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Argent Rita

2026-08-11T08:58:10Z

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Rita Argent was born on 16 August 1931 at the Hutchinson Hospital Gawler when her family was living at Wasleys.

She attended the Wasleys Primary School and Riverton District High School.

On completion of her High School Education she completed two years training in General Nursing at the Hutchinson Hospital Gawler and a further two years at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

She later gained her Certificate in Midwifery at the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital Rose Park South Australia.

As a Nursing Sister, Rita served on the staff of Hutchinson Hospital Gawler and Hamley Bridge Memorial Hospital.

She was also Tutor Sister at Hutchinson Hospital Gawler and
Kapunda Hospital.

In 1977 Rita founded the Gawler Care and Share Group a day care activity for frail and ageing people and younger people with a disability and served as co-ordinator for thirty three years, prior to retiring in 2010. The organisation commented "''Rita ran a well groomed team of volunteers and staff for many years and her legacy is cemented in everything we do. Rita had a love for people to remain socially connected from the Gawler and surrounding areas.''"<ref>Gawler Care and Share Group Inc (7 Aug 2026) On behalf of Gawler Care And Share we would like to acknowledge the passing of Rita Argent on the 2nd of August. [Facebook.]https://www.facebook.com/gawlercareandshare/posts/pfbid02cGtHHWcHZsEorpyrMwQNVSwJ2wVUvzvQZkn3wpHaCRRN9UfzwKuZaUiDjtoNeiDWl</ref>

In 1985 she received a Gawler Australia Day Citizen of the Year Award for her contribution to Gawler Care and Share Group.

In 2003 she received the Centenary of Federation Medal awarded by the Australian Government for Service to the Community.

Rita spent several years as Staff worker with Nurses Christian Fellowship Australia in South Australia, which was previously named Australian Nurses Christian Movement.

She was also a Lay Preacher in the Uniting Church, South Australia.

Rita passed away on 2 August 2026, aged 94.<ref>Taylor & Forgie Funeral Directors (2026) Notices and Streams [Online accessed 11 Aug 2026] https://www.taylorandforgie.com.au/notices-and-streams</ref>

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157711823792186 Click here for photos]
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Bevan Medhurst Llewelyn Willett

2026-08-11T08:24:07Z

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157645394801002 Click here] for an album of photos.

Medhurst Llewelyn Willett Bevan was born in Shanghai, China on 3rd March 1903 to Hopkin Llewelyn Willet Bevan and Beatrice Vale Bevan.

He came to South Australia around 1909 where his father Hopkin was the [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Minister in Gawler]] [May 1919-1933], also serving the Sandy Creek parishioners.
Llewelyn graduated from [[Gawler High School]] in 1924 [1925<ref>'Gawler High School - Annual Speech Day' (Bunyip 18 Dec 1925) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96633813</ref>], having attained Dux of the School that year. After attaining Leaving Honours at Adelaide High School, he studied Law at Adelaide University to obtain his degree on 9th November 1931. He obtained Articles with Baker McEwin shortly after and practised with them for several years before joining the Advertiser as a full-time Court Reporter until 1959. He was then appointed Supreme Court Librarian until he retired in 1968 at age 65.

His Christian name Medhurst was after the college in Shanghai where his father was Principal and he was born and named Llewelyn after his father and grandfather. Willett is a family name. He was not keen to be called L’ew and most in the family called him his full name of Llewelyn.

It is believed that he and his parents lived in the Congregational Manse in Gawler [19 Cowan Street] until his father retired; after which his father and mother went to Victoria where her family lived. [Rev Hopkin L W Bevan actually died 28 Dec 1933, in a private hospital in North Adelaide following a short illness - her served as Gawler Congregational Church Minister until that time - his widow must have moved after he died.]

He and his wife Margaret (nee Stevens) lived in Colonel Light Gardens and then shifted to Hawker’s Road, Medindie. They had a son and 3 daughters. The family then shifted to Mt Lofty in 1952 where Llewelyn died on 16 August 1978. Margaret died some years later.

Compiled by his second daughter Triss (now Wales) - Triss being an abbreviation of Beatrice.
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Paternoster's Crystal Pool

2026-08-09T10:40:32Z

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Walter (Wally) Paternoster built the Crystal Pool in 1932, on his land adjacent to [[Penrith Avenue Para Para Mansion|Para Para Estate]]. It was quite an innovative undertaking at the time, which proved to be extremely popular. He also added a skating rink/tennis court, change sheds, a kiosk and seating to accommodate 200 people. Skates could be hired from the kiosk, which also sold drinks, ice-cream, sweets and biscuits.

Paternoster's Crystal Pool was officially opened on Oct 29 1932. A crowd of 600 attended. Pat's pool, as it was known, was the venue for the Gawler Amateur Swimming Club's competitions, Swimming Carnivals, and State championships. The Advertiser "Learn to swim" campaign was held at the pool in Feb 1936 and Gawler Primary School held their Swimming Carnivals there, 250 children taking part in the one on 16th December 1938.<ref>J S Clark (1978) One Hundred Years of Gawler Primary School 1878-1978, Gawler Primary School, Gawler. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4EjkA7CXbhAQWdLVmJrR1Q4d1U</ref>The skating rink was also used as a dance floor for Open Air dances, which were held regularly during the summer months, attracting hundreds.

A Melbourne Cup Ball, with full orchestra, was held in Nov 1933, with an attendance of 1,000 people. The cement floor was surfaced with a glass like finish. Lights were erected around the pool for night time swimming, which was also very popular, and people would be swimming at the same time as the dances were being held. According to ads in the Advertiser, dances were held at Paternoster's Amusement Centre.

Many local school children learnt to swim at Pat's pool during the 30s and 40s, as part of their school curriculum. Most of Gawler's baby boomer generation would remember the long trek to Pat's pool in their younger days. By the mid to late 50s the pool had gone into decline, and was closed permanently a couple of years or so before the new swimming pool was built.

Have a look at more photos of Paternoster's Pool by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157629604228908 clicking here.]

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t46sIGz7_J3T34GOYtfOLIj27BDiXAxy Please Click Here to read the 48 pages of "My Memories of Gawler - 1923+" - by Colin Hillier] - page 18.
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Gawler Primary School Nixon Terrace

2026-08-09T10:34:52Z

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Gawler Primary School, originally known as Gawler Public School and Gawler Model School, is a state school, it opened on 24 January 1878.<ref name=":0">'Opening of the Gawler Public School' (The Express and Telegraph 25 Jan 1978) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207643343</ref> It was one of the first eight model schools in South Australia. The school was designed by South Australia's Colonial Architect, Edward Woods and the foundation-stone of was laid by Sir W

W Cairns, Governor, on the occasion of his first visit to Gawler, on the 12 April 1977<ref name=":0" />. The school is located on the edge of the historic Church Hill State Heritage Area of Gawler. The Gothic-styled bluestone main building and the original headmaster's residence (added in 1881) .

On February 18th, 1876, it was announced that a Model School would be built in Gawler [Gawler Model School]. This announcement followed a visit to Gawler by the Hon. E. Ward, Minister of Education at the time, and Mr. J. A. Hartley the Director of Education. On December 8th of the same year, the tender of [[Tardif (Cr) William|Mr William Tardif]] for the building of the new school was accepted. the contract price being £4,695. Nowadays this school would cost in the vicinity of a million dollars.

On April 12th, 1877 the Foundation Stone of the School was laid by the Mayor, the Hon. James Martin, in the presence of the Governor of South Australia, Sir W. W. Cairns. lt is obvious that Mr. Martin was held in very high esteem for although the Governor was present, Mr. Martin was chosen to perform this ceremony. He had opened his foundry in 1848 and had been a Member of Parliament as well as Mayor. The eventual cost of the building was £4,93 1.18.0 and accommodation was provided for 600 children.

The school was eventually opened on January 24th,1878, in the presence of the Minister of Education Sir Arthur Blyth and the President of the Council of Education, Mr. J. A. Hartley.

An official luncheon was held at one of the local hotels, and we can be sure that the new building was toasted by those present, for it was a real red-letter day for Gawler.

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[https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4EjkA7CXbhAQWdLVmJrR1Q4d1U Click here] to read 'One Hundred Years of Gawler Primary School' by J.S. Clark.<ref>J S Clark (1978) One Hundred Years of Gawler Primary School 1878-1978, Gawler Primary School, Gawler. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4EjkA7CXbhAQWdLVmJrR1Q4d1U</ref>

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157629783365525/ Click here] to view photos of Gawler Primary School.

=== Memories of Gawler Primary School ===

* In her '[[Gawler Memories 1901 to 2001]]', Beatrice 'Trix' McConnell, recalls her time at the 'Public School' (probably c1915), "under the care of such dedicated teachers as the Misses Ada and Daisy Finch" and states “The hero of our school days was Mr Bruin, [sic] who was killed in the first world war.” <ref>Beatrice E McConnell (2001) [[Gawler Memories 1901 to 2001|"Gawler Memories 1901 to 2001"]], pg 8.</ref> Ernest Otto Alfred Bruns was a teacher at the Gawler Public School for two years (c1912-1914) before resigning to enter the defence service.<ref>LIEUTENANT BRUNS (Daily Herald 17 May 1915) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134409254</ref> (see [[ANZACs and other WWI Personnel]])
* To read "Memories of life in Gawler with special reference to school years 1944-1954" by Terry Krieg please [https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=69522134@N06&q=krieg%20terry click here]

=== Travelling to School ===
Whilst many children would have walked to school, in the past horses also played an important role:

* c1909 - Clethra Payne and her sisters (daughters of [[Payne William Gilbert|William Gilbert Payne]]), lived about a mile [1.6 km] from the school at their family's home [[Barnet Road 44|Orange Grove]] Evanston, a horse cart would be sent to meet them at the Duck Flat Swing Bridge at lunchtime, take them home for hot dinner and then return them to school!<ref>Clethra Spilsbury nee Payne (1987) Family History & Recollections – Unpublished (from the collection of Miriam Smith nee Cheek – Clethra’s niece)(Gratitude from GHT for access to this resource & to the late Clethra Spilsbury for recording her recollections, aged 84)</ref>
* c1937-1940s - Dawn Lehmann (later [[Schultz Dawn|Dawn Schultz]]) used to ride her horse about 6 miles [9.7 km] from her family's farm [[Para Glen Farm|Para Glen]] at Kalbeeba, leave it at the [[Exchange Hotel Murray Street 155|Exchange Hotel]] stables and then carry on to the school on foot.

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Lutheran Worship Education and Fellowship

2026-08-09T10:22:30Z

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157644600940215 Click here] to view an album relating to Lutheran Worship, Education and Fellowship.

=== Lutheran Worship ===
In 2025, the Gawler Lutheran Church celebrated 175 years of Lutheran Worship. Over the years, Lutheran places of worship in and near Gawler have included:
* Buchfelde (Gawler River)
* Willaston - the home of [[Kurtz Johann Wilhelm|Johann Willhelm Kurtz]] (this may have been his residence at [[Main Street 23 Willaston|23 Main Street Willaston]] or an earlier Willaston residence)
* [[Primitive Methodist Church cnr Finniss & Dundas Sts|The Little Glory Primitive Methodist Church]] - 18 Finniss Street
* [[Zion Lutheran Church]] - 31 Finniss Street
* [[Warren Street 7|North Gawler Lutheran Church - 7 Warren Street]] (former church, now residence)
* [[Immanuel Lutheran Church]] - Cnr Second Street & Seventh Street
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ax-qzMYX9kDezEYDtE47y4KqKsgRxEn/view?usp=sharing Click here] to read [[Fielke Robert (Bob)|Bob Fielke]]'s (2021) 'History of Lutheran Places of Worship In and Near Gawler', which outlines the history from the first worshippers at Buchfelde in 1850.<ref name=":0">Bob Fielke (7 Jun 2021) 'History of Lutheran Places of Worship In and Near Gawler' as collated Bob Fielke for the Board of Administration of the Gawler Lutheran Church, Gawler Lutheran Church.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ax-qzMYX9kDezEYDtE47y4KqKsgRxEn/view</ref>

[[History of the site and buildings of the ZION WORSHIP Centre in the Gawler Church Hill State Heritage Area by Robert J. Fielke|Click here]] to read [[Fielke Robert (Bob)|'Bob' Robert J Fielke]]'s (2024) 'History of the site and buildings of the Zion Worship Centre in Gawler Church Hill State Heritage Area', which includes the history of the Education Centre (originally Hylands House, then served for some time as Lutheran Manse), Zion Lutheran Church, Zion Lutheran Hall, Zion Preschool Centre and Zion Lutheran Manse.<ref name=":1">Robert J Fielke's (2024) 'History of the site and buildings of the Zion Worship Centre in Gawler Church Hill State Heritage Area', Gawler Lutheran Church.</ref>

=== Lutheran Education ===
The first Lutheran school in Gawler, the Lutheran Day School, opened in 1928, across [[Dundas Street]] from the [[Zion Lutheran Church]], in the former [[Primitive Methodist Church cnr Finniss & Dundas Sts|Primitive Methodist Church]] (originally built as a Primitive Methodist Church, it had become the Lutheran's "Little Glory" Church prior to the opening of the [[Zion Lutheran Church]] in 1922). The teacher was Mr H. McKenzie and there is a [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6650779709 1936 photo of him with a class.] In 1936 the Lutheran School also took over the running of the Gawler Grammar School, which was operating from Murray Street on the corner of Walker Place (the former Gawler School of Mines and Industries Building - contemporary address 56 Murray Street). - they "''appointed a fully qualified Teacher to carry on the School as previously.''"<ref>"The Gawler Grammar School" (Bunyip 17 Jan 1936) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96661002</ref> (see [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/37657110826 photo of 1936 class outside this building]). Not all children from the Grammar School continued there following the Lutheran take over, some transferred to the public Gawler Primary School causing an influx of enrolments.<ref>J S Clark (1978) One Hundred Years of Gawler Primary School 1878-1978, Gawler Primary School, Gawler.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4EjkA7CXbhAQWdLVmJrR1Q4d1U</ref> The Lutheran Day School ceased operating in 1941.

In the early 1970’s the need for a Lutheran School in Gawler was again raised in the Lutheran Parish. This interest culminated in the Parish establishing the Lutheran Kindergarten, known as the Zion Pre-school Centre and situated next to the Zion Lutheran Church at 24 Cowan Street, Gawler. It opened in 1979 with Mrs Raelene Materne as the Director, and rapidly expanded from 10 students in March 1979 to 50 students in October 1980.<ref>"Zion Centre's Rapid Growth" (Bunyip 8 Oct 1980) https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/30517032726</ref> [In 2025 the Zion Preschool relocated to a newly redeveloped building at 5 East Terrace Gawler East, adjoining the Immanuel Lutheran School site].

In October 1982, about 30 members of the Lutheran Parish attended a meeting to assess the possibility of a Lutheran Primary School being established in Gawler. A feasibility study was recommended. At the Parish AGM in November 1982, the proposal for a feasibility study was endorsed and a committee was elected; Bob Fielke as Chairman and Roy Bell as research officer. Other members were Pam Krieg, Alan Humphrys, Colin Kroschel, Pastor Sander and Pastor Goldhardt. The Committee reported to the Parish meeting of the 16th October, 1983 and the meeting voted 103 out of the 117 present in favour of establishing the school. An Establishment Committee was elected; Bob Fielke was Chairman, Roy Bell was Secretary, with Committee members Howard Wittwer, Terry Krieg, Ray Noack, Doris Leske, Christine Rosenzweig, Mark Jaescke, Pastor Sander and Pastor Goldhardt. Max Ronan and Pastor Bergen joined the Committee later. The [[Immanuel Lutheran School]] commenced with 38 students in 1985 in the old Catholic School [corner Cowan and Porter Streets, Gawler] with Roy Bell as the first Principal. In 1986, the school moved to the [[Lyndoch Road 11|11 Lyndoch Road]] site, which was first used by the [[Gawler High School]] and the Gawler Technical School from 1915. From 1964 to 1985, it was the home of the [[Gawler East Primary School]]. Following negotiations with the Minister of Education that site was transferred to the Gawler Lutheran Parish for the Immanuel Lutheran School, which commenced there in February, 1986 with 66 students, with plans to grow to 200 students. In 2012 more than 350 students attended with plans to extend to 400 students.

''Compiled by [[Fielke Robert (Bob)|Robert Fielke]] Dec 2012 (with later additions by Gawler History Team)''

=== Lutheran Fellowship ===
In addition to worship and education, Gawler's Lutheran community have also joined together socially.

Gawler Lutheran Netball club first played in 1945 (see article commemorating their [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/15554518076 50th anniversary in 1995]) and as of 2026 are still going (see their website [https://lutherannetballgdna.wixsite.com/website?fbclid=IwAR3hTj8xTDpzZvA5cSsc4u826oxrAub5OI6nw0HIcfrWe1_XEYQaBRFFj8s Lutheran Netball Club]).

In 1953 tenders were called for the construction of a Zion Lutheran Hall.<ref>"Tenders" (Bunyip 27 Nov 1953) https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55347952286 </ref> The Zion Lutheran Hall, which faces Finniss Street, was built in 1954, with the foundation stone laid on 9 May 1954.<ref name=":1" /> As of 2026, it continues to be used by Gawler Lutheran Church and the community. Circa 1965 it was the site of Gawler Lutheran Society Socials, which were held on the first Saturday of every month by the South Australian Leaguers. Bands providing the music included The Hijoys, The Moonlight Ramblers, and The Country Stylers. About 200 people attended the social held on the 6th November 1965. [see photos [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6773923076 Lutheran Society Social c1965]]

=== Other Links ===
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vZgZTgG7xXYYhPLZLIrDTsXx89DRFT_V/view?usp=sharing Click here] to view a Bunyip article (13 Jan 2021) regarding Pastor Geoff Havelberg retiring after 35 years.{{Info}}
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Bevan Medhurst Llewelyn Willett

2026-08-09T05:51:11Z

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157645394801002 Click here] for an album of photos.

Medhurst Llewelyn Willett Bevan was born in Shanghai, China on 3rd March 1903 to Hopkin Llewelyn Willet Bevan and Beatrice Vale Bevan.

He came to South Australia around 1909 where his father Hopkin was the [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Minister in Gawler]] [May 1919-1933], also serving the Sandy Creek parishioners.
Llewelyn graduated from [[Gawler High School]] in 1924 [1925<ref>'Gawler High School - Annual Speech Day' (Bunyip 18 Dec 1925) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96633813</ref>], having attained Dux of the School that year. After attaining Leaving Honours at Adelaide High School, he studied Law at Adelaide University to obtain his degree on 9th November 1931. He obtained Articles with Baker McEwin shortly after and practised with them for several years before joining the Advertiser as a full-time Court Reporter until 1959. He was then appointed Supreme Court Librarian until he retired in 1968 at age 65.

His Christian name Medhurst was after the college in Shanghai where his father was Principal and he was born and named Llewelyn after his father and grandfather. Willett is a family name. He was not keen to be called L’ew and most in the family called him his full name of Llewelyn.

It is believed that he and his parents lived in the Congregational Manse in Gawler [19 Cowan Street] until his father retired; after which his father and mother went to Victoria where her family lived. [Rev Hopkin L W Bevan actually died 28 Dec 1933, in a private hospital in North Adelaide following a short illness - her served as Gawler Congregational Church Minister until that time - his widow must have moved after he died.]

He and his wife Margaret (nee Stevens) lived in Colonel Light Gardens and then shifted to Hawker’s Road, Medindie. They had a son and 3 daughters. The family then shifted to Mt Lofty in 1952 where Llewelyn died on 16 August 1978. Margaret died some years later.

Compiled by his second daughter Triss (now Wales) - Triss being an abbreviation of Beatrice.

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Bevan Medhurst Llewelyn Willett

2026-08-09T05:29:10Z

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157645394801002 Click here] for an album of photos.

Medhurst Llewelyn Willett Bevan was born in Shanghai, China on 3rd March 1903 to Hopkin Llewelyn Willet Bevan and Beatrice Vale Bevan.

He came to South Australia around 1909 where his father Hopkin was the [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Minister in Gawler]] [May 1919-1933], also serving the Sandy Creek parishioners.
Llewelyn graduated from [[Gawler High School]] in 1924 [1925<ref>'Gawler High School - Annual Speech Day' (Bunyip 18 Dec 1925) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96633813</ref>], having attained Dux of the School that year. After attaining Leaving Honours at Adelaide High School, he studied Law at Adelaide University to obtain his degree on 9th November 1931. He obtained Articles with Baker McEwin shortly after and practised with them for several years before joining the Advertiser as a full-time Court Reporter until 1959. He was then appointed Supreme Court Librarian until he retired in 1968 at age 65.

His Christian name Medhurst was after the college in Shanghai where his father was Principal and he was born and named Llewelyn after his father and grandfather. Willett is a family name. He was not keen to be called L’ew and most in the family called him his full name of Llewelyn.

It is believed that he and his parents lived in the Congregational Manse in Gawler [19 Cowan Street] until his father retired; after which his father and mother went to Victoria where her family lived. [Rev Hopkin L W Bevan actually died 28 Dec 1933, in a private hospital in North Adelaide following a short illness - her served as Gawler Congregational Church Minister until that time - his widow must have moved after he died.]

He and his wife Margaret (nee Stevens) lived in Colonel Light Gardens and then shifted to Hawker’s Road, Medindie. They had a son and 3 daughters. The family then shifted to Mt Lofty in 1952 where Llewelyn died on 16 August 1978. Margaret died some years later.

Compiled by his second daughter Triss (now Wales) - Triss being an abbreviation of Beatrice.

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Development Plan - State Heritage Places

2026-08-08T12:49:50Z

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| Ice Works & Office ([[James Martin Phoenix Foundry Site|Phoenix Foundry]])
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804252613/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1 Cameron Street]
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20917499880 18 Cameron Street]
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21095513832 22 Cameron Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 33
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804251853/in/set-72157629136651911/ 24 Cameron Street] || Dwelling || Lot 2
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804251985/in/set-72157629136651911/ 28 Cameron Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 38
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804252727/in/set-72157629136651911/ 3 Cameron Street] || Dwelling || Lot 37
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804252307/in/set-72157629136651911/ 32 Cameron Street] || Dwelling || Lot 253
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804250455/in/set-72157629136651911/ Cowan Street] || Sunday School || LOT: 99 SEC: 1
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20895345159 Cowan Street] || [[St. George’s Anglican Church|St George's Anglican Church]] || Sec 24 Lot 35
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804252881/in/set-72157629136651911/ 15 Cowan Street] || [[Taylor and Forgie|Funeral Parlour]] || LOT: 66 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| 16 Cowan Street || Reserve || Lot 213
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| 17 Cowan Street || Office || Sec 1
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| 17 Cowan Street || Home Unit || Sec 2
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804253545/in/set-72157629136651911/ 18 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 49 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804253017/in/set-72157629136651911/ 19 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 21
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804262809/in/set-72157629136651911/ 20 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 48
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804253205/in/set-72157629136651911/ 21 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 846
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804250315/in/set-72157629136651911/ 22 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 47 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804253357/in/set-72157629136651911/ 23 Cowan Street] || [[Court House 23 Cowan Street|Court House]] || Lot 2
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804250761/in/set-72157629136651911/ 24 Cowan Street] || Kindergarten || LOT: 42 SEC: 42
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804256721/in/set-72157629136651911/ 25 Cowan Street] || [[Gawler Police Station - 25 Cowan Street|Police Station]] || Lot 1
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804250939/in/set-72157629136651911/ 26 Cowan Street] || St George's Anglican Church Hall || Sec 24 Lot 7
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804251109/in/set-72157629136651911/ 28 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 100
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804253757/in/set-72157629136651911 29 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 50 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804251457/in/set-72157629136651911/ 30 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 1 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804253923/in/set-72157629136651911/ 31 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 51
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804251281/in/set-72157629136651911/ 32 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 36
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804256549/ 32 Cowan Street] || Land || Sec 24 Lot 34
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20484514293 32 Cowan Street] || Land || Lot 25
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804254103/in/set-72157629136651911/ 33 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 52
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804256439/in/set-72157629136651911/ 34 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 24 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804254287/in/set-72157629136651911/ 35 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 19
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804256333/in/set-72157629136651911/ 36 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 22
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20918792339 36 Cowan Street] || || Sec 24 Lot 23
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20918792339 36 Cowan Street] || || Sec 24 Lot 27
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20917498960/in/photostream/ 37 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 53 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804256153/in/set-72157629136651911/ 38 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 21
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804255975/in/set-72157629136651911/ 40 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 4 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804261413/in/set-72157629136651911/ 41 Cowan Street] || Tennis Courts || Lot 128
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804255853/in/set-72157629136651911/ 42 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 19
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20482981284 42 Cowan Street] || || Sec 24 Lot 20
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| 45 Cowan Street || Playground || Sec 24 Lot 39
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804254455/in/set-72157629136651911/ 49 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 29
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804254863/in/set-72157629136651911/ 51 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 30
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804255067/in/set-72157629136651911/ 53 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 13
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804255265/in/set-72157629136651911/ 55 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 12
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804255383/in/set-72157629136651911/ 57 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 31
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804255551/in/set-72157629136651911/ 59 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 136
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804255709/in/set-72157629136651911/ 61 Cowan Street] || Dwelling || Lot 137
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804260943/in/set-72157629136651911/ 8 Cowan Street] || Former St Andrew's Presbyterian Church || Lot 3, Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804260771/in/set-72157629136651911/ 10 Cowan Street] || [[Bushman Hotel 10 Cowan Street|Old Bushman Hotel]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804261251/in/set-72157629136651911/ 11 Dawkins Avenue, Willaston] || Willaston Cemetery || Sec 463 HD Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/7364134132/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1-13 Deland Avenue, Gawler East] || [[Trevu House]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804262377/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1 Duffield Street, Gawler East] || [[Martindale]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804261101/in/set-72157629136651911/ 9 Dundas Street] || Dwelling ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/7178876307/in/set-72157629136651911 25-27 Eighteenth Street, Gawler South] || [[Overway Hotel 27 Eighteenth Street|Railway Hotel]] ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/24001706299 13 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Lot 33
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804256843/in/set-72157629136651911/ 15 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 64
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804256951/in/set-72157629136651911/ 20 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Lot 97
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804257105/in/set-72157629136651911/ 22 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 98
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804257235/in/set-72157629136651911/ 23 Finniss Street] || Church || LOT: 99 SEC:1
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804257515/in/set-72157629136651911/ 26 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 3 TYP: A
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804257793/in/set-72157629136651911/ 28 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Lot 69
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20894056998/in/photostream/ 32 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 3 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804258173/in/set-72157629136651911/ 35 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 61
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21071914352/in/album-72157629136651911/ 36 Finniss Street]] || Dwelling || Sec 24
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20894056998/in/photostream/ 36 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 2
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21071914352/in/photostream/ 36 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 3
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804260619/in/set-72157629136651911/ 37 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 62
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804258311/in/set-72157629136651911/ 38 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 54 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804260393/in/set-72157629136651911/ 39 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Lot 63
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20893870780/in/photostream/ 39 Finniss Street] || || Lot 26
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804259801/in/set-72157629136651911/ 40 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Lot 55
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804260167/in/set-72157629136651911/ 41 Finniss Street] || Dwelling - Mrs Broderick’s Tuckshop || Sec 24 Lot 2
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804258455/in/set-72157629136651911/ 42 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 17 TYP: A
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804259983/in/set-72157629136651911/ 43 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 1
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804258603/in/set-72157629136651911/ 44 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 60 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804259649/in/set-72157629136651911/ 45 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 64
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804258785/in/set-72157629136651911/ 46 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 57
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804259491/in/set-72157629136651911/ 47 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 65
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804258927/in/set-72157629136651911/ 48 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 58
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804259367/in/set-72157629136651911/ 49 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 66 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804259097/in/set-72157629136651911/ 50 Finniss Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 59 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| 21a High Street || Office (Phoenix Foundry) ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804261595/in/set-72157629136651911/ 43 Jacob Street] || Dwelling || Lot 68
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804261741/in/set-72157629136651911/ 53 Jacob Street] || Dwelling|| Lot 56
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804261881/in/set-72157629136651911/ 20 Jerningham Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 2
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6804262079/in/set-72157629136651911/ 22 Jerningham Street] || Land || LOT: 1 SEC: 24
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21421849512 24 Jerningham Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 252
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439676565/in/set-72157629136651911/ Julian Terrace/Bridge Street South] || Gawler Mill (former Union Mill and Office) || Lot 3-4
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/10665499883/in/set-72157629136651911/ 12 King Street] || "Hemingby" Cottage ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/10665498683/in/set-72157629136651911/ 12a King Street] || "Hemingby" Cottage ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8440767038/in/set-72157629136651911 16 King Street] || "Hemingby" Cottage ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439676117/in/set-72157629136651911/ Light Square] || Stone Barn adjacent Old Bushman Hotel Property || Lot 5
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439676051/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Lot 2
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21441210911 10 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Lot 2
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675969/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1a Moore Street] || Baptist Church, former Congregational Church || Lot 111, Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675843/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1a Moore Street] || Former Congregational Church (1851) || Lot 111, Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675751/in/set-72157629136651911/ 2 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Lot 65
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8440766436/in/set-72157629136651911/ 3 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 44
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8440766380/in/set-72157629136651911/ 4 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 61
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675577/in/set-72157629136651911/ 5 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Lot 1
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/11922825875/ 5 Moore Street] || || Lot 3
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21918032423 6 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Lot 43
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| 6 Moore Street || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 60
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675545/in/set-72157629136651911/ 7 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 45
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675477/in/set-72157629136651911/ 8 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Lot 2
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21406528566 8 Moore Street] || || Lot 3
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675421/in/set-72157629136651911/ 9 Moore Street] || Dwelling || Lot 46
|-
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8440765556/in/set-72157629136651911/ Murray Street] || [[McKinlay Monument|McKinlay Memorial]] (Monument & Garden - McKinlay Memorial & Pioneer Park) ||
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| 146/150 Murray Street || Shops ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8440765678/in/set-72157629136651911/ 152 Murray Street] || Shop ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674817/in/set-72157629136651911/ 154 Murray Street] || Shop ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675333/in/set-72157629136651911/ 18 Murray Street] || [[Gawler Baptist Church|Baptist Church]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8440766110/in/set-72157629136651911/ 2 Murray Street] || E & WS Depot ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340793011/in/photostream/ 25 Murray Street] || [[Rudall and Rudall, 25 Murray Street|Professional Offices]] ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/21080008736 30-32 Murray Street] || [[Kingsford Hotel 32 Murray Street|Kingsford Hotel]] ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20372439470 33 Murray Street] || [[Bank SA Building, 33 Murray Street|Bank]] ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20566837341 59 Murray Street] || Telegraph Station (museum) ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20534164086 61 Murray Street] || Post Office Building ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/20373664079 66 Murray Street] || [[NAB Building, 66 Murray Street|Bank]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675247/in/set-72157629136651911/ 77-79 Murray Street] || [[Old Spot Hotel 77 Murray Street|Old Spot Hotel]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439675183/in/set-72157629136651911/ 89 Murray Street] || Town Hall ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8440765772/in/set-72157629136651911/ 91 Murray Street] || Institute ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674985/in/set-72157629136651911/ 93 Murray Street] || [[ANZ Building, 93 Murray Street|Bank]] ||
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| 98-100 Murray Street || [[Essex House, 98 Murray Street|Essex House]] ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19937865604 1-13 Nixon Terrace] || [[Gawler Primary School Nixon Terrace|Primary School]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674655/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1 Parnell Street] || Dwelling || Lot 15
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| 1 Parnell Street || || Lot 16
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674607/in/set-72157629136651911/ 1-11 Parnell Street] || Roman Catholic presbytery, outbuildings & walls || Lots 138, 139 Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/7506630650/in/set-72157629136651911/ Penrith Avenue], Gawler West || House "Para Para" and Outbuildings ||
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| 3 Porter Street || || Lot 91
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674317/in/set-72157629136651911/ 4-6 Porter Street] || Former Good Samaritan Convent || Lot 10 Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674261/in/set-72157629136651911/ 6a Porter Street] || Former St Joseph's Convent || Lot 10, Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674433/in/set-72157629136651911/ 3-7 Porter Street] || Former Roman Catholic school || Lot 67, Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8439674177/in/set-72157629136651911/ 8 Porter Street] || St Peter & St Paul Roman Catholic Church || Sec 24 Hd Mudla Wirra
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9343580614/in/photostream/ 10 Queen Street] || Dwelling || Lot 1
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340793647/in/photostream/ 12 Queen Street] || Dwelling || Sec 24 Lot 54
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340793783/in/photostream/ 14 Queen Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 2 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340794007/in/photostream/ 15 Queen Street] || Dwelling || Lot 3
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9343581116/in/photostream/ 17 Queen Street] || Dwelling || Lot 1
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340793151/in/photostream/ 4 Queen Street] || Dwelling || Lot 56
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340793401/in/photostream/ 6 Queen Street] || Dwelling || LOT: 55 TYP: A SEC: 24
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340793489/in/photostream/ 8 Queen Street] || Dwelling || Lot 2
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340794245/in/photostream/ 11 Railway Terrace,] Gawler West || [[Railway Terrace 11|House]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9343581690/in/photostream/ 1 Scheibener Terrace], Gawler || House ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340794769/in/photostream/ 8-10 Seventh Street], Gawler South || Former Gas Works ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340795469/in/photostream/ 6 Sixteenth Street], Gawler South || ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9343582484/in/photostream/ 2-6 Sunnydale Avenue], Gawler East || Wheatsheaf Hotel ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9343582580/in/photostream/ 2 Sutton Street] || Dwelling || Lot 1
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340795811/in/photostream/ 1 Tod Street] || Shop ||
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| [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19939440133 Tod Street, Gawler] || [[Uniting Church Tod Street|Uniting Church]] ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9340795689/in/photostream/ 12 Tod Street] || Tortola House ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9343582872/in/photostream/ 1 Turner Street], Gawler East || House ||
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/9343582928/in/photostream/ Twenty-third Street], Gawler South || Railway Structure including [[Gawler Railway Station Nineteenth Street|Station]], Parcel Office, Train Shed, Goods Shed & Signal Box || Lot 6
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| 1/25 Twenty-third Street || Wheat Store ||
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| 2/25 Twenty-third Street || Wheat Store ||
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| 3/25 Twenty-third Street || Wheat Store ||
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| 4/25 Twenty-third Street, Gawler South || Wheat Store ||
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For some photos of Heritage Places listed in Town of Gawler's Development Plan, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157629136651911/ click here].

