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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

CATHERY, Desbro

Date of Birth

1794

Place of Birth

Westbourne, Sussex

Date of Death

5th May 1861

Place of Death

Prospect - home of his daughter Sarah Lavinia Gready

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery? Plot 3, Path 18 South

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Asia - July 1839

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

1841 - Prospect Village

1847 - Main North Rd

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

 

Names of houses (if any)

Allsworth

Parents

Henry Knee CATHERY and Alice (nee PIERSON).

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

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

 

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

 

Children

Elizabeth Jane White,

Desborough Charles,

Alicia Ann,

Henry Richard,

Sarah Lavinia.

4 others did not survive.

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Publican; carpenter and joiner; land holder

Interests/Activities

Also went prospecting in the Victorian goldfields

Religion/Churches

 

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.
(ref: South Australian Register, 13th March 1851, Gov. Gazette)

 

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.

Local Government experience

 

Sources of information

Buried Treasures; Mr Peter Cathery.

 

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