Frederick Lee

Frederick Lee
Born	c.1834 London, England
Died	March 1893 Ballan
Occupation	Publican
Years active	1850s-1885
Known for	Carriers' Arms Hotel
Home town	Ballan

Frederick Lee was a publican in Ballan, <1850s-1885.

History

Frederick Lee was born c.1834.

He held the license for the Carriers' Arms Hotel in Ballan. He transferred the license in 1893 to the new Railway Hotel:

The adjourned licensing meeting was held in Ballan on Thursday, before Messrs. Shuter, P.M., and P. Cantwell, J.P., to hear the application of Frederic Lee for the removal of his publican's license from the Carriers' Arms hotel, corner of the Ballarat and Daylesford roads, to a house in Flsken street, Ballan. This application had been postponed from the 24th ult., as the house to which it was proposed to remove the license was in an unfinished state. On this occasion Sergeant Murphy reported that the house was in perfect order, having been finished inside by the owner, Mr. R. Shillito, in a most complete and satisfactory manner. The application for removal was therefore granted, and Mr. Lee then applied for a transfer of the license from himself to Mr. Shillito, which was also granted.

He died in March 1893:

In the death of Mr. Fredk. Lee we lose another of those old identities whose advent to this township is linked with the times and scenes of the early 50's. Arriving in Melbourne in 1853 a brief employment of eighteen months detained him in that locality. when Dame Fortune beckoned him to Pyke's Hill, where he was working at the time of the Eureka riot. From here he wended his way onward to Ballan, on the outskirts of which township, at the junction of the main Melbourne and Ballarat road with that from Geelong to Daylesford he afterwards purchased from Mr. Graham (a storekeeper here of bygone days) a block of ground whereon, in the busy gold fever days, he built a hotel and store known as the Carrier's Arms, the license for which was retained until a few years back, when it was sold to the late Mr. Richard Shillitto, and transferred to the house in Fisken St. now known as the Railway hotel. Mr. Lee, who had reached 59 summers, was a native of London. He leaves a family of two sons and four daughters, the youngest of whom is about 16 years of age. His remains were laid on Sunday afternoon beside his lately deceased wife, in the Ballan New Cemetery, followed by many sympathising friends.

Although the obituary claims Lee built the Carriers' Arms, contemporary evidence shows it was built and operated by John Sharrat until his death in 1857.