Reference documents
KPJ website text as of 17 Nov. 2018
"Pioneers and Gold" is a document created in my google notes which outlines the life of James and his family during settlement and other participant in Victoria's gold rush. If you have any difficulties reading it, please contact the site owner. See Fig 2:- Phillip Map of the Goldfields of New South Wales in 1852. Note:- Robert may not have accompanied his father to the goldfields.
"Most miners in Ballaarat were on the poverty line, their resources exhausted by the purchase of provisions and equipment at exorbitant prices. On top of that, they had the monthly mining license to procure, something the miners in general considered unjust and much too expensive." (Quof: Sharyn Bradfod Lunn, "The Divergence").
Since penal colonies began in Sydney Cove and Hobarton, Van Diemen's Land, the southern land itself had begun to shape the character of new arrivals, as the authorities in Whitehall and the Liutenant Governors ruling over the peoples tried to manage the politics and resources and labour and provisioning new settlements.
Mid 19th century gold speculation brought hundreds of thousands of peoples, primarily young and energetic people, to a perfect place for dissenters in religion and radicals in politics and those wishing to recover land tenure which was lost to them in their former homeland. Many succumbed to sickness inherent in living in tent townships with a lack of hygiene and extremes seasonal variations, failure in provisions and crops and the infernal seas separating them from their providers. Evolutionary trends require a fast and automatic response to old problems in a new land particularly in adjusting to a new environment, it's social requirements and moral standards.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4801720
References:
Books & Magazines
References:- Images - 315-324, also sets 9 pages on the Dale Park
'Perilous Voyages to the New Land' by Michael Cannon, pages 115-6,
the surgeon Dr Thomas Veitch, reported with satisfaction that only 8 deaths had occurred during the voyage, all young children or infants, some of whom were boarded at Cork 'in a dying state'. Only two passengers had misbehaved, Ann Mullen a single woman and James Sedgwich, married man, and both 'were soon brought to do their duty by confinement and stoppage of their rations'.
"The Somerset Years", by Florence Chuk, page 71 begins a chapter on the Dale Park, including a description of the voyage.
Some passengers were refused bounty grants -
[ii] They sailed aboard the barque "Dale Park", 402 tons, Captian John .J. Coombes, master from London 17 March and Cork 30th March to Port Phillip. Surgeon Superintendent Thomas Veitch Their surnames on the ships register show in one instance as "Stormount".
Illness in Colonial Australia by F.B.Smith (Emeritus Professor Barry (Frances Barrymore) Smith). 2011. Australian Scholarly Publishing. In ascertaining the role of Asylums, in Australia by the mid 18th. Century, consider beginning with Medical treatise of the early 19th. Century.*
The French consul's wife : memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in gold-rush Australia. Chabrillan, Celeste Venard de, comtesse, 1824-1909. 994.5031 C. - Page 108 - Chapter 7 - Fights, a Hanging and Trouble - 1854.
Campbell, Jim 2004, Many parts : the life and times of a man of many parts : William Roadknight 1792-1862 and his family and his brother Thomas, James Campbell, [Mont Albert North, Vic.]- by James L. A. Campbell (Campbell, Jim, 1916- xxx) [Book : 2004].
John Leifchild, His Public Ministry, Private Usefulness, and Personal Characteristics by John R. Leifchild. Copyright © 2017 by HardPress
Another Edition is published by Jackson, Walford, and Hodder. Kindle Edition. And titled - John Leifchild D.D.. Kindle Edition. In them “He narrated the capture of one whom he had known as a fine young man, and as once respectable, to the following effect:— Carver, for that was his name, had unhappily been induced to gamble; and in order to find money for his young wife and children he, in an evil hour, dared to take to the road. His first attempt was also his last.”....(see more below...)
John Leifchild. ”The minister's help-meet, a memoir of E. Leifchild” (Kindle Locations 54-59). This does not refer to Ben Carver, however it links the name of E. Leifchild who was the daughter of an EIC Surgeon- John Stormonth (Farquhar) - and Elizabeth was born in West Bengal, India.
Public Records office Vic (PROV)
Public Records of Vic (PROV) office in North Melbourne. 2016 - Digital release of historical records
Victorian Pioneers Index set #3 - Public Records of Vic (PROV) office in North Melbourne.
