David Farr
 

David Kirkby Farr is born 1852 in Wales to Henry Farr and his wife Elizabeth Naylor Farr, née Ariel.

I have him on census. 1883 he comes to Australia unassisted. His age is written as 18 on Ancestry, but FMP has two people same name same ship, different ages. Might be a mistake. Might be a lie. lol

Also in 1883 he is admitted to the bar in Sydney as a solicitor (his father was a solicitor as well).
In 1889, he asked to have his name struck off as he wasn’t working as a solicitor.

In 1900 USA census, he is in California, and married to Elizabeth. He gives his birth as Sept 1854, and he’s been married 20 years. Now you’d think a solicitor would know his birth date, surely. ???

By 1910 census, he is still with Elizabeth, but they’ve only been married 26 years. Even I know it should be 30 if the 1900 census is correct.
Elizabeth, his wife, says she was born in England.
In 1881 UK census, he is single.

He dies in California in 1916.

Can anyone find a marriage for him please.
The NSW site is down at the moment as well, sorry.

No help with his later life, but his Articles of Clerkship are available on Ancestry:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...true&pId=44815

Thanks, I hadn’t seen that.

LAW EXAMINATION.—Mr. David Kirkby Farr, who served his articles with Messrs. Parr and Wade, of this town, has passed the final examination recently held at...
11 July 1879 - Monmouthshire Merlin - Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales

Have you seen this, Libby?

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=david%20farr

The Australian Star, 30 Dec 1887
THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A SOLICITOR
At the Water Police Court this morning, David Kirby Farr, a solicitor, charged on remand with forging a deed of mortgage, was remanded for a week. The bench refused bail at the request of the police.

Follow-up:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=david%20farr

Sydney Morning Herald 21 Jan 1888:
David Kirby Farr, on remand, charged with forging a certain deed, to wit, a mortgage, with intent to defraud, was ordered to be discharged from custody, as the prosecutor declined to proceed in the case.

There is a lot more here about his application to have his name removed from the roll:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=david%20farr

On the 1900 US census, Elizabeth is the mother of 1 child, who is not still living, but on the 1910 census she has never had any children.

This appears to show Mr and Mrs DK Farr. She has an age given of 32, he 36, in 1885.

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...VCPL%2F0807515

The US censuses say he was naturalised as a US citizen. If we could find his naturalisation papers, they might give more details of his wife. But not all are online yet.