Andrew Goodwin and Lydia Munro Family Muster October 2026
Goodwin Munro 2026 Muster “Creating Stories: Old Woolstore Hobart; Thursday 29 Oct to Sun 1 Nov 2026
Family Muster of Andrew Goodwin, convict, Scarborough 1788 and Lydia-Letitia Munro-Munroe, convict, Prince of Wales 1788, married 2 Mar 1790 at Port Jackson. A few days later they travelled to Norfolk Island with their newborn daughter Mary per HMS Sirius, disembarking 14 Mar 1790 at Cascade. Andrew Goodwin, second class settler, wife and seven of their children embarked per HMS Porpoise for Hobart In Dec 1807.
Speakers and Presentations topics are still been collated at this early stage of planning:
- Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart: UNE and Digital History Tasmania
- Dr. Dianne Snowden: Tasmanian historian and genealogist
- John Short: Historian and author of A different view of Hobart
- Gabriela Canning: Goodwin Family Historian
- Kimbra Thomas: Goodwin Family Historian
- Michael Monaghan: Goodwin Family Historian
- Historian Cathy Dunn
- DNA research
- Creating Wealth: Early Hobart Hotels and Boarding Houses
- A fight for stolen Briscoe land
- Historical Tasmanian Records
- Creating Stories: so much more to Family History research than just BDMs records
- The Munros of Scotland
- Visit to St David’s Cemetery Hobart
- Visit and tour of the Tasmanian Archives
- Other speakers – topics – activities to be announced
The muster includes lunch on Thursday 29 Oct and Sunday 1 Nov along with the Tasmania Banquet Dinner on Sunday 1 Nov.
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The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel is offering a 10% discount on accommodation bookings: book direct using the promo code MUSTER The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel, Hobart Tasmania
The Muster “Creating Stories” includes the book launch of Poverty and Wretchedness: Goodwin Family in Hobart 1808–1827
The Muster dinner is on Sunday night 1 Nov 2026 at the Old Woolstore Hotel Hobart.
Email us for Muster enquiries and request for a booking form: office@australianhistoryresearch.info
