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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

SLOMAN,  George

Date of Birth

c1821 Barnstaple Devonshire, UK   (at arrival age said to be 26 (b c1824) but at death in 1916 age said to be 95)

Place of Birth

Devon, UK

Date of Death

23 December 1916 aged 95 years

His obituary reads - He died in his 96th year, leaving five (living) sons (Messrs. George and John, of Sydney, N.S.W.; William and Charles, of Medindie; and James, of Prospect), and two daughters (Mrs. G. Wilmshurst, of Malvern; and Mrs. Lewis). His second wife survives him. 

 

Place of Death

Died at the home of his daughter Mrs Lewis, Harvey Street, Prospect

Place of Burial

North Road Cemetery

A number of members of the family are buried in historic North Road Cemetery

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

Arrived 1850 in the ship Agincourt with wife and 3 children

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

60 Main North Road

Land by Nottage Terrace. Medindie

A number of properties owned in Prospect area were leased.

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Tynte Street, North Adelaide

Land in the Hundred of Yatala

A number of properties owned in other suburbs were leased.

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents - names; DOBs etc (if known)

Father  - George SLOMAN

 

Spouse(s) - including maiden name; DOBs etc. (if known)

(1)   Mary Louisa HAWKINS died 2 July 1881 at Prospect, aged 60 years buried North Road Cemetery.

(2)  Mrs Hannah BOTTEN (nee MARSH), both of Prospect.  Hannah died 21 Nov 1922, Medindie. (She was the widow of William BOTTEN)

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

(1) 1844

(2) 5th Jan 1882 by special licence

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

(1)  Bristol UK

(2)  Little Adelaide

Children - names and dates of birth/death if known

George SLOMAN b c1846  Eng,  died 9 Sept 1922 NSW

Marr

(1) Alice Maria FITZWATER  in  1870 Victoria

(2) Martha FERGUSON  in 1878 Victoria

 

Henry SLOMAN b 1847 England, died Albury NSW aged 25 on 19 November 1872

 

William SLOMAN born 1849 England  died 22 Oct 1926 Medindie SA

married

Mary Ann EKINS  5 November 1874 at her father’s Prospect residence, died 1934 bur North Road Cemetery

 

Rebecca  SLOMAN born 11 Jan 1852, North Adelaide

married   George Amos WILMSHURST 12 May 1875 at Stow Memorial Church

 

James  SLOMAN born 2 June 1854, North Adelaide

married

(1) Emma Mary WAGENKNECHT 30 May 1883 Lawton residence, Walkerville

(2) Mary Georgina HAMON 30 Dec 1891 Res of Mrs Harmon Mitcham.

 

Charles  SLOMAN born 13 Sept 1856 Adelaide

married Dora Elizabeth (Dolly) GARLICK 31 Dec 1886 Pirie Street  Wesleyan Church

 

Samuel SLOMAN born 1857  died aged 7 months, bur North Road Cemetery.

 

Samuel SLOMAN born 10 May 1858 Adelaide (named for infant brother who just died)

Died of typhoid  fever 2 Feb 1889 Private hospital North Adelaide aged 29 years bur North Road Cemetery

Marr

Charlotte Ann ANDERSON 25 May 1880 at her father’s residence  Currency Creek 

 

John Constance SLOMAN  born 25 Aug 1862, Adelaide died 7 Aug 1944 NSW

married   Elizabeth PAILLAS 1890 NSW  b c1870 d12 Dec 1933 NSW

 

Louisa Mary SLOMAN  born 27 Aug 1865, Nailsworth

married Robert LEWIS 5 Feb 1890, Prospect Wesleyan Church

 

 

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Winnowing Machine making business at 60 Main North Road

Then the building trade constructing and letting houses.

Speculated in mining in Broken Hill

Interests/Activities

 

Religion/Churches

Trustee of the Highbury Street Church

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

Described as an old colonist of SA

He was awarded a silver medal at the 1880 Royal Adelaide Show for the “greatest labour saving machine offered to farmers”.  The winnowing machine was tested on grain from the Prospect wheat fields.

Two sons worked in the blacksmith section where an eight-foot, horizontal leather bellows blew coke to a white heat on the forge so that the smiths could fashion iron parts on the anvil. The machines were finished with paint made on the spot from white lead, umber, and other raw pigments with which linseed oil was mixed by an attachment to the drilling machine - one of the old type with a big horizontal flywheel spinning above the workman's head.

Even when an old man, George thought little of pushing a barrow with lime and bricks from Prospect to Hackney to repair his houses.'

 

Local Government experience (if any)

 

Sources of information

Trove Newspapers, PLHG publications including “Prospect 1872-1972 Portrait of a City” (p106) and Buried Treasures (p88-90), David Johnston research notes for Buried Treasures, SAGHS bmds, BISA. 

Principal Researcher

Lesley Attema

 

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