Place Names of South Australia - S
Stockade - Strathalbyn
- Stockade
- Stockport
- Stockwell
- Stockyards, The
- Stokes, Hundred of
- Stokes Bay
- Stone Hill
- Stone Hut
- Stonefield
- Stony Gap
- Stony Point
- Stonyfell
- Stow, Hundred of
- Stranges Creek
- Strangways Springs
- Strathalbyn
- Stradbroke Estate
- Strait Gate
Stockade
Also see Adelaide - Gaols, Reformatories and the Law and Place Names - Yatala.
Information on the new establishment is in the Observer,
29 July 1854, page 11c; also see
10 February 1855, page 5f.
- The first batch of convicts, numbering 24, was dispatched from the gaol yesterday afternoon to the new depot at Dry Creek. They occupied three of Messrs Sims and Hayter's conveyances and although the conspicuous mark of the broad arrow upon the prisoners was quite explanation enough for the initiated, a few simple individuals might have been persuaded that those whom they saw surrounded by the imposing array and bristling bayonets of the guards and mounted police, were prisoners of war; and truly some of the good people of Hindmarsh and Bowden looked as if the Russians had really come at last...
15, 22 and 29 September 1855, pages 1g (supp.), 3e and 4g,
1 December 1855, page 4e,
1 March 1856, page 4c. Also see
2 and 23 February 1856, pages 4g and 6d,
5 April 1856, page 4c,
Register,
10 October 1855, page 2e,
27 November 1855, page 3h.
For other escapes see
24 December 1855, page 3h,
1 April 1856, page 2h.
Information on the railway is in the Register,
24 January 1856, page 2f.
"The Stockade at Dry Creek" is in the Register,
20 February 1856, page 2d.
Historical and statistical data is in the Register,
22 April 1856, page 3e.
"The Stockade Chaplaincy" is in the Register,
29 May 1856, page 3h.
Religious instruction to prisoners is discussed in the Register,
11 February 1858, page 3f,
Observer,
13 February 1858, page 6f.
The Register of
20 February 1856, page 2d and
30 April 1869, page 2b has editorials on the Stockade,
while its history is to be found on
19 April 1862, page 2h; also see
Parliamentary Paper
84/1855-56,
Advertiser,
14 March 1859, page 3a,
Register,
28 June 1860, page 3b,
Observer,
30 June 1860, pages 2f-5h,
8 December 1860, page 3b,
22 February 1862, page 6c,
26 April 1862, page 2f,
Register,
4 December 1865, page 2d,
12 January 1866, page 2c (daily life of a convict),,
7 April 1866, page 3a,
Observer,
30 December 1865, page 6e,
27 January 1866, page 2c (supp.),
14 March 1866, page 7b.
"Convicts at Large" is in the Register,
27 November 1866, page 2b.
Also see Advertiser,
20 March 1867, page 2d,
Register,
30 August 1867, page 2d,
Express,
12 and 25 January 1869, pages 2d and 2b,
The Adelaide Punch,
30 January 1869, page 34 (cartoon),
Register,
12 January 1869, pages 2d-3b-3d,
15 and 30 January 1869, pages 2f and 2f,
27 February 1869, page 2d,
10 March 1869, page 2h,
30 April 1869, page 2b,
Chronicle,
3 and 17 April 1869, pages 6b and 11e,
Express,
13 April 1869, page 2e,
Observer,
22 October 1870, page 8d,
31 December 1870, page 5c.
Information on a library is in the Register,
10 December 1868, page 2d.
"Prison Management" is discussed in the Observer,
16 October 1869, page 13f,
13 November 1869, page 2g.
"New Regulations for the Stockade" is in the Observer,
8 May 1869, page 12a,
"Stockade Regulations" in the Advertiser,
26 January 1869, page 2e,
7 May 1869, page 2d.
An inquest at the Stockade is reported in the Register,
15 April 1867, page 2d,
Observer,
20 April 1867, page 2e (supp.).
"A Victim of the Stockade" is in the Chronicle,
22 May 1869, pages 8d-12a.
Also see Chronicle,
28 August 1869, pages 5c-12c,
Register,
28 September 1869, page 3a,
Observer,
16 October 1869, page 13f,
Register,
17 July 1880, page 6d and
Parliamentary Paper 55/ 1869-70,
13 July 1889, page 5g (history and description),
12 August 1889, page 6a,
28 September 1889, page 5b.
A letter written by "A Victim of the Stockade" is in the Advertiser,
21 May 1869, pages 2d-3a:
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[I was] ironed... with a 14 lbs weight and I was kept in them for three years and four months and was expected to perform the amount of labour as those prisoners that wore no irons... I have witnessed some of the heart-rending, cruel and arbitrary treatment practised upon unfortunate prisoners and yet strange to say Mr Howell was allowed to starve prisoners and bayonet them... On one occasion I have known Mr Howell to confine a poor prisoner in the solitary cells for six months at one time for saying there was a bug in his tea. It was styled mutinous conduct.
