In 1899 and 1903, Fanny agreed to work with the Royal Society of Tasmania and makerecordings of her voicein language. * Private Here, Fanny learnt her language, songs, dances and ceremony. Fanny Cochrane Smith (December 1834 24 February 1905) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian, born in December 1834. and her attached parents are Nicermenic (Eugene) and Tanganuturra / Tibb / Sarah. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. 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. Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834-1905), Tasmanian Aborigine, was born in early December 1834 at the Wybalenna Aboriginal establishment, Flinders Island, Tasmania, daughter of Tanganuturra (Sarah), father unknown. For 10 years he tried, with some success, to collect samples from Fanny's body. Today, it is the only known recording of the Palawan language. Fanny Cochrane Smith (Burwood/Barwood) family tree Parents Unavailable Sarah Ploorernelle Tingnooterre 1806 - 1858 * Herbert Wellington Cockerill 'Fanny Cochrane Smith's Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs' has been added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia. "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. * mother Sarah Tanganuturra Cochrane 1806-1845 Cochrane Smith's mother, Tanganutura, was taken by George Augustus Robinson to Wybalenna, where her daughter was born in 1834; Fanny married an English sawyer, William Smith, settling at Nicholls Rivulet, near Oyster Cove, and producing eleven children. * Patrick William Bugg You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. Answer: Yothu Yindi. Between 1899 and 1904, recordings were made on wax cylinders using a grammophone. With an ever-pressing need carry on her peoples culture and beliefs, Fanny performed the songs and dances of her people for the public. Kerry says she grew up in a world that was incredibly hostile to her people. * Tasmania Birth Record - Edward James COCKERILL born 16/4/1847 Bothwell, father Henry Mylam COCKERILL, mother Eliza VINCENT * Mary MRS. FANNY COCHRANE SMITH By MUHRAY J. LONGMAN. 'Over a hundred years, Joel Stephen Birnie's ancestors Tarenootairer, and her daughters Mary Ann and Fanny Cochrane, endured abduction, rape, enslavement, destitution, despair and disease, while their family and their world died before their eyes. * Uknown Cockerill Child Fanny was born in 1834 on Flinders Island. Her mother was Tanganutura of the North eastern tribe. He started "Yothu Yindi" in 1986 and the band has both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members. * Tasmania Marriage Permissions - Henry COCKERILL "Phoenix" permission to marry Eliza VINCENT on 30/4/1832 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. From the age of seven she spent her childhood in European homes and institutions, mostly in the household of Robert Clark, catechist at Flinders Island, in conditions of neglect and brutality. In 1899, and again in 1903, some of her songs were recorded by Horace Watson for the Royal Society of Tasmania. Famously, in 1899 and 1903, she was recorded singing several songs and speaking in this. 3 . Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834-1905), who claimed to be the last surviving Tasmanian Aborigine on the death of Trugernanner, worked with her ex-convict husband, a sawyer, at fencing and shingle splitting. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fanny Cochrane Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. SOUTH-EAST AND EAST 69 MISCELLANEOUS . Out of fear theyd be lost forever, Fanny recorded the Palawan songs on wax cylinders. Throughout her life, Fanny experienced great brutality and witnessed the subjugation of her people. In 1847, the Wybalenna settlement was closed down. She has the only available audio recordings of the local Aboriginal language, recorded on wax cylinders in the late 19th century. * Tasmania Birth Record - Emma Louisa COCKERILL born 7/11/1856 New Norfolk, father Henry Mylam COCKERILL, mother Eliza VINCENT related to Candace Love, 35 Annie Williams, 72 Eric Cochran, 86 * Eunice Cockerill * Sydney Claude Cockerill 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 State Library of Tasmania Images Photos of Smith, Fanny Cochrane. 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. Her grandmother is a descendant of Fanny Cochrane Smith - the last of the Tasmanians. 7/9/2021 at 9:52 PM. The answer is tragic and seldom addressed. In recognition of this, the governmentgranted her 300 acres of land and increased her pension to 50 a year. * Joseph Thomas Sears Smith But when Fanny was 19, an ex-convict named William Smith offered her a different future. Fanny, in particular, was . English anthropologist Henry Ling Roth wanted to write the first full anthropology of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. In June 1834, the year of Fanny's birth on Flinders Island, he was reported to Robinson as being involved in stealing a boat on the Leven River on the NW Coast with Probelatter see FM p.893. * Norman Ellis Cockerill 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. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. The following are details of the descendents of Fanny Cochrane as extracted, from the book by B C Mollison and Coral Everitt titled. She became a Methodist and gave the land needed to build a Methodist church at Nicholls Rivulet, which opened in 1901. Fanny Cochrane Smith made this. She was the daughter of Tanganutura, a Trawlwoolway woman from the north-east, and Nikamanik, a Parperloihener man from Robbins Island. 