Job Harris
[1] The Harris family of George, Mary and four children Ann, Job, Hannah and David migrated to South Australia on the Providence which left Swansea, Wales on 24 May 1849 and arrived at Port Adelaide on 16 September 1849.
[6][7] Job Harris married Mary Hattam (1843–1923) at St Peter's Church, Williamstown, South Australia on 2 September 1862.
[8] Job and Mary Harris continued to run the Sandy Creek Hotel, their first daughter Elizabeth dying there on 14 July 1869 of typhoid fever.
The stables at the hotel burnt down on Sunday, 12 September 1869, thought to be due to a broken lantern and in 1870, Job had a saddle and bridle, as well as a mare left in his charge stolen by a boy who worked for him.
[10] Job's older sister, Ann Harris married William Lewis (1835–1903) in 1869 at Cambrian Cottage, Bertha, the residence of her mother, (Mary Davies).
[11] William Lewis was also a Welsh immigrant who had operated the lime kilns in partnership with Ann's stepfather, James Davies.
David Harris, younger brother of Job, married Mary Rebecca Pankhurst at Buchsfeldt, South Australia in 1872.
In 1875, David was listed as an employee of the Virginia Gold Mining Company, Northern Territory and was a passenger on the SS Gothenburg in February 1875.
The steamship left Darwin en route to Adelaide when a cyclone-strength storm was encountered and the SS Gothenburg sank off the north Queensland coast on 24 February 1875.
Only 22 men, including David, survived the wreck while 98-112 people died, many being high profile South Australian dignitaries and civil servants.
Benjamin George Harris, Job's only sibling born in South Australia, also moved to Green's Plains in 1876 to pioneer and adjoining 1,500 acre scrub block to David's land.
"[20] The South Australian Advertiser next reported "Mr. Job Harris, landlord of the Sandy Creek Hotel, and claimant of the Government reward for the discovery of a new goldfield, called upon us on Monday morning with 1.25 oz.
On Friday, 9 October 1868, a new company known as the "Yatta Creek Gold Reefing Venture" with 25 shares was formed at the offices of Messrs. Cullen & Wigley, Solicitors, King William Street, Adelaide.
[25] Two new towns, Yatta and Victoria Hill as well as the private township of Barossa which had been established in 1865, were soon booming and contained hotels, butchers and blacksmiths.
Some other interesting figures were published on 24th September [1870] when it was revealed that the Barossa field employed a total of 465 diggers, eight carters, ten men at the crushers, one doctor, one policeman, five storekeepers, seven innkeepers, two bakers, two shoemakers and four butchers.
