|
Name
(FAMILY NAME, Other Names) |
BELTON,
Marcus Robert |
|
Date
of Birth |
c1849 |
|
Place
of Birth |
Believed
to be Liverpool UK |
|
Date
of Death |
6
August 1929 |
|
Place
of Death |
Prospect SA |
|
Place
of Burial |
North
Road Cemetery |
|
Arrived
in South Australia (date/ship etc.) |
1888
from Victoria after arriving from England as a young man |
|
Lived
in Prospect (dates) |
From 1888
until death in 1929 |
|
Addresses/Dates
in Prospect Council Area |
From
1895 at 25 Clifton Street, Prospect |
|
Addresses/Dates
outside Prospect Council Area |
Lived
in Victoria until moving to Adelaide in 1888 Earlier
SA addresses given as Kent Town (c1892) and Light
Square (c1894). 63 Light Square was the business address of Dixson & Co. |
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Names
of houses (if any) |
|
|
Parents |
Unknown |
|
Spouse(s) |
Not
married |
|
Date(s)
of Marriage(s) |
|
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Place(s)
of Marriage(s) |
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Children |
|
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Education
|
The
Liverpool Collegiate School |
|
Occupation(s) |
Victoria - James
McEwan and Co., Melbourne Melbourne
Tramway Company South
Australia - Commercial
Manager Messrs. R Dixson & Co – Wholesale tobacco manufacturers (SA) Early
member and later President of the SA Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s
Association 1909
Retired as General Manager of British Australia Tobacco Company receiving a
gold watch. |
|
Interests/Activities |
President
of United Ancient Order of Druids |
|
Religion/Churches
|
St
Cuthbert’s Church President
of St Cuthbert’s Literary Society (1910) |
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Notes
(points of interest etc.) |
1879
as Past President United Ancient Order of Druids Marcus Belton gave an
address to the Marquis of Normanby at his first function as administrator of
the Govt. Of Victoria 1901
Elected one of directors Australian Patents Exploitation Company 1911
Committee Member at the formation of the Liberal Union of Prospect Lived
with his unmarried sister Emily Frances BELTON who was born c1854 and continued
to live in Clifton Street until she died 22 August 1936. Also buried in North
Road Cemetery After
her death institutions which benefited under her will were the Home for
Incurables, Minda Home, the Adelaide Children's Hospital. the Old Folk's Home
(Magill), and the Royal Institution for the Blind. |
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Local
Government experience |
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Sources
of information |
Trove,
BMDs, S&McD directories, research
Lesley Attema |
|
Principal
Researcher |
Lesley
Attema |