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George Morphett

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George Morphett - Cartoon by S.T. Gill, ca. 1849

George Morphett (1811-1893) (Arrived in SA in 1840. Died in London "without issue".) [1]

  • John Morphett's younger brother George (1811-1893) came to SA in 1840 and, as a lawyer with land and banking interests, hardly by coincidence also became prosperous. He (George) was MHA for West Torrens 1860-61. He returned to London and died there without issue.
  • There were five children from his marriage to Ann Hitchcock born between 1836 and 1847. He married a second time to Katherine Ann Hansell in 1881.[citation needed]

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bcollins/shipping/iw.htm

  • The passenger list below was taken from the May 16, 1846 edition of the "Adelaide Register"
  • Arrived Thursday May 14, 1846 the barque "Isabella Watson", 514 tons, A.G.Thompson, master, from London
    • MORPHETT Robert Morphett
    • MORPHETT George Morphett
    • 1 bale merchandise, 1 quarter cask sherry - John Morphett
  • ISABELLA WATSON 434t/515t, W, 3 mast ship. Built 1840 R Menzies & Co., Leith, 118.4x25.5x18.4. Owners Russell & Raeburn, reg., Glasgow.

Martha Weymouth (b. 14 Dec 1834, d. date unknown) http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/i/r/Mary-Kirwan/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0657.html

  • Martha Weymouth (daughter of John Weymouth and Mary Ann Pitts)164 was born 14 Dec 1834 in Portsea, Hampshire, England164, and died date unknown. She married George Morphett on 27 Feb 1849 in Adelaide, SA, Australia.

John Weymouth (b. 22 Aug 1802, d. 07 Jun 1887) http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/i/r/Mary-Kirwan/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0607.html

  • John Weymouth (son of John Weymouth and Marry Maddick)164 was born 22 Aug 1802 in Marlborough, Devon, England164, and died 07 Jun 1887 in Coromandel Valley, SA, Australia164. He married (1) Mary Ann Pitts on 23 Jul 1820 in Mulborough, Devon, England164, daughter of Thomas Pitts and Catherine. He married (2) Jane Shanahan on 20 Sep 1858 in Adelaide, SA, Australia, daughter of Michael Shanahan.

Plan Of The City Of Adelaide In South Australia - Surveyed And Drawn By Colonel Light 1837 - http://mapco.net/adel1837/adel1837.htm

  • The Parliamentary report and map of Adelaide are particularly fascinating because they include a "Reference To The Plan Of Adelaide, In South Australia, With The Acre Allotments Numbered And A Reference To The Names Of The Original Purchasers". This reference records names familiar to all Adelaidians, including Robert Addison, Lieutenant Finniss, Henry Gouger, Pasco St. Leger Grenfell, Osmond Gilles, John Gouger, Robert Gouger, Thomas Gilbert, John Hallett, Governor Hindmarsh, G.S. Kingston, Captain Lipson, Colonel Light, George Morphett, John Morphett, N. Morphett, Thomas Playford, E. Stephens, Samuel Stephens, G.B. Strangways, Captain Wright, and many others. The report is addressed to The Right Honourable Lord Glenelg, and is signed by Robert Torrens, Samuel Mills, Jacob Montefiore, James Pennington, Josiah Roberts, John George Shaw LeFevre, Edward Barnard, and William Hutt.
  • http://mapco.net/adel1837/colrep18.htm
  • http://mapco.net/adel1837/colrep19.htm
  • http://mapco.net/adel1837/colrep20.htm

Place Names of South Australia - Makin, Hundred of - Manningham - http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/m/m2.htm

Malcolm Flat

  • "Malcolm Flat" is mentioned in the Register of 11 February 1858 (supp.) at page 1 as being contiguous to sections 677/678, Hundred of Para Wirra. George Morphett, in a presidential address in the Proceedings of The Royal Geographical Society, Vol XLIII, pages 13-15, said, inter alia:
  • In 1841 John... Morphett, on behalf of William Leigh selected 500 acres of the land on which the Malcolm's had a run...

