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Frank Cunningham Jaunay 1851–1912

Escape to Paradise The story of Frank Cunningham Jaunay 3

Frank's skills were taken up by the Adelaide Wine Company [later Château Tanunda – pictured] at Tanunda in the Barossa Valley, South Australia where he worked as manager. While at Tanunda, their family's last and only Australian child was born, Lucia Yvette Howell in 1896. Unfortunately for the family they experienced much illness while resident at Tanunda. In part this was blamed on the unhygienic conditions in the town at the time. When a child at the local primary school died from typhoid fever, the children were removed and educated by a governess, Miss Lucia von Bertouch. This reaction was justified by Frank because of the deaths of young cousins in France from similar contacts with contagious diseases. However, the discipline extremes of the local headmaster of the Tanunda school also played a part in this decision.

In the end, Château Tanunda decided it had no further need of a manager and Frank was forced to move once more and he succeeded in securing the licence for the Scenic Hotel at Norton Summit in the Adelaide Hills in 1899 for an annual fee of £25. As a hotel keeper, he had to also provide two recognisances, one for £100 as guarantee that he was a fit and proper person to hold a licence and another of £50 as a surety that he would sell nothing but 'good and wholesome liquors without fraudulently diluting or adulterating the same'.

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