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George HOBLER (1800 - 1882)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Mary HOBLER (1823 - ) Francis Helvetius HOBLER (1825 - 1889) George HOBLER (1827 - 1888) John Turner HOBLER (1829 - 1829) Emily Denton HOBLER (1830 - 1906) Elizabeth Anne HOBLER (1832 - 1848) Edward Turner HOBLER (1834 - 1871) Charles James HOBLER (1836 - 1918) Albert HOBLER (1838 - 1897) Ada Louisa HOBLER (1840 - 1906) Louis William HOBLER (1844 - 1906)	George HOBLER (1800 - 1882) + Ann TURNER (1801 - 1867)	James Francis Helvetius HOBLER (1765 - 1844)	Jean Francois HOBLER (1727 - 1794)	Pierre Andre HOBLER (1695 - 1730)
				Jeanne Marie BUVELOT (1693 - )
			Charlotte Elizabeth CLAUDON (1729 - )	Paul CLAUDON (1693 - )
				Marie Anne DUVIVIER
		Mary FURBY (1765 - 1846)

b. 06 Sep 1800 at Islington, London, Middlesex, England

m. 22 Oct 1822 Ann TURNER (1801 - 1867) at Cadbury, Devon, England

d. 1882 at Alameda, California, USA aged 82

Near Relatives of George HOBLER (1800 - 1882)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	Jean Francois HOBLER	Feb 1727	Morges, Switzerland	25 Jun 1794	Westminster, Middlesex, England	67
Grandmother	Charlotte Elizabeth CLAUDON	10 May 1729	London, Middlesex, England
Father in Law	John A TURNER	1759	Cadbury, Devon, England
Mother in Law	Mary TREMLETT	1763	Crediton, Devon, England
Father	James Francis Helvetius HOBLER	19 Jul 1765	London, Middlesex, England	21 Jan 1844	Pentonville, London, England	78
Mother	Mary FURBY	abt 1765	Middlesex, England	09 Mar 1846	London, Middlesex, England	81
Self	George HOBLER	06 Sep 1800	Islington, London, Middlesex, England	1882	Alameda, California, USA	82
Wife	Ann TURNER	21 Dec 1801	Cadbury, Devon, England	22 Apr 1867	Alameda, California, USA	65
Daughter	Mary HOBLER	16 Nov 1823	Hertfordshire, England
Son	Francis Helvetius HOBLER	16 Jul 1825	Hertfordshire, England	25 Jan 1889	Queensland, Australia	63
Son	George HOBLER	03 Aug 1827	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	11 May 1888	Hanford, California, USA	60
Son	John Turner HOBLER	03 Apr 1829	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	26 Jun 1829	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	0
Daughter	Emily Denton HOBLER	25 Nov 1830	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	16 Nov 1906	St Kilda, Victoria, Australia	75
Daughter	Elizabeth Anne HOBLER	17 Oct 1832	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	10 Jun 1848	Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia	15
Son	Edward Turner HOBLER	15 Nov 1834	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	20 Sep 1871	Alameda, California, USA	36
Son	Charles James HOBLER	16 Aug 1836	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	13 Dec 1918	Hanford, California, USA	82
Son	Albert HOBLER	21 Jun 1838	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	03 Jul 1897	Fresno, California, USA	59
Daughter	Ada Louisa HOBLER	18 Apr 1840	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	15 Apr 1906	Alameda, California, USA	65
Son	Louis William HOBLER	17 Aug 1844	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	08 May 1906	Fresno, California, USA	61
Brother	Francis HOBLER	abt 1793	England	1868	England	75
Sister	Charlotte Elizabeth (Ann) HOBLER	abt 1795	England
Sister	Mary Ann HOBLER	abt 1807		aft 1861		54
Son in Law	John STACK	1822	Ireland
Daughter in Law	Jessie Ann LEARMONTH	31 Jan 1838	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland	28 Apr 1910	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia	72
Daughter in Law	Elizabeth Theodosia BRAUND	16 Jun 1837	England	18 Jan 1878	Hanford, California, USA	40
Son in Law	William Henry BACCHUS			Jul 1887
Daughter in Law	Alice (Ann) WRIGHT	1842	Ohio, USA
Daughter in Law	Rosanna HUNTER	22 Aug 1856	Canada	16 Nov 1940	USA	84
Son in Law	John ELLSWORTH	07 Jan 1842	Hartford, CT, USA
Daughter in Law	Maria M (Ria) (Bammie) FULLER	May 1850	Joseph, Michigan, USA	aft 1920		70
Grandson	Edward George Hobler STACK	03 Jun 1850	Mission Dolores, Californa, USA
Grandson	Francis Helvetius (Frank) HOBLER	26 Oct 1860	Portland, Victoria, Australia	06 Sep 1921	Jandowae, Queensland, Australia	60
Granddaughter	Mary Louisa HOBLER	1861	Portland, Victoria, Australia	1863	Queensland, Australia	2
