Joseph Prentice HUGHES [266]

  General Notes:

Image courtesy of J Miller & I Aston


England Births and Christenings 1538-1975
NameJoseph Hughes SexMale
Christening Date7 Jun 1840
Christening PlaceBoston Spa, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Christening Place (Original)Boston Spa, York, England
Father's NameGeorge Robert Hughes Father's SexMale
Mother's NameCharlotte Mother's SexFemale


1840 UK Birth Boston Spa, Yorks
1922 SA Death 457/566 HUGHES Joseph Prentice, Adelaide
Cemetery: Walkerville Wesleyan; HUGHES Joseph Prentice 82y 1922; born 1840, of North Adelaide; Plot 131

Joseph arrived in the Colony of South Australia as an infant with his parents on the Diadem in 1840.
Resided: Adelaide, Nairne and North Adelaide.

Joseph Prentice Hughes and Mary Ryder met and married in Nairne 1861. Their first child was born at Nairne in 1862, their second child was born in Adelaide in 1863, and from 1865 the remainder of their children were born in North Adelaide or nearby.

In 1897 Joseph married Alice Anne Rowe.
Joseph owned a grocer shop on the corner of O'Connell and Childer Streets, North Adelaide, and they resided at 50 Childer Street. He stabled his horse/s in the triangular section of the parklands between Prospect and Main North Roads. In his latter years Joseph wore a patch over one eye.

Evening Journal (Adelaide) Thursday 30 May 1895
Police Courts:
ADELAIDE: THURSDAY MAY 30
(Before Messrs J.M. Gordon, S.M. J. Abbott, J. Eitzes, and F.W. Wood)
Peter McPhee, alias Rogers, a well-dressed young man, was charged on the information of Joseph P. Hughes, of North Adelaide, with the larceny, on September 19, 1894, of a bay filly, valued at £8. Mr. J. R. Anderson defended. The evidence of the informant was that he had identified a bay mare in the Police Station yard as his. She had been on September 18 grazing on the North Parklands, and he had missed her on the following day.

The Journal (Adelaide) Monday 30 October 1922
Funeral Notice:
HUGHES - the Friends of the late Mr. Joseph P. Hughes are respectfully informed that his Remains will be Removed from his late Residence, Childer street, North Adelaide, this day at 4 p.m., for the Walkerville Cemetery.
P. Le Cornu, Undertaker, 68 O'Connel street, North Adelaide. 'Phone 813, Prospect road, 'Phone 5108.

Chronicle (Adelaide) Saturday 4 November 1922 and Observer (Adelaide Saturday 4 November 1922
Death Notice:
HUGHES. --On the 29th October, at his residence, Childers-street, North Adelaide, Joseph Prentice, beloved husband of Alice A. Hughes, in his 83rd year.

Australian Christian Commonwealth (SA) Friday 24 November 1922
In Memoriam:
JOSEPH PRENTICE HUGHES was born at Boston, England, in the year 1840. His. parents brought him to South Australia in the same year and took up their residence at Nairne where they remained until 1862. When his parents landed here there were only four or five preaching places in South Australia, and the population of the whole of Australia was not more than 100,000, so that Mr. Hughes was a link with the very early days of the Colony. It was while at Nairne at the age of 16 years that he decided, for Christ. In 1862 he came to Adelaide and for a short period was connected with the Pirie Street church. A year later he came to North Adelaide and joined Archer Street and has remained a faithful member ever since. He was interested in the young people and was superintendent of the Sunday school at Enfield and Walkerville. He was for many years a teacher at Archer Street. Mr. Hughes was a man whom everybody respected because of his strong, manly personality and deep religious convictions. His large family of sons and daughters are well known in Church circles and are a credit to him. He may be described as "one of the old school," whose numbers - as far as Archer Street is concerned - are being rapidly depleted by the angel of death. We may surpass the old school in knowledge, skill and learnings but it is very doubtful if we equal them in commonsense, piety, religious conviction and spiritual power. Mr. Hughes passed away on Sunday, October 29, and was laid to rest in the Walkerville cemetery. The Rev. S. Forsyth conducted an In Memoriam service the following Sunday morning at Archer Street.

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  Other Records

• Baptism, 1840, Boston Chapelry, Yorkshire, England. Baptised 7 Jun 1840

• Baptism, 1840, Boston Spa, Yorkshire, England. courtesy Family Search

• Joseph Prentice Hughes: Birth Certificate, 1840, Boston Spa, Yorkshire, England. Born 8 May 1840

• South Australian Directory: Storeman, 1873, Archer-street, North Adelaide.

• Boothby's South Australian Directory: Storeman, 1876, Jeffcott-street, North Adelaide.

• Boothby's South Australian Directory: Storeman, 1877, Jeffcott-street, North Adelaide.

• Boothby's South Australian Directory: Storekeeper, 1885, Childer-street, North Adelaide.

• Boothby's South Australian Directory: Storekeeper, 1886, Childer-street, North Adelaide.

• Boothby's South Australian Directory: Storekeeper, 1890, 67 Gover-street, North Adelaide.

• Boothby's South Australian Directory: Storekeeper, 1905, 50 Childer-street, North Adelaide.

• Photograph: Joseph, Dorothy, Kathleen, 1920, North Adelaide, South Australia.

• Death: Headstone, 1922, Walkerville Cemetery, Adelaide.

• Will, 1922, Adelaide, South Australia.

Joseph married Mary RYDER [267] [MRIN: 89], daughter of Joseph RYDER [918] and Mary HILL [919], on 10 Jul 1861 in Res. Joseph Ryder, Nairne, South Australia. (Mary RYDER [267] was born on 13 Sep 1839 in Windsor, Berks, England, died on 16 Apr 1892 in North Adelaide, South Australia and was buried on 19 Apr 1892 in Walkerville Cemetery, Adelaide.)

  Marriage Notes:

1861 SA Marriage 47/220 HUGHES Joseph Prentice RYDER Mary, Nairne

Joseph next married Alice Ann ROWE [264] [MRIN: 88], daughter of William Richard Roskilly ROWE [1096] and Mary Rule BOLITHO [4148], on 4 Jan 1897 in Wesleyan Church, North Adelaide, South Australia. (Alice Ann ROWE [264] was born on 14 Sep 1862 in St Keverne, Cornwall, England, died on 12 Nov 1936 in Lenswood, South Australia and was buried on 14 Nov 1936 in Walkerville Cemetery, Adelaide.)

  Marriage Notes:

1897 SA Marriage 190/21 HUGHES Joseph Prentice ROWE Alice Ann, Adelaide