Thomas Chaseland

Thomas Chaseland (c.1803 – 5 June 1869) was a New Zealand sealer, whaler and pilot. He was born in Australia on c.1803.[1]

Thomas Chaseland
Bornc1803
New South Wales
Died5 June 1869
New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Occupationmariner and sealer
Known formariner

In Australia

His father, Thomas Chaseland senior, was a Londoner who arrived in Australia as a convict in 1792.[2] Chaseland senior married fellow prisoner Margaret McMahon and the couple had six children. Chaseland fathered another child with an Aboriginal woman in around 1803. The infant was named Thomas and was born the year before Chaseland senior married and he was raised in the family home with his other children at Windsor.

Thomas Chaseland junior went to work as a teenager at the shipyards on the nearby Hawkesbury River.[3] In August 1815, he joined the crew of the Jupiter on a sealing voyage to the islands of Bass Strait. He next served on the King George on a cruise to the Marquesas Islands for a cargo of pork and sandalwood in 1818.[4] He is next recorded aboard the Governor Macquarie in 1819 bound for New Zealand and Tahiti for seal skins and sandalwood. The vessel later spent time at Kangaroo Island taking aboard a cargo of kangaroo and seal skins.

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References
  1. Hall-Jones, John. "Thomas Chaseland". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. Lynette Russell, Roving mariners; Australian Aboriginal whalers and sealers in the southern oceans, 1790-1870, (2012) State University of New York, Albany, p.50. ISBN 978-1-4384-4423-9
  3. Russell, p.51.
  4. Russell, p.53.

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