Grandson	George Alexander HOBLER	18 Jan 1864	Queensland, Australia	06 Oct 1935	Mosman, New South Wales, Australia	71
Grandson	Frederic Byerley HOBLER	05 Oct 1865	Queensland, Australia	04 Aug 1902	Mexico City, Mexico	36
Grandson	William Learmonth HOBLER	30 Nov 1867	Queensland, Australia	19 Mar 1936	Queensland, Australia	68
Grandson	Louis Edward HOBLER	14 Oct 1870	Queensland, Australia	1946	Queensland, Australia	76
Grandson	Walter Bucknall HOBLER	14 Oct 1870	Queensland, Australia	24 Jun 1953	Queensland, Australia	82
Granddaughter	Emily Jessie HOBLER	05 Nov 1871	Queensland, Australia	30 Jan 1874	Queensland, Australia	2
Granddaughter	Minnie HOBLER	21 Jul 1875	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia	29 Jul 1962	Bromley, Kent, England	87
Granddaughter	Ada May (Mary) HOBLER	04 Sep 1876	Queensland, Australia	03 Mar 1877	Queensland, Australia	0
Granddaughter	Agnes HOBLER	20 May 1878	Queensland, Australia	25 Oct 1950	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia	72
Grandson	Ernest S HOBLER	21 Oct 1864	Springsure, Queensland, Australia	10 Dec 1921	USA	57
Granddaughter	Edith HOBLER	24 Apr 1866	Springsure, Queensland, Australia	16 Sep 1940	Alameda, California, USA	74
Granddaughter	Ann HOBLER	02 Jan 1868	Springsure, Queensland, Australia	30 Jul 1948	Alameda, California, USA	80
Granddaughter	Jessie HOBLER	28 Dec 1869	Queensland, Australia	19 Nov 1951	Kings, California, USA	81
Grandson	Allison Otto HOBLER	31 Jul 1871	Hanford, California, USA	19 Dec 1945	Fresno, California, USA	74
Grandson	William Henry Arthur Hobler BACCHUS	1852	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	1896	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	44
Grandson	George BACCHUS	1854	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	1884	Murtoa, Victoria, Australia	30
Granddaughter	Annie Elizabeth BACCHUS	17 Oct 1855	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Granddaughter	Emily BACCHUS	1857	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	1869	Victoria, Australia	12
Granddaughter	Louisa BACCHUS	1859	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	1862	Victoria, Australia	3
Granddaughter	Helen Ada BACCHUS	1861	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	1862	Victoria, Australia	1
Granddaughter	Ada Louisa HOBLER	Nov 1868	California, USA
Grandson	William Clarence HOBLER	08 Oct 1869	California, USA
Granddaughter	Elizabeth Ann HOBLER	24 Aug 1875	Fresno, California, USA
Granddaughter	Rose Adeline HOBLER	1876	California, USA
Granddaughter	Bertha HOBLER	08 Aug 1878	California, USA
Granddaughter	Adolphus HOBLER	24 Jan 1882	California, USA
Grandson	Louis HOBLER	29 Nov 1886	California, USA
Granddaughter	Glarys HOBLER	Apr 1893	California, USA
Granddaughter	Grace HOBLER	03 Jul 1894	California, USA
Granddaughter	Lillian E HOBLER	27 Feb 1872	California, USA	21 Dec 1945	Soquel, Santa Cruz Co, California, USA	73
Grandson	Arthur HOBLER	1876	California, USA
Granddaughter	Laura HOBLER	1880	California, USA
Grandson	Sigmund Frankneau HOBLER	13 Jun 1883	Fresno, California, USA	07 Aug 1952	Sanger, California, USA	69
Granddaughter	Irma Buckley HOBLER	08 Mar 1890	Fresno, California, USA
Uncle	Jean Paul HOBLER	05 Jul 1754	London, Middlesex, England	08 May 1795	Westminster, Middlesex, England	40
Aunt	Louisa FOY
Aunt	Mary Ann HOBLER	03 Feb 1759		bef 1802		43
Uncle	Alexander SLOANE
Cousin	Carlotta SLOANE
Cousin	Clementine (Clementina) SLOANE
Cousin	Robert (Roberto) SLOANE
Cousin	Sofia SLOANE
Cousin	William (Guglielmo) SLOANE
Cousin	Francis Joseph (Francesso Guiseppe) SLOANE	1794
Cousin	Carlo SLOANE
Cousin	Edouard SLOANE
Niece	Eleanor Jane HOBLER	25 Aug 1833	Middlesex, England
Nephew	John HOBLER	1835	London, Middlesex, England
Nephew	Francis Helvetius HOBLER	1838	London, Middlesex, England
Nephew	William SPRY	22 Oct 1831	Walworth, Southwark, England	Y	Canada
Niece	Charlotte SPRY	04 Sep 1835	Walworth, Southwark, England
Niece	Marianne KNIGHT	24 Nov 1845	Pentonville, London, England
Niece	Isabella KNIGHT	19 Oct 1847	Pentonville, London, England
Sister in Law	Jane BOREHAM	abt 1815	Haverhill, Suffolk, England	1843	London, Middlesex, England	28
Brother in Law	William SPRY
Brother in Law	Thomas KNIGHT	abt Sep 1798	Wolverly, Worcester, England

