Unique IDPE-004534SurnameBedforthGiven namesJames PaleyBiographical abstractDates of employment: 1886-1887Biographical noteBiographical details:
Member of Mostyn Masonic Lodge and Grand Lodge in Adelaide between 1883 and 1886 and later in 1909; examples [ref: Evening Journal (Adelaide) 12 May 1883 p 4]; [ref: The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide) 19 June 1884 p 2]; [ref: The Register (Adelaide) 21 April 1909 p 5]
Marriage Notice: BEDFORTH—MORRISON.—On the 1st January, by the Rev. F. T. Whitington, J. P. Bedforth, of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, to A. A. F. Morrison, daughter of B. J Morrison, Brisbane, Queensland. (Annie Avice France) [ref: Adelaide Observer 2 January 1886 p 24]
Arrived from Melbourne per Konoowarra, 16 April 1886 [ref: SMH 17 April 1886 p12]
Elected to the Engineering Association of NSW [ref: Evening News 14 October 1887 p3]
Advertised sale of furnishings etc - leaving colony [ref: SMH 2 July 1888]
Advertisement seeking his whereabouts by J Chaplin [ref: The Brisbane Courier 24 June 1889]
Birth Notice: BEDFORTH. On the 26th May, at her residence, South Brisbane. Queensland, the wife of J. Paley Bedford, C.E, of a daughter. Both well. [ref: The Advertiser (Adelaide, S.A.) 17 July 1889 p4]
Death Notice: BEDFORTH On the 28th October, at Brook-street and Stephens-road, South Brisbane, Dorothy Irene Paley, beloved and only child of J. P. and A. F. Bedforth, aged 5 months. [ref:The Brisbane Courier 30 October 1889 p4]
Shipping Arrival - AF Bedforth per Wodonga from Cooktown [ref: Evening News (Sydney) 7 June 1897]
Marriage Notice for Avice France Bedforth: ISLEY--BEDFORTH. June 28 at St Mary's Waverley by Rev Robert McKeown, rector, John B. Isley, late of Townsville, North Queensland, to Avice France Bedforth, Wyoming, Bishopscourt, Randwick [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 15 July 1899 p1]
Possible presence of Bedforth in Perth -article on 3rd and Final Report of the Penal Commission refers to Mr J Bedforth, a sanitary engineer of large experience [ref: The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth W.A.) 30 June 1899]
Details from contemporary sources:
1886 Temporary appointment, Mayor's Report - references - from South Australia, previously from UK [ref: 21/17/13 [433]]
1886 Appointed - 29 March 1886 [ref: 26/211/694]
1887 Frequent absences, illness - October - otherwise clever & satisfactory [ref: 26/224/2239]
1887 Request 14 days sick leave - October [ref: 26/224/2298]
1887 Letter from wife Anice France Bedforth re illness, brain fever [ref: 26/225/2539]
1887 City Engineer reports absent again - brain fever - to be dismissed - November [ref: 26/225/2539]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-000243
