Joseph LEWIS [581]

  General Notes:

SAGHS Passenger Arrivals in SA database
LEWIS Joseph Fairfield 14-Dec-1840:
Surname:LEWIS
Given Names:Joseph
Age:
Occupation:
Ship Name:Fairfield
Embarked from:
Disembarked:South Australia
Arrival Date:14-Dec-1840
Birth Place:
Source:Free Passage to Paradise?
Source2:
Notes:1 male, 1 female, 4 children. ApplicationNo=8122. EmbarkationNo=4814.
1884 SA Death 143/253 LEWIS Joseph undefined Morphett Vale

Passenger List below for arrival in colony on 14 Dec 1840 Fairfield.

Quoted from: History of Cherry Gardens and its Early Families (published 1936)
"Mr and Mrs Joseph Lewis arrived in colony 30 April 1839 by the ship, Fairfield, the voyage occupying 6 mths. In 1846 they settled in Cherry Gardens purchasing their property from the afore-mentioned Mr. Hare paying £3 per acre. This land from the original settler is still occupied by a grandson Mr Harry Lewis; Mr & Mrs Joseph Thompson, also early settlers, lived directly west of Mr. Lewis, and during their residence here, Mr. Thompson was employed by Mr. Lewis, and reared a family of seven children on £1 per week."

The Fairfield made two arrivals in Port Adelaide - the first sailing left Liverpool 1 Nov 1838 arrived 4 May 1839 taking little over 6mths; the second sailing left Plymouth 30 July 1840 arriving 14 Dec 1840 taking approx 5mths. The captain of first voyage was Capt Abbott, the second voyage Capt Lee. It was thought by family that Joseph Lewis and family arrived on the earlier sailing as the first son born in the colony was named Joseph Abbott Lewis in honour of Captain Abbott. However passenger records indicate they arrived in the second sailing.

Family memories were that they originally tried farming at Little Para nr Gawler, then rented land at Coromandel Valley before settling in the Cherry Gardens district in 1846.

In 1846 Joseph Lewis purchased 80 acres at Cherry Gardens from Mr Hare paying £3 per acre; it was heavily wooded with red gums, wattles and native cherry trees. After clearing the land he grew crops of wheat, oaten hay, peas, potatoes, fruit trees, and dairying. Some years later a further 80 acres purchased which was divided between his sons Joseph Abbot Lewis and Caleb Lewis.


Cemetery: Clarendon Kangarilla LEWIS Joseph 80y 1884 (courtesy of < http://dcw.onkaparingacity.com> )


Passengers arriving 1840-12-14 in SA aboard the Fairfield
(434 t brq 1833) from London via Plymouth 40-07-30, Cape, Captain Jas Lee
AYERS Henry, Anne POTTS
AYLES Joseph, Elizabeth LANSLEY
BAKER William Batson, Ann MARKEY, Sam, My Ann, Jane, Eliza, Sabine, Louisa, Chlt, 2 ch (d@sea)
BALDOCK James
BALDOCK John, Sabina BEE, John Bee, Thos, 8 ch inc Eliz, Jas, Susannah, Sabina
BARNETT (Russel?)
BARTHOLOMEW Frederick
BARTON (Charles?)
BROMLEY Edward, Mary ATWOOD / ATTWOOD, My, 6 ch (Ed Wm, Ed Jas, Francis, Chas, My Ann, Alfred?)
BRYCE David, wife (Elizabeth DAWSON?), Geo, 2 dau inc Isabella
BRYCE James, wife, dau
BRYCE John, wife
COKE, wife
COLLINS James, Mary RUDDLE, dau
DUNN William H, Elizabeth HERD, 2 dau, son, 4 dau inc My, John, Thomasin
FARRANT Nathaniel, Elizabeth (wife)
GIBSON James, Prudence BROUGH nee LATIMER, Joshua Wm, Ann
GOODALL Thomas, Sarah NOYCE, dau
HANCOCK John, Jemima BROUGH, Wm (d@sea)
HANCOCK William, Elizabeth PARKHURST / PARKHOUSE
HARGREAVES Samuel, Isabella/Arabella (wife), Sam
HARWOOD Thomas
HENDERSON Peter
HILLAM John, Nancy HODGSON, Susannah, Cath, Priestly, Grace
HOLLY Daniel, wife, son (Wm?)
JERVIS Harry Cooper, Jane Edwards WESSON, dau
JERVIS John, Sarah DUTTON, Daniel, Thos, Elijah
JOHNS Samuel, Harriet STETTIFORD, Sam Stettiford, Ann Stettiford, David Stettiford, Jas Stettiford, Geo Cole
KING William, wife (Martha COWDREY?), dau, 2 sons, dau (inc Anna Maria, Jas, Thos Hy, Wm?)
LANG John, wife (Betsey ELLIOTT?), John, 2 sons (Chas Jas, Sam Carsley?)
LEWIS Joseph, Elizabeth NEWMAN, 2 dau, son (Sam?), dau (Crln?)
LUCAS Joseph (C?)
LUCAS Robert De Neufville, Jane MOON, Hrt, 2 dau, son, dau, son, dau inc Jane, My, De Neufville, Rbt
MCDONALD James, Anne (wife)
MILLER John, Ann (URE?)
MILTON James; possibly
PITMAN Benjamin Henry; possibly
POTTS Lawrence, Elizabeth LOCKETT (d@sea)
PRENTICE Golden, Harriet BARNBY, 3 sons inc Wm Keys, Chlt, Hy
RANSFORD Frederick
REID Thomas, Hannah ARCULUS, Hannah, John, Thos, James
ROBINSON
RYMER John, wife
SATCHELL Edward (Davey/Davis?), Ann (JACKSON?), son, dau, 2 sons
SELLICK William, Mary Ann PRIOR
THOMSON Robert, Mary CROCKETT (d@sea or aft arr), Rbt, My, John, Gray
THORPE Charles, Mary Ann GERNER nee KINGSFORD (2nd wife), Fdk Kingsford GERNER, Ellen Sparshit, Eliza GERNER, Chas Rbt, Clara Maria, John Fdk GERNER, (Ernest), Hy Luke
THORPE Thomas, Amelia WILTSHIRE, Oswald, Edgar Wiltshire, Albert, Amelia Wiltshire, dau (poss d@sea or aft)
VICKERMAN Charles, Ann HUTCHINSON, My Ann, Ellen Sarah (d@sea), Martha
WALTON Alfred Conrad (w), ch Crln, Frances Ann, Geo Fdk, Clara, Hannah Maria, Chas Alf, son
WARREN George, Mary Ann ROBERTSON, 3 sons, dau
WOOD William, Phoebe GRIFFITHS, son, dau
(Courtesy of Family History SA < http://www.familyhistorysa.info/shipping/passengerlists.html >)

  Other Records

• Occupation: Farmer, After 1840, Little Para, Nr Gawler, South Australia. Tried farming here.

• Occupation: Farmer, Bef 1846, Coromandel Valley, South Australia. Rented land here before moving to Cherry Gdns.

Joseph married Elizabeth NEWMAN [582] [MRIN: 203] about 1829 in England. (Elizabeth NEWMAN [582] was born in 1802 in Northamptonshire, England, died on 2 Mar 1903 in Cherry Gardens, South Australia and was buried on 4 Mar 1903 in Clarendon, Kangarilla, South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

Elizabeth Newman was age 25 at marriage 1829 England.