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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

Richard Day

Date of Birth

28 December 1818

Place of Birth

Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England

Date of Death

31 March 1900

Place of Death

Croydon, South Australia

Place of Burial

Cheltenham, SA

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

18 January 1838

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

Prospect Village

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Adelaide, Walkerville, tenant farmer on Tam O’Shanter Belt (Kilburn) property, Croydon North (Days Road was his property’s access road).

Names of houses (if any)

Croydon Villa

Parents - names; DOBs etc (if known)

Luke Day (1795-1821) and Elizabeth Newman (1785-1855)

Spouse(s) - including maiden name; DOBs etc. (if known)

Mary Ann day (nee Harris).

After the passing of his first wife (Mary Ann d.1886), Richard remarried in 1887.
Second wife was Ellen Hannah Sims (b.1845, d.27 Feb 1918). Ellen Street in Croydon is named in her honour.

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

11 September 1837

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

Rodborough Church, Gloucestershire; 2nd wedding was in Launceston, Tasmania

Children - names and dates of birth/death if known

Thomas (1838 to 1839), Robert (1840 to 1899), Thomas (1841 to 1920), Elizabeth (1843 to 1929), Richard (1844 to 1917), Mary Ann (1846 to 1915), Luke (1848 to 1916), Walter (1849 to 1930), William (1851 to 1911), Henry (1853 to 1924), Harriett (1854 to 1931), James (1857 to 1934).

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Farmer: he established a dairy on 420 acres between Churchill Road and Trafford Street, part of which became Islington Workshops and the Sewage Farm.

Interests/Activities

He donated land on which Croydon was established on condition that public houses were prohibited. Before his death in 1900, he acquired enough land for each of his surviving sons to establish his own property.

Religion/Churches

Church of England or Non-conformist (Presbyterian or Congregationalist; at that time, possibly the latter)

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Richard Day was the great-grandfather of Leonard Andrew Day who served on Prospect Council from 1932 to 1962 and as the Mayor from 1939 to 1941. Leonard Day was born in 1900 to Hedley Percival Day and Eva Emanuel of Golden Grove. Hedley Day was the son of Luke Day (1848 to 1916).

Elliott William Day (1887-1957), one of Richard Day's numerous grandsons, married Philip Sandery's eldest child, Gertrude Rose Llewellyn Sandery (1891-1980) in Prospect on 1 March 1916.

Local Government experience (if any)

 

Sources of information

Internet, State Library, Prospect Council records

Principal Researcher

Garry Mighall; also Greg Bowering

 

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