|
Family
Name |
BURDON,
John |
|
Date
of Birth |
20
July 1805 |
|
Place
of Birth |
Kneeton,
Nottinghamshire |
|
Date
of Death |
2
September 1884 |
|
Place
of Death |
Prospect,
South Australia |
|
Place
of Burial |
Dudley
Park Cemetery (Grave no longer exists) |
|
Arrived
in South Australia (date/ship etc.) |
8
August 1849 on “Emily” |
|
Lived
in Prospect (dates) |
1849
to 1884. |
|
Addresses
in Prospect |
Possibly
near corner of Irish Harp Road, Islington (now known as Regency Road) |
|
Names
of houses (if any) |
Not
known |
|
Parents |
John
and Mary Burdon (nee Johnson) |
|
Spouse(s) |
(1) Ann
Streets (2) Hannah Cox (nee Saunders) |
|
Date(s)
of Marriage(s) |
(1) 9
July 1827
(2) 22 August 1868 |
|
Place(s)
of Marriage(s) |
(1)
Wilford, Nottinghamshire (2) Islington (Primitive Methodist
Church) S.Aust. |
|
Children
(all born in East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire with first wife, Ann) |
William
(3 Oct 1829? - ?), Robert (16 Feb 1831 – 26 Mar 1896), Mary (14 Aug 1833 – 24
Dec 1859), Jane (5 Feb 1838 – 23 Feb 1850), Eliza (23 Jul 1839 – 1843 or 47),
Dinah (23 Aug 1842 – 1843), James (25 Jun 1844 – 21 Feb 1921), Josiah (20 Mar
1847 – 14 Jun 1923) |
|
Occupation(s) |
Shoemaker |
|
Interests |
According
to the Government Gazette of 6th July 1876, John was elected as a Prospect
Councillor that year. However the Prospect Council list of Elected Members shows
that his son Robert was elected, not John. This is confirmed by the entries
in the Municipal section of the Boothby Directories of South Australia for
1876-78, and confirmed by several newspaper reports. It is
probable that the insertion of John’s name into the Govt Gazette was a
mistake by James Pitcher, the then District Clerk. |
|
Religion/Churches
|
Primitive
Methodist Church |
|
Notes
(points of interest etc.) |
John’s
brothers, George and Samuel arrived in Adelaide in 1845 from Tasmania where
Samuel had been a convict. George and another brother James had arrived in
Tasmania in 1841 when Samuel received his Ticket of Leave. James remained in
Tasmania running a very successful Coach building firm. George farmed
successfully at One Tree Hill South Australia, while Samuel died at Ingrams
Gap South Australia. |
|
Sources
of information |
Squire’s
records at Kneeton, Nottinghamshire, and various South Australian records. |
|
Principal
researcher(s) |
Glenn
Burdon. grburdon@bigpond.com |