Captain Godfrey Vaughan Bentley

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Captain Godfrey Vaughan Bentley

Birthdate:
Death: January 18, 1860 (41-42)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Immediate Family:

Son of Robert Bentley and Isabella Vaughan
Husband of Honoria Susanna Swift
Father of James Vaughan Bentley; Mary Swift Bentley; Isabella Frances Bentley; Susannah Honoria Bentley and (unknown) Bentley

Managed by: Lilian Huhn
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Captain Godfrey Vaughan Bentley's Timeline

1818
1818
1842
1842
1844
January 20, 1844
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

!BIRTH
Birth of Mary Swift Bentley

Source:
http:/familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/n/Cidney-Noel-Windsor-Tasmania/Website-0001/UHP-Index.html
Actual text:
'Windsor Family Tasmania
Mary Swift Bentley was born January 20, 1844 in Tasmania,....'

1845
November 9, 1845
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1848
March 8, 1848
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1860
January 18, 1860
Age 42
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

The Hobart Town Daily Mercury (Tas. : 1858 - 1860)

Bentley - January l8 at his residence, Upper Davey street, Hobart Town, Captain Godfrey V. Bentley, aged 42 years.

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!OBITUARY for Captain G. V. BENTLEY

Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW - 1842 - 1954) issue dated Tuesday 31 January 1860
Actual text
The same paper announces the death of Captain G. V. BENTLEY, at his residence, Davoy-street, Hobart Town, of English cholera, on the morning of the 18th instant We may add (says the Mercury) that Captain Bentley was during twenty years conneoted with our mercantile marine, and that in respect to his memory the flags of the vessels in harbour were dipped to half-mat.
As a most singular circumstance we may, likewise, mention that Captain Bentley landed in this colony twenty-seven years ago yesterday, namely, on the 18th of January 1833, fom the ship Clyde*, Captain Ireland.
The funeral took place on Saturday, the remains being carried and the pall borne by members of the Executive Board of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, followed by Mr. Bentley's eldest son, the company's manager, the chief and second officers, steward, and seamen of the City of Hobart, the mournful procession being also accompanied by the captains of vessels in port, members of the Legislative Council, House of Assembly, and Chamber of Commerce, and a large number of the personal merchants, tradesmen, and professional gentlemen within the city. most of them personal friends of the deceased, as a last mark of the affectionate respect in which Captain Bentley was so deservedly held.

NOTE
*Clyde (1833)

Departed Liverpool 04 Sep 1832 with 76 passengers arriving Hobart 18/19 Jan 1833.
Sources:
Nicholson, Ian Hawkins, Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania, 1803-1833, Roebuck, 1983, p207.
Newspaper report The Hobart Town Courier, Friday 25 Jan 1833, p3.

Passengers
BYRNE / BURNS, Cornelius
FLANAGAN, Daniel
(not a complete passenger listing)

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