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Caroline Jacob
Caroline Jacob (18 January 1861 – 4 November 1940) was a South Australian schoolmistress, remembered in connection with Tormore House School and Unley Park School. History Caroline was born at Woodlands near Sevenhill, South Australia, Sevenhill and Penwortham, South Australia, the sixth child and third daughter of John Jacob (1816–1910) and his wife Mary Jacob, ''née'' Cowles, (c. 1819–1894). In 1869 the family moved to Mount Gambier, South Australia, Mount Gambier, where her father had, controversially, been appointed Clerk of Court. In 1873 her mother re-opened Winnold House school, near Christ Church, Mount Gambier, which had until a few years previous been operated by the Misses or a Miss Fickling. It also served as their home. In 1878 the school was renamed Winnold House Ladies' College; its last year of advertised operation was 1886. Caroline, who had previously been home-educated, was at some stage enrolled at Winnold. She passed her first class certificate (later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Jacob
Caroline Jacob (18 January 1861 – 4 November 1940) was a South Australian schoolmistress, remembered in connection with Tormore House School and Unley Park School. History Caroline was born at Woodlands near Sevenhill, South Australia, Sevenhill and Penwortham, South Australia, the sixth child and third daughter of John Jacob (1816–1910) and his wife Mary Jacob, ''née'' Cowles, (c. 1819–1894). In 1869 the family moved to Mount Gambier, South Australia, Mount Gambier, where her father had, controversially, been appointed Clerk of Court. In 1873 her mother re-opened Winnold House school, near Christ Church, Mount Gambier, which had until a few years previous been operated by the Misses or a Miss Fickling. It also served as their home. In 1878 the school was renamed Winnold House Ladies' College; its last year of advertised operation was 1886. Caroline, who had previously been home-educated, was at some stage enrolled at Winnold. She passed her first class certificate (later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening Journal (Adelaide)
''The News'' was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, that had its origins in 1869, and finally ceased circulation in 1992. Through much of the 20th century, '' The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, ''The News'' the afternoon tabloid, with '' The Sunday Mail'' covering weekend sport, and ''Messenger Newspapers'' community news. Its former names were ''The Evening Journal'' (1869–1912) and ''The Journal'' (1912–1923), with the Saturday edition called ''The Saturday Journal'' until 1929. History ''The Evening Journal'' ''The News'' began as ''The Evening Journal'', witVol. I No. Iissued on 2 January 1869. From 11 September 1912Vol. XLVI No. 12,906 it was renamed ''The Journal.'' News Limited was established in 1923 by James Edward Davidson, when he purchased the Broken Hill ''Barrier Miner'' and the Port Pirie ''Recorder''. He then went on to purchase ''The Journal'' and Adelaide's weekly sports-focussed ''Mail'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Maydwell Martin
Mary Maydwell Martin (20 July 1915 - 25 January 1973) was an Australian bookseller, founder of the Mary Martin Bookshop. History Martin was born in Adelaide to Ernest Montgomerie Martin AMIEE. (1878–1956) and his wife Lorna Gledstanes Martin, née Jacob, (1889–1973), both associated with the Unitarian Christian Church of Wakefield Street. Ernest was a son of vigneron Henry Maydwell Martin and nephew of Anna Montgomerie Martin; Lorna lost two brothers in The Great War; a third was awarded the Military Medal for bravery and later hounded for his Communist sympathies. Educator Caroline Jacob (1861–1940) was a great-aunt. In 1945 she founded the Mary Martin Book Shop on Grenfell Street, Adelaide. In 1947 she asked Max Harris to become a partner in the shop, which by then had moved to Alma Chambers, 13 Commercial Place. Harris agreed; he also made a news-sheet which he called ''Mary's Own Paper'', although it contained his own opinions. The shop expanded, and by 1955 it was lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Montgomerie Martin
Anna Montgomerie Martin (8 November 1841 – 9 August 1918), always known as "Annie", but often signing her name "A. Montgomerie Martin", was a teacher and headmistress of Adelaide, South Australia. History Annie was born in Birmingham, England, the third child and second daughter of Ann (1809–1901), née Thornton, and Edward (1807–1894) Martin, distantly related to Charles Darwin. She first attended school at Highgate, Birmingham, then in 1850 migrated to Adelaide with her parents on the ''Anglia'', arriving at Port Adelaide on 5 March 1851. The Martins soon met up with Francis Clark and his family, fellow- Unitarians. The Clarks and the Martins were to have a remarkably close relationship, culminating in four Clarks marrying four Martins. Annie's education continued with Emily Clark as tutor at "Hazelwood", the Clark family home, and Annie in turn acted as tutor to her younger brothers. Older sister Lucy married the literate Howard Clark, and Annie might have wed Henry S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitarian Church, Wakefield Street
The Unitarian Church of South Australia, Inc., is an independent and self-governed church affiliated with the worldwide Unitarian Universalist movement, a member of the Australia and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association, and an affiliate member of the Unitarian Universalist Association. It is a socially progressive and inclusive spiritual community, not covenanted by doctrine and dogma, but by liberal religious principles distilled from the essential values of all world religions, as well as the arts, humanities, and sciences. History Wakefield Street On July 11, 1854 a group of people of the Unitarian Christian denomination met in Adelaide, South Australia and resolved to found their own church and seek a suitable minister from England. John Crawford Woods was selected and arrived on the ''Quito'' from London on 19 September 1855. Services were initially held in private houses until October of that year, when the first public service was held in King William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geranium, South Australia
