Family Name |
Beach |
First Name |
Frederick |
Middle Name(s) if any |
Dewe |
Date of Birth |
14 March 1829 |
Place of Birth |
Audley House, North Audley Street, London, England |
Date of Death |
14 November 1895 |
Place of Death |
Prospect, South Australia |
Place of Burial |
West Terrace Cemetery |
Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.) |
Arrived in colony of South Australia at 21 years of age in 1850 aboard
Arabella (Went to the Victorian goldfields, returned |
Lived in Prospect (dates) |
1855 |
Addresses in Prospect |
Audley House, 32 Prospect Road, Prospect (built in 1885
by Frederick Beach who had made his fortune in the Victorian goldfields). |
Names of houses (if any) |
Audley House ( On
Prospect Council heritage list) |
Parents |
Charles Beach. Mother Unknown b. 1802, d. 1869
(Age 67 years). |
Spouse(s) |
Elizabeth B. Way (daughter of Rev James Way, pioneer minister of the
Bible Christian Church and father of Hon Chief Justice Way). Born Chatham,
Kent UK Aug. 1834. Volunteered at welfare
institutions including the Children’s Hospital. Died May 1903. |
Date(s) of Marriage(s) |
18 September 1852 |
Place(s) of Marriage(s) |
St John’s Church, Adelaide. |
Children |
Had 6 sons and 3 daughters: Frederick William Beach: 1853-1854 Florence Amelia Beach: 1870 - 1894 Frederick James Beach: 1855-1941 Sydney Edward Beach: 1859-1860 Sydney Edwin Beach: 1859-1934 Herbert Way Beach: 1862-1953 Edward Frank Beach: 1867-1939 Marion Olive Beach: 1873 – 1944 Jeannie Way Beach: 1873 – 1944 |
Occupation(s) |
Wholesale and Retail Confectioner, restaurateur, caterer in City of
Adelaide. Number of innovative food businesses from late 1849. From 1868,
provided offsite catering including largescale functions such as Town Hall
Banquet, Mayor’s balls, Government House garden party, a Broken Hill banquet. |
Interests |
Supported athletic and sporting
organisations and often seen at Adelaide oval for cricket matches. |
Religion/Churches |
Member of Tynte Street Baptist Church. In charge of Flinders Street
Ragged Sunday school for many years. |
Notes (points of interest etc.) |
Thursday 19 April 1888, Frederick Dewe Beach proclaimed a Justice of
the Peace. |
Sources of information |
-samuelway.info/familygroup.php -Rev James Way: Burkes Colonial Gentry -Pp 87-90 & 291: Traces Where Adelaide Ate Out
1836-1960, Darryl Thompson & James s Smith, January 2016, Adelaide South
Australia -Notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Compiled and edited By H.J. Gibbney and Ann G. Smith Volume I A-K -Burgess, Henry Thomas. (2013). pp. 528-9. The Cyclopedia of South Australia
An Historical and Commercial Review (Vol. 1). London: Forgotten Books.
(Original work published 1907) |
Principal researcher |
Kristina Barnett |