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| Robert McIntosh |
| Family
Name: |
McIntosh |
Variant
Spellings: |
Macintosh |
| Given
Names: |
Robert |
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| DOB |
1817 approx.
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DOD |
28 October 1894 |
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MRCS 1838
MD St A 1838
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| Spouse:
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Lavinia Williamson m.1844 West Maitland, NSW |
| Children: |
Son b. Peel River 1845 (SMH)
Son b. Sydney 1848 (SMH)
Another son |
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| Voyages:
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Unknown voyage to Port Phillip
? "Sisters" from Port Phillip arr. Sydney 31 January 1841
? "Johannes Sarkies" dep. Sydney for California 14 March 1850
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| Came
out as: |
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
By 1841
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Date
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| First
Registered: |
1841 NSW No.178
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| Addresses:
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Port Stephens, NSW 1841, 1842 (Guilford, medical register)
Tamworth, Peel's River, NSW 1845
Sydney, NSW 1846, 1848, 1849 (SMH) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Assistant Surgeon to the Agricultural Company, Port Stephens 1841, 1842 (Guilford, medical register)
Physician, Sydney Infirmary 1847 (SMH) |
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| Notes:
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Registered California by 1858
He may have left Sydney for California on "Johannes Sarkies" in March 1850, but there is no mention of his family in the shipping record
He was in San Francisco with Robert Nuttall (qv) in May 1850
The membership list of the San Francisco Medical Society for 1850 includes a hand-written annotation stating that Robert Nuttall arrived San Francisco from Australia May 1850 with his friend Dr. Robert McIntosh
The note adds that Dr. McIntosh died (place illegible ? Eire) 28 October 1894 |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
New South Wales Medical Board. Minutes 3 May 1841 [registration of Robert Macintosh LRCSL 7 August 1838 MD St Andrews 17 April 1838]
New South Wales Medical Board. List of the Legally Qualified Medical Practitioners. Sydney, 1842
Smart RN. List of doctors awarded the MD of the University of St. Andrews [unpublished manuscript]
Guilford E. Hunter Valley Directory 1841. Newcastle, 1987
San Francisco Medical Society. Constitution. San Francisco, 1850 [membership list includes Robert McIntosh, St. Andrews and Edinburgh (sic) 1838]
History of San Francisco Medical Society. California and Western Medicine 1959:51(2):109-10 [Robert McIntosh arrived 1850 son of Sir William McIntosh, a professor in the Edinburgh Medical School]
SMH (Sydney Morning Herald) Index of BDM
Shipping intelligence. Sydney Herald 2 February 1841 [Dr. M'Intosh from Port Phillip]
Married. Maitland Mercury 28 September 1844 [at West Maitland, Robert M'Intosh Esq MD to Lavinia Williamson]
Sydney Infirmary [advertisement]. Sydney Morning Herald 8 December 1846 [Dr. Mackintosh a candidate for the post of physician vacated by Dr. Fullerton]
Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary. Sydney Morning Herald 29 January 1848 [Dr. M'Intosh retiring leaves vacancy for a physician]
Births. Maitland Mercury 30 August 1848 [son born at 356 Pitt Street Sydney]
Notice of removal. Sydney Morning Herald 31 August 1849 [354 Pitt Street, next door to Dr. Mackintosh, Terry's Buildings]
Clearances. Sydney Morning Herald 15 March 1850 [Dr. McIntosh for California]
Medical register of the State of California. Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal 1858: 209 [lists R. Macintosh, San Francisco, RCS Edinburgh 1838] |
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