Clipper Ship 'City of Adelaide'

Frederick Norman Scarfe, 28, married Mary Trevenen, 17, in January 1850 at St John’s Church in Adelaide.  They set up home in Adelaide’s early eastern village of Norwood.  There is no record of children being born to the marriage.

In December 1855, Scarfe was elected to the local Council to represent the ratepayers of East Norwood, and he was re-elected in 1858.  During this second term his fellow Aldermen and Councillors voted him into office as the third Mayor of the Town of Kensington and Norwood in December 1860.  (Subsequently, in accordance with the new Act of 1861, the Mayor would be chosen by the general body of ratepayers instead.)

A number of bridges were erected during Mr Scarfe’s year as Mayor, and Greenhill Road was formed at a cost of £1000.  As the income of the town was still small, an overdraft of £1000 had to be arranged with the Bank.

On completion of his term in 1861 he was elevated by general consent to the Chief Magistracy, which he occupied for only one year.