William Sneddon

William Sneddon was a marine dealer in Redan.

History
William Sneddon was born on 21 January 1879, at Naracoorte, South Australia, the son of Archibald Sneddon and Mary Rule.

He married Grace Grenfell in Ballarat on 27 January 1912. Grace was born in 1874 in St. Just, Cornwall, daughter of William and Grace Grenfell. She was the widow of Thomas Ellis.

Sneddon operated a bottle yard at 612 Talbot Street South, Redan. He lived in a large bluestone house at 504 Darling Street.

Local children have spoken of climbing through the fence at the rear of the bottle yard in Quarry Lane, and taking the bottles and reselling them to Sneddon.

William and Grace had a daughter, Mary Grace, born in 1912. Mary married Walter William Wilfred Mason in 1932. Their son, Ronald, born c.1936, was the intended victim of a kidnap threat in October 1939. (See Sneddon kidnap threat). A neighbour, 19 year old Russell Douglas Kerr, left a note on the gatepost of Sneddon's house threatening to kidnap Sneddon's three year old grandson, who lived next door. Kerr was later acquitted by a jury.

His wife Grace died on 5 August 1958 in Ballarat.

Sneddon died on 10 March 1962.