Symonds, Edward Stace

Edward Stace Symonds, 1816-1899


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Edward Stace Symonds: 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:	15 July 1816	Spring Gardens, Gosport, Hampshire, England [01].
Baptised:	9 August 1816	Holy Trinity Church of England, Gosport, Hampshire, England [02].
Arrived:	December 1836	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales [03] [04].
Married (1):	9 August 1838	St John's Church, Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, to Emily Wilson [1815-1878] [05].
Married (2):	29 March 1879	Christ Church, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda, Colony of Victoria, to Annie Augusta Lees, née Allez [1844-1880] [06] [07].
Married (3):	16 February 1882	St Luke's Church, Dorcas Street, Emerald Hill (South Melbourne), Colony of Victoria, to Edith Rickards [1852-1914] [08] [09].
Died:	16 December 1899	Tutelo, Glenferrie Road, Kew, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 83 days [10] [11] [12].
Buried:	17 December 1899	Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Church of England, Section E, No 0301] [13] [14].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:	Gold Commissioner:	1851	1852	1853	1854
	Finance Officer	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855

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⇑	Admiralty: Royal Greenwich Hospital ; [National Archives UK; 23 June 2023]
02⇑	Hampshire, Portsmouth Baptisms - Gosport, Holy Trinity, Hampshire, England, Find My Past (Membership required) ; 23 June 2023]
03⇑	Philip Mennell; Dictionary of Australasian Biography, comprising Notices of Eminent Colonists; Hutchinson, London, 1892; p 455.
04⇑	Details to be confirmed. He may have arrived as a midshipman on a Royal Navy ship.
05⇑	Marriages - Symonds-Wilson; The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, 19 November 1838, p 2 [Trove; 23 June 2023]
06⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index BDM VIC M1879-000260.
07⇑	Marriages - Symonds-Lees; The Argus (Melbourne), 5 April 1879, p 1 [Trove; 23 June 2023]
08⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index BDM VIC M1882-000090.
09⇑	Marriages - Symonds-Rickards; The Argus (Melbourne), 25 February 1882, p 1 [Trove; 23 June 2023]
10⇑	Or Barkly Street.
11⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1899-014379.
12⇑	Deaths - Symonds; The Argus (Melbourne), 19 December 1899, p 1 [Trove; 18 April 2023]
13⇑	Grave Locator [Boroondara (Kew) Cemetery; 23 June 2023]
14⇑	Funeral Notices - Symonds; The Argus (Melbourne), 16 December 1899, p 2 [Trove; 23 June 2023]

Further Reading

Profile:	Symonds, Edmund [sic] Stace; in: H Morin Humphreys; Men of the Time in Australia: Victorian Series [Second Edition]; McCarron, Bird, and Co, Melbourne, 1882; pp 210-211.
Statistics:	Symonds, Edward Stace (1816-1899); in: Herbert James Gibbney, Ann Gertrude Smith; A Biographical Register, 1788-1939, Volume 2; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1987; p 292.
Family:	Symonds; in: Sir Bernard Burke; A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2; Harrison and Sons, London, 1895; pp 573-574.

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