The Public Will Thank You for Your Timely Article on the Absurdity of So Many of the Names with Which Our Localities in South Australia Are Humiliated
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S The public will thank you for your timely article on the absurdity of so many of the names with which our localities in South Australia are humiliated. The places so handicapped are, like the unfortunate infants christened after certain celebrities, voiceless in the matter… (Register, 25 July 1900, page 7d) Sab-Aruma - The name of a holiday village near Walker Flat developed by the SA Brewing Co. Ltd (SAB) for its employees. ‘Aruma’ is Aboriginal for ‘happy’. Every cottage has an Aboriginal name, Barook - ‘teal’; Canara - ‘magpie’; Curringa - ‘black duck’; Doundoo - ‘black swan’; Goonyah - ‘a large fish’ and Narimba - ‘pelican’. Sabine, Mount - Near Kingoonya and named after Clement Sabine who was born in Suffolk in 1833; he arrived in the Derwent in 1853, was an associate of the pastoralist, Price Maurice and also his general manager; he died in 1903 (See Ernest, Mount & Pekina) Saddlebags, Mount - A trig point in the Hundred of Kuitpo whose summit represents a saddle, with a saddlebag on each side. Saddleworth - The Register of 16 September 1846 mentions ‘Saddleworth Hotel, on the Burra road, section 2803’ and, on 28 November 1846 some travellers recorded: Passing north of Mr Master’s stations… we reached the before-mentioned incipient tavern, first known as the ‘Stone Hut’ then as the Saddleworth Hotel; … and now appropriately called the ‘Miners’ Arms’ by those jolly operatives going to or returning from the Monster Mine. The main building… is ready to receive the roof… In the meantime the business is carried on in the extensive lean-to at the back by Mr and Mrs Uphill [sic]. The Mr Masters, mentioned above, was born at ‘Saddleworth Lodge’, Yorkshire, England, written in 1230 as sadelword-wort - ‘on a saddle-like ridge’. The Saddleworth Hotel, ‘being now completed’, was advertised by its proprietor, Robert Harris, in 1847. James Masters obtained the land grant of section 2803 on 25 February 1846 and on it built the ‘Saddleworth Hotel’ which he leased to Robert Harris for 14 years (registered on 13 December 1848); an underlease was given to William Coghill on 14 February 1850 - Coghill purchased the freehold of section 2803 from Mr Masters on 26 July 1853. In 1859, ‘the township of Saddleworth, better known to old colonists as the “Stone Hut” was beginning to show signs of enterprise’, while the earliest memorial conveying an allotment in the town is dated 14 December 1852. Saddleworth School was opened in 1851 by Leonard Burton and examinations were reported on 30 December 1870 when the prize-winners were: ‘M.J. Wood, M. Foster, C. Wood, F. Munns, C. Maslin, A. Filmer, S. Harrold, J. Watts, M. Foster, J. Foster…’ The laying of the foundation stone of the public school was reported on 2 December 1876. (See Coghill Creek) A photograph of a ‘Hoisting the Flag’ ceremony is in the Chronicle, 24 September 1904, page 28. Sketches of the town are in the Pictorial Australian in August 1879, Frearson’s Weekly, 14 February 1880, page 3 and photographs in the Observer, 2 January 1904, page 24, 15 February 1908, page 29, 28 March 1914, page 31. A history of the town and photographs are in the Chronicle, 23 February 1933, pages 37 and 46, 12 September 1903, page 24, 23 November 1907, page 30, 7 January 1911, page 42, of a Show on 17 October 1908, page 30, information on and photographs of Messrs Bee & Hill’s store in the Observer, 2 January 1904, page 24. A photograph of Mr L. Fisher’s exhibit at the Adelaide Show is in the Chronicle, 12 March 1904, page 44, 11 March 1905, page 30, Observer, 14 May 1904, page 25a, of a sheep sale in the Chronicle, 27 August 1904, page 41, of Commercial Road, Saddleworth, on 10 December 1904, page 30, of members of a tennis club on 29 July 1911, page 30, of an Australia Day celebration on 14 August 1915, page 29, of the Saddleworth Apiary on 26 May 1928, page 40, of ‘Back to Saddleworth’ celebrations on 12 April 1934, page 31, of a football team in the Observer, 18 October 1913, page 29, Chronicle, 8 October 1936, page 35. The Hundred of Saddleworth, County of Light, was proclaimed on 7 August 1851. Saint A’Becket Ponds - Near Lake Torrens, named by Samuel Parry on 10 August 1858 after Archbishop Thomas A’Becket. Unofficially, it has been corrupted to ‘Sandy Bagot Ponds’. In 1874 it was said that, ‘I am at a loss to conceive why this place should have been named after the worthy Archbishop unless it was that the person condemned to live at it must, necessarily, have been a brother martyr.’ Saint - In 1960, the Adelaide suburb of Saint Agnes was laid out on part section 211, Hundred of Yatala, by Airflow Refrigeration Ltd. Dr William Thomas Angove settled in the area in the 1880s and founded Angoves Pty Ltd, vignerons, distillers and marketers of St Agnes brandy. He died in Yorkshire, England, in 1912. Saint Agnes is the patron Saint of Purity. It is, also, the name of a town in Cornwall, its ancient name being Breanick, and on the southern-most of the Scilly Islands off the west coast of Cornwall; the remains of Saint Agnes’ Well is to be found in the village and many stories are recorded of the miraculous cures accorded from its water. In 1856, Saint Albans was advertised as ‘portion of Mr Oscar Lines’ estate, frontages to the Reedbeds and main roads… laid out into 4-acre blocks; rich in soil and pure in water [and] intersected by two main roads…’ Oscar John Lines was a farmer and publican, whose address was given as ‘The Reedbeds’. He arrived in Adelaide in 1837. The exact location of this suburb has not been ascertained, but the Reedbeds related, generally, to what is now the Fulham area and extending north towards Port Adelaide and East as far as modern-day Lockleys. In 1886, it was said that ‘no article on the St Albans Stud Farm would [have been] complete without a few remarks on the career of Mr James Wilson, the founder and the most successful trainer Australia has ever known’: Early in the 1860s, Mr Wilson was principally known in connection with Musidors and Ebor. In those days the annual meetings in Adelaide were amongst the most important fixtures of the year and both those horses ran on the Thebarton racecourse… [See Grey] Cape Saint Albans, on Kangaroo Island, was named by Captain Thomas Lipson in March 1850 after a town in Hertfordshire that honours an eminent citizen who suffered martyrdom; to commemorate his name a monastery for 100 Benedictine Monks was erected in 793 AD. In 1907, it was reported that ‘a few weeks ago when an attempt was made to put down trial bores on Yatala Shoal, in Backstairs Passage, in order to determine whether an unattended beacon light could be fixed there, it was found that the boring apparatus was not strong enough’: What Captain Preston and other masters of mail steamers asked for was a light of some description on Cape St Albans so that navigators would have the three lights - Jervis, St Albans and Willoughby - to steer by in passing the treacherous points of the passage… Happily, there appears to be some probability now of the St Albans scheme being given effect to at little expense. An enterprising settler has taken up the land [nearby] and offered to look after the light on the cape at a small weekly remuneration… A photograph of the light is in the Chronicle, 27 March 1909, page 31. Saint Albyns was the name proposed for a subdivision in the Findon area, but refused approval on 17 April 1925. No reason was given but it may have been because of the existence of the ‘unofficial’ subdivision of ‘Saint Albans’ in the immediate vicinity. In 1925, the name Saint Andrews was given to a portion of the Boolcoomatta run, North-West of Cockburn, in honour of Andrew Smith, manager of the Mutooroo Pastoral Co, the father of the pioneer aviators, Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith. Saint Andrews Park was a subdivision of part section 4, Hundred of Lincoln, by F.E. Clegg in 1928; now included in Port Lincoln. Saint Andrew has been the patron Saint of Scotland since about the middle of the 8th century. The dedication is due to supposed relics of Saint Andrew that gave the church its importance. The See of Scotland was, originally, called Mccross - ‘the boar’s head’. Saint Annes was a 1922 subdivision of part sections 211-12, Hundred of Noarlunga, by Joseph E. Harris; now included in Somerton Park. Saint Anne was the mother of the Virgin Mary. Saint Bernards was an 1882 subdivision of part section 292, Hundred of Adelaide, by James R. Dobson; now included in Rostrevor. (See Twyford) Apparently, the name was applied to the area at an earlier date for, in 1848, an advertisement recited: ‘For Sale, an acre of garden ground at Saint Bernards, near Makgill [sic]…’ Earlier, in 1841, William Malpas subdivided part of section 292 and, no doubt, this was the genesis of the ‘official’ Saint Bernards, in 1882. Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, was one of the most illustrious preachers of the Middle Ages and, about 960 AD, founded Hospices near the summit of Alpine Passes for the recreation of pilgrims. Saint Blazey was a subdivision of section 73, Hundred of Kooringa, by Richard Goldsworthy (ca.1809-1866), an innkeeper at Copperhouse, circa 1859. The name comes from Cornwall. Saint Cecelia Creek got its name because on 22 November 1870 Christopher Giles of the Telegraph Department, during the construction of the overland line, camped there on St Cecelia’s Day.