Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)	BRADFORD, John
Date of Birth	c1794
Place of Birth	Ireland?
Date of Death	30.01.1868
Place of Death	Sturt Grove, Sturt
Place of Burial	St Jude’s, Brighton, South Australia
Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)	02.05.1838 on the Canton
Lived in Prospect (dates)	Never resided in Prospect
Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area
Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area	Donabate, Co., Dublin, Ireland (1838), Sheep Farm No1 (1839), Sturt Grove, Sturt  (1840-1868)
Names of houses (if any)	Sturt Grove  (Section 110, Preliminary Survey B)
Parents
Spouse(s)	(1) unknown).  Some secondary sources give her name as Ann, She appears (unnamed) on the application for free passage, but does not appear on a passenger arrivals list, so may have died on the voyage! (2) Ann nee SCOTT (died 19.10.1883)
Date(s) of Marriage(s)	(1) c1820? (2) 06.04.1939
Place(s) of Marriage(s)	(1) Possibly Donabate, Ireland (2) South Australia
Children	Hester (c1821), John (c1823), William (c1827), David (c1831), Arthur (c1832)
Education
Occupation(s)	Farmer. Came to SA as a tenant farmer of the South Australian Company.
Interests/Activities	First Chairman of the Adelaide Mechanics Land Company .In July 1838 he purchased a number of 80 acre sections in what is now Prospect as Chairman of the Adelaide Mechanics Land Company. These were subdivided into 8 acre blocks which shareholders could purchase for £10. Some blocks were the further subdivided into allotments. One of these was block 39, subdivided as Prospect Village (now Elizabeth Street) where allotments for advertised for £1.10.0 - £2.0.0.
Religion/Churches	Church of England
Sources of information	Register of Emigrant Labourers Applying for a Free Passage to South Australia. Almanacs and Directories. Passenger List for ‘Canton’, SLSA BRG 42/146/6. Lewis, Enfield and the Northern Villages. Arthur Ian Diamond, Aspects of the South Australian Company – The first Decade (Uni of Adelaide Thesis)
Principal researcher	David Johnston, Prospect Local History Group A short biography and research notes have been filed in the Prospect Local History Collection.