Family background
Samuel Frederick Haywood was born on 17 July 1895 at Redfern, NSW, the son of Thomas Haywood and Ada Stacey. He married Catherine McQuade at Maroubra, NSW, on 13 June 1918 and they were divorced in 1924. He married Marjorie Beatrice Stuart (1902-1979) at Sydney on 19 December 1925 and they were divorced in 1947. He lived at 55 William Street, Redfern. Haywood died on 25 April 1967 at Laurieton, NSW, aged 72 years.
Occupation & interests
Samuel Haywood was an engineer. In August 1915 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and embarked on the troopship Osterly in January 1916. He never saw active service overseas, however, as he was declared medically unfit and suffering from a hernia after landing in Fremantle, Western Australia. He returned to Sydney in February and was discharged the following month.
Community activity
Samuel Haywood, a Labor Party member on Redfern Council was critical of the Minister for Local Government in 1930 because he had submitted to the Labor Bureau a list of fifty local men for relief work in the Depression for a £1,000 grant to Redfern Council. Haywood argued the names of the men for relief work should have been compiled by Council, not the Minister.
Haywood was a justice of the peace (JP).
Local government service
Samuel Frederick Haywood was elected an alderman for Redfern Ward in 1928.
References
‘Advertising’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 1928, p.23, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16511676
National Archives of Australia: B2455, HAYWOOD S 4639