Rawnsley, Henry Charles

Henry Charles Rawnsley, 1817-1873


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Henry Charles Rawnsley: 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:	19 July 1817	Woolwich Arsenal, Woolwich, Greenwich, Kent, England [01] [02].
Baptised:	28 May 1819	St Mary Magdalene Church of England, Woolwich, Greenwich, Kent, England [03].
Arrived:	1841	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales [04] [05].
Married (1):	1 September 1842	St Peter's Anglican Church, St Peters (Petersham), Colony of New South Wales, to Emma Caroline Perry [1821-1844] [06] [07].
Married (2):	27 October 1855	St Kilda, Colony of Victoria to Ellen Blott [1821-1855] [08] [09].
Died:	16 January 1873	Witton Manor, Indooroopilly, Colony of Queensland [residence], aged 55 years [10] [11].
Buried:	January 1873	Paddington Cemetery, Paddington, Colony of Queensland [Grave: Block 48, Grave Peg No 12] [12] [13].
Re-Buried:	1913	Milton Christ Church (Anglican) Memorial Reserve, Milton, Queensland, Australia [14].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:

Gold Commissioner:

1851

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
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References

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Notes
01⇑	England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 15 December 2023].
02⇑	Location from father's British Army service record.
03⇑	London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 15 December 2023].
04⇑	Janet Spillman; Henry Charles Rawnsley, controversial surveyor and respected naturalist; in: Queensland History Journal, Volume 25, No 2, August 2022, pp 152-166.
05⇑	Rawnsley's first Public Service appointment was in December 1841 (or possibly October).
06⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages New South Wales Marriage Index M1842-000297/26C.
07⇑	Married - Rawnsley-Perry; The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 September 1842, p 3 [Trove; 5 May 2023].
08⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index M1855-003327.
09⇑	Married - Rawnsley-Blott; The Argus (Melbourne), 29 October 1855, p 4 [Trove; 5 May 2023].
10⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Queensland Death Index D1873-B007625.
11⇑	Deaths - Rawnsley; The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 January 1873, p 8 [Trove; 5 May 2023].
12⇑	Paddington Cemeteries Exhumations and Reinterments, 1841-1878, [Find My Past (Membership required) ; 15 December 2023].
13⇑	When the Paddington Cemetery was closed, Rawnsley's grave was moved to Milton Christ Church.
14⇑	Henry Charles Rawnsley [BillionGraves; 15 December 2023].

Further Reading

Profile:	Rawnsley, Henry Charles; in: Andrew Guy Peake; Biographical Register of South Australian Surveyors, 1836 to 1936; Tudor Australia Press, 2022, pp 160.
Profile:	Janet Spillman; Henry Charles Rawnsley, controversial surveyor and respected naturalist; in: Queensland History Journal, Volume 25, No 2, August 2022, pp 152-166.

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2023-12-15	Life Events updated and references added.