Blair, James

James Blair, 1808-1880


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Columns:	R [Role]; S [Sources].

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.

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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Life Events

Born:	c1808	Ireland.
Baptised:	8 September 1808	Dublin, Ireland [01]
Married:	20 August 1834	St Mary's (Pro-Cathedral), Dublin, Ireland, to Margaret Lomasney [1809-1877] [02] [03].
Arrived:	3 February 1835	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the barque Undaunted. Departed London, 13 September 1835 [04] [05].
Died:	11 June 1880	Greenmount, Toorak, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 72 years [06] [07].
Buried:	13 June 1880	Melbourne General Cemetery, Parkville, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Roman Catholic, Section G, No 0182/0183] [08] [09] [10].

Golden Colony Roles

Port Phillip:	Police Magistrate:	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849	1850
		1851
	Crown Lands:	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846
Victoria:	Police Magistrate:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866
	Crown Lands:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1835-02				Arrived in Sydney on the Undaunted.

References

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Notes
01⇑	Primary source required.
02⇑	Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 28 December 2023].
03⇑	The Australian Dictionary of Biography says that he married Margaret Le Maistre, who survived him. This is incorrect.
04⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals; The Sydney Herald, 5 February 1835, p 2 [Trove; 22 April 2023].
05⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 2 1826-1840; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1977; p 124.
06⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1880-005719.
07⇑	Deaths - Blair; The Argus (Melbourne), 17 June 1880, p 1 [Trove; 21 March 2023].
08⇑	Correspondence from Melbourne General Cemetery.
09⇑	James Blair [Find a Grave; 20 April 2023].
10⇑	Funeral Notices - Blair; The Age (Melbourne), 21 June 1880, p 1 [Trove; 20 April 2023].

Further Reading

Biography:

Kathleen Thomson; Blair, James (1813-1880) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024]. Has the wrong birth year.

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2023-12-28	Life Events updated and references added.