Arthur Daw (1859 - 1949)

Ancestors

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Birth 1.2 Death 1.3 Residence 1.4 Occupation 1.5 Note 2 Sources

Biography

Birth

Date: AUG 14 1859

Place: Little Para, SA, Australia^[1]

Death

Date: AUG 27 1949

Place: Edwardstown, Adelaide^[2]

Residence

Date: 1923

Place: Dauncey St., Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Occupation

Auctioneer and Valuer

Date: 1923

Note

Note: Arthur moved to Kangaroo Island when he was 9 years old, and married Clara in 1891. He worked for his father J W Daw until the age of 22. He owned a number of farming properties from time to time, but turned from farming to commerce and became a leading commission agent and auctioneer. In 1904 he was appointed the first agent for the Coast Steamship Company, which provided a valuable and cargo service from Pt Adelaide to K.I. Arthur served as District Councillor and became District Clerk of Kingscote in 1904 to 1912. He was appointed a JP in 1905. He retired from active business in 1929.^[3]

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ARTHUR DAW, J.P., auctioneer, of Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, was born at Adelaide in the year 1860. He is the youngest surviving son of Mr. John Wickham Daw, of the same place, who came to South Australia in 1836 by the sailing ship "Winchester,"and settled on the island when the subject of this notice was an infant of nine months. His initial move was to take up leasehold estate for sheep-farming purposes, but experiencing disappointing results during the first three years, he removed to Cygnet Park, where better fortune attended his efforts. After continuing here for fifteen years, he sold his interest and purchased property on the Cygnet River, where Mr. Arthur Daw now has his private residence, which is also the home of his parent, now in his eighty-third year. From an early age, the gentleman under review assisted his father in the sheep farming industry, and was associated with him until his twenty-second year. He then took up a small farm of 300 acres between Brownlow and Kingscote, which he has since acquired as his own freehold, and worked it for about eighteen months without any special measure of success. Relinquishing operations, he engaged in sleeper-carting on the Cygnet River and various other contracting work for a year and a half, then, returning to his holding, proceeded to bring the land under cultivation again, this time being rewarded with better returns. Five years later he sold all his farming implements and stock, retaining the land, and established himself in a commission and agency business in Adelaide. The climate, however, not proving so suitable to the health of his family, he took a lease of the building at the present time occupied by the Union Bank at Kingscote, and carried it on as a first-class boarding-house for about four and a half years, during which period the above Bank started operations. He then built the residence known as Bay View House, on Chapman Terrace, facing the sea, where he lived privately for twelve months. At the time of his return to the island Mr. Daw also opened in business as a commission agent and auctioneer at Kingscote, Hammer & Co., Adelaide. and continuing in this calling has followed it with considerable success ever since. He holds the agencies for the Gulf Steamship Company; James Bell & Co., wheat buyers; the International Harvester Co.; Luxmoore Brothers; A. W. G. Pitt, lime merchant; and conducts a general agency business, having a wide connection. He owns a property of 1,600 acres on the Cygnet River, and upon this built his residence Sunnyside, which is an ideal country home. Other properties held by him in the township have been utilized for the improvement of the place, particularly that on which stands the Ozone Hotel, which was sold by Mr. Daw on the express condition that this splendid building should be erected there. He has also recently built some fine business premises, and has forwarded the interests of Kingscote in every possible way. For nine years Mr. Daw has occupied a seat in the local District Council (having never been defeated as a candidate), and during the past three years has occupied the chair. In January, 1905, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and finds the duties of his position no sinecure. In 1891 he married Clara Emma,youngest daughter of the late Mr. Charles Calnan, who came to South Australia by the sailing ship Africaine in the year 1836, and three sons survive of a family of four children.^[4]

