Diprose Book
Thomas Diprose and Elizabeth Children Diprose
of
Kent and Van Diemen's Land
Strangers
Update
Volume 1 (with the CD-ROM of Volume 2) and Volume 2 in book form are available. If you would like to put in an order, follow the link to the order form or contact Elizabeth Parkes (Miss) – either via PO Box 167, Lindisfarne Tasmania, Australia 7015 [NB Lindisfarne is a suburb of Hobart], phone 03 6243 9369 / from overseas: 61 3 6243 9369 or email me at diprosebook.strangers@iinet.net.au.Volume 1 (with the CD-ROM of Volume 2) is available for sale at Hobart Bookshop and Astrolabe Books, Salamanca Square, Hobart, Tasmania. Volume 2 in book form is only available from Elizabeth Parkes
This book is self-published by Elizabeth Parkes and has been printed in Tasmania. After costs have been met, any surplus moneys from book sales will be donated to charities, especially those relevant to the family. Elizabeth Parkes, co-edited with Maurice French, Go ... Be fruitful and multiply (which included a chapter on Elizabeth French and Isaac Diprose). This book was out of print soon after it was published in 1989 and it is now very hard to find a copy .
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Award
Volume 1 (with CD-ROM of Volume 2) has been awarded the Tasmanian Family History Society's Lilian Watson Family History Award for 2008 - see the journal of the society, Tasmanian Ancestry , Vol. 30, No. 2, September 2009, pp. 73 & 74 (a copy of this review can be sent out on request).
Content Update
One addition and one correction:Chapter 15 - add John Meyrick ROBERTS' date of birth, thanks to information from Roberts family in England:
7 Eliza DIPROSE 16 Apr 1818 – 9 Feb 1899
m John Meyrick ROBERTS 15 Sep 1817 – 4 Oct 1880 (m 22 Apr 1843 )
Chapter 11 - delete:
3.9.11 Charles Norman DIPROSE ___ 1895 – _____
(There is only one Charles Norman DIPROSE - see Chapter 17. He is the son of Charles Albert DIPROSE and Isabell Mary MORTON and was born in New Zealand:
9.14.3 Charles Norman DIPROSE 6 Feb 1895 – 27 Feb 1969)
NB It is not practicable to include all new information on this web site but additions and corrections are welcome and should be sent to the publisher, as above.