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| Mathew or Matthew Moorhouse |
| Family
Name: |
Moorhouse |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
Mathew or Matthew |
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| DOB |
1813
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DOD |
1876 March |
| Place
of Birth: |
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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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| Voyages:
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Arrived on the "Sir Charles Forbes" Holdfast Bay June 7, 1839
Arrived as SS of "Escort" Port Adelaide August 9, 1859 (59/4)
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| Came
out as: |
Surgeon superintendent |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1839
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
1845 SA No.15
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Off
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| Addresses:
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Holmfirth, England 1836 (LSA lists)
Encounter Bay, SA
Adelaide 1859, SA (Medical Register)
Hummocks, SA until 1870
"Bartogunya" near Melrose, SA 1870-1876 |
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| Positions
Held: |
The first Protector of Aborigines for SA at age 26 (appointed by Imperial Government June 20, 1840) - office in North Terrace
Member of the Statistical Society
MLA in 2nd parliament, elected March 13, 1860 and retired from parliament October 22, 1862 |
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| 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. |
| Acknowledgments:
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This record was updated in May 2005 with information supplied by Reece Jennings of North Plympton SA |
| References: |
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
Med. Surg. Rev. List for SA 1874
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 1877
Medical directory for 1873, and general medical register. London : Churchill, 1873
At Melrose. South Australian Register (newspaper) 11 May 1866
Obituary. South Australian Register (newspaper) 21 April 1876 |
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