George Dixon Hedley, 1817-1879
Contents: | George Dixon Hedley: Profile Biography Research Notes |
Life Events
Born: | 1817 | Camberwell, Surrey, England. |
Baptised: | 9 July 1817 | St Giles' Church of England, Camberwell, Surrey, England [01]. |
Married (1): | 22 September 1842 | St Mary's Church of England, Newmarket, Suffolk, England, to Ann/Anne Elizabeth Hawes Peck [1823-1854] [02]. |
Arrived: | 10 March 1850 | Melbourne, Port Phillip District, Colony of NSW, on the barque Brothers. Departed London, 14 October 1849 [03] [04]. |
Married (2): | 8 January 1856 | Prahran, Colony of Victoria, to Mary Briarly Robertson [1816-1890] [05] [06]. |
Died: | 14 March 1879 | Cunninghame Street, Sale, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 62 years [07] [08]. |
Buried: | 15 March 1879 | Sale Cemetery, Sale, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Plan 3, Section K, No 0011] [09] [10]. |
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Career
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References
Notes
01⇑ | London, England, Church of England Births and Burials, 1813-1917 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 13 February 2024]. |
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02⇑ | Married - Hedley-Peck; Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 24 September 1842, p 2 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 13 February 2024]. |
03⇑ | Shipping Intelligence - Adelaide Shipping - Arrived; Melbourne Daily News, 25 February 1850, p 2 [Trove; 13 February 2024]. |
04⇑ | Shipping and Commercial Gazette - Arrived; Port Phillip Gazette and Settler's Journal (Melbourne), 12 March 1850, p 2 [Trove; 13 February 2024]. An obituary says that he arrived in February 1850, but that is when the ship called at Adelaide. |
05⇑ | Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1945-007368. |
06⇑ | Married - Hedley-Robertson; The Argus (Melbourne), 9 January 1856, p 4 [Trove; 13 February 2024]. |
07⇑ | Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1879-002855. |
08⇑ | Death - Hedley; Gippsland Times, 17 March 1879, p 3 [Trove; 18 April 2023]. |
09⇑ | The Late Dr Hedley; Gippsland Times, 17 March 1879, p 3 [Trove; 13 February 2024]. |
10⇑ | Burials [Sale Cemetery; 13 February 2024]. |
11⇑ | A Medical Family in the Early European Settlement in Gippsland – The Hedleys at Tarraville and Sale [The Minters; 29 October 2024]. Image originally from the Sale Historical Society. |
Further Reading
Profile: | George Hedley (politician) [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024]. |
Statistics: | George Dixon Hedley [Parliament of Victoria; 5 November 2024]. |
Statistics: | Kathleen Thomson, Alan Serle; A Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament 1859-1900; Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1972; p 91. |
Updates
2024-10-13 | Page formatting revised. |
2024-02-13 | Life Events updated and references added. |