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207406
Surname: Stirling
First Name: Lieut. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 4 March 1824
Place: -
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Lieut. Robert Stirling of the 3rd Regt., appointed to act as Assistant Engineer in the room of Lieut. Croker, about to leave the colony
207407
Surname: Stirling
First Name: Lieut. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 14 November 1829
Place: -
Source: Sydney Monitor
Details: Death of Lieut. Stirling.....On the 23d of April, the Kains spoke the Admiral Benbow (of Liverpool, which ship was boarded on the 11th of April in lat 13, 0 .N. lon. 26. 45. W. by a pirate schooner, under a French ensign and pendant - first under the pretence of being in want of stock, which was supplied to them. The villains very soon after commenced a system of cruelty and plunder almost unparalleled in atrocity. The first act was that of getting behind the ship s carpenter, who was caulking the deck, and putting a pistol to his ear, which happily missed fire. After seizing on all the live stock, cabin furniture, clothes, watches, spy-glasses, etc they deliberately laid the cabin-steward (Frederick Jones) on the cabin-deck, and cut his throat, because he could not produce or show them how to obtain more plunder; they next picked up a man (Edward Mitchell) who was overboard, and cut his throat on the quarter-deck. The miscreants then stabbed and drowned Lieutenant Robert Stirling (of the Buffs), a passenger, brother to Captain Stirling, the Governor of the new settlement in the Swan river, and afterwards killed Charles Miller, a seaman, and wounded Mr. John Crawford, the master, and the chief-mate; the master received seven severe wounds from knives; The pirate, which it is believed mounted six guns, with 100 men, kept possession of the Admiral Benbow from 11. a. m. to 5 p. m. The wounds of Mr. Crawford. the master, who intended to proceed to the Admiral Benbow s destination (Madras) were dressed by Mr. A. Johnson, assistant-surgeon of the Doris, and he was recovering.
126086
Surname: Stirling
First Name: Lieutenant Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1840 1 April
Place: Co. of Brisbane, Parish of Denman, at the confluence of the Goulburn and Hunter Rivers
Source: GG
Details: Claim for Deed of Grant. 1000 acres located on an order of Gov. Brisbane dated 2 November 1825 in favour of Lieut. Robert Stirling, now deceased. Claimant Thomas Balcomb alleging the land belongs to him
169325
Surname: Stirling
First Name: Lieutenant Robert
Ship: Shipley 1822
Date: -
Place: Moreton Bay
Source: Captain Robert Mackie Stirling - 3rd Regiment of Foot - The Buffs : artist and explorer of the Brisbane River, Brisbane, Australia, 1823 written by Peter Denham. January 2017
Details: Robert Stirling was born in 1796 at Drumpellier, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was the youngest son of fifteen children and his older brother was Sir James Stirling who later became the first Governor of Western Australia. His father was Andrew Stirling, and his mother Anne Stirling. She was her husband s second cousin and the daughter of Admiral Sir Walter Stirling. Robert Stirling had patronage from his grandfather and another uncle - Admiral Sir Charles Stirling. However, Robert Stirling chose to join the British Army and was commissioned into the 3rd Regiment of Foot – The Buffs East Kent Regiment. The Regiment was stationed at Mullingar, County of Westmeath, Ireland and four companies of the Regiment were due to be posted to Australia. In 1821 Robert was placed in charge of a detachment of soldiers and tasked to board the naval ship Shipley berthed at Chatham, Kent, England. The ship was loaded with convicts for a direct non-stop voyage to Australia and Robert Stirling and his soldiers of the Buffs were tasked to guard the body of convicts and protect the ship
169326
Surname: Stirling
First Name: Lieutenant Robert
Ship: Shipley 1822
Date: 1823
Place: Moreton Bay
Source: HRA, Series 1, vol. VII p. 225
Details: John Oxley was accompanied on his excursion to Moreton Bay by Lieutenant Stirling of the Buffs who Oxley derived the greatest assistance. Oxley attributed Stirling's skill in the rapid and accurage delineation of the surface of the positions of country that they were enabled to complete their duties in so short a space of time.
207405
Surname: Stirling (obit)
First Name: Lieut. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 26 January 1830
Place: -
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: Extract from biography - It was with extreme pain and regret the bulk of your readers were made acquainted a few weeks ago with the death of Captain Robert Stirling, of (the 3d Regiment of foot, by those atrocious pirates, who, to the disgrace of Europe and America, are per- mitted to cruise around the Cape de Verde Islands. Long a resident in this Colony with the Regiment to which he was attached, and no ordinary member in the executive department of our Colonial Government, his death excited an unusual interest and regret, which was increased by the excellence of his character, and his general merits as a soldier and a citizen. Captain Stirling accompanied his Regiment to this Colony, and was subsequently appointed Private Secretary to Sir Thomas Brisbane. He performed the duties of this office in a manner that deserves general praise. We have heard of cases in which Captain Stirling was supposed to have acted with severity, and even with negligence and partiality, but we must never forget that a public officer must look upon public acts with very different eyes, and through a different medium, from interested and clamorous complainants. He must exercise his own judgment in the adoption and execution of public measures, and rest satisfied in the approving conscience Captain Stirling, we believe, returned to England with Sir Thomas Brisbane, and was promoted soon after his arrival. The Buffs having sailed from this Colony for the East Indies long after his departure, he was on his way to join his Regiment on the Admiral Benbow, when the melancholy and atrocious act occurred that put a period to his life. He will be much regretted by a most extensive circle of relatives and friends. He was unassuming, affectionate, and con- descending, a proficient in military matters, and a man of active and business-like habits besides. Had he reached the Eastern world in safety, where his merits would have been duly appreciated and called into action, there can be no doubt that he would have risen to eminence in some of the native courts.