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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.

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

Unknown

Spouse(s)

Not married

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

 

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

 

Children

 

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)

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.

 

Local Government experience

 

Sources of information

Trove, BMDs,  S&McD directories, research Lesley Attema

Principal Researcher

Lesley Attema

 

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