Doveton, Francis Crossman

Francis Crossman Doveton, 1817-1905


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Francis Crossman Doveton: 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:	18 October 1817	Marksbury, Somerset, England [01].
Baptised:	20 November 1817	St Michael's Church of England, Burnett, Somerset, England [02].
Arrived:	21 November 1838	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the ship Earl Grey. Departed Greenock, Scotland, 12 June 1838, London, 8 August 1838 [03] [04] [05].
Married (1):	3 September 1842	St John's Anglican Church, Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, to Margaret Bostock [1824-1853] [06] [07].
Married (2):	14 July 1855	Church of England, Castlemaine, Colony of Victoria, to Mary Ann Snell [1838-1901] [08] [09].
Died:	10 July 1905	Copeland, 96 Lewisham Road, Prahran, Victoria, Australia [residence], aged 87 years [10] [11].
Buried:	11 July 1905	St Kilda Cemetery, East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia [Grave: Roman Catholic, Compartment A, No 0681] [12] [13].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:	Police Magistrate:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860
	Gold Commissioner:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855
	Gold Warden:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860
	Chinese Protector:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860

Francis Crossman Doveton .

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1833-01-15	1835-06-30	15		Gentleman Cadet, Royal Military College		British Army	Sandhurst		Ensign.
	1837-09-02	1837-09-02	1841-10-14	19		Ensign, 51st Regiment of Foot		British Army			Lieutenant.
	1841-10-15	1841-10-15	1844-12-31	23		Lieutenant, 51st Regiment of Foot		British Army			Retired.	[15]
		1844-01-01	1851-08-18			TBD

References

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Notes
01⇑	Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 6 January 2024].
02⇑	Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 6 January 2024].
03⇑	Ship News - Arrivals; Commercial Journal and Advertiser (Sydney), 24 November 1838, p 2 [Trove; 22 April 2023].
04⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 2 1826-1840; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1977; p 203.
05⇑	With detachments of the 51st Regiment and 288 male convicts.
06⇑	Marriages RGD/37/1/2, No 1611 [Libraries Tasmania; 6 January 2024].
07⇑	Marriages - Doveton-Bostock; The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston), 10 September 1842, p 2 [Trove; 6 January 2024].
08⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Certificate M1855-001914.
09⇑	Marriages - Doveton-Snell; Mount Alexander Mail, 27 July 1855, p 2 [Trove; 6 January 2024].
10⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1905-010360.
11⇑	Deaths - Doveton; The Argus (Melbourne), 11 July 1905, p 1 [Trove; 18 April 2023].
12⇑	Deceased Search [St Kilda Cemetery; 6 January 2024].
13⇑	Funeral Notices - Doveton; The Argus (Melbourne), 11 July 1905, p 1 [Trove; 6 January 2024].
14⇑	Flickr . Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.
15⇑	Doveton's death notice refers to him as "late captain 51st Regiment", but he retired as a lieutenant.

Further Reading

Profile:	Doveton, Francis Crossman (1818-1905); in: Justin Corfield, Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni; The Eureka Encyclopaedia; Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004; pp 158-159.
Statistics:	Doveton, Francis Crossman (1818-1905); in: Herbert James Gibbney, Ann Gertrude Smith; A Biographical Register, 1788-1939, Volume 1; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1987; p 188.

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2024-01-06	Life Events updated and references added.