Mayne, William Colburn

William Colburn Mayne, 1808-1902


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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:	22 July 1808	Wicklow (or Bray), County Wicklow, Ireland [01] [02].
Married:	22 July 1831	Gretna Green, Dumfries-shire, Scotland, to Mary Ellen Turner [1805-1884] [03].
Arrived:	24 April 1839	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the ship Hero of Malown. Departed Liverpool, 20 November 1838 [04] [05] [06]
Died:	31 August 1902	Viewbank (or View Bank[07] [08].
Buried:	2 September 1902	St Thomas's Anglican Cemetery, Enfield, New South Wales, Australia [Grave: Portion 14, Row 34] [09].

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William Colburn Mayne

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1825-08-11	1826-08-14	17		Ensign, 5th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Ensign. Lieutenant. Placed on reserve list.	[11]
		1826-08-15	1826-09-06	18		Lieutenant, Unattached		British Army Reserve			5th Regiment.
		1826-09-07	1833-05-02	18		Lieutenant, 5th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Captain. Placed on reserve list.
		1833-05-03	1833-05-09	24		Captain, Unattached		British Army Reserve			5th Regiment.
		1833-05-10	1838-05-11	24		Captain, 5th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Retired.
	1846-11-09	1846-11-09	1846-11-30	38		Commissioner of Crown Lands	NSW	Crown Lands	Wimmera		to Wellington, NSW. Wright.	[12]

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Notes
01⇑	War Office WO025-0785 - 5th Regiment. Page 219 - William Colburne-Mayne [sic] [National Archives UK; 21 February 2024].
02⇑	Some sources have Dublin (which is where he was educated) and some have Lattin, County Monaghan (which is where his father was from). Wicklow is in William's British Army service record and Bray, County Wicklow, is in the 1871 Census.
03⇑	Primary source needed.
04⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals; The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 26 April 1839, p 2 [Trove; 23 April 2023].
05⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 2 1826-1840; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1977; p 212.
06⇑	The ship arrived at Sydney on 1 April, but was held in quarantine until 24 April.
07⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages New South Wales Death Index D1902-008759.
08⇑	Married - Martin-Smith; The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 September 1902, p 1 [Trove; 21 February 2024].
09⇑	Death of Captain Mayne; Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 2 September 1902, p 4 [Trove; 21 February 2024].
10⇑	State Library of New South Wales.
11⇑	London Gazette and British Army records consistently have William Colborne Mayne, but his signature is definitely William Colburn Mayne. He is indexed as William Colbourne-Mayne by the UK National Archives.
12⇑	Swapped with Wright.

Further Reading

Biography:	Hazel King; Mayne, William Colburn (1808-1902) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Obituary:	Mayne, William Colburn (1808-1902) [Obituaries Australia; 23 February 2024].
Profile:	William Mayne (Australian politician) [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2024-02-21	Life Events updated and references added.