Andrew Geils

In around 1818, having failed in an aspiration to the Lieutenant-Governorship of Tasmania when the latter was due to became vacant in 1818, he returned to Scotland where in 1815 he had inherited one of his father's properties, Dumbuck Estate in West Dunbartonshire, and where he resided until his death in 1843.

[3] Many official exchanges between Geils and Macquarie (mainly responses by the latter to reports and requests by the former, but also including Macquarie's official letter of instruction to Geils) over that interval have been preserved, and can be read via the published "Historical Records of Australia Series III" which deals with "Despatches and Papers Relating to the Settlement of the States" including Tasmania, 1803—June, 1812 (Volume 1) and Tasmania, July, 1812—December, 1819 (Volume 2).

One other event of significance for the family during this period was the birth of the couple's fifth son, John Edward, born 6th April 1813 and baptised on 13 June at Hobart Town.

[8] On account of a tragic accident as detailed below, John Edward was to be the eldest surviving son at the time of Andrew's death in 1843, and would thus inherit his father's subsequent estate in Scotland.

[9] Other official correspondence relating to his time as Commandant is included in 2 volumes of the Historical Records of Australia Series, as cited above, plus the Colonial Secretary Index of the New South Wales Government of the day.

In October that year, Geils' father Thomas died in Scotland and left Andrew one of his four estates, that of Dumbuck, near the town of Dumbarton, purchased just 2 months previously.

[21][22] Presumably on account of his recent move to Scotland, Geils' Tasmanian properties were offered for sale in 1818 and again in 1821, eventually being purchased in 1832 by another landowner with interests in the area, Thomas Gregson.

Geilston Bay, Tasmania, Australia in 1994; the name derives from "Geils' Town", a name applied to Geils' nineteenth century property holdings in the area
Memorial at Arniston, Western Cape, South Africa to the Geils children who perished in the Arniston Transport shipwreck, 3 May 1815
Dumbuck house, village and Dumbuck Hill on the 1864 6 inches to 1 mile Ordnance Survey map (Dumbartonshire, Sheet XXII). The estate is bisected by the newly constructed Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway , opened in 1850. Later, early in the twentieth century, portions of the estate were utilised by the bizarre and possibly unscrupulous Kosmoid Company which claimed to have discovered the secret of creating gold from base metals by an industrial process, in addition to an offshoot Kosmoid Tubes, the only genuinely successful portion of the Company, later re-structured as the Dumbarton Weldless Tube Company, which in turn was subsumed by the firm of Babcock & Wilcox in 1915. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Later, commencing in the 1950s, the area around the House was almost completely covered with bonded warehouses for the storage of Scotch Whisky, as visible in this Google Earth view .
Dumbuck House (with later extensions) as a hotel in 2007. In more recent times, the future of this "Category B" listed building has been uncertain, with a proposal for its demolition being lodged in 2023