Preece Family Tree

OBITUARY.

Mr. William John Hannaford, horticulturist and grazier, of Mount Bera, Chain of Ponds, whose death was announced on Saturday, was the second son of the late Mr. Frederick Hannaford, a pioneer of the district and was born in 1863, at Clare, South Australia. Having been educated principally at Prince Alfred College, he joined his father at Mount Bera, and began his life's work in the fruitgrowing and grazing industry on the paternal property. The estate comprises 1000 acres, and, in addition, a property at Narracoorte was held by Mr. Hannaford conjointly with his brother, Elliott on freehold. At a recent date he also acquired the the Ludlow Estate, consisting of 240 acres, upon which a very fine residence was built some 60 years ago by the South Australian Company for one of its managers, this being afterwards used as a ladies' boarding school. Mr. Hannaford continued to reside at the old homestead, to which he went as a child of three years old from Clare. In the earlier days he exported a quantity of fruit to England on his own account, but more recently had disposal of his products for the same purpose to A. E. Pitt and Sons. He raised lambs, also for the export trade, and was connected with the woolgrowing industry, his flock comprising about 700 sheep of the merino breed. Mr. Hannaford was a deacon in the Baptist Church at Gumeracha, with which he had been associated for some years, and a member of the executive of the Fruitgrowers' Association. In 1886 he married a daughter of the late Mr. William Kelly, of Gould Creek, and at her death was left with a family of four sons and two daughters. In 1902 his second marriage took place, the present Mrs Hannaford being Mary Rebecca Ballantyne, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Henderson, Baptist minister of Orroroo, by whom be had one son.