Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) Saturday 16 August 191385644

OBITUARY

The late Mr. F. L. Bevilaqua, who died
of dropsy at his residence, 'Corringham,'
Park-terrace, Parkside, Adelaide, on  
August 6, was born in Gluckstadt, Ger-
many, on August 5, 1832, and was, there-
fore, of the ripe old age of 81 years. He
arrived in South Australia by the barque
Helena in 1854 after a voyage of nearly
seven mouths. he was educated at the
High School, Hamburg, and had as fellow  
students the sons of the late General
Count von Moltke. After receiving a
training in a Hamburg bunking house he
sailed for Australia. The first appoint-
ment he secured on arrival was with the
firm of Bollenhagen & Schramm, whose
business premises stood in Currie-street,
Adelaide, on the site now occupied by
Messrs. A. H. Bickford & Sons. Some
two years later he entered into business
on his own account at Lyndoch as a
general merchant, and by strict integrity
and business acumen built up a very large
concern. His connection with the busi-
ness continued for nearly 40 years, during
which He held many important offi-  
ces in Lyndoch, including those of chair
man of the district council and road board
and other positions connected with the
local lodge of the Manchester Unity Odd-
fellows. He was held in the highest
esteem throughout the whole district, espe-  
cially by the German colonists, and many
had cause to be grateful for his counsel  
and advice and largeheartedness in the
cause of charity. Mr. Bevilaqua was re-
peatedly petitioned to stand for Parlia-
mentary honors, but owing to pressure of
private business the request was never ac-
ceeded to. The deceased was a man well
educated and highly cultured, and a lin-
guist of no mean order, speaking and writ-
ing as he did at the time of his death
no less than seven different languages.
He had a very retentive memory, and
could repeat almost every incident and
date of all the important European wars  
for the last few centuries. The late Mr.
Bevilaqua was a direct descendant of one
of the most noble families in Italy, being
a nephew of the late Duchess Felecita
Bevilaqua, wife of the late General La
Masa, who served in the revolutionary
wars under Garibaldi. He leaves four
sons and four daughters and a number of
grandchildren to mourn their loss.