Matthew Moorhouse |
Family
Name: |
Moorhouse |
Variant
Spellings: |
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Given
Names: |
Matthew |
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DOB |
1813
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DOD |
20 March 1876 |
Place
of Birth: |
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England
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Place
of Death: |
Melrose, SA |
Age
at Death: |
63
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School:
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University:
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Qualifications:
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MRCS England 1836
LSA 1836
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Speciality:
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Other
Occupations: |
Parliamentarian
Pastoralist
JP |
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Spouse:
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Mary Ruth Kilner m.1842 Adelaide, SA |
Children: |
See Statton |
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Voyages:
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"Sir Charles Forbes" from England arr. Holdfast Bay 7 June 1839
"Orient" dep. Adelaide for London 23 December 1856
"Escort" arr. Port Adelaide 9 August 1859
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Came
out as: |
Surgeon superintendent |
Date
Settled Aus: |
1839
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Date
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First
Registered: |
1845 SA No.15
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Off
Register: |
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Addresses:
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Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England 1836 (LSA lists)
Hanley, Staffordshire, England 1839 (ADB)
Encounter Bay, SA 1839 (ADB)
England 1857-1859 approx. (Cleland)
Adelaide SA 1861 (Medical Directory)
Hummocks, SA until 1870
"Bartagunya" near Melrose, SA 1870-1876 |
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Positions
Held: |
Protector of Aborigines for SA 1839-1859 (ADB)
Member of the Statistical Society
MLA 1860-1862 |
Publications:
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Natives [letter]. South Australian Register 8 August 1840 [signed M. Moorhouse, Protector of Aborigines] |
Notes:
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He is buried at Melrose cemetery, where his grave has a commanding view across Willochra Plain to the Pekina and Moockra Hills in the far distance, in country strongly reminiscent of pioneering days (Jennings personal communication)
Registered UK 1859 |
Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated in May 2005 with information supplied by Reece Jennings of North Plympton SA |
References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Jennings R. Annotated list of registered medical practitioners South Australia 1844-1918. Adelaide, 1994 [MRCSL 1836 registered 4 February 1845 etc]
Cleland JB. Pioneer medical men in SA. Adelaide : Pioneers' Association of South Australia, [1941?].
Cleland JB. First fifty-two names in the medical register of South Australia Medical Journal Australia 1938; ii: 732-8
Lendon AA. SAA. PRG 128/12/11
Statton J. Biographical index of South Australians 1836-1885. Marden, S. Aust. : South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1986
Cockburn R. Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia. Facsimile ed. Blackwood SA : Lynton Publications, 1974 (first published 1927).
Mortlock (59/4)
Medical Directory 1861
Medical directory for 1873, and general medical register. London : Churchill, 1873 [Melrose SA]
Shipping intelligence. South Australian Register 23 December 1856 [Mr and Mrs Moorhouse and 3 children on "Orient" for London]
Encampment of aborigines. South Australian Register 23 July 1858 [native tribes in care of Crown Lands Department since resignation of Dr. Moorhouse]
At Melrose. South Australian Register (newspaper) 11 May 1866
Obituary. South Australian Register (newspaper) 21 April 1876 |
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last updated 12-05-2019
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