Howitt, Alfred William

Alfred William Howitt, 1830-1908

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Contents:Alfred William Howitt:  Profile  Biography  Research Notes
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:17 April 1830Nottingham (St Peter's Parish), Nottinghamshire, England [01].
Arrived:20 September 1852Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the ship Kent. Departed Plymouth, 10 June 1852 [02] [03] [04].
Married:18 August 1864St Michael's Church of England, Mitcham, Colony of South Australia, to Maria Robinson Boothby [1843-1943] [05] [06].
Died:7 March 1908Eastwood, Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia [residence], aged 77 years [07] [08].
Buried:9 March 1908Bairnsdale Cemetery, Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia [Grave: Anglican TBD] [09] [10].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:Police Magistrate:18511852185318541855185618571858185918601861186218631864186518661867186818691870
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Gold Warden:18511852185318541855185618571858185918601861186218631864186518661867186818691870
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Alfred William Howitt (c1861) [11]

Career

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References

Notes

Notes
01⇑ England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 15 February 2024].
02⇑ Authors for Australia; The Argus (Melbourne), 11 September 1852, p 5 [Trove; 21 April 2023].
03⇑ Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 2 1846-1855; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1987; p 124.
04⇑ Arrivals information is missing from the Trove copy of The Argus. Richard Henry Horne was on the same voyage.
05⇑ Births, Deaths and Marriages South Australia Marriage Index M1864-059-182.
06⇑ Marriage - Howitt-Boothby; The Argus (Melbourne), 30 August 1864, p 4 [Trove; 15 February 2024].
07⇑ Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1908-000132.
08⇑ Deaths - Howitt; The Age (Melbourne), 9 March 1908, p 1 [Trove; 18 April 2023].
09⇑ Alfred William Howitt [Find a Grave; 24 May 2023].
10⇑ Death of Dr Howitt; Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle, 10 March 1908, p 2 [Trove; 24 May 2023].
11⇑ State Library of New South Wales.

Further Reading

Biography:Mary Howitt Walker; Come Wind, Come Weather: A Biography of Alfred Howitt; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1971.
Biography:Craig Horne; Line of Blood: The Truth of William Howitt; Melbourne Books, Melbourne, 2023.
Biography:W E H Stanner; Howitt, Alfred William (1830-1908) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Obituary:Howitt, Alfred William (1830-1908) [Obituaries Australia; 23 February 2024].
Profile:Howitt, Alfred William (1830-1908); in: Joan Kerr (Editor); The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992; pp 376-377.
Profile:The Howitt Family of Barragunda - Alfred William Howitt; in: Alexander Henderson; Early Pioneer Families of Victoria and Riverina: A Genealogical and Biographical Record; McCarron Bird & Co, Melbourne, 1936; pp 386-388.
Profile:Howitt, Alfred William; in: Fred Johns; Johns's Notable Australians and Who is Who in Australasia [2nd Edition]; Fred Johns, Adelaide, 1908; pp 172-173.
Profile:Alfred William Howitt [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-02-15Life Events updated and references added.