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    Place Names of South Australia - S

    Swanport - Symon, Hundred of

    Swanport

    (See Place Names - Thompson Crossing..)

    The launching of a river steamer is reported in the Register,
    31 July 1868, page 2h.
    Also see Murray River.

    The Observer of
    17 June 1911 at page 50a has a report on a local aboriginal burial ground; also see
    Register,
    11 and 12 April 1911, pages 6f and 8c,
    3 and 4 May 1911, pages 9b and 4g,
    Chronicle,
    3 June 1911, page 42e.
    Also see South Australia - Aboriginal Australians.

    It is described in the Advertiser,
    14 December 1876, page 1a (supp.),
    Register,
    10 February 1887, page 6a.
    Observer,
    19 February 1887, page 43a.

    A complaint from soldier settlers is in the Register,
    19 January 1921, page 3h.
    Also see South Australia - World War I - Repatriation.

    Its school opened in 1923 and closed in 1932.

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    Swanscombe

    Nomenclature

    A subdivision of section 234, Hundred of Caltowie by Charles Burney Young in 1875; now included in Caltowie. He married Nora C. Bacon in Swanscombe, England in 1851.

    General Notes

    Also see Place Names - Templeton, Mount.

    An obituary of Mr C.B. Young is in the Express,
    30 September 1904, page 2c;
    reminiscences of his wife are in the Advertiser,
    8 June 1925, page 13b.

    An obituary of E. Burney Young is in the Register,
    30 October 1922, page 6g,
    of Mrs C.B. Young on 8 and 10 June 1925, pages 11h and 11c.

    The sale of the subdivision and the home is reported in the Register,
    24 September 1925, page 5d.

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    Swansea

    Nomenclature

    In 1867, Alfred France, auctioneer and David Bower, timber merchant, cut up section 17, Hundred of Wallaroo, naming it after its namesake in Wales; it derives from swinesea - from the number of porpoises with which this part of the channel abounded. The same name was given to a subdivision of section 1047, Hundred of Port Adelaide and was made by George D. Green, W. Peirce, J.C. Lovely, H.H. Mildred and H.C. Swan, in 1875; now included in Port Adelaide.

    General Notes

    Colonel J.C. Lovely's obituary is in the Observer,
    20 November 1915, page 46d.

    "A Sunday 'School' - Two-Up at Swansea" is in the Register,
    9 January 1923, page 3g.

    Also see South Australia - Social Matters - Gambling - Miscellany.

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    Swinden Crossing

    Nomenclature

    At the southern extremity of Lake Torrens. Charles Swinden (c.1827-1865) who, with Murdoch Campbell and D. Thomson, explored the area in mid-1857.

    General Notes

    The Register of 24 August 1857, page 3 reproduces his journal and a preface by the editor says: Information on Charles Swinden is in the Register,
    17 July 1899, page 5c;
    an obituary of his wife is in the Register,
    30 July 1907, page 5c, 1 August 1907, page 7c,
    Observer,
    3 August 1907, page 40d.

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    Swinden

    Nomenclature

    Laid out in 1879 by Edward Swinden (c.1851-1920) on part sections 925-26, Hundred of Woolundunga on the plains near Horrocks Pass. Its main building was the 'Pass Hotel' which today is crumbling masonry on the roadside.

    General Notes

    "The Swinden Lunatic" is in the Chronicle,
    8 September 1894, page 7c.
    Register,
    31 August 1894, page 7d,
    3 September 1894, pages 4h-5c.
    Reminiscences of "The Swinden Town Siege" are in the Chronicle,
    30 August 1934, page 8a.

    The Swinden Town School operated from 1901 until 1903;
    Swinden School opened in 1912 and closed in 1920.

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    Sydenham

    Nomenclature

    John Edwin Gameau (c.1802-1872), a solicitor in London, came to South Australia with his wife and family circa 1850 and in 1874 his sons, Thomas Edwin and Victor, purchased sections 311 and 333, Hundred of Adelaide and in the following year they built a house on the property which they called 'Sydenham', no doubt after their parents' association with a place of that name in London which first came into prominence in the 1600s on account of a mineral spring supposed to possess peculiar medicinal virtues.

    General Notes

    Mr E.B. Heyne's Nursery is described in the Advertiser,
    22 May 1880, page 1f (supp.) and
    Gameau Brothers Nursery in the Register,
    6 June 1903, page 8g.

    An obituary of John Emery is in the Register,
    2 September 1912, page 6h,
    of Victor Gameau in the Observer,
    15 April 1916, page 19b.

    Swanport - Symon, Hundred of
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    Sydney Park

    See Allan Park and Jordan Park.

    Swanport - Symon, Hundred of
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    Symon, Hundred of

    Nomenclature

    Sir Josiah H. Symon (1846-1934), MP (1881-1887).

    General Notes

    Also see South Australia - Politics.

    A poem titled "The Song of Symon" is in The Critic,
    16 April 1898, page 4.

    Biographical details of Sir Josiah Symon are in the Observer,
    7 February 1903, page 23,
    The Herald, 23 May 1903, page 7a,
    Advertiser, 23 November 1921, page 6i;
    his obituary appears on 30 March 1934, page 7c and details of his will on 8 August 1934, page 14h.

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