- lists Jemima Bloomfield Stormont (Boyd), James Lancelot Stormont and their son Robert aged 1 year arrived on the vessel. James and Jemima aged 24 and Robert (18 months) on 21 July 1844 arrived as assisted emigrant passengers aboard[i] the barque “Dale Park”[ii] and disembarked at Williamstown on Port Phillip Bay near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The surname shown on ship’s register was “Stormount”. James and Jemima are both listed as being able to read and write.
References:- Ship Passenger list at URL:- Source:- The Australia (Sydney) - 19 August 1844 - page 2 Port Phillip; Refer: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37120410
VPRS 19/P0001, item bundle 1851/0409, record file 50/1541: Inward Registered Correspondence- Superintendent of Port Phillip - Petioning for admission of his wife to Yarra Bend Asylum. James (signed) Jas Stormont.
VPRS 19/P0001, item bundle 1851/0409, record file 51/1597: Inward Registered Correspondence- Superintendent of Port Phillip - 18 Sept. 1850 Removal of Jemima Stormont a dangerous lunatic to the Yarra Bend Asylum.
VPRS 24/P0000 unit 763, item 1903/519: State Coroner's Office - Inquest Deposition file~ Jemima STORMONT. Cause of death: Senile decay; Location of inquest: Beechworth, Victoria; Date of inquest: 29 February 1892.
VPRS 24/P0000 unit 763, item 1903/519: State Coroner's Office - Inquest Deposition file~ Jassa Lancelot STORMONT. Cause of death: Senile decay; Location of inquest: Hayden's Bog; Date of inquest: 06 May 1903,
Series title: Inquest Deposition Files; Description: 1903/519; Date range: 1903 - Public access: Open / Format: Physical / Digitised.
Register of remittances for nominated relatives in Britain paid at the Geelong Sub-Treasury from 4 August 1856 to 31 December 1857.
APA Citation: (1852). Immigration: Return to address - Mr. O'Shanassy, 25th November 1852 [i.e. 1851]. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres at the Government Printing Office.
VPRS 19/P0001 item bundle 1851/0409, record file 50/1541 - Series title: Inward Registered Correspondence - Sub-Item title: 50/1541 Petitioning for the admission of his wife into the Yarra. Date range: 1850. Public access: Open, Format: Digital. Jemima was transferred from Yarra Bend 14th December 1868 and admitted into Beechworth on 17th. December that year. Date of Admission 19 Sept 1850 - Transfer to Beechworth 14 Dec 1868
Series title: Inward Registered Correspondence; Sub-Item title: 50/1597 Respecting the removal of Jeminia Stormont a dangerous L; Sub-Item number: file 50/1597; Date range: 1850; Public access: Open; Format: Digital
Series VPRS 7422 Index to Case Records for Male and Female patients Yarra Bend Asylum 1848 - 1912. (PROV)
- See more at: PROV Online ~Unit number: 1 - Description: Vol No: F2 (originally). Public access: Open / Format: VH1. Location: North Melbourne. This Unit is part of - Series number: VPRS 7396 ~ Consignment number: P0001. Refer also to Beechworth patient details outlined on link to records.
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 17930/P0001: Register of Patients (Beechworth Asylum & Beechworth Hospital for the Insane.
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 17846/P0001: Register of Patients (Admission Registers: Mental Hospital).
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 17851/P0001: Discharge Register of Patients (Beechworth Asylum & Beechworth Hospital for the Insane).
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 18112/P0001: Admission Warrants.
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 18130/P0001: Index to Casebooks and Patient Clinical Notes.
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 7396/P0001 and /P0002 Case Books of Female Patients (Beechworth Asylum). VPRS 7396/P1 (1878-1912).
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 7446 Alphabetical Lists of Patient's in Asylums (volume 4) 1867-1884; Annual Examination of Patients Register 1889-1912: VPRS 7446 P1 Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums (VA 2863) Hospitals for the Insane Branch / Unit 1 (Yarra Bend), 26 Oct 1848 – 11 Nov 1912
This is the first in a series of 8 volumes entitled "Lists of Patients", each relating to a particular asylum. Each volume records the name of patients admitted to the asylum. In each volume, entries are arranged alphabetically by the first letter of patients' surnames and then chronologically by date of admission within each alphabetical grouping.
Volumes 7 and 8 only include information on where patients were transferred from and their discharge details. These records can provide dates of admission to allow researchers to locate patient records in the case books for each of the asylums (except for Cremorne) corresponding to the volumes in the present series.
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 7410/P0001 and /P0002 Case Books of Female Patients (Beechworth Asylum). Previous Collection : VPRS 7395 and 7396.
