochrane) Smith (1834 - 1905) Fanny Smith formerly Cochrane Born Dec 1834 in Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia Daughter of Nicermenic Unknown and Tanganutura Tarenootairre [sibling (s) unknown] Wife of William Smith married 27 Oct 1854 (to 1902) in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Can you imagine? Out of fear theyd be lost forever, Fanny recorded the Palawan songs on wax cylinders. 0 references. The answer is tragic and seldom addressed. Fanny worked to ensure her boarding house was one of the few places her people could find refuge. * Ernest Augustus Sear Cockerill Fannys parents and the other Aboriginals on the island often escaped into the bushlands. * Tasmania Birth Record - Alfred Gower COCKERILL born 27/9/1858 New Norfolk, father Henry Mylam COCKERILL, mother Eliza VINCENT Fanny Cochrane Smith Australia's Advocate For Aboriginal Language Preservation Born on December 1834 in Flinders Island in Tasmania, Fanny Cochrane Smith was best known as an Aboriginal linguist. It is at least one successful attempt to keep something of Aboriginal culture in Tasmania alive. If you ask about the Aboriginal population, or lack thereof, in Tasmania today, it raises a huge question mark. : 1860 - 1954) Wed 23 Mar 1949. Smith. Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) has emerged as a common factor driving age-dependent diseases, including stroke and dementia. Frances ( Fanny Cochrane Smith married William Peter Smith and had 13 children. Fanny established a boarding house in Hobart and, with husband William, built a business cutting and selling timber. * Benjamin Smith If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. Now, one of her great-great-grandchildren, Joel Birnie, has decided to tell her history, and his family story, of surviving colonisation. Upon hearing her own performance, Smith had cried "My poor race. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree. Kerry says she grew up in a world that was incredibly hostile to her people. In 1898, Henry Ling Roth published a paper in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Ins*ute examining Smith's claim to be a "full-blood" Aboriginal Tasmanian. Husband of Fanny (Cochrane) Smith married 27 Oct 1854 (to 1902) in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Father of Florence Amelia (Smith) Stanton and Charles Edward Smith Died 26 Nov 1902 at about age 81 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia Profile manager: M Whitworth [ send private message ] Fanny was a well-known active member of the Nichols Rivulet community, holding many fundraising activities and donating land to the Church. Isnt "fanny", a shortened version of Francis ?E.g a nickname. There was some dispute at the time of her death as to whether she or Truganini was the last full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine. State Library of Tasmania Images Photos of Smith, Fanny Cochrane; Mum Shirl was one of the founding members on some of the most important Indigenous advocacy, health and social welfare boards, such as the Aboriginal Legal Service, the Aboriginal Medical . Youll get hints when we find information about your relatives . Fanny passed away on month day 1905, at age 70 at death place. The songs and commentary were originally recorded on wax cylinders. Telling the story of "Fanny's Church"Written by Ayla Williams, Community & Cultural Resource Officer, Leprena UAICC TasmaniaIt is with great honour and total adoration that we announce a new segment on "The Orb" around Fanny Cochrane-Smith, our ancestral matriarch, our familial warrior woman, cultural compass.It is hard to put in to words the strength, story and [] Russian Wikipedia. 2.1905. 'Fanny Cochrane Smith's Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs' has been added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia. Famously, in 1899 and 1903, she was recorded singing several songs and speaking in this. In 1833 George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866) was instrumental in the removal of over 200 Aborigines to the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. With an ever-pressing need carry on her peoples culture and beliefs, Fanny performed the songs and dances of her people for the public. Fanny Cochrane Smith Fanny Cochrane Smith married William Smith. "She says, 'I'm Fanny Smith. Dewayne Everettsmith is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, who had also supported some well-known performers such as Paul Kelly and Gurrumul Yunupinhu. She was born at Settlement Point (or Wybalenna, meaning Black Man's House) on Flinders Island. [need A photograph of Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson is displayed in the collection of the National Museum of Australia. In 1899 and 1903, Fanny agreed to work with the Royal Society of Tasmania and makerecordings of her voicein language. What's your Australian Story? If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. No indigenous name is known; Robinson gave European names to all the Indigenous Tasmanians who arrived at the island as part of his attempt to suppress their culture. Can you imagine what barbaric ways they had? * Arthur Cockerill Her mother was Tanganutura of the North eastern tribe. * mrs Alice Smith I have detached Mary Ann (Bugg) Baker - Burrows - McNally - Ward - Burrows [Bushranger] - she lived in NSW and not in Tasmania where Fanny was born and lived. The couple also ran a boarding-house in Hobart. Here, Fanny learnt her language, songs, dances and ceremony. [3], Settlement Point (or Wybalenna, meaning Black Man's House) on. This paper is an attempt to present the records of interviews by Ernest Westlake with people living in Tasmania who had a knowledge of the Tasmanian Aborigines either from personal 1 reference. In 1984, the Tasmanian Aboriginal community the Palawa reclaimed the land of the Oyster Cove settlement as Putalina. "What she'd been through, a lot of people never recover from that. For more than a century, it was claimed that the Aboriginal people of Tasmania the Palawa were "extinct". * Tasmania Birth Record - Dennis Jones COCKERILL born 1/8/1845 Bothwell, father Henry Mylam COCKERILL, mother Eliza VINCENT I was born on Flinders Island. Smith is known for her wax cylinder recordings of Aboriginal songs, recorded in 1899, which cons*ute the only audio recordings of an indigenous Tasmanian language. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. In 1854, Fanny married William Smith, an ex-convict who had been sentenced to transportation for theft of a donkey. I have added all the birth, marriage cetificates, and death notices that I have been able to find so far. Her grandmother is a descendant of Fanny Cochrane Smith - the last of the Tasmanians. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results William Smith (1831 - 1902) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person's profile? * Jane bugg. Fanny and William raised 11 children and she became a well-known and respected member of the small community in the Channel region. However, that title fell on Fannys shoulders when Triganini died in 1876. Fanny, Albert's grandmother had a very hard life before she came to Nicholls Rivulet. In 2017, they were added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. imported from Wikimedia project. In 1854, Fanny married William Smith, an English sawyer and ex-convict, and between 1855 and 1880 they had 11 children. By Andrea Castillo WASHINGTON Inside a tent near the Rio Grande in She talked and sang into the bell of a gramophone in her Pakana language, which was captured on a series of wax cylinders. There is currently no evidence that she is the mother of Marina who is the daughter of Captain Thunderbolt and was born in NSW when Fanny lived in Tasmania, Can anyone provide any information about this profile and the profiles that are attached to it, I have detached Henry Mylam Cockerill, Convict "Phoenix" 1824 and his children Fanny was born at Wybalenna, Flinders Island, in 1834. Discover the meaning and history behind your last name and get a sense of identity and discover who you are and where you come from. * Tasmania Marriage Permissions - Henry COCKERILL "Phoenix" permission to marry Eliza VINCENT on 30/4/1832 \r\rFor some reason it is almost impossible to locate this recording on the internet so I have uploaded it here from a copy I have had for years for anyone who is interested.\r\rA total of six cylinders were cut between 1899 and 1903. People would come from all over the country to see her perform the Palawa songs and dances. Fanny Cochrane Smith made this. Fanny Cochrane Smith. "In my lifetime, to go from a little country bumpkin, who grew up in a valley where there were no Aborigines, no prospect of there ever being any Aborigines. Her long-standing interest in Tasmanian Aboriginal history stems from her own deep roots in that part of the world. Upon hearing her own performance, Smith had cried "My poor race. New and compelling histories from Australia and around the world. "[The recordings] take you back in time and take you back to some of the sad things, and also the fact that we belong to that woman," Colleen says. I have tried to add as much correct information as is possible. Dec 1834 - Waybalenna Aboriginal Establishment, Flinders, Tasmania, Australia, 24 Feb 1905 - Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia, Pleenerperrener Palawa (Nancy) aka (Sarah or Mother Brown). George Augustus Robinson and the other religious authorities. In 1899, she shared the songs of her people at a concert held in her honour. She is exceedingly apt in illustrations drawn from her Aboriginal life and associations.". * Ernest Augustus Sear Cockerill South of Hobart, Fanny Cochrane Smith continued to use some of her Tasmanian Aboriginal language. Carol has been working on the family tree for more than 12 years, and took over the task from her aunt, who worked on it for more than 30 years. In this environment, Fanny embraced her Indigenous identity and made a decision that would ripple through history. The two developed had a deep respect for another and developed a strong partnership. They had 12 children: , Mary Jane Smith and 10 other children. To now, being the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, being the Palawa, with our own language and our own land, and getting more.". She was a proud Aboriginal woman who combined her traditional knowledge with European ways, teaching her family the skills of hunting, gathering bush foods, medicine, shell-necklace stringing and basket-making. 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