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. In 1995, the Tasmanian Government officially returned this land to the community. He even wanted the promise of her skeleton when she died. Wanting to provide a safe haven for the downtrodden, Fanny and William started a boarding-house in the centre of Hobart. Fanny spent the rest of her life there. * Ernest Augustus Sear Cockerill Frances ( Fanny Cochrane Smith married William Peter Smith and had 13 children. "What she'd been through, a lot of people never recover from that. Fannie Cochran. But there was debate about her claim in some circles some said her cheeks were "too pink". Fanny married an English sawyer and ex-convict in 1854. * Tasmania Birth Record - Dennis Jones COCKERILL born 1/8/1845 Bothwell, father Henry Mylam COCKERILL, mother Eliza VINCENT "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. 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 Cochrane Smith (December 1834 - 24 February 1905) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian, born in December 1834. CSVD-related dementia will affect a growing fraction of the aging population, requiring improved recognition, understanding, and treatments. * Marina Emily Ward, There is currently no evidence that she married Henry COCKERILL and the children are listed under his wife Elizabeth JARVIS. The songs and commentary were originally recorded on wax cylinders. Skip Ancestry navigation Main Menu. A photograph of Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson is displayed in the collection of the National Museum of Australia. "The British came here in the early 1800s within the space of 30 years, 98 per cent or more of the original population was wiped out," Fanny's great-great granddaughter Kerry Sculthorpe tells ABC RN's The History Listen. Her spoken introduction before the song begins with 'I'm Fanny Smith. 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. As a devout Methodist, Fanny hosted an annual Methodist picnic. Fanny Cochrane Smith; Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Tasmnsk jazyky; Usage on de.wikipedia.org Tasmanische Sprachen; Usage on en.wikipedia.org Aboriginal Tasmanians; Tasmanian languages; Fanny Cochrane Smith; Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages/Archive 9; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Fanny Cochrane Smith; Usage on fi.wikipedia.org Fanny Cochrane Smith Fanny was born at Wybalenna, Flinders Island, in 1834. "It was hoped that this would be a place in which the Tasmanian Aborigines would be able to become 'civilised', Christianised. When not performing, Fanny spent her time on the land diving for shellfish, hunting, and basket weaving. She served as Clark's servant until the station closed in 1847. * father John William Smith no dates Page 5. In 2017, they were added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. "I can't imagine how she was feeling when she saw everybody that she had known from Flinders Island and from Oyster Cove, all her family and friends, just slowly dying. Together they ran a boarding house. The recordings are held by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, but cultural authority is invested . In 1854, Fanny married William Smith, an English sawyer and ex-convict, and between 1855 and 1880 they had 11 children. "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. * Norman Ellis Cockerill Search for: Phones Addresses Emails Social Media Residences Family members Property records Bankruptcies Criminal records. * Tasmania Birth Record - Alfred Gower COCKERILL born 27/9/1858 New Norfolk, father Henry Mylam COCKERILL, mother Eliza VINCENT Gathered from those who lived during the same time period , were born in the same place, or who have a family name in common. Fanny and William married in 1854. In 1972, her granddaughters still remembered some words and a song. Watson is the great-grandson of Horace Watson, who recorded Fanny in 1903. Her recordings were inducted into the UNESCO . And there she was, left pretty much on her own, living among strangers," Kerry says. * Mildred Eliza Cockerill, He married Elizabeth VINCENT and Alicia MACLEAY 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 ] When Adam passed away in 1857, Fanny and William moved to Oyster Cove, so Fanny could be close to her mother. Following her marriage, Fanny and her husband ran a boarding-house in Hobart. Fanny was born at Wybalenna, Flinders Island, in 1834. Fanny, who died in 1905, was the ultimate survivor of the abuse that the colonisers so freely gave in return for taking our lands. Paperback $ 34.95. 149 . Two years later, Fanny died at Port Cygnet. What is the source for Frances Florence as her name? Upon hearing her own performance, Smith had cried "My poor race. Eight wax cylinders, originally recorded in 1899 and 1903, contain the only spoken records of any one of the original Tasmanian Aboriginal languages as spoken and sung by Fanny Cochrane Smith, the last surviving fluent speaker of those languages. Her father was Eugene or Nicerimic. given name. Smith died of pneumonia. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. The only known recording of Tasmanian Aboriginal song and music. He kept Fanny in squalor and beat her whenever she rebelled. Fanny's Church represents the resilience of a woman, a family, a Community and a culture. INTRODUCTION . 