Hackett, Charles Prendergast

Charles Prendergast Hackett, 1817-1889

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Explanations:
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:1 February 1817Albemarle Street. London, England [01].
Baptised:1 March 1817St George's Church of England, Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex, England [02].
Arrived:1851-1853TBD [03].
Married:13 November 1856St James Anglican Cathedral, Melbourne, Colony of Victoria to Frances Anne Alice Day [1834-1908] [04] [05].
Departed:4 January 1883Sailed to Malta with his wife on the P&O steamship Assam [06] [07] [08].
Died:28 January 1889Villa Christina, Nice, France [09] [10].
Buried:January 1889TBD

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:Police Magistrate:185118521853185418551856185718581859186018611862186318641865186618671868

Charles Prendergast Hackett [11]

Career

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References

Notes

Notes
01⇑ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms - St George, Hanover Square - 1816-1833 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 10 October 2023].
02⇑ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms - St George, Hanover Square - 1816-1833 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 3 October 2023].
03⇑ Hackett's obituary says that he arrived in Victoria in 1854, but he was admitted to practise as a barrister at the Victorian Supreme Court on 5 October 1853. He was in London for the 30 March 1851 UK census.
04⇑ Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index M1956-003287.
05⇑ Married - Hackett-Day; The Argus (Melbourne), 15 November 1856, p 4 [Trove; 3 October 2023].
06⇑ Shipping - Cleared Out - January 4; The Age, 5 January 1883, p 2 [Trove; 3 October 2023].
07⇑ Assam Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 948, January-June 1883 [PROV; 3 October 2023].
08⇑ Hackett and his wife retired to Dublin, Ireland, then Nice, France.
09⇑ UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 3 October 2023].
10⇑ Deaths - Hackett; London Evening Standard, 4 February 1889, p 2 [Find My Past (Membership required) , 3 October 2023].
11⇑ Retrieved from Ancestry (Membership required) . Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.

Further Reading

Profile:Hackett, Charles Prendergast (1818-1889); in: Justin Corfield, Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni; The Eureka Encyclopaedia; Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004; p 240.
Profile:Charles Prendergast Hackett, 1868-82; in: Eric Edgar Hewitt; Judges Through the Years; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1984; p 16.
Statistics:Hackett, Charles Prendergast (1819-1889); in: Herbert James Gibbney, Ann Gertrude Smith; A Biographical Register, 1788-1939, Volume 1; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1987; p 291.

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-01-23Life Events updated and references added.