George Garrad

Robert Garrad, prior to his transportation to Australia, had two children, John (1807) and Maria (1808).

John married Mary Ann Barrell in 1826 and their son John was born in 1827. John in turn married Emma Barker and their son George was born in Wickham Skeith on 6 June 1855. This makes George the great grandson of Robert Garrad and Elizabeth Mayes.

George, together with his wife Maria Gold Clipperton and one year old daughter, Sarah Jane, emigrated to Australia as assisted immigrants, departing Plymouth on the "Roma" on 10 May 1882. They arrived in Cooktown on 29 June 1882, finally disembarking in Brisbane on 6 July 1882,

They soon after moved to Maroochy where George found work at the Fielding and Dixon's sugar mill at Buderim. By 1900 to family had moved to Kiel Mointain Road in Woombye to begin pineapple farming.

George and Maria added a further eight children to their family to begin the Garrad dynasty in Queensland.