(For latter events see Advertiser, 18 and 25 August 1869, pages 2c and 2g.)
25 June 1870, page 12c,
Observer,
4 April 1874, page 13b,
"Fatal Accident at Stockade" on
16 June 1877, pages 7c-10f.
A court for trying prisoners within the Stockade is reported upon in the Express,
19 August 1875, page 2d.
"Gaol Discipline" is in the Register,
1 August 1876, page 5d.
"Death at the Stockade" is in the Observer,
10 April 1875, page 6g,
29 September 1877, page 20d.
A fatal accident is reported in the Observer,
16 June 1877, pages 7c-10f.
"The State of the Labour Prison" is in the Chronicle,
4 August 1877, page 4b.
The prison is described in the Advertiser,
21 June 1873, page 2c,
2 August 1877, page 4d,
3 and 12 October 1881, pages 4b and 5g,
19 November 1881, page 1a (supp.),
10 December 1881, page 1a (supp.),
17 January 1884, page 6c.
"The Dry Creek Stone Trade" is in the Register,
3 December 1880, page 1d (supp.).
Information on medical services is in the Express,
31 May 1881, page 2d.
A serious stabbing affray is reported in the Register,
17 August 1881, page 7b,
Observer,
20 August 1881, page 32d.
"At the Stockade" is in the Register,
19 May 1883, page 6g,
Observer,
26 May 1883, page 33e.
"Convict Labour" is in the Register,
10 April 1884, page 4f,
"Housing the Poor - Discharged Prisoners" on
27 May 1884, page 5e.
"From Arrest to Release - Life at the Stockade" is in the Register,
13 and 15 December 1884, pages 5d and 6h,
Advertiser,
15 December 1884, page 6b; also see
17 December 1884, page 4e,
"In the Stockade" on
19 November 1888, page 6d.
The escape of an Aboriginal is reported in the Register,
17 October 1885, page 5b.
Information on it is in the Register,
11 May 1886, page 7e.
Typhoid fever is commented upon in the Register,
6 February 1886, page 5c,
12 and 13 May 1886, pages 5b and 5b.
A visit to the Stockade by the Mayor of Adelaide and Councillors is reported in the Advertiser,
16 June 1886, page 5f,
Express,
11 January 1888, page 4f.
Register,
13 December 1888, page 7g,
20 July 1891, page 6f,
Observer,
14 and 21 January 1888, pages 36a and 33c,
15 December 1888, page 19e,
28 September 1889, page 5b,
25 July 1891, page 35a,
31 December 1892, page 35c,
29 July 1893, page 16e.
Sketches are in the Pictorial Australian in
February 1888, page 21.
"Attempted Escapes" is in the Register,
14 January 1888, page 3h,
Express,
13 January 1888, page 4a; also see
4 August 1890, page 2f.
"Prison Reform" is in the Register,
23 May 1888, page 3h.
"Notes on the Stockade" is in the Register,
13 July 1889, page 5g,
12 August 1889, page 6a,
Observer,
20 July 1889, page 41c,
17 August 1889, page 41e.
"A Prison Chaplain's Story" is in the Chronicle,
1 November 1890, page 7g,
Register,
1 November 1890, page 7g; also see
12 December 1890, page 7e.
Christmas festivities are described in the Observer,
3 January 1891, page 34e,
31 December 1892, page 35c,
Register,
28 December 1892, page 6e.
Official visits to the Stockade are reported in the Register,
24 July 1893, page 5b,
17 August 1893, page 5d.
"An Old Stockade Prisoner" is in the Observer,
12 January 1895, page 32a.
Biographical details of John Howell, a convict guard in the 1860s, are in the Observer,
21 March 1896, page 16.
"A Light Side of Prison Life" is in the Register,
4 and 13 April 1900, pages 4f and 4h.
"Visit of Inspection" is in the Express,
9 April 1902, page 3e.
The reminiscences of a guard who served at the Stockade from 1880-1900 are in the Advertiser,
18 August 1903.
"Disloyalty of Guards - Collusion With Prisoners" is discussed in the Advertiser,
18 March 1907, page 4c,
"How the Prisoners Live" on
1 May 1907, page 6i.
The reminiscences of John Maddern, a warder, is in the Chronicle,
11 November 1911, page 40,
"An Ex-Guard's Story" is in the Advertiser,
15 July 1914, page 15c,
information on John Mulvihill who was guard for over 40 years is in the Express,
24 February 1916, page 1g.
"Stockade Robbery" is in the Observer,
10 May 1913, page 49a.
Stockade - Strangways Springs
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Place Names
Stockport
Nomenclature
Laid out on section 1283, Hundred of Light by Samuel Stocks (junior) (c.1813-1850) in 1845 5 km ENE of Hamley Bridge. He was born in Stockport, Cheshire.