The full copy of Town of Gawler's Development Plan [http://www.sa.gov.au/upload/franchise/Housing,%20property%20and%20land/PLG/Online%20DPs/Greater%20metropolitan/Gawler_Council_Development_Plan.pdf available here]
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Sutton Street 2

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| Places category = Building
| Street number = 2
| Street name = Sutton
| Street suffix = Street
| Town or Locality = Gawler
| Geocoordinates = -34.59589, 138.74313
| Date approximate = No
| Date approximate2 = No
| Also known as = Former Sunny Bank School
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Contemporary address 2 Sutton Street, is part of Allotment 132 as laid out in the original [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19071038615 Gawler Town Plan]. Initially the road was named Bishop Street, but the name was changed to Sutton Street and later the numbering also changed (it used to be 1 Sutton Street). Prior to 1899 this site and the adjoining 14 Queen Street were one property .<ref name=":0">Certificates of Title 648/85 & 2821/51</ref>

Mrs Sarah Helmore purchased the property in 1858, early on the site had a 2 room cottage and a 3 room skilley (flat roofed building), but by 1862 there was a cottage where Mrs Helmore resided (likely the cottage that stands at contemporary address 14 Queen Street) and a Schoolroom (likely the taller heritage building at contemporary 2 Sutton Street), from which she ran her private school 'Sunny Bank'. Mrs Helmore (nee Sarah Ratsey) was a widow, she and husband Porter Helmore had arrived in Gawler in the early 1850s and he took up teaching at St George's School. However, his time there was short-lived as he died of asthma in November 1852, aged just 38 (he was buried at Pioneer Park). It was after this that Mrs Helmore purchased the Queen Street/Sutton Street property and opened her own school.

In the [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962682 Bunyip (25 Jan 1868)] Mrs Helmore advertised that she has conducted her establishment "Sunny Bank Ladies School" for fifteen years, could refer parents and guardians to many "''who will gladly testify to her long-standing character for Imparting a sound English Education''" and invited "''inspection of her Large Schoolroom, which will be found well adapted for promoting the comfort of her pupils.''"<ref>(Bunyip 25 Jan 1868) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962682</ref> In 1877 she advertised she was going to open Sunny Bank as an Infant School.<ref>(Bunyip 19 Jan 1877) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97217606</ref> Eliza Pendlebury Jones (daughter of Mayor John Jones and later wife of William Dawkins), was a student of Mrs Helmore's and she recalled Bruce Rudall and his sisters Julia, Fanny and Bryce also attended.<ref>(Bunyip 19 Aug 1932) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96681443</ref> In 1881 former student Fanny Rudall along with Miss H Gordon (Annie Gordon) took over Sunny Bank;<ref>(Bunyip 14 Jan 1881) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/99827315</ref> Charles C Deland was one of of their pupils and in he vividly recalled "''being stood with a dunce's cap at the end of the class room for all to see.''"<ref>'Story of Gawler's Early Days - written by Mr Chas C Deland' (Bunyip 27 Aug 1954) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96903758</ref>

Mrs Helmore ended up returning to England, where she died in 1906, aged 93.<ref>(Evening Journal 8 May 1906) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200843529</ref>

The property changed hands multiple times, before being purchased in 1924 by Martin Cork, contractor, and later passed to his widow Elizabeth Cork, then his married daughter Myrtle Hilda Atyeo in 1932.<ref name=":0" /> Mrytle's son mentions the properties in his memoirs, see [[Atyeo Bryce Mervyn|Bryce Mervyn Atyeo]].

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Sutton Street 2

2026-08-08T12:39:31Z

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Contemporary address 2 Sutton Street, is part of Allotment 132 as laid out in the original [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19071038615 Gawler Town Plan]. Initially the road was named Bishop Street, but the name was changed to Sutton Street and later the numbering also changed (it used to be 1 Sutton Street). Prior to 1899 this site and the adjoining 14 Queen Street were one property .<ref name=":0">Certificates of Title 648/85 & 2821/51</ref>

Mrs Sarah Helmore purchased the property in 1858, early on the site had a 2 room cottage and a 3 room skilley (flat roofed building), but by 1862 there was a cottage where Mrs Helmore resided (likely the cottage that stands at contemporary address 14 Queen Street) and a Schoolroom (likely the taller heritage building at contemporary 2 Sutton Street), from which she ran her private school 'Sunny Bank'. Mrs Helmore (nee Sarah Ratsey) was a widow, she and husband Porter Helmore had arrived in Gawler in the early 1850s and he took up teaching at St George's School. However, his time there was short-lived as he died of asthma in November 1852, aged just 38 (he was buried at Pioneer Park). It was after this that Mrs Helmore purchased the Queen Street/Sutton Street property and opened her own school.

In the [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962682 Bunyip (25 Jan 1868)] Mrs Helmore advertised that she has conducted her establishment "Sunny Bank Ladies School" for fifteen years, could refer parents and guardians to many "''who will gladly testify to her long-standing character for Imparting a sound English Education''" and invited "''inspection of her Large Schoolroom, which will be found well adapted for promoting the comfort of her pupils.''"<ref>(Bunyip 25 Jan 1868) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962682</ref> In 1877 she advertised she was going to open Sunny Bank as an Infant School.<ref>(Bunyip 19 Jan 1877) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97217606</ref> Eliza Pendlebury Jones (daughter of Mayor John Jones and later wife of William Dawkins), was a student of Mrs Helmore's and she recalled Bruce Rudall and his sisters Julia, Fanny and Bryce also attended.<ref>(Bunyip 19 Aug 1932) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96681443</ref> In 1881 former student Miss Fanny Rudall and Miss H Gordon (Annie Gordon) took over Sunny Bank,<ref>(Bunyip 14 Jan 1881) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/99827315</ref> Charles C Deland one of of their pupils and in he vividly recalled "''being stood with a dunce's cap at the end of the class room for all to see.''"<ref>'Story of Gawler's Early Days - written by Mr Chas C Deland' (Bunyip 27 Aug 1954) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96903758</ref>

Mrs Helmore ended up returning to England, where she died in 1906, aged 93.<ref>(Evening Journal 8 May 1906) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200843529</ref>

The property changed hands multiple times, before being purchased in 1924 by Martin Cork, contractor, and later passed to his widow Elizabeth Cork, then his married daughter Myrtle Hilda Atyeo in 1932.<ref name=":0" /> Mrytle's son mentions the properties in his memoirs, see [[Atyeo Bryce Mervyn|Bryce Mervyn Atyeo]].

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Sutton Street 2

2026-08-08T12:38:36Z

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Contemporary address 2 Sutton Street, is part of Allotment 132 as laid out in the original [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19071038615 Gawler Town Plan]. Initially the road was named Bishop Street, but the name was changed to Sutton Street and later the numbering also changed (it used to be 1 Sutton Street). Prior to 1899 this site and the adjoining 14 Queen Street were one property .<ref name=":0">Certificates of Title 648/85 & 2821/51</ref>

Mrs Sarah Helmore purchased the property in 1858, early on the site had a 2 room cottage and a 3 room skilley (flat roofed building), but by 1862 there was a cottage where Mrs Helmore resided (likely the cottage that stands at contemporary address 14 Queen Street) and a Schoolroom (likely the taller heritage building at contemporary 2 Sutton Street), from which she ran her private school 'Sunny Bank'. Mrs Helmore (nee Sarah Ratsey) was a widow, she and husband Porter Helmore had arrived in Gawler in the early 1850s and he took up teaching at St George's School. However, his time there was short-lived as he died of asthma in November 1852, aged just 38 (he was buried at Pioneer Park). It was after this that Mrs Helmore purchased the Queen Street/Sutton Street property and opened her own school.

In the [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962682 Bunyip (25 Jan 1868)] Mrs Helmore advertised that she has conducted her establishment "Sunny Bank Ladies School" for fifteen years, could refer parents and guardians to many "''who will gladly testify to her long-standing character for Imparting a sound English Education''" and invited "''inspection of her Large Schoolroom, which will be found well adapted for promoting the comfort of her pupils.''"<ref>(Bunyip 25 Jan 1868) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962682</ref> In 1877 she advertised she was going to open Sunny Bank as an Infant School.<ref>(Bunyip 19 Jan 1877) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97217606</ref> Eliza Pendlebury Jones (daughter of Mayor John Jones and later wife of William Dawkins), was a student of Mrs Helmore's and she recalled Bruce Rudall and his sisters Julia, Fanny and Bryce also attended.<ref>(Bunyip 19 Aug 1932) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96681443</ref> In 1881 former student Miss Fanny Rudall and Miss H Gordon (Annie Gordon) took over Sunny Bank,<ref>(Bunyip 14 Jan 1881) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/99827315</ref> Charles C Deland one of of their pupils and in he vividly recalled "''being stood with a dunce's cap at the end of the class room for all to see.''"<ref>'Story of Gawler's Early Days - written by Mr Chas C Deland' (Bunyip 27 Aug 1954) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96903758</ref>

Mrs Helmore ended up returning to England, where she died in 1906, aged 93.<ref>(Evening Journal 8 May 1906) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200843529</ref>

The property changed hands multiple times, before being purchased in 1924 by Martin Cork, contractor, and later passed to his widow Elizabeth Cork, then his married daughter Myrtle Hilda Atyeo in 1932.<ref name=":0" /> Mrytle's son mentions the properties in his memoirs, see [[Atyeo Bryce Mervyn|Bryce Mervyn Atyeo]].

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Sutton Street 2

2026-08-08T11:41:20Z

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Sutton Street

2026-08-08T09:42:01Z

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Sutton Street is named in honour of John Sutton who was an original proprietor of the Gawler Special Survey. In 1840, he owned land on which was built a house, dairy and stockyards.

This street has a home within it that is on The Town of Gawler's State heritage list:

* [[Sutton Street 2]]

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Atyeo Bryce Mervyn

2026-08-08T09:26:03Z

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[[File:Bryce Atyeo on his Ariel square 4 bike at his brother hot towels Harry of gawler centrals fc shack at Middle beach first shack there.jpg|left|thumb|Bryce Atyeo]]

== Bryce Atyeo’s Story 1930 Ward Belt Gawler ==
Bryce was born at Nurse Greens Nursing home in King Street Gawler, on the first of March 1930 at 4pm.At this time his family lived at Woods Road Wards Belt just off Parkers Road on the right hand side, parts of the old home still remain today.” I remember the layout of the sheds and the garage for the old Overland Whippet Six car that Dad bought new in 1929. I remember clearly the day my brother Lance and my sister Mavis came home from Gawler in the horse and sulky with my red tricycle in the back. It was my birthday I think and I was thrilled to bits. On one occasion I was in bed with tonsillitis and feeling very ill when Mum and Dad came in with a tiny little puppy. She was mostly white with black patches and one wall eye. I called her Lass on the spot. She was to be my constant companion until 1939.
Another thing I remember was my pusher (stroller) the body part was made of wicker and cane with a red padded seat, two rubber tyred wheels. A wooden T handle that folded back over the body when stored and a prop stand on the front so I could sit in it without anyone holding the handle. A small wheel protruded out the back for going up kerbs or steps. This was my make believe motor car and I can remember making out to crank it like Dad had to crank the old Whippet to start it quite often. I would then make engine noises and jumping in pretending to drive it like a car.

STRATHALBYN 1933

It was probably 1933 when we left Ward Belt and moved to Strathalbyn next door to the racecourse. I think my Uncle Bert and my Dad must have been share farming my Grandfather’s property at Ward Belt and my Dad decided to strike out on his own. Our property was situated on what’s known as Dry Plains Road and was bordered by this and the racecourse, Michelmore Road, the railway line at the rear. The property was very run down when we moved in and the house was small. Dad had two or three built rooms on as soon as we moved in.
This work was done by two stonemasons Paul and Abe. All day long Abe would say “Why worry Paul” and Paul would answer back ‘Why worry Abe” and that went on for several weeks til the job was completed.
There were three dams on the farm and two of them had yabbies in them. Every year there were mushrooms in the paddocks along Michelmore Road and we picked them by the bucketful and in cardboard boxes. I was always interested in mechanical things and my dog Lass and I used to walk behind the binder and watch the sheaves of hay coming out. She would catch and kill all the mice coming out as they ran to escape the binder. Riding in the grain box on the harvester was a real thrill with the beaters whirring, the sieves shaking and the belts flapping, it all sounded like one big roar. Lass always followed about 50 yards behind.
All the farm implements were pulled by Dad’s pride and joy, his beautiful Clydesdale horses. My favourite brother Lance used to take me with him everywhere usually in the spring dray and he would let me drive the horse and hold the reins and Lass would always be there too.
One day Dad and Lance were cutting chaff and Lass and I were standing close by watching, as usual, the speed governor on the old T Ford engine began acting up and going too fast so Dad ordered me up to the house and to take Lass with me and stay there. If I had not done this I would not be here today writing this. Minutes after I left and went up to the house the governor jammed and the engine rev’s increased until the chaffcutter was destroyed, pieces went in all directions, and the cast-iron gear that used to drive the jaws landed right where I was standing and the knives were found on the other side of the sheds and haystacks.
Swaggies used to come around in those days and would stay in some of the empty sheds at the racecourse. They would come to our house and offer to work for food tea, coffee, eggs, flour etc. Dad would give them odd jobs and Mum would have them chop wood and garden jobs.
One of the men made a kite for me, it was 6ft high and 3 foot wide, the frame was the tongue and groove floor boards. It was covered with newspaper and glued with flour and water paste. It had a very long tail and took off first try. The kite flew all afternoon but broke away in the evening and disappeared into the sky.
My brother Vern and I had this pet lamb we named the BEBBIE WEBLER don’t ask me why it’s an Atyeo thing to give pets or anything strange names. We trained this lamb to butt us in the backside when bent over, this was fine until BEBBIE WEBLER grew a bit larger, then we had to detrain him. Everything went well and we thought we had solved the problem until the Hannaford’s truck came around to grade our seed wheat and other grain ready for seeding time. The machine was started and the man put a bag of our seed into the hopper, when the seed came out of the machine into the bag and the bag was half full, the man bent over the half full bag to check the grain. BEBBIE WEBLER could not restrain himself and charged making contact and sent the man sprawling over the bag and into the dirt. If the man could have caught that lamb I am sure there would have been roast lamb for tea that night, the BEBBIE WEBLER was gone and so were Vern and I. The language that came out of that man’s mouth was unbelievable to say the least.
My sister Mavis bribed me with a Freddo frog and a dandy ice-cream to have my first haircut at Nesbit’s barber shop in High Street. I came out to Mavis who was waiting in the horse and buggy outside yelling” smell me Mavis smell me” I had never had hair oil on before. Next was Mrs Wiley’s baker shop to receive my bribe.
Another day I recall was a race day and I was out at the front fence, as usual, on race day and I was watching the cars going past to the race course next door. Suddenly an aeroplane flew over very low, circled around and landed in the paddock across the road from our house and taxied right up to the fence. Lass took off around the back of our house and stayed there all day until it took off later that day. Two men climbed out of the plane dressed in overcoats and scarves around their necks, Biggles type leather helmets and goggles and leather gloves. When they removed all the gear they walked down to the races in navy blue suits and felt hats for their day out. This happened at about 10am and I refused to leave my spot until they 4.30pm when they left. Mum had brought my lunch out to me I remember. I still have picture of that plane in my mind to this day. It was a monoplane dark green single engine twin cockpits with small windscreens and no tail wheel just a skid. This would have been 1934-1935 and to this day I still wonder who those men were and I still remember the roar of the engine as they took off.

'''KAPUNDA 1936-1937'''

In late 1935 or early 1936 my father sold the Strathalbyn farm and bought a farm at Kapunda which proved to be the big mistake in his life. The farm was situated 4 or 5 kms out of town on the Tarlee road, the house was large with a big wide veranda on three sides, a large garden, enclosed orchard and lots of sheds, and my Mum loved it. It was all she never had.
There was electricity, tap water, telephone, good chook sheds, large German style kitchen with large pantry, huge lounge-dining room and 3 or 4 bedrooms, all the things Mum wanted and more.
It was centenary year and I remember we all went into town to join in the celebrations. There were hundreds of people, whistles blowing and a band playing in the street. Before we moved onto the farm, we lived in an old rented house in Hare Street in Kapunda. The house was very old and it had a cellar and an underground tank under the kitchen floor with old Douglas hand pump to pump water to the kitchen and drinking water.
On the farm there was a blacksmith workshop and a carpenter’s workshop. In the carpenters workshop there was a wooden bench. It was beautifully built. On the front of the bench at each end there was a six inch or more vice, all made of wood including the main screw with an acme thread. There was an old horse-works for driving the old chaffcutter but this was longer used, but was still in working order, just need two horses to provide the power and walk slowly around in a circle. It had been replaced with a car engine.
My brother Vern and I with Lass my constant companion, used to find rabbits in the many stone walls on the farm. Lass would sniff them out and we would pull the wall apart and pull them out and put them in a bag to take home.
One incident I remember very clearly was when Vern put me and Lass getting into an old wicker pram (which Mum had used for all 6 of us children) with 4 large wheels and was probably four feet ( or 1.2m) high and very unstable. This was at the top of a very steep hill which ran to the garage and sheds and past the house. Vern assured us it was quite safe, and then gave us a push and away we went. We picked up speed very quickly and in no time we were head straight for the garage, and Lass decided at this point she had had enough and bailed out and left me to my fate. What happened after that I am not sure; the pram must have done a sharp turn tipping me out and rolled over 3 or 4 yards short of a stone wall at the back of the shed. I remember lying there and Lass licking my face I was crying my eyes out and all I had were a few scratches and a lump on my head. Vern by this time had gone missing and did not return until late in the evening.
The farm was not what Dad had hoped for, the land was not very fertile, and it had been neglected and heavily cropped over the years. The property was sold at a loss and dad bought another farm at Kulde in the Mallee between Tailem Bend and Karoonda.

'''KULDE 1937'''

We moved there in April 1937 and moved out again in 1941 and came back to Gawler and leased a dairy farm on Hillier Road, right at the end on the northern side, it is a vineyard now. The house at Kulde was a let -down for Mum it was old with 3 stone rooms on the front, and four timber and iron rooms and a lobby for the Post Office at the rear. Outside there was a grapevine trellis right across the back, a cellar at one end and a stone garage and laundry come bathroom at the other end. The toilet was twenty yards from the house, a galvanised iron structure with a piece of hessian for a door and a bucket.
There were two 1000 gallon rainwater tanks for the house and the annual rainfall was 7-8 inches per year. There was no tap water and the water for the cows, horses, sheep, bathing and garden and laundry had to be carted by horse and dray from the government windmill bore half a mile down the road by the school. The school was a one room weatherboard building with an entry porch one end and a shelter shed at the other end. There were 16 students all together when we came. One teacher for 7 grades, Miss McCurley was her name strict but very good. The school opened in 1936 and closed in 1940 when the student number got below 6 and I went to correspondence lessons from 01/02/1941-01/05/1941. I loved this because I would complete my fortnight lessons in three days and do what I liked until the next pack came by post. As well as the farm we had the Post Office, telephone exchange and mail run to Chapman’s bore six miles down the Murray Bridge Road by horse and sulky. We had to pick up the mail bags from the morning train from the Kulde Sth or siding was across the road about 250 yards away and put the outgoing bags on the afternoon passenger train to Tailem bend. Mum ran this side of things most of the time or brother Harry.
On The farm I was never bored, I would walk for miles with Lass around the farm and I loved the bush on the farm and each side of the railway line. We chased rabbits and looked for rabbits and lizards and looked for burrows or warrens to put to the ferrets down on Sundays and net the rabbits as they rushed out to escape from the ferrets. Sundays was also the time for pulling down big stone heaps and catching the rabbits hiding between the stones and underneath in the shallow burrows on the hard dirt. The dogs Lass and Arty Lou and drgon dirt would circle around the outside and grab any escapees. The rabbits were sold for meat to the collector, at his truck at the Government Bore the next morning for one to two shillings a pair. Sometimes it paid to skin them and sell the skins in the winter time when their skins were at their best.
At one time we had a family living in two tents just outside our front gate. Their names were Whitehead, 3 Children and Mum and Dad. The father was a ganger working on the railway line and the kids and I used to play together and go to school together. One day we went up the line to an old stone crushing plant up the hill towards Tailem Bend. The engine and the crusher were still there and a large tin of grease. We took grease and spread it on the railway lines and then hid in the bush to see what would happen when the mid-day train from Loxton came through to Tailem Bend. The engine hit the greasy line and that was it, the driving wheels just spun around and the train stood still. Several times they reversed back to Kulde then with sand boxes open and men throwing sand onto the line with shovels they tried again without success. About this time we headed through the bush very scared and wondering what would happen to us if our parents found out. They had to send another engine out from Tailem Bend with long cables to pull the train through the greasy section of the line and then a gang of men worked until dark to clear the line ready for the passenger train next morning. We were very scared for a long time and never told a soul. After the investigation by the police everything was forgotten.
I had a friend named Bobby Hacker who lived about 2 miles toward Moorlands with Uncle and Grandfather. Bobby walked to school every day and would call into our place and we would walk to school together. At school we had a lesson called Nature Study and Bobby would always bring along an item. Sometimes the item would be in a bag or in his pocket, even in school bag with his lunch. Items included an owl, a lizard, Skink, wood pigeon, echidna, small goanna, or some bush or flower, the poor teacher never knew what to expect next. One morning he arrived at our house with a bag but did not show my Mum the contents, I thought that was a first, and wondered what he had this time. Halfway to school he pulled out of the bag a white leather belt with .22 bullets all around it and two silver black and white leather holsters with sliver studs and two silver, black and ivory seven shot .22 revolvers. I said “where the hell did you get them.” Bobby said he found them on the side of the road and I knew he wouldn’t lie to me. We fired off two shots then Bobby hid them in some bushes and we went off to school and I Promised I wouldn’t tell anybody.
Bobby could not contain himself however and told Bruce Hood who ran and told the teacher. Booby was expelled from school for two weeks for bringing guns to school. Booby was telling the truth when he said he found them on the road side. Our next door neighbours had moved house and the revolvers had fallen off the truck as they turned the corner. They were very glad to get them back and gave Bobby a reward.
I lost lass in late 1939; I always had her tied up at night on a strong rope so she could not get into trouble for chasing and killing sheep. We could see one morning that rope had been cut cleanly and Las was gone and we knew but could not prove that the rotten neighbours across the railway line had killed her; I was devastated and cried for days. The neighbours were always causing trouble in the district and one day when they came for their mail, they brought their dog spot with them to the Post Office. Now Lass did not take kindly to other dogs in her yard even blue heelers, and she gave spot one hell of belting and took off a third of his right ear and he went home howl home. Next day at school the Masters (that’s their name) children threatened to get Las and I am sure they did.
A couple of months later we went to Gawler and French Follard gave me a cocker spaniel called Yo-Yo he didn’t want him because he dug up their garden. Dad didn’t want yoyo in his car and refused to take him home to Kulde and said a spaniel dog would be useless on the farm. As it happened Elliot Higgins was going to Kulde in his T model Ford buckboard that same weekend to get Mallee stumps so yoyo and I rode all the way (150kms) home in the back and Elliot and my sister Effie rode in the front. It was cold and uncomfortable but I had a dog again and renamed him yoey. Dad was wrong about Yoey he was an excellent tracker and could locate lost rabbit traps and traps pulled up and taken down fox’s burrows after foxes had got caught and pulled the trap anchor pins. The Masters kids brought Spot their blue heeler over with them again one day to get their mail and Yoey belted the hell out of him again. After that spot would never come inside the road gate, fifty metres from our house and the Post Office.
There was no electricity in our house and we used kerosene lamps, torches, hurricane lanterns for lighting, no refrigerator just a cool safe and cellar, That was where we kept the cream we sold to Amscol ice-cream and they picked it up every Friday evening if we were lucky we would get a dandy or a twin choc.
1937-1938 were drought years and Dad went broke. If it wasn’t for the grain stack agencies that he had at the Kulde railway station and rent Mum received from two houses in Gawler we would have starved I think.
Early in 1939 Dad sold the farm to Ed Shultze from Gawler and we stayed onto share farm it with him until May 1941 then he sold it. Ed was the father of well-known Gawlerites Terry and John Schultz.

'''GAWLER 1941'''

In May 1941 we moved to Gawler and leased the dairy farm in Hillier Road until September 1943.
Mum and Dad came back in May, but I came back to Gawler in February (late) and stayed with Effie and Elliot in Mum’s house in Queen Street. I went to Gawler primary school for two months what a shock that was. I was picked on and bullied the whole time until one day Neil Dawe and I had a whole lunchtime fight and wrestle down under the pepper trees. Neil was bigger than me but I was determined I would not be beaten and at the end of school we shook hands and became real good friends for years. I came from a school of 6 students to a school of 600 students and I was a country kid. I hated every day that I was there. I was in grade 5 and the teacher was Mr Pearce, he was cruel and sadistic and should never have been allowed to teach at all. He would walk up and down the room with a cane behind his back just looking for some-one to make a mistake and then he would hit them with a force with his cane. He didn’t care whether he hit on the fingers, head, neck, head, back, arms as long as brought them to tears and humiliated them before the whole class. He also loved to twist kid’s ears until they cried. The girls with plaits, he would wrap them around his hand up to the girls head and twist them until they cried out in pain.
The headmaster was Mr Barbary and if you were sent there for punishment he used a strap or belt with rivets in it to hit your backside or open hands leaving dents from the rivets.
During the May holidays I went back with my parents and Lance and Vern on the dairy farm on Hillier Road and of course my dog Yoey. After the holidays I started school at the Gawler River School with 26 students, 7 grades and the most wonderful teacher any-one could have. His name was Mr Gordon Mugford and in those 3 years I never saw him hit or ill-treat one student. Long talks sometimes lots of help if needed and advice if needed to put you back on track but never physical punishment. I got along well with every-one at the school, and 8 of the students were my first or second cousins. I sat for my Q.C. at the Kangaroo Flat School with Eileen Lodge and we both passed. The Lease on the dairy farm in August 1945 and Mum and Dad moved into Gawler to 14 Queen Street, Dad’s farming days were over. I stayed with Lance at Ward Belt during the week and went home at the weekends so I could finish school at Gawler River School and get my Q.C. I used to go out Monday mornings with Betty Morgan in her Morris 8/40 Ute on the mail run and Lance or some-body would bring me home on Friday nights.
At this time Lance was still single and leasing the old Ratcliffe farm next to Ward Belt cemetery. I used to go to school with Ron and Kath Atyeo and the two Masters kids. Sometimes we walked sometimes we went in a horse and sulky all 5 of us. I used to help Lance after school and cook tea for us; sometimes we didn’t get tea until 8.30p.m. We had a wood stove and oven, Lance did the wash up while I did my homework by the light of an old kerosene lamp just like Kulde.
My Grandfather Martin Cork had 4 daughters and two sons and when he died he left properties to all 4 girls, Siss, Rose, Daisie, and my mother Myrtle and I think money to Les. Lyn the other son died at a young age of T.B.Siss married George Jones house in 9th Street( Blacksmith and Farrier Globe Hotel Yard) Rose married Nugget Freeman house and 2 blocks on the corner Hill Street and One Tree Hill Road Myrtle married Wilfred Atyeo 2 houses 14 Queen Street and 1 Sutton street [see Certificates of Title 648/85, 2821/51 & 2821/52].
Mum and Dad moved into Gawler in August 1943 and after I sat for my Public School Q.C. exam at Kangaroo Flat School I moved into Gawler with them at 14 Queen Street. No: 14 Queen Street and No: 1 Sutton Street was both on the same title and was separated from Cameron Street by a very narrow lane that ran from Queen Street to Cameron Street.
When Lois and I were married in 1953 we moved into No: 1 Sutton Street and lived there until 1961. It had originally been built as a School for Mrs Helmore in the early 1980’s. The school was known as “Mrs Helmore’s School for Young Ladies “and was closed in 1878 when the Gawler Public School opened. My Grandfather Martin Cork purchased it sometime after that and left it to my mother and after we moved out in 1961 Mum sub divided the block and sold it.
While we were living at Hillier Road on the dairy farm, Dad and I went into Gawler in the horse and sulky one hot day and my dog Yoey decided to follow us. He was getting further behind all the time and I begged Dad to stop and pick him up but Dad just laughed and said he will go home. I looked back again and Yoey was gone and I decided I would never speak to my father again and didn’t for weeks. My father had always been good and kind to me, he told bedtime stories when I was little and stories about his growing up. He also taught me to read comics without help. I know Dad didn’t like Yoey but I did not understand how he could do that to my dog on such a hot day or anytime and I lost my respect and feeling for him. I did not know I was to meet up with Yoey again about 3 or 4 years later. We were living in Gawler and people from out on Hillier Road moved into a new house down the bottom of the hill from our place. Their name was Milane; they had a son named John and an old black cocker spaniel named Darkie. I knew it was Yoey and he knew me too, he came to me when I called him and he wagged his old stumpy tail. He was so pleased to see me. It was Yoey for sure as he had a split in his left ear from fighting with spot Masters in Kulde. Yoey was happy and much loved by the Milanes; he would always welcome me when I went there to see John but never tried to follow me home. I never told John but one day I said once had a cocker spaniel like Darkie but he ran away and never came home. Both John and his mother very quickly said they had bought Darkie as a puppy and looked at each other very sheepishly. Yoey died about a year later of old age and I was glad I had said nothing .

