Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)	Richard Day
Date of Birth	1818
Place of Birth	Gloucestershire, England
Date of Death	1900
Place of Death	Croydon, South Australia
Place of Burial
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)
Spouse(s) - including maiden name; DOBs etc. (if known)	Mary Ann day (nee Harris)
Date(s) of Marriage(s)	11 September 1837
Place(s) of Marriage(s)	Rodborough Church, Gloucestershire
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).
Local Government experience (if any)
Sources of information	Internet, State Library, Prospect Council records
Principal Researcher	Garry Mighall