Biographical notes:
Addresses: 1841, 1868, 1871 - Melbourne St, North Adelaide, SA.
Re death date: - death registration says he died on 10 Sep 1871 in his 58th year; article in East Torrens Historical Society Inc Newsletter issue 46, Vol.15 No.3, Oct 1996 gives 1867.
Migrated from Cornwall on the Royal Admiral arriving Port Adelaide, SA, AUS on 18 Jan 1838. Note: The passenger list does not list this family but they may have been mistranscibed as 'Farrall'. The Royal Admiral was a barque of 414 tons, registered in London. It left Falmouth on 26 Sep 1837 with 205 passengers including 112 Cornish emigrants.
Was a miner at the Montacute copper mine. Discovered gold at Montacute on 4 Apr 1846. (Announced in the South Australian Gazette & Colonial Register of 7 Apr 1846.) However only 24 oz of gold was ever extracted. (A brooch made from this was presented to Queen Victoria.) Appointed mine captain at Montacute Mine on the death of William Jury in 1847.
Moved to Victoria upon discovery of gold at Bendigo in 1851. Lost money in the collapse of Broken Hill.
Reference documents:
1813 baptism record.
1832 marriage record.
1871 death registration index record.
Gold Mining in the Hills in the 1840s