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 7410/P0001 and /P0002 Case Books of Female Patients (Beechworth Asylum).
File: Permanent VPRS Number 18102/P0001 Annual Examination of Patients Register 1889-1905 (Beechworth Asylum).
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 7410/P0001 Restraint and Seclusion Registers (Beechworth Asylum).
Volume unappraised: Leave of Absence/Trial Leave Registers 1869-1988 (Beechworth Asylum).
Volume unappraised: No.7 Cottage Report Book 1891-1905.
Volume Permanent VPRS Number 17932/P0001 Pharmaceutical Prescriptions and Dosage Books.
Volume unappraised: Historic Photographs 1867-1980s.
VPRS 24/P0000 unit 593, item 1892/265 ~ Jemima STORMONT. Cause of death: Enteritis and general paralytic decay; Location of inquest: Beechworth; Date of inquest: 29 Feb 1892. 1892 to No date. Inquest Deposition Files. State Coroner's Office. Public Records Office of Victoria have released online digital records of her admission in 1850 and of a coronial inquiries into her death in 1892.
Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis. A person afflicted with tuberculosis in earlier days may have been destined to dwindle and waste away.
Enteritis - Inflammation of the bowels.
Source Australian Medical Association: in the Beginning, Victoria: https://ama.com.au/article/beginning-victoria. In 1852, the Victoria Medical Association (VMA) became involved in sanitation and other preventive health problems facing Melbourne at the time and influencing legislation to deal with them.
"The discovery of gold spawned new settlements outside the Port Phillip District. The settlers there soon needed proper health care (among other kinds of support), especially as quacks of all kinds had joined the long list of ‘entrepreneurs’ commonly attracted by gold rushes, and doctors soon began to form associations to enforce ethical medical standards in the goldfields."
Castlemaine Medical Association was formed in 1853,
Mt Alexander Medical Association and
Bendigo District Medical Association in 1854 and
Ballarat Medical-Chirurgical Society in 1855.
In Melbourne that same year, more reorganisation was happening: the VMA was amalgamated with the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Victoria, the new group now called the Medical Society of Victoria (MSV). From the 1850s and for the next 20 years, the rivalry among the various Victorian associations and their organs and among individual members was astonishingly virulent, easily out-performing the behaviour of members of the profession in England that had brought about Dr Hastings’ reforms and his founding of what became the BMA."
Newspapers
The Australia (Sydney) - 19 August 1844 - page 2 - Port Phillip; Ship Passenger ~ Immigration. — The following is a return of the disposal of the immigrants per Dale Park, up to Saturday week last : Number of immigrants arrived at Port Phillip, on tho 21st July, 1844,
Married males .... 41, Ditto females ... 41, Children....80 ~ Total families ... 162
Unmarried males ... 28, Ditto females.... 31 ~ Total number arrived... 221
Of the above number were forwarded to Geelong, 12 families consisting of... 59, Unmarried females ... 2, Ditto males ... 3 ~ Total ... 64; Came into Depot, 8 families consisting of .... 37
All the single men and women were engaged shortly after the arrival of the ship, four or five families, and some of the children, from eight to fourteen years of age and upwards. The people were chiefly selected in the midland counties of England, and in tho northern counties of Ireland, and the whole appear, to be a class desirable for the colony.
LAW REPORT:- The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (Vic.: 1851-1856) (Melbourne 1848-1856) - Thursday 13 December 1855 - page 3 - 19 Oct. (1855) - Mount Egerton Hotel hearing of John Lemetre and Henry Dalles v. Henry Caughey & Co. - Held before arbitrators Messrs. Jas Lanct. Stormont & William M. Harrison; umpire: W.M.French etc. < http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91871005>
LAW REPORT. (1860, March 12). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 7,
LAW REPORT:- The Argus (Melbourne 1848-1856). Thursday 3 April 1860. Law Reports for April 2nd. page 6
LAW REPORT. (1860, May 31). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 6.
LAW REPORT:- The Argus (Melbourne 1848-1856) Friday 1 June 1860. Page 3 - Evidence given by James Lancelot Stormont in Stevens and another Vs. King.
