Gisborne, Henry Fyshe

Henry Fyshe Gisborne, 1813-1841


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Henry Fyshe Gisborne: 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:	1 October 1813	Clifton, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England [01] [02].
Baptised:	7 December 1813	St Oswald's Church of England, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England [03].
Arrived:	13 February 1834	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the barque Atwick. Departed London, 5 September 1833, via Hobart Town [04] [05] [06].
Married:		Did not marry.
Departed:	23 August 1840	Departed Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the ship Broxbornebury, for Guam, Singapore, Bombay, and England [07] [08].
Died:	21 April 1841	At sea, between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, or after leaving St Helena, on a voyage from India to England [09] [10].
Buried:	TBD	TBD [11].

Golden Colony Roles

Port Phillip:

Crown Lands:

1831

1832

1833

1834

1835

1836

1837

1838

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
	1839-05-21	1839-04-01	1840-07-01	25		Commissioner	NSW	Crown Lands	Port Phillip		Snodgrass. Resigned.

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Notes
01⇑	Derbyshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 9 December 2023].
02⇑	The family was residing in Clifton. His middle name is often spelled Fysche in Australia, but his baptism and his mother's middle name (and her ancestors) have Fyshe.
03⇑	Derbyshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 9 December 2023].
04⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals; The Australasian (Sydney), 14 February 1834, p 2 [Trove; 12 June 2023].
05⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 2 1826-1840; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1977; p 108.
06⇑	Gisborne was listed as a passenger for Van Diemen's Land, but continued to Sydney.
07⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Departures; The Sydney Herald, 24 August 1840, p 2 [Trove; 9 December 2023].
08⇑	The travel involved several ships.
09⇑	Died - Gisborne; The Times (London), 27 May 1841, p 7 [The Times (Membership required) 9 December 2023].
10⇑	Marnie Bassett, writing in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1966), has 30 April 1841. Her 1985 book has 21 April 1841. Probate is indexed as 30 April 1841, but the actual text says "on or about the thirtieth day of April." London newspapers say it was between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena. An Australian news item says after leaving St Helena. A primary source is needed for the date and the ship.
11⇑	To be determined whether he was buried at sea or his body returned to England.

Further Reading

Biography:	Marnie Bassett; Henry Fyshe Gisborne, and "Once Upon A Time;" Arthur Thomas Treble; Kangaroo Flat, 1985.
Biography:	Marnie Bassett; Gisborne, Henry Fyshe (Fysche) (1813-1841) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Profile:	Henry Fyshe Gisborne [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2023-12-09	Life Events updated and references added.