General Notes
Events surrounding Samuel Stock's death and later matters are discussed in the Register,
11, 13 and 18 February 1850, pages 2d, 3d and 3c. Also see
Observer,
14 March 1863, page 4c.
Its school opened in 1858 and closed in 1978.
For the laying of its foundation stone see Observer,
28 November 1857, page 4e,
23 January 1858,
24 March 1858, page 3e,
Register,
22 April 1858, page 2b; also see
Observer,
4 September 1858, page 6h,
3 November 1860, page 7h,
Register,
31 October 1860, page 3h,
28 October 1861, page 3h,
30 September 1862, page 2g,
12 October 1863, page 3c,
31 October 1864, page 3b;
examinations are reported in the Observer,
31 October 1863, page 2h (supp.),
Register,
6 November 1865, page 3b,
21 October 1872, page 7c,
Chronicle,
23 October 1869, page 7b; also see
23 February 1929, page 22,
Register,
22 April 1872, page 6e.
Local tobacco culture is discussed in the Register,
22 July 1862, page 3g.
- A great many of our neighbours are very sanguine to the commencement of tobacco culture; or, at any rate, sufficient for home consumption. The present ruinous prices necessarily drive people to other shifts. As an illustration of this fact, I enclose a small piece of tobacco grown and so far prepared, which is no discredit, considering it is just newly made. It is surely consolation to some extent to be enabled to have a "friendly pipe" of one's own "cutting and drying". (A very fair specimen of tobacco and creditable to the colony as a commencement - Editor)...
28 May 1881, page 1,
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Tobacco.
Information on a proposed cemetery is in the Register,
9 August 1862, page 3g.
Its first ploughing match is reported in the Register,
9 August 1862, page 3e; also see
2 October 1863, page 3f,
6 September 1869, page 3g,
Express,
16 August 1873, page 3e.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Ploughing Matches.
The somnolence of the village was disturbed in 1863 when a strait-laced citizen found a copy of a book entitled "Arabian Nights Entertainment" on public display in the Institute Library. Accordingly, he took up his pen and his letter appears in the Register, 9 November 1863, page 3b:
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... Instead of improving the mind and benefiting the soul [it is] calculated to lead the mind astray and sink the soul to hell and for which you must stand accountable at the bar of God...
A local cricket match is reported in the Register,
11 December 1863, page 3f;
14 November 1867, page 3f;
a match against Riverton in the Observer,
25 January 1868, page 5e; also see
Chronicle,
14 November 1868, page 7a for a match against Auburn.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Cricket - Miscellany.
A meeting called to discuss a proposal for a district council is reported in the Observer,
1 October 1864, page 3a.
Also see South Australia - Miscellany - Local Government.
Information on the foundation stone of the Wesleyan Chapel is reported in the Register,
14 November 1864, page 3c,
18 February 1865, page 2g,
Observer,
18 February 1865, page 4d and
its opening in the Register,
29 November 1865, page 2g.
The town is described in the Express,
15 February 1867, page 3e,
Advertiser,
7 October 1886, page 7d,
Register,
18 November 1903, page 3h.
A horse race meeting is reported in the Register,
14 January 1867, page 3d.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
The opening of a new Baptist Church is reported in the Observer,
4 November 1871, page 8c; also see
Register,
21 March 1928, page 7d.
The town is described in the Express,
15 February 1867, page 3e,
Advertiser,
7 October 1886, page 7d,
Register,
18 November 1903, page 3h.
Local floods are discussed in the Express,
8 April 1867, page 3e,
Chronicle,
13 April 1867, page 3c.
Observer,
6 April 1889, page 32a.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Floods.
Information on the mill is in the Observer,
1 August 1868, page 4g.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Farming - Mills.
"Rowdyism" is reported upon in the Observer,
17 April 1869, page 5g.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Baptist Chapel is reported in the Register,
25 June 1869, page 2h and
its opening in the Observer,
28 July 1869, page 7e; also see
Observer,
4 November 1871, page 8c.
Its diamond jubilee is reported in the Register,
21 March 1928, page 7d.
A letter re the Sunday School appears in the Register,
22 July 1871, page 5f.
Information on the hotel is in the Register,
8 January 1873, page 6f.
An Oddfellows' picnic is reported in the Chronicle,
22 February 1873, page 12e and
a sports day on
4 January 1879, page 22d.
A report of a copper find by Mr E. Manuel is in the Register,
30 August 1873, page 7b.
Also see South Australia - Mining - Copper.
An account of the first Wooroora Agricultural Show is in the Chronicle,
13 October 1877, page 22b.
Also see South Australia Agricultural, Floricultural & Horticultural Shows .
