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166926
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Major Sir Thomas Livingston
Ship: -
Date: 10 March 1832
Place: -
Source: The Sydney Monitor
Details: We are sorry to learn, that the Major has not succeeded in attaining the object of his expedition. His return is expected today. The streams the Major fell in with do not run to the North West, but into the Darling. The natives were hostile. They killed two of the Major's party and plundered his stores. In the month of November last, the Major left Sydney, and accompanied by a sufficient number of assistants, proceeded on his long and precarious journey. At Segenhoe the estate of Mr. Sempill, he received from the latter gentleman the loan of a very useful man of the name of Bombelli, who went along with the party and in three or four weeks returned to Segenhoe, on his way to Darlington with despatches for the Government. In returning from the Major, Bombelli met with Mr. Surveyor Finch who was going to the appointed depot with a ton of flour. Having delivered his despatches at Sydney, and returned to Segenhoe, Mr. Sempill immediately forwarded him on. After travelling one hundred and fifty miles, he overtook Mr. finch and party, who were greatly in want of water. Mr. F. having a day or two before passed a place where water was plentiful and it being only about nine miles behind them, determined on going back to it for a supply, leaving Bomelli and the bullock driver in charge of the drays. Early on the following morning Mr. Finch returned when to his indiscribable horror he found them both stretched on the ground, mangled corpses, having been murdered by the Blacks, who had decamped with the whole of his flour. Mr. Finch hurried with all possible speed after Major Mitchell whom he overtook far in the interior
123938
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1855 8 October
Place: Carthone
Source: SMH
Details: Surveyor-General of NSW. Died at his residence on 5th October
143341
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingston
Ship: -
Date: 1929 22 February
Place: London
Source: SMH
Details: Death of Mrs. Philip Dauncey, widow of Major Dauncey and last surviving daughter of the late Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW. Mrs. Dauncey formerly resided at Carthona, Darling Point Sydney
38484
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1842 19 February
Place: Peel River
Source: HRG
Details: Son of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, a young surveyor, became lost in the bush near Dungowan Creek. 'Mistook his right hand for his left and proceeded east instead of west'
74621
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1850 4 May
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Forwarded a Spanish pruning sickle to the Hunter River Vineyard Assoc., meeting
86112
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1851 4 October
Place: near the Water Reserve, Sydney
Source: MM
Details: Duel between Sir Thomas Mitchell (Surveyor General) and Stuart A. Donaldson after remarks made by Donaldson in his election speech at Paterson regarding expenditure on Crown lands
86422
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1851 25 October
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Roderick Mitchell, son of Sir Thomas Mitchell, drowned after falling overboard in a storm
88344
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1841 10 February
Place: Sydney
Source: FP
Details: Surveyor. Returned from England
93584
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1834 26 March
Place: Co. Northumberland, parish of Maitland. Commencing at John Cahill's land
Source: GG 1834
Details: 80 acres of land promised to Catherine Bunn (?Burr) claimed by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
93783
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1855 5 October
Place: -
Source: The Annual Register (Google Books)
Details: In New South Wales, aged 63, Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, knt., Surveyor General of that colony, D.C.L., Fellow of the Royal and the Royal Geographical Societies. Sir Thomas was the eldest son of John Mitchell, esq., by the daughter of Alexander Miln, esq., of Carron Works; and was the chief of the family of Mitchell, of Craigend, which took the name of Livingstone, on a marriage with the heiress of a brother of Lord Viscount Kilsyth, attainted in 1716. He joined the army in the Peninsula when only 16, and served on Wellington's staff to the close of the war. He was sent back to survey the battle-fields of the Peninsula. In 1827 he waa sent to survey Eastern Australia, having the appointment of Deputy Surveyor General, under Mr. Oxley, whom he succeeded. SirThomas Mitchell made several exploring expeditions into the interior of the country, of which valuable narratives have been published. He was knighted by Her Majesty in 1839, in presenting a map of his surveys and discoveries; and in the same year he received from the University of Oxford the honorary degree of D.C.L.
93978
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1834 18 June
Place: Situated in parish of Maitland bounded by Smith's land and Wallis Creek
Source: GG 1834
Details: Surveyor General. Claim to 30 acres of land
94258
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1852 4 September
Place: Sydney
Source: MM
Details: Seriously ill. Possibly having to postpone his voyage to England
94526
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1852 8 September
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Intended voyage to England for purpose of procuring a fair trial of his invention known as the Boomerang Propeller for steam ships had to be postponed due to ill health
100561
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1853 4 June
Place: London
Source: MM
Details: Testing of Sir Thomas Mitchell's new invention, the Boomerang Screw Propeller by Messrs. McKean, McLarty and co of Liverpool on the vessel 'Geneva'
100564
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1846 26 December
Place: -
Source: Moreton Bay Courier
Details: An account of Sir Thomas Mitchell's exploratory expeditions in the interior and the progress made in finding the overland route to Port Essington. First despatch dated 9th Sept., 1846 from the camp at the head of the River Salvator
100566
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1841 20 February
Place: Petty's Hotel, Sydney
Source: SG
Details: Dinner held at Petty's Hotel to honor Sir Thomas Mitchell
100567
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1855 10 October
Place: At his residence, Darling Point
Source: MM
Details: Death of Sir Thomas Mitchell at 5.15pm from a severe attack of bronchitis which 'defied all the efforts of medical skill and terminated fatally after a few days illness'.
100570
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: -
Date: 1869 22 May
Place: Elizabeth Street Sydney
Source: The Brisbane Courier
Details: Thomas Octavius Mitchell, eighth son of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell committed suicide by gunshot following breakdown in his marriage and subsequent financial encumbrances
100569
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: Croesus 1854
Date: 1854 22 April
Place: Sydney
Source: MM
Details: Return of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell after an absence of some months in England testing the qualitites of his newly invented propeller
100565
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: Sir Thomas Livingstone
Ship: Mary Bannatyne 1841
Date: 1841 6 February
Place: Sydney
Source: SG
Details: Return of Sir Thomas Mitchell to Australia having 'received his title at the hands of Majesty'. Calls for a public dinner to honor the man who 'in sunshine and in storm cut his way through the dense forests of Australia and discovered regions that are now covered with the herds and flocks of colonists'