[1] It is believed that the locality was named for William Tarleton, a notable government official in Tasmania in the 19th century.

[2] Captain William Moriarty took up land (200 acres) at Frogmore in ca.1835, his sister Lucinda settled there in 1836 and named Ballahoo Island.

[4] Thomas Johnson (1808-1869) and his wife Dolly Dalrymple Mountgarret Briggs (1810-1864), the first known child of an Aboriginal and white person union moved there in 1845 and took over the tenancy of Frogmore.

He built a Sherwood Hall at the latter place for public recreation dances religious services and as a school.

In 1880 for George Atkinson Jr built Frogmore, a large two-storeyed brick classical villa with a tiled hipped roof.