'''Gawler 14 Queen Street'''

A month after moving into Gawler I got a job Arthur Hawkins poultry farm in Queen Street three houses from home. The property was between Queen St. and Jerningham St. There were orange trees in the chook runs and these had to be cared for as well as the chooks and chickens. My job was feeding, picking up the eggs twice daily, general cleaning up, cleaning and packing the eggs and on Monday mornings I had to drown all the white leghorn chicks as they came out of the incubator. They were no good for meat birds to light in weight. I had to put them in a bucket cover them with water and put a block of hardwood on them for ten minutes, then throw them in a pit. I hated doing it, it made me feel sick. I also had to run errands for Mrs Dawkins and her companion Miss Min Harris who also helped me with the egg washing and packing etc. I worked from 8.00am to 5p.m.with one hour off for lunch Monday to Friday. Wages were 15 shillings($1.50) per week and I paid Mum 5 shillings a week board, went to the movies Wednesday and Fridays, and bought a new Super Elliot bicycle from Jim McCabe as well on T.P.I had always wanted to be a motor mechanic and in January 1945 I was offered an apprenticeship in Gawler. I had to get Dad’s approval and he refused to sign my apprenticeship contract. Dads excuse was there would be hundreds of mechanics coming out of the war time training and I would find it impossible to get a job. In February I got a job at E. Anders & Sons, Britannia Foundry as a labourer and gave up the chook industry, and my wages were 25 shillings per week. In May I was offered an apprenticeship as a fitter and turner with Anders and Sons and this time Dad agreed to sign the papers. After signing my papers I went back to my job, soon after I was called into the office. Cyril Anders gave me a talk on my responsilbities as an apprentice and told me that the award wage for a first year apprentice was only 23 shillings per week. However he said seeing as how I had been a good honest lad so far this last 4 months they would continue to pay me 25 shillings per week they all laughed and Tom Symes said “you always were a lucky bastard” and my nickname was “Lucky” for the next six months.
My next nickname came about because Frank Downs, one of the moulders, said he could never catch me to kick my arse, belt me in the ear, or stop me buzzing around like a bloody mosquito so I became “Skeeter” or “Skeet” to this day many of my friends still call me by that name. Frank Downs was like a giant shoulders like a gorilla heavy build hair all over his body, a grip like a vice and a heart of gold and a temper to match if you annoyed him. One morning he came into work late, he lived in Lyndoch and train was late. Cyril had a go at him for being late and he was not happy. Frank went to open his tool box and found the keyhole plugged up with clay. I just happened to walk past at this moment and he of course blamed me. He yelled abuse at me and tried to catch me but I was too quick for him. At a safe distance I turned around and ask him if he had fallen out of a tree on his way to work swinging through the trees or down the E.T.S.A. line and why didn’t he come to work on the train like others did. Frank would have killed me if he could have caught me but Murray West the foreman came and broke up the battle and we all returned to our jobs.
As I said Frank lived at Lyndoch but in a part of the town known as Jollytown and the local kids used to teases him and called him Jollytown ape-man and he was well aware of that and so was I as I had friends in Lyndoch. During my time at Anders as an apprentice as a fitter & turner I also learned core making, blacksmithing, and striking, fetterling, moulding and casting. I went to the school of Mines and & Industries on North Terrace for training two afternoons a week for period of 3 years and at the same time did two years of Maths at night school. At the end of my time Cyril Anders said they no longer needed a fitter and turner and offered me a job as a Second Class Machinist. I told him what to do with his offer and walked out of the place with my tool box and a lot of good and bad memories. I was intending to leave as the workforce was about two thirds alcoholics including Cyril Anders himself and working for an alcoholic is always a bad thing. You never know where you stand with them and their mood swings etc.
This was May 1950 and a friend of mine who worked for the Commonwealth Government as an electrician at Long Range Weapons Establishment, got me an interview with Billie Burnside an engineer in charge of No: 1 workshops. The interview went well and I had a job but I had to have an SA Police check and also an Australian Federal Police security check as well. I passed and got my security pass issued to me and started at L.R.W.E. on the 4th July 1950. It was to be a 30 year career until the 20th June 1980. I went into the mechanical instrument shop for a six month trial period and at the end of that time I was reclassified as an Instrument Maker. The reason for this was they were looking for young mechanical to train as Instrument Makers as there was no trade calling at that time in Australia. The only Instrument tradesmen they had in instrument shop were three poms and the foreman and they needed more.
There was a lot of work of this kind to be done on the restoration of captured German cameras and tracking equipment for the Woomera Rocket Range which was then growing very quickly. At the end of 1951 I was offered a job as an Electrical Instrument Maker and after a six month trial and training period I was reclassified as an Electrical Instrument Maker. I loved this job as it was more interesting, and more fine delicate work which was interesting. I had been given a manual on electrical, practical and theory used by the New Zealand Air Force by George Easter who I had worked with in Mechanical Instrument Shop and I found this very helpful in my new trade. Unfortunately after 2 years or so I found I was not getting along all that well with our foreman. He was bringing in his mates from church as Electrical Instrument makers and quite obviously they were not. A friend of mine who worked with me who had a friend as a P. I. and he did a check-up and discovered one of these ring ins was a Window Dresser and the other one was a Photographer and they all belonged to the same Congregational church. He also found out our engineer was also a member of this church and a very good pal of our foreman. One morning in February 1954 for the third time, the foreman came to me with another job that one of these two guys had pulled apart and could not reassemble and asked me to put it together. I refused and told him “to stick his left eye in lukewarm cocky shit”. He then headed for the engineers office to have me sacked and I headed for the office of Mr Olsen the man to handle disputes of this kind at the Administration Headquarters. There was an inquiry which I had to attend and the foreman left and the two ring in’s also but the engineer stayed on of course.
1954
I went into the Instrument Workshop in the A.D. doing both electrical and mechanical for four years. At this point A.D. was actually under the control of H.S.A.L. (High Aerodynamics Speed Laboratories) at Fisheries Bend in Victoria, and it was more laid back and casual. Practical jokes were high the agenda, much like MASH on T.V. and you never knew when you would be targeted. We did some top secret work on anti-tank weapons guided by wire and I did all the calibrations of measuring instruments etc.
1958 to 1960
In 1958 I applied for a staff position as a Technical Assistant Grade 2 with instrumentation section I got the position. After a couple of years this became the U.A. R. (Upper Atmosphere Research Section) and we were involved in the measuring of the density and thickness of the ozone layer, and wind speed in the upper atmosphere. This was very interesting work and secret because it was tied to the Skylark Rocket Program and the climate change controversy. Skylark rockets were being fired to do measurement of the ozone layer and at the same I was taking density measurements of the ozone layer at Salisbury and Woomera using an ozone spectrophotometer on loan from Cambridge University. We were also going to Woomera regularly to operate cameras and other instruments in conjunction with Skylark firings to measure wind speeds in upper atmosphere.
1965
About 1965 U.A.R. was shut down and some of us were transferred to F.F.R. (Free Flight Research) still in A.D. area. About the same time at Woomera they were doing static firings of the BLUE STREAK ROCKET on the launching pad at Lake Hart. When they had a firing it would burn some of the ceramic tiles off of the curved section of the blast tunnel that went from the launch pad down into Lake Hart. They needed to know the temperature at the curve in the tunnel to solve this tile problem. Over the years I had developed a way of making thermocouples using wire as thick as your hair to wire one 1/16th of an inch in diameter for measuring temperatures inside rockets and the Department Of Agriculture and also C.S.R.I.O. They also wanted them installed and I did not like working at heights but she agreed to set up scaffolding etc. for the job. It was a cold winter’s day and the wind was icy cold blowing in off Lake Hart I was about 100ft up inside the blast tunnel. I have never been so cold in my life although I had my jeans thick shirt and a woollen jumper combination overalls and a leather jacket, I was shivering shaking or both. I completed the job got back to the airport and on the plane just in time luckily I knew the air hostie and she got me two brandy and dry’s which was against the rules but it pays to have friends in high places.
1965-1970
During the five years in 1965-1970 I spent a lot of time developing a testing miniature pressure transducer for measuring pressure inside rockets at certain points I never had complete success but later on in 1986 while with the E. & W. S. at Morgan I received a phone call from a bloke in D.R.C.S. who wanted to know if I still had notes from the research and drawings. I didn’t of course but he still came up to see me and I helped with what I could but I never heard from him again.
1971
In 1971 F.F.R. closed down and I went to the wind tunnel group I had been upgraded to technical officer Grade 1 in 1968 with the F.F.A. and W.T.G wanted a TO1 for Instrumentation work in the S.I & S.3 tunnels.
This was very intricate work wiring up strain gauges with enamelled copper wire .0048 thousandths of an inch in diameter and all sorts of electrical and mechanical instruments including completing of the model wind tunnel area. In 1976 there was a change of staff duties and I was O.I.C (Officer in Charge) of operations and maintenance of S1 wind tunnels but no rise in salary. From then things began to deteriorate there was very little work for the S1 tunnel only RAAF testing of stores attached existing models and a small amount of other jobs for the B.E.A. The Poms had pulled out likewise the Yanks had also. I was going to work in the morning costing the previous day’s work if any and sitting on my bum all day after checking the maintenance charts and telling the workshop foreman if any maintenance was needed to be done that day. Sometimes the engineer would decide to upgrade something in the plant and I would spend all day chasing and ordering only to see it sit in the stores for years. At one stage they decide to upgrade all plant pumps and electrical motors all new switch gear and change the control panel voltage to 12 volt DC I ha d to find all these items and fill out requisitions for them and arrange deliveries as well as all this and new control panels had to be designed, and make all new switches and metres etc. I took care of all this knowing all the time none of it would be used. People who stayed to the end of the road told me it was all sold off before the tunnel was demolished.
198-1982

'''MORGAN'''

I got so tired of doing nothing that I decided to get out as I was feeling unwell and depressed. And on the 20th June I left D.R.C.S. and I went to Morgan to live. I had been offered an overseas job at Penfolds Vineyard 1977 taking charge of the vineyard irrigations and pumps and motors etc.etc. But I chickened out in favour of my secure Government job. In February 1980 I said to Lois one lets go to Morgan tomorrow and buy a block of land and put a transportable house on it and move. We went next day and bought a block where the flour mill used to be No: 6 Eighth Street. We worked on the block weekends and took holidays to erect a fence and put a garage on the block. The house was put down by the end of May I had the services connected and moved in on the 27th June on Craig’s birthday. We had sold our house at 55 Hillier Road Evanston at the end of March and we had been living in our caravan at Peter and Deb’s place at Lyndoch since then. At last I was out of my job at D.R.C.S. and out of Gawler which by this time had started to feel too crowded for me.
Penfolds Morgan 1980-1982
When we moved to Morgan I intended to take a 3 month break before looking for work but in the first month I was offered three jobs in the area. I chose the position of fitter and turner at Penfolds Vineyard working shop it was the first time I had actually worked at my trade since completing my apprenticeship 30 years ago. I fitted in really well with the other workers and there were only three of us in the workshop. Gill McDonald foreman Stewie Horne T/A and myself, Gill and Stewie were only in their 30’s I was 50 years and we worked perfectly as a team. The job was a complete change for me I had never seen a grape harvester and now I had 3 to maintain including a complete rewire for 2 of them. I had never worked on diesel engines now I had 14 of them to service and repair (8 tractors 1Tip Truck 2 tray top trucks 3 grape pickers). I also had 3 vineyard trucks and 2 Honda 100cc trail bikes plus 2 utilies and anything else that needed fixing including unlocking the managers Sigma station wagon regularly to get the keys to the ignition as wife Sally had locked them in again. Fortunately Stewie’s father, Merv Horne owned the garage in Morgan and Stewie had worked with his Dad on and off. Stewie was a good as mechanic as anyone and together we could do anything. We reconditioned a diesel engine in the Ford tipper and dent knocked and resprayed the whole truck. We also replaced the crank shaft and fitted new rings and bearings in the diesel in the Bedford six cylinders, the cab had to be removed to do this and to refit the cab was the most difficult part of the job. When I started there were no maintenance schedules for any of the equipment and I fixed that with a book for everything, trucks, tractor, bikes, utes, harvester, spray units, generator etc.
I repaired the fibreglass tanks on the spray and the pumps. One day I pointed out to gill the lack of safety equipment that they should have and he said to go ahead and make a list of items I thought were needed. When the manager saw the list he was amazed and got a Safety Advisor in to do an assessment of the equipment I said was needed. The manager was even more amazed when he got the report and the estimated cost. We got all the gear and I got the job as safety officer added to my duties.
When the aerial spraying was being done the plane came in to reload one day and the tail skid broke off. Stewie and I jacked the tail of the plane up, removed the skid and welded it together and replaced the skid and spraying was resumed. Not long after this the pilot had just finished spraying his load and the engine seized. He managed to glide back to the landing strip and land safely.
Next morning Gill said to Stewie and I, guess what you two dudes are doing today, removing the engine from the plane and replacing it with a new one. I queried this because of the Civil Aviation laws but the pilot said what the eye doesn’t see does not matter and if we could do it he would take full responsibility. He would get a new from Parafield by lunchtime. Stewie and I had a look and it looked an easy job so we said ok.
It was an easy job, we lifted the engine out with a front end loader and the plane was back in the air and spraying the same day.
I also did electrical work such as wiring and fitting air conditioners to the two houses on the property and lighting for the implement shed and loading bay for night shifts.
When I had been there six months Di Fields came up for her six monthly visits, she was Penfolds Manager and informed me that they were giving me a wage rise of $20.00 per week. She said this was because I was saving them from having to send tradesmen up from Nuriootpa to Morgan to do a lot of the jobs I had been doing and saved travelling as well. I had a truck license and often took loads to Nuriootpa, Clare, and Magill and brought gear back to Morgan. I found Penfolds very good to work for and very disappointing when they started to pull out the red grape vines in May 1982. Then the permanent workers were reduced and they began more casual labour and a rumour went around that they were selling up. Just at this time a position came up for a Fitter & Turner
At the E.W. &S. so I rang Di Field and asked her what was going on. She told me that she was leaving and could not say what was going to happen to Morgan. I applied for the job at E. &W.S. and was told the next day I had it and I gave notice at Penfolds the next day and started at the E. &W.S. the following week.

'''JULY 1982-88 E. &W.S.'''

It was very easy to fit into the job at E. &W.S. as the people at Morgan was very friendly and helpful and we mixed with them both socially and work situations as well. Most of the employees were locals and a real good mob to work with. When I started in 1982 it was a small group of 12-14 employees including Robertstown depot and Sedan depot, I was the fitter and turner. We had three pumping stations on the Swan Reach to Moculta pipe-line and four pumping stations on the Morgan-Robertstown pipeline and we had two pipelines C and D and of course there were backup pumps for each line. We were always busy with maintenance on pumps, electric motors (200-500h.p) compressors, power operated control valves and helping the pipeline gang with maintenance on the pipeline and P.R. Valves spread around the area.
I also did the servicing of the motor cars, utes, trucks, portable compressors, portable welders and anything else that needed fixing or welding. I had Chris Jaeger as my trades assistant and we worked together and travelled thousands of kilometres in the ute together and I cannot ever remember ever having a cross word with him during the six years together 1982-1988.
In 1986 the Morgan Filtration Plant came on line and things changed dramatically. Instead of just having Superintendent Adrian Hobbs for a boss we now had an Engineer at the top, a Filtration Plant Supervisor, a Pipeline Supervisor and an absolutely hopeless Workshop Supervisor. I was given the job of O.H. & S. along with my other duties and had to do inspections of the pump stations every two months. I also had to attend courses at Murray Bridge Administration to discuss any problems on O.H. & S. these lasted all day and got back home 6pm. The opening of the Filtration Plant more than doubled the workforce but this did not help me, the fitters and electricians went into the Plant. We eventually got two more fitters just out of their time and everything settled back into a routine again.
In April 1988 I thought I might like a change so I had an interview for a job in Loxton with the Department of Agriculture in the Research Centre Workshop. After the interview there was a BBQ and the foreman told me that I had the job and they wanted me to start in May. It was a dream job; I was to run the workshop on my own and do servicing and maintenance on two tractors, 3 Honda trikes, 2 Honda quad bikes and two spray units.
There was a lot of welding making up experimental gadgets and things for the laboratory. I also had to serve fuel and top up the oil etc. on all vehicles in the research station so about the first hour of every day spent taking care of this and sometimes during the day. We put our house on the market in Morgan and took a contract on a house in 6th Street at Loxton and moved to Loxton in a rent free house on the research Station until our house at Morgan sold.
I began with the Agriculture Dept. at Loxton on the 10th of May and it was a great job, I was practically my own boss and did things my way. There were only 5 men in the farm team and myself in the workshop, and Darryl the boss who was an Experimental Officer in charge of us. I got along with all the blokes in the team very well and loved the job but it wasn’t to last. I found out the bloke before me was dealing in drugs and he had lived in the house where we were living. We were getting strange phone calls at all hours and one Sunday afternoon we were abused by a mob in a car who came to our front door looking to buy pot. When the mobile tanker came round the driver had another bloke with him and he came into the workshop and asked where Robin was, I said that he had left and taken a job with National Parks Meningie. He said he was a friend of Robin’s and asked if I was permanent at the centre and I said yes.
He then asked me if I would like to earn a little money on the side, that’s when the penny dropped and I told him to get out or I would call Darryl. He then warned me not to do that and that we know where you live and to keep my mouth shut and he went out and sat in the cabin of the tanker. This all happened late June and I decided to get out of the place as soon as I could, as I had heard from the workers that Loxton was full of drug activity and I didn’t want any part of it. I rang the Engineer at the Morgan Filtration Plant that night and explained my problem to him. He told me he had a vacancy for me but not until November when a fitter at Morgan would be transferred To Happy Valley, I said ok and he said he would be happy to hold the job for me.
The contract on the house at Loxton had expired, the house at Morgan had not sold so we moved back home. This meant that I had to 220kms there and back each day to work at Loxton but I soon got used to it and the petrol was only 75 cents a litre but I clocked up 17500kms in the Commodore during that period.
MORGAN 1/11/88 to November 1991
Back at Morgan I went into the workshop and maintenance in the Filtration Plant, O.H. &S. Officer and Rep for O.H. &S. for Morgan area. During the period before I went to Loxton I had stood in for up to 3 Months as Workshop Supervisor when he was on holidays or when he was on sick leave which was quite often. Just after I came back he took ill again on several occasions and was off work for months at a time. During these times from November 1988 to 16th November 1991 I stood in as Workshop Supervisor and I did a lot less work on maintenance etc.
I had always intended to retire by the sea so in early 1990 at age 60, I decided to do something about it. We rented a house at Coobowie and started looking for a house or a block of land. We looked at houses in the area but there was nothing that we liked but we had found a nice block at Stansbury. I had already looked at prices of transportable homes and the cost of buying one and having it set up on the block. The Tape family from Coobowie had been builders on the peninsula for decades and they were my second cousins. So we went to see them for a price to build a timber frame home on the block at Stansbury. Jay Tape was so pleased to see me as we had not seen each other since we were kids and he wanted to catch up on family members etc. I showed him our house plans and the first thing he wanted knows was where you do want to build this house. When I told him he said the Tapes owned the block and we could buy it for $10,000.00 instead of the $14,000.00 the agent was asking. The next day he came up with the price slightly lower than the transportable homes and the cost of buying it and having it set up on the block. We signed the contract next day on the block and a contract for the building as well then went home to Morgan to make more plans.
The house was completed by October 1990 and I had a 9mx6m garage put on the block as well. Lois and I then went over some weekends and holidays and painted the whole house, inside and outside and we put some second hand furniture in for the time, until I retired. In November 1990 I spent many hours making an elaborate FOR SALE sign to sell the house at Morgan. I put the sign up on a Saturday morning and sold it on the Sunday morning to Bill Hand who had bought a share in the Commercial Hotel at Morgan. Before selling the house I had arranged to rent an E. &W.S. house until I retired.
We moved into the E.& W.S. home just before Christmas 1990 and from that time until the 16th November 1991 we spent all the time we could at Stansbury. With lots of help from Lois we put fences to two sides of the block and put 1m wide concrete paving all around the house and down one side of the garage. WE also made tank stands for our rainwater tanks and erected a garden shed at the rear of the garage. We had the garage floor and front apron as well as the back veranda concreted by a professional concreter from Ardrossan and he did an amazing job of it. I did the front veranda floor myself. Three years after we moved to Stansbury with help from Lois we built a 6.2mx5.6m double carport onto the end of the house. It was all steel and I filled all the C channel with fibro cement sheeting and plastic fibro cement sheet joining strips. When the council Inspector came to do his final inspection he said it was as good a job as he’d seen by professionals.
Lois and I had always worked together well on projects around the house etc. at Morgan and we built a timber deck across the back of the house. It was 15m long and 2.6m wide. I had completed the base and just started the decking when I cut my index finger on my right hand at work and had to have 11 stiches in it. I drilled the nail holes in the Kapur decking so Lois put every nail in that deck and punched them down so I could fill the holes with a mixture of araldite and sawdust.

'''MORGAN-STANSBURY'''

1991
I was 61 years old and everything was ready at Stansbury so I handed in my resignation and left Morgan E. &W.S. on the 16th November and we moved the last of our furniture etc. to our new home at Stansbury at 9 Adelaide Road. Once the garden was set up and lawns were planted front and rear, I made a vegie garden with concrete edging at the rear of our yard and planted four fruit trees.
It was now time to buy a boat for fishing and there was a 15ft GANNET runabout with a 25hp. Johnson outboard motor for sale in Stansbury for $2,700. I bought this boat and used it all the eight years we were at Stansbury and brought it back to Gawler with us and I sold it for $3,300 in 2003 to a bloke at Two Wells.

While we were in Stansbury we did a lot of travelling, first trip was in a Cub Camper Trailer towed by our VN Holden Station wagon. We followed the south and east coast all the way around to Sydney, stopping and staying at many places and spent ten days in Sydney. We came home through Canberra, stayed six days there, then to Bright, Eucha, Bendigo, Ballarat, Naracoorte and home. We were away for two months plus.
Our next trip was to Darwin (1995) on the way up we stayed at the Alice for a week and five days at Katherine, four days at Litchfield Park and ten days in Darwin. We then went to Kakadu National Park for six days, did a day trip out into Arnhem Land then came out through Cooinda and back onto the Stuart Highway and headed south to Alice Springs. We stayed there a few days then took the outside track to Kings Canyon.
We only stayed two nights at Kings Canyon then went to Uluru and stayed five nights. From there we came back to Coober Pedy for three nights then back to Woomera and Roxby Downs for a couple of days and home to Stansbury.

'''STANSBURY 1991-2000'''

When we got home I started planning our third trip up to Katherine and around the West Coast and across the Nullarbor to Home. I decided to sell the camper trailer and get a caravan for this trip and I bought a 12ft pop top 1976 model from an old couple in Hindmarsh. They had bought it new and it was in excellent condition, they only used to holiday to Aldinga twice a year. We did a trial run with it to Ceduna and it towed well behind the VN Wagon sitting on 110kms at times. When we got back home I was shocked to find that the tyres were split all the way round nearly every groove. They were the originals and they had perished and we were very lucky. So three new tyres the gear box reconditioned and a new clutch for the VN wagon and in late May 1977 we were heading north for Katherine and our trip around the West.
Everything went well until the Alice when the clutch started to shudder and squeal. It was Saturday afternoon every garage shut so we pushed onto Tennant Creek and stayed the night. We got to Katherine and pulled into a garage for fuel, the operator told us to stay away from Peter Kittle the man with golden spanner he called him where we intended to go. He put us onto a mechanic who had a workshop behind Woolworths and did all Kerry Holden work for them. Kerry Holden were in Darwin but sold a lot of vehicles in Katherine. We stayed at the caravan park that night and next morning (Monday) I took the wagon in for to him to look at and repair. To my amazement he informed me that Maitland Motors had fitted a reconditioned clutch not a new one and it had failed and they had not greased the pivot bearing, plus the throw out bearing had been running continuously and was ruined. A new kit was fitted and cost us $250 less than Maitland Motors, I had been ripped off and not happy.

Next stop was Timber Creek then onto Lake Argyle for three nights and a fabulous day on the lake. Next stop was Kununurra for a few days with a day trip to Wyndam. Turkey Creek was our next stop and an all day trip into the Bungle Bungles which was amazing to say the least. Halls Creek was next there we met up with Bill Atyeo and Jan. Had dinner with them and looked around the town for a couple of days before moving onto Fitzroy Crossing for a few days. The Crossing was a real eye opener; it was full of Aborigines, some vertical, most horizontal, they were everywhere. The main street, just dirt road, was paved with flattened beer cans. There were mounds of beer cans two or more meters high by four or more metres diameter on the edge of the main street and the shops were a mess. The strange thing was the caravan park was fully lawned spotlessly clean including a pool café come kiosk and toilets, showers and laundry. I would say it was one of the best parks we stayed in the whole trip.

Next stop was Derby where Lois took ill with the Kimberly Flu. She had to go to the outpatients at the hospital and it was full of aboriginals and she was not impressed. Derby was not a very attractive town for us, it had Boab trees in the middle of the main street and I picked up some Boab nuts to bring home. We stayed several days until Lois felt better then moved on, but what amazed me was the movement of the tides, they rushed in like a river flooding with about four metres from high to low. We moved on to Eighty Mile Beach and stayed there in the park, which was pretty basic. The toilets and the shower were portable buildings about a metre off the ground and large generators ran all day and night to supply power and our site was only 50 metres from them. It is a very popular place for beach casting and there are some beautiful shells to be found there. A bloke on a quad bike was bringing some big ones every day and selling them.

From there we went to Broome for ten days, we had a problem getting into a park, but we got into a brand new park, just one street back from Cable Beach by bribing him with a six pack of cans of West End Beer. It was a beaut park about 150m from the entrance to the beach takeaway and restaurant. Most nights we had tea at the beach and watched the sunset and an aboriginal bloke played the didgeridoo as the sun set over the water. There were lots of things to see and do in Broome and we enjoyed our 10 day stay there.
We then moved onto Port Hedland and stayed in Caravan Park at South Headland for three nights before going south 240kms to the AUSKI ROADHOUSE CARAVAN PARK for four nights. From Auski Road house we drove out to old Asbestos town of Wittenoom Gorge which was worth seeing plus the old town itself then back to Auski. The next day we did an all day trip into the Karigini National Park in a 4x4 bus, this was spectacular, the gorges and the pools are beautiful and the rock formations and colours were amazing. Next we came back up to South Headland and onto Roebourne for 2 nights then onto Exmouth. We didn’t think much about Exmouth, so we moved south to Coral Bay; this was an excellent spot so we stayed for a while. A trip out to Ningaloo Reef in a glass bottom boat was worth really while, the coloured fish and snapper were amazing The fish know the boat by the sound of the motor and they turn up underneath for a feed. The beaches were white, fine sand and the water was crystal clear.

Next stop was Carnarvon for a couple of days to get a new exhaust system fitted and a new drive belt tension pulley. We did a tour of a banana plantation and that was interesting, so was the lunch they served up as well. From there we went to Denham and Monkey Mia to see the dolphins, this was a rip off, you had pay to enter the beach and only a few selected were allowed to feed the dolphins. We stayed at Denham a few days then came out to Hamlyn Pool to have a look at the Stromatolites, then down the coast to Kalbarri. This is a beautiful place and the wild flowers were everywhere, as they had been in most places and on the roadside ever since we left Wittenoom. There were also the Kalbarri National Park wild flower walks and the beautiful scenery on a drive south of the town.
Geraldton was our next stop, it was a big town with a huge fishing fleet in the harbour, but otherwise not that interesting. After that we went onto Cervantes and The Pinnacles which were a real eye opener and well worth seeing. Cervantes itself was a strange old place with row upon row of shacks, and lots of tractors for launching boats. From there we went to Perth and stayed in a caravan park in the northern part on the outskirts. From there we did day trips using public transport from out front of the park, to the city. Kings Park and as far as Freemantle on a boat. We loved Perth it was clean and everybody was friendly and helpful and we were there for 6 days or more I think.

After Perth we followed the coast main road around to Esperance stopping at Augusta, Albany, Ravensthorpe and Esperance for 1 or 2 nights. When we got to Esperance it was raining heavily and the wind was blowing a gale. I filled up at a garage and the bloke said it would stay the same for days. He said the best thing to do was to get out and go to Kalgoorlie where it would be 25-30 degrees instead of 13 degrees like it was there. We took his advice and had a wonderful 5 days in Kalgoorlie and Boulder before heading across the Nullarbor. The first night we stayed at Madura and then the Travellers Village at Eucla the next night. The next day we headed for Ceduna stopping at the Head of the Bight to see the whales, we were lucky that day there were twenty five in the area, including a mother and her calf right under the viewing platform. Then it was Ceduna for the night and home to Stansbury the next day, a total of 15,000 kilometres.

About September 1998 Craig was involved in a car accident; he was the front seat passenger in a car driven by a drunken woman driver. The phone rang at 4.10am; it was the police telling us Craig was on his way to the R.A.H in a helicopter with serious injuries. Craig was in hospital for some time and then came home to Stansbury but he was suffering as a result of the accident and Lois was not handling the shock of the whole situation. One morning about 5.00am Lois became ill and I suspected it was the start of a heart attack by the pains etc. I got her to Yorketown hospital just in time, she went into cardiac arrest twice, and Doctor Koka was able to resuscitate her both times during a period of fourty minutes. Lois was extremely lucky, she was back in the boat with me fishing in January with no physical impediments but she has lost all her memory prior to the heart attack.

We had been in Stansbury for nine years and Lois had to go Adelaide a lot for medical test and visits to her heart specialist so we moved back to Gawler. We sold our house at Stansbury and came to Gawler in November 1999 to live at Hindmarsh Blvd Evanston Gardens. We still continued to holiday at Stansbury with our caravan and boat twice a year until May 2008. In May we decided to do a trip to Queensland, we sold our 12ft pop-top and bought a 14ft 6 Viscount Aero-lite pop-top.
We left for our trip in mid-May first to broken Hill, then to Wilcannia and onto Cobar, and made Bourke our third stay. We stayed at Bourke for 3 nights then moved onto Cunnamulla for one night, then to Charleville for three nights, and then to Blackall. Next stop was Barcaldine or Barky as the locals call it for four nights in the caravan park, where Country & Western singer Graham Rodjer was putting on a show every night right at the back of our caravan. Barcaldine was an interesting town with lots of things to see and do, we enjoyed it. We then headed for Longreach, on the way there was a little place called Ilfracombe where there is a museum on the side of the road 3kms long containing earth moving equipment, graders, tractors, old war tanks converted to bulldozers and all sorts of other heavy machinery. Entry is free and you stay as long as you want to. There is a 60km speed limit through the town, the police station and house is right on the roadside and the cop sits in chair with a remote and nabs you if you speed through town. The locals in Barky warned us about it and we saw him sitting there, with a drink in his hand and we saw the flash of the camera as we passed by. Longreach was the gem of the trip for me, and entertainment in the park was top notch. We stayed 5 nights and every night was entertainment and a barby with dessert for $7.00 each. We also did a late afternoon trip on the Thomson River on an old paddle boat. There was no separate control on the paddle wheels so everybody had to go to one side of the boat to lift the opposite side of the paddle wheel out of the water so we could turn around. By the time we got back to the campsite there was a roaring fire going, and two huge pots of road kill stew which was delicious, waiting for us and a choice of two desserts. After our meal we were treated to two hours of bush ballads and bush poetry, then taken back to the park, it was 11.pm all that for $15.00.The Stockman’s Hall of Fame and the Qantas museum were excellent and the railway station was good as well.
The next stop was Winton and the Waltzing Matilda Centre and the old General Store and Hardware shop which was stocked with all the original items, and there were lots of old buildings in the town, still in good condition. The old Flying Fox type overhead system for sending dockets and money from the sales counter to the cashier and return just like the one at Crosby’s (Essex House) in Gawler long ago when I was a kiddy. We had entertainment that night as we had in all the parks, from Bourke to Cloncurry and it was great after driving all day, to sit back with a beer or two and watch the shows and meet other travellers.
Cloncurry was our next stop for two nights with a day drive to Mt Isa and back. We didn’t find either of these towns very interesting so we set out for Karumba. Karumba was a strange sort of place, the town itself was a long way from the shore and so was the caravan park which was pretty basic. There lots of fishing boats and trawlers and I have never seen so many tinnies in one place at one time. Ten and twelve foot tinnies were going out miles and coming in with Barramundi and other fish I didn’t recognise. From there we went back to Cloncurry and onto Hughenden for two nights, and from there we went to Charters Towers.

Charters Towers has some of the best old buildings you would hope to find anywhere in Australia. There was weir across the Burdekin River a few kms out of town and we spent a Saturday out there, it’s a very pretty spot. People are very friendly around this area, we went to a pub for lunch on Sunday and met up with a young couple and we talked for hours and had a good laugh. We spent three nights there then went up to Cardwell for a stay; this included a day trip out to Hinchinbrook Island. With a walk from one end of the island to the other, 6kms it was and that’s where we saw our first and only cane toad in Queensland.

Cairns was our next stop with a trip in the tourist train up to karunda and back which was great. We also took a drive up to Port Douglas and Mossman one day, also a day trip to Cooktown, and one day at a huge shopping centre in Cairns. Next Town was Townsville for four nights, we went out to Magnetic Island for a whole day and that was great and the rest of the time we just drove around the town and had a rest.
We moved from there to Proserpine for a few days and went to Airlie Beach for the day and looked around the area. After that we moved onto Yeppoon and stayed in the park at Emu Park just down the road. It was a beaut spot very clean and quiet and run by a bloke from Waikerie SA, we got service and advice on where to go and see things etc. WE had an all day trip to Great Keppel Island and this included the underwater aquarium just off the coast. Next stop was Agnes Waters and 1770 which was beautiful the park there was all natural bushes, with sites set in amongst it. There were tame kookaburras everywhere that would eat from your hand, and lots of other native birds. We had a catamaran trip out to Lady Musgrave Island for the day and on the way out it was very rough and Lois and I were the only ones on the cat who were not sea sick. It was a perfect day out and on the way home Lois and I tried fishing for a while but caught nothing. The beaches were beautiful, dark coloured hard sand that was beaut for long walks. Next stop was Hervey Bay where we stayed at the Pialba Caravan Park and took a day trip out to Fraser Island. We really enjoyed the Island trip and other places around these parts.

We then then moved onto Caboolture, then Esk for a night and onto Toowoomba for two nights and onto Tenterfield for two nights and it was freezing cold at night but good days. Tamworth was our next stop with the big guitar centre display and really good motor cycle museum, with old and new bikes. From Tamworth we went to Forbes with the Big Dish, then to Hay for two nights, and then onto Mildura, where the power steering reservoir was found to be empty. It was a Sunday and I called the R.A.C.V. who gave me a litre of oil and said stay the night in the park and then fill it up in the morning and head for home and check every 100kms. We did this and arrived home next day with half a litre of oil to spare.
This was the only problem we had for the whole trip and we arrived home in late September. We didn’t do any more long trips with the van, only to Stansbury for three weeks every year. Until 2006 and then we sold it. Since then we have used cabins or villas when we travel or stay at Stansbury to fish.

In May 2008 we sold our house at Hindmarsh Blvd and purchased a home in Hillier Park Residential Village and have been living here for six years and Four Months at the time I am writing this, which is August 2014.

