Dewes (D’Ewes), John

John Dewes (D’Ewes), 1804-1862

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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:19 January 1804Wellesbourne Hall, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, England [01] [02].
Baptised:16 April 1804St Peter's Church of England, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, England [03].
Married (1):31 March 1827British Embassy, Paris, France, to Emily Beresford [1810-1850] [04].
Arrived:22 May 1853Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the schooner Vibilia. Departed London 21 January 1853 [05] [06].
Married (2):12 September 1854St Peter's Eastern Hill Church of England, Collingwood, Colony of Victoria, to Eleanor Georgina Jones [1830-1870] [07] [08].
Departed:1859Emigrated to Canada. Departed Sydney, Colony of New South Wales [09].
Died:29 January 1862Hamburg [Germany], France, or Canada [10].
Buried:1862Hamburg [Germany], France, or Canada [11].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:Police Magistrate:18511852185318531854

Career

OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1820CadetMadrasHEIC Madras Army Ensign.
1821-02-131824-07-02Ensign, 8th Regiment of Native InfantryMadrasHEIC Madras Army Lieutenant.
1824-07-031825Lieutenant, 8th Regiment of Native InfantryMadrasHEIC Madras ArmyStruck off in England.
1853-08-071853-12-31Police MagistrateVictoriaPetty SessionsBallarat Henry Foster. to Barrow's Inn.
1854-01-011854-11-21Police MagistrateVictoriaPetty SessionsBarrow's InnDismissed.

References

Notes

Notes
01⇑ Place from 1854 marriage notice. Date to be confirmed.
02⇑ Most sources, including John's signature, have Dewes. His two books were published as D'Ewes.
03⇑ Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 [Ancestry (Membership required) 5 December 2024].
04⇑ UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969 [Ancestry (Membership required) 5 December 2024].
05⇑ Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 23 May 1853, p 6 [Trove, 5 January 2024].
06⇑ Dewes wrote that he arrived on the Vibilia, departing Gravesend (London) on 30 November 1852 and entering Port Phillip on 26 February 1853. Dewes is not listed among the passengers in the arrival notice (Mr and Mrs Jarvis and three in the steerage). The relevent section of the passenger list at PROV has two single passengers, neither is Dewes.
07⇑ Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index M1854-001958.
08⇑ Marriages - Dewes-Jones; The Argus (Melbourne), 13 September 1854, p 4 [Trove, 5 January 2024]. This notice includes the note "This marriage has been formerly celebrated in England according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church."
09⇑ Appointed Acting Postmaster of Victoria, Colony of British Columbia, on 8 December 1859.
10⇑ Date and location to be confirmed.
11⇑ Date and location to be confirmed.

Further Reading

Memoirs:John D'Ewes; China, Australia and the Pacific Islands in the years 1853-56; Richard Bentley, London, 1857.
Memoirs:John D'Ewes; Sporting in Both Hemispheres; G Routledge, London, 1858 [2nd Edition].
Profile:D'ewes, John (1804-1861); in: Justin Corfield, Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni; The Eureka Encyclopaedia; Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004; pp 151-152.
Statistics:Kathleen Thomson, Alan Serle; A Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament 1859-1900; Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1972; p 50.

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-01-05Life Events updated and references added.