Rudston Read, Charles

Charles Rudston Read, 1818-1854

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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:16 May 1818Sand Hutton, Yorkshire, England [01].
Baptised:10 June 1818St Botolph’s, Bossall, Yorkshire, England [02].
Arrived:1849New Zealand.
Arrived:30 September 1851Newcastle, Colony of New South Wales, on the brig Halcyon. Departed Nelson, Colony of New Zealand [03].
Departed:30 January 1853Returned to England on the ship Statesman.
Arrived:24 April 1854Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the barque Balnaguith, departing Plymouth on 29 December 1853.
Died:19 September 1854Kaiapoi (near Christchurch), Canterbury, Colony of New Zealand.
Buried:21 September 1854Barbadoes Street Cemetery, Christchurch, Canterbury, Colony of New Zealand.

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:Gold Commissioner:185118521853

Career

OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1831-09-0313Royal NavyRoyal Navy
1838-10-0520Royal NavyRoyal Navy Mate.
183820Mate, HMS ConwayRoyal Navy Lieutenant.
1841-10-0823LieutenantRoyal Navy
1842-11-0524Lieutenant, HMS FrolicRoyal Navy
1847-09-0829Lieutenant, HMS AsiaRoyal Navy
1847-11-011848-0529Lieutenant, HMS MaeanderRoyal Navy
1848-0530LieutenantRoyal Navy
1848-08-011848-11-2530Lieutenant, HMS InconstantRoyal Navy
1848-12-071849-02-24Lieutenant, HMS AlectoRoyal NavyCourt-martialled and dismissed.
1852-05-251852-12-31Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold Fields
1853-01-011852-01-28Junior Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold FieldsResigned.

References

Notes

Notes
01⇑Sometimes said to be Hayton, but Hayton is where his father was from.
02⇑St Botolph’s is the Bossall Parish Church.
03⇑Shipping Intelligence - Newcastle; The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 October 1851, p 2 [Trove; 22 April 2023]

Further Reading

Memoirs:Charles Rudston Read; What I Heard, Saw, and Did at the Australian Gold Fields; T & W Boone, London, 1853.
Biography:Suzanna Edgar; Read, Charles Rudston (1818-1854) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Profile:Read, Charles Rudston (1818-1854); in: Joan Kerr (Editor); The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992; p 657.
Profile:William R O'Byrne; A Naval Biographical Dictionary; John Murray, London, 1849, p 961.

Updates

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