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| Richard Sissons |
| Family
Name: |
Sissons |
Variant
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| Given
Names: |
Richard |
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| DOB |
17 May 1819
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DOD |
4 August 1893 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England
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Place
of Death: |
Kamo, NZ |
| Age
at Death: |
74
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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MRCS 1842
LSA 1842
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| Spouse:
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Cordelia Matilda d.1866 Moreton Bay, Qld |
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| Voyages:
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"Golden City" from London arr Brisbane 23 January 1866
"Great Victoria" dep. Brisbane for Sydney 24 February 1866
Unknown voyage to New Zealand 1866
"Ida Ziegler" from London arr. Auckand 16 October 1867
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| Came
out as: |
Surgeon superintendent |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1866
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Date
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| First
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England 1863 (Medical Register)
Brisbane, Qld 1866 (shipping record)
Whangarei, NZ 1867 onwards (shipping record etc) |
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| Notes:
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Registered NZ 1868
Church leader, licensed as a lay reader in the Anglican church 1871 |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was created in August 2005 with information supplied by Gillian Arnot Smith of Qld |
| References: |
Medical register. General Council of Medical Education and Registration UK 1863 [Richard Sissons registered 1859 Huddersfield LSA 1842 MRCS 1842]
Medical Directory (UK) 1873 [Richard Sissons, Whangarei, Auckland MRCS and LSA 1842]
QSA COL/12 xxi
Wright-St.Clair RE. Historia nunc vivat: medical practitioners in New Zealand 1830 to 1940. Digital edition. Christchurch, 2013 [reg. 27 June 1868 Whangarei b. Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks 17 May 1819, merchant’s son of Huguenot descent]
The "Golden City". Queenslander 10 February 1866 [Richard Sissons Surgeon Superintendent]
Shipping intelligence. Brisbane Courier 15 February 1866 [Dr Sissons and family on "Golden City" from London]
Death. Brisbane Courier 23 February 1866 [Cordelia Matilda, beloved wife of Richard Sissons late Surgeon of the "Golden City"]
Shipping. Brisbane Courier 24 February 1866 [Dr Sissons dep. Brisbane for Sydney on "Great Victoria"]
Arrival of the ship "Ida Ziegler" from London. Daily Southern Cross (Auckland) 17 October 1867 [Surgeon Superintendent Dr. Sissons of Whangarei]
Deaths. New Zealand Herald 15 August 1893 [at his late residence Kamo, Richard Sissons MRCS LSA late of Huddersfield, Yorkshire aged 74 years] |
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