'''Growing up in Gawler 1946-1953'''

I was Sixteen in 1946 and entertainment was movies at the movie theatre on Saturday afternoon, and Wednesday night a dance in the Institute or South Hall, or the R.S.L. Hall or Gawler Blocks Hall an Saturday night.
Sometimes there would be a Ball in the Gawler Institute on Friday night and these would go from 8pm until 1.30am and they were very popular and well attended. Of course there was always footy at the oval on Saturday arvo in the winter time and cycling at the oval Friday evenings in the summer time.
Myself and two good mates Shrubie and Jim and sometimes Jack used to get rides to country dances with Freemans Band These were held at Hamley Bridge, One Tree Hill, Lyndoch, Williamstown and Roseworthy. We used to ride in the back of their EX. R.A.AF. utility along with a set of OCCIE Megors drums and sometimes Bill Threadgold and his saxophone. Crofts fruit and veg. and deli shop was the gathering spot for talking, gossiping and planning our next excursion or mischief. When we went to dances we would always take grog such as port, sherry, or we would take flagons filled with draught beer from the Railway Hotel. This had to hidden with great care somewhere over three hundred yards from the hall as drinking within three hundred yards was illegal and you would be fined if caught.
At Christmas time the in 1946 all the Atyeo family went to stay at Middle Beach, in a shack that Harry had bought, for 3 weeks. I met a girl who was camping with her family not far down the beach, and we hit it off just like that, right from the start. Her interests were the same as mine, the beach, fishing, swimming, crabbing, and boats. We spent the whole three weeks together in the daytime and at night she came up to our shack to play Bagatelle with our gang. From then until next Christmas we met up in Adelaide and went to a movie or a dance hall in King William Street with her sister and sometimes to Henley Beach for the day. She had an Aunty and Uncle in Gawler and she used to come and spend the weekend with them and sometimes at our place. We got together again for Christmas at Middle Beach in 1947 and had a great time but her Dad seemed cold towards me and did not invite me to come out in his boat as he had done previously. About a month after we came home she came to stay for a weekend and I knew something was wrong, she was upset and I knew she had been crying.
Her Aunty told me her dad had stopped her from coming to Gawler anymore, and from now on she was not to see me again. Her Dad and Mum were strictly catholic and would not listen to reason at all when I went home with her on the Sunday and tried to talk to them. We met up a couple of times but it was no good as her Dad would not give, and he was making life miserable for her, making curfews and turning up to take her home from her friends’ homes and even football.
At this time I was 18 years old and she was two month younger and both of us were devastated but it was a hopeless situation, so we agreed not to meet again. That was February 1948 and I vowed never to become seriously involved with a girl ever again. And hit the booze seriously every time I went out anywhere and every Saturday afternoon at the Roseworthy pub or the Sandy Creek pub.

One day at work Shrubie and I decided, or rather the office girl talked us into it, going to the Tuesday night dance in Gawler Institute without any grog, to see if we could pick up a girlfriend, this was May 1948. It was a slack night with not a lot of girls to choose from, but I spotted this one with a blue dress with tiny white spots on it and a full skirt. I watched her dancing and I could see she was a good dancer and really enjoyed every step. When the next dance was called I was there for the next dance, and then she said yes and we were away, and I am still dancing with her every chance I get after sixty years. We had nearly every dance together that first night and I walked her home to Willaston. I asked her what her name was and she said Ann Kelly, then we made a date for following Friday night and kissed goodnight and I walked home.
The next day at work the office girl wanted to know how I went, when I told her the full story, she said that the girl I took home was not Ann Kelly but a little devil called Lois Kilian. Friday night came and I wondered if she would show up for the walk around the town but she did and laughed about the name thing. We were a couple from then on for almost 5 years, we had a few disagreements, and broke up 2 or 3 times but we always got back together in a day or two. Lois would never know what kind of vehicle I would pick her up in to go out, it could be a motor bike, a 1925 Alvis car, a 1929 Austin Wasp which often refused to start when it was time to go home, or a push bike and a donkey ride, or my Dad’s car or a motor bike and side car. She put up with a lot, including my drinking when we first met and I wasn’t always on time for dates.
When Lois turned 18 years old on the 3rd of November 1951 we were engaged and on the 31st January 1953 we were married in the congregational Church at the top of hill in Reid Street Gawler and we set up home in the old School for Young Ladies at No: 1 Sutton Street Gawler. This house had originally been built in the 18 hundreds as a school for Mrs Elmore and was closed in 1878 when the Gawler Public School opened.

We lived at N0:1 Sutton Street until 1961 during that time our sons Kym, Peter and Garrie were born. Then we moved into an old house in 9th Street Gawler south until our new home was completed at 55 Hillier Road Evanston. The old place was very basic and built on three levels, with the kitchen in the cellar, and the bathroom and toilet were corrugated iron building in the back yard. It was a miserable 10 months until October when we moved into our new house but there was a lot of work ahead. While we were living there I used to drive school buses and some charter trips for Greg Harris part-time and during my holidays. I also worked for the Gawler Jockey Club watering the race course at night during the summer months of 61-62 and 62-63. Our fourth son Craig was born there in June 1971 and was christened in the Congregational Church as the other three boys had been. We became involved in the church in about 1956 so that the boys would learn what religion was all about if they chose to take that path in life.
I was the secretary of the congregational Church for a couple of years and also a Deacon but became disillusioned with religion during the joining of the Congregational and Presbytian churches. There was so much fighting and greed over properties and belongings that I became disgusted with all those involved. All they were concerned about was money, money, money and the older members were worse than anyone else when it came time to settle differences.
While we were living in Evanston I restored an old 13ft sailing dinghy, it was given to me after being pulled out of the Port River, behind Garden Island, possibly one dark night along with a 14ft cabin boat. I put 13 new ribs in it, a new gunwale plank down one side and two new seats then turned it over and fibre glassed the whole hull. I paid $50 for an old trailer and $50 for an old Water boy outboard motor, fixed them up and used the boat for 2 years at Middle Beach and on the river at Blanchtown then sold it $300.
Next project was to build two Hartley 13ft runabouts, in partnership with my friend Ivor Jones. We used the same building form to build the boats, Ivor’s boat first at Salisbury, after a toss up to see who got first use of the form. When we got his boat to turn over stage we brought the form up to Evanston and built my boat to turnover stage. In the meantime we had both built our own trailers and painted both hulls, so they went straight onto the trailers and from then on we finished our own boats at our homes. The both boats turned out to be really good and very sea worthy, they were both Marine Ply and Philippine mahogany frames, all copper rivets and nails and all fittings were either stainless steel or polished aluminium. I powered mine with a Johnson 33 H.P. outboard motor and it performed very well. I kept mine for five years and Ivor had his for thirty five years or more until he died and left it to his son and as far as I know it’s still going strong. After that I built a 12ft two man canoe, using the same Marine Ply and timber that I used for the boat, this turned out to be very good too. It was used at the beach and on the river.
I took the canoe to Morgan and used it on the river and Craig and I paddled all over the golf course when it was in flood in 1982. Eventually I sold it to a bloke from Waikerie, he had a plan to take it to Remark and paddle down to Goolwa. I don’t know if he ever did it or not as I never heard from him again. I’m sure he would have made it as it was very stable and had inbuilt floatation.

'''TO YOU BOYS''' (this was written for his Sons)

I have written down all these memories so that my boys will know that I have had a very interesting time while I have been around. The stories that I’ve told are all true and I could tell you lots more about practical jokes I have played on people and jokes that I myself have carried out on people. I can tell you now that I have also been on the receiving end of a few, like finding my motor bike in the ladies toilet, when it was time to go home from work or dangling from the hook of the travelling crane in the workshop five metres from the floor. Another time when I started my bike I got a hell of a shock off the throttle grip; there was a very fine wire from the spark plug to the rubber throttle grip. Another good one was I got on my Panther and Tilbrook side-car outfit in the car park after clocking off with a large audience took off 20metres down the road engine starts to labour, shut the throttle, pull in the clutch and next thing I’m back in the park fifty blokes cheering and clapping with a length of Bungee rubber fixed to the rear of the side-car chassis and the other end to a gum tree.
THAT’S ALL FOLKS
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Gawler Military Involvement

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Gawler has a long history of military involvement; including military activities in the region, local people in the military and military-related organisations, memorials and commemorative events.

The earliest military-style organisation in Gawler, the voluntary [[First Gawler Rifles]] existed as far back as 1859, followed by the formation of the Volunteer Mounted Rifles in 1890, although the Mounted Rifles disbanded five years later when a new Act enforced volunteer forces to become militia.<ref name=":0">Coombe E H (1910) History of Gawler 1837-1908</ref>

=== South African War or Boer War (1899-1902) ===
April 1900 saw enthusiastic crowds gathered in Murray Street as several local members of the Imperial Contingent, headed by May’s Brass Band, marched to a social held at the Institute Hall to farewell them on their way to the South African War.<ref>On the War Path. Imperial Contingenters Socialised (Bunyip 4 May 1900) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100578086</nowiki></ref> Just months later the ‘stern realities of war’ came home when two of the group, Troopers F J Tothill and A R Nicholas, were killed.<ref>The Saddest Side of War. Promising Lives Cut Off. (Bunyip 3 Aug 1900) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100577584</nowiki></ref>

Trooper Bruce Harold May, son of [[May Alfred|Alfred May]] founder of [[May Bros and Co|May Bros]], was also killed, after being accidentally shot by a comrade during a mounted infantry competition whilst serving in South Africa.<ref>The Late Trooper May. Accidentally Shot by Comrade. (Chronicle 19 Oct 1901) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87816335</nowiki></ref>

News of the declaration of peace in South Africa reached Gawler shortly before 9 am on the 2nd June 1902 and was heralded via the booming of [[Popham (Cr) Dr William Home|Dr Popham]]’s cannon, the blowing of whistles at Martin & Co, May Bros and the Union Mill and the flying of flags galore.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">The South African War. Peace Proclaimed. Demonstrations and Rejoicing. (Bunyip 6 Jun 1902) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97595497</nowiki></ref>

That night hundreds of people gathered in the streets to watch a torchlight procession, with Rigg’s Gawler Band playing a prominent part; speeches were given from the [[Gawler Town Hall Murray Street 89|Town Hall]] balcony and the evening was concluded with the National Anthem and cheers for the King.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

The details of the local men who died whilst serving in the Boer War are:<ref>Genealogy SA (Nov 1999) SA Genealogist Journal, Volume 26 (4).</ref><ref>Beth Page ‘Gawler WWI Website – Boer War’, [Online accessed Apr 2026] https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com/boer-war.htm</ref><ref>Australian War Memorial Website [Online accessed Apr 2026] https://www.awm.gov.au/</ref>

'''HEINJUS John Henry''' (Service No. 5) Corporal, 1st Australian Mounted Rifles. Born 18 Oct 1870 at Sheoak Log, son of John Henry Heinjus & nee Caroline Hart. Died of Typhoid 26 Apr 1900, aged 29. [Listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll]

'''MAY Bruce Harold''' (Service No. 375) Trooper, 5th South Australian Imperial Bushman. Born 20 Aug 1879, Gawler, son of Alfred May and nee Mary Jane Ball. Worked at May Bros Foundry. Died as a result of an accident on 7 Sep 1901, aged 22 years. [Listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll & May Bros WWI Honour Roll]

'''NICHOLAS Alexander William''' (Service No. 208) Trooper, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen. Born 15 Mar 1880, Lyndoch, son of David Nicholas and nee Alberia Gower. Killed in action 24 Jul 1900, whilst trying to assist Trooper Tothill (listed below), who had been shot. [Not listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll - possibly as he was not born in the district]

'''TOTHILL Frederick Joseph''' (Service No. 163) Trooper, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen. Born 21 Jul 1881, at Koolunga, son of Frederick Henry Tothill and nee Jessie Marina Renner. Killed in action 25 Jul 1900. [Listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll – although Trooper Tothill was not born in district, his father F H Tothill was manager of the Gawler National Bank at the time.]

For details of all of the Gawler personnel who served in the Boer War see https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com/boer-war.html (This website is an excellent, thoroughly researched resource, proudly created by Beth Page).

=== Great War or First World War (WWI)(1914-1918) ===
The years leading up to the Great War (WWI) saw numerous preparations, including the formation of a branch of the Light Horse in Gawler; the initial 15 members turning out on their mounts for the first time in November 1912 to perform drills under Sergeant-Major Denniston.<ref>Gawler Light Horse (Bunyip 22 Nov 1916) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97564429</nowiki></ref>

March 1913 saw the first of many military training encampments at Gawler, with the [[Gawler Racecourse|Evanston Racecourse]] housing 1600 recruits for an eight day camp.<ref name=":2">Solidiers Home Again. The Gawler Camp Ended. (The Advertiser 29 Mar 1913) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5387956</nowiki></ref> At the end of the camp the people of Gawler stood and watched as the “long column of khaki-clad trainees” marched to the train to the music of a military band.<ref name=":2" /> The camp was historically significant in that it was the first held in South Australia under the universal training system.<ref name=":3">The Military Camp. Good Arrangements. A Successful Fixture. (Bunyip 17 Apr 1914) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97734711</nowiki></ref>

A second camp was held at the Evanston Racecourse the following Easter, April 1914, with the total number in the camp this time approaching 3000, housed in 750 tents.<ref name=":3" /> Gawler businesses were given the opportunity to provide some of the supplies but the orders were too large for them to fill; however local photographers and stores selling soft drinks, sweets and fruit did good business when the troops were on leave in the evenings and the streets of Gawler filled with khaki.<ref name=":3" /> The camp was opened for the church parade on Sunday afternoon and thousands of local and visiting folks attended.<ref name=":3" />

Within weeks of the declaration of the war on the 2nd August 1914, local men enlisted to fight. The first Cecil Stephen Hincks enlisted on the 19th August 1914, followed on the 24th August by Arthur Ernest Beard, Rodney Vernon Franklin, Leslie Bryant Howie, Arthur Harold Robinson and Frank John Scott. These [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6920027995 first six recruits were photographed together] before embarking on the 20th October 1914 aboard HMAT "Ascanius".

Local women also enlisted, including Sister Elsie Maud Trenaman, Matron of Gawler’s [[Hutchinson Hospital East Terrace 6|Hutchinson Hospital]], who was impelled by the urgent need for skilled nurses; she embarked for overseas on 15th May 1915 aboard “Mooltan”.<ref>The Call of Duty. Farewell to Sister Trenaman. (Bunyip 21 May 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97735622</nowiki></ref> (see [[ANZAC Girls]] for a list of local women who served in WWI)

The first news of a local soldier being killed reached Gawler in January 1916; Private Andrew Downie Cochrane, having died of wounds on the Gallipoli Peninsula, on the 9th December 1915. <ref>https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com</ref><ref name=":4">Social and Personal Items (Bunyip 28 Jan 1916) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97736204</nowiki></ref> Andy, as he was known, had made his home in Gawler some years prior, he was a splendid horseman, riding in most of the country racecourses and picnic race meetings and had been training horses at the time of his enlistment.<ref name=":4" />

That news of his death was the first to reach Gawler, demonstrates the delays in communication the community faced during the war. Contemporary research shows that Private Cochrane was actually the last of the 17 local soldiers killed at Gallipoli, including four who died in the ANZAC Day landing on 25th April 1915, some nine months earlier. For a list of the local men who died at Gallipoli or as a result of other WWI campaigns see [[ANZACs and other WWI Personnel]]. For details of all of the Gawler personnel who served in WWI see the [https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website], an excellent, thoroughly researched resource, created by researcher Beth Page.

Meanwhile back home, the town of Gawler continued to host military training camps. April 1915 saw three successive Light Horse Regiments (24th, 22nd & 23rd), training without their horses for a fortnight each.<ref>The Gawler Camp. (Bunyip 16 Apr 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97734312</nowiki></ref><ref name=":5">Light Horse Camp on the Gawler Oval. (Bunyip 9 Apr 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97738721</nowiki></ref> This time the camp took place at the [[Gawler Oval - Nixon Terrace|Gawler oval]], where the grandstand was enclosed with canvas for use by the officers and a shortage of tents (only about 15) saw many of the 300 plus men sleeping in the main hall.<ref name=":5" /> Lieut.-Col. R. R. Baldwin extended gratitude to the people and societies of Gawler for the way they entertained the officers and men, and in particular to Rigg’s Vice Regal Band for the role they played supplying the music for the church parade.<ref>Military Camps. The Light Horse at Gawler. Exit 24th; Enter 22nd. (Bunyip 23 Apr 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97737739</nowiki></ref>

In September 1915 camps were again set up at the Evanston Racecourse, housing 500 to 600 at a time in a succession of troops over a two month period.<ref name=":6">Departure of Soldiers from Gawler. The Military Camp. (Bunyip 5 Nov 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97740689</nowiki></ref> The campsite was declared to be “one of the best camps in the Commonwealth” and the men were said to “all express the wish, if occasion arises, to again camp in Gawler whose inhabitants they are much pleased with.”.<ref name=":6" />

The racecourse camp was re-established the following year in August 1916 with a constant succession of troops scheduled through until March 1917 and for a few months within this period troops were also camped at the Gawler oval (also referred to as the Exhibition Grounds)(Bunyip 4 & 18 Aug 1916, 29 Sep 1916 & 8 Dec 1916).

In addition to welcoming the multitudes of training troops, the citizens of Gawler were assisting the war effort in other ways. [[May Bros and Co|May Bros Foundry]] undertook the manufacturing of shells, the local ladies of the Coo-ee Knitting Club and Knitting League knitted socks, helmets and other necessities for soldiers and local members of the Red Cross Society and [[Gawler Cheer Up Society|Cheer Up Society]] raised funds, collected jams, cakes and other goods for the soldiers and organised amusements for them.<ref>Whitelock Derek (1989) Gawler: Colonel Light’s Country Town, Corporation of the Town of Gawler, South Australia.</ref><ref>The Cheer Up Society (Bunyip 3 Dec 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97739561</nowiki></ref>

The 22nd July 1918 saw a visit by 100 French soldiers who were returning to New Caledonia on furlough. At short notice Gawler’s Cheer Up Society decorated the town with flags and bunting and arranged a convoy of local motor car owners to transport the visitors from the train station to the Town Hall and afterwards for a short run out into the countryside.<ref>'BIENVENU - Gawler’s Welcome to the French Soldiers’ (Bunyip 26 Jul 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100418620</nowiki></ref>

Then on the morning of 11th November 1918 Gawler again gathered, this time to welcome French General Pau and members of the French Mission who were on a three month visit to Australia to strengthen trade ties between the nations and acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices of both countries during the war. Through an interpreter General Pau thanked the crowd “on behalf of France for the help of Australia’s sons and the many lives given to protect his beloved country” and made the posthumous presentation of the French Croix de Guerre to Mr C R Franklin, whose son Lt Rodney Vernon Franklin, one of Gawler’s first six recruits, was killed in action. Mr Franklin consented to have the medal “displayed in the show window of “The Bunyip” so that it may be seen by the citizens of Gawler”.<ref>The French Mission at Gawler (Bunyip 15 Nov 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100420584</nowiki></ref>

That evening there were “scenes of wildest joy” never before witnessed in the history of Gawler as the news was circulated that Germany had signed the armistice –citizens visited the Bunyip office in the fear that the glad message may be another of the hoaxes that had reached the town before, but shortly after 8 o’clock they were able to verify that the news was official.<ref name=":7">Gawler Celebrations - Scenes of Wildest Joy (Bunyip 15 Nov 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100420593</nowiki></ref> When the news reached the Town Hall it burst into a flood of light and the council which had been sitting at the time assembled on the steps of the building where they sang the National Anthem and gave cheers for the victory.<ref name=":7" /> Soon the factory whistles and church bells sounded and young and old hurried to Murray Street to join the celebrations, Rigg’s band left their practice room and were soon on the balcony of the Town Hall playing, the Mayor spoke a few words and suggested a procession which was gladly taken up with hundreds marching up to the McKinley Monument, down to the bridge and back to the Town Hall.<ref name=":7" />

Celebrations continued throughout the town over the following days, including services of thanksgiving in many of the churches and outside the Town Hall and the creation of an effigy of the Kaiser by the ladies of Essex House, which was hung over the railings of the Town Hall, towed on a wire until it was suspended over the centre of the main street and burned to heavy cheering.<ref>Kaiser in Effigy (Bunyip 15 Nov 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100420591</nowiki></ref>

=== Second World War (WWII)(1939-1945) ===
For details of local men and women who served in WWII, see [[WWII Personnel]].

=== Honour Roll Boards ===
Over the years numerous Honour Rolls have been created to recognise local personnel who served or died; in addition to rolls for the whole district, many churches and other organisations had rolls created to honour their members who had served. Whilst some of the honour rolls remain with the organisations that created them, those that form part of the Gawler Heritage Collection were placed on display together to form a “Walk of Honour” in the lower ground floor corridor of the Gawler Civic Centre, as part of the 2019 Civic Centre renovations (this display is still there in 2026 and is publicly accessible).

Note the lists of names on the rolls are subject to the information available at the time they were compiled, the boundaries used to delineate the local district and the criteria used to determine who was local (born locally, resided locally, enlisted locally or had local next of kin). Stars or crosses are often used to indicate those who died whilst serving.

The Honour Rolls include (Honour vs Honor is written as it appears on the roll):

'''Gawler Boer War Honour Roll''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277604796 photo]]

After having the WWI Honour Roll created in 1917, the Institute Committee felt the need to provide tangible recognition for the ‘lads from Gawler’ who died whilst serving in the Boer War. So in 1918 they commissioned a Boer War Honour Roll - “a handsome design in beaten copper … the plate carries the inscription "In Remembrance of Brave Gawler Boys who fell in the Boer War, 1898-1900. J. H. Heinjus, Cpl.; F. J. Tothill Tpr.; B. R. May, Tpr."<ref>(Bunyip 5 Jul 1918) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100416544</ref> [actually written ‘Bruce May Trp.’].

'''Roll of Honor 1914-1919 (WWI)''' [presented by H Bischof Esq of Spring Gully, president of Institute][see [[ANZACs and other WWI Personnel|Anzacs and other WWI Personne]]<nowiki/>l for list]

'''Gawler Baptist Church Honour Roll – The Great War 1914-1919''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277604796 photo]][donated to Gawler Council in 2008 – see [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/29626271254 Bunyip (3 Sep 2008) article], 57 listed, incl 8 with crosses]

'''Gawler Salvation Army Roll of Honour''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277832364 photo]][22 listed, incl 9 with stars]

'''Loyal Gawler Lodge IOOF MU 1914-1919''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55276687052 photo]][28 listed, incl 5 with stars]

'''May Bros & Co Limited Honor Roll 1914-1919''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277604816 photo]][incl 1 killed Boer War (B May) & 42 served WWI, 4 with stars]

'''Mays Mechanics Band Members Enlisted 1914-19__''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277735543 photo]][18 listed]

'''Independent Order of Oddfellows Members on Active Service 1939-1945''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55278002950 photo]][34 listed, incl 1 with star]

'''Gawler WWII Honour Roll''' [by Gawler RSL Sub-Branch 2007][see [[WWII Personnel]]]

'''Gawler Honour Roll - Vietnam – Malaya – Korea''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55276686947 photo]][Gawler RSL Sub-Branch 2000 - Vietnam 60 incl 4 crosses, Malaya 5 incl 1 cross, Korea 2 incl 1 cross]

=== Other Memorials ===
Numerous other memorials have been erected in Gawler, including:

'''[[Gawler South World War I Memorial]]'''

'''Congregational Church Memorial Bell'''

Unveiled September 1921, the bell is a memorial for the men connected with the church who had given their lives in the Great War. It was cast and the mountings made at Perry’s Engineering, and bears the inscription: 'Lest we forget. 1914 - 1918. R. A. Rice. E. Sheard. H. S. Sheriff. September, 1921'<ref>'Congregational Church Memorial Bell' (Bunyip 16 Sep 1921) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97751410</ref>

'''St George Anglican Church Bells'''

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=== Links ===

Please <[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157684530577614/ click here]> to see images of Gawler Military Involvement.

Please <[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GO0FNkbIn5evLnPkQchGU3D-lythXlCv/view?usp=sharing click here]> to read a Bunyip newspaper story regarding forgotten WWI soldiers being honoured at Willaston Cemetery (9 Dec 2020).

Please <[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157714778478048 click here]> to view the Fred Brooks RAAF and WAAAF photo collection.
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Gawler Military Involvement

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Gawler has a long history of military involvement; including military activities in the region, local people in the military and military-related organisations, memorials and commemorative events.

The earliest military-style organisation in Gawler, the voluntary [[First Gawler Rifles]] existed as far back as 1859, followed by the formation of the Volunteer Mounted Rifles in 1890, although the Mounted Rifles disbanded five years later when a new Act enforced volunteer forces to become militia.<ref name=":0">Coombe E H (1910) History of Gawler 1837-1908</ref>

=== South African War or Boer War (1899-1902) ===
April 1900 saw enthusiastic crowds gathered in Murray Street as several local members of the Imperial Contingent, headed by May’s Brass Band, marched to a social held at the Institute Hall to farewell them on their way to the South African War.<ref>On the War Path. Imperial Contingenters Socialised (Bunyip 4 May 1900) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100578086</nowiki></ref> Just months later the ‘stern realities of war’ came home when two of the group, Troopers F J Tothill and A R Nicholas, were killed.<ref>The Saddest Side of War. Promising Lives Cut Off. (Bunyip 3 Aug 1900) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100577584</nowiki></ref>

Trooper Bruce Harold May, son of [[May Alfred|Alfred May]] founder of [[May Bros and Co|May Bros]], was also killed, after being accidentally shot by a comrade during a mounted infantry competition whilst serving in South Africa.<ref>The Late Trooper May. Accidentally Shot by Comrade. (Chronicle 19 Oct 1901) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87816335</nowiki></ref>

News of the declaration of peace in South Africa reached Gawler shortly before 9 am on the 2nd June 1902 and was heralded via the booming of [[Popham (Cr) Dr William Home|Dr Popham]]’s cannon, the blowing of whistles at Martin & Co, May Bros and the Union Mill and the flying of flags galore.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">The South African War. Peace Proclaimed. Demonstrations and Rejoicing. (Bunyip 6 Jun 1902) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97595497</nowiki></ref>

That night hundreds of people gathered in the streets to watch a torchlight procession, with Rigg’s Gawler Band playing a prominent part; speeches were given from the [[Gawler Town Hall Murray Street 89|Town Hall]] balcony and the evening was concluded with the National Anthem and cheers for the King.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

The details of the local men who died whilst serving in the Boer War are:<ref>Genealogy SA (Nov 1999) SA Genealogist Journal, Volume 26 (4).</ref><ref>Beth Page ‘Gawler WWI Website – Boer War’, [Online accessed Apr 2026] https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com/boer-war.htm</ref><ref>Australian War Memorial Website [Online accessed Apr 2026] https://www.awm.gov.au/</ref>

'''HEINJUS John Henry''' (Service No. 5) Corporal, 1st Australian Mounted Rifles. Born 18 Oct 1870 at Sheoak Log, son of John Henry Heinjus & nee Caroline Hart. Died of Typhoid 26 Apr 1900, aged 29. [Listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll]

'''MAY Bruce Harold''' (Service No. 375) Trooper, 5th South Australian Imperial Bushman. Born 20 Aug 1879, Gawler, son of Alfred May and nee Mary Jane Ball. Worked at May Bros Foundry. Died as a result of an accident on 7 Sep 1901, aged 22 years. [Listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll & May Bros WWI Honour Roll]

'''NICHOLAS Alexander William''' (Service No. 208) Trooper, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen. Born 15 Mar 1880, Lyndoch, son of David Nicholas and nee Alberia Gower. Killed in action 24 Jul 1900, whilst trying to assist Trooper Tothill (listed below), who had been shot. [Not listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll - possibly as he was not born in the district]

'''TOTHILL Frederick Joseph''' (Service No. 163) Trooper, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen. Born 21 Jul 1881, at Koolunga, son of Frederick Henry Tothill and nee Jessie Marina Renner. Killed in action 25 Jul 1900. [Listed on Gawler Boer War Honour Roll – although Trooper Tothill was not born in district, his father F H Tothill was manager of the Gawler National Bank at the time.]

For details of all of the Gawler personnel who served in the Boer War see https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com/boer-war.html (This website is an excellent, thoroughly researched resource, proudly created by Beth Page).

=== Great War or First World War (WWI)(1914-1918) ===
The years leading up to the Great War (WWI) saw numerous preparations, including the formation of a branch of the Light Horse in Gawler; the initial 15 members turning out on their mounts for the first time in November 1912 to perform drills under Sergeant-Major Denniston.<ref>Gawler Light Horse (Bunyip 22 Nov 1916) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97564429</nowiki></ref>

March 1913 saw the first of many military training encampments at Gawler, with the [[Gawler Racecourse|Evanston Racecourse]] housing 1600 recruits for an eight day camp.<ref name=":2">Solidiers Home Again. The Gawler Camp Ended. (The Advertiser 29 Mar 1913) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5387956</nowiki></ref> At the end of the camp the people of Gawler stood and watched as the “long column of khaki-clad trainees” marched to the train to the music of a military band.<ref name=":2" /> The camp was historically significant in that it was the first held in South Australia under the universal training system.<ref name=":3">The Military Camp. Good Arrangements. A Successful Fixture. (Bunyip 17 Apr 1914) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97734711</nowiki></ref>

A second camp was held at the Evanston Racecourse the following Easter, April 1914, with the total number in the camp this time approaching 3000, housed in 750 tents.<ref name=":3" /> Gawler businesses were given the opportunity to provide some of the supplies but the orders were too large for them to fill; however local photographers and stores selling soft drinks, sweets and fruit did good business when the troops were on leave in the evenings and the streets of Gawler filled with khaki.<ref name=":3" /> The camp was opened for the church parade on Sunday afternoon and thousands of local and visiting folks attended.<ref name=":3" />

Within weeks of the declaration of the war on the 2nd August 1914, local men enlisted to fight. The first Cecil Stephen Hincks enlisted on the 19th August 1914, followed on the 24th August by Arthur Ernest Beard, Rodney Vernon Franklin, Leslie Bryant Howie, Arthur Harold Robinson and Frank John Scott. These [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6920027995 first six recruits were photographed together] before embarking on the 20th October 1914 aboard HMAT "Ascanius".

Local women also enlisted, including Sister Elsie Maud Trenaman, Matron of Gawler’s [[Hutchinson Hospital East Terrace 6|Hutchinson Hospital]], who was impelled by the urgent need for skilled nurses; she embarked for overseas on 15th May 1915 aboard “Mooltan”.<ref>The Call of Duty. Farewell to Sister Trenaman. (Bunyip 21 May 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97735622</nowiki></ref> (see [[ANZAC Girls]] for a list of local women who served in WWI)

The first news of a local soldier being killed reached Gawler in January 1916; Private Andrew Downie Cochrane, having died of wounds on the Gallipoli Peninsula, on the 9th December 1915. <ref>https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com</ref><ref name=":4">Social and Personal Items (Bunyip 28 Jan 1916) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97736204</nowiki></ref> Andy, as he was known, had made his home in Gawler some years prior, he was a splendid horseman, riding in most of the country racecourses and picnic race meetings and had been training horses at the time of his enlistment.<ref name=":4" />

That news of his death was the first to reach Gawler, demonstrates the delays in communication the community faced during the war. Contemporary research shows that Private Cochrane was actually the last of the 17 local soldiers killed at Gallipoli, including four who died in the ANZAC Day landing on 25th April 1915, some nine months earlier. For a list of the local men who died at Gallipoli or as a result of other WWI campaigns see [[ANZACs and other WWI Personnel]]. For details of all of the Gawler personnel who served in WWI see the [https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website], an excellent, thoroughly researched resource, created by researcher Beth Page.

Meanwhile back home, the town of Gawler continued to host military training camps. April 1915 saw three successive Light Horse Regiments (24th, 22nd & 23rd), training without their horses for a fortnight each.<ref>The Gawler Camp. (Bunyip 16 Apr 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97734312</nowiki></ref><ref name=":5">Light Horse Camp on the Gawler Oval. (Bunyip 9 Apr 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97738721</nowiki></ref> This time the camp took place at the [[Gawler Oval - Nixon Terrace|Gawler oval]], where the grandstand was enclosed with canvas for use by the officers and a shortage of tents (only about 15) saw many of the 300 plus men sleeping in the main hall.<ref name=":5" /> Lieut.-Col. R. R. Baldwin extended gratitude to the people and societies of Gawler for the way they entertained the officers and men, and in particular to Rigg’s Vice Regal Band for the role they played supplying the music for the church parade.<ref>Military Camps. The Light Horse at Gawler. Exit 24th; Enter 22nd. (Bunyip 23 Apr 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97737739</nowiki></ref>

In September 1915 camps were again set up at the Evanston Racecourse, housing 500 to 600 at a time in a succession of troops over a two month period.<ref name=":6">Departure of Soldiers from Gawler. The Military Camp. (Bunyip 5 Nov 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97740689</nowiki></ref> The campsite was declared to be “one of the best camps in the Commonwealth” and the men were said to “all express the wish, if occasion arises, to again camp in Gawler whose inhabitants they are much pleased with.”.<ref name=":6" />

The racecourse camp was re-established the following year in August 1916 with a constant succession of troops scheduled through until March 1917 and for a few months within this period troops were also camped at the Gawler oval (also referred to as the Exhibition Grounds)(Bunyip 4 & 18 Aug 1916, 29 Sep 1916 & 8 Dec 1916).

