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| William Joseph Pierse |
| Family
Name: |
Pierse |
Variant
Spellings: |
Pierce
Pearce
Pearse |
| Given
Names: |
William Joseph |
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| DOB |
1815
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DOD |
18 November 1861 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Listowel, Ireland
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Place
of Death: |
Tamworth, NSW |
| Age
at Death: |
47
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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LAH Dublin 1851
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Speciality:
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| Other
Occupations: |
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| Spouse:
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Eliza Newman m.1852 Kilmore, Vic |
| Children: |
Agnes Jane b.1855 Kilmore, Vic
Frances Jane b.1856 Bendigo, Vic
Alicia Anne b.1856 Bendigo, Vic
Richard Newman b.1858 Bendigo, Vic
William b.1860 approx. Bendigo, Vic
Eliza Mary b.1862 (?) Bendigo, Vic |
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| Voyages:
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"Isabella Watson" from London arr. Port Phillip (where wrecked) 28 March 1852
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| Came
out as: |
Surgeon superintendent |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
by 1852
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1852 Vic
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Off
Register: |
1863 |
| Addresses:
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Kilmore, Vic 1852-1856 (marriage Argus, Free Press)
Bendigo, Vic 1856-1859 (Advertiser, Argus) |
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| Positions
Held: |
Honorary Surgeon, Bendigo Hospital 1857 (Advertiser) |
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| Notes:
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Bowden's evidence for thinking he was at Bendigo in 1854 appears to be the advertisement that actually appeared in 1856 - Ed.
Details of his children from the Newman On-Name Study website
Registered 1860 NSW No.511 |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
Government notice. Victoria Government Gazette 12 January 1853 [William T (sic) Pierse on list of legally qualified medical practitioners]
Legally qualified medical practitioners. Victoria Government Gazette 26 January 1855 [William Joseph Pierse listed]
Medical Board of Victoria. Register of Medical Practitioners for 1863 [William Joseph Pierse on list of doctors who had not renewed their registration since 1862]
New South Wales Medical Board. Minutes 3 April 1860 [registration of Wm. Pierse LAC Dublin 2 May 1851]
Bowden KM. Doctors and diggers on the Mount Alexander goldfields. Maryborough, Vic, 1974 [formerly Kilmore, was at Long Gully Bendigo 1854 (sic), later Myers St, insolvent there 1859]
Newman One-name Study website 2020 [William Joseph Pierse born Ireland 1815 died Tamworth NSW 1861 married Eliza Newman 6 October 1852 at Kilmore, Vic and lists children]
Shipping intelligence. Argus (Melbourne) 24 March 1852 [passengers saved from wreck of "Isabella Watson" include Eliza Newman]
Wreck of the Isabella Watson. Argus (Melbourne) 24 March 1852 [refers to W. J. Pearce (sic) surgeon of the vessel]
Supreme Court. Argus (Melbourne) 19 October 1853 [William Joseph Pearse (sic) surgeon attends man wounded by bushrangers near Kilmore]
Early Kilmore. Kilmore Free Press 23 April 1914 [8 February 1856 Dr. Wm. J. Pierse announces practice at the Kilmore Medical Hall]
Early Kilmore. Kilmore Free Press 30 April 1914 [25 July 1856 Dr. Wm. J. Pierse signs petition at Kilmore, offers property for sale as leaving the district]
Dr W. J. Pierse [advertisement]. Bendigo Advertiser 19 August 1856 [surgeon and accoucheur late of Kilmore now at Long Gully]
Bendigo Hospital [advertisement]. Bendigo Advertiser 16 May 1857 [position of Honorary Surgeon vacant, Dr. Pierse resigned]
Died. Bendigo Advertiser 4 February 1858 [at Myers St, Frances Jane aged 16 months, daughter of Dr. Pierse]
Insolvent estate [advertisement]. Argus (Melbourne) 12 July 1859 [William Joseph Pierse surgeon of Sandhurst]
Wanted [advertisement]. Bendigo Advertiser 14 October 1859 [a female servant, apply Dr. Pierse, Big Hill]
Deaths. Empire (Sydney) 10 December 1861 [18th November at the Peel River, William J. Pierse Esq MD of Listowel, Ireland aged 42 (sic)] |
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