LAW REPORT:- The Argus (Melbourne 1848-1856) Friday 31 January 1862. Page ? - Inquest into the death of Mrs. (Charlotte) QUAIN, at which Mr. Stormont gave evidence:
"James L. Stormont ; called : Was one of the party; at about five o'clock, myself Mr, Quain, and Mr. Sooular, went to have a bathe ; a few minutes prior to this, Mrs, Quain asked her husband to take her out in the boat to bathe ; we all advised her not to go into the water, BB parts of the lake were dangerous ; Quain and Sooular 'then undrosBed, went into the water, and I fetched a boat and pulled it to where they were bathing ; I did not bathe myself, but earns back to the house; called out for my wife; not receiving an answer, went to the room where I thought she was; entered the room, and saw only Mrs. Quain there; begged her pardon for the intrusion; she was sitting on the bedside resting her head on her hand ; asked her ii she had seen Mrs. Stormont; she pointed to another room, and said Mrs. Stormont was there; Mrs. Quain then passed, out into the garden, and went out at the gate; 'turned round and shut it; by her manner she must have seen Mn Sooular just coming out of the water, and she turned her head and went out to the right away from the water; saw distinctly that she passed the fisherman's hut, fully 100 yard, and still going from the water; she had no fishing tackle in her hands, only her gloves; this was near six o'clock; about three-quarters of an hour after when , we were thinking of getting tea, we missed Mrs. Quain j I said, "Oh, I'll soon find her ;" ? and went in the direction I saw her go ; not finding her I came back, and we all searched about; we thought that she was hiding herself in a joke, but soon after we all became alarmed; the search continued until midnight, every one assisting."
The Gippsland Times 1866-67 - Advertisement:
- J.L.Stormont appears in newspaper advertisements as "Survey of every description made"and an Hydraulics Engineer in Sale, Victoria. He carries out work for Sale Borough Council in 1860s until dismissed in April 1867, over issues with managing the contractors.
Advertisement. Leader (Melbourne Vic 1862-1918) 12 & Sat. 19 & 26 August 1876. - Riverina, New South Wales - Free selection and conditional purchasers of Land Agency. Address for all information J.Lancelot Stormont, CE. Agent and Surveyor, Moama, NSW.
Stevens' patent rotating stamper head – court challenge: refer Federation University Australia - The testimony given to the court provides some valuable recounting of events on the goldfields of Victoria in the early 1850s, with witnesses including William Frederick Osborne and James Lancelot Stormont, who appear to be the first people to crush quartz by mechanical means at Ballarat.
Bendigo District Medical Association, 1854 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4801720
May 1884 - 1888 - repeats (eg. Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle. Sat. 22 May 1886, page 2.) - Accounts are at the receipts and pay office Bairnsdale, Bairnsdale Post Office, for J.L. Stormont. (Is this the entry that links the surveyor and the inspector?)
Notes:
James Lancelot Stormont - Inspector of Stock - (Delegate border crossing for NSW and Victoria) and Customs Officer / Commissioner of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria (for the purpose of taking affidavits).
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW 1842-1954) - 12 October 1887. Trustees: Mr. James Lancelot Stormont has been elected trustee of the Delegate Common for the unexpired period of three years from January 1886, vice Gibson resigned..
LAW REPORT:- Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1882 - 1918) 4 May 1893 (Melbourne Criminal Court on Friday last, before Justice Hodges See Australian Biographies):- James Lancelot Stormont, a man 56 years of age who acted as inspector of stock and Customs Officer at the Delegate crossing...was arraigned on three counts charging him with embezzling.... Recommendation of Mercy: The jury thought that the prisoners mental faculties were not so clear as when he was a younger man...he would be called upon to enter into a recognisance of 50 pounds to come up for sentence when called upon.
NSW Police Gazette _15 Mar 1893 - James Lancelot Stormont, late inspector of stock and Customs Officer of Victoria was arraigned on counts charging him with embezzling cheques for 52 pounds 7s, & 26 pounds, the property of Her Majesty has been arrested by .... Delegate Police. Remanded to Victoria and committed for trial at Bairnsdale Quarter Sessions.
Leader (Melbourne Vic 1862-1918) Sat. 6 May 1893. A Customs Officer convicted of embezzlement" ....the prisoner was a very deaf and infirm old man named James Lancelot Stormont. He stated he was 56 years old and had been sixteen years in the employ of the Government (circa 1877-1893).
LAW REPORT:- SUPREME COURT.—THURSDAY, January 31....01 Feb 1895 - Smith V. Stormont - <Law Report "Stormont vs King">
Residences
Neckersgate, Shelleys Flats.
James Stormont died 16 Dec 1898 in Marulan, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.