In addition to welcoming the multitudes of training troops, the citizens of Gawler were assisting the war effort in other ways. [[May Bros and Co|May Bros Foundry]] undertook the manufacturing of shells, the local ladies of the Coo-ee Knitting Club and Knitting League knitted socks, helmets and other necessities for soldiers and local members of the Red Cross Society and [[Gawler Cheer Up Society|Cheer Up Society]] raised funds, collected jams, cakes and other goods for the soldiers and organised amusements for them.<ref>Whitelock Derek (1989) Gawler: Colonel Light’s Country Town, Corporation of the Town of Gawler, South Australia.</ref><ref>The Cheer Up Society (Bunyip 3 Dec 1915) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97739561</nowiki></ref>

The 22nd July 1918 saw a visit by 100 French soldiers who were returning to New Caledonia on furlough. At short notice Gawler’s Cheer Up Society decorated the town with flags and bunting and arranged a convoy of local motor car owners to transport the visitors from the train station to the Town Hall and afterwards for a short run out into the countryside.<ref>'BIENVENU - Gawler’s Welcome to the French Soldiers’ (Bunyip 26 Jul 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100418620</nowiki></ref>

Then on the morning of 11th November 1918 Gawler again gathered, this time to welcome French General Pau and members of the French Mission who were on a three month visit to Australia to strengthen trade ties between the nations and acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices of both countries during the war. Through an interpreter General Pau thanked the crowd “on behalf of France for the help of Australia’s sons and the many lives given to protect his beloved country” and made the posthumous presentation of the French Croix de Guerre to Mr C R Franklin, whose son Lt Rodney Vernon Franklin, one of Gawler’s first six recruits, was killed in action. Mr Franklin consented to have the medal “displayed in the show window of “The Bunyip” so that it may be seen by the citizens of Gawler”.<ref>The French Mission at Gawler (Bunyip 15 Nov 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100420584</nowiki></ref>

That evening there were “scenes of wildest joy” never before witnessed in the history of Gawler as the news was circulated that Germany had signed the armistice –citizens visited the Bunyip office in the fear that the glad message may be another of the hoaxes that had reached the town before, but shortly after 8 o’clock they were able to verify that the news was official.<ref name=":7">Gawler Celebrations - Scenes of Wildest Joy (Bunyip 15 Nov 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100420593</nowiki></ref> When the news reached the Town Hall it burst into a flood of light and the council which had been sitting at the time assembled on the steps of the building where they sang the National Anthem and gave cheers for the victory.<ref name=":7" /> Soon the factory whistles and church bells sounded and young and old hurried to Murray Street to join the celebrations, Rigg’s band left their practice room and were soon on the balcony of the Town Hall playing, the Mayor spoke a few words and suggested a procession which was gladly taken up with hundreds marching up to the McKinley Monument, down to the bridge and back to the Town Hall.<ref name=":7" />

Celebrations continued throughout the town over the following days, including services of thanksgiving in many of the churches and outside the Town Hall and the creation of an effigy of the Kaiser by the ladies of Essex House, which was hung over the railings of the Town Hall, towed on a wire until it was suspended over the centre of the main street and burned to heavy cheering.<ref>Kaiser in Effigy (Bunyip 15 Nov 1918) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100420591</nowiki></ref>

=== Second World War (WWII)(1939-1945) ===
For details of local men and women who served in WWII, see [[WWII Personnel]].

=== Honour Roll Boards ===
Over the years numerous Honour Rolls have been created to recognise local personnel who served or died; in addition to rolls for the whole district, many churches and other organisations had rolls created to honour their members who had served. Whilst some of the honour rolls remain with the organisations that created them, those that form part of the Gawler Heritage Collection were placed on display together to form a “Walk of Honour” in the lower ground floor corridor of the Gawler Civic Centre, as part of the 2019 Civic Centre renovations (this display is still there in 2026 and is publicly accessible).

Note the lists of names on the rolls are subject to the information available at the time they were compiled, the boundaries used to delineate the local district and the criteria used to determine who was local (born locally, resided locally, enlisted locally or had local next of kin). Stars or crosses are often used to indicate those who died whilst serving.

The Honour Rolls include (Honour vs Honor is written as it appears on the roll):

'''Gawler Boer War Honour Roll''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277604796 photo]]

After having the WWI Honour Roll created in 1917, the Institute Committee felt the need to provide tangible recognition for the ‘lads from Gawler’ who died whilst serving in the Boer War. So in 1918 they commissioned a Boer War Honour Roll - “a handsome design in beaten copper … the plate carries the inscription "In Remembrance of Brave Gawler Boys who fell in the Boer War, 1898-1900. J. H. Heinjus, Cpl.; F. J. Tothill Tpr.; B. R. May, Tpr."<ref>(Bunyip 5 Jul 1918) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100416544</ref> [actually written ‘Bruce May Trp.’].

'''Roll of Honor 1914-1919 (WWI)''' [presented by H Bischof Esq of Spring Gully, president of Institute][see [[ANZACs and other WWI Personnel|Anzacs and other WWI Personne]]<nowiki/>l for list]

'''Gawler Baptist Church Honour Roll – The Great War 1914-1919''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277604796 photo]][donated to Gawler Council in 2008 – see [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/29626271254 Bunyip (3 Sep 2008) article], 57 listed, incl 8 with crosses]

'''Gawler Salvation Army Roll of Honour''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277832364 photo]][22 listed, incl 9 with stars]

'''Loyal Gawler Lodge IOOF MU 1914-1919''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55276687052 photo]][28 listed, incl 5 with stars]

'''May Bros & Co Limited Honor Roll 1914-1919''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277604816 photo]][incl 1 killed Boer War (B May) & 42 served WWI, 4 with stars]

'''Mays Mechanics Band Members Enlisted 1914-19__''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55277735543 photo]][18 listed]

'''Independent Order of Oddfellows Members on Active Service 1939-1945''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55278002950 photo]][34 listed, incl 1 with star]

'''Gawler WWII Honour Roll''' [by Gawler RSL Sub-Branch 2007][see [[WWII Personnel]]]

'''Gawler Honour Roll - Vietnam – Malaya – Korea''' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55276686947 photo]][Gawler RSL Sub-Branch 2000 - Vietnam 60 incl 4 crosses, Malaya 5 incl 1 cross, Korea 2 incl 1 cross]

=== Other Memorials ===
Numerous other memorials have been erected in Gawler, including:

'''[[Gawler South World War I Memorial]]'''

'''Congregational Church Memorial Bell'''

Unveiled September 1921, the bell is a memorial for the men connected with the church who have given their lives in the Great War. It was cast and the mountings made at Perry’s engineering, and bears the inscription: 'Lest we forget. 1914 - 1918. R. A. Rice. E. Sheard. H. S. Sheriff. September, 1921'<ref>'Congregational Church Memorial Bell' (Bunyip 16 Sep 1921) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97751410</ref>

'''St George Anglican Church Bells'''

.

=== Links ===

Please <[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157684530577614/ click here]> to see images of Gawler Military Involvement.

Please <[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GO0FNkbIn5evLnPkQchGU3D-lythXlCv/view?usp=sharing click here]> to read a Bunyip newspaper story regarding forgotten WWI soldiers being honoured at Willaston Cemetery (9 Dec 2020).

Please <[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157714778478048 click here]> to view the Fred Brooks RAAF and WAAAF photo collection.
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ANZACs and other WWI Personnel

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[[File:WWI Army Recruits.jpg|thumb|Gawler's First WWI Recruits - 1914 (Back row: Arthur Robinson, Rodney Franklin, Leslie Howie. Front row: Arthur Beard, Cecil Hincks, Frank Scott.)]]
Over 1250 local men and women served in World War One (WWI)<ref name=":0">Gawler RSL Sub Branch (2015) “ANZAC Centenary Record for the Gawler Town and District – 259 Days that created the ANZAC Legend” (Evanston Gardens Library 994.04 RSL)</ref>. The locals who served included:

* 17 local women who served as Nurses or Sisters<ref name=":0" /> (see [[ANZAC Girls]])
* 115 local ‘ANZACs’ – soldiers, who served in or were associated with the Gallipoli campaign<ref name=":0" />.

Of the local men who served, 17 died as a result of the Gallipoli campaign and 83 as a result of later WWI campaigns. Quite a few men, who served in Gallipoli and were still fit for service, went on to serve in later campaigns. Some of those, like F J Scott, survived Galipolli but then died in a later campaign (this is why his name is sometimes included in Galipolli Honour lists).

The compiled lists of those who served and those who died are subject to variation depending on the boundaries used to define the local district, the criteria used to determine who is local (born locally, resided locally, enlisted locally or had local next of kin) and the information available at the time the list was compiled. As records have become more available, especially digitally, additional names have been added. For a comprehensive list with names, details and often photographs of all the local personnel who served see the [https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website], created by researcher Beth Page.

The following sections will list the names of locals who died whilst serving in the Gallipoli campaign and other WWI campaigns, as [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/54647637284 commemorated on the pavers installed in the Remembrance Garden in Pioneer Park] in 2015 – a century after the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli. The names are listed as written on the commemorative paver, followed by full name and other notes, such as if their name also appears on the Roll of Honour 1914-1918 or the Gawler South WWI Memorial. Additional personnel who died whilst serving are listed on the [https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website], which has been more recently updated.

=== “Gawler Anzac Veterans Who Gave All” ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/54647406926 17 commemorative pavers]) ===
ALLEN S T 7 Dec 1915 [ALLEN Sidney Torrington]

BAKER W A 28 Nov 1915 [BAKER William Albert]

BELL E C 19 May 1915 [BELL Eric Chalcroft – also Honour Roll]

BOWDEN J S 25 Apr 1915 [BOWDEN John Stirling – also Honour Roll]

BRUNS E O A 2 May 1915 [BRUNS Ernest Otto Alfred] E O A Bruns was a teacher at Gawler Public School for two years (c1912-1914) prior to resigning to enter the defence service.<ref name=":1">LIEUTENANT BRUNS (Daily Herald 17 May 1915) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134409254</ref> He was “gazetted to a lieutenancy in the 79th Infantry” and volunteered to serve abroad when the war began.<ref name=":1" /> Former student ‘Trix’ McConnell stated in her memoirs “The hero of our school days was Mr Bruin, [sic] who was killed in the first world war.”<ref>Beatrice E McConnell (2001) "[[Gawler Memories 1901 to 2001]]", pg 8.

</ref>

COCHCRANE A D 9 Dec 1915 [COCHCRANE Andrew Downie - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

FORREST C F 4 Aug 1915 [FORREST Christopher Frank]

GILBERT J 28 May 1915 [GILBERT Joseph - born Gawler, served with British Forces]

HOGBEN R H 2 May 1915 [HOGBEN Richard Hubert]

JAMES F 4 May 1915 [JAMES Frank – also Honour Roll]

MCLACHLAN R S 9 Aug 1915 [MCLACHLAN Roy Stevens]

OLDHAM E C Maj 25 Apr 1915 [OLDHAM Edward Castle]

REID F C 25 Apr 1915 [REID Frederick Charles]

SHEEDY J J 27 Apr 1915 [SHEEDY James John – also Honour Roll]

SHORT A E 8 Aug 1915 [sic][SHORT Arthur Gawler – also Honour Roll, son of [[Short (Cr) James|James Short]], 2 brothers also died WWI, see list below]

SMITH C C 25 Apr 1915 [SMITH Cyril Charles]

TURNBULL J S 6 Jul 1915 [TURNBULL John Sanderson – also Honour Roll]

A compilation including maps, photographs of the Gallipoli site, cemeteries and memorials for these local soldiers who died whilst serving in Gallipoli is available as a Powerpoint slideshow, compiled in August 2014 by Gawler RSL past-President E.W. Clarke and Webmaster Beth Page. Their efforts in compiling and sharing this resource are greatly appreciated. Please [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4EjkA7CXbhAQVpUOXhIMGNTNG8/view?usp=sharing click here] and follow the prompts to download it (the file is 78MB and will take a short time to download). The memorial for F C Reid is not specifically featured but his name is visible on the same 10th Battalion Lone Pine memorial panel as J J Sheedy.

=== “World War One Gawler Vets Who Gave All” ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/54647649908 83 commemorative pavers]) ===
ADAMS B [ADAMS Breally – also Honour Roll]

ADDIS C [ADDIS Clement Riggs - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

ANGRAVE F [ANGRAVE Francis Gordon - also Gawler South Memorial]

BAKER H H [<nowiki/>[[Baker Henry Howard|BAKER Henry Howard]] – also Honour Roll, brother of [[Baker Hilda Maud]]]

BERRYMAN S C [sic][BERRIMAN Clement Clifford ‘Cliff’ – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C L (next) who also died whilst serving WWI and [[Berriman (Cr) James Owen]]]

BERRYMAN C L [sic][BERRIMAN Claude Leslie – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C C (previous) who also died whilst serving WWI and [[Berriman (Cr) James Owen]]]

BOOMER P C F [BOOMER Percy Charles Fernlie – also Honour Roll]

BOSLEY O B D [BOSLEY Oswald Bainem - also Honour Roll]

BUSBRIDGE R J [BUSBRIDGE Reginald James - also Honour Roll]

BUTTFIELD B V [BUTTFIELD Blinman Vincent - also Honour Roll, he was a chemist’s assistant for [[Letcher John|Mr J Letcher, chemist]]]

CASKEY J P [CASKEY John Percival – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

CHENOWETH A H [CHENOWETH Arthur Henry - also Honour Roll]

CHILDS A [CHILDS Alfred Leonard - also Honour Roll]

CHURCHMAN N [CHURCHMAN Norman Horace – also Honour Roll – contemporary research indicates he actually survived WWI, discharged 5 Jul 1919 & survived until 1954]

COLLINS A H [Roll of Honour lists ‘A H Collins’ with a star [died] and ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) with no star, Gawler South WWI Memorial lists ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) who served unto death. Gawler South memorial would be ‘COLLIN Allen Harold’, whose mother resided in Gawler South and also had two other sons who served in WWI, survived and are also listed on Gawler South Memorial. There was also, ‘COLLINS Alfred Henry’, who served and died in WWI, he was born in England and his next of kin were in England.]

COOMBE H H [COOMBE Henry Heywood – also Honour Roll, son of [[Coombe Ephraim Henry]]]

CRACKOW W F [likely same as ‘W F Drackow’ on Honour Roll, neither name is in WWI Nominal Rolls or “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” Website, possible they may refer to ‘DRECKOW Alfred Alwin’, born ‘Drackow’, (Alfred could have been abbreviated to ‘Fred’), whose mother and siblings were residing in Moore Street, Gawler in 1921, naming her residence ‘Orontes’ after the ship her son sailed on]

DANIEL W E [DANIEL Walter Edmund- also Honour Roll as [sic] ‘W E Daniels’ with ‘s’]

DAVIDSON S J [DAVIDSON Samuel John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

DRAPER G G [DRAPER Henry George Germain – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

FARRANT W G [sic][FARRANT Harold George – also Honour Roll]

FITZGERALD L [FITZGERALD Leonard – also Honour Roll but no star]

FITZPATRICK J D [FITZPATRICK John David – also Honour Roll]

FRANKLIN R V [FRANKLIN Rodney Vernon – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, he was one of [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6920027995 Gawler’s first six recruits] and was posthumously awarded French Croix de Guerre medal – more details in [[Gawler Military Involvement]]]

FREEMAN D J [FREEMAN Douglas James – also Honour Roll, attended School of Mines]

FORGIE J G [FORGIE James Graham – also Honour Roll, son of James Forgie of King Street]

GOLDSWORTHY R J [GOLDSWORTHY Roy James – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

GUY P G [GUY Philip Gawler – also Honour Roll, son of [[Guy Philip and Family|Philip Guy]]]

HAGGERTY M J [HAGGERTY Michael Joseph – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

HALL R [HALL Reginald – also Honour Roll]

HARRIS N [HARRIS Edward Noel - also Honour Roll]

HAYDOCK D P [HAYDOCK Daniel Paul - also Honour Roll]

HETZEL H W [HETZEL Herbert Walter – also Honour Roll, son of Frederich Hetzel of [[Twentyfirst Street 6|6 Twentyfirst Street]]]

HIND R J [HIND Ronald James – also Honour Roll]

HOOLE H [HOOLE Harold – also Honour Roll but no star & Gawler South Memorial]

HOWE H W C HOWE [HOWE Harold Walter Cleveland – also Honour Roll]

JACOBS P K [JACOBS Percy Kingsley – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

KENNEWELL C J [KENNEWELL Charles John – also Honour Roll, these two Kennewell are not brothers]

KENNEWELL S A [KENNEWELL Sydney Albert - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, these two Kennewell are not brothers]

KERR J A [KERR John Allen – also Honour Roll]

LAUREN H W W [LAUREN Karl Walter Wilhelm – also Honour Roll]

LAYCOCK F O [LAYCOCK Frederick Osmond – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, son of [[Laycock Richard|Richard William Laycock]] of Queen Street, 2 brothers also served WWI]

MAHONEY H J [MAHONEY Henry John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

MARTIN R V [MARTIN Rueben Vivian – also Honour Roll, brother of next]

MARTIN W J P [MARTIN William James Peter – also Honour Roll, brother of previous]

MASTERS R [MASTERS Thomas Charles Roy – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

MAY S G [MAY Stanley Garnet – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, son of [[May Alfred|Alfred May]], brother died in Boer War]

MCLAREN C R [McLAREN Clarence Roy – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, brother of next – four of five sons in family served WWI, 2 died]

MCLAREN D F [McLAREN David Francis – also Gawler South Memorial. Honour Roll has ‘D F McLaren’ without a star to indicate he died and ‘F McLaren’ with a star in a different column. As he was known as ‘Frank’, and the only of the McLaren’s who served with initial ‘F’, it is likely both refer to him. He enlisted and was discharged as medically unfit, then travelled to England and was serving as a munitions worker during which time he died pneumonia.]

MOLD C E [MOLD Charles Edwin – also Honour Roll, grandson of [[Mold (Cr) James|James Mold]] - prior to enlisting Charles had worked as a machine moulder at [[May Bros and Co|May Bros]]]

OLDHAM D C [OLDHAM Dudley Castle]

ORMSBY M S [ORMSBY Matthew Stephen – also Honour Roll]

PARHAM E W [PARHAM Edgar William]

PATERSON J K [PATERSON James Knox – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

POLLE W [POLLE William Harold Percival, - also Honour Roll, brother of next]

POLLE J [POLLE Joseph Louis Byron- also Honour Roll, brother of previous]

QUINN M J [QUINN Michael James – also Honour Roll but no star & Gawler South Memorial]

RAU E J [RAU Ernest John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

RICE R A [RICE Reginald Arnold – also Honour Roll, son of [[Rice (Mayor) William|William Rice]]][R A Rice also inscribed [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Church]] Memorial Bell]<ref name=":2">'Congregational Church Memorial Bell' (Bunyip 16 Sep 1921) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97751410 </ref>

RIGGS F [RIGGS Frank Leslie - also Honour Roll]

RILEY B J [RILEY Bernard – also Honour Roll]

ROBERTSON J G [sic][ROBINSON John George – ‘J G Robinson’ – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

RUNDLE L L[RUNDLE Leonard Lancelot – also Honour Roll]

RYAN F A C [RYAN Frank Allen Clifford – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

SANDERCOCK H [SANDERCOCK Herbert – also Honour Roll]

SCOTT F J (8 Oct 1917)[SCOTT Frank John – also Honour Roll but no star, brother of next. F J Scott was one of [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6920027995 Gawler’s first six recruits], he served in Gallipoli then went on serve in further campaigns, he was killed in action serving in Belgium. His commemorative paver is in the style of the ANZAC commemorative pavers (colour & inclusion of date) as it may have initially been intended to include him in the list of ANZACs who died in the Gallipoli campaign.]

SCOTT C J [SCOTT Cleve James – also Honour Roll, brother of previous]

SHEARD A E [SHEARD Alfred Edwin – also Honour Roll, son of [[Sheard JP Alfred|Alfred Sheard]]]['E Sheard' also inscribed [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Church]] Memorial Bell]<ref name=":2" />

SHERIFF S H [SHERIFF Henry Septimus – also Honour Roll, son of [[Sheriff (Cr) George|George Sheriff]]]['H S Sheriff' also inscribed [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Church]] Memorial Bell]<ref name=":2" />

SHORT A G [sic][SHORT Edward Charles – Honour Roll as ‘E C Short’, son of [[Short (Cr) James|James Short]], brother Arthur Gawler Short killed in Gallipoli (previous list) and brother H Short (next) also killed WWI]

SHORT H [SHORT Henry – also Honour Roll as ‘Harry Short’, son of [[Short (Cr) James|James Short]], 3 brothers killed WWI see previous]

SMITH G [SMITH George – also Honour Roll]

TAMBLYN C D [TAMBLYN Charles David – also Honour Roll but no star]

TIERNEY J L [TIERNEY Joseph – also Honour Roll]

TYLER J C [TYLER John Charles - also Honour Roll but no star]

VEALE G T [sic][VEALL John Gretland – also Honour Roll as ‘G T Veall’, brother of next]

VEALE S V [sic][VEALL Samuel Vivian - also Honour Roll as ‘S V Veall’, brother of previous]

WADE R [WADE Ronald Victor – also Honour Roll]

WALKER C [WALKER Eric Cecil – also Honour Roll]

WATERS S M [WATERS Maynard Septimus – also Honour Roll, son of [[Waters (Cr) Thomas Alexander|Thomas Alexander Waters]]]

WIESE R W [WIESE Reinhold Gustav Wilhelm - also Gawler South Memorial]

WHELAN J [WHELAN James 1109 – also Honour Roll as ‘Jas Whelan’]

WOODS H [WOODS Harry Joshua 1849 – also Honour Roll as ‘H J Woods’]

== External links ==
* [http://www.gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com Gawler WWI Honour Roll]
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[[File:WWI Army Recruits.jpg|thumb|Gawler's First WWI Recruits - 1914 (Back row: Arthur Robinson, Rodney Franklin, Leslie Howie. Front row: Arthur Beard, Cecil Hincks, Frank Scott.)]]
Over 1250 local men and women served in World War One (WWI)<ref name=":0">Gawler RSL Sub Branch (2015) “ANZAC Centenary Record for the Gawler Town and District – 259 Days that created the ANZAC Legend” (Evanston Gardens Library 994.04 RSL)</ref>. The locals who served included:

* 17 local women who served as Nurses or Sisters<ref name=":0" /> (see [[ANZAC Girls]])
* 115 local ‘ANZACs’ – soldiers, who served in or were associated with the Gallipoli campaign<ref name=":0" />.

Of the local men who served, 17 died as a result of the Gallipoli campaign and 83 as a result of later WWI campaigns. Quite a few men, who served in Gallipoli and were still fit for service, went on to serve in later campaigns. Some of those, like F J Scott, survived Galipolli but then died in a later campaign (this is why his name is sometimes included in Galipolli Honour lists).

The compiled lists of those who served and those who died are subject to variation depending on the boundaries used to define the local district, the criteria used to determine who is local (born locally, resided locally, enlisted locally or had local next of kin) and the information available at the time the list was compiled. As records have become more available, especially digitally, additional names have been added. For a comprehensive list with names, details and often photographs of all the local personnel who served see the [https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website], created by researcher Beth Page.

The following sections will list the names of locals who died whilst serving in the Gallipoli campaign and other WWI campaigns, as [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/54647637284 commemorated on the pavers installed in the Remembrance Garden in Pioneer Park] in 2015 – a century after the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli. The names are listed as written on the commemorative paver, followed by full name and other notes, such as if their name also appears on the Roll of Honour 1914-1918 or the Gawler South WWI Memorial. Additional personnel who died whilst serving are listed on the [https://gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website], which has been more recently updated.

=== “Gawler Anzac Veterans Who Gave All” ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/54647406926 17 commemorative pavers]) ===
ALLEN S T 7 Dec 1915 [ALLEN Sidney Torrington]

BAKER W A 28 Nov 1915 [BAKER William Albert]

BELL E C 19 May 1915 [BELL Eric Chalcroft – also Honour Roll]

BOWDEN J S 25 Apr 1915 [BOWDEN John Stirling – also Honour Roll]

BRUNS E O A 2 May 1915 [BRUNS Ernest Otto Alfred] E O A Bruns was a teacher at Gawler Public School for two years (c1912-1914) prior to resigning to enter the defence service.<ref name=":1">LIEUTENANT BRUNS (Daily Herald 17 May 1915) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134409254</ref> He was “gazetted to a lieutenancy in the 79th Infantry” and volunteered to serve abroad when the war began.<ref name=":1" /> Former student ‘Trix’ McConnell stated in her memoirs “The hero of our school days was Mr Bruin, [sic] who was killed in the first world war.”<ref>Beatrice E McConnell (2001) "[[Gawler Memories 1901 to 2001]]", pg 8.

</ref>

COCHCRANE A D 9 Dec 1915 [COCHCRANE Andrew Downie - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

FORREST C F 4 Aug 1915 [FORREST Christopher Frank]

GILBERT J 28 May 1915 [GILBERT Joseph - born Gawler, served with British Forces]

HOGBEN R H 2 May 1915 [HOGBEN Richard Hubert]

JAMES F 4 May 1915 [JAMES Frank – also Honour Roll]

MCLACHLAN R S 9 Aug 1915 [MCLACHLAN Roy Stevens]

OLDHAM E C Maj 25 Apr 1915 [OLDHAM Edward Castle]

REID F C 25 Apr 1915 [REID Frederick Charles]

SHEEDY J J 27 Apr 1915 [SHEEDY James John – also Honour Roll]

SHORT A E 8 Aug 1915 [sic][SHORT Arthur Gawler – also Honour Roll, son of [[Short (Cr) James|James Short]], 2 brothers also died WWI, see list below]

SMITH C C 25 Apr 1915 [SMITH Cyril Charles]

TURNBULL J S 6 Jul 1915 [TURNBULL John Sanderson – also Honour Roll]

A compilation including maps, photographs of the Gallipoli site, cemeteries and memorials for these local soldiers who died whilst serving in Gallipoli is available as a Powerpoint slideshow, compiled in August 2014 by Gawler RSL past-President E.W. Clarke and Webmaster Beth Page. Their efforts in compiling and sharing this resource are greatly appreciated. Please [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4EjkA7CXbhAQVpUOXhIMGNTNG8/view?usp=sharing click here] and follow the prompts to download it (the file is 78MB and will take a short time to download). The memorial for F C Reid is not specifically featured but his name is visible on the same 10th Battalion Lone Pine memorial panel as J J Sheedy.

=== “World War One Gawler Vets Who Gave All” ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/54647649908 83 commemorative pavers]) ===
ADAMS B [ADAMS Breally – also Honour Roll]

ADDIS C [ADDIS Clement Riggs - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

ANGRAVE F [ANGRAVE Francis Gordon - also Gawler South Memorial]

BAKER H H [<nowiki/>[[Baker Henry Howard|BAKER Henry Howard]] – also Honour Roll, brother of [[Baker Hilda Maud]]]

BERRYMAN S C [sic][BERRIMAN Clement Clifford ‘Cliff’ – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C L (next) who also died whilst serving WWI and [[Berriman (Cr) James Owen]]]

BERRYMAN C L [sic][BERRIMAN Claude Leslie – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C C (previous) who also died whilst serving WWI and [[Berriman (Cr) James Owen]]]

BOOMER P C F [BOOMER Percy Charles Fernlie – also Honour Roll]

BOSLEY O B D [BOSLEY Oswald Bainem - also Honour Roll]

BUSBRIDGE R J [BUSBRIDGE Reginald James - also Honour Roll]

BUTTFIELD B V [BUTTFIELD Blinman Vincent - also Honour Roll, he was a chemist’s assistant for [[Letcher John|Mr J Letcher, chemist]]]

CASKEY J P [CASKEY John Percival – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

CHENOWETH A H [CHENOWETH Arthur Henry - also Honour Roll]

CHILDS A [CHILDS Alfred Leonard - also Honour Roll]

CHURCHMAN N [CHURCHMAN Norman Horace – also Honour Roll – contemporary research indicates he actually survived WWI, discharged 5 Jul 1919 & survived until 1954]

COLLINS A H [Roll of Honour lists ‘A H Collins’ with a star [died] and ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) with no star, Gawler South WWI Memorial lists ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) who served unto death. Gawler South memorial would be ‘COLLIN Allen Harold’, whose mother resided in Gawler South and also had two other sons who served in WWI, survived and are also listed on Gawler South Memorial. There was also, ‘COLLINS Alfred Henry’, who served and died in WWI, he was born in England and his next of kin were in England.]

COOMBE H H [COOMBE Henry Heywood – also Honour Roll, son of [[Coombe Ephraim Henry]]]

CRACKOW W F [likely same as ‘W F Drackow’ on Honour Roll, neither name is in WWI Nominal Rolls or “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” Website, possible they may refer to ‘DRECKOW Alfred Alwin’, born ‘Drackow’, (Alfred could have been abbreviated to ‘Fred’), whose mother and siblings were residing in Moore Street, Gawler in 1921, naming her residence ‘Orontes’ after the ship her son sailed on]

DANIEL W E [DANIEL Walter Edmund- also Honour Roll as [sic] ‘W E Daniels’ with ‘s’]

DAVIDSON S J [DAVIDSON Samuel John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

DRAPER G G [DRAPER Henry George Germain – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

FARRANT W G [sic][FARRANT Harold George – also Honour Roll]

FITZGERALD L [FITZGERALD Leonard – also Honour Roll but no star]

FITZPATRICK J D [FITZPATRICK John David – also Honour Roll]

FRANKLIN R V [FRANKLIN Rodney Vernon – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, he was one of [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6920027995 Gawler’s first six recruits] and was posthumously awarded French Croix de Guerre medal – more details in [[Gawler Military Involvement]]]

FREEMAN D J [FREEMAN Douglas James – also Honour Roll, attended School of Mines]

FORGIE J G [FORGIE James Graham – also Honour Roll, son of James Forgie of King Street]

GOLDSWORTHY R J [GOLDSWORTHY Roy James – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

GUY P G [GUY Philip Gawler – also Honour Roll, son of [[Guy Philip and Family|Philip Guy]]]

HAGGERTY M J [HAGGERTY Michael Joseph – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

HALL R [HALL Reginald – also Honour Roll]

HARRIS N [HARRIS Edward Noel - also Honour Roll]

HAYDOCK D P [HAYDOCK Daniel Paul - also Honour Roll]

HETZEL H W [HETZEL Herbert Walter – also Honour Roll, son of Frederich Hetzel of [[Twentyfirst Street 6|6 Twentyfirst Street]]]

HIND R J [HIND Ronald James – also Honour Roll]

HOOLE H [HOOLE Harold – also Honour Roll but no star & Gawler South Memorial]

HOWE H W C HOWE [HOWE Harold Walter Cleveland – also Honour Roll]

JACOBS P K [JACOBS Percy Kingsley – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

KENNEWELL C J [KENNEWELL Charles John – also Honour Roll, these two Kennewell are not brothers]

KENNEWELL S A [KENNEWELL Sydney Albert - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, these two Kennewell are not brothers]

KERR J A [KERR John Allen – also Honour Roll]

LAUREN H W W [LAUREN Karl Walter Wilhelm – also Honour Roll]

LAYCOCK F O [LAYCOCK Frederick Osmond – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, son of [[Laycock Richard|Richard William Laycock]] of Queen Street, 2 brothers also served WWI]

MAHONEY H J [MAHONEY Henry John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

MARTIN R V [MARTIN Rueben Vivian – also Honour Roll, brother of next]

MARTIN W J P [MARTIN William James Peter – also Honour Roll, brother of previous]

MASTERS R [MASTERS Thomas Charles Roy – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

MAY S G [MAY Stanley Garnet – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, son of [[May Alfred|Alfred May]], brother died in Boer War]

MCLAREN C R [McLAREN Clarence Roy – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, brother of next – four of five sons in family served WWI, 2 died]

MCLAREN D F [McLAREN David Francis – also Gawler South Memorial. Honour Roll has ‘D F McLaren’ without a star to indicate he died and ‘F McLaren’ with a star in a different column. As he was known as ‘Frank’, and the only of the McLaren’s who served with initial ‘F’, it is likely both refer to him. He enlisted and was discharged as medically unfit, then travelled to England and was serving as a munitions worker during which time he died pneumonia.]

MOLD C E [MOLD Charles Edwin – also Honour Roll, grandson of [[Mold (Cr) James|James Mold]] - prior to enlisting Charles had worked as a machine moulder at [[May Bros and Co|May Bros]]]

OLDHAM D C [OLDHAM Dudley Castle]

ORMSBY M S [ORMSBY Matthew Stephen – also Honour Roll]

PARHAM E W [PARHAM Edgar William]

PATERSON J K [PATERSON James Knox – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

POLLE W [POLLE William Harold Percival, - also Honour Roll, brother of next]

POLLE J [POLLE Joseph Louis Byron- also Honour Roll, brother of previous]

QUINN M J [QUINN Michael James – also Honour Roll but no star & Gawler South Memorial]

RAU E J [RAU Ernest John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

RICE R A [RICE Reginald Arnold – also Honour Roll, son of [[Rice (Mayor) William|William Rice]]][R A Rice also inscribed [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Church]] Memorial Bell]

RIGGS F [RIGGS Frank Leslie - also Honour Roll]

RILEY B J [RILEY Bernard – also Honour Roll]

ROBERTSON J G [sic][ROBINSON John George – ‘J G Robinson’ – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

RUNDLE L L[RUNDLE Leonard Lancelot – also Honour Roll]

RYAN F A C [RYAN Frank Allen Clifford – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]

SANDERCOCK H [SANDERCOCK Herbert – also Honour Roll]

SCOTT F J (8 Oct 1917)[SCOTT Frank John – also Honour Roll but no star, brother of next. F J Scott was one of [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6920027995 Gawler’s first six recruits], he served in Gallipoli then went on serve in further campaigns, he was killed in action serving in Belgium. His commemorative paver is in the style of the ANZAC commemorative pavers (colour & inclusion of date) as it may have initially been intended to include him in the list of ANZACs who died in the Gallipoli campaign.]

