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Alfred Pead

Alfred Pead

Male 1837 - 1892  (54 years)

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  • Name Alfred Pead 
    Birth 20 Jul 1837  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 14 Jul 1892  Peak Hill W.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 14 Jul 1892  Karrakatta Cem., Anglican AA 150A, Perth, W.A. (Exhumed) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I11  The Cream Family
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2012 

    Father William Pead,   b. 1812, Buckinghamshire England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Sep 1879, Geraldton Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Eliza Westley 
    Family ID F68  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ellen Cream,   b. 16 Nov 1847, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Oct 1927, Perth Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 23 Oct 1862  Geraldton Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Alexander Frederick Pead,   b. 1862, Northampton, W.A Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Feb 1919, Cannington, W.A Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
     2. William Alfred Pead,   b. 1864, Fremantle Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 May 1920, Carnarvon, W.A Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
     3. Augusta Eliza Wesley Pead,   b. 9 Jan 1866, Geraldton, W.A.. Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Blanche Emmeline Pead,   b. 1870, Geraldton, W.A.. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1961 (91), Mt. Henry Hosp., Perth, W.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Seymour William Augustus Pead,   b. 1876, Geraldton, W.A Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Sep 1915, Sgt PEAD Seymour W 28 Battalion Died of Wounds Gallipoli Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
     6. Cecil Arthur Pead,   b. 1882, Geraldton, W.A Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Aug 1959 (76), Dalkeith, W.A Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Harold Edward Humphrey Pead,   b. 1891, Geraldton, W.A. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jun 1959 (Age 68 years)
     8. Grace Evelyn Pead,   b. 1874, Geraldton, W.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Millicent Kate Prisilla Pead,   b. 1872, Geraldton, W.A. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jun 1953, St John of God Hospital, Subiaco Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     10. Alfred Hercules Augustas Pead,   b. 1878, Geraldton, W.A. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1885 (Age 7 years)
     11. Lavinia Ellen Augusta Pead,   b. 9 Jan 1866, Geraldton, W.A. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Mar 1939, Geraldton W.A Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F3  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2018 

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  • Notes 
    • 1915 'CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE

      THE WHALING INDUSTRY

      "J.S.D." (Claremont) observes:-Your correspondent "Hugh Kalyptus," when writing about the whaling industry on our coasts omitted to mention 2 whaling stations one at Port Gregory and the other at Malus Island. Port Gregory station was worked by Messrs. J. and W. Bateman's whalers during the "sixties" and the Malus Island station (40 miles from Cossack) was used about 1870.

      I remember' seeing part of the plant about 1880. In connection with the Port Gregory station, an event occurred which caused some. excitement and much sympathy among the people of Dongarra and Geraldton the loss of a fine crew of whalers when trying to enter Port Dongarra during a nor-west gale. Having to trust to memory for dates, I cannot vouch for them being quite correct, but I think that the catastrophe occurred during August, 1868.

      Messrs. J, and W. Bateman's smart schooner Twinkling Star left Fremantle witth the intention .of .conveying a crew of whalers to Port Gregory, and of calling en route at Dongarra and Geraldton to discharge cargo. Atter her arrival at Dongarra and during a heavy nor-west gale the Star dragged her anchors, and went ashore and as there was not much chance of re floating her at the time, a message was sent by' horseman, to Geraldton asking for a boat to convey the whaling crew to Port Gregory.

      For this purpose the Albatross a 20-ton cutter, was dispatched in charge of Mr. A. Pead, a well-known and respected resident of The Bay (by which the name Geraldton was often called by local residents). The Albatross reached Dongarra without mishap, but after setting out on the return journey met with a strong nor- west gale, and after trying in vain to weather Point Moore, eased off, and ran back to Dongarra for shelter.

      But when she was just at the entrance of the harbour a huge sea struck the little craft, causing her either to founder or to "turn turtle," the result being that the members of the crew were drowned, except Alex. Pead and one of the Lewington's, of Fremantle, who, after a desperate struggle, managed to reach the shore. [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] National Library of Australia.
      1915 'CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.', The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), 25 February, p. 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28584990