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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

SKIPPER, Octavius / Octavus

Date of Birth

C1825

Place of Birth

Norwich, Norfolk, England

Date of Death

21.04.1903 (In his 78th year)

Place of Death

Castle Street, Parkside

Place of Burial

Catholic Cemetery, West Terrace, Adelaide

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Ship Lady Fitzherbert 12.07.1842

Lived in Prospect (dates)

c1840s

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 Robert George THOMAS.

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Lake Alexandrina (1858-1861); Penola; Mount Barker; Castle Street, Parkside

Names of houses (if any)

Marguerita, Castle Street, Parkside

Parents

John SKIPPER and Jane STARK

Spouse(s)

Annie BURKE

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

21.06.1858

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

St Patrick’s Church, Adelaide

Children

Robert Aloysius (1859-1875), Michael John (1861-1920), Jane Elizabeth (1863-1943), Mary Ann (1865), Octavius William (1868-), Thomas James (1871)

Education

Norwich Grammar School

Occupation(s)

Clerk of Local Court (various locations) 1863-1894

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

Catholic

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Octavius and his brother John 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.

Local Government experience

 

Sources of information

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.  

Mount Barker Courier & Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser 24.04.1903, p.2.

Principal Researcher(s)

David Johnston

 

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