SCOTT C J [SCOTT Cleve James – also Honour Roll, brother of previous]

SHEARD A E [SHEARD Alfred Edwin – also Honour Roll, son of [[Sheard JP Alfred|Alfred Sheard]]]['E Sheard' also inscribed [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Church]] Memorial Bell]

SHERIFF S H [SHERIFF Henry Septimus – also Honour Roll, son of [[Sheriff (Cr) George|George Sheriff]]]['H S Sheriff' also inscribed [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Church]] Memorial Bell]

SHORT A G [sic][SHORT Edward Charles – Honour Roll as ‘E C Short’, son of [[Short (Cr) James|James Short]], brother Arthur Gawler Short killed in Gallipoli (previous list) and brother H Short (next) also killed WWI]

SHORT H [SHORT Henry – also Honour Roll as ‘Harry Short’, son of [[Short (Cr) James|James Short]], 3 brothers killed WWI see previous]

SMITH G [SMITH George – also Honour Roll]

TAMBLYN C D [TAMBLYN Charles David – also Honour Roll but no star]

TIERNEY J L [TIERNEY Joseph – also Honour Roll]

TYLER J C [TYLER John Charles - also Honour Roll but no star]

VEALE G T [sic][VEALL John Gretland – also Honour Roll as ‘G T Veall’, brother of next]

VEALE S V [sic][VEALL Samuel Vivian - also Honour Roll as ‘S V Veall’, brother of previous]

WADE R [WADE Ronald Victor – also Honour Roll]

WALKER C [WALKER Eric Cecil – also Honour Roll]

WATERS S M [WATERS Maynard Septimus – also Honour Roll, son of [[Waters (Cr) Thomas Alexander|Thomas Alexander Waters]]]

WIESE R W [WIESE Reinhold Gustav Wilhelm - also Gawler South Memorial]

WHELAN J [WHELAN James 1109 – also Honour Roll as ‘Jas Whelan’]

WOODS H [WOODS Harry Joshua 1849 – also Honour Roll as ‘H J Woods’]

== External links ==
* [http://www.gawlerworldwar1.weebly.com Gawler WWI Honour Roll]
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History of Education in Gawler

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This 'History of Christian Education in Gawler', compiled by Chris Haskard in April 2012, covers both private and public education, and outlines the role of local churches.

Early schools in Gawler were private ones, run by people of varied educational backgrounds. Education was not compulsory in the early days, so it was not regulated and therefore received no financial support from the government. A large number of children never went to school or took a few lessons here and there between farm work. It wasn’t until 1851 that the Legislative Council established a Board of Education. Prior to this anything seemed possible with the Register of May 30th 1846 reporting several schools that were, as far as they knew, “under the charge of persons of respectability and intelligence” with fees no more than a very moderate “five shillings a quarter”. Although unregulated, the staff of these schools if they were following the 1827 rules for teachers were encouraged to be God fearing citizens with male teachers only permitted to take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings each week if they went to church regularly. Both genders, after ten hours in school were allowed to spend the remaining time in their day reading the Bible or other good books. How many of Gawler’s early teachers followed these rules is of course unknown, but what we do know of is the existence of many church based schools of varying sizes that contributed to the education of Gawler’s citizens.

E. H. Coombs ‘History of Gawler’ (pg. 17) makes mention of one of the earliest school buildings which existed around 1846. The reference is made in a letter written in 1896 by Mrs Mahony, who was the daughter of John Reid, the first settler in Gawler who moved in with his family in 1839 and is addressed to the Rev Canon Coombs. In her letter Mrs Mahony debunks supposed commonly held views which claimed church services were held in a school building on their property Clonlea and believes them to be inaccurate, for as a member of the family of Gawler’s first residents, and no other houses yet existing in the town, she says that church services were held in her family’s sitting room of their 4 room wattle and daub hut by the chaplains of the era. So while church services may not have been held in this school building as originally thought, its existence at Clonlea around 1846 is at least acknowledged.

Coombs goes on to write (pg. 23) that with the growing population of the town, the question of education became quite important. He states that in January 1848, the Church of England Board for the administration of a government grant voted that £40 be allocated for the erection of a public school room in Gawler, the first formally recognised church school in Gawler. Eventually, with the amount raised totalling £160, [[St George's Day School|St George’s School]] was founded by the [[Coombs Canon William Henry|Rev. W H Coombs]] in Orleana Square on [[Church Hill]]. The school was completed and opened in 1850 by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide and presided over by a number of trustees and faithful church wardens until the arrival in 1853 of Leonard Burton who later became involved with Gawler Model School, now known as [[Gawler Primary School Nixon Terrace|Gawler Primary]]. In 1857 a separate room was added for a girls’ school and in 1866 the St George’s School room was erected – now known as St George’s Hall. The success of Mr Burton as a dedicated educator, and devout Anglican ensured that St George’s lead the charge for education in the town until 1875 when the state took over the reins of primary education with the passing of the Education Bill which introduced compulsory schooling for the first time, insisting children aged 7-13 attended a minimum 78 days a year (but please don’t mention this to today’s students). The new Act, which paved the way for non-religious education, permitted voluntary reading of the bible, before school, if desired, so although public, the significance of the bible and Christianity in society was at least acknowledged by the state.

St George’s ran successfully for 27 years, most of that time under the leadership of Mr Leonard Burton who also later became Mayor of Gawler in 1884 and served as Secretary of the Bible Society for 40 years amongst over endeavours. This devout man not only then bore Christian witness to the children of Gawler but also to the community at large through his civic duties as Mayor. Closing in 1877, by 1870 St George’s and a private school on Fother Ingham Tce were Gawler’s two licenced schools with a combined attendance of 236 students and run by 6 staff.

During this time a number of other, smaller private schools existed in the area such as Mrs Helmore’s School – Sunny Bank, dating back to 1856 which advertised that it had room for a few boarders. John Wilkinson established a school for younger children in Willaston which ran from 1865-1910 and is now the site of the local CFS on Redbanks Rd. Other schools that existed include Miss Finch’s Public School, dated 1876 in Todd St, advertising itself as available for girls of all ages and boys under the age of 8. There was also [[Miss Nott's School|Miss Nott’s Young Children’s School]] at Gawler West, Miss Myers’ Young Childrens’ School at Willaston and private schools run by the Rev J Leonard, Mrs Murphy, Miss Lewis, Miss Philipson, John Lloyd, Mr Latter, Miss Filsell, Miss Myers and a Mr J Smilie (I think I’d like to have been in his class). Many of these schools closed with the introduction of the Education Act in 1875 and the formation of the public schooling system.

Significantly, the first public school was what is now the [[Gawler Primary School]]. The foundation stone was laid by the Mayor in 1877, the Honourable [[Martin James|James Martin]] (who was a devout Anglican) and was opened in 1878 as the Gawler Model School. With bluestone walls quarried from the hills around Gawler South, the building was an early addition to the State Heritage Register and the Register of the National Estate. The first Headmaster was Leonard Burton, who, mentioned earlier, arrived in 1853 to take up the position of St George’s School but then moved to the Gawler Model School, resigning after 2 ½ years to return to St George’s School. Therefore even Gawler’s first public school was led with Christian influence.

With over 700 students in its hay-day, Gawler School was co-educational, yet with separate learning and play areas for each gender. Initially with a curriculum focussed on reading, writing, arithmetic and diction, girls had to learn sewing. In 1881 a 2 story Principal’s residence was established on Porter Street. In 1907, Gawler Public school started one of the local area’s first continuation classes for older students and by 1907 became a District High School, but this changed in 1915 when [[Gawler High School]] first opened on Lyndoch Rd in Gawler East.

Over the course of history many changes to this building have occurred. In the 1950’s many of the original narrow gothic windows were replaced due to concerns over student and staff health and in the 1970’s a part of St Joseph’s school was added.

The school’s current website lists some notable events in its history including, a class of 121 students being taught by a Miss Edwards in 1913 because a number of other staff were ill. At the start of WWI in 1914, teachers gave 5% of their salary to the mayor’s patriotic fund. In 1923 the temperature inside a classroom was recorded as 39.5C, the school was closed for 6 weeks in 1938 due to a polio outbreak and 3 air-raid safety trenches were built in 1942 during WW2.

Although public education forced the closure of many private schools, some which seem to have been run from people’s homes, a number continued to exist despite the rapid growth of the Gawler Model School. Schools such as the Todd St Junior School, dated 1895 which was run by the Annells sisters, a school for boys dated 1897 in Gawler South, the Para Para School in Gawler West, which was formed in 1899 by the Sisters of the Church of North Adelaide and [[Miss Nott's School|Miss Natt’s School]] which opened in September of 1900 in her home at 16 Fourteenth St in Gawler South. Also in existence was the Gawler South Church Grammar School, dated 1918 which was originally held in the Gawler South Mission Hall, later moving to the corner of Murray St and Walkers Place in 1930, now the site of OPSM but closed in the early 1930’s due to the Depression. This site had earlier been used by the Gawler School of Mines and Industries in 1893 and when closed was handed over to Zion Lutheran Church as the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157633354199865/ Lutheran Day School] on Church Hill had outgrown its location. The Gawler Preparatory School also opened in the same year and was held in the Primitive Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church Vestry. These were all among those early schools who continued to exist alongside the introduction of state based public education, some of which were influenced and supported by the local churches.

For older students, the [[Gawler Institute Murray Street 91|Gawler Institute]] in these days was a hive of activity for further education with classes being offered in design, music, shorthand, typing and bookkeeping as well as technical training. In 1888 some men met to form an Amateur Assaying Club, and this led to a number of lectures being run by fine folks from the Adelaide School of Mines, leading to the eventual formation of the Gawler School of Mines and Industries in the Institute itself in 1893, utilizing space in the town hall basement and taking over the Telegraph Office in 1898 before moving into a building on Lyndoch Rd near the new High School in 1915.

[[Gawler High School]] originally began with the Gawler School of Mines in 1907 with a class of 60 students. It developed from the continuation classes being run at the Primary School and become recognised as the Gawler District High School in 1910, moving to Lyndoch Rd in 1915. This then allowed The Gawler School of Mines to evolve into the Gawler Technical School in 1917. Gawler High moved to its current location on Barnet Rd, Evanston in 1962 and has undergone a number of changes over the last 50 years with the latest being the 12 million dollar development to turn into a Gawler birth to Yr 12 super school, due to be completed by 2013. A number of highly accomplished old scholars have made it through the gates of this school over the years, people such as [[Fatchen Maxwell Edgar (Max) AM|Max Fatchen]], Glen Shorrock, Alan Hickenbotham and Brenton Langbein to name a few. No doubt its success will continue.

Over the past 170 years many schools in Gawler have come and gone and again with the new Gawler Super School, Evanston Primary will be amalgamated with Gawler High. Evanston Primary itself has an extensive history beginning with the allotment of Gawler Blocks of various sizes back in 1892. The blocks were designed to provide labourers with a bit of extra income in a time when wages were low with none of the protective benefits workers have today. It wasn’t long before the residents decided a church and Sunday school was needed for the rapidly growing population of young families so a request was made to the Presbyterian Church of Gawler and services were started around 1905 in a barn on Mr Sam Hillier’s property. Mt Hillier donated a ¼ acre of land for a church building and in 1907 the foundations were laid. By 1908 the Education Department rented the church for use as a day school, an excellent example of the state and church working together for the benefit of the education of Gawler children and this continued until 1923 when the Education Department built a new school.

Gawler East also formed a Primary School which originally began in the old Gawler High building on Lyndoch Rd with 237 students but then moved to its current site on Cheek Avenue in 1985.
In the same year [[Immanuel Lutheran School]] formed, which was temporarily in the former Joseph’s Catholic School in Porter St, which was leased to the Lutherans by the Catholic parish before moving into the former Gawler East Primary School site on Lyndoch Rd. The land this time was offered by the Education Department to the church, the reverse of what happened at Evanston. So quite amazingly Immanuel came about with cooperation and the generosity of not only the Lutheran church but also the Catholic and state sectors. Following this the Education Department also started the Hewitt Primary School in 1997 with the continued population growth in this area. Starting with 102 students this school now has 18 classes and a disability unit. Another important aspect which hasn’t been mentioned yet and certainly applies to Hewitt, amongst others schools in the area is the introduction of Christian Pastoral Support Workers. CPS workers follow on from the history of School Chaplains who were often volunteers from churches going back to the 1980’s who would go and work within schools to encourage kids in the development of their faith. Pilot Chaplain programs were supported by the Minister for Education and Children’s Services in 1992 and since then the CPS role with the formal title of Christian Pastoral Support Workers has grown considerably with now over 340 workers in over 320 schools. The program now is much broader than encouraging the spiritual growth of a child, linking children and families to community resources and services, but is still financially and prayerfully supported by local churches. In Gawler, Hewitt, Gawler Primary and Gawler High all benefit from this service.

Although public education has had a significant influence over the closure of many church run schools over the past 170 years, many have blossomed and exceeded expectations. One such school takes its origin almost back to where we started with Christian schooling on Church Hill. Utilizing St George’s Hall which was built in 1866, this hall which faithfully served the early beginnings of Christian education in Gawler, 118 years later in 1984 gathered together a small number of families in the Gawler Anglican Parish with a new vision, for a school open to all who want their children educated in a liberal and Christian tradition, regardless of their economic status or religious affiliation. With 27 students meeting in this hall, [[Trinity College]] was born and only a year later, Trinity moved to a dusty paddock with a log cabin at its present site in Evanston Park with its first Headmaster Mr Michael Hewitson. Growth was rapid to say the least. As a college of excellence open to all in a caring Christian environment, Trinity has grown in only 28 years to around 3,600 students, across 5 campuses and is now one of the biggest schools in the Southern Hemisphere and is proud to be recognised as the biggest low fee independent school in Australia.

So with a final count of around 32 public or independent schools in Gawler which have existed in one shape or another over the past 170 years, it is fair to say that Christian influence has been strong, working both independently, alongside the state and in an inter-denominational context to support the spiritual growth of not only the children of Gawler but also in the broader civic life of this wonderful community.

''Useful references:''
''History of Gawler 1837-1908 by E.H Coombe, M.P. – originally published 1908'' & ''Gawler by Derek Whitelock – published 1989''
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Books Relating to Gawler History

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=== Gawler Heritage Collection ===
The Gawler Heritage Collection comprises of three unique collections: The Gawler Institute Archives Collection, The Gawler Local History Collection and The Gawler Civic Collection. While these collections are primarily paper-based (including photographic records), there are also many historical objects such as portraits, paintings, maps, plans and textiles and colonial paintings.

To visit the Gawler Heritage Collection online resource Ehive, regarding the book collection, please <[https://ehive.com/objects?accountId=7764&facet=object_type_facet%3ABook click here]>

For detailed enquiries on this subject, please contact the Cultural Heritage Centre:

Email: heritage@gawler.sa.gov.au

Phone: (08) 8522 9268

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=== Books relating to Gawler History ===
There are many books relating to Gawler history, the following are just a few (in order of publication date):

Loyau G E (1880) The Gawler Handbook (incorporates Dr Nott's history to 1860)(for an abridged version see: [[Gawler Historical Account 1860/1880]])

Coombe E H (1910) History of Gawler 1837-1908

Whitelock, Derek (1989) “Gawler, Colonel Light's Country Town: a history of Gawler and its region - the Hills, the Plains and the Barossa Valley”, Corporation of the Town of Gawler, Gawler, SA.

Roulston, Stan (1998) ‘Glimpses of Gawler and District: Volume 1’, Rotary Club of Gawler, Gawler, South Australia.

Town of Gawler (2008) Footprints: Gawler Significant Identities, Town of Gawler, SA. (ISBN 0646485881, 9780646485881)(see [[Footprints Book launch - Gawler's 150th celebration|Footprints Book Launch]])[2025 No copies available Libraries SA catalogue]

Roulston, Stan (2009) ‘Glimpses of Gawler and District: Volume 2’, Rotary Club of Gawler, Gawler, South Australia.

Mansutti, Elizabeth (2010) 'Backwards and in High Heels: stories from the Significant Women of Gawler Project', Significant Women of Gawler Project. (ISBN 9780646539324)

Turner, Jeff and Richards, Anne (2017) "This'll do": Post-Second World War Migration to Gawler : featuring the Willaston Migrant Workers' Hostel, Gawler Branch of the National Trust of South Australia, Gawler, SA. [2025 Gawler Public Library A 304.9423 TUR]

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Murray Street 146 - 154 Piles Building

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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157629515736590/ Click here] to see photos of 146-152 Murray Street.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157629880022503/ Click here] to see photos of 154 Murray Street, which adjoins the Piles Building to the north.

According to researcher Bev Burke, James Pile owned Allotment #93 and Frederick Kerr leased the building [Lease #87372] from Pile for 5 years from 19.11.1877 and was surrendered on 3.6.1881. According to Bunyip 24.6.1882, the northern shop [formerly occupied by L.N. Hemer] was to have a height and appearance equal to the other facades and a tender from Messrs Taylor and Forgie was accepted to make the necessary alterations and additions for 620 pounds.

=== Businesses in the Piles Building ===
The Piles Building consists of five shops, at times some of them have been combined to form larger premises. The fourth shop (south to north) is narrower than the others (it only has one upstairs window whereas the other shops have two). Some early photos of the building, show four completed shops with the fifth, most northerly shop yet to be built.

'''146 (Southern shop crn Finniss Street)'''

* Commercial Bank of South Australia - Gawler Branch opened in Murray Street in December 1878, it had a German Manager and attracted German colonists as customers.<ref name=":2">G E Loyau (1880) "The Gawler Handbook"</ref> It discontinued payments and closed it doors at noon on 25th February 1886.<ref>The South Australian Advertiser (25 Feb 1886) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36323391</ref> The failure of the Commercial Bank of South Australia, severely affected several towns.<ref name=":2" />
* 1891 R J Lavis - Draper & Grocer - Dairy Produce Bought.<ref name=":1">(Bunyip 18 Dec 1891)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/9549312</ref>
* H B Crosby - Importer & General Merchant (multiple stores 146-150A - next door to Milledge in some photos)
* c1950s Keith R Hogben's Store (also had Willaston Store)
* 1967 - Tom the Cheap Grocer (multiple stores)
'''148'''

* June 1879-1880 (possibly longer) Mr Vernon Stewart of London was operating a 'Musical Emporium' where he taught violin, piano forte and harmonium, plus sold pianos, harmoniums and organs. He arrived in Gawler in 1878 and had been operating from a different Murray Street premises 'next to C W Niquets watchmaker', prior to removing to the "Commodious Premises known as PILES' BUILDINGS".<ref>(Bunyip 27 Jun 1879) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97222660</ref><ref>(Bunyip 12 Jul 1878) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97221257</ref> Apparently business didn't do too well because locals kept going to Adelaide to purchase organs.<ref>(Bunyip 19 Mar 1880) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/99827168</ref> [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/10986451116 Click here] to see a photo of Stewarts shop in the Piles' Building.

'''150'''

* J Turner - Draper (visible in photographs at same time at Commercial Bank and Musical Emporium)

'''150A (Shop is narrower - only 1 window on upper level)'''

'''152 (Northern shop)'''

* 'J B Milledge' - Baker - James Bates Milledge was a pioneer in Queensland and went on to have a bakery business in Gawler and Adelaide.<ref name=":0">(The Chronicle 14 Nov 1935)</ref> He put his Gawler baker's equipment up for sale in September 1896 as he intended to remove from the area.<ref>(Bunyip 18 Sep 1896)</ref> He died in1935.<ref name=":0" />
* 'G Levick' - Baker - George Levick sold his bakery and confectionary business of 21 years to Mr Rix in 1918 as he was retiring (ie. traded from about 1897-1918, it is not known if always located in Piles Building)<ref>For Absolute Sale (The Advertiser 1 Jun 1918) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5559899</ref><ref>(Bunyip 28 Jun 1918) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100417373</ref>

'''154''' '''(Building adjoining to north of Piles Building)'''

* 1891 [[Miller W|William Miller]] - Butcher<ref name=":1" />
* F Lines & Sons Butchers - commenced trading at site in Sep 1893 & ended tenancy of council's 'market allotment' on 30 Sep 1894.<ref>(Bunyip 22 Sep 1893 & 19 Oct 1894)</ref>
* Arthur Hewett Butcher
* B Music

'''Piles Building Businesses in 2025'''

* 146-148 Tony Piccolo Member for Light Office
* 150 Table Top Warfare (Games)
* 150A Furniture Plus
* 152 Reminiscence Photography
* 154 [not part of Piles Building] Under Renovation (previously B Music)

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Finch Hannah

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Hannah Finch was born on 11 August 1836, the daughter of Gawler Undertaker John Finch and his wife Eliza, and the sister of Gawler Councillors [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]] and [[Finch (Cr) Stephen|Stephen Finch]]. She died on 30 July 1905, aged 68 and was buried in Willaston Cemetery (plot 19 P 1).

The [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107 Bunyip (4 Aug 1905)]<ref name=":0">Editor's Notes (Bunyip 4 Aug 1905) 'The Late Miss Hannah Finch', p2.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107</ref> ran the following obituary:

"''The Late Miss Hannah Finch.—On Saturday night last Miss Hannah Finch passed away somewhat suddenly at her residence, Gawler South.''

''Miss Finch had lived in this neighbourhood for nearly 56 years, and was highly esteemed for her intelligence and lady-like qualities. She was a daughter of the late Mr. John Finch, who was for many years Gawler's principal undertaker, and who arrived in the State in December, 1849, and came, with his family, to this town a few weeks later. Miss Finch early developed a talent and liking for school work, and she was a teacher in the old school kept by Mrs. Murphy in Schiebner-terrace ''[sic - [[Scheibener Terrace]]] ''and which was burnt down. ''
''She started a school on her own account in the Congregational schoolroom in January, 1865, and obtained the Government grant in October of the same year. She continued there till December, 1870, when the room being too small she removed to the Methodist Lecture Hall, which place she occupied till December, 1877.''

''When the school had closed in Todd-street it had reached the number of 150 on the roll. The late Mr. L. S. Barton during a long period had a large boys' school. These schools being closed on account of alteration in the Government system were merged into the present public school, the late Mr. Burton being appointed head master, and Miss Finch taking the position of first assistant, where she remained till July, when she applied for the Roseworthy, which she conducted for 19½ years.
''Conscientious' and skilful as a teacher and sympathetic and kind hearted as a woman she won for herself the affection of her scholars and the respect of their parents.
''About five years ago unsatisfactory health compelled Miss Finch's retirement from the Education Department, and she had since then lived at Gawler South. The deceased lady was a great reader, and could discuss intelligently on many subjects out of the ordinary range of conversation.''
''Messrs. Joshua and Stephen Finch, of Gawler South, are brothers, and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. P. Gartrell, of Gawler South, and Miss Finch, of Gawler South, are sisters.''

''The remains were interred in the Willaston cemetery on Monday afternoon. The scholars and teacher (Miss Parnell) of the Roseworthy School attended as a mark of respect to the memory of one who was so long connected with that school.''"<ref name=":0" />

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[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Finch Hannah

2026-08-07T23:51:59Z

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Hannah Finch was born on 11 August 1836, the daughter of Gawler Undertaker John Finch and his wife Eliza, and the sister of Gawler Councillors [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]] and [[Finch (Cr) Stephen|Stephen Finch]]. She died on 30 July 1905, aged 68 and was buried in Willaston Cemetery (plot 19 P 1).

The [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107 Bunyip (4 Aug 1905)]<ref name=":0">Editor's Notes (Bunyip 4 Aug 1905) 'The Late Miss Hannah Finch', p2.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107</ref> ran the following obituary:

"''The Late Miss Hannah Finch.—On Saturday night last Miss Hannah Finch passed away somewhat suddenly at her residence, Gawler South.''

''Miss Finch had lived in this neighbourhood for nearly 56 years, and was highly esteemed for her intelligence and lady-like qualities. She was a daughter of the late Mr. John Finch, who was for many years Gawler's principal undertaker, and who arrived in the State in December, 1849, and came, with his family, to this town a few weeks later. Miss Finch early developed a talent and liking for school work, and she was a teacher in the old school kept by Mrs. Murphy in Schiebner-terrace and which was burnt down.
''She started a school on her own account in the Congregational schoolroom in January, 1865, and obtained the Government grant in October of the same year. She continued there till December, 1870, when the room being too small she removed to the Methodist Lecture Hall, which place she occupied till December, 1877.''

''When the school had closed in Todd-street it had reached the number of 150 on the roll. The late Mr. L. S. Barton during a long period had a large boys' school. These schools being closed on account of alteration in the Government system were merged into the present public school, the late Mr. Burton being appointed head master, and Miss Finch taking the position of first assistant, where she remained till July, when she applied for the Roseworthy, which she conducted for 19½ years.
''Conscientious' and skilful as a teacher and sympathetic and kind hearted as a woman she won for herself the affection of her scholars and the respect of their parents.
''About five years ago unsatisfactory health compelled Miss Finch's retirement from the Education Department, and she had since then lived at Gawler South. The deceased lady was a great reader, and could discuss intelligently on many subjects out of the ordinary range of conversation.''
''Messrs. Joshua and Stephen Finch, of Gawler South, are brothers, and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. P. Gartrell, of Gawler South, and Miss Finch, of Gawler South, are sisters.''

''The remains were interred in the Willaston cemetery on Monday afternoon. The scholars and teacher (Miss Parnell) of the Roseworthy School attended as a mark of respect to the memory of one who was so long connected with that school.''"<ref name=":0" />

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[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Finch Hannah

2026-08-07T23:49:07Z

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Hannah Finch was born on 11 August 1836, the daughter of Gawler Undertaker John Finch and his wife Eliza, and the sister of Gawler Councillors [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]] and [[Finch (Cr) Stephen|Stephen Finch]]. She died on 30 July 1905, aged 68 and was buried in Willaston Cemetery (plot 19 P 1).

The [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107 Bunyip (4 Aug 1905)]<ref name=":0">Editor's Notes (Bunyip 4 Aug 1905) 'The Late Miss Hannah Finch', p2.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107</ref> ran the following obituary:

"''The Late Miss Hannah Finch.—On Saturday night last Miss Hannah Finch passed away somewhat suddenly at her residence, Gawler South.''

''Miss Finch had lived in this neighbourhood for nearly 56 years, and was highly esteemed for her intelligence and lady-like qualities. She was a daughter of the late Mr. John Finch, who was for many years Gawler's principal undertaker, and who arrived in the State in December, 1849, and came, with his family, to this town a few weeks later. Miss Finch early developed a talent and liking for school work, and she was a teacher in the old school kept by Mrs. Murphy in Schiebner-terrace and which was burnt down.
''She started a school on her own account in the Congregational schoolroom in January, 1865, and obtained the Government grant in October of the same year. She continued there till December, 1870, when the room being too small she removed to the Methodist Lecture Hall, which place she occupied till December, 1877.''

''When the school had closed in Todd-street it had reached the number of 150 on the roll. The late Mr. L. S. Barton during a long period had a large boys' school. These schools being closed on account of alteration in the Government system were merged into the present public school, the late Mr. Burton being appointed head master, and Miss Finch taking the position of first assistant, where she remained till July, when she applied for the Roseworthy, which she conducted for 19½ years.
''Conscientious' and skilful as a teacher and sympathetic and kind hearted as a woman she won for herself the affection of her scholars and the respect of their parents.
''About five years ago unsatisfactory health compelled Miss Finch's retirement from the Education Department, and she had since then lived at Gawler South. The deceased lady was a great reader, and could discuss intelligently on many subjects out of the ordinary range of conversation.''
''Messrs. Joshua and Stephen Finch, of Gawler South, are brothers, and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. P. Gartrell, of Gawler South, and Miss Finch, of Gawler South, are sisters.''

''The remains were interred in the Willaston cemetery on Monday afternoon. The scholars and teacher (Miss Parnell) of the Roseworthy School attended as a mark of respect to the memory of one who was so long connected with that school.''"<ref name=":0" />

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[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Finch Hannah

2026-08-07T23:48:20Z

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Hannah Finch was born on 11 August 1836, the daughter of Gawler Undertaker John Finch and his wife Eliza, and the sister of Gawler Councillors [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]] and [[Finch (Cr) Stephen|Stephen Finch]]. She died on 30 July 1905, aged 68 and was buried in Willaston Cemetery (plot 19 P 1).

The [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107 Bunyip (4 Aug 1905)]<ref name=":0">Editor's Notes (Bunyip 4 Aug 1905) 'The Late Miss Hannah Finch', p2.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107</ref> ran the following obituary:

"''The Late Miss Hannah Finch.—On Saturday night last Miss Hannah Finch passed away somewhat suddenly at her residence, Gawler South.''

''Miss Finch had lived in this neighbourhood for nearly 56 years, and was highly esteemed for her intelligence and lady-like qualities. She was a daughter of the late Mr. John Finch, who was for many years Gawler's principal undertaker, and who arrived in the State in December, 1849, and came, with his family, to this town a few weeks later. Miss Finch early developed a talent and liking for school work, and she was a teacher in the old school kept by Mrs. Murphy in Schiebner-terrace and which was burnt down.
''She started a school on her own account in the Congregational schoolroom in January, 1865, and obtained the Government grant in October of the same year. She continued there till December, 1870, when the room being too small she removed to the Methodist Lecture Hall, which place she occupied till December, 1877.''

''When the school had closed in Todd-street it had reached the number of 150 on the roll. The late Mr. L. S. Barton during a long period had a large boys' school. These schools being closed on account of alteration in the Government system were merged into the present public school, the late Mr. Burton being appointed head master, and Miss Finch taking the position of first assistant, where she remained till July, when she applied for the Roseworthy, which she conducted for 19½ years.
''Conscientious' and skilful as a teacher and sympathetic and kind hearted as a woman she won for herself the affection of her scholars and the respect of their parents.
''About five years ago unsatisfactory health compelled Miss Finch's retirement from the Education Department, and she had since then lived at Gawler South. The deceased lady was a great reader, and could discuss intelligently on many subjects out of the ordinary range of conversation.''
''Messrs. Joshua and Stephen Finch, of Gawler South, are brothers, and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. P. Gartrell, of Gawler South, and Miss Finch, of Gawler South, are sisters.''

''The remains were interred in the Willaston cemetery on Monday afternoon. The scholars and teacher (Miss Parnell) of the Roseworthy School attended as a mark of respect to the memory of one who was so long connected with that school.''"<ref name=":0" />

[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Finch Hannah

2026-08-07T23:47:39Z

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Hannah Finch was born on 11 August 1836, the daughter of Gawler Undertaker John Finch and his wife Eliza, and the sister of Gawler Councillors [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]] and [[Finch (Cr) Stephen|Stephen Finch]]. She died on 30 July 1905, aged 68 and was buried in Willaston Cemetery (plot 19 P 1).

The [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107 Bunyip (4 Aug 1905)]<ref name=":0">Editor's Notes (Bunyip 4 Aug 1905) 'The Late Miss Hannah Finch', p2.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107</ref> ran the following obituary:

"''The Late Miss Hannah Finch.—On Saturday night last Miss Hannah Finch passed away somewhat suddenly at her residence, Gawler South.''

''Miss Finch had lived in this neighbourhood for nearly 56 years, and was highly esteemed for her intelligence and lady-like qualities. She was a daughter of the late Mr. John Finch, who was for many years Gawler's principal undertaker, and who arrived in the State in December, 1849, and came, with his family, to this town a few weeks later. Miss Finch early developed a talent and liking for school work, and she was a teacher in the old school kept by Mrs. Murphy in Schiebner-terrace and which was burnt down.
''She started a school on her own account in the Congregational schoolroom in January, 1865, and obtained the Government grant in October of the same year. She continued there till December, 1870, when the room being too small she removed to the Methodist Lecture Hall, which place she occupied till December, 1877.''

''When the school had closed in Todd-street it had reached the number of 150 on the roll. The late Mr. L. S. Barton during a long period had a large boys' school. These schools being closed on account of alteration in the Government system were merged into the present public school, the late Mr. Burton being appointed head master, and Miss Finch taking the position of first assistant, where she remained till July, when she applied for the Roseworthy, which she conducted for 19½ years.
''Conscientious' and skilful as a teacher and sympathetic and kind hearted as a woman she won for herself the affection of her scholars and the respect of their parents.
About five years ago unsatisfactory health compelled Miss Finch's retirement from the Education Department, and she had since then lived at Gawler South. The deceased lady was a great reader, and could discuss intelligently on many subjects out of the ordinary range of conversation.
Messrs. Joshua and Stephen Finch, of Gawler South, are brothers, and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. P. Gartrell, of Gawler South, and Miss Finch, of Gawler South, are sisters.''

''The remains were interred in the Willaston cemetery on Monday afternoon. The scholars and teacher (Miss Parnell) of the Roseworthy School attended as a mark of respect to the memory of one who was so long connected with that school.''"<ref name=":0" />

[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Finch Hannah

2026-08-07T23:47:07Z

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Hannah Finch was born on 11 August 1836, the daughter of Gawler Undertaker John Finch and his wife Eliza, and the sister of Gawler Councillors [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]] and [[Finch (Cr) Stephen|Stephen Finch]]. She died on 30 July 1905, aged 68 and was buried in Willaston Cemetery (plot 19 P 1).

The [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107 Bunyip (4 Aug 1905)]<ref name=":0">Editor's Notes (Bunyip 4 Aug 1905) 'The Late Miss Hannah Finch', p2.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107</ref> ran the following obituary:

"''The Late Miss Hannah Finch.—On Saturday night last Miss Hannah Finch passed away somewhat suddenly at her residence, Gawler South.''

''Miss Finch had lived in this neighbourhood for nearly 56 years, and was highly esteemed for her intelligence and lady-like qualities. She was a daughter of the late Mr. John Finch, who was for many years Gawler's principal undertaker, and who arrived in the State in December, 1849, and came, with his family, to this town a few weeks later. Miss Finch early developed a talent and liking for school work, and she was a teacher in the old school kept by Mrs. Murphy in Schiebner-terrace and which was burnt down.
''She started a school on her own account in the Congregational schoolroom in January, 1865, and obtained the Government grant in October of the same year. She continued there till December, 1870, when the room being too small she removed to the Methodist Lecture Hall, which place she occupied till December, 1877.''

