Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1892 – Police Magistrates and Wardens of the Gold Fields


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Port Phillip District (1836-1851) Colony of Victoria (1851-1900) Victoria (1901-1929)

Years:		1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880
		1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900

Bodies:

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Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Wardens

Roles:

Prior

Police Magistrates Gold Wardens

Roles:	The column headed R [Role] is the assigned role.
	The columns headed PM [Police Magistrate], GF [Gold Commissioner (1851-1855) or Warden of the Gold Fields (1855-1907)], CL [Commissioner of Crown Lands], and CP [Chinese Protector] show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time. They do not include other roles, which may be indicated in the Comments column or on the person's profile page.
	= Government Office (Paid), = Government Duties (Unpaid), = On leave, = To be determined.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book, CL = Commissioner of Crown Lands, CP = Chinese Protector, CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions, GC = Gold Commissioner, GR = Gold Receiver,
	GW = Warden of the Gold Fields, 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 (under new legislation), = Promoted, = Demoted, = Redesignated, = Transferred, = Replaced/Succeeded,
	= Position made permanent, = Paid as (role).

Assignments:	The location or district the person was assigned to. A number is the OP column (Other Places) means that they also sat at that many other locations of Courts of Petty Sessions. The number of other locations changed from time to time as courts were created, abolished, or reassigned.

Sources (S1, S2):	= Blue Book, = Blue Book derived, = Government Gazette, = Government Gazette derived, = Public Service List, = Public Service List derived,
	= Report, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract, = Cemetery, = Census, = Legal,
	= Newspaper family notice, = Newspaper article, = Book/Magazine, = Other, = Unconfirmed, = Military service record, = Internet.

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.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed information.

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Police Magistrates (also Wardens of the Gold Fields, Coroners)