A Catholic picnic is reported in the Chronicle,
19 April 1884, page 8c.
An Arbor Day is reported in the Register,
2 August 1890, page 7b.
Also see South Australia - Education - Arbor Days.
The opening of a hall is reported in the Observer,
27 August 1910, page 15b,
of John Murray on
5 November 1917, page 6g.
"Stockport and District" is in the Register,
21 August 1913, page 5c.
The golden wedding of Mr & Mrs John W. Gardner is reported in the Register,
9 June 1925, page 8g.
Stockport - Obituaries
An obituary of Bell Freeman is in the Register, 28 September 1865, page 3f,
of Jeremiah Watts on 14 March 1890, page 5a,
of Mrs Robert Rankine on 8 November 1892, page 5d,
of Robert Rankine on 16 March 1896, page 5a.
An obituary of Rev R.O. Bandt is in the Register, 24 January 1873, page 5c.
An obituary of Rev H.L. Tuck is in the Register, 27 August 1880, page 5e.
An obituary of Charles W. Smith is in the Register, 25 July 1903, page 7c,
of Charles Willis on 15 August 1916, page 4h,
of George Burdon on 6 December 1921, page 6i,
of S.T. Twigden on 5 July 1923, page 6g,
of James Hartnett on 4 March 1926, page 8e,
of Joseph P. Hartnett on 8 June 1926, page 8g,
of Mrs E.G. Stribling on 22 June 1926, page 9a.
An obituary of Mrs Eliza Thomas is in the Observer, 11 March 1916, page 38a,
of Mrs Esther Megaw on 24 February 1917, page 31d,
of W.B. Woodhead on 28 July 1917, page 13a,
of John Murray on 10 November 1917, page 40b,
of Thomas Watts on 27 April 1918, page 31e,
of John Robbins on 16 December 1922, page 35c,
of Mrs Jane Whitelaw on 6 February 1926, page 42d,
of Mrs George Stribling on 26 June 1926, page 10c,
of Mrs E. Cameron on 29 January 1927, page 41d,
of Sydney Smith on 16 April 1927, page 44b.
An obituary of Mrs M.A. Gardner is in the Register, 24 July 1928, page 14h,
of Walter Rolide on 12 September 1928, page 16e.
Stockade - Strangways Springs
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Place Names
Stockwell
Nomenclature
A subdivision of section 208, Hundred of Moorooroo by Samuel Stockwell in 1856 8 km north-east of Nuriootpa..
General Notes
The village is described in the Register,
27 March 1856, page 2f-h where it is called "Stockwellton",
17 October 1903, page 4g and
Parliamentary Paper 66/1886.
Its school opened in 1867 and closed in 1971.
Register,
2 June 1879, page 4g,
Observer,
7 June 1879, page 10e.
A bazaar is reported in the Chronicle,
23 September 1905, page 14b.
A ploughing match is reported in the Advertiser,
16 August 1867, page 2h,
Chronicle,
21 August 1869, page 9e,
28 August 1875, page 13e.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Ploughing Matches.
The suicide of a Samuel Stockwell is reported in the Register,
16 December 1870, page 3e.
The opening of a telegraph office is reported in the Chronicle,
24 March 1877, page 18a.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Telegraphic.
A new roller mill is reported upon in the Observer,
1 March 1890, page 7d.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Farming - Mills.
A snow fall is reported in the Chronicle,
3 August 1901, page 33d.
- This morning the residents witnessed a novel sight. All the country and hills, as far as the eye could see, were covered with snow to a depth of several inches in the shallowest parts. The leaves of trees, roof, fences and other objects out of doors were all snow-clad... Everyone was excited, and although it was the Sabbath many indulged in snowballing...
13 August 1904, page 1a (supp.).
"Deposit of Marble" is in the Register,
14 June 1905, page 3e.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Building Stone.
Rifle shooting is reported upon in the Register,
7 June 1906, page 6d,
"Stockwell Kingship" on
23 May 1907, page 7f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Rifle Shooting.
Photographs of the laying of the foundation stone of the Institute and its committee are in the Chronicle,
17 June 1911, page 31 and
of its opening on
7 October 1911, page 33.
Stockwell - Obituaries
An obituary of Robert Rankine is in the Observer,
21 March 1896, page 12c,
of Johann Mickan on 7 January 1905, page 1b (supp.),
of A.E. Boer on 4 July 1925, page 38d.
An obituary of Mrs Andreas Doecke is in the Register,
6 September 1906, page 4h,
of C.J. Siegele on 7 December 1906, page 5a,
of Johann C. Seidel on 17 September 1924, page 13c,
of Andreas Dallwitz on 30 April 1927, page 20a.
Stockade - Strangways Springs
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Place Names
Stockyard, The
Information on a Wesleyan Chapel is in the Register,10 December 1857, page 3h.
