John FRADD

John Joseph Fradd was born about December 1839 in Lanvean Downs, Tregurrian, in the parish of Mawgan In Pyder, Cornwall, England. He was the youngest of 5 children to John and Jane Fradd [nee Williams]. According to the West Briton Newspaper, John Joseph nearly drowned whilst fishing at the age of 16. John Joseph left his homeland for South Australia 2 years later on a ship called ‘The Monsoon’, a vessel of 1034 tons, leaving Liverpool on 16th of December 1856. The shipping record listed John Joseph as an Agricultural Labourer. He had a few different occupations over his life including that of a Machinist, Farmer, and Victualler. He was also a Burra Councillor for 10 years. This was the third ship from England to South Australia with government passengers for 1857 and it included 8 births and 4 deaths during its journey arriving in Port Adelaide on the 17th March 1857. John Joseph settled in Burra, South Australia. John Joseph married Ellen Grace on the 10th of May 1859 in Burra; where they went on to have 9 children. Ellen died in 1874, 6 weeks after James' birth, the last sibling. John Joseph remarried on the 11th of August 1875 to Marian Hare, formerly Marian McDougall born in Scotland about 1831. She was the widow of the owner of the Sod Hut Inn (Thomas Hare). John ran the Inn until 1883 when it closed as the copper mine in Burra had closed and there were no longer bullock wagons carting ore to stage their loads at Sod Hut; or teamsters drinking fiery rum. There were no children of this marriage to Marian. Marian died in 1894 and is buried at Burra. John Joseph lived out his life in the village of Copperhouse and died on the 28th January 1922 aged 83 and is buried at Burra with his brother William Phillip; who also died in 1922.