Geranium is a town and locality in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia near the Mallee Highway. At the 2006 census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ..., Geranium had a population of 240. It was surveyed in 1910 as the town supporting a station on the Pinnaroo railway line. The name is derived from a native plant prolific in the area. References Murray Mallee Towns in South Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Australian Infantry Battalion
The 10th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that served as part of the all-volunteer Australian Imperial Force during World War I. Among the first units raised in Australia during the war, the battalion was recruited from South Australia in August 1914 and formed part of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division. After basic training, the battalion embarked for Egypt where further training was undertaken until the battalion was committed to the Gallipoli campaign. During the landing at Anzac Cove, it came ashore as part of the initial covering force. Members of the 10th Battalion penetrated the furthest inland of any Australian troops during the initial fighting, before the Allied advance inland was checked. After this, the battalion helped defend the beachhead against a heavy counter-attack in May, before joining the failed August Offensive. Casualties were heavy throughout the campaign and in November 1915, the surviving members were withdrawn from the penin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mintaro, South Australia
Mintaro is a historic town in the eastern Clare Valley, east of the Horrocks Highway, about north of Adelaide, South Australia. The town lies at the south-eastern corner of the Hundred of Clare, within the Clare Valley wine region. Established in 1849, Mintaro is situated on land which was bought originally by Joseph and Henry Gilbert, which they sub-divided into 80 allotments. Mintaro was originally intended as a stopping and resting place for the bullock teams carting copper ore from the Burra, South Australia, Burra mine to Port Wakefield, South Australia, Port Wakefield. By 1876 the population was recorded as 400. Mintaro continued to develop as a rural service centre during the 1870s and early 1880s, when pastoral and agricultural activities boomed in the state's Mid North, mid north. After 1930, there was a general decline in rural populations and little development took place within the town for several decades. The Mintaro district includes prominent Martindale Hall and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapid (brig)
''Rapid'' was the brig that brought William Light's surveying party to the new colony of South Australia. She was wrecked in 1841. History ''Rapid'' was built in 1826 at Yarmouth, and featured a carved figurehead in the shape of a greyhound. She first appeared in ''Lloyd's Register'' (''LR'') in 1826 with William Joy, master, Priest & Co., owner, and trade Yarmouth–Hull. The next year her owner became Brest and her trade became Hull–St Petersburg. South Australia The board of commissioners of the South Australian Company purchased her to send out on their first fleet to establish the Colony of South Australia and the city of Adelaide. The company added a deck for passenger exercise, but as the height between decks was 4'1" (1.25 m), it was hardly luxurious. On 1 May 1836, ''Rapid'' left Blackwall, and sailed down the English Channel under the command of Col. William Light; she reached Kangaroo Island on 17 August 1836. Light's crew included Lieut. G. M. Field, R.N. ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkaroola
Arkaroola is the common name for the ''Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary'', a wildlife sanctuary situated on of freehold and pastoral lease land in South Australia. It is located north of the Adelaide city centre in the Northern Flinders Ranges, adjacent to the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park and the Mawson Plateau. The most common way to get there is by car, but air travel can be chartered from Parafield Airport, Adelaide Airport or Aldinga Airfield. It was used as a location set for the 2002 film '' The Tracker''. History The area's first people are the Adnyamathanha. One of their dreamtime or creation stories says that Arkaroo, a mythical monster, drank Lake Frome dry. He then crawled up into the mountains. When he urinated he created the waterholes that are a feature of the area. His movement over the land created Arkaroola Creek. The first Anglo-Europeans to visit the area was explorer Edward Eyre in 1840 and the surveyor George Goyder in 1857. There was a sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ainsworth Horrocks
John Ainsworth Horrocks (22 March 1818 – 23 September 1846) was an English pastoralist and explorer who was one of the first European settlers in the Clare Valley of South Australia where, in 1840, he established the village of Penwortham. Biography Horrocks was born on Easter Sunday, 22 March 1818, at Penwortham Lodge, near Preston, Lancashire. His father, Peter Horrocks, was an investor/shareholder in the Secondary Towns Association, which aspired to develop secondary towns in the new colony of South Australia. John Ainsworth Horrocks, aged 21, and his brother Eustace, aged 16, arrived at Adelaide in March 1839. Impatient to settle on their own land, the brothers set up camp on 16 January 1840 at present Penwortham, a village which they founded and named. He returned to England in 1842 after his father's death, and returned to Australia in 1844 to attend to financial problems. Fatal expedition On 29 July 1846 he commenced an exploratory expedition into the far north-west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanunda, South Australia
Tanunda is a town situated in the Barossa Valley region of South Australia, 70 kilometres north-east of the state capital, Adelaide. The town derives its name from an Aboriginal word meaning ''water hole''. The town's population is approximately 4600. The postcode is 5352 Settlement Prussian immigrants who arrived with Pastor Gotthard Fritzsche founded the village of Bethanien in 1842, the first settlement in the vicinity of today's Tanunda. One year later, Prussians relocating from Klemzig on the Torrens River, where they had settled upon immigrating in 1838 with Pastor August Kavel, came to the Barossa Valley and founded the village of Langmeil. Their new community bore the name of a Prussian town near Zullichau, from where the settlers had originated; it is now a Polish village known as Okunin. Sometime later, another village was founded and named Tanunda. Due to anti-German sentiments, both Langmeil and Bethanien were renamed during the Great War to Bilyara and Bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
