Ferguson, Charles

Charles Ferguson, c1813-1868


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Life Events


Born:11 April 1813South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland [01].
Baptised:25 April 1813South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland [02].
Arrived:4 May 1850Melbourne, Port Phillip District, Colony of NSW, on the barque Rajah. Departed London, 27 November 1849 [03] [04].
Married:1 July 184335 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Colony of Van Diemen's Land [residence of James Barnard], to Kezia Elizabeth Hayter [1818-1885] [05] [06].
Departed:7 February 1868Returned to England on sick leave on the ship Omar Pacha [07] [08] [09].
Died:27 December 186813 Norfolk Street, Strand, London, England [residence], aged 55 years [10].
Buried:31 December 1868All Saint's Cemetery, Nunhead, Camberwell, Surrey, England [11].

Golden Colony Roles


Victoria:Police Magistrate:18511852

Charles Ferguson [12]

Career


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Notes

Notes
01Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 11 January 2024]. To be confirmed that this is the correct Charles Ferguson.
02Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 11 January 2024]. To be confirmed that this is the correct Charles Ferguson.
03Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 6 May 1850, p 2 [Trove; 11 January 2024].
04Ferguson was the Captain of the Rajah and made a number of voyages between London, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, between 1838 and 1850, before settling in Victoria in 1850. Captain McQueen took the Rajah back to England.
05Marriages RGD/37/1/3, No 359 [Libraries Tasmania; 19 December 2023].
06Married - Ferguson-Hayter; The Courier (Hobart), 7 July 1843, p 2 [Trove; 10 January 2024].
07Shipping Intelligence - Cleared Out; The Age (Melbourne), 8 February 1868, p 4 [Trove; 11 January 2024].
08Omar Pasha [sic] Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 948, January-June 1868 [PROV; 11 January 2024].
09Name of the ship from Lloyds, rather than the newspaper reports, which has Omar Pasha. Ferguson intended to return to Australia, but died in England.
10Deaths - Ferguson; The Globe (London), 29 December 1868, p 4 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 10 January 2024].
11London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 11 January 2024]. Another reference has St Giles, but that is the parish in which the Nunhead cemetery is located. Also Southwark.
12Ferguson Family History [RootsWeb; 26 December 2024]. Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.

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Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-01-11Life Events updated and references added.