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| Name | First Sighting | Contact |
| W(H)ISHART Catherine | m. 1856 to Samuel Upton | Laine Clancy |
| WADDINGTON James | m. 1843 to Jane Cathcart, Longford | * Claire Palmer |
| WADE Lewis | child attending school in Pittwater 1827, aged 9 | Nikki Beal |
| WAKE William | arr. c1840 | Michael |
| WAKELIN Charlotte | 1832-1834 | Anthony E Young |
| WALBOURNE / WALBURN family | appears in Hobart | Louise Clayton |
| WALKER Eliza | m. 1879 to John Derrick | Chris & Kevin Stait |
| WALKER Henry Alexander | m. 1860 to Sarah Ann Wheeler, Launceston | * Dee Cracknell |
| WALSH Julia | m. 1857 | * Lee Chambers |
| WALTHAM / WALTON John Richard | m. 1894 to Mary Griffiths, Deloraine | Katie Dawn |
| WARD Charles Frederick | m. 1848 to Sarah Jane Bott, Hobart | Daryl Ward |
| WARD Francis | m. 1864 to Frances (Fannie) Williams, Hobart | P. Burgess |
| WARD John | m. 1852 to Margaret Powell, Launceston | Karen |
| WARNE Alfred James | m. 1877 to Hannah Maria Ward | Filomena Vandertuin |
| WARREN George | m. 1878 to Rosina (Rosa) Davies nee Clarke, Victoria Huon | Lorraine Gray |
| WARREN George | m. 1878 to Rosina Davies nee Clarke | Lorraine Warner |
| WARRINGTON Vincent | m. 1876 to Mary Ellen Martin, Launceston | Glenn Brown |
| WATLIN Emma | m. 1854 to William Windeatt, Launceston | Helen Mitchell |
| WATSON Andrew & Jane | 1824 birth of son, Hobart | * Donna-Lee Seaton |
| WATSON Felthan Bold | m. 1831 to Mary Wade | Sue Smith |
| WATSON Joseph William | m. 1847, Hobart | Anne Szpaczek |
| WATSON Robert | 1849 age 26, m. to Mary Jane Nicholson | Anne Kerr |
| WATTS Edward John | wife Eleanor Montague, daughter Agnes Eleanor b. 1872, Dist Hobart | Sarah Kinsella-Brown |
| WEATHERHEAD Henry Fortescue | m. 1847 to Ellen Ramsdale, Launceston | * Glynis Cummins |
| WEBB Dorah | born abt. 1838 | Carol Harris |
| WEBB Elizabeth | 1824 birth of son, Hobart, m. 1826 to Gavin Hogg | Margaret Stokes |
| WEBB Henry & Lydia (nee Arnott/Harnett) | son Henry Wilshire Webb born at sea 02 Jun, baptised 21 Jun 1839 Hobart | Julie Skellern |
| WEBB John | m. 1850 to Mary Dargan | Joy Reindl |
| WEBB Thomas Morgan | m. 1852, to Sarah Rowles, Sorell | Patricia Kohen |
| WEBB William | an early Tasmanian colonist who died sometime after 1853 | Robert Ahern |
| WEBSTER John Holland & Eliza (nee Young) with children Eliza Charlotte Holland & John Holland | arr. bef. Aug 1852 | Karen Coughlan |
| WELLS William John & Mary with children | daughter Sarah Jane born 1843, Forest Tas | Marie Craven |
| WEST Henry & Jane | birth of son Frederick 1835 | Wendy Whitford |
| WEST William (George?) | age 26, m. 1866 to Emily Sophia Heard, Launceston, d. 1876 at sea, Captain of the Satellite | Norman Andrews |
| WESTWOOD David | m. 1862 | Joan Holloway |
| WHEELER Maria Ann | b. 1835 Devon, m. 1857 Hobart to Benjamin Lee, d. 1891 Hobart | Sue Lee |
| WHELAN Catherine | b. 1832, possibly at sea on the way to VDL with parents John & Catherine | Kate White |
| WHELAN James | m. 1863 to Jane Manson, St George\'s Church, Hobart, witnesses Mary Leonard & Stephen Bishop. | Anne Jinks |
| WHELAN Michael | m. 1864 to Elizabeth Mary Lowe, believed to be Irish | Shirley Powley |
| WHITE / TUTTLE / TURNER Annie | m. early 1880s to Patrick Tuttle, Oatlands | Catherine |
| WHITE George | arr. from Glasgow c.1835, moved to Geelong 1839 | Diana Gray |
| WHITE Margaret | m. 1873 to Lawrence Michael Kelly, Hobart, age 27, father poss. Thomas Kelly who d. c1890 | Eileen Kelly |
| WHITE Thomas | c1853-54 | Pat Meighan |
| WHITE Wilson | b. 1835 Ireland, m. 1857 to Emma Elizabeth Rawlings, Hobart | Ann Teubert |
| WHITFIELD Sarah Ann & brother Henry (Harry) | mid 1880s | Savanna Sharpe |
| WHITFIELD Thomas George with sons George & Thomas | 1883/4 | Savanna Sharpe |
| WHITNEY Thomas | 1834 | Douglas Burbury |
| WHITNEY Thomas | 1834 | Mary Ramsay |
| WHITNEY Thomas | b. 1805 Bath, England, d. 06 Sep 1873 Hobart | * Stuart Smith |
