Harrison, George

George Harrison, 1805-1887


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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:	14 June 1805	Spring Street, Shadwell, Middlesex, England [01].
Baptised:	26 December 1806	St Paul's Church of England Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England [02].
Arrived:	28 August 1842	Hobart Town, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, on the HMS Bramble [03].
Married:	4 February 1847	St Peter's Church of England, Hamilton, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, to Louisa Salome Bilton [1824-1904] [04] [05].
Died:	27 January 1887	55 Erin Street, Richmond, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 81 years [06] [07].
Buried:	28 January 1887	St Kilda Cemetery, East St Kilda, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Church of England, Compartment C, No 0557] [08] [09].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:	Police Magistrate:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867
	Gold Warden:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867
	Chinese Protector:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862

George Harrison (1872)

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1816-07-21		11		Royal Navy		Royal Navy
		1824-12-11		19		Passed Royal Navy examinations for Lieutenant		Royal Navy
		1824-12-19	1825-08-23	19		Mate, HMS ???		Royal Navy				[11]
		1825-08-24	1826-08-15	20		Mate, HMS Wellesley		Royal Navy
		1826-08-16	1830-11-15	21		Mate, HMS Adventure		Royal Navy
		1830-12-09	1831-02-23	25		Mate, HMS ???		Royal Navy
		1831-02-24	1833-10-15	25		Mate, HMS Asia		Royal Navy
		1833-10-16	1833-11-19	28		Mate, HMS ???		Royal Navy			Lieutenant.
		1834-01-06	1878-05-28	28		Lieutenant		Royal Navy Reserve			Commander.	[12]
		1878-05-29	1887-01-27	72		Commander		Royal Navy Reserve			Died.	[13]

References

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Notes
01⇑	London, Docklands and East End Baptisms, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 13 February 2024].
02⇑	London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 13 February 2024]. Incorrectly indexed as 20 December 1806.
03⇑	Shipping Report - Arrivals; The Hobart Town Advertiser, 30 August 1842, p 2 [Trove; 12 May 2023].
04⇑	Marriages RGD37/1/6, No 0653 [Libraries Tasmania; 12 May 2023]
05⇑	Marriage - Harrison-Bilton; The Courier (Hobart), 17 February 1847, p 2 [Trove; 12 May 2023].
06⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1887-003848.
07⇑	Deaths - Harrison; The Argus (Melbourne), 28 January 1887, p 9 [Trove; 18 April 2023].
08⇑	Deceased Search [St Kilda Cemetery; 12 May 2023]
09⇑	Funeral Notices - Harrison; The Argus (Melbourne), 28 January 1887, p 9 [Trove; 12 May 2023].
10⇑	Thomas Foster Chuck; The Explorers and Early Colonists of Victoria; Melbourne, 1872 [State Library of Victoria; 22 October 2024].
11⇑	The names of some of the ships he was assigned to are difficult to read in his service record.
12⇑	Harrison was known as "Captain" in Victoria, though he was a Lieutenant until after his retirement from the Victorian Public Service.
13⇑	Harrison should have been promoted to Commander in 1864

Further Reading

Profile:

William R O'Byrne; A Naval Biographical Dictionary; John Murray, London, 1849, p 469.

Updates

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