(See under Malcolm Creek in Manning's Place Names of South Australia.)

Malcolm, Point

  • The school near Lake Alexandrina opened in 1878 and closed in 1883.
  • In his presidential address given to the Royal Geographical Society (see Proceedings, Vol XLIII, page 14) Mr George Morphett disagrees with the nomenclature of Point Malcolm as expressed in Manning's Place Names of South Australia:
  • Governor Hindmarsh was responsible for... the name "Point Malcolm" near the mouth of the Port River doubtless after the same Admiral [Sir Pulteney Malcolm].

(See Semaphore where Mr A.T Saunders contends that "Point Malcolm" is shown on Colonel Light's charts.)

  • "Deceitful lights" at Point Malcolm near Port Adelaide are the cause for complaint by a mariner in the Register, 5 March 1872, page 5b.

The history of the rise and progress of the new British province of South Australia; ... By John Stephens, Second Edition, London, 1839 pg 234 [1]

http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/6671/1/1pte1895.pdf

http://www.genealogy.com/users/t/e/r/Michael-B-Terry/FILE/0001text.txt

6. ELIZABETH(4)4 TERRY (STEPHEN3, STEPHEN2, STEPHEN (OLDEST ON DOUG BACK-ALL LINES)1) was born August 30, 1788 in Lydd, England. She married JOHN MORPHETT November 20, 1816 in Lydd, Kent, England. He was born Bef. March 17, 1786 in Wittersham, Kent.

Children of ELIZABETH(4) TERRY and JOHN MORPHETT are:

i. JOHN5 MORPHETT, b. Abt. 1817.
ii. ELIZABETH MORPHETT.
iii. GEORGE MORPHETT, b. Abt. 1820.
iv. ROBERT MORPHETT.
v. FRANCES JENKINS MORPHETT, b. Bef. July 10, 1824.
vi. LOUISA ANN MORPHETT, b. Bef. December 15, 1826, Wittersham, Kent.
vii. MARY JANE MORPHETT, b. Bef. August 30, 1829, Wittersham, Kent.
viii. FREDERIC GARDEN(ER) MORPHETT, b. Bef. June 10, 1833, Wittersham, Kent; d. 1888, Maidstone, Kent; m. MARY ANN FOREMAN, December 14, 1856, Marylebone, London; b. Abt. 1833, Shoreham, Kent.

Bank of Adelaide

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The Story of THE BANK OF ADELAIDE, 81 - 91 King William Street, ADELAIDE. http://users.picknowl.com.au/~stanbatten/default.historyadelaide.html
'THE ADELAIDE' ON THE 17th DECEMBER 1969.

  • On the 10th August, 1844, Captain Charles Sturt left Adelaide for Central Australia from the corner of King William and Currie Streets.
  • To Captain Sturt, the corner was a weedy and rubbish littered vacant lot. To us, today, it is Head Office.
  • Thomas Dyke was the holder of a preliminary Land Order which entitled him to purchase a Town Acre for 12/-. The actual acre was to be his was decided by the drawing of lots, and in December 1837 he acquired Town Acre 140, a "choice and enviable holding".
  • In 1848 the acre was divided up, and what was to become 81 and 91 King William Street was bought by Edmund Isaac Trimmer. George Morphett was granted a 90 year lease of the corner block by Trimmer in the following year and this lease was later assigned to William Elder (who in turn, at a later date, assigned it to The Bank of Adelaide).

http://my.webzone.net.au/~tlawrie/frontier.htm
During 1845 ... George Morphett acting on behalf of the bank had sold the property belonging to James Craig and worked by Archibald Greenshields. The buyer was Alexander Anderson of Morphett Vale, Innkeeper.

