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Joshua Jeays (1812-1881) was an alderman and mayor of Brisbane[1].
[edit] Personal LifeJoshua Jeays was born in 1812 in Leicestershire, England[2][3]. He married Sarah Edwyn in 1838 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England[4] with whom he had a number of children including:
There may have been other children who died in infancy[5]. Joshua and Sarah and the three children above immigrated to Moreton Bay in 1853. Joshua Jeays purchased land and built Roma Villa on the corner of Upper Roma Street and Skew Street (an area then known as Green Hills), where he lived with his wife and family. His daughter Sarah Jane married in 1858 at Brisbane to Sir Charles Lilley[6], who went on to be Premier of Queensland. On 12 Nov 1862, Joshua Jeays paid £78 for 16 hectares (39 acres) of land from the corner of Cooper's Camp Road towards Ithaca Creek including Cobbler's Flats (once known for its weed cobblers pegs, now Bowman Park)[7]. His wife believed that living on this land would be healthier for her than their home on Green Hills. Accordingly, Joshua built Bardon House, a grand English-style home using rough stone and decorates with gables and casement windows[8] which was named after Bardon Hill in his native Leicestershire. This is where the suburb of Bardon gets its name[9][10]. However, by the time the house was completed, his wife had died and Joshua was too broken-hearted to live in the house that he had built for his wife and it was occupied by his son Charles and later by Edwyn Lilley (son of Sarah Jane and Charles Lilley)[11]. In 2009 the house stands in the grounds of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, The Drive, Bardon. Joshua Jeays died on 11 March 1881 in Brisbane[12] and was buried in Toowong Cemetery[13]. He is buried with his wife Sarah who predeceased him, dying on 26 July 1864 in Brisbane[14]. Sarah was originally buried in Paddington Cemetery but was most likely one of those re-interred in Toowong Cemetery when Paddington Cemetery was to be re-used as an athletics field. His grandson Charles Joshua Jeays founded Jeays Hardware[15]. The Joshua Jeays Conference Room at the Bardon Professional Centre is named after Joshua Jeays[16]. [edit] Business LifeJoshua Jeays started work in England as a carpenter[17]. In Brisbane, Joshua Jeays was a builder, architect and stonemason[18]. He was involved in the construction of the gallery of the original St Johns Church of England. He built homes of prominent Brisbane residents such as Andrew Petrie, John Petrie, Walter Hill, (founder of the Botanic Gardens), the infamous Patrick Mayne and the Cribb family. He was also involved in the development of Brisbane's drainage[19]. He built and provided the stone from his quarry for Brisbane's first Government House, now part of the Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point campus[20][21]. He also built the George Street side of Parliament House, Queensland[22]. [edit] Public ServiceJoshua was an alderman from 1859 to 1867 and was mayor in 1864 of the Brisbane Municipal Council. He served on a number of committees, including:[23]:
He has been described as having "radical political views"[24] and "an Orangeman and Evangelican"[25]. [edit] See also[edit] References
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