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| Samuel Westbrook |
| Family
Name: |
Westbrook |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Samuel |
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| DOB |
31 August 1795
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DOD |
2 March 1866 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Rotherhithe, London, England
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Place
of Death: |
Hobart, Tasmania |
| Age
at Death: |
70
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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Letters testimonial VDL 1840
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Speciality:
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| Spouse:
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Mary Margaret Mason m.1820 London d.1853 Hobart |
| Children: |
Margaret Sarah b.1822 d.1854
Henry Armstrong b.1826 d.1893
James Horatio b.1829
Henry Fookes b.1837
Samuel John b.1852
Harriet Eleanor m.1848 |
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| Voyages:
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"Calista" from London via Swan River arr. Hobart 24 October 1829 (with wife and three children)
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| Came
out as: |
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1829
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Date
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| First
Registered: |
1840 VDL
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Off
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| Addresses:
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Van Diemen's Land 1829 (shipping record)
New Norfolk, VDL 1835 (HT Courier)
Hobart, VDL 1836-1845 (Courier etc)
Prosser's Plains, VDL 1846-51 (lists of LQMPs)
Sorell, Pittwater, Tas 1851-1865 (Mercury, Courier etc)
Hobart, Tas 1866 |
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| Positions
Held: |
Medical Officer to the Police, Watchhouses and Goals, Prosser Plains 1845-1851
Public Vaccinator, Sorrell 1863 |
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| Notes:
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Brother of James Henry Westbrook (qv)
Son of Henry Westbrook (1756- ) and Sarah (1750-1836)
Appears in some of the published lists of the Court of Medical Examiners of VDL 1846-1863 as "W. Westbrook" |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated with information supplied by Neil Duggan from his family history, August 2003 |
| References: |
Court of Medical Examiners. Colonial Times (Hobart) 3 April 1846 [Samuel Westbrook, Prosser's Plains, on list of legally qualified medical practitioners]
Walch's Tasmanian Almanac 1864
Rimmer WG. Portrait of a Hospital: The Royal Hobart. Hobart: Royal Hobart Hospital 1981
Tasmanian Government Employees 1858 (website)
Ship news. Colonial Times (Hobart) 30 October 1829 [on Calista from London via Swan River Dr and Mrs Westbrook and 3 children (brother of Dr Westbrook of Hobart Town)]
Mr. S. Westbrook [advertisement]. Hobart Town Courier 20 February 1835 [at New Norfolk, has supply of vaccine lymph]
Colonial medical department. Courier (Hobart) 25 December 1840 [letters testimonial granted to Mr. Samuel Westbrook, Hobart Town, to practice medicine surgery and pharmacy in Van Diemen's Land]
To let [advertisement]. Courier (Hobart) 23 August 1845 [house and shop in Liverpool Street lately occupied by Dr. Westbrook]
To the medical profession [advertisement]. Courier (Hobart) 5 July 1845 [Dr. Westbrook has received government appointment, selling shop, Liverpool Street, est. 7 years]
Inquests. Colonial Times (Hobart) 14 April 1848 [Dr. Westbrook at Sorell]
Marriages. Launceston Examiner 28 October 1848 [Harriet Eleanor daughter of Samuel Westbrook Esq surgeon]
To let or sell at Sorell [advertisement]. Colonial Times (Hobart)16 September 1851 [apply Dr. Westbrook, Sorell]
Sorell. Courier (Hobart) 14 March 1854 [Samuel Westbrook Esq surgeon attends meeting]
Police office. Courier (Hobart) 25 October 1858 [Dr. Samuel Westbrook of Sorell]
Letters posted yesterday insufficiently stamped. Mercury (Hobart) 26 September 1863 [Dr. S. Westbrook, Sorell]
Governor in Council. Mercury (Hobart) 3 November 1863 [list of medical practitioners appointed to be public vaccinators for districts]
To let in the township of Sorell [advertisement]. Mercury (Hobart) 17 November 1865 [premises recently occupied by Dr. Westbrook, retired due to ill health]
Deaths. Mercury (Hobart) 3 March 1866 [at Hobart, Dr. Samuel Westbrook late of Sorell in his 71st year] |
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