John Bamber

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Captain John Bamber was a settler in the Swan River Colony.

He was the pilot on the Bombay when she was nearly wrecked on the Iron Pot near Hobart in 1830.

Updated and Expanded Biographical Notes 1826 - 1835:

Bamber, Captain John. Arrived on the Nancy in 1830 and was granted a Ship Broker’s licence. He was offered 6,346 acres but declined and left on the Bombay in 1830 for Hobart. Bamber made an excursion to the Collie River in January 1830.

History of West Australia/Chapter 7:

• The grants of land apportioned on the Swan, Canning, Helena, and Murray Rivers in 1830 were:—On the Swan ... John Bamber, l0 acres, 10th March;...
• Messrs. John Bamber and W. G. Sams each received 4,500 acres on 26th April.
• Of all these grantees, in 1837 Messrs. Gellibrand, Henty, Lautour, Bamber and Sams had left the colony.

The Perth gazette and Western Australian journal/Volume 1/Number 4:

On Saturday night last, the house known by the name of "Richmond House" in the neighbourhood of Fremantle, the property of Captain Bamber, was burnt to the ground; it is supposed by some incendiary.