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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

SOUTER, Charles Henry

Date of Birth

11.10.1864

Place of Birth

Aberdeen, Scotland

Date of Death

20.08.1944

Place of Death

North Adelaide

Place of Burial

West Terrace Cemetery

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

1891 From NSW

Lived in Prospect (dates)

1910-1923

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

45 Prospect Road (1910-23)

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Coonabarabran, NSW(1879-82), University of Aberdeen (1882-87), Hillston, etc, NSW (c1887-89) Ship's Doctor ( 1889 ), Balaclava, SA (1890-1905 ), Adelaide (1906), Clarendon (1907-09), Whyalla (1923-24), North Adelaide (c1925-44)

Names of houses (if any)

Annandale

Parents

John Clement SOUTER & Helen nee COUTTS

Spouse(s)

(1/2)Jane Ann RAEBURN, (2/2) Lucy de Neufville LUCAS

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

(1/2)11.05.1887, (2/2) 24.04.1896

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

(1/2)Aberdeen, Scotland, (2/2) Adelaide

Children

Daughter by Jane; Robert John de Neufville by Lucy

Education

MB CM 1887, Aberdeen

Occupation(s)

Medical Doctor

Interests/Activities

Poet - said to have been the last of Australia's bush balladists. Wrote under the pen name of 'Nil' and 'Dr Nil'. He was one of the experts on the 5AD radio program 'Information Please'

Religion/Churches

Catholic

Notes (points of interest etc.)

 

Local Government experience

 

Sources of information

Australian Dictionary of Biography

South Australiana, Vol 1, No 1, March 1963.

Photograph - SLSA B 6340

Principal Researcher(s)

David Johnston, Prospect Local History Group

 

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