''When the school had closed in Todd-street it had reached the number of 150 on the roll. The late Mr. L. S. Barton during a long period had a large boys' school. These schools being closed on account of alteration in the Government system were merged into the present public school, the late Mr. Burton being appointed head master, and Miss Finch taking the position of first assistant, where she remained till July, when she applied for the Roseworthy, which she conducted for 19½ years.
Conscientious' and skilful as a teacher and sympathetic and kind hearted as a woman she won for herself the affection of her scholars and the respect of their parents.
About five years ago unsatisfactory health compelled Miss Finch's retirement from the Education Department, and she had since then lived at Gawler South. The deceased lady was a great reader, and could discuss intelligently on many subjects out of the ordinary range of conversation.
Messrs. Joshua and Stephen Finch, of Gawler South, are brothers, and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. P. Gartrell, of Gawler South, and Miss Finch, of Gawler South, are sisters.''

''The remains were interred in the Willaston cemetery on Monday afternoon. The scholars and teacher (Miss Parnell) of the Roseworthy School attended as a mark of respect to the memory of one who was so long connected with that school.''"<ref name=":0" />

[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Finch Hannah

2026-08-07T23:46:39Z

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Hannah Finch was born on 11 August 1836, the daughter of Gawler Undertaker John Finch and his wife Eliza, and the sister of Gawler Councillors [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]] and [[Finch (Cr) Stephen|Stephen Finch]]. She died on 30 July 1905, aged 68 and was buried in Willaston Cemetery (plot 19 P 1).

The [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107 Bunyip (4 Aug 1905)]<ref name=":0">Editor's Notes (Bunyip 4 Aug 1905) 'The Late Miss Hannah Finch', p2.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97601107</ref> ran the following obituary:

"''The Late Miss Hannah Finch.—On Saturday night last Miss Hannah Finch passed away somewhat suddenly at her residence, Gawler South.''

''Miss Finch had lived in this neighbourhood for nearly 56 years, and was highly esteemed for her intelligence and lady-like qualities. She was a daughter of the late Mr. John Finch, who was for many years Gawler's principal undertaker, and who arrived in the State in December, 1849, and came, with his family, to this town a few weeks later. Miss Finch early developed a talent and liking for school work, and she was a teacher in the old school kept by Mrs. Murphy in Schiebner-terrace and which was burnt down.
She started a school on her own account in the Congregational schoolroom in January, 1865, and obtained the Government grant in October of the same year. She continued there till December, 1870, when the room being too small she removed to the Methodist Lecture Hall, which place she occupied till December, 1877.''

''When the school had closed in Todd-street it had reached the number of 150 on the roll. The late Mr. L. S. Barton during a long period had a large boys' school. These schools being closed on account of alteration in the Government system were merged into the present public school, the late Mr. Burton being appointed head master, and Miss Finch taking the position of first assistant, where she remained till July, when she applied for the Roseworthy, which she conducted for 19½ years.
Conscientious' and skilful as a teacher and sympathetic and kind hearted as a woman she won for herself the affection of her scholars and the respect of their parents.
About five years ago unsatisfactory health compelled Miss Finch's retirement from the Education Department, and she had since then lived at Gawler South. The deceased lady was a great reader, and could discuss intelligently on many subjects out of the ordinary range of conversation.
Messrs. Joshua and Stephen Finch, of Gawler South, are brothers, and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. P. Gartrell, of Gawler South, and Miss Finch, of Gawler South, are sisters.''

''The remains were interred in the Willaston cemetery on Monday afternoon. The scholars and teacher (Miss Parnell) of the Roseworthy School attended as a mark of respect to the memory of one who was so long connected with that school.''"<ref name=":0" />

[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Finch (Cr) Stephen

2026-08-07T23:34:50Z

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According to Trove, Stephen Finch was re-elected for East Ward in the Gawler South Council in 1903.1

Stephen Finch was the son of John Finch, a long-standing undertaker in Gawler.
He was the brother of Gawler Councillor [[Finch (Cr) Joshua|Joshua Finch]], and Schoolteacher, [[Finch Hannah|Hannah Finch]].

[Researched by Allen Tiller]

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Moore Street 1A

2026-08-07T05:54:58Z

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[[File:1a Moore Street, former Congregational Church (8439675843).jpg|thumb]]
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720335002165/ Click here] for photos of 1A Moore Street.

1A Moore Street is the contemporary address for the large allotment that fronts [[Light Square]] from [[Moore Street]] to [[Cowan Street]], where the former Congregational Church (built 1861), original Congregational Chapel (built 1851) and Duffield Kindergarten Hall building (built 1913) stand. The allotment is lot 111 on the original [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19071038615 Gawler Town Plan].

The site has been private property since the 1970s.

Extensive stone masonry repairs to the heritage boundary wall of the property, which had severely deteriorated, were undertaken c2025-2026.

For more information about the buildings and history of the Congregational Church and for links, including more photographs see [[Congregational Church Light Square]].

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Moore Street 1A

2026-08-06T10:47:32Z

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[[File:1a Moore Street, former Congregational Church (8439675843).jpg|thumb]]
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720335002165/ Click here] for photos of 1A Moore Street.

1A Moore Street is the contemporary address for the large allotment that fronts [[Light Square]] from [[Moore Street]] to [[Cowan Street]], where the former Congregational Church (built 1861), original Congregational Chapel (built 1851) and Duffield Kindergarten Hall building (built c1913) stand. The allotment is lot 111 on the original [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19071038615 Gawler Town Plan].

The site has been private property since the 1970s.

Extensive stone masonry repairs to the heritage boundary wall of the property, which had severely deteriorated, were undertaken c2025-2026.

For more information about the buildings and history of the Congregational Church and for links, including more photographs see [[Congregational Church Light Square]].

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Jones Reverend Walter

2026-08-03T10:02:14Z

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Reverend Walter Henry Jones was (1847-1907) a long standing minister at the Gawler [[Congregational Church Light Square|Congregational Church]], serving for about 20 years (1882-1901) before relocating to Queensland in about 1902 (he died there in 1907).A stained glass window was unveiled as a memorial to him in the Congregational Church in 1908 (the window was relocated to [[Uniting Church Tod Street|Tod Street Methodist Church]] after the union of the churches in the 1970s).

Prior to immigrating from England to Australia, Reverend Jones married Fanny Maria Cooper and had three children, their fourth and final child Eustace Jones, was born in 1888 during their time in Gawler. Whilst in Gawler the family resided at the Congregational Church Manse, which stands at [[Light Square]] (contemporary address 19 [[Cowan Street]]).

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720332445287 Click here] to see photos relating to Reverend Walter Jones (there is a great story behind the beautiful portraits of Rev & Mrs Jones - they were discarded and put up for sale second hand, photographer Jenny Rose Oakley who hates seeing old photos get lost to history, discovered, bought and shared them via Ancestry so that relatives would be able to see them – she is thrilled for them to be added to the Gawler History Team collection.)

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Congregational Church Light Square

2026-07-30T02:39:05Z

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[[File:ADG Gawler congregational churches 2.jpg|thumb|Congregational Church (opened 1861) & original Congregational Chapel (opened 1851)]]
In August 1850 the land was purchased for this church and the original Congregational Chapel was opened on Christmas Day 1851.

The larger Congregational Church (on the Moore Street side of the original Chapel) was built in 1861. The tower was added in 1901 as part of the church's Jubilee celebrations (50 years since the original Chapel opened). The bell was installed in 1921 as a memorial for those serving in WWI.

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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157633148035082/with/9779398454/ Click here] to view more photos and articles relating to Congregational Chapel (built 1851) & the Congregational Church (built 1861).

Further photos of this church can be seen in the Flickr portfolio of photographer ‘aqilareen’ (album "[https://www.flickr.com/photos/31967465@N04/albums/72157664549392946/ Churches - Sth Aust- Ga]").

Please [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K-W8oCcvnOgQUL1NtB6E2TlSJA_vLMo8/view?usp=sharing click here] to view historical information from the 1998 Danvers Heritage Survey regarding this location.
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Moore Street 1A

2026-07-30T02:36:49Z

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1A Moore Street is the contemporary address for the large allotment that fronts [[Light Square]] from [[Moore Street]] to [[Cowan Street]], where the former Congregational Church (built 1861), original Congregational Chapel (built 1851) and the wooden hall building (built c1913) stand. The allotment is lot 111 on the original [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/19071038615 Gawler Town Plan].

The site has been private property since the 1970s.

Extensive stone masonry repairs to the heritage boundary wall of the property, which had severely deteriorated, were undertaken c2025-2026.

For more information about the buildings and history of the Congregational Church and for links, including more photographs see [[Congregational Church Light Square]].

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Gawler Heritage Survey 1998

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The Gawler Heritage Survey 1998 was prepared by Danvers Architects for the Corporation of the Town of Gawler in association with Anne Pope Historical Consultant and Peter Jensen Planning and Urban Design.

The preparation of the Corporation of the Town of Gawler 'Local Heritage Places' and 'Historic Conservation Policy Areas' Plan Amendment Reports was undertaken by a team consisting of Danvers Architects Pty Ltd and Peter Jensen Planning & Urban Design.
Danvers Architects carried out the heritage investigations for the project with assistance from historical consultant Anna Pope, who prepared the Gawler Heritage Survey 1998. The Report was commissioned by the Corporation of the Town of Gawler in August 1996.
The area of investigation was the whole of the lands currently within the boundary of the Corporation of the Town of Gawler (see figure 1. 1).
The aim of the project was to examine all places of potential heritage significance and to identify any which fulfilled one or more of the criteria in either the Heritage Act 1993 or the Development Act 1993. The resultant recommendations will be included in the Council's Local Heritage Places Plan Amendment Report.
Those places which fulfil one or more of the criteria in the Heritage Act 1993 have been recommended for entry in the State Heritage Register and referred to the State Heritage
Branch of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs. This report also recommends that in the event that any of these places are rejected by the State Heritage Authority and are not entered in the State Heritage Register, they should be added to the local heritage register.
Those places which fulfil one or more of the criteria in the Development Act 1993 have been recommended for entry in the Local Heritage Register.

The survey includes 88 places in Gawler. (see pages 9-11).

Please <[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GtGV2iVxcpVo4tEuqqDOGyu2-nxTB_2Q/view?usp=sharing click here]> to read the Gawler Heritage Survey 1998.

Gawler History Team thanks Danvers Architects for allowing access to the Gawler Heritage Survey 1998.

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Davies (Cr) Cody

2026-07-27T09:25:40Z

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Cody Davies is a Town of Gawler Councillor, elected for the 2018-2022 term of Council. He is currently the chair of the Council’s Corporate and Community Services committee, as well as being involved in a variety of local community groups, including the Gawler Suicide Prevention Group, the Gawler Broadcasting Association and the Gawler Community House.

When Cody was born, his family was living out at Cadell in the Riverland. They moved around for a while, before moving to Gawler in the early 2000's. The family spent five years living in Singapore, after which Cody moved back to Gawler in 2011. His parents stayed in Singapore, but eventually moved again and are currently residing in America.

In 2014 he ran for the Town of Gawler Council after gaining Council experience through Gawler’s Youth Advisory Committee but was unsuccessful. He then ran again in 2018 and succeeded, finishing fifth out of the ten successful Area Councillor candidates.
Alongside activity at the Council and local community groups, he is also studying at The University of Adelaide, majoring in History.

Community involvement:

Town of Gawler: Elected Councillor, 2018-current

Gawler Broadcasting Association: Founding chair, current board member

Gawler Suicide Prevention Group: Chair 2018-2020, current board member

Gawler Community House 2016-2019, 2020-current

Gawler History Team: Board Member, 2017-current

Gawler Youth Advisory Committee: 2012-2015 as a Youth representative, 2018- current as an Elected Member

Salisbury City Rotaract Club – 2014-current

BBBfm: Community radio presenter, 2011-2014,

'''HUMANS OF GAWLER''' - Gawler in Photographs

Councillor Cody Davies - Town of Gawler

When Cody was born his family was living out at Cadell in the Riverland. They moved around for a while and then moved to Gawler in the early 2000's. After that, they spent five years living in Singapore, after which he moved back to Gawler in 2011. His parents stayed in Singapore, but eventually moved again and are currently residing in America.
In 2014 he ran for the Town of Gawler Council but it was a crowded field of 28 people contesting 10 slots and he didn’t make it in, but then when he ran again at the 2018 election he increased his vote significantly and made it onto the Council.

"My hope is that I can communicate clearly to everyone what’s happening inside the Council so more people feel informed and we can hopefully get a wide range of people running at the next election."
Aside from Council he is studying at The University of Adelaide, majoring in History. He's not doing the full 4 courses every Semester, which takes longer to complete but it lets him balance it with his other responsibilities.
He is also the chair of the Gawler Suicide Prevention - Community Group, which he has been involved in for the last five years or so, as well as being a board member of the GBA - Gawler Broadcasting Association, which he was the founding chair of for its first few years.

"For more than 13 years now, I have helped to run a fan website ( https://zeldauniverse.net/ ) for the Legend of Zelda video game series."
He joined the forums all he way back in 2003 when he was only 13, and it’s had a big impact on his life since, as it was where he practised all sorts of things for the first time, including writing news stories, podcast-making, and creating video content. Usually he would try to go to the big E3 - Electronic Entertainment Expo every year in Los Angeles and meet up with all those people he first met online, though of course it was unfortunately cancelled this year....

First shared on ''Gawler in Photographs'' ‘'''Humans of Gawler'''’ series 28 October 2020.
Cody Davies was elected as Gawler Area Councillor in 2018.

Please <[http://gawler.dcw.lga.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?c=45611 click here]> to vie Councillor Cody Davies LGA website.

There are more photos on the Gawler Broadcasting page - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157709254976312

please click here for Cody's presentation in May 2025 on Gawler's ever changing boundaries
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please click here for Cody's presentation in April 2026 on McKinlay Monument Time Capsule
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Photographs by Daniel James Down. Please [https://www.facebook.com/Gawlerinphotographs click here] to visit the Gawler in Photographs Facebook page.

Gawler History Team Inc thanks Daniel James Down (Gawler in Photographs) and the subjects of ‘Humans of Gawler’ for allowing us to preserve their profiles and photographs for future generations of Gawlerites to enjoy.

Please <[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157711858258758 click here]> to view a photo of Cody Davies.

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Davis Marie

2026-07-27T09:17:10Z

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Please <[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157655702692250 click here]> to view more photos of Marie Davis.

Marie Davis was Gawler (joint) Citizen of the Year 2013. Marie is (or has been) a volunteer for the Gawler Centrals Football Club, Wasley's Netball Club, Gawler's Relay for Life Committee, The Zion Kindergarten Governing Committee, The Gawler Primary School Governing Council and was awarded a life-long membership of the Gawler Kindergym.

She has lived in Gawler since she was 13 and is great great granddaughter of Gawler's early citizens [[Broderick William & Mary|William and Mary Broderick]], via their son Gawler saddler [[Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius|Nicholas Broderick]] and his wife nee Miriam Watts (Miriam ran Mrs Broderick's Tuckshop from her home at [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]]).

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Davis Marie

2026-07-27T09:09:46Z

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Marie Davies was Gawler (joint) Citizen of the Year 2013.
Marie is (or has been) a volunteer for the Gawler Centrals Football Club, Wasley's Netball Club, Gawler's Relay for Life Committee, The Zion Kindergarten Governing Committee, The Gawler Primary School Governing Council and was awarded a life-long membership of the Gawler Kindergym.

Please <[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157655702692250 click here]> to view more photos of Marie Davies.

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Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius

2026-07-21T10:22:19Z

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720332862199/ Click here] to see an album relating to the Broderick family.

Nicholas Aloysius Broderick was born in Gawler in about 1859, son of [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick and nee Mary Cain]] and brother of [[Broderick (Cr) Denis John|Cr Denis John Broderick]] and [[Broderick Patrick Joseph|Patrick Joseph Broderick]]. His childhood was spent in a humble cottage the family rented at Lot 49 Jacob Street (now the site of the Big W complex/carpark).

Nicholas married Miriam Harriet Watts in 1879 at Port Wakefield; the couple came to reside in his hometown of Gawler and went on to have 11 children (see details below). By the mid 1880s they were residing in one of the three [[Finniss Street]] cottages tenanted out by Nicholas' widowed mother Mrs Mary Broderick (contemporary address 43 Finniss Street - these cottages have since been demolished but Mary's more substantial cottage still stands on adjoining [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]]).

Nicholas was a saddler and harness maker by trade<ref>1883 - Australia, City Directories, 1845-1948 via Ancestry</ref> and had his workshop in Murray Street at the site now known as [[Murray Street 153|153 Murray Street]], on the corner of Lyndoch Road.<ref>(Bunyip 22 Jan 1932) [Looking back to 1887] https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96680675</ref> He also served as a Councillor for North Ward between 1895 and 1896.

The family were heavily involved in the Catholic Church community. Nicholas served several terms as the President of the Gawler Branch of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, <ref name=":1">"Death of a Hibernian" (The Catholic Press 19 Feb 1898) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104495008</ref> and Miriam was one of the foundation members of the ladies' branch of St. Vincent de Paul's Society and a most devoted church worker until the time of her death [aged 89], "never an appeal for the church was organised that she did not assist personally".<ref name=":2" /> At least one of their children, Ellen, attended St Joseph's school<ref>The Southern Cross (9 Apr 1948) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167719415</ref> and of their grandchildren, one of their grandsons, Kevin Flinn, became a priest and two of their granddaughters became nuns.<ref name=":2" />

In February 1898, Nicholas "''complained of the excessive heat, and accordingly left his place of business in Murray-street with the intention of returning home. He had all but reached his residence on Church Hill when he was seen to stagger and fall. Assistance was quickly at hand, and he was conveyed inside his residence, but although everything possible was done for him, he never spoke again, with the exception of a hurried call for his wife and children, and succumbed within an hour.''"<ref name=":1" /> The cause of death was determined to be "heat apoplexy" [heat stroke],<ref name=":1" /> he was only about 39 years old and his youngest son and namesake, was not yet one.

His widow Miriam survived him by over 50 years, passing away in 1949, aged 89 and was described as "''one of Gawler's oldest Catholic residents and church workers.''"<ref name=":2" /> The couple are buried together in Willaston Cemetery in a family plot with three of their children (plots 50 & 51 C 3 - young daughter Myrtle Agnes is not named on the memorial stone. One of their other children who died as an infant is buried in another Broderick family plot (46 B 3) with Nicholas' parents).

=== Descendants of Nicholas & Miriam Broderick ===
The couple's eldest son William Thomas Broderick, known as 'Will', was a member of the [[Gawler Bicycle Club]] and he "won renown on the cycling track"<ref>Bunyip (11 Feb 1898) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97580320</ref> (there is a [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55376337272 portrait of him with his bicycle in his cycling attire] and he is in the [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/16303919369 1898 Gawler Bicycle Club photograph]). Like his father, he died as a result of heat apoplexy,<ref>The Southern Cross (12 Jan 1906) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166965654</ref> but at an even younger age, just 25.

In the late 1920s to early 1930s, Nicholas and Miriam's second son 'Joe' Joseph Francis Broderick ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55377454309 Portrait of Joe Broderick c1925-1928]), was preparing a book on the "[[The Song of Australia]]", including biographies on the author of the lyrics, Caroline Carleton, and the composer of the music, Carl Linger; Joe hoped the song may be adopted as Australia's national song, after the National Anthem.<ref>The Mail (23 Jun 1928) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/58553664</ref> It seems he never succeeded in having a book published but his research was published in The Barossa News over four weeks in 1932 (see [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/292391797 The Barossa News 9 Jun 1932], [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/292393398 16 Jun 1932], [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/292391858 23 Jun 1932] & [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/292397057 30 Jun 1932]) and his research materials may have been preserved in the archives at the Gawler Cultural Heritage Centre. In his later years, Joe became an alcoholic and lived in the shed out the back of his mother's Finniss Street cottage, until his death in 1948.

Third son, Patrick John Broderick served in WWI as a Gunner (Service No. 38478)([https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8446440626 portrait P J Broderick in uniform]), from November 1916 until he was medically discharged in February 1919 following a severe gunshot wound to the leg.<ref>Australia, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 via Ancestry</ref> Prior to serving P J Broderick was in the boot trade; initially starting out at Messrs John Hunter & Co, then the Federal Boot Company (F.B.C.) in Gawler before working at Barlow’s in the city. <ref name=":3">(Bunyip 13 Nov 1914) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97739473</nowiki></ref> He returned to Gawler around 1905, working for Mr A Sheard for nine years, the last six as manager of Sheard’s Boot Department. In 1914 he opened his own “Broderick’s Boot Store” in Murray Street in the shop next to Mr Jas. Prendergast’s, which had been “''thoroughly renovated and fitted up as an ideal boot store''”.<ref name=":3" /> He continued this business until he enlisted in late 1916, then following his return from war he briefly ran a store in Burra,<ref>(Burra Record 12 Mar 1919) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39139733</ref> before returning to Gawler where he traded as “Broderick’s Boot Store” (1920), “Broderick & Co. The Boot Shop” (1921-1923 in partnership with youngest brother Nicholas Aloysius Broderick and draper Fred Richmond), “Broderick & Richmond” (1924-1925 – also a Men’s Outfitter) and finally “P J Broderick – Shoe Store & Men’s Outfitter” (1926-1931).

At the end of 1931 he removed from Gawler; the tough times of the depression were affecting trade and he had suffered the loss of his wife, leaving him with four young children - a farewell was held at the Gawler Club where he was a Life Member.<ref>‘Obituary’ (Bunyip 21 Nov 1930) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96663312</nowiki></ref><ref>‘Social and Personal’ (Bunyip 20 Nov 1931) <nowiki>https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96642188</nowiki></ref> By the 1940s he had settled in Semaphore, but when he died in 1951 his remains were brought to Willaston Cemetery to be buried with his late wife.

After the end of the business partnership between P J Broderick and brother Nicholas Aloysius Broderick, ‘Nick’ ‘a well-known local sportsman’, opened his own competing boot store trading as ‘Nick A Broderick’ from 1924. He later became a publican and was the licensee of Gawler's Globe Hotel (now known as the [[Kingsford Hotel 32 Murray Street|Kingsford Hotel]]) from 1932 to 1934, before moving on to the Minnipa Hotel.

Coincidentally, Pete Davis, the manager of the [[Kingsford Hotel 32 Murray Street|Kingsford Hotel]] in 2026 (who has been working at the hotel since about 2007) is former licensee Nick Broderick's great great nephew!

=== Broderick Family Residence & Mrs Broderick's Tuckshop ===
By 1939-1943 widow Miriam Broderick and her unmarried adult children Joseph Francis Broderick, Mildred Hazel Broderick and Dorothy Broderick were all residing in what had been William and Mary Broderick's cottage at '18 Finniss Street'<ref>(Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 via Ancestry)</ref> (contemporary address [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]] - street numbers changed about 1950s). Miriam remained there until her death in 1949,<ref>(Advertiser 28 Nov 1949) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35779680</ref> the property was passed to her son Patrick Broderick, then after his death in 1951 his unmarried sister Mildred Hazel Broderick, then upon her death in 1978 to their unmarried sister Dorothy Broderick, who kept the property until 1984,<ref>Certificates of Title 131/208, 4146/607, 4290/313 & 4290/314</ref> by which time it had belonged to the Broderick family for over 100 years.

To support herself, widow Miriam Broderick operated a tuckshop, referred to as "Mrs Broderick's Tuckshop", from the Finniss Street cottage; children from the Catholic School and Gawler Primary School used to go there to buy pies, pasties and lollies [see [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]]]. It is not know exactly when Miriam was running the tuckshop - Dawn Eastick who graduated Year 7 at Gawler Primary in 1936 recalled the shop, suggesting Miriam was still running it in the early-mid 1930s but it is unlikely she was still doing so in 1949 when she passed away aged 89.

If you know anything about Mrs Broderick's Tuckshop please message the Gawler History Team ''information@gawlerhistory.com''

=== Miriam Broderick's Mother ===
Miriam's widowed mother, Mrs Mary Watts, nee Mary Graham ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55377680590 Portrait of Mary Watts c1880]), came to reside with her daughter, at the family's 41 Finniss Street cottage in about 1904 and remained up until her death in 1910, aged 70.<ref name=":4">The Southern Cross (15 Apr 1910) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167019115</ref> A colonist of about 57 years, she arrived in South Australia aged 13 and spent most of her life at Port Wakefield.<ref name=":4" /> She is buried at the Willaston Cemetery with her daughter and son-in-law (plot 50 C 3).

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''Compiled by Nikki Wight, with thanks to Broderick Family descendant Marie Davis for sharing her photographs & family history information.''

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=== Broderick Family Birth, Death & Marriage Information ===
'''BRODERICK, Nicholas Aloysius (Cr)(I)'''

b. Abt. 1859, son of [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick & nee Mary Cain]] (SA Birth registration not found)

m. 29 May 1879, ‘Miriam WATTS', Port Wakefield, SA (Reg. Clare 119/1175)(d. 1949)

Saddler & harness maker

(Councillor North Ward 1895-1896)

d. 5 Feb 1898, Gawler, SA, aged 39 (Reg. Barossa 249/389)

Buried Willaston Cemetery (‘Nicholas N’ [sic], plot 50 C 3 – with wife ‘Miriam H’ & 3 children)

'''WATTS Miriam Harriet (BRODERICK)'''

b. 21 Apr 1859, Balaklava, SA, daughter of Thomas Joseph Watts and nee Mary Graham

d. 27 Nov 1949, SA, aged 89 (Reg. SA 748/6113)

Buried 29 Nov 1949, Willaston Cemetery (plot 51 C 3 - with husband ‘Nicholas’ & 3 children)

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=== Children of Nicholas Aloysius Broderick (I) & nee Miriam Watts ===
According to Miriam's obituary, the couple had 11 children,<ref name=":2">The Southern Cross (23 Dec 1949) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167727989</ref> most were not registered at birth but they are believed to be:

'''BRODERICK Mary Maud (WILLISON)'''(1879-1946)

* b. 21 Jun 1879, SA (Reg. 'Mary Harriet Broderick')
* m. 15 Nov. 1905 'Thomas Tingey WILLSON', Hindmarsh, SA (Reg. Hindmarsh 788/225)
* Children include 'Thomas Owen Nicholas Willson', b. 7 Nov 1906, Gawler, SA
* d. 14 Nov 1946, Kangaroo Island, SA

'''BRODERICK William Thomas 'Will''''

* b. 10 Dec 1880, SA
* Never married

* d. 6 Jan 1906, Broken Hill, NSW, aged 25
"''BRODERICK-- On the 6th January, at Broken Hill Hospital, of heat apoplexy, William Broderick, eldest son of the late N. A. Broderick, saddler, of Gawler, aged 24 years. "May he rest in peace.''"<ref>The Advertiser (11 Jan 1906) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4997463</ref>

'''BRODERICK Joseph Francis 'Joe''''

* b. 12 Sep 1882, SA
* Never married
* d. 9 Aug 1948, aged 65
* Buried Willaston Cemetery (plot 50 C 3 - with parents & sister ‘Mildred Hazel’)

'''BRODERICK Ellen May 'Nell' (BOWLER)'''

* b. 9 Aug 1884, SA
* m. 17 Aug 1915 Michael Ignatius BOWLER, SA<ref name=":0">The Southern Cross (9 Apr 1948) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167719415</ref>
* Children include Patricia Myra Bowler (MOORE)
* Following marriage resided Torrensville, then Berri, SA
* d. 18 Feb 1948, SA, aged 63<ref name=":0" />

'''BRODERICK Mildred Hazel Gertrude'''

* b. 6 Nov 1886, SA
* Never married
* Worked in haberdashery store in Murray Street, Gawler
* d. 4 Oct 1978, SA, aged 91
* Buried Willaston Cemetery (plot 51 C 3 – with parents & brother ‘Joseph F’)
'''BRODERICK Patrick John'''
* b. 7 Jun 1888, Gawler, SA
* Storekeeper at time of enlistment [boot store]
* Served WWI 17 Nov 1916 (Oct 1918 Gun Shot Wound leg, medically discharged 22 Feb 1919)
* m. 1922 ‘Nellie’ 'Ellen Elizabeth McCARTHY', SA<ref>The Register (16 Dec 1922) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63739498</ref> (d. 1930, buried Willaston Cemetery, aged 32 - plot 41 O 3)<ref>The Southern Cross (3 Nov 1931) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167057510</ref>
* Moved to Semaphore, SA
* d. 31 May 1951, SA
* Buried Willaston Cemetery (plot 41 O 3 - with wife Ellen)

'''BRODERICK Lucy Alice (FLINN)'''

* b. 17 May 1891, SA
* m. 26 Apr 1916 'Frederick James FLINN', Gawler, SA
* Children Patricia Flinn, Kathleen Flinn, Kevin Flinn (Catholic Priest) & Thomas Flinn
* d. 29 Oct 1970
* Buried Port Pirie, SA

'''BRODERICK Denis Aloysius''' (13 May 1891 - 1893, buried Willaston Cemetery, aged 2 years & 4 mths - plot 46 B 3 - with Broderick grandparents, small separate memorial)

'''BRODERICK Myrtle Agnes''' (5 Mar 1895 - 1901, buried Willaston Cemetery, aged 5-8 - plot 50 C 3 with parents, name not on memorial)

'''BRODERICK Nicholas Aloysius (II) ‘Nick’'''

* b. 5 May 1897 (Reg. Barossa 603/113)
* m. 1920 Catherine Madigan (d. 1953)
* 1931 Nick Broderick’s Store selling school shoes
* 1932 – 17 Oct 1934 Licensee Globe Hotel, Gawler
* (1936 Minnipa Hotel)(still there 1939 electoral roll)
* WWII Army Citizen Military Forces
* d. 17 Apr 1957, SA (Reg. Adelaide 857/2115)

'''BRODERICK Dorothy 'Doll''''

* b. Abt. 1904, believed to be adopted daughter of Miriam Broderick
* Electoral rolls show she resided with Miriam (1939-1943) & she is listed as a daughter in Miriam's obituary;<ref>(Bunyip 9 Dec 1949) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96854580</ref> the family's 41 Finniss Street property willed to her in 1979 upon the death of sister Mildred.
* Doll was deaf, she carried out home duties and cleaned at the Presbytery (Catholic Church Clergy's residence)
* d. 1 Aug 1989, aged 85
* Buried Enfield Memorial Park, Clearview, SA (Catholic, Row BW, Site Number 12 - with niece Patricia Myra Moore (nee Patricia Myra Bowler))

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Broderick (Cr) Denis John

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Denis John Broderick was born in about 1860, second son of Gawler’s [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick and nee Mary Cain]] and brother of [[Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius|Cr Nicholas Aloysius Broderick (I)]] and [[Broderick Patrick Joseph|Patrick Joseph Broderick]]. During his childhood the family lived in a humble cottage they rented at Lot 49 [[Jacob Street]] (now the site of the Woolworths/Big W complex/carpark).

In 1880, 20 year old Denis was working as a grocer’s assistant for Messers J & J Wilcox Drapers, Grocers & c. and was one of the witnesses called when there was an inquest into a suspicious fire in the store sheds out the back of the business; the cause of the fire was not determined.<ref>‘Coroner's Inquest - Suspicious Fire’ (Gawler Standard 24 Jul 1880) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245314138</ref>

Denis married Lucy Gent, eldest daughter of the late Walter George Gent and nee Lucy Colinette (and step daughter of Thomas Penaluna), at [[St Peter and St Paul Catholic Church|SS Peter and Paul's Catholic Church]] in Gawler on 6 February 1884.<ref>(The South Australian Advertiser 13 Feb 1884) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35953957</ref> The couple resided at [[King Street 11|11 King Street]] around 1889-1891. They did not have any children of their own but may have had an adopted daughter.

In late 1893, Denis started his own business as a wheat buyer & c. after working as an agent for the South Australian Milling Company for several years.<ref>(Bunyip 17 Nov 1893) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97238152</ref> He also served Gawler as a Councillor for North Ward for two years (Dec 1894 - at least Nov 1896),<ref>(Bunyip 21 Dec 1894) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97571814</ref><ref>(Bunyip 22 Nov 1895) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97573231</ref><ref>(Bunyip 13 Nov 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97575447</ref> a member of the [[Gawler Institute Murray Street 91|Institute]] Committee for eight years and as an officer for the Oddfellows and Hibernian Catholic Benefit Societies for several years.<ref>(Bunyip 23 Nov 1900) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100576176</ref>

Denis and Lucy Broderick left Gawler for Port Adelaide in 1898,<ref>(Evening Journal 14 Jul 1898) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199936718</ref> where he became landlord for the Jervois Hotel in Lipson Street.<ref>(Bunyip 23 Nov 1900) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100576176</ref> In November 1900, just a few years after they had left, news reached Gawler that 41 year old Lucy had died suddenly of a heart problem and even more shockingly, the following day in the mourning coach on the way to her burial, her husband Denis, was seized with a fit and also died. They were both buried at Cheltenham Cemetery.

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=== Birth, Death and Marriage Information ===
'''BRODERICK Denis John (Cr)'''

b. Abt. 1860, SA, son of [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick & nee Mary Cain]] (SA birth registration not found)

m. 6 Feb 1884, ‘Lucy Alice GENT’, SS Peter & Paul's Catholic Church, Gawler, SA (‘Denis John’, Reg. Barossa 138/518)(d. Nov 1900)

d. Nov 1900, Port Adelaide, SA, aged 40 (Reg. Port Adelaide 273/307)(died on way to wife’s burial)

Buried Cheltenham Cemetery, Cheltenham, SA
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Murray Street 106-116

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|Street number=106 - 116
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|Town or Locality=Gawler
|Date constructed=1865
|Date approximate=Yes
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Please [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1C_h7RBpl5172FbwDRyPrG9VZfI7O6n/view?usp=sharing click here] to view historical information from the 1998 Danvers Heritage Survey regarding this location.<ref>Danvers Architects (1998) Gawler Heritage Survey, Corporation of the Town of Gawler, Adelaide, South Australia.</ref>

Please [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157717689513866 click here] to view photos of this location.

