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Ross T. Reid
Ross Thompson Reid (2 February 1832 – 10 January 1915) was a pastoralist in South Australia and New South Wales. He is remembered in South Australia as the founder of Rostrevor Hall. History Reid was born in Newry, County Down, Ireland, and emigrated to South Australia with his parents John Reid (11 November 1795 – 12 October 1874) and Jane Reid (1795 – 26 March 1885), née Livingstone, arrived in January 1839 aboard ''Orleana'' with their children: ::*Elizabeth Paton Reid ( – ) no details found apart from name on passenger list ::*Eliza Sarah Reid (c. 1824 – 23 December 1914) married Dr. David Mahony ( – 5 February 1858) on 15 August 1849. He died in Gawler; she died at "Hurst", Sedlescombe, England. ::*Samuel Reid (c. 1825 – 8 March 1859) ::*W(illiam) Livingstone Reid (c. 1828 – 16 July 1900) married Isabella Emily Colley (c. 1845 – 30 October 1932), second daughter of R. B. Colley, on 23 December 1865. Their daughter Isabella married a son of W. R. Wigley. :: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newry
Newry (; ) is a city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Clanrye river in counties Armagh and Down, from Belfast and from Dublin. It had a population of 26,967 in 2011. Newry was founded in 1144 alongside a Cistercian monastery, although there are references to earlier settlements in the area, and is one of Ireland's oldest towns. The city is an entry to the " Gap of the North", from the border with the Republic of Ireland. It grew as a market town and a garrison and became a port in 1742 when it was linked to Lough Neagh by the first summit-level canal built in Ireland or Great Britain. A cathedral city, it is the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore. In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Newry was granted city status along with Lisburn. Name The name Newry is an anglicization of ''An Iúraigh'', an oblique form of ''An Iúrach'', which means "the grove of yew trees". The modern Irish name for Newry is ''An tIúr'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Paxton (Australian Businessman)
William Paxton (1818 – 1 September 1893) was a South Australian colonist who arrived in the Province of South Australia in 1840, became one of the investors in the Burra copper mines and returned to England in July 1855, as a wealthy man. Early life Some sources give his birthplace as Whitby, Cheshire, or Whitby, Yorkshire but he was christened on 22 February 1819 in Claydon, Oxfordshire, a long way from either, and was a resident of Brighton, Sussex, before leaving for Australia, and was a pharmacist by training. Pharmacy He arrived in Adelaide on 11 August 1840 on the barque ''Lalla Rookh''. In November 1840 he took over W. E. Bayldon's chemist shop "Apothecaries' Hall" at the west end of Hindley Street. He was joined by Dr. L. Moore, who had been the surgeon on the "Lalla Rookh". Paxton became embroiled in a criminal prosecution of a medical practitioner over a death from over-prescription of morphine. The medico, who had an alcohol problem, had clearly been negligent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbits In Australia
European rabbits (''Oryctolagus cuniculus'') were first introduced to Australia in the 18th century with the First Fleet, and later became widespread likely because of Thomas Austin (pastoralist), Thomas Austin. Such wild rabbit populations are a serious mammalian Pest (organism), pest and invasive species in Australia causing millions of dollars’ worth of damage to crops. Their spread may have been enhanced through the emergence of strong crossbreeds. Various methods in the 20th century have been attempted to control the Australian rabbit population. Conventional methods include shooting rabbits and destroying their warrens, but these had only limited success. From 1901 to 1907, a rabbit-proof fence was built in Western Australia in an unsuccessful attempt to contain the rabbits. The'' myxoma virus'', which causes myxomatosis, was introduced into the rabbit population in the 1950s and had the effect of severely reducing the rabbit population. However, the survivors have since a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goolwa, South Australia
Goolwa is a historic river port on the Murray River near the Murray Mouth in South Australia, and joined by a bridge to Hindmarsh Island. The name "Goolwa" means "elbow" in Ngarrindjeri, the local Aboriginal language, and the area was known as "The Elbow" to the early settlers. Goolwa is approximately 85 km south of Adelaide, and is the seat of the Alexandrina Council. It is in the state electoral district of Hammond and the federal Division of Mayo. At the 2011 census, the state suburb of Goolwa (excluding Goolwa Beach, Goolwa North and Goolwa South) had a population of 2,201. At June 2018, the estimated urban population for Goolwa together with nearby Victor Harbor was 26,532, Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. having increased at an average annual rate of 1.07% year-on-year over the preceding five years. The portion of this combined urban area residing in Goolwa is 11,578. History Before 1837 the area was briefly considered for the site of the colony's cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannum, South Australia