James Stormont Junior, born 1836 from Forfarshire, arrived in Hobart about 1864.
Jemima Jane Stuart Stormont married Robert Scott on 30 Sept. 1890 in Hobart (Ref: RGD 37 -Registration Number: 550/1890); The Mercury (Hobart,Tas:1860-1954) Sat 11 October 1890 SCOTT—STORMONT.—On September 30, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. James Scott, Robert, fourth son of the late James Scott, Bowhill, Launceston, to Mima, only daughter of John Stormont, Auburn, Campbell Town.
1872-1873 - Sands & McDougall, “Sands & McDougall's Melbourne and Suburban Directory for 1857-1880 - Melbourne History Resources, (accessed January 31, 2019)Source Information
Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted b Lists, 1839–1923 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2009.
Original data: Victoria. Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (British Ports). Microfiche VPRS 7666, copy of VRPS 947. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria.
Victoria. Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (Foreign Ports). Microfiche VPRS 7667, copy of VRPS 947. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria.
Victoria. Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (New Zealand Ports). Microfiche VPRS 13439, copy of VRPS 947. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria.
Victoria. Register of Assisted Immigrants from the United Kingdom. Microfiche VPRS 14. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria.
- Rate Books. Victoria Australia Rate Payers Book Stawell, Prahran, Hawthorn.
Linc Library Tasmanian Names Index -
Jemima was arrested on a charge of attempting self harm (suicide) in late August/September 1850, and locked up in an overcrowded Geelong gaol then forwarded to Melbourne (by ship or cart?), pending a decision on her treatment.
James's was moved to make a petition to the administration, requesting Jemima be permitted admission to the newly opened Yarra Bend Asylum. The record show James stated he was "unable to provide for her support in the said Asylum having three of her children to maintain" (copies available). - (view record at PROV).
Some researchers state Elizabeth Selina Stormont's birth on board a ship near Williamstown, Melbourne, the entry being dated 1843 - Her death certificate stated her parents as James Lancelot Stormont and Jemima Brookfield (Bloomfield Boyd). Refer message board. .
The Dale Park's master was Captain John J. Coombes who brought the barque from London and Cork to Port Phillip. It left London on the 30th March 1844 stopping at Cork in Ireland and arriving in Melbourne on 21st July 1844 a trip of 113 days. The barque carried 5 passengers, 229 bounty emigrants and a cargo of merchandise. Eight children died on route.
Reference APA Citation (1852). Immigration: Return to address - Mr. O'Shanassy, 25th November 1852 [i.e. 1851]. Melbourne: Printed by John Ferres at the Government Printing Office.
See further under Robert Stormont.
It is noted that ship arrivals of 2nd. November 1850, show a Miss Christina Stormont (steerage), disembarks in Melbourne from the barque "Young England".
Divorce was not available in Victoria, Australia until 1861.
• Boyd --- Boyd is a place-name from in England from early times. But the name arrived from Brittany about the time of the Norman Conquest. As the story goes, Alan, Baron Of Oswestry arrived from Dol in Brittany with his three sons, William, Walter, and Simon. Walter, Simon and Simon's son Robert Buidhe moved north to Scotland.
The illustrious surname Boyd is classified as a habitation surname, which was originally derived from a place-name, and is one form of surname belonging to a broader group called hereditary surnames. Habitation names were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Topographic names, form the other broad category of surnames that was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree.. https://www.houseofnames.com/boyd-family-crest - It is generally accepted that the name comes from Bod, the Gaelic name for the island of Bute (Boid is the genitive form of Bod, i.e., "of Bute" or "from Bute").
The county comprises a number of islands in the Firth of Clyde, between the counties of Argyll and Ayrshire, the principal islands being Bute, Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae. The county town is Rothesay, located on the Isle of Bute. Buteshire had its own elected county council from 1890 to 1975.
The Russell Boyds came from Co. Tyrone in Northern Ireland = Boid in Scottish Gaelic, de Búit in Irish. Early bearers of the Boyd name used the Norman prefix de – e.g., Robertus de Boyde.
Some claim it comes from the nickname of one of the early Stewarts, Robert Fitzsimon, known as "Buidhe" (yellow) because of the colour of hair - blond his name was so coined. In fact, the Gaelic word buidhe, means yellow.
Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.
Birth 2nd. Feb. 1872 - The Argus Tuesday, 6th February 1872 - Births. "Stormont - On the 2nd inst., at Hawthorn, the wife of J. Lancelot Stormont, CoE. Of a son."