- The inhabitants of the Stockyards, near Cape Jervis, having long felt the need of a place of worship which could also be appropriated by the rising generation, the friends feeling the time for action had arrived met... and heard two sermons preached by the Reverend E. Bennett and on Monday about 200 persons assembled and took tea together in Mr Collins' barn... A public meeting followed, presided over by Mr H. Burgess, when appropriate addresses were delivered by Messrs Walkley, Leak, Watson and Rev Bennett... The trustees will proceed with the proposed chapel immediately after harvest.
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Place Names
Stokes Bay
Nomenclature
On Kangaroo Island 19 km NNW of Parndana supposedly takes its name from the first mate of the Hartley which arrived in South Australia in October 1837. However, Henry Stokes (c.1808-1898) was a sealer who lived on the Island in pre-colonial days, while John Stokes is recorded as arriving at Kangaroo Island in 1817 and living at Stokes Bay.
General Notes
For an informative letter concerning John Stokes see Register,
19 December 1883, page 7b; also see
1 March 1884, page 5c,
Observer,
29 December 1883, page 12b.
- It will perhaps be of interest... to learn that John Stokes, of Stokes Bay, for whom a public subscription was taken up a few weeks ago... is not the man who landed on Kangaroo Island in 1838 (sic) and who lived at Emu Bay till a year or two ago, when some neighbours [reported] that he was in a starving condition. The Fairy steam launch was engaged by the Destitute Board and medical assistance and provisions were sent expressly to him, but upon arrival it was found that he did not want for food... As he was very old he was persuaded to come up to Adelaide and become an inmate of the Destitute Asylum. He did not like the confinement, though, and asked to be removed to the Reformatory Hulk off the Semaphore... A few weeks ago he was stricken down with a paralysis and removed to the Adelaide Hospital, whence, after a few days, he was returned to the Infirmary at the Destitute Asylum... (Signed - Albert Molineux).
29 January 1896, page 5b,
Observer, 1 February 1896, page 34d.
Stockade - Strangways Springs
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Place Names
Stokes, Hundred of
Nomenclature
F.W. Stokes, MP (1878-1881). Born in Kent, England in 1832, he arrived in the British Empire in 1850 when he undertook the management of a station for Messrs Anstey and Giles; later he entered in to partnership with Messrs A.W.T. and F.A. Grant and held 'Coonatto Station' - pastoral lease no. 122 'On the Willochra' from July 1851. Stokes Hill, south of Moockra also honours his name. He died in England in 1889
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Politics.
A letter from Mr Stokes in respect of his pastoral interests is in the Chronicle,
8 July 1865, page 2g.
Mr F.W. Stokes' obituary is in the Register,
5 August 1889, page 5a;
his wife's reminiscences are in the Observer,
28 November 1925, page 12c and
biographical details on
26 November 1927, page 40b.
A school of this name opened in 1905 and closed in 1946;
Stokes North School existed from 1939 until 1955.
Stockade - Strangways Springs
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Place Names
Stone Hill
West of Gawler and north of the river. The Register of 5 August 1854, page 3b makes reference to the laying of the foundation stone of its Wesleyan Chapel;
also see
6 October 1866, page 2e.
- The 11th anniversary of the Wesleyan Chapel was celebrated on September 30th and October 1st... Mr Dawkins who has been a liberal supporter of the church from the beginning was called to preside... There were some interesting and soul-stirring speeches delivered by Messrs Jones, J. Jones, W. Cock, T. Manley, J.C. Wilkinson and Rev J.O. Millard...
26 April 1860, page 363.
Stockade - Strangways Springs
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Place Names
Stone Hut
Nomenclature
A subdivision of part section 3522, Hundreds of Booyoolie and Appila 8 km north of Laura by Robert Hall of Jamestown and John Henderson of Glen Osmond in 1874. Samuel and Frederick White took up a pastoral lease in the vicinity containing eighty-seven square miles in July 1851. A stone hut stood on the property for many years as an abode for shepherds and later a mail coach station.
- Few modern travellers realise the history that lies behind the small town of Stone Hut, situated on the Main North Road to Port Augusta, midway between Laura and Wirrabara. It nestles at the foot of the Flinders Range, and is skirted by the Rocky River. Stone Hut was, in the coaching days, destined to be an active centre, and one may still see on the old mile posts between Clare and Port Augusta "so many miles to S'' the "S'' denoting Stone Hut. This is a relic of the coaching days when the famous Cobb and Co. ran four-in-hand from Port Augusta to Clare, carrying mails and passengers, for the convenience of the early squatters - long before the surrounding fields of today were broken by the plough.
