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Name (FAMILY
NAME, Other Names) |
Richard Day |
|
Date of Birth |
28 December
1818 |
|
Place of Birth |
Minchinhampton,
Gloucestershire, England |
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Date of Death |
31 March 1900 |
|
Place of Death |
Croydon, South
Australia |
|
Place of Burial |
Cheltenham, SA |
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Arrived in
South Australia (date/ship etc.) |
18 January 1838 |
|
Addresses/Dates
in Prospect Council Area |
Prospect
Village |
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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). |
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Names of houses
(if any) |
Croydon Villa |
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Parents -
names; DOBs etc (if known) |
Luke Day
(1795-1821) and Elizabeth Newman (1785-1855) |
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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. |
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Date(s) of
Marriage(s) |
11 September
1837 |
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Place(s) of
Marriage(s) |
Rodborough
Church, Gloucestershire; 2nd wedding was in Launceston, Tasmania |
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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). |
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Education |
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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. |
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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. |
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Religion/Churches
|
Church of
England or Non-conformist (Presbyterian or Congregationalist; at that time,
possibly the latter) |
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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. |
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Local
Government experience (if any) |
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Sources of
information |
Internet, State
Library, Prospect Council records |
|
Principal
Researcher |
Garry Mighall; also
Greg Bowering |
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