The Victorian Rates books for 1870s, show a James Lancelot Stormont renting property in Prahran and Hawthorn. In 1870-71 JLS appears in rate books as renting premises in Hawthorn, Victoria and may be a different person to one renting in Prahran during 1876-79 Prahran.
Victoria Australia Death Records: 1836 - 1985
INQUEST ON THE BODY OF MRS. QUAIN. - Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Friday 7 February 1862, page 3 (From the Ararat Advertiser.).
Quote Sharon Morgan - "Land Settlement in Early Tasmania. Creating an antipodal England. p.50. Refering to the 1820-30s in Tasmania -Published: Cambridge, England ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1992. - "The assistant surveyors are generally sent to the colonies to the ministers; and as there are little or no inducements held out to them, from promotions or otherwise, it is not expected they should be very zealous in the performanceof their respective tasks.."
Surgeon: When in 1857, James assumes the title "surgeon" we may think he is attending to the cutting of limbs and removal of contusions and fluids from his patients. He may have On occasions "sat up all night, and successfully assisted a woman under influence of the primitive curse, for which his sole remuneration was a roasted potato and a draught of buttermilk...and like the Scottish doctor in the novel "The Sugeon's Daughter" ..."his was not the heart which grudged the labour that relieved human misery....and so you will often find ...under an unpromising and blunt exterior, professional skill and enthusiasm, intelligence, humanity, courage, and science".
Medical practitioners were not required to be registered in Victoria until 1862." source: goldfield Medicine - sovereign hill. For the use of the practitioner term "Surgeon" - refer Australian Medical Pioneers Index.
From 1813, medical (surgeon) students were apprenticed in Sydney and Hobart and then travelled to Britain to obtain corporate qualifications. refer Australian Medical Pioneers Index " Medical registration began in NSW in 1838, and was extended to the Port Phillip district in 1844. The medical register was an official list of legally qualified medical practitioners (although army and navy surgeons, who were not always qualified, could also register). Initially registration was voluntary, but the legislation was steadily tightened up, until unregistered medical practice was effectively illegal. This does not mean that every doctor was registered. The exceptions were:
those who had given up the practice of their profession due to illness or infirmity, or to the acquisition of a large inheritance or another career;
those who were unqualified;
those who had a qualification which did not count for the purposes of registration;
those who were too lazy or too proud to register; and
lastly, those who were in prison, or in the army or the navy."
Refer Australian Medical Pioneers Index: The authority of the ship surgeon-superintendent seems to have exceeding that of the ship's captain in some circumstances, not only in medical matters, but also in decisions about disciplinary measures among convicts and emigrants, and for any aspect of ship-board life which affected their health and general well-being, including the cleanliness of the ship. The principal threat to life on the long, cramped voyage to Australia was the spread of infectious diseases such as typhus and smallpox, and it was against this threat that the surgeon-superintendent directed his efforts. In addition, however, he was often employed in providing a programme of education and religious instruction for those under his care. (For further information see The Convict Ships, by Charles Bateson, 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1969:38-58)
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has a main campus on St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, having received its royal charter in 1784. The college motto is " Consilio Manqué" i.e. "Scholarship and Dexterity"
For the use of the practitioner term "Surgeon" - refer Australian Medical Pioneers Index.
Victoria: Melbourne - 1872 -
Journal Medicine in Colonial Australia:- "From 1813, students were apprenticed in Sydney and Hobart and then travelled to Britain to obtain corporate qualifications. Medical schools were ultimately opened in the new universities in Melbourne (in 1862), Sydney (1883) and Adelaide (1885)."
Source:
Refer Platypus website.
Refer: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848 - 1956) Monday 14 August 1893
[i] Victorian Pioneers Index set #3 - Public Records of Vic (PROV) office in North Melbourne - lists Jemima Bloomfield Stormont (Boyd), James Lancelot Stormont and their son Robert aged 1 year arrived on the vessel.
[ii] There is also a James Lancelot Stormont married a Kathleen or Catherine Russell about 1855 and they had children.
[iii] Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Friday 10 March 1893 Edition: MORNING. p 2 Article
(iv) Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1882 - 1918) 4 May 1893 and NSW Police Gazette 15 Mar 1893.
Citations
[S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased) , NB9-87.
[S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased) , NB9-660.
[S2] TURNBULL, S.J. (deceased) , NB9-784