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The Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association, is a not for profit history organisation in South Australia. Established in 1984, [1] the Kangaroo Island Pioneer Association (K.I.P.A.) is committed to determining, preserving and promoting Kangaroo Island’s rich pioneer history. It seeks to honour the presence and achievements of the pioneers in the ...
Thomas Hudson Beare (30 December 1792 – 7 November 1861) was an early settler of South Australia, regarded as the colony's first storekeeper. [1] His daughter Arabella has been cited as the first of the fleet to set foot on South Australian shores, [2] and his wife Lucy as the first white woman to die in South Australia.
Thomas Gilbert was born in 1786 in The Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England.He was the son of William Gilbert (1755-1819) and Anna Couchman. The Gilbert family were highly regarded makers of mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments and were based in the Tower Hill area of London, England before becoming associated with Leadenhall Street in the City of London.
The Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden in Park 12 of the Park Lands of Adelaide, South Australia, is a tribute to the pioneer women of South Australia.The garden was designed by landscape designer Elsie Cornish (1887-1946), [1] and the statue created by Ola Cohn was unveiled by Lady Muriel Barclay-Harvey (the wife of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey) on 19 April 1941.
Hudson Beare's house at 10 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh. Sir Thomas Hudson Beare FRSE RSSA (30 June 1859 – 10 June 1940) was a British engineer. He was successively Professor of Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, at University College, London (where he was a colleague of Karl Pearson), and Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.
The Pioneer was a weekly newspaper published in Yorketown, South Australia from March 1898 until June 1969, when it absorbed the Maitland Watch and was renamed to Yorke Peninsula News Pictorial. For thirty years an opposition newspaper, the Clarion (7 June 1902 - 21 May 1931), existed in the town too.
State Library of South Australia. Virtually every passenger list for the 3000 overseas and local ships that came to South Australia between 1836-1851, plus a host of additional information (individual names, ages, occupations, etc). Ing, Heidi (2020). South Australia's First Expedition: three generations of settler-colonial social mobility .
John was born in Woodville, South Australia, the son of John Thomas Creswell (ca.1815 – 24 August 1874) and Mary Ann (née Smith), [1] a pioneer of Port Adelaide, and was educated at St. Peter's College, Adelaide.