Mannum is a historic town on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia, east of Adelaide. At the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census, the urban area of Mannum had a population of 2,398. Mannum is the seat of the Mid Murray Council, and is situated in the state electoral district of Hammond and the federal Division of Barker. History The Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal inhabitants and traditional owners of the vicinity now called Mannum were the Nganguruku (Nganguruga), part of the larger Ngayawung community. In 1830 the Charles Sturt, Sturt expedition passed through the area by boat. No Europeans visited again until 25 January 1838 when the expedition of Dr George Imlay and John Hill (explorer), John Hill, on horseback from Adelaide, became the first to reach the Murray River, Murray overland within South Australia. They noted that the thriving Indigenous population were very keen fisherfolk. The first European settlement in the area was in 1840. The first ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echuca, Victoria
Echuca ( ) is a town on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia. The border town of Moama is adjacent on the northern side of the Murray River in New South Wales. Echuca is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Shire of Campaspe. As of the , Echuca had a population of 15,056, and the population of the combined Echuca and Moama townships was 22,568. Echuca lies within traditional Yorta Yorta country. The town's name is a Yorta Yorta word meaning "meeting of the waters". Echuca is close to the junction of the Goulburn, Campaspe, and Murray Rivers. Its position at the closest point of the Murray to Melbourne contributed to its development as a thriving river port city during the 19th century. History Origins The riverine plains of the Goulburn Broken catchment are the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta Nation. Their population before European contact is estimated to have been approximately 2400. The Yorta Yorta were dispossesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostrevor
Rostrevor () is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the foot of Slieve Martin on the coast of Carlingford Lough, near Warrenpoint. The Kilbroney River flows through the village and Rostrevor Forest is nearby. It is within Newry, Mourne and Down District. Rostrevor had a population of 2,800 in the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th Open Government Licence v3.0 © Crown copyright. Name The first part of the name "Rostrevor" comes from the Irish word ''ros'', meaning a wood or wooded headland. The second part of the name comes from Edward Trevor, Sir Edward Trevor from Denbighshire in Wales, who settled in the area in the early 17th century and was succeeded by his son Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon, Marcus Trevor, who later became Viscount Dungannon. Walter Harris, writing in 1744, mistakenly believed that the first part of the name came from Sir Edward T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magill, South Australia
Magill is a suburb of Adelaide straddling the City of Burnside and City of Campbelltown council jurisdictions, approximately 7 km from the Adelaide CBD. It incorporates the suburb previously known as Koongarra Park. History Magill was first established as the Makgill Estate, owned by two Scotsmen, Robert Cock and William Ferguson, who met en route to the newly founded colony of South Australia when sailing out from Portsmouth on . They formed a partnership as a carrier and merchant following their arrival on 28 December 1836, and purchased Section 285, which was named after Cock's trustee, David M. Makgill. The estate's homestead was built in 1838 by Ferguson, who was charged with farming the estate. Soon after farming commenced the two were short of cash, and thus Magill became the first foothill village to be subdivided. The name change from Makgill to Magill occurred in the late 1940s, for reasons unknown. Description Geographically the suburb straddles two councils, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Express And Telegraph
''The Telegraph'' was a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1862, and merged with '' The Express'' to become ''The Express and Telegraph'', published from 1867 to 1922. History ''The Adelaide Telegraph'' The Adelaide ''Telegraph'' was founded and edited by Frederick Sinnett (c. 1836 – 23 November 1866) and first published by David Gall on 15 August 1862 as an evening daily, independent of the two morning papers '' The Advertiser'' and ''The Register''. ''The Advertiser'', which was first published in 1858, retaliated in 1863 by founding its own afternoon newspaper, ''The Express'', as a competitor to ''The Telegraph''. Ebenezer Ward served as sub-editor 1863 to 1864, when he joined Finniss's Northern Territory expedition as clerk-in-charge, then returned to the ''Telegraph'' the following year after being sacked by Finniss for insubordination. Sinnett left for Melbourne in late 1865, and Ward succeeded him as both editor (briefly) and parliamentary shorth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Murchison Station
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England * Mounts, Indiana, a community in Gibson County, Indiana, United States People * Mount (surname) * William L. Mounts (1862–1929), American lawyer and politician Computing and software * Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible * Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems Displays and equipment * Mount, a fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe * Mounting board, in picture framing * Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings * Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.: ** To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display ** To p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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