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Willaston General Cemetery
The Willaston General Cemetery on Dawkins Avenue, Willaston, South Australia opened on 1 August 1866. to replace the original burial ground on Murray Street, Gawler, South Australia was made in the mid 1850s, with the headstones from the original cemetery moved to the entrance. Interments at the cemetery include:from http://adb.anu.edu.au/biographies/search/?scope=all&query=%22Willaston+Cemetery%22&x=0&y=0&rs= * Ephraim Henry Coombe, (1858–1917) journalist and politician * Leslie Duncan, (1880–1952), newspaper editor and politician * Walter Duffield, (1816–1882) miller, pastoralist and politician * Job Harris, (1840–1882) prominently associated with the discovery of gold at the Barossa Goldfields * James Martin, (1821–1899) manufacturer and politician * Frederick May, (1840–1897) engineer and manufacturer * John McKinlay John McKinlay (26 August 1819 – 31 December 1872) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willaston, South Australia
Willaston is a northern suburb northeast of the Adelaide city centre in South Australia. It is located in the Town of Gawler. History William Paxton and Samuel Stocks obtained land in the area in 1848 and 1849. After Stocks died in 1850, Paxton laid out the village called Willaston. The village may have been named after Willaston in Cheshire, due to a probable association with the Stocks family. Willaston Post Office opened on 1 November 1864. Demographics The 2006 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 3,209 persons in Willaston on census night. Of these, 47% were male and 53% were female. The majority of residents (77.4%) are of Australian birth, with an additional 11.3% declaring England as their country of birth. The average age of Willaston residents is similar to that of the greater Australian population. 67.2% of residents were over 25 years in 2006, compared to the Australian average of 66.5%; and 32.8% were younger than 25 years, compared to the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CWGC
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars. The commission is also responsible for commemorating Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action during the Second World War. The commission was founded by Sir Fabian Ware and constituted through Royal Charter in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission. The change to the present name took place in 1960. The commission, as part of its mandate, is responsible for commemorating all Commonwealth war dead individually and equally. To this end, the war dead are commemorated by a name on a headstone, at an identified site of a burial, or on a memorial. War dead are commemorated uniformly and equally, irrespective of military or civil rank, race or creed. The commission is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawler, South Australia
Gawler is the oldest country town on the Australian mainland in the state of South Australia. It was named after the second Governor (British Vice-Regal representative) of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler. It is about north of the centre of the state capital, Adelaide, and is close to the major wine producing district of the Barossa Valley. Topographically, Gawler lies at the confluence of two tributaries of the Gawler River, the North and South Para rivers, where they emerge from a range of low hills. Historically a semi-rural area, Gawler has been swept up in Adelaide's growth in recent years, and is now considered by some as an outer northern suburb of Adelaide. It is counted as a suburb in the Outer Metro region of the Greater Adelaide Planning Region. History A British colony, South Australia was established as a commercial venture by the South Australia Company through the sale of land to free settlers at £1 per acre (£2/9/5d or £2.47 per hectare). Gawl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Register
''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', and later ''South Australian Register,'' was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and folded into '' The Advertiser'' almost a century later in February 1931. The newspaper was the sole primary source for almost all information about the settlement and early history of South Australia. It documented shipping schedules, legal history and court records at a time when official records were not kept. According to the National Library of Australia, its pages contain "one hundred years of births, deaths, marriages, crime, building history, the establishment of towns and businesses, political and social comment". All issues are freely available online, via Trove. History ''The Register'' was conceived by Robert Thomas, a law stationer, who had purchased for his family of land in the proposed South Australian province after be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Duncan
Leslie Samuel Duncan (20 August 1880 – 27 February 1952) was a newspaper editor and politician in the State of South Australia. History Duncan was born in Natimuk, Victoria, a son of Andrew and Isabella Duncan. He married Mabel Jory, of the same town, in 1905. He and brother-in-law Harry Jory started in the newspaper business in Edenhope, Victoria, where they owned the ''Edenhope Chronicle'', which folded in 1908, then they established '' The Border Chronicle'' at Bordertown and ''Lawloit Times'' at Kaniva, Victoria, later owned by W. D. Curry. He disposed of the ''Border Chronicle'' to Ben L. Wilkinson and took over the ''Barossa News'', Tanunda in 1915, which he left in 1917 to take the position of managing editor of ''The Bunyip'', with which he had almost 30 years' association, during which time he revolutionised and expanded the paper's mechanical operations. He controlled ''The Bunyip'' through the Great Depression and the shortages and manpower difficulties of the Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Duffield
