Local History Book Launch: Pioneer Lost! Was he Forgotten? (BL)

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Join us for a host of local history events, including local history author talks and history month.

Join local author, Anne Martin, for the launch of Pioneer Lost! Was he Forgotten? A history of SA/ Rapid Bay/Colonel Light/ Kangaroo Island in 1836 and an historical fiction story about George Mildred (her previously unknown ancestor).The book includes captioned photographs, illustrations, maps and the Mildred family tree ( including Henry Dunstan, once an owner of Stonyfell vineyard and Manager of Quarries at Stonyfell and his business association with the Henry M Martin/Clark families of Burnside) and comprises: <ul><li>Early SA history 1836 with the arrival of the brig Rapid at Antechamber Bay at Kangaroo Island with Colonel Light and his crew. Two members of that crew: George Mildred, shipwright and surveyor and his nephew Hiram Mildred ( Colonel Light’s cabin boy and junior surveyor aged 13, being the youngest person on the ship ). History of the early whaling industry on KI with Henry Richard Mildred (brother of George Mildred), Master shipbuilder, as Manager of the whaling station at Kingscote who was asked by the South Australia Co. to bring out the Fletcher’s Slip to SA and who along with two others first imported Merino sheep ewes from Tasmania to SA. The Honourable Henry Richard Mildred, MP, SM and his son The Honourable Henry Hay Mildred, MP, Lawyer, both represented the seat of East Torrens at the same time. </li><li>Kangaroo Island history: Ancient/ Colonisation which includes the Ayliffe and Hamilton family’s/ Modern times. </li><li>Journey to Kangaroo Island /American River to search for missing ancestor: George Mildred. </li><li>A historical fiction story about the early colonist and pioneer George Mildred who died in 1874 on Kangaroo Island and was interred under a road intersection at American River. The Flinders University Archeology Dept. who discovered x 47 unmarked graves at Reeves Point at Kingscote have told me that they can’t do a dig to find my old uncle George as the ground is “too disturbed”. </li><li>Future research/Index/Appendices/ Reference &amp; Bibliography </li></ul>A limited number of copies of Pioneer Lost! Was he Forgotten? will be available to purchase at a special launch-day price of $40 (cash only)Afternoon tea provided.Bookings Essential.

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