Gilbert, George Alexander

George Alexander Gilbert, 1815-1877

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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:1815Portsmouth, Hampshire, England [01].
Baptised (1):3 December 1815Church of St Thomas of Canterbury (Portsmouth Cathedral), Portsmouth, Hampshire, England [02].
Baptised (2):16 July 1816St Andrew's Church of England, Chichester, Sussex, England [03] [04].
Married (1a):15 June 1839St George's Church of England, Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex, England , to Anne Byerley, née Bird [1793-1878] [05].
Married (1b):25 June 1839St James's Church, Piccadilly (Westminster), London, England, to Ann Byerley, née Bird [1793-1878] [06] [07].
Arrived:4 November 1841Melbourne, Port Phillip District, Colony of NSW, on the ship Diamond. Departed London, 1 July 1841, via Cork [08] [09].
Departed:Before 1863Moved to Canada.
Married (2):TBDTBD
Departed:1871Moved to USA.
Married (3):30 May 1871Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America, to Matilda (Matilde) K Blankenbach [c1847-?] [10] [11].
Died:23 December 1877Hartford, Connecticut, USA [12] [13].
Buried:26 December 1877Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, USA [Grave: Section E] [14] [15].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:Gold Commissioner:185118521853

Career

OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1852-02-161852-12-31Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold Fields
1853-01-011853-04-15Junior Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold FieldsResigned.

References

Notes

Notes
01⇑ Most modern sources have 3 December 1815 as his birth date, but that date was his (first) baptism. The family was living in Portsmouth.
02⇑ George Alexander Gilbert; England, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Baptisms, 1538-1940 [FamilySearch, 17 January 2024].
03⇑ George Alexander Gilbert; England, Sussex, Parish Registers, 1538-1910 [FamilySearch, 17 January 2024].
04⇑ I have not found a reason for the two baptisms.
05⇑ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 [Ancestry (Membership required) 17 January 2024]. The bride is recorded as Anne Bird, spinster.
06⇑ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 [Ancestry (Membership required) 17 January 2024]. The bride is recorded as Anne Byerley, widow.
07⇑ I have not found a reason for the two ceremonies ten days apart in different, but nearby, churches.
08⇑ Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser, 8 November 1841, p 2 [Trove, 21 April 2023]
09⇑ Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 1 1798-1845; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1984; p 69.
10⇑ George A Gilbert and Matilde K Blankinbach [sic]; New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938 [FamilySearch, 17 January 2024].
11⇑ Matilda's age was given as 24 in the 1871 Canada Census, but 30 on the marriage registration.
12⇑ Professor George A Gilbert; The Hartford Daily Courant, 25 December 1877, p 2 [Newspapers (Membership required) 17 January 2024].
13⇑ According to Bowman (see Further Reading), he died at the local insane asylum.
14⇑ Professor George A Gilbert; The Hartford Daily Courant, 28 December 1877, p 2 [Newspapers (Membership required) 17 January 2024].
15⇑ Find a Grave - George A Gilbert [ 18 January 2024].

Further Reading

Biography:Margaret Bowman; Cultured Colonists: George Alexander Gilbert and his family, settlers in Port Phillip; Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014.
Profile:Gilbert, George Alexander (1815-?); in: Joan Kerr (Editor); The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992; pp 291-291.
Statistics:Gilbert, George Alexander (fl1820-1857); in: Herbert James Gibbney, Ann Gertrude Smith; A Biographical Register, 1788-1939, Volume 1; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1987; p 260.

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-01-18Life Events updated and references added.