Smith, Bernhard William

Bernhard William Smith, 1820-1885


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Bernhard William Smith: 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:	20 November 1820	Greenwich, Kent, England [01].
Baptised:	1 January 1821	St Alfege Church of England, Greenwich, Kent, England [02] [03].
Arrived:	22 October 1852	Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the ship Windsor. Departed London via Plymouth, 24 July 1852 [04] [05] [06].
Married:	12 February 1863	St Pauls, Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, to Olivia Frances Josephine Boyes [1840-1924].
Died:	7 October 1885	Bayley Street, Alexandra, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 64 years [07] [08].
Buried:	9 October 1885	Alexandra Cemetery, Alexandra, Colony of Victoria [09].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:	Police Magistrate:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870
		1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885
	Gold Commissioner:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855
	Gold Warden:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870
		1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885
	Crown Lands:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862
	Chinese Protector:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862

Bernhard Smith

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⇑	London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 8 November 2023]
02⇑	London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923 [Ancestry (Membership required) ; 8 November 2023].
03⇑	Ramsland (see Further Reading) has "Bernhard William Smith", but Smith's baptism and all other documents are simply "Bernhard Smith."
04⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 23 October 1852, p 4 [Trove; 21 April 2023]
05⇑	Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 2 1846-1855; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1987; p 130.
06⇑	Windsor Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 947, October-November 1852 [PROV; 24 April 2023]
07⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1885-010792.
08⇑	Deaths - Smith; Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express, 9 October 1885, p 2 [Trove; 18 April 2023]
09⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Certificate D1885-010792.
10⇑	Bernhard Smith [Find a Grave; 30 October 2024].

Further Reading

Biography:	John Ramsland; From Antarctica to the Gold Rushes in the Wake of the Erebus; Brolga Publishing, Melbourne, 2011; pp 22, 281-310.
Biography:	Marjorie Jean Tipping; Smith, Bernhard (1820-1885) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Profile:	Smith, Bernhard (1820-1885); in: Joan Kerr (Editor); The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992; pp 733-736.
Profile:	Juliet Peers; Bernhard Smith: The Missing Brother; in: Benedict Read (Editor), Joanna Barnes (Editor); Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914; The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1991; pp 12-20, also pp 137-138.

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