There are residents still living here who can well remember the sounding of the trumpet to herald the approach of the coach through the winding bush track - dusty in summer, slippery and boggy in winter. How those passengers longed for the sight of the old ""Hut'', where horses were changed and the billy boiled. This stone hut, which contained four rooms with barred windows and chimneys as a protection against hostile blacks, was built by the early squatters, whose own huts were only slab. As this was the only stone one it was always referred to as the "stone hut''.
General Notes
The original "stone hut" was erected by Thomas Long - see Observer,
16 June 1906, page 38b; see
16 January 1915, page 31c for information on another claimant, G.W. Cameron.
- Mrs Long was the first white woman to land at Port Pirie in 1852... Women were carried ashore on the backs of the sailors... Mr and Mrs Long then journeyed to what is now Wirrabara in a bullock dray and built the chimney stack of the old Charlton mine... Mr Long also erected what was known as the Stone Hut, five and a half miles south of Wirrabara, which has given its name to the township there...
6 October 1866, page 2e.
An athletics meeting is reported in the Register,
15 January 1876, page 3g; also see
5 January 1877, page 7e,
Advertiser,
3 January 1879, page 6b,
Chronicle,
15 October 1881, page 22b.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Athletics and Gymnastics.
Its school opened in 1877 and closed in 1967.
Register,
10 January 1877, page 3h,
Observer,
17 February 1877, page 5f,
29 June 1912, page 18a,
Register,
12 April 1912, page 3g.
A photograph of students is in the Chronicle,
15 June 1933, page 32.
A horse race meeting is reported in the Observer,
6 January 1906, page 20e.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
An obituary of Charles Northeast is in the Register,
8 January 1904, page 8c,
of G. Thiselton in the Observer,
1 July 1911, page 41b,
of G.H. Walter on 3 June 1922, page 20a,
of H. Inglis on 23 June 1923, page 35a,
of John Wooldridge on 8 August 1925, page 44b,
of Mrs Mary A. Baker in the Register,
17 November 1925, page 9a.
The village is described in the Observer,
3 May 1924, page 36a.
Michael Lynch's "Glencoe Farm" is described in the Observer,
6 December 1924, page 8a.
The opening of a soldiers' memorial hall is reported in the Observer,
3 April 1926, page 46e.
Also see South Australia - World War I - Memorials to the Fallen.
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Place Names
Stonefield
Nomenclature
Steinfeld, in the Hundred of Anna 19 km NNE of Truro, is a German word meaning 'stone field'. It was 'Stonefield' from 1918 until 13 November 1986 when the name was restored. The suggestion of 'Burnta', Aboriginal for 'stone', was rejected by the Government in 1918.
St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church is the only existing building in the locality and is still in use and the associated cemetery is well maintained. People bearing the name Steinart (the name believed by local people to be the source of the name Steinfeld) are buried here, as are others of German descent. Tombstones are inscribed in German script and numerous birthplaces listed are in Germany. An examination of Lands Department records revealed that land totalling 527 acres, in the vicinity of the church, was selected by William Steinert on 12 April 1881 under Credit Agreement Number 13494.
In a letter dated 30 March 1885, William Steinert who gave his address as Steinfeld, requested that the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration grant two acres of this land, being the portion on which the church is located (Section 252c, Hundred of Anna) to the Trustees of the Lutheran Congregation of Steinfeld (as it was then known) for the erection of a chapel.
The District Council advised that local people believed that the name Steinfeld should be 'Steinert's Field' (after William Steinert), as opposed to being a descriptive name.
- The school at Steinfeld was one of the 49 German private schools ordered to be closed by the Education Act Amendment Act of 1916. On 30 June 1917, the school was closed, and on 1 July Cyril S. Foale was appointed to conduct the school as a departmental school, Class IX. The school has been conducted in a rented building ever since, until the erection of the present new building. At the end of 1917 the name was changed to Stonefield. Towards the end of 1957 the Head Teacher drew attention to the condition of the old building and urged that a new one be built. He was supported by the District Inspector. Approval was soon given for a departmental building to be erected, and a site of two acres was purchased from Mrs Koch, who kindly offered to permit the new building to be erected before the transfer of the land was actually finalised.
General Notes
A request from local farmers for the establishment of a dry-farming experimental farm on section 291, Hundred of Anna is discussed in the Register, 21 October 1896, page 3f.
- A petition signed by eight farmers resident in the Hundred of Anna asked that Section 291 be repurchased for use as an experimental farm. It was pointed out that a farm for such a purpose has been a long-felt want in that dry district, where the farmers have to combat against many difficulties... The present owner, Mr F.P. Hilbig is willing to sell...
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Place Names
Stony Gap
Information on the school is in the Register,11 September 1871, page 6b.
