Agency:
Adrian and Claudia Dean
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1929
End Date:
29 Jan 2023
Description:
Claudia Margaret (Peggy) Dean (1929-2018) was an author and avid historian. She published a range of books including 'Cattle King of Van Diemen's Land: William Field 1774-1837' winner of the Lilian Watson family History award for 2000. Adrian Barclay Dean (1931-2023), shipwright, amateur artist, and teacher started designing and building boats in 1948. He moved south from Burnie to pursue his interest, working for the shipwright Jock Muir at Battery Point. A skilled carpenter, in 1959 he spent 13 months on Macquarie Island as the 12th ANARE's carpenter. Sketches, field notes and letters from this voyage were donated to the Australian Antarctic Division. Having taught at the first wooden boat school in Australia in Margate in the late 1980's, Dean was one of the first teachers at the Franklin Wooden Boat Centre when it opened in 1992, His strong interest in water vessels saw him become an active member of the Derwent and Tasmanian Canoe Clubs and the Tasmanian Sea Canoeing Club. His designs include the popular Greenlander Sea Kayak. Designed in 1970s the Greenlander is still in production. Dean also taught trade subjects with the Education Department and the Friends School. Adrian Dean married Claudia (Peggy) White in 1953 and had five children - Claudia, Jennifer, Keren, John and Rosemary. The family lived in the Sheffield Queenstown area before moving to Hobart. Adrian and Claudia collected a wide range of family history material. Included is material pertaining to the White, Spence, Maclean, Field, Dean, Goodwin, Dyer, Singleton, Bramich, Inall, McCormack, Elmer, Lindsay, Yates, Watt, and Wyatt families.
Information Sources:
Gail Foster, 2015, ABC Open: Adrian Dean - Boat Builder and Teacher;;Hudson, Sarah, 'Tasmania's Wooden Boat Centre maintains its maritime history' in Weekly Times, 13/7/2016;;Martian, Tim, Scratch the Surface: It floats his boat in Mercury 14/5/2016.
Related Agencies:
William Field and Family (NG3713) | 01 Jan 1774 |
Edward Yates and Family (NG3717) | 01 Jan 1777 |
William James Lindsay and Family (NG1452) | 01 Jan 1788 |
Benjamin Bissell Dyer and Family (NG3712) | 01 Jan 1796 |
John Elmer and Family (NG3714) | 01 Jan 1802 |
Thomas Inall and Family (NG3718) | 01 Jan 1803 |
Mccormack Family (NG3719) | 01 Jan 1804 |
William Rose Watts and Family (NG3715) | 01 Jan 1807 |
William Newton Wyatt and Family (NG3716) | 01 Jan 1813 |
William Goodwin and Family (NG3720) | 01 Jan 1824 |
Frank Thistleton Reay Dean (NG1950) | 12 Mar 1904 | 10 May 1978 |
Series Created By Agency:
NS602 Records and Photographs of the White, Maclean and Field Families | 01 Jan 1855 | 01 Jan 1976 |
NS6578 Elmer, Field and Lindsay Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1870 | 31 Dec 2013 |
NS6579 Elmer Family Photograph Album | 01 Jan 1870 | 31 Dec 1980 |
NS6581 Wyatt Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1870 | 31 Dec 2000 |
NS602/35 Photographs of the North West and Members of the Mclean and White Families | 01 Jan 1870 | 30 Jan 1984 |
NS6575 Bramich and Dean Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1880 | 31 Dec 2010 |
NS6587 Maclean Photograph Album | 06 Sep 1883 | 31 Dec 1980 |
NS6588 Recipe Books | 01 Jan 1892 | 31 Dec 1989 |
NS6675 Photograph Album of Donald M White | 23 Sep 1895 | 31 Dec 1960 |
NS6585 White and Spence Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1900 | 31 Dec 2006 |
NS602/34 Photographs of the Devonport and Latrobe Areas | 01 Jan 1900 | 31 Dec 1950 |
NS6577 Dyer Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1906 | 31 Dec 2000 |
NS6586 Maclean Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1907 | 31 Dec 2010 |
NS6580 Watts Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1920 | 31 Dec 2000 |
NS3150 Artwork by Adrian Dean | 01 Jan 1950 | 31 Dec 1960 |
NS1059 Personal Papers and Diaries | 01 Jan 1958 | 31 Dec 1978 |
NS1066 Papers relating to the Development of Bradys Lake, the Derwent and Tasmanian Canoe Clubs and the Tasmanian Sea Canoeing Club | 01 Jun 1972 | 31 Dec 1984 |
NS6582 Inall Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1982 | 31 Dec 2000 |
NS6583 Yates Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1982 | 31 Dec 2001 |
NS6584 Mccormack, Goodwin and Singleton Family Genealogical Research | 01 Jan 1982 | 31 Dec 2000 |
NS6425 Research and Publications | 01 Jan 1998 | 31 Dec 2004 |