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Interview - first hand accounts of early life in South Australia. It is always nice to hear the story form the actual person, in research there are discoveries of these interviews with pioneers of South Australia, they are fascinating insights into their lives and times.
The language used is like poetry and the perspective is refreshing. This project will serve as an index to these such interviews in hopes that descendants will discover them and find great joy in hearing their words. To assist this, the project will be included in "History Link" and these interviews will be highlighted in the search results.
Most of these needed more transcribing and are as accurate as can possibly be, given the faint print sometimes. Enjoy :)
Miss Marianne Fisher last survivor of the HMS Buffalo, speaks of living conditions and memories of her siblings.
Charles Brown Fisher mostly a narrative but very interesting information about his horse breeding/racing and a doping scandal.
James William or William James Ferrant was a horse breaker and trail blazer, he accounts the early years with such recolection, you feel like you are there. His father (John W Ferrant) left them with a Miss. Lock and a purse of gold for their future and returned to the goldfields, he died at the Eureka Stockade. James William married Margaret Rutherford Telfer, daughter of James Telfer.
Emily Rebecca Giles married Francis William Stokes, she was one of 21 children, and she arrived as an early toddler on the ship Hartley in 1838. The interviewers closing statement: "We said farewell with the hope, in our hearts, that if we reached the ripe age of 86, our hearts and minds would keep the spirit of youth that we found in this beautiful old lady of the Mount."
Mr. John Thorn, of Brighton, who is eightyrfive years of age, writes that he came in the Rapid in 1836. and took Colonel Light and Mr. Pullen (afterwards Admiral Pullen) ashore at Holdfast Bay to find a place to rig up the tents, when the first lag was hoisted. The boat's crew were:- W. Bell, W. Luckey. J. Duncan, and J. Thorn, coxswain, and he is the only survivor, and he has been sixty years in the colony. He adds that out of twenty-six who came in the brig there are only living Messrs. W. Jacobs, W. Hodges, and himself. His wife came out in the Buckinghamshire, and is seventy-five years old. (A Seaman (some have his wife on same voyage, not so))
John Flavel came out on the English ship Prince George from London, he gives a short summery of his life.
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