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List of Recorded Deaths & Burials of Farina Residents 1879 - 1939
SURNAME CHRISTIAN NAME/S DIED AGE
The Sticker Company1300 65 22 30
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BonythonBoxerBraddockBrallaBrallaBrennanBrennanBrennanBroughtonBrownBrownBrumbyBundrenBurgessBurgoyneBurgoyneCaldwellCaldwellCalfCampbellCampbellCarnCarrollCarstleCaulfieldChapmanChapmanChapmanClinesCobiacCockingCollinsComanCorbetCoventryCowanCraigCraigCraigDarbyDashwoodDaviesDawesDoigDonnellyDraperDraperDraperDraperDuncanDunnDunnEnglishFarrFielder Or FieldingFinnFinnFinnFinnFinnFinnFitzgeraldFitzgeraldFitzgeraldFlanniganFraserFreemanFrostGillGillardGordonGrayGreenGregoryHamiltonHarrisHartigHealey or HealyHenwoodHenwoodHisgroveHisgroveHokinHowardHowardHueyHumphreysHumphreysIrwin
JonesJohnsonJohnstoneJohnstoneJohnstoneJonsonJoyceKennyKillmartinKiteKiteKiteKiteKnight
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Annie MaryAnnie Mary MaudArthur ChesterDollyThomas Alfred WalterJohn Robert
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Mervin HenryRobertRobert HenryHarryAda MabelDanielThomas FrancisCharlotte MyrtleGeorgeMatildaStephenMillicent
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List of Recorded Deaths & Burials of Farina Residents 1879 - 1939
SURNAME CHRISTIAN NAME/S DIED AGE
The Sticker Company1300 65 22 30
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EARLY ARRIVALS
WILLIAM & FRANCES HUMPHREYS with their daughter Sarah arrived to take charge of the wells in the area in early March 1876.William cut and carted the survey pegs. William died in 1879 and Frances died in 1884. Both are buried in Farina cemetery.
POLICE OFFICER CAMPBELL & STORE KEEPER EDWARD BRADDOCK, Both lived side by side in tents on the first site surveyedon the stoney hill near the present War Memorial.
HENRY McCONVILLE was one of the largest land speculators in the north of South Australia. He bought 17 town blocks andlaid the foundation stone of the Telegraph Office in 1878. He was the largest land holder in Farina.
JENNIE DIXON (nee McCONVILLE) was the publican at the Transcontinental Hotel between 1900 and 1904. She was a niece ofHenry McConville and a well respected and liked resident of Farina.
ROBERT AND REBECCA MOFFATT. Robert migrated to South Australia sometime between 1861 and 1870.Rebecca Creek migrated in 1852. Robert and Rebecca were married in Adelaide in January 1871. Within4 years of their marriage, the Moffatts moved to the outback where Robert worked as a blacksmith ona number of stations and mines. Six of their children were born on stations near Farina, four at MountLyndhurst, two at Mount Nor’West, and the last in 1892 after they moved to Farina. Robert died in 1906.Rebecca died in 1922. They are both buried in the Farina cemetery, Roberts headstone is still standing,but Rebecca’s has not survived.
LUCY FINN AND REBECCA MOFFATT acted as town midwives for several years, in the absence of a resident doctor.
NATHANIEL (NAT) FINN was born at Pichi Richi Pass in 1870. He moved to Farina with hisfather William Thomas George Finn and mother Jane, with his brothers William and James,and sister Lucinda in 1885. Nat married Lucy Evans in 1896. He purchased a house in Farinawith his brother in 1889. He worked around Farina as a labourer, dam sinker, fencer,checking the dog fence and as a camel trainer. Nat and Lucy had seven daughters. They alleventually married and moved south. Their daughter, Dorothy (Dolly) left in 1944, and wasthe last Finn to leave Farina. The remains of their family home in the town area are markedby a square water tank painted with the daughters’ names. Nat is buried in the Farinacemetery. His grave is marked with an iron cross. The earliest marked graves in thecemetery are those of the Finn children between 1885 and 1889.
Farina was established on a government well on Witchelina Creek, a tributary of Leigh Creek, near a line of gum trees whichgave rise to its original name “Government Gums”. The town was surveyed in 1876 and a town plan prepared. Those whosettled here endured many hardships in a harsh environment.
