NARRYNA PUZZLES

Captain Haig

In 1824 Captain Andrew Haig sailed into Hobart, Tasmania and purchased land from a subdivision of the Rev. Robert Knopwood’s Cottage Green estate. The narrow two-acre holding ran between Hampden Road and the high water mark. The purchase turned out to be an astute one. At one end of the block he built Narryna. At the other end the creation of New Wharf allowed him to build a pair of warehouses facing Salamanca Place (1833-35).

Narryna was not completed until October 1840 and in April 1842, Haig, on the verge of bankruptcy, was forced to sell it along with his other assets.

Artist unknown, Captain Andrew Haig (1793-1871), watercolour on ivory portrait miniature, private collection, present location of original unknown.