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About Job Pratt
BIRTH & BAPTISM
First name(s) Job
Last name Pratt
Father's first name(s) James
Father's last name Pratt
Birth year -
Mother's first name(s) Mary
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Mother's last name -
Baptism year 1830
Baptism date 29 Aug 1830
Residence Calverley, York, England
Place Calverley
County Yorkshire
1851: Job is working as a bullock driver in Victoria. He is abt. 21 yrs and arrived 4th October 1849. See documents The Argus 3 Jul 1851, Job successfully sues his employer, Mr J L Clevasse, for 3 months wages plus costs.
Job Pratt Event Type: Emigration Event Date: 1853 Event Place: Victoria, Australia Gender: Male Age: 25 Birth Year (Estimated): 1828 Departure Place: Melbourne Destination Place: Adelaide Affiliate Repository Type: Archive Affiliate Identifier: VPRS 948 Unable to collect original document, but it describes all 74 passengers in "Anna Dixon", Capt. Jas. Cavanaugh, as English gold seekers, leaving Melbourne 5th March 1853, disembarking in Adelaide. Job would certainly still have been a Yorkshireman, so probably our chap. Birthdate is about right, and it fits the timeline for Job in SA.. Job is the only Pratt on board.
James Pratt's obit reports that he moved his family around quite a bit before settling in South Australia. There are Pratts in Mount Gambier, Millicent, Grace Plains, etc, all descended from James and Mary. Job almost certainly also settled in SA, and his daughter, Mary Ann is born at Grace Plains. See documents.
South Australian Register, re Job's valuable bull-terrier, he says he lived in Melbourne until July 1852, after which he came to South Australia and bought three sections of land near Magill SA. In Feb 1853 he is living at Angus Street (Adelaide?)
1853: Job appears to be living at Magill, SA abt. 7 km east of Adelaide in the foothills, now wine country. See docs re Job's dog under heading The Dog Act. It is quite a story. I can't believe he brought it with him on the boat from England, although it is not impossible. Most likely brought from Victoria.
The South Australian Register of 15 Oct 1856 reports Job Pratt of Darley, near Paradise SA, labourer, as witness in a court case re illegal gin.
South Australian Register, Thu 20 March 1856, MARRIED: Job and his sister Eliza had a double wedding. On the 19th inst, by the Rev. Joseph dare, Mr James Kilsby of Gawler Hills, to Eliza, second daughter of Mr James Pratt, late of Bramley near Leeds, Yorkshire. On the 19th inst, by the Rev. Joseph dare, Mr Job Pratt to Miss Elizabeth Lester.
In 1859 Job is charged with assault while drinking and fined.
1860, Job Pratt, farmer, Red Banks, River Light, is bankrupt. Red Banks is further east than Magill. If this is the same Job Pratt, he seems to have sold the Magill property. It is reported that Job has a father "in comfortable circumstances", so perhaps James is doing alright.
By 1866, Job seems to be the pound keeper at Grace Plains, SA. Seems Red Banks is at Grace Plains. See docs
1867: Job and Elizabeth appear in court re damage to their wheat crop at Red banks, Grace Plains. See docs
Job's property is put up for sale in 1868 to settle his debts.
1869, Job is contracting to local council.
Jan 1870, Job Pratt is charged at Adelaide, with being drunk and incapable of caring for his horse and cart and fined 10/-.
1878, Job Pratt was nominated at Mount Gambier to stand for Parliament.
1879, the Border Watch reports Job Pratt at Mount Gambier asking permission to graze 8 cattle on the commons. June 1879, Job Pratt seems to be in the process of buying a selection in Hindmarsh Hundred.
Oct 1883, Job Pratt is appointed ranger at Mayurra SA.
I am adding a story about Job Pratt, from the Western Mail in Perth, dated 17 August 1912. If Job is still alive, he would be about the right age, and he had been a bullocky as a young man, after emigrating. BUT, I don't know if our Job was in WA as a very old man. It's a fun old fashioned read whether it is our Job or not. NOT our Job who died 1884 as quite a young man of 54 yrs, of paralysis. See documents.
Wednesday, August 27 1884: Deaths in the hospital: One was that of a man named Job Pratt, aged 54 years, a former resident of Millicent, who was admitted on the 5th of April to be treated for paralysis. Pratt was a native of Bramley, Yorkshire, and was a colonist of 44 years. He leaves a wife and family, all the members of which are grown up. See docs.
1885: E Pratt, executrix of late Job Pratt, Hundred of Hindmarsh, applies to transfer their land to W Davies, on the ground of the death of the selector. Job left an estate of 91pounds after probate.
There is no suggestion of what caused his paralysis (usually syphilis in its late stage), although he was 4 months in hospital and is still quite a young man, nor are the rest of his family mentioned which seems odd because they were so well known. I imagine he lived quite a tough life as a bullocky and later smallholder, and he also seemed to have a problem with alcohol. See documents
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Job Pratt's Timeline
| 1830 |
July 15, 1830
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Calverley, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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August 29, 1830
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St Wilfreds, Calverley, West Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
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August 29, 1830
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Calverley Yorkshire England
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| 1857 |
May 10, 1857
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Grace Plains, Gawler, South Australia, Australia
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| 1860 |
February 13, 1860
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Redbanks, Hundred of Grace, Gawler, South Australia, Australia
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| 1862 |
January 31, 1862
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Red Banks Sa
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| 1864 |
April 29, 1864
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Red Banks, South Australia, Australia
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| 1866 |
October 6, 1866
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Red Banks, South Australia, Australia
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