NAT FINN PREPARING TO PATROL THE DOG FENCEBill Collins
ROBERT MOFFATT
The Sticker Company1300 65 22 30
THE AFGHANS
GOOL MAHOMET AND MIRIAM BEBE. Gool Mahomet was the highly respected leader of the Afghan community at Farina. Hearrived in Fremantle in 1897 from a village near Kabaul. He spent his early years in Australia working for Afghan cameleers carrying supplies from Marree up the Birdsville track. Gool married a French woman, Desiree Ernestine Adrienne Lesire (known as Adrienne), in the Coolgardie mosque and gave her the Islamic name Miriam Bebe. Gool, Miriam and their children then worked in outback South Australia and New South Wales for several years, often with their camel train. They reached Farina in about 1923/24 where thay established a home. Gool obtained a contract carrying stores from Marree, Farina and Lyndhurst up the Strzelecki Track, and wool on the return journey. In 1935, he leased Mulgaria Station to the Southwest of Farina, and turned it into a sheep and cattle station. Miriam died in 1939, and is buried in the Afghan section of the Farina cemetery. Gool died in Adelaide in 1950.Gool Mahomet and wife Adrienne.
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The Sticker Company1300 65 22 30
STORE KEEPERS
EDWARD THOMPSON BRADDOCK arrived in South Australia from England in 1852. After various business ventures, hewent to Farina in 1878 to establish a store there. Everything had to be brought to Farina by horse, camel or wagonfrom Port Augusta, a trip which could take 6 months. Edward died at Farina in January 1880. After his death, his wifeAnn and son continued with the store for several years. He is buried in the Farina Cemetery.
JOHN WEST MANFIELD developed a chain of stores in the far north of South Australia between 1885 and 1891.The Farina Store was the headquarters and the depot for supplying the Strzelecki Track and construction work on thenorth-south railway.
FRED BUDGE worked for Manfield and married his daughter Lillian. He took over the ownership of the store in 1916.
JACK AND EVA BELL. Jack and his brother Richard, bought out Manfield’s store and it became Bell Brothers. In the1930’s the store became the centre of the town. Eva Bell came to Farina in 1910 as the school teacher while Jack ranthe store. She always maintained the social standards and was referred to by the locals as “the Lady”. Mrs Bell was theOrganist at the Anglican Church and Secretary of the Bush Nursing Hospital. She was awarded the MBE in 1980 forher services to the under privileged. Mr and Mrs Bell lost two of their sons in the Second World War. They arecommemorated at the War Memorial above the camp ground.
TOWNSPEOPLE
CECILIA CATHERINE MORRIS came to Farina to keep house for her brother George. She taught music and painting tomany of the local girls and played for local dances. Cecilia also ran a “Temperance” boarding house in the town. Ceciliadied in 1916.
THE WILLS FAMILY. John Germein Wills and his wife Janet were, at various times,mail contractors, store keepers, carriers and hotel keepers. John was the licenseeof the Transcontinental Hotel, at Farina, at the time of his death in 1909. Previouslyhe had been a mail contractor on the Farina - Innamincka line. After his death, Janetcontinued in the business and was the licensee of the Transcontinental in 1909.Their son, Frederick Germein Wills was also licensee between June 1917 and August1918. Frederick married Bessie Parsons in the All Saints Church of England at Farinain 1909. Two of their ten children were born at Farina. One of them John Nunan Willswas a station hand at Farina and a marksman member of the Farina Rifle Club.John Germein Wills was buried in the Farina cemetery.
THE PATTERSON FAMILY. J.G. ‘Gordie” Patterson took up the Farina Station in the 1920’s. He and his wife Gwen, firstlived in a corrugated iron house next to the Transcontinental Hotel before moving across the road. Their three childrenJohn, Margaret and Phillip attended the Farina school.Gordie was a bush mechanic, and as well as running Farina Station, he was the town barber. He also ran a meat andchaff store. After slaughtering, the meat was stored in the cool of the old underground bakery before being sold orsent up and down the railway.Phillip Patterson with his wife and children, were the last residents with links to the town, to live in Farina.
JOHN GERMEIN WILLS and JANET WILLSWills Family
The Sticker Company1300 65 22 30
St. Brigid’s Church was built in 1897 on land donated by an early landownerJohn West Manfield, at a cost of one hundren and fifty pounds ($300.00).
Its dimensions were 30 feet x 25 feet x 12 feet high (9.1m x 7.6m x 3.7m).The exterior was an iron roof and timber walls.
The church was blessed by the Bishop of Port Augusta, Bishop James Maherin July 1897, and at the time, was the most northerly Catholic Chuch inSouth Australia.
Travelling Jesuit priests from the Clare Valley visited St. Brigid’s to care forthe spiritual lives of the Farina residents.
In 1936, the then Bishop of Port Augusta gave his permission for the churchto be relocated to Murray Town S.A. It was dismantled, and trucked to itsnew site where it continues to be used as a church, until it was farewelledwith a closing mass on the 19th June 1994.
The building was sold at auction on the 24th of June 1994, and relocated toGoolwa Beach where the interior was professionally restored and remodelledfor holiday accommodation. The original interior timbers were retained. Ithas since had another change of use, and in 2010, it was being used as a Real Estate Office.
ST. BRIDGIDS CATHOLIC CHURCH Farina