Arthur Lamb

Arthur Lamb was a grocer in Redan, <1882-1900.

History
Arthur Lamb was born c. 1839 in Nottinghamshire, England, the son of George Lamb (a locksmith) and Mary Ann Hawkridge. The family with six children migrated to Australia, arriving in Melbourne on 8 November 1848. His mother died in Victoria in 1866.

Lamb married Elizabeth Inch in Victoria in 1864. They had several children including:
 * George Henry (1864), Carnarvon, Victoria
 * Francis Arthur (1866-1866), Snake Valley.
 * Alfred Albert (1867-1913), born Sebastopol.
 * Henry Hebert (1870-1871), born Sebastopol.
 * Lilly, (1872-1881), born Sebastopol.
 * Elizabeth (1874-1874), born Sebastopol.
 * Amelia (1876-1876), Sebastopol.

In January 1873 Lamb, a cab driver, was fined: "Arthur Lamb was summoned for plying for hire with his cab off the stand, and was fined 5s, with 7s 6d costs."

In January 1878 he was injured while trying to rescue a horse that had fallen from a bridge in Skipton Street: "A cabman named Arthur Lamb received a bad wound on his leg on Wednesday while assisting to unharness a horse attached to a spring-cart belonging to Mr Williams, of Sebastopol, the horse having fallen over the side of the bridge at the junction of Skipton and Raglan. streets. The horse suddenly plunged and knocked Lamb down, his leg coming in contact with some iron on the cart, and being stripped of a considerable portion of the flesh below the knee. The sufferer was admitted in to the Hospital."

In September 1879 he is listed as owning 300 shares in the Band of Hope Gold Mining Company. In March 1881 he was elected to the committee of the newly formed Ballarat and Sebastopol Cabmen's Union.

In February 1881, Lamb's daughter Lilly died. The family were living in Morgan Street, Sebastopol.

They ran Lamb's grocery store on the corner of Windermere Street and La Trobe Street, Redan. The earliest reference (found so far) to the store is in 1882.

Elizabeth committed suicide in July 1885.

Arthur remarried Mary Louisa Dickinson in Victoria in 1889.

Arthur Lamb died in March 1900, and was buried in the Ballarat Old Cemetery, H, Section 06B, Row 1, Grave 19. Other burials in the same plot are:
 * AMELIA LAMB, age 0, buried 11/04/1876 (daughter)
 * ELIZABETH LAMB, age 0, buried	31/01/1874 (daughter)
 * ELIZABETH LAMB, age 46, buried 27/07/1885 (wife)
 * HENRY LAMB, age 9 months, buried 01/02/1871 (son)