Charles Farr (builder)

Charles Farr (c. 1812 – 25 February 1888) was a timber merchant and builder in the young colony of South Australia.

Farr emigrated to South Australia from Britain aboard D'Auvergne arriving in March 1839.

Farr, by trade a bricklayer, had premises on Hindley Street, and by 1850 owned a business on Franklin Street, a timber yard possibly purchased from Philip Santo.

[3] His two sons, who were educated at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, were brought into the business, but later went their separate ways: Charles George was licensee of the Talbot Hotel, Gouger Street, then the International Hotel, Rundle Street; Alfred was city manager for Walter & Morris, who owned the Sarnia timber mills in Port Adelaide,[4] and influential president of the Builders and Contractors' Association.

[7] Farr married Sophia Morris (c. 1813 – 19 March 1879) before leaving for South Australia.