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William Richardson
Family Name:	Richardson	Variant Spellings:
Given Names:	William
DOB	1796 approx.	DOD	22 September 1863
Place of Birth:		Place of Death:	Glasgow, Scotland
Age at Death:	67
School:		University:
Qualifications:	LSA 1826 MRCS 1827	Speciality:
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Spouse:	Elizabeth Reeves Worsley m.1831 Bathurst NSW
Children:	William Wright Louis Thornton Tottenham Lee Fanny
Voyages:	"Katherine Stewart Forbes" from England via Hobart arr. Sydney 17 December 1825 Possibly "Medway" from London arr. Hobart Town 20 August 1827 Probably "Emma" dep. Hobart for Sydney 29 January 1851 Probably "Blackwall" dep. Sydney for London 15 March 1851
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Date Settled Aus:	1825	Date of Departure:	1851
First Registered:	1840 NSW	Off Register:
Addresses:	Bathurst, NSW 1826, 1828 (Steele, Census) Windsor, NSW 1831-1837 (Steele) Goulburn, NSW 1837-1841 (Wyatt, Medical register) Port Macquarie 1842-1844 (Medical Register, Rodgers) Sydney, NSW 1845-1848 (Cummins) Hobart, VDL 1848-1851 (Rimmer)
Positions Held:	Assistant Surgeon on NSW Staff 1826 (HRA) Assistant Surgeon, Army 1827 (Johnston) Surgeon, Army 1841 (Johnston) Colonial Surgeon , Port Macquarie 1842 Colonial Surgeon at Sydney General Hospital 1845-1848 (Cummins) Member, Medical Board of NSW 1845-1847 Colonial Surgeon, Hobart 1848 (Steele)
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Notes:	After a few years in Hobart he retired on a pension to Scotland where died (Steele) Names of his children from Wade (see refs)
Acknowledgments:	This record was updated with information supplied by Thorby Walker of Pendle Hill, NSW in September 2003
References:	New South Wales Medical Board. Minutes 4 May 1840 [registration of William Richardson, Assistant Surgeon, Goulburn] New South Wales Medical Board. List of legally qualified medical practitioners. Sydney : W. Baker, 1842 [William Richardson, Colonial Surgeon, Port Macquarie] Rimmer WG. Portrait of a Hospital: The Royal Hobart. Hobart: Royal Hobart Hospital 1981. Historical Records of Australia 1.12:359 Wyatt RT. The History of Goulburn NSW. Steele J. Early days of Windsor. Sydney : Tyrrell, 1916 (reprinted North Sydney : Library of Australian History, 1977): 194. Cummins CJ. Colonial medical service. Parts I and II. Modern Medicine of Australia. 1974;17(1,2):11-24, 11-25 Census of NSW 1828 [age 32, on "Castle Forbes" 1825, Protestant, Assistant Surgeon at Bathurst] Greaves B. Story of Bathurst. Sydney, 1961:88 Rogers F. Port Macquarie : a history to 1850. Hornsby, NSW : Hastings District Historical Society, 1982: 134. Barker T. History of Bathurst : volume one. Bathurst, N.S.W. : Crawford House Press, 1992 Johnston W. Roll of commissioned officers in the Medical Service of the British army. Aberdeen, 1917 [served Ordnance Medical Dept 1827-1853] Wade J. Fanny Richardson's brooch. NLA News October 2003:3-6 [Fanny the daughter of Dr. William Richardson who arrived on "Katherine Stewart Forbes" 17 December 1825] Shipping intelligence. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 22 December 1825 ["Catherine (sic) Stewart Forbes" from Hobart] Shipping intelligence. Hobart Town Gazette 25 August 1827 [Dr. Richardson on "Medway" from London] [ship arrived Sydney 1 October] Married. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 26 July 1831 Home for immigrants. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 28 May 1842 [Dr. Richardson, Goulburn, listed as a donor] Mr. T. Y. Lowes [advertisement]. Colonial Times (Hobart) 7 January 1851 [selling Dr. Richardson's cottage due to his immediate departure from the colony] Shipping news. Courier (Hobart) 29 January 1851 [Dr. Richardson on "Emma" for Sydney] Shipping intelligence. Empire (Sydney) 17 March 1851 [Dr. Richardson on "Blackwall" for London] Deaths. Sydney Morning Herald 21 November 1863 [at Glasgow, William Richardson Esq Surgeon late of Sydney NSW aged 67]
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