Rudall John
| Type of person | Individual |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1820 |
| Place of birth | Exeter, England |
| Date of arrival | 1853 |
| Principal occupation | Lawyer, Town Clerk and Magistrate |
| Date of death | 1897 |
| Place of death | Davenport (Port Augusta) |
John Rudall was born on 6 April 1820 at Exeter, England. He was educated in Paris at the College Henri Quatre and then returned to London where he was articled to a firm of solicitors.
John decided to leave London for Australia and he arrived in Victoria in 1853. John proceeded to Ballarat. Having had no success on the goldfields, John decided to return to England but was persuaded by a friend to go to South Australia to join the law firm of Messrs. Cullen and Wigley. John travelled to Adelaide and married Matilda Bryce Bruce at St Mary's on Sturt Church on 10 October 1854 and he settled soon afterwards in Gawler where he established a legal practice, Rudall & Rudall Lawyers.
John and Matilda had ten children, including Samuel Bruce Rudall (see details of some of their children below). Their children were educated in Gawler for some years before going to schools in Adelaide. In the late 1860s, John and Matilda's moved to 30 Finniss Street Gawler, which they called 'Bonhay' after John's childhood home in Exeter.
John was active in the movement that led to the severance of Gawler from the District Council of Barossa West and its incorporation as a municipality. When the Gawler Corporation was established in 1857, John was appointed Town Clerk but continued his occupation as solicitor, carrying out both duties for 23 years. Upon relinquishing his connection with the corporation in 1881, John was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate to coincide with the opening of the Cowan Street Courthouse. He continued to preside over the courts of the district until 1889 when he was transferred to Port Augusta in succession to the late Mr Wigley.
John was a member of the Freemasons' Lodge, Gawler and had occupied all the chairs in the order. He also stood as the Hon. Secretary on the committee formed to erect a memorial to commemorate the "worth and services rendered" to the colonies by explorer John McKinlay (see McKinlay Monument).[1] John was a linguist and a fluent speaker of Italian and French.
In 2007 the Town of Gawler recognised John Rudall as a Significant Identity.
In 2019, a c1850s Strong Box was located in the basement of the office of Rudall & Rudall (25 Murray Street), that John Rudall brought out from England with him.
Click here for photos of John Rudall.Click here for information on John Rudall's properties prepared by Helen Wilmore using the Gawler Historical Rates Assessment Database.
Rudall Family Birth, Death & Marriage Information
RUDALL, John
b. 6 Apr 1820, Exeter, Devon, England (father ‘Samuel Rudall’ & mother ‘Ann Cooper’)
Arrived 1853, Victoria, Australia
m. 10 Oct 1854 ‘BRUCE, Matilda Bryce’, St Mary’s Sturt Church, St Marys, SA[2]
d. 20 Feb 1897, Port Augusta, SA, aged 76 (Reg. Frome 241/221)
Buried Port Augusta Cemetery, Port Augusta, SA (with wife & daughter Sara)
BRUCE, Matilda Bryce (RUDALL)
b. 23 Feb 1832, Dumfries, Scotland (father ‘Norman Mcleod Bruce’ & mother ‘Bryce Mitchel’)
m. 10 Oct 1854, ‘RUDALL, John’
d. 31 Oct 1893, Davenport, SA, aged 61 (‘RUDALL, Matilda Boyce [sic], Reg. Frome 214/102)
Buried Port Augusta Cemetery, Port Augusta, SA (with husband & daughter Sara)
Children of John Rudall & Matilda Bryce (nee Bruce)
The couple had ten children, including:
RUDALL, Norman Cullan
b. 10 Aug 1855, North Adelaide, SA (Reg. Adelaide 5/205)
d. d. 10 May 1860, Gawler, SA, aged 4 years 9 months (‘Norman Callen [sic] Rudall’, Reg. Barossa 12/89)
Cause of death Scarlet Fever (Pioneer Park Burial Register – Town of Gawler PDF)
Buried 11 May 1960, Gawler Old Cemetery (Pioneer Park), Gawler, SA
RUDALL, Samuel Bruce
b. 7 Mar 1859, Gawler, SA (Reg. Barossa 16/410, father ‘John RUDALL’)[3]
m. 18 Dec 1884 ‘McNEIL, Margaret’, Res of J F Murten, Gawler, SA (Reg. Barossa 141/1127)(d. 28 Feb 1923)
m. 6 Oct 1923 ‘WARREN (formerly DOWNER), Alice Maria’, St John’s Church, Adelaide, SA (Reg. Adelaide 297/55)(The Register 8 Oct 1923)
Last Residence Stirling West, SA (St George’s Burial Register)
d. 3 Jan 1945, SA, aged 85 (Reg. Adelaide 684/78)
Buried 5 Jan 1945, St George’s Cemetery, Gawler East, SA (Plot F2 with first wife Margaret & daughter Maude Bryce)
RUDALL, Sara Bryce
b. 12 Dec 1864, Gawler, SA (Reg. Barossa 34/502)
Never married
d. 24 Jun 1893, Port Augusta, SA, aged 28 (Reg. Frome 210/418)
Buried Port August Cemetery, Port Augusta, SA (with father & mother)
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References
- ↑ George E. Loyau (1880) "The Gawler Handbook: A Record of the Rise and Progress of that important Town; to which are added Memoirs of McKinlay the Explorer and Dr Nott ", Goodfellow & Hele, Adelaide, SA.
- ↑ South Australian Register 12 Oct 1854 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49204405
- ↑ The South Australian Advertiser 9 Mar 1859 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/790088
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