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Item: 32145

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: -

Date: 1801 November

Place: Coal River

Source: Barrallier

Details: Acting Surveyor General sent to the Hunter River to complete surveys of the River

 

Item: 77142

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: -

Date: 1801 October

Place: Hunter River

Source: HR NSW Vol. IV. Hunter and King. 1800, 1801, 1802. Ed by F. M. Bladen. p 597 - 598

Details: Accompanying Frederick Kirkwold and Ensign Barralier up the Hunter River to search for 'cardjang'

 

Item: 77300

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: -

Date: 1808 5 April

Place: -

Source: HR NSW, Vol. VI, King and Bligh 1806, 1807, 1808. . p. 574

Details: Resigned as Acting Judge-Advocate

 

Item: 162278

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: -

Date: May 1802

Place: -

Source: A Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders

Details: No runs of fresh water were seen in my excursions; but Mr. Charles Grimes surveyor-general of New South Wales afterwards found several, and in particular, a small river falling into the northern head of the port. Mr. Grimes was sent by governor King, in 1803, to walk round, and survey the harbour; and from his plan I have completed my chart of Port Phillip. The parts of the coast left unshaded are borrowed from him, and the soundings written at right angles are those of his companion, Lieutenant Robbins.

 

Item: 176898

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: -

Date: 4 August 1825

Place: St. James Church, Sydney

Source: The Australian

Details: Married - By special license by Rev. Richard Hill on 2nd August 1825, Mr. John Grimes, son of Charles Grimes, formerly Surveyor General of the Colony, to Miss Mary Ann Atkinson

 

Item: 162279

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: Gorgon 1791

Date: 1790

Place: -

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Details: In 1790 Charles Grimes was appointed deputy-surveyor of roads, to be employed on Norfolk Island. He sailed to Sydney in the Gorgon next year and reached the island in November. He surveyed the land of the settlers from the Sirius, returned briefly to Sydney to report and went back to correct other surveys which had been made without proper instruments. He was appointed head constable on the island, and helped Lieutenant-Governor Philip Gidley King in his administration, until he went back to the mainland to assist Surveyor-General Augustus Alt who was in ill health

 

Item: 77102

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: To Port Stephens in the 'Francis'

Date: 1795 March

Place: -

Source: HRA, Series 1, Vol.1, 1788 - 1796. Governors' Despatches to and From England. p. 490.

Details: Deputy Surveyor. Sent to survey Port Stephens by Captain Paterson

 

Item: 77103

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: To Port Stephens in the 'Francis'

Date: 1795 March

Place: Port Stephens

Source: Collins

Details: Reported that the natives of Port Stephens were a taller, stouter race and very unfriendly

 

Item: 77104

Surname: Grimes

First Name: Charles

Ship: To Port Stephens in the 'Francis'

Date: 1795, March

Place: Port Stephens

Source: Collins

Details: Saved from being speared by natives at Port Stephens by 'Wilson' shooting at the native

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