Funnell

  • Full Name:
    John B. Funnell
  • Role:
    Unregistered practitioner
  • Occupation/s:
    Photographer, fancy warehouser, lay homœopath
  • State:
    Queensland
    South Australia
  • Date first identified using homoeopathy in Australia:
    1876
 
Mr Funnell was recorded in the South Australian directories from 1876 to 1903 as a “homoeopathist” in Kadina. The 1882-1883 entry records him as being “John B. Funnell, MD, Taylor-St, Kadina”. He died in Kadina on 8 March, 1907.

 

JB Funnell came to South Australia via Brisbane (arrived in Brisbane in 1865).

 

It is likely that this was the same person as JB Funnell of Ann Street, Valley, in Brisbane, who was listed in the 1866 post office directory as a Fancy Warehouser and Photographer. In 1865 he also advertised as a photographer in the Brisbane Courier – ‘the cheapest photographs in Queensland’.  He was not listed in the Brisbane directory for 1867.

 

Howell’s South Australian Directory for 1872 had an entry for John B. Funnell at Grenfell Street. No occupation was listed.

 

© Barbara Armstrong

 
  • Created:
    Tuesday, 22 March 2011
  • Last modified:
    Sunday, 10 August 2014