100 0 _ a Fanny Cochrane Smith 100 1 _ a Smith, Fanny Cochrane, d 1834-1905 100 _ _ a Smith, Fanny Cochrane, d 1834-1905 As Kerry sums up this time: "It was just the all-pervasiveness of the thinking of the colonisers that the Aborigines were now gone. There was some dispute at the time of her death as to whether she or Truganini was the last full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine. Are you Black?" Or as Colleen says: "[Family members] didn't say they had any Aboriginal blood in them it was a disgrace to have Aboriginal blood in them.". * Ernest Augustus Sear Cockerill Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) , Henry Mylam Cockerill, Convict "Phoenix" 1824, Mary Ann (Bugg) Baker - Burrows - McNally - Ward - Burrows [Bushranger], Frederick Wordsworth Ward [Bushranger - Captain Thunderbolt], https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cockerill-55. June says herfather recounted a story of howWilliam saw Fanny running along the beach at Oyster Cove and fell in love. Fanny Cochrane Smith made this recording with Dr Horace Watson in 1899. In 1984, the Tasmanian Aboriginal community the Palawa reclaimed the land of the Oyster Cove settlement as Putalina. Thankfully, Fanny would eventually escape from her life as a domestic servant. Smith is known for her wax cylinder recordings of Aboriginal songs, made in 1903, which comprise the only audio recordings of an indigenous Tasmanian language. And a choice she made in 1899 ensured her voice will both symbolically and literally echo long into the future. It is part of a series of recordings made between 1899 and 1903. The 46 survivors, including Fanny and her family, were relocated to Oyster Cove in the south of Hobart. In 1846, the governor ordered an inquiry into allegations of cruelty at Wybalenna. People would come from all over the country to see her perform the Palawa songs and dances. Gathered from those who lived during the same time period , were born in the same place, or who have a family name in common. Her recordings were inducted into the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register in 2017. * Roland George Albert Cockerill 2 . Discover the family tree of Mary Jane Smith (1) for free, and learn about their family history and their ancestry. 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Discover your family history in millions of family trees and more than a billion birth,marriage, death, census, and miltary records. However, that title fell on Fannys shoulders when Triganini died in 1876. * mother Charlotte Derby Bugg no dates, * spouse Henry Mylam Cockerill, Convict "Phoenix" 1824 (1806-1873) Fanny Cochrane Smith was officially the last Indigenous Australian in Tasmania. Fanny Cochrane Smith, 1834 - 1905 Fanny Cochrane Smith was born in month 1834, at birth place, to . Here is the "real" profile for Fanny. * mrs Alice Smith Fanny died in 1905, but even in death, she could not escape the racial politics of the era. She was treated horrifically But there was Fanny she survived," another of Fanny's great-great granddaughters, June Sculthorpe says. Submit your Australian Story now. Fanny and William went on to have eleven children. . * Arthur Cockerill In 1854, Fanny married William Smith, an English sawyer and ex-convict, and between 1855 and 1880 they had 11 children. 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. Fanny Cochrane was apparently born with the name Frances Florence Cochrane, but she only used Fanny, as which is what is written on the birth certificates of her children. Fanny and her family were transferred to Oyster Cove where she later married an . We encourage you to research and examine these records to determine their accuracy. She then sings in both English and her own language. In 1847 her parents, along with the survivors of Wybalenna, were removed to Oyster Cove. Youll get hints when we find information about your relatives . To vote for this object, view on TMAG's Shaping Tasmania; a journey in 100 objects and leave a comment. I have added all the birth, marriage cetificates, and death notices that I have been able to find so far. Upon hearing her own performance, Smith had cried "My poor race. The recording of Smith's songs was the subject of a 1998 song by Australian folk singer Bruce Watson, The Man and the . They went on to have11 children all of them survived. Fanny was celebrated for her lovely singing voice and, in 1899, a concert was held in her honour in Hobart where she entertained the crowd by singing the songs of her people. She passed away on 24 Feb 1905 in Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia. 0 references. They had one daughter: Eleanor Smith (born Magee). These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. * Ivy Cockerill When Wybalenna closed, its 47 survivors were transported from Flinders Island to Oyster Cove, an ex-convict station near Hobart. There are no records of Fannys original name. Russian Wikipedia. Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Fanny Cochrane on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. To now, being the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, being the Palawa, with our own language and our own land, and getting more.". Fanny, Albert's grandmother had a very hard life before she came to Nicholls Rivulet. . 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. [1] She is considered to be the last fluent speaker of the Flinders Island lingua franca, a Tasmanian language,[2] and her wax cylinder recordings of songs are the only audio recordings of any of Tasmania's indigenous languages. * Tasmania Birth Record - given name not recorded COCKERILL born 16/3/1849 Bothwell, father Henry Mylam COCKERILL, mother Eliza VINCENT When Truganini died in 1876, Fanny claimed the title of 'the last Tasmanian'. 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