Gray, William Nairn

William Nairn Gray, 1803-1854


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William Nairn Gray: 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

Parents:		Charles Gray [1770-1850] and Ann Hunter
Born:	28 November 1803	Carse Gray Estate, Carse, Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland [01] [02].
Baptised:	28 November 1803	Rescobie Prebyterian Kirk, Rescobie, Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland [03] [04].
Arrived:	21 November 1823	Hobart Town, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, on the ship Greenock. Departed Leith, Scotland, 4 May 1823 [05] [06].
Married:		Did not marry [07].
Died:	11 June 1854	Hamilton, Colony of Victoria, aged 50 years [08] [09].
Buried:	16 June 1854	Belfast Old Cemetery, Belfast (Port Fairy), Colony of Victoria [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
	Crown Lands:	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849	1850
		1851
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
		1832-09-10		28		Clerk to the Bench	NSW		Port Macquarie
		1834-04-07		30		Police Magistrate	NSW		Illawarra			[11]
		1836-08-22	1847-12-31	32		Police Magistrate	NSW		Port Macquarie			[12].
		1839-10-12		35		Commissioner of the Court of Requests	NSW		Port Macquarie
	1849-04-25	1849-01-01	1849-07-31	45		Police Magistrate	Port Phillip		Grant County		CCL.
	1849-07-26	1849-08-01	1851-06-30	45		Commissioner	Port Phillip	Crown Lands	Portland Bay		Fyans. to Colony of Victoria
		1851-07-01	1852-12-31	47		Commissioner	Victoria	Crown Lands	Portland Bay		PM.
		1851-10-02	TBD	47		Commissioner	Victoria	Gold Fields	Portland Bay
		1853-01-01	1854-06-11	49		Police Magistrate	Victoria	Petty Sessions	The Grange		Also CL. Died.
		1853-01-01	1854-06-11	49		Commissioner	Victoria	Crown Lands	Portland Bay		Died.

References

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Notes
01⇑	Rescobie Parish Records, ScotlandsPeople (Membership required) ; [ 6 April 2023].
02⇑	ScotlandsPlaces [ 6 April 2023].
03⇑	Rescobie Parish Records, ScotlandsPeople (Membership required) ; [ 6 April 2023].
04⇑	The parish records have Nairne, but most (but not all) official records in Australia have Nairn.
05⇑	Hobart-Town; Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, 22 November 1823, p 2 [Trove; 6 April 2023].
06⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania, Volume 1 1803-1833; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1983; p 92.
07⇑	Gray's death certificate indicates that he was unmarried and had no children. At least a couple of Ancestry users have identified a wife, Isabella Pierson/McPherson, and a daughter, Isabella. That William Gray was an ironmonger who married in Scotland in 1835 and apparently moved to Geelong. The daughter married Henry James Neill in 1856.
08⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1854-003471.
09⇑	Died - Gray; Geelong Advertiser, 16 June 1854, p 5 [Trove; 6 April 1854].
10⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1854-003471.
11⇑	4 March 1834 in Government Gazette. Wollongong.
12⇑	The office of PM Port Macquarie was abolished when the Convict Establishment was closed.

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Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2024-01-21	Life Events updated and references added.