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Family Name

Family Name

Beach

First Name

Frederick

Middle Name(s) if any

Dewe

Date of Birth

14 March 1829

Place of Birth

Audley House, North Audley Street, London, England

Date of Death

14 November 1895

Place of Death

Prospect, South Australia

Place of Burial

West Terrace Cemetery

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Arrived in colony of South Australia at 21 years of age in 1850 aboard Arabella

(Went to the Victorian goldfields, returned

Lived in Prospect (dates)

1855

Addresses in Prospect

Audley House, 32 Prospect Road, Prospect (built in 1885 by Frederick Beach who had made his fortune in the Victorian goldfields).

Names of houses (if any)

Audley House ( On Prospect Council heritage list)

Parents

Charles Beach.

Mother  Unknown b. 1802,   d. 1869  (Age 67 years).

Spouse(s)

Elizabeth B. Way (daughter of Rev James Way, pioneer minister of the Bible Christian Church and father of Hon Chief Justice Way). Born Chatham, Kent UK Aug. 1834.

Volunteered at  welfare institutions including the Children’s Hospital. Died May 1903.

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

18 September 1852

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

St John’s Church, Adelaide.

Children

Had  6 sons and 3 daughters:

Frederick William Beach: 1853-1854

Florence Amelia Beach: 1870 - 1894

Frederick James Beach: 1855-1941

Sydney Edward Beach: 1859-1860

Sydney Edwin Beach: 1859-1934

Herbert Way Beach:  1862-1953

Edward Frank Beach: 1867-1939

Marion Olive Beach: 1873 – 1944

Jeannie Way Beach: 1873 – 1944

Occupation(s)

Wholesale and Retail Confectioner, restaurateur, caterer in City of Adelaide.

Number of innovative food businesses from late 1849. From 1868, provided offsite catering including largescale functions such as Town Hall Banquet, Mayor’s balls, Government House garden party, a Broken Hill banquet.

Interests

Supported athletic and sporting  organisations and often seen at Adelaide oval for cricket matches.

Religion/Churches

Member of Tynte Street Baptist Church. In charge of Flinders Street Ragged Sunday school for many years.

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Thursday 19 April 1888, Frederick Dewe Beach proclaimed a Justice of the Peace.

Sources of information

-samuelway.info/familygroup.php

-Rev James Way: Burkes Colonial Gentry

-Pp 87-90 & 291:  Traces Where Adelaide Ate Out 1836-1960, Darryl Thompson & James s Smith, January 2016, Adelaide South Australia

-Notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of Biography Compiled and edited By H.J. Gibbney and Ann G. Smith Volume I  A-K

-Burgess, Henry Thomas. (2013). pp. 528-9. The Cyclopedia of South Australia An Historical and Commercial Review (Vol. 1). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1907)

Principal researcher

 

Kristina Barnett

 

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