The “Cornish-Born South Australians” Project
Genealogy SA is compiling a database of Cornish-born South Australians. And they’re looking for submissions from you
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Tag: South Australian pioneers
Call for Papers “Cornish Australians Who Changed our World”
The Cornish Association of South Australia (CASA) committee is pleased to announce the CALL FOR PAPERS for their next series of Cornish/Australian history seminars to be held in 2019. Using the theme “Cornish Australians who changed our world”
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The Signature Quilt Project – Can You Help?
Do you know of any South Australian autograph quilts or cloths in museums or private collections? Are there any related records or photographs? The Embroiderers’ Guild of SA is researching the history of South Australian autograph quilts …
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“Meet the Old Colonists”: South Australia’s Pioneers
For most of last century, portraits of over 1000 of South Australia’s ‘Old...
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Women of the River Country Exhibition
Every river has a story and these ever changing landscapes are, and have been, a lifeline for so...
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South Australian Sale (+ Heaps of Resources)
Researching your South Australian ancestors, and need some help? Our South Australian Sale is on...
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Highlight: History of South Australia: Foundation to Jubilee
It was a lifelong wish of George Fife Angas’ (one of the founders of South Australia), that a history be written about his adopted homeland, South Australia. Sadly having died in 1879 he never saw that dream fulfilled, as it wasn’t until 1893 when Edwin Hodder wrote this book, (all 800 pages of it) that the task could be considered complete …
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Join the ‘City of Adelaide’ Clipper Ship’s 150th Birthday Celebrations
It’s not often that you hear of 150th birthdays is it? Let alone get invited to one. But that’s what this is all about. The ‘City of Adelaide’ clipper ship turns 150 in May 2014 and everyone is invited to the party. And let’s face it, we’re really not likely to get invited to anyone elses 150th birthday party are we!
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Highlight: George Fife Angas: Father and Pioneer of South Australia
George Fife Angas was instrumental in South Australia’s pioneering history. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, in Northumberland, England in 1789, George Fife Angas started work at the age of 15 as a coachbuilder for his father, and then subsequently added merchant, banker, landowner, politician and a philanthropist to his repertoire …
Read More‘City of Adelaide’ Clipper Ship to Begin it’s Last Journey
The world’s oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide, will shortly begin her final voyage to South Australia and it is hoped that it become one of the state’s major tourist attractions. Built in 1864, she made 24 voyages to South Australia …
Read MoreKelly Family 175th Anniversary Reunion
A third Kelly family reunion is planned to mark the 175th anniversary of the arrival of William and Jane Kelly in South Australia. William Kelly (1804-1888) and his wife Jane (1819-1893), left the Isle of Man in July 1838 for South Australia, where they arrived on 1 December 1838. They came soon after to what became Cudlee Creek …
Read MoreHighlight: History of the First 50 Years of Freemasonry in South Australia 1834-84
Authored by Charles Glover, this was the first book to be written on the history of Freemasonry in South Australia, and it is one that is ‘highly’ regarded and a noted authoritative work.
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