Events in George HOBLER (1800 - 1882)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
06 Sep 1800		George HOBLER was born	Islington, London, Middlesex, England
22 Oct 1822	22	Married Ann TURNER (aged 20)	Cadbury, Devon, England
16 Nov 1823	23	Birth of daughter Mary HOBLER	Hertfordshire, England	Ancestry )Hunter & Belford)
16 Jul 1825	24	Birth of son Francis Helvetius HOBLER	Hertfordshire, England	Ancestry (Angus)
1826	26	Immigration	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	First Families reference
03 Aug 1827	26	Birth of son George HOBLER	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	V18271248 21/1827
03 Apr 1829	28	Birth of son John Turner HOBLER	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	Ancestry )Hunter & Belford)
26 Jun 1829	28	Death of son John Turner HOBLER	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	Ancestry (Hunter & Belford)
25 Nov 1830	30	Birth of daughter Emily Denton HOBLER	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	V18311249 21/1831
17 Oct 1832	32	Birth of daughter Elizabeth Anne HOBLER	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	V18321250 21/1832
15 Nov 1834	34	Birth of son Edward Turner HOBLER	Killafaddy, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	V18341251 21/1834
16 Aug 1836	35	Birth of son Charles James HOBLER	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	V18361252 21/1836
21 Jun 1838	37	Birth of son Albert HOBLER	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	V18381452 22/1838
18 Apr 1840	39	Birth of daughter Ada Louisa HOBLER	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	V18401587 24A/1840
21 Jan 1844	43	Death of father James Francis Helvetius HOBLER (aged 78)	Pentonville, London, England	Jan-Mar 1844/3,64 Clerkenwell
17 Aug 1844	43	Birth of son Louis William HOBLER	Maitland, New South Wales, Australia	V18441747 31A/1844
09 Mar 1846	45	Death of mother Mary FURBY (aged 81)	London, Middlesex, England
10 Jun 1848	47	Death of daughter Elizabeth Anne HOBLER (aged 15)	Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia	Ancestry (Hunter & Belford)
22 Apr 1867	66	Death of wife Ann TURNER (aged 65)	Alameda, California, USA	Ancestry (Hunter & Belford)
20 Sep 1871	71	Death of son Edward Turner HOBLER (aged 36)	Alameda, California, USA	Ancestry (Hunter & Belford)
1882	82	George HOBLER died	Alameda, California, USA	Hobler tree site

Personal Notes:

Australia Dictionary online http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010502b.htm HOBLER, GEORGE (1800-1882), grazier, was born on 6 September 1800 at Islington, London, son of Francis Helvetius Hobler and his wife Mary, née Furby. After some five years study of agriculture in various parts of England he began about 1820 to farm in Hertfordshire. On 21 October 1822 at Cadbury, Devon, he married Ann Turner. In 1825, attracted by the prospects of fine-wool growing, he decided to emigrate to Van Diemen's Land, and was recommended by the Colonial Office for a grant proportional to the £3000 or more which he proposed to invest. He arrived at Hobart Town in 1826 with his wife and two children; nine more were born in Australia. He had bought ten stud merinos, but eight of them died on the voyage, and when he applied formally for his grant he told the lieutenant-governor that he had temporarily left most of his capital in England. Arthur consequently delayed making the grant for nearly a year. Meanwhile Hobler bought 600 acres (243 ha), Killafaddy, near Launceston. After receiving his grant, 2000 acres (809 ha) in the western district, he made some minor improvements and then sold it. About this time he was overreached in a business transaction, lost nearly £1700, and then claimed that this loss forced him to sell the grant; the sale was contrary to the regulations, and consequently a later application for another grant was refused. However, his resources were concentrated on Killafaddy; by 1832 he was making £1500 a year from sheep, and also selling cattle, hay and tan bark, the bark in large enough quantities to justify charter shipments to England; by 1835 he was contemplating the purchase of another property for £12,000. While other pastoralists turned to Port Phillip in 1836, Hobler believed that he could see better opportunities in New South Wales. Leasing a property near Maitland, he transferred his family to the Hunter River, and five years later sold Killafaddy. By then he had bought the Maitland property, Aberglasslyn, become a justice of the peace, and was letting the land to tenant farmers, playing the part of the local squire and starting to build an appropriate mansion. He was also depasturing stock on the upper Hunter, the Barwon River and the Namoi, and had interests in a stock-selling agency. Like many others he became insolvent when the boom collapsed, but he took advantage of the Insolvency Act and started afresh. Up to this time he had been a gentleman farmer speculating in squatting. In 1844, however, he became primarily a squatter, moving gradually farther out in search of land. He spent some months on a lease near Goulburn before catarrh in his sheep drove him out into the Murrumbidgee district. At first he was apparently financed by a partner, but within a year he took up independently a run west of the Murrumbidgee, fronting the river from its junction with the Lachlan downstream to the later site of Balranald. This station, Paika, was unlicensed, being outside the proclaimed squatting districts. Hobler also took up a smaller area in the settled districts near Bacchus Marsh, to which he moved his family in 1848, leaving his eldest son to manage Paika. After promulgation of the 1847 Order in Council the land between the Murrumbidgee and the Darling was gazetted as the Lower Darling district and opened for occupation by tender. Hobler was over-bid for Paika by W. C. Wentworth and lost the run. In 1851, inspired partly by a sense of injustice and partly by low wool prices, he sailed for California, where he once again began to farm, though apparently on a smaller scale, and also developed interests in trapping and prospecting. He died at Alameda, California, in apparently straitened circumstances, on 13 December 1882 and was buried at San Leander. Although he is usually credited with an important share in the introduction of the Hereford cattle breed into Australia, Hobler is probably most significant as a man in many ways typical of the settlers and squatters in the period 1825-50 who documented his activities and his difficulties well, for he kept a comprehensive journal, primarily for the benefit of his brother in England. He had the outlook and taste of an English gentleman farmer, being greatly interested in agricultural techniques and fond of shooting, fishing and claret, but his Australian ventures ended in failure, as a result at first of over-speculation in the boom of the late 1830s and later of his inability to overcome the competition of bigger men. His nearest neighbour in the Lower Darling district, James Tyson, surmounted similar competition and eventually became a millionaire. Select Bibliography Historical Records of Australia, series 3, vol 4; P. L. Brown (ed), The Narrative of George Russell (Lond, 1935); S. H. Roberts, The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835-47 (Melb, 1935); R. B. Ronald, The Riverine: People and Properties (Melb, 1960); Wagga Express, 6 Nov 1915; Farmer and Settler, 9 Sept 1955; Hobler papers (State Library of New South Wales); Henty papers (State Library of New South Wales); correspondence file under George Hobler (Archives Office of Tasmania). More on the resources Author: W. G. McMinn Print Publication Details: W. G. McMinn, 'Hobler, George (1800 - 1882)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 543-544. 1836 G Hobler, Mrs & 6 kids were passengers launceston to sydney

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