Clarendon

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history of the Clarendon http://www.clarendoncommunity.asn.au/CLARENDON_WEBSITE/History_of_Clarendon.html

  • The history of the Clarendon township starts with the first settlers in 1846. James Philcox laid out the township of Clarendon for section 801 of the Hundred of Noarlunga which had been granted to Richard Blundell in England. Thirty eight acres were conveyed to William Leigh and the remainder to George Morphett.
  • The first Clarendon Council meeting was held in 1853 in the Morphett home

Clarendon | European History and Heritage http://www.onkaparingacity.com/history/viewsuburb.asp?content=clarendon

  • On 21 October 1840, Richard Blundell was granted the title to Section 801 Hundred of Noarlunga. In 1846, the land was conveyed to James Philcox who subdivided and sold a number of allotments and called it the township of Clarendon. In 1848, what remained of the section was sold to George Morphett who later surveyed more allotments, and other individuals also added adjacent blocks to the town.
  • The Clarendon vineyards were developed on land purchased by William Leigh, a well-known ship’s surgeon, in December 1846. A vineyard was developed for Leigh by 1849, probably by one or other of the Morphett brothers, John and George.

Clarendon Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/clarendonwes.htm

  • The Wesleyan Church at Clarendon was built by Wright and Weymouth in 1851 on land conveyed to the church by George Morphett on 20 December 1849.

CLARENDON - Back door to the Fleurieu Peninsula http://www.postcards-sa.com.au/features/clarendon_host.html

  • Clarendon counts its pioneer days from 1846. The main road slopes down with most of the town lining it, and on both sides there are remnants of the estate of founders Richard and Jeremiah Morphett. They were related to the famous John Morphett of Cummins House, Morphettville racecourse and much more, and there is still a Mrs. Morphett living in town just up from their old pickle factory (now slowly being restored).
  • Cousin George Morphett held land up the steep rise, and he offered a chunk of it to any Christian denomination who cared to build on it. As early as 1851, the Wesley Methodists took him up on it and built the tiny Mt. Zion church. Within a decade or so, teetotallers were looking down from its doors upon the boozers below at the Royal Oak Hotel. It is now a proudly pokie-free country pub with a front bar full of old photos and stories - like the one about an alleged ghost called Godfrey.

A Taste of Fleurieu http://www.roadrider.com.au/_webapp_159843/A_Taste_of_Fleurieu

  • My favourite ride starts at the Wellington Ferry. For those coming from the east, you can follow the “southern ports” highway through Beachport, Robe, Kingston and Meningie. Those still awake after coming via the SE Freeway or Dukes Highway need to turn south on the outskirts of Tailem Bend.
  • The ferry began its life in 1937 as a private punt owned by George Morphett. It was replaced by the first government ferry to span the river in 1848. In 1841 a police station was set up and in 1846 “Morphetts Crossing” officially became Wellington – after the Duke of Wellington. In 1851 Alexander Tolmer, the Commissioner of Police, used Wellington as the crossing place for the gold escorts bringing the gold home from the Victorian gold fields.

http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/murray/content/riverAsHighway/crossingIntro.htm

  • Crossing the Murray has always been a problem – Hume and Hovell, and later Charles Sturt, and the various overlanding parties all had difficulties. They generally converted their drays to temporary punts to cross. Punts or ferries were used at many points of the river, and still are today. Bridges followed as traffic crossing the river increased.
  • Ferries or punts provided the first crossings on the River Murray for many years, and still operate in many places today.
  • In 1839 Charles Bonney overlanding cattle to Adelaide from Port Phillip, pioneered a river crossing near what would become Wellington. More herds followed and crossing places were established at Woods Point, Wellington and Thompson’s. George Morphett established a small ferry at Wellington, and later another further upstream at Woods Point. Charles Bonney also discovered another suitable place named Thompson’s crossing (later called Swanport). There was another crossing south of Wellington called Mason’s, but this had tricky currents and weather sweeping off Lake Alexandrina seriously affected its use. After Morphett, the Bell Brothers established a ferry at Wellington in conjunction with their hotel. Then the South Australian government decided to run the service. Legislative ordnance 4/1848 detailed this together with the scale of charges. William Carter was the first to take up the lease and was appointed in May 1849.

