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| Alexander Macalister |
| Family
Name: |
Macalister |
Variant
Spellings: |
Macallister
McAlister
McAllister |
| Given
Names: |
Alexander |
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| DOB |
1828
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DOD |
25 June 1870 |
| Place
of Birth: |
British Guyana
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Place
of Death: |
Bairnsdale, Vic |
| Age
at Death: |
42
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MD Glasgow 1851
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| Voyages:
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1852
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| Came
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1852
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Date
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| First
Registered: |
1852 NSW No.354
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Off
Register: |
1870 |
| Addresses:
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Demerara, Guyana 1828-1838 approx.
Glasgow, Scotland 1838
New South Wales 1852 (Medical Register)
Braidwood, NSW 1854-1856 (SMH)
Geelong, Vic 1856 (Advertiser)
Sale, Vic 1861-1867 (Guardian, Medical Register)
Bairnsdale, Vic 1867 onwards (Times) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Coroner, Braidwood 1855 (SMH)
Commissioner for Crown Lands, Braidwood 1855 (SMH)
Public Vaccinator, Alberton 1857 (VGG) |
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| Notes:
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His father was Dr Alexander Macalister of Demerara; his mother died at Sale in 1872 aged 75
Two brothers, William Garnett Macalister and Thomas Mewburn Macalister, were farmers in Gippsland where they died in 1865 and 1859 respectively
The only qualification in the Vic and NSW medical registers is the MD 1851, but the advertisements in the Geelong Advertiser suggest in addition LRCS Edinburgh
His widow was destitute with five children at Bairnsdale in 1874 (AMJ) |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
New South Wales Medical Board. Minutes 18 May 1852 [registration of Alexander Macalister MD Glasgow 30 April 1851]
Medical Directory for New South Wales and Queensland. Sydney, 1860 [Alexander Macalister MD address unknown possibly left the colony]
Medical Board of Victoria. Victoria Government Gazette 15 March 1864 [registration of Alexander Macalister, Sale, MD Glasgow 1851]
Addison WI. Roll of the graduates of the University of Glasgow, 1898 [Alexander John McAllister MD 1851 native of Demerara]
Ships mails. Sydney Morning Herald 9 July 1851 [Dr McAlister dep. Melbourne 28 June on "Skerne" for Sydney]
Braidwood. Sydney Morning Herald 8 June 1854 [refers to Alexander Macalister Esq MD coroner]
Braidwood. Sydney Morning Herald 2 June 1855 [Alexander Macalister MD coroner]
Braidwood. Sydney Morning Herald 13 December 1855 [Dr McAlister coroner and Commissioner for Crown Lands]
Testimonial [news item]. Sydney Morning Herald 25 March 1856 [Dr McAllister contributor at Braidwood]
Medical [advertisement]. Geelong Advertiser 2 July 1856 [Alexander Macalister MD and surgeon has commenced in practice]
Advertisement. Alexander Macalister MD and MRCS Edinburgh... Geelong Advertiser 13 August 1856
Vaccinator. Victoria Government Gazette 3 April 1857 [Alexander McAlister appointed Alberton]
New South Wales. Argus (Melbourne) 20 December 1858 [Alexander Macalister Commissioner for Crown Lands left Braidwood soon after being suspended in April 1855]
Sale. Gippsland Guardian 6 December 1861 [Dr. Macalister attending injured party]
Local news. Australian Medical Journal, May 1864 [Dr McAlister from Sale to be tried for manslaughter, not registered] [in fact he had registered by March 1864 - Ed.]
Town talk. Gippsland Times 14 January 1865 [death on Dargo station of William, brother of Dr McAlister of Sale]
Dr Macalister [advertisement]. Gippsland Times 24 January 1867 [may be consulted daily at Mr Morgan's Chemist, Bairnsdale]
Bairnsdale. Argus (Melbourne) 28 June 1870 [death of Dr. Alexander Macalister one of the oldest residents]
News item. Gippsland Times 28 June 1870 [Dr McAlister who formerly practised at Sale and latterly near Bairnsdale found dead]
Local topics. Australian Medical Journal, September 1870 [names erased from register include A. Macalister, deceased]
Local topics. Australian Medical Journal 1874:318 [Mary Macalister widow of Dr Macalister charged at Bairnsdale with not having the means to make an honest living. Five children in rags] |
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