Edward Denny Day

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Edward Denny Day

• 1801-1876

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Early Life

• 1801 Born in Ireland
• 1820 Joined the 46th Regiment as an ensign
• 1833 Became a lieutenant in the 62nd Regiment
  and served in India.
• 1834 Resigned due to ill-health
• Went to Sydney and became clerk to the Executive
  Council
• 1835 Served as Colonial Secretary
• 1837 Appointed Police Magistrate of Maitland and
  Muswellbrook

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Community Service

• 1838 Led a party of mounted police to arrest
  white men said to have killed at least 28
  aboriginals at or near Myall Creek on the
  Liverpool plains. Arrested eleven men who were
  tried and found guilty. Seven men were hanged.
• Played a major part in the public life in
  Maitland, became a foundation member of the
  Australian Immigration Association and was
  elected chairman of the Maitland Branch.

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Hero

• 1840 When visiting Muswellbrook, he learned of a
  gang of bushrangers led by Edward (Teddy the
  Jewboy) Davis, who had terrorized settlers in the
  Scone district, raiding cattle stations and
  breaking homesteads. In one raid, John Graham,
  clerk in a store at Scone, was murdered. Captain
  Day organised a party of mounted men, pursued the
  bushrangers and arrested six men. They were all
  tried and found guilty and were hanged on the 16
  March 1841. Grateful residents of the Scone
  district presented Day with a service of plate
  for his efforts.

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Community Service

• 1844 On 16 February, he laid the foundation
  stone of a new gaol at East Maitland.
• 1846 As the Governors representative, he laid
  the foundation stone of a new hospital in
  Maitland.

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Moved from Maitland

• 1848 Days business ventures proved unsuccessful
  and his estate was confiscated until his
  creditors were satisfied.
• 1849 Appointed to Sydney
• 1851 Became provincial inspector of police for
  the Northern District.

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Final Years

• 1853 Appointed stipendiary magistrate at Port
  Macquarie
• 1858 Appointed stipendiary magistrate at
  Maitland
• 1869 Retired at Maitland
• 1876 Died and was buried at Glebe Cemetery East
  Maitland.

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Days Grave in Glebe Cemetery
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Oldhome
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Oldhome

• Oldhome was built in 1837 in Wallis Street East
  Maitland.
• It is the 4th house built on that site. The
  first, was built in 1818 to accommodate Governor
  Lachlan Macquarie on his second tour of the area.
• The first private owner was Edward Denny Day, who
  died there in 1876.

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Sources

• Maitland Architecture 19 Decades of Residential
  design
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
  Edition
• www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs
• http//cemindex.arkangles.com/inscription.php?id2
  153075
• A New History of Maitland
• Published by the Council of the City of Maitland
  - 1983