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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names) |
CATHERY, Desbro |
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Date of Birth |
1794 |
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Place of Birth |
Westbourne, Sussex |
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Date of Death |
5th May 1861 |
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Place of Death |
Prospect - home of his daughter Sarah Lavinia Gready |
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Place of Burial |
North Road Cemetery? Plot 3, Path 18 South |
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Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.) |
Asia - July 1839 |
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Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area |
1841 - Prospect Village 1847 - Main North Rd |
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Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area |
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Names of houses (if any) |
Allsworth |
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Parents |
Henry Knee CATHERY and Alice (nee PIERSON). |
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Spouse(s) |
Desbro's wife Jane (nee) EASTON died in 1836, prior to
the families voyage out to Australia. He was a widower with five children at the time of
migration to Australia |
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Date(s) of Marriage(s) |
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Place(s) of Marriage(s) |
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Children |
Elizabeth Jane White, Desborough Charles, Alicia Ann, Henry Richard, Sarah Lavinia. 4 others did not survive. |
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Education |
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Occupation(s) |
Publican; carpenter and joiner; land holder |
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Interests/Activities |
Also went prospecting in the Victorian goldfields |
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Religion/Churches |
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Notes (points of interest etc.) |
From his life as a carpenter and furniture shop owner
in Poole, Dorset, Desbro took up residence in Prospect Village, section 351
(refer: 1841 census) with all 5 of his surviving children (9 in total). Desbro left for the Victorian goldfields (1853-1856),
declaring bankruptcy upon his return and living out his final 5 years at
Prospect Village. He built the Tea Gardens hotel in 1851 (later the
Farmers Home hotel 1854 - 1862). A publican's license was granted to the "Tea
Garden Hotel, Allsworth (sec. 352)" in March 1851. Some controversy exists over whether he is in fact
buried at North Road Cemetery. An article on the Allsworth Public Tea Gardens can be
found in the South Australian Register, 12 February 1851, P2. |
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Local Government experience |
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Sources of information |
Buried Treasures; Mr Peter Cathery. |
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