- The fostering care of the Education Board towards the children of this sparsely-peopled neighbourhood for several years is exhibiting results of the right sort. The corner stone of a two-roomed school was laid on August 23rd in the presence of a number of friends from Kooringa, Aberdeen, Copperhouse, Black Springs and the immediate locality... The land was given by Mr K.J. Flower... The Wesleyans... will worship there until the population and the requirements of the place necessitate the building of a chapel...
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Stony Point
This school near Dublin opened in 1879 and closed in 1905.
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Place Names
Stonyfell
Nomenclature
Takes its name from 'Stonyfell House' which was originally a bluestone cottage built by Charles Edlin in 1838.
General Notes
Charles Edlin is mentioned in respect of his association with the Union Building and Investment Society in the Register,
24 July 1860, page 3e.
Mr Henry Clark's vineyard is described in the Advertiser,
11 January 1862, page 2g.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Viticulture.
An editorial on the Stonyfell Olive Company appears in the Register,
3 November 1874, page 5b; also see
7 October 1880 (supp.), page 3c,
12 June 1888, page 5a,
Chronicle,
13 July 1907, page 42b.
Register,
15 August 1910, page 9b.
- Twelve months ago the public were invited to subscribe towards the formation of an association to be termed the Stonyfell Olive Company.... After inspecting the infant olive plantation the visitors spent half an hour in taking stock of the wines in Mr Crompton's cellar and tasting some of his choicer kinds. The proprietor has now by him about 40,000 gallons belonging to various vintages...
12 June 1888, page 5a,
16 July 1899, page 10d,
Observer,
22 July 1899, page 3e; also see
24 September 1910, page 19b.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Olives.
"Fatal Accident at Stonyfell" is in the Chronicle,
31 August 1878, page 10e.
The opening of a rifle range is reported in the Register,
31 August 1885, page 5b.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Rifle Shooting.
A field naturalists' excursion is reported in the Register,
3 November 1885, page 6d,
3 October 1887, page 6a,
1 October 1889, page 5c,
19 August 1890, page 5b,
21 August 1900, page 7i,
21 November 1917, page 9d.
A visit to the quarries and vineyard is reported in the Register,
24 January 1890, page 5a; also see
26 May 1890, page 7c,
22 January 1903, page 3g,
26 February 1923, page 11b,
Observer,
3 March 1923, page 38d.
Sketches of Dunstan's quarries are in the Pictorial Australian in
August 1890, page 108,
photographs are in the Observer,
17 September 1921, page 30.
3 March 1923, page 38d.
Also see South Australia Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Building Stone and
South Australia Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Viticulture.
The district is described in the Advertiser,
31 August 1912, page 7c.
Stonyfell - Obituaries
An obituary of Joseph Crompton is in the Observer,
11 May 1901, page 22d.
The reminiscences of Mrs J. Crompton are in the Register,
26 February 1923, page 10b,
Observer,
3 March 1923, page 38d.
An obituary of H.M. Martin is in the Register,
25 December 1926, page 11c.
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Place Names
Stow, Hundred of
Nomenclature
Also see South Australia - Politics and Place Names - Felixstow .
Randolph Isham Stow, MP (1861-1875). Born in Suffolk in 1828 he came to South Australia with his parents in 1837. In 1859 he set up his own legal practice and was one of the first three barristers in South Australia to be appointed as Queen's Counsel. He was Attorney-General in three ministries and in 1864 brought down the Ayers' Government with a no confidence motion, but was then unable to form a cabinet. For a brief time he was a judge and his forensic skills 'had never been surpassed in Australia'. He died in 1878 and was given a State funeral.
General Notes
"Mr Stow and the Register" is in the Express,
1 November 1865, page 3b,
"The New Judge" in the Chronicle,
13 March 1875, page 11c; also see
Register,
20 September 1873, page 4f,
Express,
12 June 1875, page 3b.
A poem and a sketch are in The Adelaide Punch,
21 September 1878.
A complimentary banquet to Mr Justice Stow is reported in the Observer,
19 June 1875, page 10.
A sketch is in Frearson's Weekly,
14 September 1878, page 232A.
Randolph Stow's obituary is in the Register,
18 September 1878, page 4e;
also see Observer,
25 June 1927, page 17e.
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Place Names
Stradbroke Estate
Nomenclature
In 1840 Thomas Astbury Forrest built a house on section 294 which he called 'Wardend'; by 1844 the property was owned by a solicitor, Frederick Bayne, who doubled the size of the four-roomed creek-stone house and renamed it 'Stradbroke' after Charlotte Maria, Dowager Countess of Stradbroke of Suffolk, England for whom he was an accredited agent.
