Joshua Jeays [SEP] place of death
Joshua Jeays
Joshua Jeays (1812–1881) was a Leicester-born carpenter who became a successful developer, an alderman and mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Personal life.
Joshua Jeays was born in 1812 in Leicestershire, England., and died in Brisbane in 1881, at the age of 69.
He married Sarah Edwyn in 1838 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England with whom he had a number of children including:
- Sarah Jane
- Joseph Joshua (died 1909)
- Charles Edwyn
Street, to facilitate the move to Margaret Street. The firm ceased business , and in October that year title to the property was transferred to Charles Joshua Jeays, Arthur Vivian Jeays and Albert Frederick Jeays. Charles Joshua Jeays, builders' and plumbers' supplies, had occupied the site by 1930, and remained there until . After the Second World War, the building is understood to have been occupied by Gardiner Batteries, whose principal business was located in O'Reilly's Buildings, Margaret Street, just south of the former Acme Engineering