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SA Government Gazettes of 1841 - LAND SELECTIONS http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~deadsearch/landselection_1841.htm

  • GEORGE MORPHETT AGENT FOR

Blakiston

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Blakiston, South Australia

  • St James Church of England, in the town of Blakiston, is the fifth oldest Anglican Church in South Australia.[citation needed] The 10 acres (4 ha) of the Church, Cemetery and Rectory was bought by George Morphett and Samuel Stocks from McFarlane in 1843 and was given for the building of the church in May 1846.
  • The ten acres of the Church, Cemetery and Rectory of Section 4430 Hundred of Macclesfield land was bought by George Morphett and Samuel Stocks from McFarlane in 1843 and was given for the building of the church in May 1846. http://www.australiancemeteries.com/sa/mount_barker/blakiston.htm


George Cummins Morphett

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Gravestone in West Terrace Cemetery.

George Cummins Morphett 1876-1963

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=g3hd2m6bt9f9ctk5a7d2fhep90&topic=323112.15

I note Williams second marriage is also recorded under both names

DEGENHARDT William Charles 49 widow father Robert DEGENHARDT = MORPHETT Amy Fisher 52 single father George MORPHETT 24 Dec 1931 Registry Office Adelaide Dist Ade Symbol X 329/776

FISHER William Charles 49 widow father Robert DEGENHARDT = MORPHETT Amy Fisher 52 single father George MORPHETT 24 Dec 1931 Registry Office Adelaide Dist Ade Symbol X 329/776

These entries are also cross referenced as are the birth entries

CONTEXTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ADELAIDE PARK LANDS & SQUARES - http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/adccwr/publications/reports_plans/apl_2.0_contextual_development.pdf pg.29
2.2.20 Adelaide Park Lands Preservation Association (1903-)

  • The Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association is a community-based organisation formed as a

voice to articulate community concerns about the management, care and development of the Adelaide Park Lands and Squares. The Association has been through phases of activity and existence, having its origins in the Parklands Preservation League in 1903-24, 1948-c.57, fluctuating in activity according to community perceptions of the management erosion of the Park Lands, and was reformed in 1987 at a public meeting as the Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association Inc.

  • The first League was created under the leadership of chair [Sir] Eustace Beardoe Grundy (chair

1903-c.1920) (not to be confused with Alderman TH Grundy after whom the Grundy Gardens are named) with a influential list of members and an Executive Committee including Sir Lancelot Stirling, G Dutton Green, WB Wilkinson, AW Piper, AW Dobie, J Chittleborough, FJ Eyre, JH Horwood, WL Ware, WO Archibald, and Charles Townsend Hargrave (chair c.1920- 24

  • The second League (1948-57) was formed under the chairs of Sir James Gosse (1948-c.52) and

George C Morphett (c.1952-57) with HH Austin, F Kenneth Milne, D Waterhouse, L McCubbin, CC Deland, FJW Swann, Noel Lothian and CH Bright being the principal committee members.

  • The third Association (1987-) was formed in 1987 with landscape architect Damien Mugavin

(1987-89), David Morris (1989-96) and politician Ian Gilfillan (1996-) MLC as chairs.

http://www.biblioz.com/lp25764354822.html
An Address.Delivered On The Occasion Of The Golden Wedding Of The President Mr. George C. Morphett. Series 1950/51, No. 6
By: BORROW, TRAVERS
Adelaide, The Pioneer's Association Of South Australia, 1951. . 8vo; pp. 8; b/w illustration, stapled paper wrapper, a fine copy.

List of publications

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  • State Library of South Australia [2]
  • National Library of Australia [3]

Includes:

  • The Life And Letters Of Sir John Morphett / compiled By His Grandson Geo. C. Morphett, Adelaide : Hassell Press, 1936

Also wrote:



  1. ^ Reece Jennings, John and George Morphett, West Torrens Historical Society
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