Simpson, James

James (Warne) Simpson, 1791-1857


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James Simpson: 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:	12 April 1791	London, England [01] [02].
Baptised:	20 May 1791	St Dionis Backchurch Church of England, London, England [03].
Arrived:	21 April 1825	Hobart Town, Colony of Van Diemen's Land, on the ship Elizabeth. Departed Portsmouth, 5 January 1825 [04] [05].
Arrived:	April 1836	Barque Caledonia from Van Diemen's Land to Victoria.
Married:	1 February 1845	St James Church of England, Melbourne, Port Phillip District, Colony of NSW, to Caroline Sarah Bowles [1814-1911] [06] [07].
Died:	17 April 1857	Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 65 years [08] [09].
Buried:	20 April 1857	Melbourne General Cemetery, Parkville, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Church of England, Section Q, No 0238].

Golden Colony Roles

Port Phillip:	Police Magistrate:	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841
	Crown Lands:	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849	1850
		1851

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
	1840-06-17	1840-06-01	1841-08-22			Police Magistrate	NSW		Melbourne		Lonsdale. Resigned
	1849-05-10	1849-03-06	1851-06-30			Commissioner of Crown Lands	NSW	Crown Lands	Bourke County		St John. to Colony of Victoria as Sheriff.
	1851-07-15	1851-07-01				Sheriff	Victoria

References

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Notes
01⇑	Simpson was said to be 65 when died in 1857. Most secondary sources say that he was born c1790/1792 in England. Anne Marsden (see Further Reading) states that he was the son of James Simpson, surgeon, and had a brother, Henry Winckworth Simpson. If she is correct, he was James Warne Simpson. There is another baptism record for James Warne Simpson, born 21 February 1790, baptised 9 April 1790, at the same church and with the same parents, so probably an earlier brother who died.
02⇑	London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 16 October 2023].
03⇑	London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 16 October 2023].
04⇑	Ship News; Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, 22 April 1825, p 2 [Trove; 23 April 2023]
05⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania, Volume 1 1803-1833; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1983; p 105.
06⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Certificate M1845-004902.
07⇑	Married - Simpson-Bowles; Launceston Examiner, 12 February 1845, p 4 [Trove; 14 October 2023]. The church was later the St James Old Cathedral.
08⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1857-002583.
09⇑	Deaths - Simpson; The Argus (Melbourne), 18 April 1857, p 4 [Trove; 18 April 2023]

Further Reading

Profile:	Anne Marsden; Beyond the Public Gaze: The Marriage of Caroline Bowles and James Simpson in pre-goldrush Melbourne; La Trobeana, Volume 19, No 3, November 2022, pp 37-44.
Biography:	Colin Alexander McCallum; Simpson, James (1792-1857) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2022-01-31	Page created.