Harriott, George

George Harriott, 1816-1892


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George Harriott: 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:	15 June 1816	Koruntadee, Bengal Presidency, East Indies (India) [01] [02].
Baptised:	5 August 1816	Benares, Bengal Presidency, East Indies (India) [03].
Married (1):	3 August 1837	Meerut, Bengal Presidency, East Indies (India), to Emily Jane Ford [1818-1857] [04].
Arrived:	4 October 1852	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the P&O steamer Formosa. Departed London, via Southampton, 7 August 1852 [05] [06] [07].
Married (2):	21 July 1860	St Paul's Church of England, Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, to Susan Broughton Willoughby [1830-1895] [08] [09].
Died:	26 September 1892	Glenelg, Carlingford, Colony of New South Wales [residence], aged 76 years [10] [11].
Buried:	27 September 1892	Carlingford (St Paul's) Anglican Cemetery, Carlingford, Colony of New South Wales [Grave: Section B2, No 0019] [12] [13].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:

Police Magistrate:

1851

1852

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1834-04-11	1836-07-07	17		Cornet, 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons		British Army			Cornet. Lieutenant.
		1836-07-08	1847-08-12	20		Lieutenant, 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons		British Army			7th Regiment.
		1847-08-13	1847-10-22	31		Lieutenant, 7th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Retired.
		1847	1853	31		TBD
		1853-02-19	1853-05-09			Junior Assistant Commissioner	Victoria	Gold Fields			PM.
		1853-05-07	1853-12-31			Police Magistrate	Victoria	Petty Sessions	Wedderburn		to Castlemaine
		1854-01-01				Police Magistrate	Victoria	Petty Sessions	Castlemaine

References

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Notes
01⇑	Captain George Harriott; The Argus (Melbourne), 6 October 1892, p 5 [Trove; 12 February 2024].
02⇑	Primary source needed.
03⇑	British India Office Births & Baptisms, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 12 February 2024].
04⇑	India, Select Marriages, 1792-1948 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 12 February 2024].
05⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals; The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 1852, p 1 [Trove; 2 April 2023].
06⇑	Formosa Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 947, August-December 1853 [PROV; 25 April 2023].
07⇑	To be confirmed that this is him. Timing is right, with his first Victorian Public Service appointment being in January 1853. His family followed in the Clasmerden in January 1856. Gilbert Andrew Amos and Edward Thomas Barnard were also on board.
08⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index M1860-002307.
09⇑	Marriages - Harriott-Willoughby; The Argus (Melbourne), 23 July 1860, p 4 [Trove; 12 February 2024].
10⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages New South Wales Death Index D1892-004340.
11⇑	Deaths - Harriott; The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 September 1892, p 1 [Trove; 12 February 2024].
12⇑	Funeral Notices - Harriott; The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 September 1892, p 8 [Trove; 12 February 2024].
13⇑	Captain George Harriott [Find a Grave; 12 February 2024].

Further Reading

Statistics:

Harriott, George (1816-1892); in: Herbert James Gibbney, Ann Gertrude Smith; A Biographical Register, 1788-1939, Volume 1; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1987; p 305.

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2024-02-12	Life Events updated and references added.