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George Frederick Barnes
Family Name: Barnes  Variant Spellings:  
Given Names: George Frederick
DOB 1813 approx.
DOD 31 August 1887 
Place of Birth: Warminster, Wiltshire, England
Place of Death: Birregurra, Vic 
Age at Death: 74
School:
University:  
Qualifications: MRCS 1836
Speciality:  
Other Occupations:
Spouse: Jane Murray m.1840
Priscilla Smith m.1863 approx.
Children:
Voyages: "Harbinger" from Plymouth arr. Sydney 12 February 1849
  • "Spencer" dep. Sydney for San Francisco 23 April 1849
  • Came out as:  
    Date Settled Aus: by 1839
    Date of Departure:  
    First Registered: 1839 NSW
    Off Register:  
    Addresses: Hinton NSW 1839 (Medical Register) 1841
  • UK 1849 (shipping record)
  • Craigie, Vic 1865 (Medical register)
  • Woodend Vic 1868, 1872 (AMJ, Medical Directory)
  • Birregurra Vic 1873 (Medical Directory)1883 (Bruck)
  • Positions Held: Vaccinator at Woodend, Vic 1868
    Publications:
    Notes: Married 24 December 1840 at Hinton, Hunter River to Jane Murray
  • Second marriage Mariners Reef (near Maryborough) Vic at age 50
  • Registered Medical Board Vic. 1865
  • Acknowledgments: This record was updated in May 2004 with information from Ann Tovell's card index to the early Australian medical journals; and further updated in April 2007 with information supplied by Ms Margaret Anthony of Birregurra, Vic
    References: Medical Board of New South Wales. Minutes 7 April 1839 [registered MRCS 27 June 1836]
  • Medical Directory for New South Wales and Queensland. Sydney, 1860 [at Hinton, MRCS 1836]
  • Medical Board of Victoria. Victoria Government Gazette 14 March 1865 [registration of George Frederick Barnes, Craigie, MRCSE 1836]
  • Bruck L. Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook, 1883 [Birregurra, Vic MRCSE 1836]
  • Guilford E. Hunter Valley Directory 1841. Newcastle, 1987
  • Death certificate
  • Colonial Land and Emigration Commission. Ninth General Report, Appendix 8. London 1849 [G. F. Barnes surgeon superintendent on "Harbinger"]
  • Shipping intelligence. Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser 17 February 1849
  • Departures. Sydney Morning Herald 25 April 1849 [Dr. Barnes for San Francisco]
  • Marriage. Sydney Herald 31 December 1840 [at Hinton, George F. Barnes to Jane Murray]
  • Vaccinator at Woodend. Australian Medical Journal 1868:255
  • Birregurra. Colac Herald 11 March 1887 [Dr. Barnes currently in very reduced circumstances as unable to work past two years due to an incurable disease]
  • Birregurra. Colac Herald 6 September 1887 [death of Dr. Barnes at age 74, resident of over 14 years, much esteemed, long funeral cortege]
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