Eardley-Wilmot, Charles Octavius

Charles Octavius Eardley-Wilmot, 1824-1886


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Charles Octavius Eardley-Wilmot: 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:	2 October 1824	Sevenoaks, Kent, England [01] [02] [03].
Baptised:	4 October 1824	Sevenoaks, Kent, England [04] [05].
Arrived:	18 August 1843	Lagoon Bay, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, on the ship Cressy. Departed Plymouth, 30 April 1843 [06] [07] [08].
Married (1):	3 May 1849	St David's Cathedral, Hobart Town, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, to Sophia Grace Dunn [1828-1865] [09] [10].
Departed:	3 February 1862	Returned to England on the Blackwall ship Prince of Wales [11].
Married (2):	2 October 1866	St Pancras, London, England to Elizabeth Brooke [1843-1924] [12] [13].
Died:	26 July 1886	4 Eliot Park, Lewisham, London, England [residence] [14].
Buried:	July 1886	England.

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:	Police Magistrate:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861
	Gold Warden:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861
	Chinese Protector:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
	1844-03-29	1844-03-29	1846-10-19	19		Ensign, 96th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Lieutenant.
	1846-10-20	1846-10-20	1852-07-08	22		Lieutenant, 96th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Captain..
	1852-07-09	1852-07-09	1852-11-25	27		Captain, 96th Regiment of Foot		British Army			31st Regiment.
	1852-11-26	1852-11-26	1853-02-18	28		Captain, 31st Regiment of Foot		British Army			Retired.
		1853-02-19	1859-04-27			TBD
		1859-04-28				Warden	Victoria	Gold Fields
						Chinese Protector	Victoria	Gold Fields

References

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Notes
01⇑	Eardley-Wilmot; in Joseph Foster; The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1882; Nicols and Sons, Westminster, 1882; p 666.
02⇑	War Office WO076-0209 - 96th Regiment. Page 81, Charles Eardley-Wilmot [National Archives UK; 9 January 2024].
03⇑	Births - Eardley-Wilmot; The Morning Post (London), 5 October 1824, p 4 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 9 January 2024].
04⇑	England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 9 January 2024].
05⇑	Uncertain which church as there are four in Sevenoaks.
06⇑	Ship News; Colonial Times (Hobart), 22 August 1843, p 2 [Trove; 22 April 2023].
07⇑	Graeme Broxam; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania, Volume 3 1843-1850; Navarine Publishing, Woden, 1998; p 13.
08⇑	Carried a detachment of the 99th Regiment, as well as the new Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Eardley-Wilmot (Charles' father) and his retinue. The Cressy arrived at Hobart Town on 20 August, but the Eradley-Wilmots had disembarked two days earlier.
09⇑	Marriages RGD/37/1/8, No 128 [Libraries Tasmania; 9 January 2024].
10⇑	Married - Eardley-Wilmot-Dunn; The Argus (Melbourne), 15 May 1849, p 2 [Trove; 9 January 2024].
11⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Cleared Out; The Herald (Melbourne), 4 February 1862, p 4 [Trove; 9 January 2024].
12⇑	Marriages - Eardley-Wilmot-Brooke; The Morning Post (London), 5 October 1866, p 8 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 9 January 2024].
13⇑	Registered in Lewisham.
14⇑	Deaths - Eardley-Wilmot; Totnes Weekly Times, 31 July 1886, p 5 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 9 January 2024].

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Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2024-01-09	Life Events updated and references added.
2023-03-20	Page URL changed.