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Miller, baker, victualler and hotelier. Born 28th February 1798 in Thorp Street, Birmingham, England. Baptised 22nd November 1798 at St. Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Married Celia McCarty on 29th January 1824 in Heston, Middlesex, England. Had at least seven children: James (b. 1825), Maria (b. 1827), Celia (b. 1829), Henry (b. 1833), John (b. 1835), Edwin Samuel (b. 1837) and Mary (b. 1840).
Arrived in Van Diemen's Land between 1830 and 1833. In 1835 Weavell was keeper of the Canteen at the Military Barracks in Hobart Town.1
Weavell was licensee of the Crown Inn at Pontville in 1837. The Colonial Times of 22nd October 1839 advertised the mortgagee sale of "The Windmill, and also the Messuage or Tenement thereon erected and built, and lately in the possession of Mr. Edwin Weavell." The mill was located at Brighton. A bankruptcy notice appearred in the Colonial Times of 17th November 1840, for Edwin Weavell of Pontville, "Baker, and lately licensed victualler."
In November 1843, Weavell applied for a licence for a hotel at Grass Tree Hill called Help Me Thro' the World. The application was postponed, then refused in December 1843. On the 5th February 1844, licence was granted. There is a fragment of his licence form, dated 1843, torn in half, in the Richmond Council collection of items found beneath the old Richmond Courthouse. Died in Launceston in 1856. Buried 24th November 1856 at Holy Trinity, Launceston.
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1 Tasmanian, 23 October 1835.
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