Mair, William

William Mair, 1806-1904




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Life Events


Born:31 August 1806Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland [01] [02].
Arrived:22 March 1842Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the barque Richard Webb. Departed Dublin, 15 November 1841 [03] [04] [05] [06] [07].
Married:5 June 1851St James's Cathedral, Melbourne, Port Phillip District, Colony of NSW, to Catherine Lyons [1830-1867] [08] [09].
Died:15 January 1904Nyora, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, aged 97 years [10] [11].
Buried:17 January 1904Poowong Cemetery, Poowong, Victoria, Australia [Grave: TBD] [12].

Golden Colony Roles


Victoria:Police Magistrate:1851

William Mair [13]

Career


OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1830-11-261836-04-2124Ensign, 99th Regiment of FootBritish Army Lieutenant.
1836-04-221836-07-2829Lieutenant, 1st West India RegimentBritish Army
1836-07-291848-03-1629Lieutenant, 99th Regiment of FootBritish Army Captain.
1848-03-171854-07-0641Captain, UnattachedBritish Army Reserve
1851-01-161851-01-011851-06-30Police MagistrateNSWBelfast to Colony of Victoria.

References


Notes

Notes
01 Australian Dictionary of Biography - see Further Reading.
02 Primary source needed.
03 Ship News; Colonial Times (Hobart), 8 March 1842, p 2 [Trove, 23 February 2024].
04 Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Australian (Sydney), 24 March 1842, p 2 [Trove, 23 February 2024].
05 Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania, Volume 2 1834-1842; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1985; p 222.
06 Graeme Broxam, Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 3 1841-1844; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1988; p 92.
07 With 30 rank and file of his 99th Regiment and 199 male convicts to Hobart Town, then continued to Sydney.
08 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Certificate M1851-005747.
09 The National Archives (UK) - War Office WO025-3241 - Reports of Officers' Marriages. Page 68, William Mair [ 23 February 2024].
10 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1904-002668.
11 Deaths - Mair; The Argus (Melbourne), 18 January 1904, p 1 [Trove, 23 February 2024].
12 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1904-002668.
13 Victorian Collections, from Ballarat Heritage Services . Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.

Further Reading

Biography:Thomas Sheehy; Mair, William (1806-1904); Australian Dictionary of Biography [ 23 February 2024].
Profile:Mair, William (1806-1904); in: Justin Corfield, Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni; The Eureka Encyclopaedia; Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004; pp 361-362.
Profile:Ernest McCaughan; A Pioneer Police Officer: When the 99th Mutinied in Sydney; The Australasian (Melbourne), 5 December 1936, p 4 [Trove, 23 February 2024].
Profile:Ernest McCaughan; A Pioneer Police Officer: Melbourne's Riots and the Gold Rush; The Australasian (Melbourne), 12 December 1936, p 4 [Trove, 23 February 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-02-23Further Reading added.
2024-02-20Life Events updated and references added.