This page is an attempt to gather some data about the earliest surveyors in Western Australia. It's an inchoate work in progress.
- John Septimus Roe (1797-1878) arrived on Parmelia in June 1829 as the civilian surveyor-general. He retired in 1871 at 73, dying in 1878.
- Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1861-1880) was 1841-1853 assistant government surveyor at Swan River Colony.
- Alfred Hillman
- Raphael Clint
- Robert Dale
- Henry Sutherland (surveyed Guildford town with Hillman?)
- F. T. Gregory (explorer?)
- James Cowle
- A. J. Lewis
- Andrew Forrest
- Shenton (not)
- H.M. Ommanney
References and Links
Moyal, Ann 2017, 'Surveyors: Mapping the Distance, Early Surveying in Australia', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. [mostly eastern states]
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 9 April, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/surveyors.html (it was last updated on 26 July, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.