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South Australian English is the variety of English spoken in the Australian state of South Australia. As with the other regional varieties within Australian English, these have distinctive vocabularies. To a lesser degree, there are also some differences in phonology (pronunciation).
South Australian Pidgin English developed around 1820 from the population of Kangaroo Island. At this time Kangaroo Island was a major whaling and sealing center populated by 50 European and Austronesian male whalers and sealers and roughly 100 Aboriginal wives who were mostly kidnapped from Tasmania, Port Lincoln, the Adelaide plains, and the mainland opposite Kangaroo Island.
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The Dutton family of South Australia was established by Frederick Dutton, who "rose to distinction" [1] from modest origins in Norwich, Norfolk, to leave a number of descendants who became prominent in Australia.‘The family name was originally Mendes, but was changed by … Frederick Hugh Hampden Mendes to that of the family of the latter’s ...
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometres (380,048 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people it is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by population.
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First Aboriginal Australian woman to marry a colonist in South Australia, and first Aboriginal woman to be granted Aboriginal reserve land Kudnarto ( c. 1832 – 11 February 1855), also known as Mary Ann Adams , was an Aboriginal Australian woman of the Kaurna and Ngadjuri peoples who lived in the colony of South Australia .
The Downer family has played a significant role in the South Australian and Australian political and social sphere since the early days of European settlement. Their earliest ancestors were Mary Ann Downer (1792–1868) and her son Henry Downer, a tailor (1811–1870), who travelled from England to Australia in 1862, settling in Adelaide .