Bonsey, William Henry

William Henry Bonsey, 1817-1900


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William Henry Bonsey: Profile Biography Research Notes

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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:	4 November 1817	Upton-cum-Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England [01] [02].
Baptised:	12 July 1818	Upton-cum-Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England [03] [04].
Married:	12 November 1844	St Nicholas Church of England, Brighton, Sussex, to Mary Caroline Price [1819-1902] [05] [06].
Arrived:	4 November 1852	Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the ship Marlborough. Departed London, 14 August 1852, via Plymouth [07] [08] [09] [10].
Departed:	29 February 1868	Returned to England on the ship Norfolk, from Melbourne to London [11].
Died:	24 September 1900	Hillesden, Eastbourne, Sussex, England, aged 82 years [12].
Buried:	September 1900	Ocklynge Cemetery, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England [Grave: k150c] [13].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:	Police Magistrate:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869
	Gold Warden:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869
	Crown Lands:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
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References

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Notes
01⇑	Sussex Monumental Inscriptions, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 29 December 2023]. Date from gravestone.
02⇑	Location from various UK Census records.
03⇑	England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 29 December 2023].
04⇑	Probably St Laurence's Church of England.
05⇑	East Sussex, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936, [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 20 December 2023].
06⇑	Sister of Matthew Price.
07⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 6 November 1852, p 4 [Trove; 22 April 2023].
08⇑	Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 2 1846-1855; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1987; p 132.
09⇑	Marlborough Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 947, October-November 1852 [PROV; 25 April 2023].
10⇑	William Wentworth Greene's family was on the same voyage.
11⇑	Returned to England on 12 months' leave, but retired/resigned in February 1869 and did not return to Australia.
12⇑	Deaths - Bonsey; Sussex Agricultural Express, 28 September 1900, p 4 [Find My Past (Membership required) ;. 29 December 2023].
13⇑	Sussex Monumental Inscriptions, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 29 December 2023].

Further Reading

Profile:

William Bonsey (cricketer) [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2023-12-29	Life Events updated and references added.