Walter Duffield (1816 – 5 November 1882) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial South Australia, Treasurer of South Australia 1865 to 1867. Duffield was born in Great Baddow, Essex, England, son of William Duffield, a farmer; the solicitor William Ward Duffield was a brother. Walter arrived in South Australia in the ''William Barras'' in December 1839. His first occupation was as manager for fellow-passenger Jacob Hagen's estate at Echunga, where his wine was some of the first produced in the colony. He left Echunga to build up the Para Para estate, near Gawler, and produced hams, wines and orchard fruit; he later had 40,000 Merino sheep. He started business in Gawler as a flour miller ("The Victoria Steam Flour Mill", founded by Stephen King JP) and merchant in September 1847, and, in conjunction with Harrold Brothers as Duffield, Harrold and Company (later Duffield, Harrold and Hurd), owned Weinteriga and Outalpa stations. Duffield was member for Barossa in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Job Harris
Job Harris (22 July 1840 – 12 January 1882), was a store keeper, post master, hotelier, gold miner and South Australian prominently associated with the discovery of gold at the Barossa Goldfields, the largest gold rush in the colony of South Australia. Early life Job Harris was born in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales on 22 July 1840, the eldest son of George (1810–1851) and Mary Harris (1814–1890). He had an older sister Ann (1838–1927) and four younger siblings Elizabeth (1843–1845), Hannah (1845–1868), David (1847–1885) and Benjamin George (1851–1936). The Harris family of George, Mary and four children Ann, Job, Hannah and David migrated to South Australia on the ''Providence'' which left Swansea, Wales on 24 May 1849 and arrived at Port Adelaide on 16 September 1849. George Harris was a brick maker employed at Burra. He died on 10 January 1851 while Mary was expecting their 6th child. Benjamin George Harris was born near the smelting works at Burra Burra, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Martin (South Australian Politician)
James Martin (1821 – 27 December 1899) was an industrialist and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. History James Martin was born in the hamlet of Foundry, in the parish of Stithians, Cornwall, in straitened circumstances, the seventh child of a woman whose husband had died a few months previously. He had little schooling, and after starting to earn his own money, he enrolled in night classes. He worked at the local factory making steel shovels, as a millwright in Truro's flour mills, and as a fitter in the Tresavean copper mine, where he was involved in the installation of a large mine pump and a prototype of Michael Loam's "man engine", all the time gaining practical engineering knowledge. He served as a maintenance worker at a woollens factory at Ponsanooth, where an older brother was manager. He suffered from asthma, which was exacerbated by Cornwall's climate and the atmosphere of these workplaces, and decided for his health's sake to try his l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Brothers And Company
May Brothers and Company was an engineering and manufacturing firm founded in Gawler, South Australia in 1885 by Frederick and Alfred May. History (John) Frederick May (1840 – 15 December 1897) and Alfred May (6 December 1851 – 22 September 1920) were two children in a family of nine of Perranzabuloe, Cornwall who emigrated to Adelaide, arriving in December 1858. Upon arrival, the family travelled north to the mining town of Burra, where Frederick, (then aged 18), gained employment in a copper mine with his father Henry (1818 – 16 March 1872) and two brothers, William (1838 – 8 August 1914) and Joseph (1844 – 2 November 1922). Alfred, who was only seven at the time, attended school until the age of 15 when he then began work as a "picky-boy" – a menial job involving sorting ore on the surface of the mine. Although not formally qualified in engineering, Frederick's keen interest and skill in machinery meant that he was soon promoted to the position of mine engineer, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McKinlay
John McKinlay (26 August 1819 – 31 December 1872) , Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, MUP, 1974, pp 174–176. Retrieved 2009-10-01 was a Scottish-born Australian explorer and cattle grazier, and leader of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmond Walter New
Esmond can refer to: People * Annie Esmond (1873–1945), British film actress *Burton D. Esmond (1870–1944), American lawyer, politician * Carl Esmond (1902–2004), Austrian actor * Henry V. Esmond (1869–1922), English actor, playwright * James Esmond (1822–1890), Irish-Australian gold prospector * Jill Esmond (1908–1990), English actress * Jimmy Esmond (1889–1948), American professional baseball player Literary characters * ''The History of Henry Esmond'', 1852 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray Places * Esmond, Illinois * Esmond, North Dakota * Esmond, Rhode Island * Esmond, South Dakota Esmond is an unincorporated community in Kingsbury County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. History Esmond was originally called Sana, and under the latter name was platted in 1883. It was renamed Esmond in 1884, some say, after the novel ''The ... * Esmond, Victoria, Australia {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1862 Establishments In Australia
Year 186 (Roman numerals, CLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Glabrio (or, less frequently, year 939 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 186 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Peasants in Gaul stage an anti-tax uprising under Maternus (rebel), Maternus. * Roman governor Pertinax escapes an assassination attempt, by British usurpers. New Zealand * The Hatepe eruption, Hatepe volcanic eruption extends Lake Taupō and makes skies red across the world. However, recent radiocarbon dating by R. Sparks has put the date at 233 AD ± 13 (95% confidence). Births * Ma Liang (Three Kingdoms), Ma Liang, Chinese official of the Shu Han state (d. 222) Deaths * April 21 – Apolloniu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
