Dana, Henry Edmund Pulteney

Henry Edmund (Edward) Pulteney Dana, 1817-1852

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Roles (R): = Government Office (Paid),   = Government Duties (Unpaid),   = On leave,   = To be determined,   = Squatter/Grazier,   = Private enterprise,   = Parliament/Council,
= British Army,   = Royal Marines,   = British Militia,   = State Militia,   = East India Company Army,   = Royal Navy,   = Other Maritime,
= Education,   = Army Education,   = Navy Education,   = Immigration,   = Emigration,   = Other voyage.
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,   = Succeeded,   = Transferred,   = Replaced.
= Position made permanent,   = Paid as (role).
Sources (S): = 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,   = Army promotion by purchase of commission,   = By exchange.
Unconfirmed:All text in magenta is unconfirmed information.
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Life Events

Born:28 December 1817Sutton House, Albrighton, Shropshire, England [01] [02].
Baptised:TBDTBD
Arrived:3 September 1839Launceston, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, on the barque Arab. Departed London, 20 April 1839 [03] [04].
Married:8 February 1844St James's Cathedral, Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, to Sophia Cole Hamilton Walsh [c1827-1860] [05].
Died:24 November 1852Melbourne Club, Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, aged 34 years [06] [07].
Buried:25 November 1852St Stephen's Anglican Church, Richmond, Colony of Victoria [08] [09] [10] [11] [12].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:Police Magistrate:18511852

Henry Edmund Pulteney Dana [13]

Career

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References

Notes

Notes
01⇑ Gary Presland; Dana, Henry Edmund Pulteney (1817-1852); in: Gordon Forth (Editor); The Biographical Dictionary of the Western District of Victoria; Hyland House, South Melbourne, 1998; pp 28, has the date, but says Ireland. A primary source is needed.
02⇑ Place from Ancestry. A primary source is needed.
03⇑ Launceston Shipping List - Arrivals; Launceston Advertiser, 5 September 1839, p 5 [Trove, 4 November 2024]. Dana is listed as Henry Edward Dana.
04⇑ Launceston; Launceston Advertiser, 5 September 1839, p 2 [Trove, 4 November 2024]. This report has the Arab arriving on 30 August 1839.
05⇑ Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index M1844-004805.
06⇑ Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Burial Certificate D1852-031358.
07⇑ Death of Captain Dana; The Argus (Melbourne), 25 November 1852, p 5 [Trove, 4 November 2024].
08⇑ Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Burial Certificate D1852-031358.
09⇑ Funeral of H E P Dana; The Argus (Melbourne), 25 November 1852, p 5 [Trove, 4 November 2024].
10⇑ Funeral of the Late Captain Dana; The Argus (Melbourne), 26 November 1852, p 5 [Trove, 4 November 2024].
11⇑ John Sadleir; The Brothers Dana; The Australasian (Melbourne), 26 March 1898, p 46 [Trove, 4 November 2024].
12⇑ Dana's burial registration states that he was buried in the Parish of St Stephen's in Richmond. The church apparently has no record of this now and his remains were possibly transferred to the Old Melbourne Cemetery. The funeral reports do not specify the cemetery. Police Superintendent Sadleir, writing in 1898, said that he saw the funeral procession heading to the William Street cemetery, which suggests the Flagstaff Hill cemetery. This is unlikely, as that cemetery had closed in 1837. I assume that he meant the Old Melbourne Cemetery, which was on the current site of the Queen Victoria Market. Dana's name does not appear in the lists of burials that were relocated to other cemeteries after that cemetery was closed and some of the burials were transferred to Fawkner Cemetery and others in the 1920s. Dana is probably one of the roughly 9,000 people still buried under the Queen Victoria Market. Most Old Melbourne Cemetery records were lost in 1864 and many graves were unmarked.
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Further Reading

Biography:Les Blake; Captain Dana and the Native Police; Neptune Press, Newtown, 1982.
Biography:Marilynn I Norman; Henry Edward Pulteney Dana (1820-1852); Australian Dictionary of Biography [ 18 June 2024].
Profile:Gary Presland; Dana, Henry Edmund Pulteney (1817-1852); in: Gordon Forth (Editor); The Biographical Dictionary of the Western District of Victoria; Hyland House, South Melbourne, 1998; pp 28-29.
Profile:Henry Dana; Wikipedia [ 23 October 2024].

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