Reid John
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The Reid family came to Australia on the Orleana, arriving on January 15th 1839, having left Newry in Ireland. For a time they lived in a tent on the site of the old York Hotel, but later they had the distinction of residing in the first stone house erected north of the Capital.
As part of the consortium in possession of the special Survey, Reid acquired Clonlea, but today there is no sign of the old homestead. Clonlea occupied the entire sites of Willaston and Bertha (named after his daughter Elizabeth) Elizabeth (Eliza) married Dr. David Mahoney and later caused a brass tablet to be erected in the Anglican St George church to honour her parents.
John Reid died on October 12th 1874 Please click here to see photos of John Reid.
Compiled by Graham Tucker
The first settler to come to Gawler was John Reid, who had migrated with his wife Jane (nee Livingstone) and their 6 children from Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland aboard the ship Orleana to South Australia in 1839.
They built their farm and homestead Clonlea in an area just inside the entrance into what is now called Clonlea Park.
The eldest child of John and Jane Reid was Eliza Sarah Reid, born in Ireland on 16 August 1824, so she was 15 years old when she came to Gawler. She married Dr David Mahoney on her 25th birthday (16 August 1849) in St George's Anglican Church, Gawler.
Compiled by Dr. John A. Stephensson
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