Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1861 – Gold Wardens


Contents:		Blue Book People Organisations Places Roles Research Notes Reference

Port Phillip District (1836-1851) Colony of Victoria (1851-1900) Victoria (1901-1929)

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Bodies:

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1861 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Wardens Crown Lands Chinese Protectorate

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Roles:

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1861 Gold Wardens

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Explanations:

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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Gold Wardens (Wardens of the Gold Fields)

BB	Name	Title	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	Comments	Next	FN
V1861	Alley, James Henry Cooper	Warden	R		1859-09-16	Ongoing
V1861	Anderson, Musgrave Wroughton	Warden	R		1860-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Barnard, Edward Thomas	Warden	R		1856-01-03	Ongoing
V1861	Bull, John Edward Newell	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Call, Frederick	Warden	R		1860-01-09	1861-02-10			Maryborough.
V1861	Call, Frederick	Warden	R	1861-02-18	1861-02-11	Ongoing	Maryborough	Pohlman.
V1861	Carey, John Le Marchant	Warden	R		1861-02-11	Ongoing
V1861	Carr, Charles Warburton	Warden	R		1858-06-08	Ongoing
V1861	Clow, James Maxwell	Warden	R		1856-01-01	Ongoing
V1861	Cogdon, John Montague	Warden	R		1856-01-20	1861-02-09			Ballarat.
V1861	Cogdon, John Montague	Warden	R	1861-02-18	1861-02-10	Ongoing	Ballarat	W H Foster.
V1861	Crespigny, Philip Robert Champion	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Daly, James	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Warden	R		1856-01-21	Ongoing
V1861	Drummond, William Henry Murray	Warden	R		1860-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Eardley-Wilmot, Charles Octavius	Warden	R		1859-04-28	Ongoing
V1861	Foster, William Henry	Warden	R		1858-01-04	1861-03-09
V1861	Foster, William Henry	Warden	R	1861-02-18	1861-02-10	Ongoing		On leave (12 months).		[01]
V1861	Foster, William Henry	Warden	R		1861-03-10	Ongoing	Ballarat
V1861	Gaunt, William Henry	Warden	R		1856-01-01	Ongoing
V1861	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Warden	R		1860-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Harrison, George	Warden	R		1861-09-09	Ongoing
V1861	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Horne, Robert Wintle	Warden	R		1859-06-14	Ongoing
V1861	Lane, Henry Bowyer Joseph	Warden	R		1856-08-13	Ongoing
V1861	Lowther, Gorges Macdonald	Warden	R		1856-08-13	Ongoing
V1861	Mackenzie, Robert Cleghorne	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	McCrae, Andrew Murison	Warden	R		1858-10-21	Ongoing
V1861	Mollison, Crawford	Warden	R		1858-09-10	Ongoing
V1861	Morphy, John Stephen	Warden	R		1855-07-01	1861-07-13			Died.
V1861	Murray, Virginius	Warden	R		1855-07-01	1861-12-25			Died.
V1861	Orme, Francis Knox	Warden	R		1861-05-13	Ongoing
V1861	Piper, William	Warden	R		1861-08-05	Ongoing
V1861	Pohlman, Frederick Roper	Warden	R		1859-08-01	1861-02-10			Raglan.
V1861	Pohlman, Frederick Roper	Warden	R	1861-02-18	1861-02-11	Ongoing	Raglan
V1861	Puckle, Frederick Hale	Warden	R		1860-12-20	Ongoing
V1861	Sherard, Charles Wale	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Shuter, Charles	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Smith, Alexander John	Warden	R		1855-07-01	1861-04-12			Resigned
V1861	Smith, Bernhard William	Warden	R		1856-04-01	Ongoing
V1861	Smith, Peter Henry	Warden	R		1861-07-15	Ongoing			Police Inspecting Superintendent
V1861	Strutt, Charles Edward	Warden	R		1861-09-19	Ongoing
V1861	Taylor, James Grant	Warden	R		1855-09-01	Ongoing
V1861	Templeton, William	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Tyers, Charles James	Warden	R		1861-02-11	Ongoing
V1861	Webster, Graham	Warden	R		1860-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Willoby, William Allan	Warden	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing
V1861	Wills, Alfred Currie	Warden	R		1858-02-08	Ongoing

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	BB1861 has 1861-03-10, but Gazette implies 1861-02-10.

Sources

	Registrar-General's Office, Victoria; Statistics of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1861; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1862 (VPARL 1862-1863, No 9) [BB1861].
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1861.

Updates

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