William Edward Adams

William Edward Adams

Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981

• Christening: Dec 12 1841 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Parents: John William Adams, Susanna Adams

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Headstone photo on file

'The Register' Adelaide 13.8.1927 p5 MR AND MRS W. E. ADAMS Our Ardrossan correspondent writes - Mr and Mrs William Edward Adams of Ardrossan, celebrated on August 1 the sixty-third anniversary of their wedding. Mr Adams came to be the oldest native-born South Australian. He is living where he was born - at Edwardstown - on November 24, 1841. His father was the late Mr John William Adams who, with his wife and four children, arrived in the Buffalo in time for the mother to be the first white woman to set foot on the site of the city of Adelaide. Six children were born in South Australia, so that in all there were 10 children, Mr William Edward Adams being the seventh child. When he was 11 years of age, the family removed to Bull Creek (nr Meadows), and, later, to McCard's Creek [McHargs Creek nr Clarendon]

OBITUARY: 'The Advertiser' (Adelaide SA) 30.7.1928 p 10

Mr William Edward Adams, who died at Ardrossan on Tuesday at the age of 86, was an old colonist. He was born at Edwardstown in 1842(1), and claimed to be the oldest Australian-born resident in South Australia. Mrs Adams, who is 84 years of age, was born at Meadows South in 1844. At the age of 12 years Mr Adams did bullock driving. At that time carters could not be got to cart the piles for the Goolwa wharf and Mr Adams, in company with his brother, undertook the carting. He also drove one of the six teams that carted the telegraph poles for the line from Mount Bun? to Grecian Bay. Mr Adams remembered the first railway train running from Adelaide to Port Adelaide, on which he and his brother had a ride. He lived at that time with his parents, Mr and Mrs John William Adams, at Bull Creek. Here he also engaged in potato-growing. On one occasion Mr Adams, with his team of bullocks, was bogged in Victoria-square as he was carrying a load of potatoes for sale in Adelaide. As there were no day schools near, both Mr and Mrs Adams received their education by attending a night school, taught by Mr Adams's father. Mr Adams was one of the pioneers of the Ardrossan district, having taken up land at Petersville 51 years ago. This he worked for 33 years, until he retired to live at Ardrossan. In 1864 he married Eliza, daughter of Mr James Stone, of Bull's Creek. Mr and Mrs Adams left Mount Templeton for Petersville in 1877, and lived there until they retired 18 years ago. The early years before the use of superphosphate were times of hard struggle, and Mr Adams used to recall that as low as four bushels to the acre was all that could be reaped, where afterwards 35 bushels were common. Mr and Mrs Adams were active workers in the Methodist Church, and the former has been a local preacher for 56 years. The family consisted of four sons and seven daughters, one of whom, Mrs A Polkinghorne, died some years ago, the surviving members, in addition to the widow, being:- Mesdames H E Polkinghorne and G A Stone, of Ardrossan; C F Stevens of Littlehampton; W H Adams of Maitland; W Wilson of Moonta; J Nicoll of Bull's Creek; and Messrs Allan Adams of Loxton; Williams Adams of Auburn; Frank Adams of the Hundred of Maitland; and Hurtle Adams of Moorook.

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Children:

• Hephzibah Adams m. William Adams
• William Ernest Adams m. Edna Polkinghorne
• May Wilson (born Adams) m. William Wilson
• Florence Nicol (born Adams) m. James Nicol
• Amy Stevens (born Adams) m Edward Frame Stevens
• Allen Henry Adams m. Margaret Ann Stevens
• Frank Howard Adams m. Clara Elizabeth Polkinghorne
• Eliza Polkinghorne (born Adams) m. Albert John Polkinghorne
• Harriet Polkinghorne (born Adams) m. Hurtle Emanuel Polkinghorne
• Hurtle Maitland Adams m. Daisy Mabel Stone
• Olive Pearl Stone (born Adams) m. George Albert Stone

Siblings

• Sarah Tilly (born Adams)
• John William Adams
• James Joseph Adams
• Thomas George Adams
• Emma Bodger (born Adams)
• Susannah Elizabeth Wills (born ADAMS)
• Frederick Richard Adams
• Henry Robert Adams
• Lucy Martha Kitto (born Adams)

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