Fenwick, Nicholas Alexander

Nicholas Alexander Fenwick, 1806-1863


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Nicholas Alexander Fenwick: 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:	25 November 1806	Helsingør, Fredericksborg, Denmark [01].
Baptised:	4 January 1807	Sankt Marie, Helsingør, Frederiksborg, Denmark [02].
Arrived:	11 April 1839	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the barque Palestine. Departed Portsmouth, 11 November 1838 [03] [04] [05].
Departed:	1854	Returned to England and Denmark.
Married:	16 July 1847.	Valsølille, Sorø, Denmark, to Julia Octavia Benigna Flindt [1814-1874] (widow of Jens Laurentius Bruun de Neergaard) [06].
Arrived:	4 March 1851	Melbourne, Port Phillip District, Colony of NSW, on the ship Success. Departed London, 24 October 1850 [07] [08].
Departed:	25 March 1854	Returned to England on the steam ship Chusan [09].
Died:	11 June 1863	15a Clifford Street (Bond Street), Mayfair, Middlesex (London) [residence], aged 56 years [10] [11].
Buried:	13 June 1863	Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, London, England [Grave: Private I, 170"0, 144"0] [12].

Golden Colony Roles

Port Phillip:	Police Magistrate:	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843
Victoria:	Police Magistrate:	1851	1852	1853	1854
	Gold Commissioner:	1851	1852	1853	1854
	Crown Lands:	1851	1852	1853	1854

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
	1840-01-01	1840-02-12	1843-12-31			Police Magistrate	NSW	Petty Sessions	Geelong		Fyans. 1844 Budget refused.
		1844-01-01	1851-06-30			TBD

References

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Notes
01⇑	Denmark, Births and Christenings Index, 1631-1900s [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 15 January 2024].
02⇑	Denmark, Births and Christenings Index, 1631-1900s [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 15 January 2024].
03⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 13 April 1839, p 2 [Trove; 12 June 2023].
04⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 2 1826-1840; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1977; p 213.
05⇑	Fenwick travelled with three of his sisters.
06⇑	Denmark, Marriages, 1635-1916 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 15 January 2024]. Indexed as Nicolas Alexander Fewik.
07⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Melbourne Daily News, 5 March 1851, p 2 [Trove; 15 January 2024].
08⇑	The "Success" from England; Adelaide Times, 17 February 1851, p 2 [Trove; 15 January 2024].
09⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Melbourne; Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer, 28 March 1854, p 4 [Trove; 15 January 2024].
10⇑	Deaths - Fenwick; London Evening Standard, 12 June 1863, p 7 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 15 January 2024].
11⇑	Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery Records, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 15 January 2024]. Place of death.
12⇑	Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery Records, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 15 January 2024].

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Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2024-01-16	Life Events updated and references added.