(See Elizabeth Warburton, Old Stradbroke,
Commercial Advertiser,
16 March 1850, page 4b and
Register,
27 December 1919, page 9f,
10 February 1923, page 14a.)
General Notes
A "Rural Fete" held at the residence of Mr R. Beetson at "Stradbroke Park" is reported in the Register,
29 December 1869, page 3g.
"The Adelaide Hunt Club at Stradbroke" is in the Register,
10 August 1885, page 7b.
- On Saturday the hounds met at Stradbroke by invitation of Mr Swan... There is no more favourable bit of hunting ground, for the turf affords splendid going and a good take-off and landing at each fence, while the scenery and view is the finest to be got in the neighbourhood...
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Place Names
Strait Gate
Parliamentary Paper 119/1872 records it as a cemetery but no location is shown; however, it no doubt refers to the settlement of Light Pass where, in 1860, "a breakaway group established what was to become the Strait Gate Church".See Explore the Barossa (Royal Geographical Society of A/asia, SA Branch, 1991, page 120).
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Place Names
Stranges Creek
Nomenclature
The northern branch of the River Gawler near the sea coast named by G.M. Stephen after his attendant, Frederick Strange, an ornithologist.
General Notes
A description of the creek by Captain Sturt appears in the Register,
2 March 1839, page 8c.
A.J. Perkins in South Australia - An Agricultural and Pastoral State in the Making says:
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Stephen who was a "gentleman that loved to hear himself talk'' has left us a very pretty account of an arduous voyage of discovery, or rather of re-discovery of an ideal site for a Special Survey - the future Milner Estate, in fact: the preamble we fear, must be taken for granted, that we may the better concentrate on the discovery. "Here commenced'', wrote the ex-Acting Governor, "beautiful alluvial banks on either side, running out from one hundred yards to three-quarters of a mile, adorned with the most magnificent red and other gum trees that I have met within the three colonies.
The same rich alluvial soil to the depth of 30 to 50 feet, as we thought by the opposite banks, with a succession of ponds, continued for about seven miles, when the Gawler ended in an extensive flat of many hundreds of acres, studded with immense trees, and in which also we have been informed there is water; and to which indeed, we saw a path made by the Aborigines. About one quarter to half a mile from that spot, we came upon a salt water creek, flowing into the gulf and which His Excellency has permitted me to name "Strange's Creek'' after my attendant who led us to it, and had discovered it about two years ago in a boat, when a fisherman.
I should mention that at about three miles from the outlet of the Gawler, Strange recognised the spot as the place to which he had accompanied Captain Sturt last year; and which the latter had described to the South Australian Company and strongly recommended for a Special Survey; but which the Manager did not inspect, or it would not have been my good fortune to possess it. We were tired, and therefore did not proceed far up the salt water inlet, being satisfied that large boats could discharge cargo upon the alluvial flat itself, but at all events upon dry land, and trusting to Strange's description of its entrance and short course from the gulf. That description is abundantly confirmed by the written report of Captain Sturt to the Company... Strange informed us that the creek so abounds with fish, that to use his own graphic description "the boat actually laid upon their backs'' and his last haul in it, before he became a landsman amounted to 99 dozen, which he sold to other fishermen at Port Adelaide for £13 odd. Obviously fisherman-temperament had shown no signs of change in the progress of years.
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Strangways Springs
Nomenclature
According to biographers Henry Bull Templar Strangways (1832-1920) had a long and distinguished career in Parliament from 1857 to 1870 and, as Premier, was primarily responsible for the building of the overland telegraph to Darwin.
General Notes
Comment on his Parliamentary performance is in the Chronicle,
19 September 1863, page 2c,
7 November 1868, page 6a,
Register,
25 May 1864, page 2d,
23 February 1871, page 4f.
A letter from Mr Strangways on the subject of "Farmers and the Land" is in the Chronicle,
28 January 1865, pages 3c and 1c (supp.); also see
Register,
10 and 12 February 1868, pages 2g and 3g.
A complimentary dinner to Mr Strangways is reported in the Express,
22 April 1870, page 3a,
farewell dinners in the Observer,
11 and 25 February 1871, pages 4a and 11-12-13b (editorial).
An informative letter from a railway worker appears in the Register,
2 June 1887, page 7d; also see
23 July 1887, page 6a.
The Advertiser of 10 May 1860, page 2f says:
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Mr Strangways is not popular at present. He is most unquestionably looked upon as an element of weakness in the Reynolds administration; he is disliked by many, and doubted by more. He is regarded essentially as a fault finder; as a man who is captious, fractious and unpractical; as a man who has hitherto distinguished himself by his indiscriminate opposition to everything and everybody.
18 December 1880, page 1029b,
Register, 28 December 1894, page 4g,
Advertiser, 30 June 1915, page 9a,
The Mail, 3 July 1915, page 2b.
His obituary is in the Register on 16 February 1920, page 8a.
Photographs of the station are in the Pictorial Australian in
February 1891, pages 21 and 28 and
a history in the Observer,
7 September 1918, page 29a.
"An Ex-Premier and a Church Pew" is in the Register,
28 December 1894, page 4f.
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