Clare. The tomb of Edward Gleeson founder of Clare. In the old Anglican cemetery . The Anglican church was built in 1851 on a state church glebe land grant of 20 acres. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Clare. The tomb of Edward Gleeson founder of Clare. In the old Anglican cemetery . The Anglican church was built in 1851 on a state church glebe land grant of 20 acres. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Edward Gleeson.Edward Burton Gleeson was born in County Clare in 1803 and died in Clare at his home Inchiquin in 1870. As an adult he moved to Calcutta where he held a British government post and where he invested in banks. But the health of his brother was suffering from the tropical climate so with his family and servants he sailed to SA in 1838 on a boat arranged by the Australian Bengal Association which was headed by John Morphett (later Sir John) and Edward Stirling in Adelaide. Not surprisingly he used indentured Indian coolies as labourers on his properties around Adelaide and later at Clare until the late 1840s when he had up to 20 Indians working for him at a time. Most Indians came on a three year indentured contract with their passage paid by Gleeson. Gleeson soon purchased land around Adelaide and by 1840 and had a flock of 7,300 sheep and his land was at Beaumont. At Beaumont Gleeson grew wheat also using Indian coolies as labourers. Gleeson also was one of the first in 1839 to have cattle brought overland from NSW. He sold his land in February 1842 to Sir Samuel Davenport as a bank of which he was a major investor in India had collapsed. Soon after he was depasturing his sheep flocks (or squatting) on land along the Wakefield River but he had also taken out an interest in the Hutt River Special Survey of 1839. The survey did not take place until 1841 when he then took up 500 acres of freehold land at Inchiquin and established his family there in 1842. In 1845 he subdivided some of that land to create the village of Clare which was often a stopping place on the way to the new copper mines at Burra. To advance his village of Clare he encouraged Irish Catholic migration to the Clare Valley especially after the 1848 potato famine. In fact in the early 1850s when the St Patricks Society brought out 5,000 Irish girls to SA to work as servants one of the “handling” stations was based at Clare. Gleeson was an active pastoralist and by the 1850s had leaseholds on 151 square miles or 150,000 acres stretching from what is now Blyth to Snowtown and down towards Balaklava. By the 1860s he had 117 square mile leasehold over land near Lake Torrens in the Far North. Edward Burton Gleeson laid the first stones of the Anglican Church at Clare in 1851 and was later buried in the cemetery there in 1870. He was called Paddy, rather than Edward and he was referred to as the “King of Clare” especially when he became the first Mayor in 1868. He was the first District Council Chairman in 1853. He was the town’s founder, leading citizen, Post Master, Magistrate and supporter of the Clare agricultural show and horse racing. Reputedly gruff and stern he nevertheless exhibited good community spirit by donating an acre of land for the first school. He was also a member of a local consortium of businessmen who purchased land and had the first Town Hall erected in Clare in 1866. The hall was used by the Council and sold to the town council in 1875. |
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