Vignoles, Samuel

Samuel Vignoles, 1796-1857


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Samuel Vignoles: Profile Biography Research Notes

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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:	23 April 1796	Portarlington, Queen's County (County Laois), Ireland [01].
Baptised:	2 June 1796	St Paul's Church "French Church", Portarlington, Queen's County (County Laois), Ireland [02].
Married:	4 October 1832	Willowbank (House), Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, to Louisa Macnamara [1798-1832] [03] [04].
Arrived:	31 July 1854	Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the clipper ship Lightning. Departed Liverpool, 14 May 1854 [05] [06] [07].
Died:	28 August 1857	Private Lunatic Asylum, Pascoe Vale, Colony of Victoria, aged 61 years [08] [09].
Buried:	31 August 1857	Melbourne General Cemetery, Parkville, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Church of England, Compartment S, No 0255] [10].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:

Police Magistrate:

1851

1852

1853

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1811-11-13	1815-12-11	15		Gentleman Cadet, Royal Military Academy		British Army	Woolwich		2nd Lieutenant.
		1813-01-12	1813-02-02	19		Ensign, 41st Regiment of Foot		British Army			Commission did not proceed.
		1815-12-11	1821-12-23	19		2nd Lieutenant, Royal Regiment of Artillery		British Army			1st Lieutenant. Placed on reserve list.
		1821-12-24	1824-06-23	25		1st Lieutenant, Royal Regiment of Artillery		British Army Reserve			19th Regiment.
		1824-06-24	1826-04-07	28		1st Lieutenant, 19th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Captain
		1826-04-08	1834-09-05	29		Captain, 19th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Retired.
		1831-04-04		34		Magistrate of Police	Ireland		King's County		Mt Pleasant, Tullamore, King's County, Ireland

References

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Notes
01⇑	Thomas Philip Le Fanu (Editor); Registers of the French Church of Portarlington, Ireland; The Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, Volume 19, London, 1908; p 139.
02⇑	Thomas Philip Le Fanu (Editor); Registers of the French Church of Portarlington, Ireland; The Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, Volume 19, London, 1908; p 139. Baptised as Samuel Vignoles. "de Vignoles" was used occasionally, such as his death certificate (misspelled) and the Melbourne General Cemetery.
03⇑	Married; Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser, 8 October 1832, p 3 [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 4 March 2026].
04⇑	Possibly Louisa Catherine Macnamara.
05⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 1 August 1854, p 4 [Trove; 24 April 2023].
06⇑	Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 2 1846-1855; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1987; p 264.
07⇑	Lightning Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 947, July-September 1854 [PROV; 24 April 2023].
08⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1857-004283.
09⇑	Suicide of Captain Vignolles; The Age (Melbourne), 29 August 1857, p 4 [Trove; 18 April 2023].
10⇑	Correspondence from Melbourne General Cemetery, 19 October 2023. The gravestone has a date of 25 October 1857, which is a mystery, as is the identity of the Thomas Henry Edwards who was buried there in 1872.

Further Reading

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2023-11-11	Life Events updated and references added.