Snodgrass, Peter

Peter Snodgrass, 1817-1867

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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:29 September 1817Lisbon, Portugal [01].
Arrived:23 December 1828Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the ship George Canning. Departed Liverpool, 16 August 1828. [02] [03].
Married:24 September 1846Colony of New South Wales, to Charlotte Agnes Cotton [1830-1894] [04] [05].
Died:25 November 1867Blairgowrie, South Yarra, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 50 years [06] [07] [08].
Buried:27 November 1867Melbourne General Cemetery, Parkville, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Church of England, Section N, No 0302] [09] [10].

Golden Colony Roles

Port Phillip:Crown Lands:183118321833183418351836183718381839

Peter Snodgrass (Published 1872) [11]

Career

OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1838-02-081838-02-091839-03-3120Commissioner of Crown LandsVictoriaCrown LandsPort PhillipRetired

References

Notes

Notes
01⇑Alan Gross; Snodgrass, Peter (1817-1867) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 2 October 2023]. A primary source to confirm the birth date is needed.
02⇑Shipping Intelligence; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 24 December 1828, p 2 [Trove; 25 April 2023]
03⇑Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 2 1826-1840; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1977; p 29.
04⇑Births, Deaths and Marriages New South Wales Marriage Index M1846-000751 (31C).
05⇑Married; The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser, 29 September 1846, p 2 [Trove; 14 April 2023]. The marriage notice does not specify where.
06⇑Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1867-011512.
07⇑Deaths - Snodgrass; The Age (Melbourne), 27 November 1867, p 3 [Trove; 14 April 2023]
08⇑Death notices and reports say that he was 49, but, based on his birth date, he would have been 50.
09⇑Peter Snodgrass [Find a Grave; 14 April 2023]
10⇑Funeral Notices - Snodgrass; The Age (Melbourne), 27 November 1867, p 1 [Trove; 14 April 2023]
11⇑Thomas Foster Chuck; The Explorers and Early Colonists of Victoria; Melbourne, 1872 [State Library of Victoria; 22 October 2024].

Further Reading

Biography:Alan Gross; Snodgrass, Peter (1817-1867) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Obituary:Snodgrass, Peter (1817-1867) [Obituaries Australia; 23 February 2024].
Profile:Peter Snodgrass [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024].
Statistics:Peter Snodgrass [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 196.

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2022-01-31Page created.