Murray Henry Dundas
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MURRAY Henry Dundas, S M
The Youngest son of Sir Patrick Murray, Bart, of Ochtertyre, Perthshire, Scotland, was a native of that country and came to South Australia in the Orleana, arriving in January 1839. Was one of the original proprietors of the Gawler Special Survey, a 4,000-acre land purchase in South Australia in 1839, where a syndicate of landholders, led by Henry Dundas Murray and John Reid, paid for a private survey of the area that would become the town of Gawler. The land was located beside the North Para River and the survey was conducted by Colonel William Light's firm, Light, Finniss and Company. This special survey allowed private investors to acquire and survey prime land before official government surveys were complete. and the main street of the town was named for him. His estate was where Turretfield now is. After a few years he went back to the old country but returned in 1847. He induced Mr George Causby, who came out in the same boat, La Belle Alliance, in that year, to settle on his land.
In the fifties he was appointed a Magistrate. He married Miss Jane Lewis, daughter of Mr Robert Lewis, of Smithfield, and a niece of Dr Lewis. In 1860 he left Gawler, and subsequently went to New Zealand with his two sons. He had left his daughter in Scotland, where she was married to Mr Robert Kinlock, writer to the Signet. Mr Murray farmed some land in New Zealand but died there in 1882. One of his sons died in Maoriland, and the other was resident in Victoria.
Source - History of Gawler by E.H. Coombe.
Contributed by National Trust Gawler Branch Volunteers.
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