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Robert F. Macgeorge
Robert Forsyth Macgeorge (1796 – 26 October 1859) was an early settler of South Australia who is remembered for founding the property which is now the Adelaide suburb of Urrbrae. A number of his children were prominent in the early history of South Australia and other Australian colonies. History Robert Forsyth Macgeorge, a tailor of Glasgow, and his wife Elizabeth M. Macgeorge, née Duncan (1801–) and their family emigrated to South Australia aboard the ''Ariadne'', arriving on 13 August 1839. They developed the property they named "Urr brae", now known as Urrbrae. R. F. Macgeorge took over Shepherd's draper's shop on Hindley Street. On what was intended as a visit to the "Old Country", he narrowly avoided being involved in the ''Admella'' disaster, then perished when the ''Royal Charter'' was wrecked. Family Their children included: *John MacGeorge (1821 – 1 January 1844) died from tuberculosis *Robert Forsyth Macgeorge, Jnr (1822 – 17 September 1917) married Emily Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hardey Faulding
F. H. Faulding & Co was a pharmaceutical company founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1845 by Francis Hardey Faulding (23 August 1816 – 19 November 1868), a native of Swinefleet, near Goole in Yorkshire, son of Francis Faulding, a surgeon.A. F. Scammell'Faulding, Francis Hardey (1816–1868)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 159–160. History Francis Hardey Faulding arrived in Sydney on the ''Nabob'' in February 1842,F H Faulding South Australian Medical Heritage Society Inc, www.samhs.org.au in the midst of an economic slump. He travelled on the brig ''Dorset'' to in May, where he weathered the slump, and open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