BB	Name	Title	Original	S	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	OP	Comments	Next	FN
V1892	Bartrop, George Frederick	Police Magistrate	1887-11-14	R	1890-04	1890-04	Ongoing	Malvern	19
V1892	Bell, Edward Connor	Police Magistrate	1889-03-01	R	1890-04	1890-04	Ongoing	Sale	16
V1892	Cooper, John Sisson	Police Magistrate	1886-05-25	R	1891-05	1891-05	1892-05	Ballarat	16		Retired, then died.
V1892	Dobbin, Charles Leonard	Police Magistrate	1888-08-11	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Wangaratta	10
V1892	Dwyer, Patrick Joseph	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1892-07-25	R	1892-07-25	1892-07-25	1892-09-07	Maryborough	11	Leader.		[01]
V1892	Dwyer, Patrick Joseph	Police Magistrate	1892-07-25	R	1892-09-08	1892-09-08	Ongoing	Maryborough	11
V1892	Foster, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R	1889-03	1889-03	1892-05	Relieving Magistrates			Ballarat.
V1892	Foster, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R	1892-05	1892-05	Ongoing	Ballarat	16	Cooper (retired).
V1892	Greene, William Wentworth	Police Magistrate	1890-04-29	R	1891	1891	Ongoing	Wedderburn	10		Seymour.
V1892	Greene, William Wentworth	Police Magistrate	1890-04-29	R	1892	1892	Ongoing	Seymour	10	Smallman.		[02]
V1892	Hare, Francis Augustus	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1891	1891	1892-07-09	Mornington	21		Died.
V1892	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	1892-06-30	Geelong	11		Retired.
V1892	Holmes, Charles George	Police Magistrate	1891-05-19	R	1891-09-21	1891-09-21	1892	Bairnsdale	5		Maryborough.
V1892	Holmes, Charles George	Police Magistrate	1891-05-19	R	1892	1892	Ongoing	Maryborough	11	Leader.		[03]
V1892	Johns, Reynell Eveleigh	Police Magistrate	1888-09-19	R	1890-05	1890-05	Ongoing	Hamilton	13
V1892	Keogh, John	Police Magistrate	1889-09-23	R	1890-03-24	1890-03-24	1892	Kilmore	8		Beechworth.
V1892	Keogh, John	Police Magistrate	1889-09-23	R	1892	1892	Ongoing	Beechworth	12	Joseph Rowan.
V1892	Leader, William	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1891-10-21	R	1891-10-21	1891-10-21	1892-01-27	Maryborough	11		Trial period extended.
V1892	Leader, William	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1891-10-21	R	1892-01-28	1892-01-28	1892-04-04	Maryborough	11	Backdated to 1891-10-24.
V1892	Leader, William	Police Magistrate	1891-10-24	R	1892-04-05	1892-04-05	1892-07-31	Maryborough	11		Bendigo.
V1892	Leader, William	Police Magistrate	1891-10-24	R	1892-08-01	1892-08-01	Ongoing	Bendigo	7	Patterson.		[04]
V1892	McCormick, George Deihl	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1888-08	1888-08	Ongoing	Warrnambool	6
V1892	McLuckie, James	Police Magistrate	1890-06-04	R	1890-08-04	1890-08-04	1892-01	Stawell	16		Kilmore or Bairnsdale.
V1892	McLuckie, James	Police Magistrate	1890-06-04	R	1892	1892	Ongoing	Bairnsdale	5	C G Holmes.		[05]
V1892	Nicolson, Charles Hope	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1892	O'Meara, John Joseph	Police Magistrate	1885-11-02	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Kew	16
V1892	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Senior Police Magistrate		R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Metropolitan
V1892	Patterson, George William Frederick	Police Magistrate	1888-08-27	R	1889-09	1889-09	1892-07	Bendigo	7		Geelong.
V1892	Patterson, George William Frederick	Police Magistrate	1888-08-27	R	1892-07	1892-07	Ongoing	Geelong	11	Heron (retired).		[06]
V1892	Perry, Charles Lindley	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1892-06-14	R	1892-06-13	1892-06-14	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1892	Robertson, James	Police Magistrate	1889-06-24	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Castlemaine	13
V1892	Rowan, James	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1892-02-25	R	1892-02-25	1892-02-25	1892-05-29	Stawell	12	McLuckie.		[07]
V1892	Rowan, James	Police Magistrate	1892-02-25	R	1892-05-30	1892-05-30	Ongoing	Stawell	12
V1892	Rowan, Joseph	Police Magistrate	1890-05-13	R	1890-05-13	1890-05-13	1892	Beechworth	12		Wedderburn.
V1892	Rowan, Joseph	Police Magistrate	1890-05-13	R	1892	1892	Ongoing	Wedderburn	10	Greene.		[08]
V1892	Shuter, Charles	Police Magistrate		R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Metropolitan
V1892	Smallman, Thomas	Police Magistrate	1890-05-06	R	1890-08-04	1890-08-04	1892	Seymour	10		Kilmore.
V1892	Smallman, Thomas	Police Magistrate	1890-05-06	R	1892	1892	Ongoing	Kilmore	8	Keogh.		[09]
V1892	(Vacant)					1892-01-01	1891-02-31	Alexandra
V1892	(Vacant)					1892-01-01	1892-12-31	Benalla	10
V1892	(Vacant)					1892-01-01	1892-12-31	Dandenong
V1892	(Vacant)					1892-01-01	1892-12-31	Fitzroy	17
V1892	(Vacant)					1892-01-01	1892-12-31	Inglewood
V1892	(Vacant)					1892-06	1892-12-31	Relieving Magistrates
V1892	(Vacant)					1892-01-01	1892-12-31	St Arnaud

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	Assignment not in Public Service list.
02⇑	This transfer may not have happened as Greene was in Wedderburn in the 1893 list.
03⇑	This transfer may not have happened as Holmes was in Bairnsdale in the 1893 list.
04⇑	Listed as Stawell, but was transferred to Bendigo.
05⇑	This transfer may not have happened as McLuckie was in Kilmore and Holmes in Bairnsdale in the 1893 list.
06⇑	Assignment not in Public Service list until 1893.
07⇑	Assignment not in Public Service list.
08⇑	This transfer may not have happened as Rowan was in Beechworth in the 1893 list.
09⇑	This transfer may not have happened as Smallman was in Seymour in the 1893 list.

Sources

	Comparisons to the previous year.
	Return of Persons employed in the Public Service of Victoria on the 31st December 1892; Fourth Supplement to the Victoria Government Gazette, No 14, 31 January 1893; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1893; p 523 (47).
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1892.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1892; Government Printer, Melbourne, 28 July 1891.
	Supplementary Estimates, 1891-92; Government Printer, Melbourne, 28 July 1892.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1893; Government Printer, Melbourne, 28 July 1892.

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