Bunting F T

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Fast Facts
Type of person Individual
Date of birth 1873
Principal occupation House, Coach & Decorative Painter, Cordial & Aerated Water Manufacturer
Date of death 1936

Frank Thomas Bunting was born in Staffordshire, England in 1873. He and older brother Jabez Bunting migrated to Australia, first joining their father in Victoria, then moving to South Australia in 1892, where they set up in partnership as Painters and Decorators.[1]

Frank had an eventful year in 1898; marrying Eva Sarah Long Busbridge (daughter of future Councillor and Mayor James Busbridge Jnr) in September, welcoming daughter Bernice Isabella Bunting in October, dissolving partnership with his brother and commencing business on his own. It isn’t certain where he was initially operating his business from, but in late 1899 he had “removed to more commodious premises” at Murray Street, opposite Lyndoch Road and the Forester’s Hall, which had been lately occupied by Mr O J Kamprod (seller of Drapery, Clothing and Millinery).[2][3] He did not remain at this site long; in mid-1900 relocating to the southern end of Murray Street, “opposite the Union Bank”.[4] By 1903, he advertised "coach painting a specialty" and boasted the "largest and most commodious workshops in Gawler".[5]


1902 saw Frank and wife Eva Sarah start up a new business venture, opening “Bunting & McCulloch”, a cordial and aerated water manufacturing business at Lot 2 Water Street, Gawler South[6] (this site now known as 32 Eighth street, was later used for the same purpose by Haydon and then Fotheringham). By October 1903 F T Bunting’s painting business had been taken over by Gibson & Werchon[7] and in January 1904 they closed the cordial business, auctioned the site and equipment and relocated to Goolwa.[8][9][10]


In 1910 the family moved back to Gawler, Frank resuming his painting business in the premises at the southern end of Murray Street. The Bunyip reported he aims at the ““truly artistic” in painting and paperhanging";[11] buildings he worked on in his time in Gawler included the Institute, the Town Hall and the Gawler South District Council Office.[12][13][14]

F T Bunting was still leasing the Murray Street premises (part Lot 6, contemporary address 14 Murray Street) in 1923 when they went up for auction following the death of owner James Sparshott.[15][16] (Click here for a photo of F T Bunting's shop – the building has since been demolished.) It is not certain if Frank remained living and working in Gawler at this time. By 1928 he was residing in Prospect, when as ‘grandfather’ he enrolled his daughter Bernice’s stepsons Colin Lancelot Rudland and Albert Ivan Rudland in Nailsworth Primary School.[17] Three years earlier, the boys, then aged 11 and 10, had been committed to 12 months in reformatory school, after being caught stealing growing vegetables from Gottlieb Noack’s garden on Goose Island.[18]


Frank died in 1936, aged 63, and Eva Sarah in 1940, aged 59; their place of burial is not known. Their grandson, Harry Eric Rudland, eldest biological son of their daughter Bernice, died whilst serving in WWII (see WWII Personnel).


Frank’s brother Jabez Bunting remained in Gawler, operating as a painter; in 1913 & 1914 the Bunyip featured competing business ads from the brothers. After an extended visit to England in 1929, Jabez passed his business on to his son Harold Bunting, who was still operating it in 1948 (Lionel Folland recalled starting to work for him as a 14 year old). Jabez died in 1939, aged 71, and is buried in the Willaston Cemetery with his wife Minnie.


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Bunting Family Birth, Death & Marriage Information

BUNTING Frank Thomas

b. 1873 Staffordshire, England (brother of Jabez Bunting)

m. 17 Sep 1898, Eva Sarah Long BUSBRIDGE, Res of James Busbridge, Gawler River (Reg. Barossa 196/969)

d. 9 Jul 1936, SA, aged 63 (Reg. Adelaide 581/2745)


LONG/BUSBRIDGE Eva Sarah (BUNTING)

b. 1881, SA, daughter of James Busbridge (Jnr)(Reg. Barossa 260/319)

m. 17 Sep 1898, Frank Thomas BUNTING, Res of James Busbridge, Gawler River (Reg. Barossa 196/969)

d. 29 Mar 1940, SA, aged 59 (Reg. Australia 623/1527)

Children of Frank Thomas Bunting – include:

BUNTING Bernice Isabella (RUDLAND)

b. 19 Oct 1898, Gawler River, SA (Reg. Barossa 629/224)

m. 1920 Albert Edwin RUDLAND, SA (Reg. Adelaide 282/199)

1939 residing Blair Athol (Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 via Ancestry)

d. 7 Nov 1984, SA, aged 86

Siblings of Frank Thomas Bunting - include:

BUNTING Jabez

b. Abt. 1868, Staffordshire, England

m. 1896 'Minnie' Miriam May MANKEY (Reg. Barossa 187/1104)(d. 13 Aug 1926, Parkside Mental Hospital, aged 53)[19]

  • BUNTING Dorothy Inez (HILL) b. 20 Apr 1897, Gawler, SA (Reg. Barossa 602/278)
  • BUNTING Harold Joseph b. 1900, Vic

d. 29 May 1939, SA, aged 71 (Reg. Australia 613/2259)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston (Plot 16 E 4, with wife ‘Minnie’)



References

  1. ↑ (Recorder 12 Jun 1939) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96304381
  2. ↑ (Bunyip 8 Dec 1899) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97582967
  3. ↑ (Bunyip 16 Feb 1900) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100579662
  4. ↑ (Bunyip 8 Jun 1900) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100577178
  5. ↑ (Bunyip 13 Feb 1903) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97589097
  6. ↑ (Bunyip 2 Jan 1903) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97595290
  7. ↑ (Bunyip 30 Oct 1903) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97590667
  8. ↑ (Bunyip 15 Jan 1904) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97589827
  9. ↑ (Evening Journal 20 Jan 1904) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200805964
  10. ↑ (Southern Argus 27 Jul 1905) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96962151
  11. ↑ (Bunyip 10 Jan 1913) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97561914
  12. ↑ (The Register 16 Oct 1902) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56255233
  13. ↑ (Bunyip 4 Mar 1910) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97727123
  14. ↑ (The Advertiser 4 May 1910) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5230015
  15. ↑ (Observer 25 Aug 1923) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164830971
  16. ↑ (Bunyip 31 Aug 1923) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97762938
  17. ↑ (Australia, School Admissions Registers, 1876-1989 via Ancestry)
  18. ↑ (South Australia, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1862-1947 via Ancestry)
  19. ↑ South Australia, Australia, Supreme Court Criminal Records, 1837-1918; Reports to the Police Coroner, 1842-1961 via Ancestry


F T Bunting - Murray Street
F T Bunting - Murray Street


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