Biographical entry Roe, John Septimus (1797 - 1878)

Summary

John Septimus Roe was posted in 1817 as master's mate to the surveying service in New South Wales carrying on the work done by M. Flinders. In 1829 he took the position of Surveyor-General in the Swan River Colony and collected natural history and geological specimens.

Archival resources

JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia

• John Septimus Roe - Records, 1807 - 1878, MN 8; JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia. Details

State Records Office of Western Australia

• John Septimus Roe - Records, 1817 - 1839, ACC 1114/37 and others; State Records Office of Western Australia. Details

Published resources

Books

• Jackson, Janice Lynn Burton, Not an Idle Man: a Biography of John Septimus Roe, Western Australia's First Surveyor-General (1797-1878), West Swan, WA: MB Roe, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, W.A., 1982. Details
• Mercer, F. R., Amazing Career: the story of Western australia's first surveyor-general, Perth, 1962. Details

Book Sections

• Broeze, Frank, 'John Septimus Roe, 1797-1878', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Details
• Uren, Malcolm, 'Roe, John Septimus (1797-1878), naval officer, surveyor and explorer', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 390-392. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020344b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Roe, John Septimus', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-575880. Details