Mannum. St Martins Lutheran Church built in 1935. It replaced an earlier church built on this site in 1882. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mannum. St Martins Lutheran Church built in 1935. It replaced an earlier church built on this site in 1882. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Few families had such an important impact on the history of the South Australian colony as did the Randell family. The father was a successful flour miller and his son William Richard Randell was the paddle steamer builder, river boat captain and river trader. The father settled in Gumeracha and became its leading citizen and the son established his career in Mannum but then retired back to the family estate of Kenton Park in Gumeracha just before his father’s death. They contributed to the Baptist Church in SA and the state parliament apart from their business interests. The Randell family developed a family logo which encapsulates the varied interests of the family. It has English Oaks which were planted at Kenton Park and in Gumeracha, a paddle wheel representing the river navigation company (and the river race of 1853), and a stone flour mill and chimney which represented the family milling businesses. Their heritage lives on in both Gumeracha and Mannum 186 years after William Beavis Randell arrived in Gumeracha. Below as a small family history chart as their names become confusing William Beavis Randell 1799-1876. Married Mary Ann Elliott ( Bear) 1823. 10 children. Married Phoebe Robbins 1876. 1 child. Established Gumeracha, Kenton Park, flour mill. Buried Salem cemetery.Their eldest son William Richard Randell. 1823 – 1911. Married Elizabeth Nichols 1853. 15 children.Established Mannum, Mary Jane paddle steamer, flour miller. Buried Salem. Their eldest living son William Beavis Randell 1856 – 1917. Married Hannah Finlayson 1880. 12 children.Established dairy factory in mill, potato farmer, at Kenton Park. Buried Salem.Their eldest living son William Beavis Randell 1886 – 1946. Married Mary Lander 1916. 3 children. William Richard Randell. William Richard Randell was born in 1824 and lived until 1911. With his parents he arrived at Glenelg in 1837. He was born in Devon. On the banks of the Murray on his father’s land he dreamt of having the first paddle steamer on the River Murray. In 1852 with the gold rushes sweeping Victoria he determined to do it and set about construction a paddle steamer. After it was built the big race between “Captain” Randell of Mannum and Captain Francis Cadell of Goolwa transpired in August 1853 to see who could steam up the River Murray to the junction with the Darling River. Before then William Randell with his brothers Elliott and Thomas Randell and some carpenters (Wiese, Teakle and Bond) set about cutting timber for the hull in Gumeracha and then they carted it in bullock drays to the River Murray where Mannum now stands. A local blacksmith John Coulls of Blyth Street Adelaide made the boiler and the engine was built in Adelaide by a German engineer Claus Gehlken. The hull was 17 metres (56 feet) long and the boat was completed in February 1853 and named the Mary Ann after his mother. Captain Cadell of Goolwa named his first paddle steamer the Lady Augusta after Lady August Fox Young the wife of the South Australian Governor. The Lady Augusta was made in Sydney and sailed to Goolwa. Unlike American paddle boats Randell’s Mary Ann was a side wheeler. It cost William Randell about £1,800 - a large sum for those days. Both paddle steamers arrived in Swan Hill on 14th September with the Lady Augusta arriving first by three hours. Cadell got the prize money from the government for winning the race. But William Randell went much further up the River Murray to Echuca. In 1854 after the voyage to Echuca William Randell built a second hull and attached it to make a strange two hulled vessel which he renamed the Gemini. This was the start of William Randell’s successful river boat company carrying supplies to the gold towns and the sheep stations along NSW and Victorian rivers. All that remains of the historic Mary Ann these days is the old boiler which is located in the Randell Reserve Mannum. It was left on the shores of the River Murray for decades from the mid 1850s and just after William Richard Randell’s death it was given back to the town of Mannum for display purposes in 1912. Randell had given the boiler to the SA Chambers of Manufactures in 1909. William married Elizabeth Nichols in 1853 in Gumeracha. He eventually moved into Bleak House at Mannum now known as Randell House. At the bottom of the garden of this grand residence is one remaining wall of the two room cottage which he built in Mannum in the mid-1850s. The grand two storey limestone residence with red brick quoins faces McLaren Street but is hidden by trees and an impressive stone wall sand extensive gardens. It is above Randell’s old wool store which the first was building erected in Mannum in 1854. Randell house, however was built in 1868. As Randell’s trade along the Murray, the Murrumbidgee and the Darling increased Randell gave up four milling for shipping and warehousing. He moved to Wentworth in NSW and became a JP there in 1861. He returned to permanently live in Mannum in 1869 once Randell House was completed and in that same year he sailed a dry dock up from Goolwa and installed it where the Mannum Museum is now located. Around the time that his mother died at Kenton Park and in 1874 William Richard Randell and his family returned to live at Kenton Park in Gumeracha. His father died there in 1876. In 1893 he became the chairman of the Gumeracha Butter factory which operated in the former flour mill. In that same year 1893 he replaced John Barton Hack as the member the seat of Gumeracha in the Legislative Assembly which Randell held until 1899. The Butter Factory manager bought the business, but probably not the building in 1906. Unfortunately a fire destroyed part of the mill in 1912 and only part of it was rebuilt. Part was still used by the butter factory and part became a slaughter house for a butcher. In the 1920s the building became an AMSCOL milk depot. William Richard Randell died in 1911 just four years before work began on Lock One at Blanchetown which was named after him. He maintained his river businesses after the move back to Kenton Park and during his life he owned and ran 16 paddle steamers along the Darling and Murray Rivers. His progeny numbered fifteen and his eldest born living son William Beavis Randell moved into Kenton Park. Sadly he died there just a few years later in 1916. He ran the Kenton Park property as a dairy, potato and grain farm. Kenton Park stayed in the Randell family for some time after this as the child born of Phoebe Robbins( John Beavis Randell) , the second wife, purchased it in the late 1920s. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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