Blue Book, Port Phillip District of New South Wales, 1839 – Commissioners of Crown Lands

Columns:	R [Role]; D is whether the role is Resident [R] or Visiting [V].
	PM (Police Magistrate), GC (Gold Commissioner 1851-1855), GW (Gold Warden 1855-1929), CCL (Commissioner of Crown Lands), and CP (Chinese Protector) show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time.

Roles:	= Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
	= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
	= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
	GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate); PM = Police Magistrate;
	FN = Footnotes; PSL = Public Service List; S/S1/S2 = Source; TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed; = Reappointed; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
	= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
	British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.

Assignments:	The location or district the person was assigned to. A number in the OP column (Other Places) means that they also sat at that many other locations of Courts of Petty Sessions. The number of other locations changed from time to time as courts were created, abolished, or reassigned.

Sources (S, S1, S2):	= Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
	= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
	= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Ongoing = Continues into next calendar year; New date; Date changed in source; Date died; Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed.

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Comments

The Port Phillip Crown Lands District was proclaimed and gazetted on 21 May 1839 as the ninth district of New South Wales. The other eight NSW districts – Port Macquarie, New England, Liverpool Plains, Bligh, Wellington, Lachlan, Morambidgee (Murrumbidgee), and Monaroo (Monaro) – had been proclaimed on 9 May 1837 and this new proclamation redefined them, as well as defining Port Phillip.

Gisborne was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands for the newly-defined Crown Lands district, succeeding Snodgrass.

Commissioners of Crown Lands

BB	Name	Title	Original	R	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	OP	PM	GF	CL	CP	S1	S2	Comments	Next	FN
P1839	Gisborne, Henry Fysche	(District) Commissioner	1839-04-01		R	1839-05-21	1839-04-01	Ongoing	Port Phillip District								Snodgrass.
P1839	Snodgrass, Peter	(District) Commissioner	1838-02-09		R	1838-02-08	1838-02-09	1839-03-31	Port Phillip District									Retired.

References

Sources

	Returns of the Colony of New South Wales for the Year 1839; (Unpublished), Sydney, 1840 [NSW BB1839].
	Various issues of the New South Wales Government Gazette, 1839.

Updates

2024-11-10

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