... Mr. Arthur Daw (Chairman of the Kingscote District Council whose restless energy reminds one of the ceaseless movement of ths sea. When I called at his pretty home at Sunnyslde, about five miles from Kingscote, on the Hog Bays road, he was suffering severely from pains which could not be definitely diagnosed. —Confident of the Future.— His father (Mr. J. W. Daw), who has long since passed the ailotted span, and has been In poor health for some time, arrived in South Australia with his wife in the ship Winchester in 1838. Fourty-seven years ago they decided to settle on Kangaroo Island, and engaged in pastoral pursuits on the border of Nepean Bay. After having been there for three or four years, Mr. Daw, sen., removed to Cygnet River. When 22 years of age Mr. Arthur Daw, who was born in Adelaide, left the paternal roof, and launched out on his own account as a farmer, on land between Kingscote and Brownlow. Anxious to improve his position, he secured an auctioneer's licence, and engaged also in contracting and odd work. In 1891 he married the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Charles Calnan — who arrived in the ship Africaine about the same time as Mr. Daw's father— and a little later sold everything except his farm and removed to Adelaide. There he acted as a commission agent and auctioneer for three years, at the end of which, owing to the fact that the climate did not agree with his family, he returned to his farm. Twelve month's later he established a boarding house, which he conducted for five years. About the middle of 1905 he purchased Sunnyside (comprising 1,600 acres), one of the prettiest holdings in the hundred, where he carries on sheep farming. Concerning his land, and the marvellous manner in which it has increased in value, a romantic story could be written. For the purposes of this sketch, however, it is sufficient to state that he owned the block on which the Ozone Hotel stands, has recently erected several first-class business premises in the immediate vicinity, and has disposed of various building sites in the heart of the town. He is deeply interested in the firewood, eucalyptus oil, and yacca gum industries, and is confident that at last the island is beginning to realize its destiny. ^[5]

• Residence Notes

Arthur was listed as residing in Kingscote Kangaroo Island at the time of Clara's death 29 Apr 1949

Also see image at http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/searcy/36/PRG280_1_36_354.htm

• Occupation Notes

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Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Ade 15 178 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2
2. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Ade 744 4424 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2
3. ↑ Gil Daw, in Kangaroo Island Pioneers Newsletter.
4. ↑ Cyclopedia Of SA. 1906, pp1004-1005
5. ↑ Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Wednesday 11 March 1908, page 7

• Death Citation

SA BDM - Digger - SA Deaths Registrations 1916-1972 (Secondary evidence) Page: Ade 744 4424 Text: Given Name(s): Arthur Last Name: DAW Death Date: 27 Aug 1949 Gender: M Age: 90y Approx. Birth Year: 1859 Marital Status: W Relative 1: Relative 2: Residence: Edwardstown Death Place: Edwardstown District: Adelaide Symbol: Book/Page: 744/4424

• Birth Citation

SA BDM - Digger - SA Births 1842-1906 [SAGHS] (Secondary evidence) Page: Ade 15 178 Text: Given Name(s): Arthur Last Name: DAW Birth Date: 1859, August 14 Gender: M Father: John Wickham DAW Mother: Mary Ann DAW Birth Place/Residence: Little Para District: Adelaide Symbol: Book/Page: 15/178

• Marriage (m. CALNAN, Clara Emma) Citation

SA BDM - Digger - SA Marriages Registrations 1842-1916 (Secondary evidence) Page: PtA 169/268 Text: Groom Given Name(s): Arthur Groom Last Name: DAW Bride Given Name(s): Clara Emma Bride Last Name: CALNAN Marriage Date: 1891, October 21 Marriage Place: St Paul Port Adelaide Groom Age: 32 Groom Approx. Birth Year: 1859 Groom Marital Status: S Groom Father: John Wickham DAW Bride Age: 19 Bride Approx. Birth Year: 1872 Bride Marital Status: S Bride Father Name: Charles CALNAN District: Port Adelaide Symbol: Book/Page: 169/268 ------- See also MAITLAND. (1890, November 25). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839-1900), p. 6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47255824. Also Family Notices. (1941, October 21). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), p. 10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44962770

• Source: S2 Title: SA BDM - Digger - SA Deaths Registrations 1916-1972 Abbreviation: SA BDM - Digger - SA Deaths Registrations 1916-1972
• Source: S3 Title: SA BDM - Digger - SA Births 1842-1906 [SAGHS] Abbreviation: SA BDM - Digger - SA Births 1842-1906 [SAGHS]

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