Ferguson, Charles

Charles Ferguson, c1813-1868




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Life Events


Born:11 April 1813South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland [01].
Baptised:25 April 1813South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland [02].
Arrived:4 May 1850Melbourne, Port Phillip District, Colony of NSW, on the barque Rajah. Departed London, 27 November 1849 [03] [04].
Married:1 July 184335 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Colony of Van Diemen's Land [residence of James Barnard], to Kezia Elizabeth Hayter [1818-1885] [05] [06].
Departed:7 February 1868Returned to England on sick leave on the ship Omar Pacha [07] [08] [09].
Died:27 December 186813 Norfolk Street, Strand, London, England [residence], aged 55 years [10].
Buried:31 December 1868All Saint's Cemetery, Nunhead, Camberwell, Surrey, England [11].

Golden Colony Roles


Victoria:Police Magistrate:18511852

Charles Ferguson [12]

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Notes

Notes
01 Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [Ancestry (Membership required) 11 January 2024]. To be confirmed that this is the correct Charles Ferguson.
02 Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [Ancestry (Membership required) 11 January 2024]. To be confirmed that this is the correct Charles Ferguson.
03 Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 6 May 1850, p 2 [Trove, 11 January 2024].
04 Ferguson was the Captain of the Rajah and made a number of voyages between London, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, between 1838 and 1850, before settling in Victoria in 1850. Captain McQueen took the Rajah back to England.
05 Libraries Tasmania Marriages RGD/37/1/3 No 359 [ 19 December 2023].
06 Married - Ferguson-Hayter; The Courier (Hobart), 7 July 1843, p 2 [Trove, 10 January 2024].
07 Shipping Intelligence - Cleared Out; The Age (Melbourne), 8 February 1868, p 4 [Trove, 11 January 2024].
08 Omar Pasha [sic] Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 948, January-June 1868 [ 11 January 2024].
09 Name of the ship from Lloyds, rather than the newspaper reports, which has Omar Pasha. Ferguson intended to return to Australia, but died in England.
10 Deaths - Ferguson; The Globe (London), 29 December 1868, p 4 [Find My Past (Membership required) 10 January 2024].
11 London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [Ancestry (Membership required) 11 January 2024]. Another reference has St Giles, but that is the parish in which the Nunhead cemetery is located. Also Southwark.
12 Retrieved from RootsWeb Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.

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Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-01-11Life Events updated and references added.