| WICKHAM John Francis | m. 1823 to Sophia Bradshaw, Hobart Town | Jenny Firman |
| WIGGINS Nancy | m. 1865 to Samuel Schofield, Sorell, d. 1911 | Russell Thorne |
| WILCOX Sarah | son b. 1859, Cressy, with James Simmons, d. 1915 Launceston as Mary Ann Francis, stated born Hobarton | Shirley Powley |
| WILKIN Harriet | m. 1833 to William Wathen, Hobart | Tony Brown |
| WILLANS Agnes | m. 1879 to William Charles Smith, Adelaide, then 9 children born Tasmania | Suzanne Mitchell |
| WILLIAMS Edward | m. 1854 to Isabella Burkett, Hobart, 1860 Police Officer at George Town | Robert James Williams |
| WILLIAMS George | 1914 | Hilary Turner |
| WILLIAMS John | abt 1829? Pilot on Tamar River | Jan Henwood |
| WILLIAMS John | b. abt. 1838, m. 1858 to Christina Kerr, Launceston | Catherine Etteridge |
| WILLIAMS John | b. c1825, arrived 'free', m. 1855 to Margaret Doyle, Hobart | Tamara Weller |
| WILLIAMS John | m. 1842 to Margaret Stewart (convict), Longford | Andrea Cox |
| WILLIAMS John Edward | b. 1836 England, shoemaker, d. 1897 Hobart, m. 1856 to Charlotte Anne Harris (aka Smith), Hobart. May have lived in Cambridge 1851-1856) | Lorraine Francis |
| WILLIAMS William | aged 54 m. 1864 to Eliza Britton (age 18), Hobart, lived Hobart 1850s-1860s, Eliza remarr. 1879 | * Lindsay Swadling |
| WILLIAMS William Henry | b c1806, m 1834 to Mary Ann Miller, Hobart | Andrew K Johnston |
| WILLIAMSON Charles | b. 1837 Lancs., m. 1862 to Martha Hall, Launceston, occup. draper, d. 1906 Sydney | Christopher Riley |
| WILLIAMSON Thomas & Mary Ann (nee McCoy) with children | son George Tasman b. 1886, Launceston, Thomas' occupation tailor, b. 1855 Melbourne | Catriona Barker |
| WILLIS Maria | 1848 birth of son Joseph, Longford, father John Grundy | * Shirley & Doug Stevenson |
| WILLMOTT Charles | arr. Hobart 1820s, moved to Port Phillip abt. 1837 | Donna Matthews |
| WILSON Alexander | b. c1826, m. 1854 to Harriet (K)Nibbs, Morven | Angela Byrne |
| WILSON Charles | poss. from Linc, m. 1844 to Sarah Watson/Bond, Hobart, may have gone to NSW 1850-51 | Jacquie Liddiard |
| WILSON Ellen | m. 1850 to Simeon Wines | Anne McQueenie |
| WILSON George | b. 1820 London, m. 1853 Tas | * Jan McKinlay |
| WILSON John Henry | b. abt. 1818 Cheshire, Eng., m. 1849 to Harriet Williams, convict per Cadet | Lyn McLernon |
| WILSON Misses (3) | date unknown | Joan Lang |
| WILSON Thomas | m. 1828 to Maria Rivers, New Norfolk | Anthony McCann |
| WILSON William | obit 1889 states arr 1815 Hobart, worked in Commissariat Store George Town | Kim Simpson |
| WINROW John | * Jean Spotswood | |
| WINTER Ann | abt 1894, 1914 death cert claims resident 20 years | Jenny Halliday |
| WOOD Charles | m. 1824 to Elizabeth Green, Launceston | * Denyse Delfs |
| WOOD George | age 37, m. 1854 to Sarah Ann Gaffney, Longford | Sam Dawes |
| WOOD Mary | m. 1811 to Michael Fitzgerald, Port Dalrymple | * Lesley Wilson |
| WOODS Hephzibah | b. 1831 Cambridgeshire, 1851 UK Census Cambridgeshire, m. 1853 to Samuel Tongs, Longford, Tas | Richard Holliday |
| WOODS Thomas Mason | m. 1855 to Margaret Dermott, m. 1862 to Mary Ann Lowes, d. 1886 | * Tony Mason Woods |
| WOOLFREY Alfred | m. 1857 | Kim Hatherly |
| WORTHAM Mary Elizabeth | m. 1896 to Leslie Lyne of Swansea | Lou Perkins |
| WRIGHT Andrew | arr. pre 1830 | Ros Otzen |
| WRIGHT Frank Frederick | arr. abt. 1890, b. 1875 Germany, m. 1900 to Lily Gliddon, Queenstown | Debbie O'Donnell |
| WRIGHT George | m. 1860 to Janet Couston, Evandale | * Melissa O'Hara |
| WRIGHT James | wife Annie Shaw, lived Deddington area | William Bishop |
| WRIGHT Thomas | 1858 teacher at Swanton School, Waterloo, Huon Valley | Kathy Statton |
| WUCHTERLE Josef | 1958 Tasmanian Electoral Roll | Anne Wuchterle |
| WYATT Alan William | 1931 Denison Electoral Roll | Sue Wyatt |
| WYATT William Alan | 1929 Denison Electoral Roll | Sue Wyatt |
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Updated: 10-Apr-2013
