| Richard Power |
| Family
Name: |
Power |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Richard |
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| DOB |
1802 approx.
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DOD |
9 December 1852 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Waterford, Ireland
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Place
of Death: |
Buninyong, Vic |
| Age
at Death: |
50
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MD date and place unknown
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Speciality:
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Occupations: |
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| Spouse:
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Mary Flood m.1827 or 1828 Dublin, Ireland |
| Children: |
Richard 1828-1841
Ellen 1829-1841
David Francis 1831-1841
Henry Arthur c1832-1870
Anna Maria 1833-1866
Henrietta Francis 1836-1904
Mary 1838-1856
Delia Mary 1844-1890 |
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| Voyages:
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"Eagle" from London and Plymouth arr. Port Phillip 5 March 1842
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| Came
out as: |
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| Date
Settled Aus: |
1842
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1847 PP
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Off
Register: |
1852 |
| Addresses:
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Dublin, Ireland 1822-1841 approx. (Bowden)
London, England 1841 (see note)
Buninyong, Vic 1842-1852 (see refs) |
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| Notes:
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His first three children are thought to have died in Ireland before he came to Australia
His daughter Henrietta married Dr. William Bailey Rankin (qv)
His family members, but not him, are listed in the 1841 Census at Goldiman Street, London, along with a James Power, surgeon
Brother of Robert Power (qv) at Westernport |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated in July 2010 with information from their family histories supplied by Miss K. Gibbney and Annie Bowe Schramm of NSW; further updated with information from Annie Bowe Schramm April 2011 |
| References: |
Port Phillip Medical Board. Port Phillip Government Gazette 10 February 1847 [Richard Power on list of registered medical practitioners]
Port Phillip Almanac and Directory for 1847 [MD surgeon Buninyong]
Government notice. Victorian Government Gazette 28 January 1852 [Rchard Power MD on list of registered medical practitioners]
Bowden KM. Goldrush doctors at Ballarat. Balwyn, Vic, 1977
Hopton AJ. List of registered and unregistered medical practitioners at Port Phillip between 1835 and 1851. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 1950;36:376-9
Hughes IA Passengers to Port Phillip from Southern England & Ireland 1838-41
UK Census 1841
Port Phillip. Maitland Mercury 9 December 1846 [Dr. Power medical practitioner at Buninyong]
Deaths. Colonial Times (Hobart) 24 December 1852 [at Buninyong, on 9th December, Richard Power MD, practised there ten years]
Melbourne Medical Record 1876;5:146 [death of his wife at Buninyong] |
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