George Meredith diaries Index: Royal Society Collection

George Meredith (l777 - 1856) was born near Birmingham, U.K. & served as a Lieutenant in the Marines until 1806 when he retired on half pay. He arrived in Hobart in March 1821 with his second wife Mary (nee Evans, d. 1842) and five children, and settled at Oyster Bay on the East Coast. Meredith established grazing stock and crops and also a flour mill and tannery at the Meredith River. In 1827 they moved to Belmont, a mile inland and in 18.36 Meredith built a new home, Cambria, near their original settlement. Includes notes of Meredith's exploration of the coast from Newtown to Oyster Bay. They reached Meredith's Creek about 10th October. Here the Surveyor measured grants and they dug foundations, planted fruit trees etc. Meredith records a description of the surrounding countryside and notes about future clearing and planting etc. - RS 3