Mr Charles Joseph BYRNES (1835 - 1917)

Date of Birth: 01/01/1835
Place of Birth: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 22/10/1917
Place of Death: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position	Start	End	Period	Parliament	Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly	10 Dec 1874	23 Nov 1882	7yr(s) 11mth(s) 14day(s)
Member for Parramatta	10 Dec 1874	12 Oct 1877	2yr(s) 10mth(s) 3day(s)	18th (1898 - 1901)
Member for Parramatta	18 Nov 1880	23 Nov 1882	2yr(s) 6day(s)	19th (1901 - 1904)
Blakefield v. Shields Committee No.18	13 Jul 1875	4 Aug 1875	23days	8th (1875 - 1877)
Conveyance of Lunatics from Sydney to Cooma Committee No.21	22 Jun 1877	11 Oct 1877	3mths 20days	9th (1877 - 1880)
Jeanneret’s Tramway Bill Committee No.17	18 Mar 1881	29 Mar 1881	12days	10th (1880 - 1882)
Standing Orders Committee No.4	6 Jul 1881	29 Jul 1881	24days	10th (1880 - 1882)
Cookbundoon Slate Quarry Tramway Bill Committee No.26	24 Nov 1881	2 Dec 1881	9days	10th (1880 - 1882)
Land in Macquarie street, Parramatta Committee No.29	15 Dec 1881	20 Dec 1881	6days	10th (1880 - 1882)
Standing Orders Committee No.3	30 Aug 1882	21 Nov 1882	2mths 23days	10th (1880 - 1882)
Land in Macquarie street, Parramatta Committee No.8	3 Oct 1882	21 Nov 1882	1mth 19days	11th (1882 - 1885)	Chairman
Forest Lodge, near Tarlo, Estate Bill Committee No.9	6 Oct 1882	20 Oct 1882	15days	11th (1882 - 1885)
Rotton’s Estate Bill Committee No.13	24 Oct 1882	2 Nov 1882	10days	10th (1880 - 1882)

Community Activity

Alderman for Parramatta from around 1868 and Mayor several times

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Lawyer (solicitor) and miller. Served articles with CH Walsh, a solicitor of Goulburn (Member of the Legislative Assembly for Goulburn between 1860-61). Charles left law for business. Took over the woollen mill established by his father at Parramatta and owned another mill at Granville where he manufactured tweed. Had a "controlling influence" in collieries in Southern New South Wales for over thirty years. Was Chairman and Director of the Mt Pleasant Coal Company in 1907 and Chairman of the South Coal Owner's Agency and of the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association.

Personal

Son of James Byrnes and Ruth. Father was a manufacturer, storekeeper and Company Director. Father was also a member of the old Legislative Council between 1850 - 1855; a member of the Legislative Assembly in the first to sixth Parliaments; twice Secretary for Public Works; and was nominated to the Legislative Council in 1861 but did not take his seat.

Additional Information

References: Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales 1856-1901; Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume three, under Byrnes, James; New South Wales. Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, 1873-4, volue 5, p199.

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