Felixstow is a suburb of
Adelaide, situated in the
City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is located approximately from the
Adelaide city centre.
It was reportedly named by
Thomas Stow
Thomas Quinton Stow (7 July 1801 – 19 July 1862), generally referred to as the Rev. T. Q. Stow, but also as Quinton Stow, was an Australian pioneer Congregational minister.
Brian L. Jones,Stow, Thomas Quinton (1801 - 1862), '' Australian Dicti ...
, who had been the first European to take up pastoral duties in the area, by combining the
Latin word for "happy" with the
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
word for "place". His son,
Augustine Stow
Augustine Stow, J.P., (3 August 1833 – 29 May 1903)
was a politician in colonial South Australia, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for West Torrens from November 1862 to 1864, and for Flinders from October 1866 to 1868.
St ...
, later had a vineyard at Felixstow.
Felixstow Post Office opened as
Hectorville Post Office
Hectorville is a small suburb of Adelaide in the City of Campbelltown. It is one of eight suburbs within the City of Campbelltown. The public primary school, East Torrens Primary and Catholic primary school, St Joseph's School, Hectorville, is ...
on 1 July 1882 and was renamed
Felixstow Post Office on 15 August 1963.
The historic
Forsyth House Forsyth may refer to:
Places Oceania
* Forsyth Island, Queensland, Australia, one of the West Wellesley Islands (aka Forsyth Islands)
* Forsyth Island, Tasmania, Australia
* Forsyth Island (New Zealand), in the outer Marlborough Sounds of South Is ...
(now the Aldersgate Nursing Home) is listed on the
South Australian Heritage Register.
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
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