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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names) |
SKIPPER, John Michael |
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Date of Birth |
12.07.1815 |
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Place of Birth |
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Date of Death |
07.12.1883 |
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Place of Death |
Kent Town |
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Place of Burial |
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Arrived in |
Ship Africaine 06.11.1836 |
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Lived in Prospect (dates) |
c1840s |
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Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area |
Portion of Section 368, on the south eastern corner of what are now
Regency and Churchill roads which was leased from his brother-in-law Robert
George THOMAS. |
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Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area |
Port Adelaide, Kent Town (c1872-1883) |
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Names of houses (if any) |
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Parents |
John SKIPPER and Jane STARK |
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Spouse(s) |
(1) Frances Amelia THOMAS, (2) Mary THOMAS |
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Date(s) of Marriage(s) |
(1) 28.12.1839, (2) 28.04.1856 |
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Place(s) of Marriage(s) |
(1) |
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Children |
Jane Georgiana Kyffin MARSHALL
(1840-1880), Frances Mary JONES (1842-1914), Helen Stark SAWTELL (1844-1916),
Isabel Margaret Gower ROBINSON (1849-), Spencer John (1847-1903), Walter
Charles (1842-1937), Henry Robert Thomas (1864-), Mary Elizabeth (??) |
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Education |
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Occupation(s) |
Many including Attorney & Proctor Supreme Court (1843-1851), Clerk
of Court, Port Adelaide (1952-1872) |
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Interests/Activities |
Talented Colonial artist. His painting of his home near Islington
[SLSA B 40589] is possible the oldest surviving illustration of a Prospect
residence |
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Religion/Churches |
Church of England (Anglican) |
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Notes (points of interest etc.) |
John Skipper and his brother Octavius established the Wodehouse Arms
Inn on their property in 1848. This was later known as the Irish Harp Inn and
stood close to where the Reepham Hotel now stands. |
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Local Government experience |
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Sources of information |
Australian Dictionary of Biography. Octavius Skipper, Reminiscences
of fifty-two years (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,
South Australian Branch, Session 1903-1904, Volume VIII). Biographical Index of South Australians
1836-1886. |
*Photo of Skipper at SLSA B
7028