Row of two-storey stores, initially the upper storeys would have been residences for the storekeepers. This building is known as the Wilcox Building and may have been known as "Central Stores" at some stage.

On 14 July 1880 a suspicious fire took place in the store sheds at the rear of premises of Messrs J & J Wilcox, Drapers, Grocers & c..<ref>Coroner's Inquest - Suspicious Fire (Gawler Standard 24 Jul 1880) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245314138</ref>

=== Businesses over the Years ===

==== 106 Murray Street - Store at corner of Jacob Street on southern end of row of shops ====
* National Bank of Australasia c1878 (photo + leased as a 'Bank' from 1876-1880, not yet determined if it was this bank the entire time)
* P J Broderick ran his 'Grocer Ironmonger & Co' business from this "Central Stores" shop from 1888-1891 (or 1893), he sold general goods and was also licensed to sell wine.<ref>South Australia, Australia, Government Gazettes (1888) via Ancestry</ref> [see [[Broderick Patrick Joseph]]]
* H King Fruiterer, Greengrocer & c. had taken over this "Central Stores" site by May 1892, relocating from other premises.<ref>Bunyip (20 May 1892) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97236507</ref> [there is overlap from when King started advertising this as his location and when Broderick sold up remaining stock in 1893]
* Gaetjens Real Estate
* 'Memorials' Fuji Film One Hour Photo c1994 (photo)
* Century 21 Real Estate 1999
* Lindco Real Estate c2000+ (For Lease 2009)
* yes Optus (Telecommunications store) 2012
* B Music in 2026

==== 110 Murray Street ====
* Charles Cross Chemist - leased store from 1878-1891, when he disposed of his store to James Rowe, so that he could "devote his whole attention to the manufacture and distribution of medicines."<ref>South Australian Register (8 Apr 1891)https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48098370</ref>

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Murray Street 106-116

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{{Place
|Places category=Building
|Also known as=Wilcox Building
|Street number=106 - 116
|Street name=Murray
|Street suffix=Street
|Town or Locality=Gawler
|Date constructed=1865
|Date approximate=Yes
|Date approximate2=No
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Please [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1C_h7RBpl5172FbwDRyPrG9VZfI7O6n/view?usp=sharing click here] to view historical information from the 1998 Danvers Heritage Survey regarding this location.<ref>Danvers Architects (1998) Gawler Heritage Survey, Corporation of the Town of Gawler, Adelaide, South Australia.</ref>

Please [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157717689513866 click here] to view photos of this location.

Row of two-storey stores, initially the upper storeys would have been residences for the storekeepers. This building is known as the Wilcox Building and may have been known as "Central Stores" at some stage.

On 14 July 1880 a suspicious fire took place in the store sheds at the rear of premises of Messrs J & J Wilcox, Drapers, Grocers & c..<ref>Coroner's Inquest - Suspicious Fire (Gawler Standard 24 Jul 1880) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245314138</ref>

=== Businesses over the Years ===

==== 106 Murray Street - Store at corner of Jacob Street on southern end of row of shops ====
* National Bank of Australasia c1878 (photo + leased as a 'Bank' from 1876-1880, not yet determined if it was this bank the entire time)
* P J Broderick ran his 'Grocer Ironmonger & Co' business from this "Central Stores" shop from 1888-1891 (or 1893), he sold general goods and was also licensed to sell wine.<ref>South Australia, Australia, Government Gazettes (1888) via Ancestry</ref> [see [[Broderick Patrick Joseph]]]
* H King Fruiterer, Greengrocer & c. had taken over this "Central Stores" site by May 1892, relocating from other premises.<ref>Bunyip (20 May 1892) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97236507</ref> [there is overlap from when King started advertising this as his location and when Broderick sold up remaining stock in 1893]
* Gaetjens Real Estate
* 'Memorials' Fuji Film One Hour Photo c1994 (photo)
* Century 21 Real Estate 1999
* Lindco Real Estate c2000+ (For Lease 2009)
* yes Optus (Telecommunications store) 2012
* B Music in 2026

==== 110 Murray Street ====
* Charles Cross Chemist - leased store from 1878-1891, when he disposed of his store to James Rowe, so that he could "devote his whole attention to the manufacture and distribution of medicines."<ref>South Australian Register (8 Apr 1891)https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48098370</ref>

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Murray Street 106-116

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|Street number=106 - 116
|Street name=Murray
|Street suffix=Street
|Town or Locality=Gawler
|Date constructed=1865
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|Date approximate2=No
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Please [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1C_h7RBpl5172FbwDRyPrG9VZfI7O6n/view?usp=sharing click here] to view historical information from the 1998 Danvers Heritage Survey regarding this location.<ref>Danvers Architects (1998) Gawler Heritage Survey, Corporation of the Town of Gawler, Adelaide, South Australia.</ref>

Please [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72157717689513866 click here] to view photos of this location.

Row of two-storey stores, initially the upper storeys would have been residences for the storekeepers. This building is known as the Wilcox Building and may have been known as "Central Stores" at some stage.

On 14 July 1880 a suspicious fire took place in the store sheds at the rear of premises of Messrs J & J Wilcox, Drapers, Grocers & c..<ref>Coroner's Inquest - Suspicious Fire (Gawler Standard 24 Jul 1880) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245314138</ref>

'''106 Murray Street - Store at corner of Jacob Street on southern end of row of shops'''

* National Bank of Australasia c1878 (photo + leased as a 'Bank' from 1876-1880, not yet determined if it was this bank the entire time)
* P J Broderick ran his 'Grocer Ironmonger & Co' business from this "Central Stores" shop from 1888-1891 (or 1893), he sold general goods and was also licensed to sell wine.<ref>South Australia, Australia, Government Gazettes (1888) via Ancestry</ref> [see [[Broderick Patrick Joseph]]]
* H King Fruiterer, Greengrocer & c. had taken over this "Central Stores" site by May 1892, relocating from other premises.<ref>Bunyip (20 May 1892) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97236507</ref> [there is overlap from when King started advertising this as his location and when Broderick sold up remaining stock in 1893]
* Gaetjens Real Estate
* 'Memorials' Fuji Film One Hour Photo c1994 (photo)
* Century 21 Real Estate 1999
* Lindco Real Estate c2000+ (For Lease 2009)
* yes Optus (Telecommunications store) 2012
* B Music in 2026

110 Murray Street

* Charles Cross Chemist - leased store from 1878-1891, when he disposed of his store to James Rowe, so that he could "devote his whole attention to the manufacture and distribution of medicines."<ref>South Australian Register (8 Apr 1891)https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48098370</ref>

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Broderick William & Mary

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{{People|Date of birth=1819|Date approximate=Yes|Date of death=1880|Place of decease=Gawler|Principal occupation=Labourer & Landlord}}

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720332862199/ Click here] to see an album relating to the Broderick family.

William Broderick was about 35 when he reached South Australia aboard the ship ‘Isle of Thanet’ in 1854. Fellow passenger John Cain’s sister Mary, had already travelled out as a single woman, and she walked from One Tree Hill where she was in service, to Port Adelaide to meet her brother’s ship (over 30kms!).<ref>(The Southern Cross 9 Dec 1898) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166440097</ref> By 1857 they were all in Gawler, when William Broderick married Mary Cain and her brother John Cain married Bridget Ledy.

The Broderick’s had four sons (see details below - including links to pages about them), and from 1862 the family were renting a humble cottage, or possibly 2 small adjoining cottages, at Lot 49 [[Jacob Street]] (now the site of the Woolworths/Big W complex/carpark).

William and brother-in-law John Cain worked as labourers, taking on Council contracts such as the breaking of stone to make or repair roads. Early on there was some complaints that William “''took contracts at low prices, and then scamped the work''”, which was “''considered an injustice to other tenderers.''”<ref>(Bunyip 4 Jul 1868) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962131</ref> However, he went on to be a valued council employee, employed by them for over 20 years, “''During that long period he has spared himself in no way in his humble capacity in order to advance the interests and welfare of the town. And at times of sudden flood, when the stormwaters have rushed down from the higher parts of the town and threatened to damage private property, Broderick might be seen laboring hard in the pelting rain to relieve the pent-up floods and give them safe direction.''”<ref>(Gawler Standard 6 Mar 1880) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245313560</ref>

In 1868, John Cain’s wife Bridget, delivered a healthy son with a midwife in attendance, but six hours later she died as a result of haemorrhaging and a medical man suggested had she “''been properly treated by a medical man, she would most probably have been alive and well''”.<ref>(Bunyip 27 June 1868) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962693</ref> In his distressed state John became seriously ill, so William arranged Bridget’s burial at Pioneer Park Cemetery; to cover the costs council stopped payment for his contract work and William appealed by letter that he was “''only a laboring man, and could not afford to lose the money''”, the Mayor acknowledged it was a case of real need but a decision was held off (the outcome was not found).<ref>(Bunyip 4 Jul 1868) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130962131</ref> Despite being healthy at birth, without his mother baby Joseph Cain only lasted six months, his burial details have not been found.

By 1877, the Broderick’s were in a much better position financially and were able to purchase a property with four cottages on [[Finniss Street]]. Initially, all the cottages were tenanted out, but by 1879 the family were residing at the property in a cottage that was more substantial than the others - it is likely they just had just had the cottage built and it is the one still standing at contemporary address [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]]. The other three smaller, more humble cottages were sited next door, and have since been demolished, it is likely they were row cottages that ran back from the street (contemporary address 43 Finniss Street).

The family’s good fortune changed the following year, in March 1880 on account of a prolonged illness, William was unable to carry out his duties for council, his employer of 20 years, and wrote to council requesting assistance, which was granted.<ref>(Gawler Standard 6 Mar 1880) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245313560</ref> William did not recover; he passed away on the 12th March 1880, aged 60 and was buried in [[Willaston Cemetery]].

Widow Mary was able to keep the Finniss Street cottages and make her living as a landlady. In 1883, she had recently taken in elderly widow Mrs Nicholls as one of her tenants, and as Mary in her kindly way had checked in on Mrs Nicholls at bedtime, she ended up being the last person to see her alive before what at the time was speculated to be Mrs Nicholls spontaneous combustion!<ref>"Inquest - Death by Burning" (Bunyip 6 Jul 1883) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97291534</ref> (see [[The Mystery of Finniss Street (1883)]])

Mary herself passed away on 29 November 1898, aged 79, and was buried with her husband at [[Willaston Cemetery]]. Her obituary in The Southern Cross (9 Dec 1898) said she was “warm-hearted and kindly dispositioned, and devotion to her family and friends was a special feature of her character. The later years of her life were saddened by the loss of her husband and two sons, the late Messrs. N. A. and P. J. Broderick. There survive two sons, Messrs. D. J. Broderick of Port Adelaide, and William Broderick of Gawler. -R.I.P.”<ref>(The Southern Cross 9 Dec 1898) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166440097</ref>

=== Broderick Family Birth, Death & Marriage Information ===
'''BRODERICK William'''

b. Abt. 1819, son of Denis Broderick

m. 12 Jul. 1857, ‘Mary CAIN’, Gawler (Reg. Barossa 31/51)

d. 12 Mar 1880, Gawler, aged 60 or 61 (Reg. Barossa 101/157)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston (Plot 46 B 3 – with wife Mary)

'''CAIN Mary (BRODERICK)(alternatively KAIN/KEANE)'''

b. Abt. 1819, daughter of Nicholas Cain

m. 12 Jul. 1857, ‘William BRODERICK’, Gawler (Reg. Barossa 31/51)

d. 29 Nov 1898, SA, aged 79 or 80 (Reg. Barossa 256/462)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston (Plot 46 B 3 – with husband William)

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=== Children of William Broderick & nee Mary Cain ===
'''[[Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius|BRODERICK Nicholas Aloysius (I)(Cr)]]'''

b. Abt. 1859 (SA Birth registration not found)

m. 29 May 1879, ‘Miriam WATTS, Port Wakefield, SA (Reg. Clare 119/1175)(d. 1949)

Saddler & harness maker

Councillor North Ward Gawler 1895-1896

d. 5 Feb 1898, Gawler, SA, aged 39 (Reg. Barossa 249/389)

Buried Willaston Cemetery (‘Nicholas N’ [sic], plot 50 C 3 – with wife Miriam H & Joseph F)

'''[[Broderick (Cr) Denis John|BRODERICK Dennis John (Cr)]]'''

b. Abt. 1860 (SA birth registration not found)

Councillor North Ward Gawler 1894-1896

Licensee of Jervois Hotel, Lipson Street, Port Adelaide

m. 6 Feb 1884, ‘Lucy Alice GENT’, Gawler, SA (‘Denis John’, Reg. Barossa 138/518)(d. 1900, stepdau of Thomas Penaluna)

d. Nov 1900, Port Adelaide, SA, aged 40 (Reg. Port Adelaide 273/307)[died at wife’s funeral]

Buried Cheltenham Cemetery, Cheltenham, SA

'''BRODERICK William Joseph'''

b. Abt. 1864 (No SA birth registration found)

1904 wheelwright in city (single)<ref>South Australia, Australia, Adelaide Hospital Admission Registers, 1841-1952 via Ancestry</ref>

d. 10 Apr 1924, SA (Reg. Adelaide 469/334)

Buried West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, SA (‘William Broderick’, Catholic Old Area, Grid F10, Site Number 86)

'''[[Broderick Patrick Joseph|BRODERICK Patrick Joseph]]'''

b. Abt. 1868 (SA Birth registration not found)

1888-1891 'P J Broderick's Store', Murray Street, Gawler

m. 1888 ‘Catherine LEAHY’, SA (Reg. Norwood 157/625)(1898-1900 ran Gawler Belt Inn)

[photo of Gawler Belt Inn] <nowiki>https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8603064166</nowiki>

d. 1896, Adelaide, SA, aged 28 (Reg. Adelaide 232/109)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston, SA (Plot 45 B 3 – alongside parents)
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Gawler Belt Inn

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|Town or Locality=Gawler Belt
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|Date constructed=1857
|Date approximate=No
|Date demolished=1913
|Date approximate2=No
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157633263410851/ Click here] for photos of the Gawler Belt Inn.

The Gawler Belt Inn stood approximately where the Redbanks Road interchange on the Gawler Bypass is now, however the hotel was closed well before the bypass was built. The Inn operated from 1857 until 1913.

The following information has been gathered with permission from “Hotels and Publicans in South Australia” by J.L. (Bob) Hoad Adelaide 1986 ISBN 0 86745 002 9 and ISBN 0 9595446 2 3

GAWLER BELT INN – Willaston –[Gawler Belt] Existed 1857 – 1913 

1857 – 1867 Grotegut H

1868 – 1870 Boeckmann F

? – Sep 1870 Smith J

Sep 1870 – 1878 Bomeke J H [Bomcke?]

1878 – Dec 1879 Gartrell J

Dec 1879 – 1882 Wall Richard

1883 – 1885 Lucas C J

1886 Bolte A

1887 Fogden M A

1887 – 1893 Brown D

1894 – 1896 Barnfield Mary Mrs

1897 Lansley David

1898 – 1899 Broderick Catherine Mrs (nee Catherine Leahy, widow of [[Broderick Patrick Joseph|Patrick Joseph Broderick]] - her father was a publican)

1900 Broderick P J Mrs (nee Catherine Leahy, widow of Patrick Joseph Broderick) [same person as above]

1901 Scott Jas H

1902 Allen E J

1903 Anderson E Mrs

1904 – 1906 Morris E

1906 – 3 Jan 1907 Anderson James

4 Jan 1907 - ? Speed Frank Charlie & Maggie Simpson

1908 Speed Frank Charlie

1909 Macksad S Mrs

1910 Mayer Mrs

1911 Borthwick Mrs

1912 Harman Mrs [Hirman?]

1913 Kelly T H 
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Gawler Belt Inn

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{{Place
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|Town or Locality=Gawler Belt
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|Date constructed=1857
|Date approximate=No
|Date demolished=1913
|Date approximate2=No
|Used for=Hotel
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/sets/72157633263410851/ Click here] for photos of the Gawler Belt Inn.

The Gawler Belt Inn stood approximately where the Redbanks Road interchange on the Gawler Bypass is now, however the hotel was closed well before the bypass was built. The Inn operated from 1857 until 1913.

The following information has been gathered with permission from “Hotels and Publicans in South Australia” by J.L. (Bob) Hoad Adelaide 1986 ISBN 0 86745 002 9 and ISBN 0 9595446 2 3

GAWLER BELT INN – Willaston –[Gawler Belt] Existed 1857 – 1913 

1857 – 1867 Grotegut H

1868 – 1870 Boeckmann F

? – Sep 1870 Smith J

Sep 1870 – 1878 Bomeke J H [Bomcke?]

1878 – Dec 1879 Gartrell J

Dec 1879 – 1882 Wall Richard

1883 – 1885 Lucas C J

1886 Bolte A

1887 Fogden M A

1887 – 1893 Brown D

1894 – 1896 Barnfield Mary Mrs

1897 Lansley David

1898 – 1899 Broderick Catherine Mrs (nee Catherine Leahy, widow of [[Broderick Patrick Joseph|Patrick Joseph Broderick]] - her father was a publican)

1900 Broderick P J Mrs (nee Catherine Leahy, widow of Patrick Joseph Broderick)

1901 Scott Jas H

1902 Allen E J

1903 Anderson E Mrs

1904 – 1906 Morris E

1906 – 3 Jan 1907 Anderson James

4 Jan 1907 - ? Speed Frank Charlie & Maggie Simpson

1908 Speed Frank Charlie

1909 Macksad S Mrs

1910 Mayer Mrs

1911 Borthwick Mrs

1912 Harman Mrs [Hirman?]

1913 Kelly T H 
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Broderick Patrick Joseph

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|Also known as=P J Broderick
|Date of birth=1868
|Date approximate=Yes
|Place of birth=Gawler
|Principal occupation=P J Broderick Grocer Ironmonger & Co Storekeeper
|Date of death=1896
|Place of decease=Semaphore
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Patrick Joseph Broderick, or P J Broderick, was born in about 1868, the fourth and youngest son of Gawler’s [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick and nee Mary Cain]], and brother to [[Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius|Cr Nicholas Aloysius Broderick (I)]] & [[Broderick (Cr) Denis John|Cr Denis John Broderick]]. During his early years the family lived in a humble cottage they rented at Lot 49 [[Jacob Street]] (now the site of the Woolworths/Big W complex/carpark), before moving into their own newly built cottage at [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]] in 1879.

In 1888, when he was only about 20, P J Broderick rented the stately, double-storey corner store and residence in the [[Murray Street 106-116|Wilcox Building (contemporary address 106 Murray Street)]] and opened ‘P J Broderick’s’ - a Grocer, Ironmonger & Co. Store with a Colonial Wine license<ref>South Australia, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1888 via Ancestry</ref> [see [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/11904450606 Illustration of PJ Broderick’s store c1891]]. It was a prominent business, running regular large advertisements in the Bunyip [for example [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/55407631242 advert in Bunyip 17 Apr 1891]]. There are two photographs of an unidentified man and delivery cart, with painted advertising for groceries including ‘Terai Tea’ which is featured in advertisements by P J Broderick, therefore it is possible that these may be Broderick’s delivery cart [see unidentified cart [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6814347057 photo 1] & [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6814347125 photo 2]].

In addition to opening his store, 1888 saw P J Broderick marry ‘Kitty’ Catherine Leahy, daughter of Kensington publican, James Leahy.<ref>Bunyip (14 Dec 1888) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97229177</ref> They had three daughters (see details below), but eldest baby Myrtle only survived two months and was buried at Willaston Cemetery (plot 45 B 3).

In 1893 Patrick sold up the stock in his store and closed up his business,<ref>Bunyip (27 Jan 1893) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97235975</ref> and in 1894 the family removed to Semaphore where he worked as a travelling salesman.<ref>South Australian Register (21 Apr 1894) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53696660</ref> In January 1896, news reached Gawler that Patrick was one of the victims of the outbreak of typhoid fever at Semaphore and then that he had succumbed.<ref>Bunyip (10 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97577997</ref><ref>The Southern Cross (17 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166351502</ref> His remains were transported to Willaston Cemetery; a large contingent of locals comprising 60 to 70 vehicles joined the funeral procession in Gawler, extending nearly the whole length of Murray Street, business was suspended and most of the shops were partially shuttered.<ref>Evening Journal (15 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199884367</ref>

His widow Catherine Broderick was left with two young daughters and shortly after her husband’s death she gave birth to their son, who she named after his late father. Catherine ended up back in Gawler for a short while, and following in her father’s trade, she became licensee of the [[Gawler Belt Inn]] from 1898-1899.<ref>Bunyip (23 Apr 1897) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97576279</ref> Later she moved away and remarried.

Note: There were two ‘P J Broderick’ stores in Murray Street at different times– uncle Patrick Joseph Broderick ran a grocer store (1888-1893) & nephew Patrick John Broderick ran a boot store (between 1914 & 1931).

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720332862199/with/11904450606/ Click here] to see an album relating to the Broderick Family.

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=== Birth, Death & Marriage Information ===
'''BRODERICK Patrick Joseph'''

b. Abt. 1868, Gawler, SA (SA Birth registration not found)

m. 1888 ‘Catherine LEAHY’, SA (Reg. Norwood 157/625)(1898-1900 ran [[Gawler Belt Inn]])

[photo of Gawler Belt Inn] <nowiki>https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8603064166</nowiki>

* Myrtle Broderick (1889–1889, buried Willaston Cemetery)
* Aileen Dorothea Broderick (1890–1964)
* Pauline Kathleen Broderick (1894–1918)
* Patrick Joseph Broderick (1896–1920)

d. 1896, Adelaide, SA, aged 28 (Reg. Adelaide 232/109)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston (Plot 45 B 3 – with baby daughter Myrtle, alongside parents William & Mary)
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Broderick Patrick Joseph

2026-07-21T07:01:24Z

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Patrick Joseph Broderick, or P J Broderick, was born in about 1868, the fourth and youngest son of Gawler’s [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick and nee Mary Cain]], and brother to [[Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius|Cr Nicholas Aloysius Broderick (I)]] & [[Broderick (Cr) Denis John|Cr Denis John Broderick]]. During his early years the family lived in a humble cottage they rented at Lot 49 [[Jacob Street]] (now the site of the Woolworths/Big W complex/carpark), before moving into their own newly built cottage at [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]] in 1879.

In 1888, when he was only about 20, P J Broderick rented the stately, double-storey corner store and residence in the [[Murray Street 106-116|Wilcox Building (contemporary address 106 Murray Street)]] and opened ‘P J Broderick’s’ - a Grocer, Ironmonger & Co. Store with a Colonial Wine license<ref>South Australia, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1888 via Ancestry</ref> [see Illustration of PJ Broderick’s store c1891]. It was a prominent business, running regular large advertisements in the Bunyip. There are two photographs of a unidentified man and delivery cart, with painted advertising for groceries including ‘Terai Tea’ which is featured in advertisements by P J Broderick, therefore it is possible that these may be Broderick’s delivery cart.

In addition to opening his store, 1888 saw P J Broderick marry ‘Kitty’ Catherine Leahy, daughter of Kensington publican, James Leahy.<ref>Bunyip (14 Dec 1888) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97229177</ref> They had three daughters (see details below), but eldest baby Myrtle only survived two months and was buried at Willaston Cemetery (plot 45 B 3).

In 1893 Patrick sold up the stock in his store and closed up his business,<ref>Bunyip (27 Jan 1893) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97235975</ref> and in 1894 the family removed to Semaphore where he worked as a travelling salesman.<ref>South Australian Register (21 Apr 1894) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53696660</ref> In January 1896, news reached Gawler that Patrick was one of the victims of the outbreak of typhoid fever at Semaphore and then that he had succumbed.<ref>Bunyip (10 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97577997</ref><ref>The Southern Cross (17 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166351502</ref> His remains were transported to Willaston Cemetery; a large contingent of locals comprising 60 to 70 vehicles joined the funeral procession in Gawler, extending nearly the whole length of Murray Street, business was suspended and most of the shops were partially shuttered.<ref>Evening Journal (15 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199884367</ref>

His widow Catherine Broderick was left with two young daughters and shortly after her husband’s death she gave birth to their son, who she named after his late father. Catherine ended up back in Gawler for a short while, and following in her father’s trade, she became licensee of the Gawler Belt Inn from 1898-1899.<ref>Bunyip (23 Apr 1897) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97576279</ref> Later she moved away and remarried.

Note: There were two ‘P J Broderick’ stores in Murray Street at different times– uncle Patrick Joseph Broderick ran a grocer store (1888-1893) & nephew Patrick John Broderick ran a boot store (between 1914 & 1931).

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720332862199/with/11904450606/ Click here] to see an album relating to the Broderick Family.

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=== Birth, Death & Marriage Information ===
'''BRODERICK Patrick Joseph'''

b. Abt. 1868, Gawler, SA (SA Birth registration not found)

m. 1888 ‘Catherine LEAHY’, SA (Reg. Norwood 157/625)(1898-1900 ran Gawler Belt Inn)

[photo of Gawler Belt Inn] <nowiki>https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8603064166</nowiki>

* Myrtle Broderick (1889–1889, buried Willaston Cemetery)
* Aileen Dorothea Broderick (1890–1964)
* Pauline Kathleen Broderick (1894–1918)
* Patrick Joseph Broderick (1896–1920)

d. 1896, Adelaide, SA, aged 28 (Reg. Adelaide 232/109)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston (Plot 45 B 3 – with baby daughter Myrtle, alongside parents William & Mary)
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Broderick Patrick Joseph

2026-07-21T07:00:40Z

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Patrick Joseph Broderick, or P J Broderick, was born in about 1868, the fourth and youngest son of Gawler’s [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick and nee Mary Cain]], and brother to [[Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius|Cr Nicholas Aloysius Broderick (I)]] & [[Broderick (Cr) Denis John|Cr Denis John Broderick]]. During his early years the family lived in a humble cottage they rented at Lot 49 [[Jacob Street]] (now the site of the Woolworths/Big W complex/carpark), before moving into their own newly built cottage at [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]] in 1879.

In 1888, when he was only about 20, P J Broderick rented the stately, double-storey corner store and residence in the [[Murray Street 106-116|Wilcox Building (contemporary address 106 Murray Street)]] and opened ‘P J Broderick’s’ - a Grocer, Ironmonger & Co. Store with a Colonial Wine license<ref>South Australia, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1888 via Ancestry</ref> [see Illustration of PJ Broderick’s store c1891]. It was a prominent business, running regular large advertisements in the Bunyip. There are two photographs of a unidentified man and delivery cart, with painted advertising for groceries including ‘Terai Tea’ which is featured in advertisements by P J Broderick, therefore it is possible that these may be Broderick’s delivery cart.

In addition to opening his store, 1888 saw P J Broderick marry ‘Kitty’ Catherine Leahy, daughter of Kensington publican, James Leahy.<ref>Bunyip (14 Dec 1888) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97229177</ref> They had three daughters (see details below), but eldest baby Myrtle only survived two months and was buried at Willaston Cemetery (plot 45 B 3).

In 1893 Patrick sold up the stock in his store and closed up his business,<ref>Bunyip (27 Jan 1893) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97235975</ref> and in 1894 the family removed to Semaphore where he worked as a travelling salesman.<ref>South Australian Register (21 Apr 1894) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53696660</ref> In January 1896, news reached Gawler that Patrick was one of the victims of the outbreak of typhoid fever at Semaphore and then that he had succumbed.<ref>Bunyip (10 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97577997</ref><ref>The Southern Cross (17 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166351502</ref> His remains were transported to Willaston Cemetery; a large contingent of locals comprising 60 to 70 vehicles joined the funeral procession in Gawler, extending nearly the whole length of Murray Street, business was suspended and most of the shops were partially shuttered.<ref>Evening Journal (15 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199884367</ref>

His widow Catherine Broderick was left with two young daughters and shortly after her husband’s death she gave birth to their son, who she named after his late father. Catherine ended up back in Gawler for a short while, and following in her father’s trade, she became licensee of the Gawler Belt Inn from 1898-1899.<ref>Bunyip (23 Apr 1897) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97576279</ref> Later she moved away and remarried.

Note: There were two ‘P J Broderick’ stores in Murray Street at different times– uncle Patrick Joseph Broderick ran a grocer store (1888-1893) & nephew Patrick John Broderick ran a boot store (between 1914 & 1931).

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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/albums/72177720332862199/with/11904450606/ Click here] to see an album relating to the Broderick Family.

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=== Birth, Death & Marriage Information ===
'''BRODERICK Patrick Joseph'''

b. Abt. 1868, Gawler, SA (SA Birth registration not found)

m. 1888 ‘Catherine LEAHY’, SA (Reg. Norwood 157/625)(1898-1900 ran Gawler Belt Inn)

[photo of Gawler Belt Inn] <nowiki>https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8603064166</nowiki>

* Myrtle Broderick (1889–1889, buried Willaston Cemetery)
* Aileen Dorothea Broderick (1890–1964)
* Pauline Kathleen Broderick (1894–1918)
* Patrick Joseph Broderick (1896–1920)

d. 1896, Adelaide, SA, aged 28 (Reg. Adelaide 232/109)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston (Plot 45 B 3 – with baby daughter Myrtle, alongside parents William & Mary)
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Broderick Patrick Joseph

2026-07-21T06:58:51Z

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Patrick Joseph Broderick, or P J Broderick, was born in about 1868, the fourth and youngest son of Gawler’s [[Broderick William & Mary|William Broderick and nee Mary Cain]], and brother to [[Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius|Cr Nicholas Aloysius Broderick (I)]] & [[Broderick (Cr) Denis John|Cr Denis John Broderick]]. During his early years the family lived in a humble cottage they rented at Lot 49 [[Jacob Street]] (now the site of the Woolworths/Big W complex/carpark), before moving into their own newly built cottage at [[Finniss Street 41|41 Finniss Street]] in 1879.

In 1888, when he was only about 20, P J Broderick rented the stately, double-storey corner store and residence in the [[Murray Street 106-116|Wilcox Building (contemporary address 106 Murray Street)]] and opened ‘P J Broderick’s’ - a Grocer, Ironmonger & Co. Store with a Colonial Wine license<ref>South Australia, Australia, Government Gazettes, 1888 via Ancestry</ref> [see Illustration of PJ Broderick’s store c1891]. It was a prominent business, running regular large advertisements in the Bunyip. There are two photographs of a unidentified man and delivery cart, with painted advertising for groceries including ‘Terai Tea’ which is featured in advertisements by P J Broderick, therefore it is possible that these may be Broderick’s delivery cart.

In addition to opening his store, 1888 saw P J Broderick marry ‘Kitty’ Catherine Leahy, daughter of Kensington publican, James Leahy.<ref>Bunyip (14 Dec 1888) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97229177</ref> They had three daughters (see details below), but eldest baby Myrtle only survived two months and was buried at Willaston Cemetery (plot 45 B 3).

In 1893 Patrick sold up the stock in his store and closed up his business,<ref>Bunyip (27 Jan 1893) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97235975</ref> and in 1894 the family removed to Semaphore where he worked as a travelling salesman.<ref>South Australian Register (21 Apr 1894) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53696660</ref> In January 1896, news reached Gawler that Patrick was one of the victims of the outbreak of typhoid fever at Semaphore and then that he had succumbed.<ref>Bunyip (10 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97577997</ref><ref>The Southern Cross (17 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166351502</ref> His remains were transported to Willaston Cemetery; a large contingent of locals comprising 60 to 70 vehicles joined the funeral procession in Gawler, extending nearly the whole length of Murray Street, business was suspended and most of the shops were partially shuttered.<ref>Evening Journal (15 Jan 1896) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199884367</ref>

His widow Catherine Broderick was left with two young daughters and shortly after her husband’s death she gave birth to their son, who she named after his late father. Catherine ended up back in Gawler for a short while, and following in her father’s trade, she became licensee of the Gawler Belt Inn from 1898-1899.<ref>Bunyip (23 Apr 1897) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97576279</ref> Later she moved away and remarried.

Note: There were two ‘P J Broderick’ stores in Murray Street at different times– uncle Patrick Joseph Broderick ran a grocer store (1888-1893) & nephew Patrick John Broderick ran a boot store (between 1914 & 1931).

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=== Birth, Death & Marriage Information ===
'''BRODERICK Patrick Joseph'''

b. Abt. 1868 (SA Birth registration not found)

m. 1888 ‘Catherine LEAHY’, SA (Reg. Norwood 157/625)(1898-1900 ran Gawler Belt Inn)

[photo of Gawler Belt Inn] <nowiki>https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/8603064166</nowiki>

* Myrtle Broderick (1889–1889, buried Willaston Cemetery)
* Aileen Dorothea Broderick (1890–1964)
* Pauline Kathleen Broderick (1894–1918)
* Patrick Joseph Broderick (1896–1920)

d. 1896, Adelaide, SA, aged 28 (Reg. Adelaide 232/109)

Buried Willaston Cemetery, Willaston (Plot 45 B 3 – with baby daughter Myrtle, alongside parents William & Mary)
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