Dane, John

John Dane, 1810-1882


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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:	7 January 1810	Killyhevlin, County Fermanagh, Ireland [01].
Married:	23 February 1834	Fort St George, Madras [Chennai], Madras Presidency, India, to Mary Hayes [c1818-1903] [02].
Arrived:	10 August 1851	Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the barque Troubadour. Departed Plymouth. 27 April 1851 [03] [04] [05].
Died:	30 April 1882	Campbelltown, Colony of New South Wales [daughter's residence], aged 72 years [06] [07].
Buried:	May 1882	St Peters Anglican Church Cemetery, Campbelltown, Colony of New South Wales [08].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:

Gold Commissioner:

John Dane

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1825	1836-09-17	16		Military career prior to Sergeant TBD		British Army			Sergeant.
		1836-09-18	1838-05-10	16		Sergeant, 57th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Ensign.
	1838-05-11	1838-05-11	1840-07-27	28		Ensign, 62nd Regiment of Foot		British Army			Lieutenant.
	1840-07-28	1840-07-28	1842-10-13	30		Lieutenant, 62nd Regiment of Foot		British Army			28th Regiment
	1842-10-14	1842-10-14	1851-02-20	32		Lieutenant, 28th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Captain.
	1851-02-21	1851-02-21	1851-03-13	41		Captain, Unattached		British Army Reserve			53rd Regiment
	1851-03-14	1851-03-14	1851-03-14	41		Captain, 53rd Regiment of Foot		British Army			Retired.
		1851-03	1851-12			TBD
		1851-12-15	1852-02-03			Assistant Commissioner	Victoria	Gold Districts	Gold Districts		Resigned

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	John Dane [The Peerage; 4 January 2024]. Quoting Burke's Irish Family Records for the date. Killyhevlin from his obituary.
02⇑	War Office WO025-3239 - Reports of Officers' Marriages. Page 549, John Dane [National Archives UK; 4 January 2024].
03⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 11 August 1851, p 2 [Trove; 4 May 2023].
04⇑	Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 2 1846-1855; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1987; p 81.
05⇑	There is a story told by Louis Dane (grandson?) in The Times of 18 October 1934. This says that Dane brought his family to settle in Melbourne, arriving on 9 August 1848. There are many factual errors in this account, so is probably referring to the arrival on 10 August 1851.
06⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages new South Wales Death Index D1882-006626.
07⇑	Deaths - Dane; The Argus (Melbourne), 4 May 1882, p 1 [Trove; 4 January 2024].
08⇑	John Dane [Find a Grave; 4 January 2024].
09⇑	John Dane [Parliament of Victoria; 30 October 2024].

Further Reading

Profile:	John Dane (politician) [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024].
Statistics:	John Dane [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 49.

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2024-01-04	Life Events updated and references added.