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- Marion 1851; Dennison John 25 Farm Servant - Orkney Mary 24
Also aboard the Marion were; Irvine Thomas 29 Agr. Labourer 814/2 Orkney, Mary (Irvine) 29, Thomas 1, Mary 1 died at sea.
John Strang Dinnison, Birth Year: abt 1826, Age: 79, Death Date: 15 Aug 1905, Death Place: Mount Wedge, Residence Place: Mount Wedge
Registration Place: Flinders, South Australia, Page Number: 167, Volume Number: 313
The Journal Adelaide Saturday 14th Sept 1912, DINNISON.-In loving memory of John, the dearly beloved husband of Mary Dinnison, who died at Strathaar. Mount Wedge, on the 15th August, 1905.
We often sit and think of you.
When we are all alone.
For memory is the only friend.
That grief can call its own.
-inserted by his loving wife and family,
The Register Adelaide Tuesday 29th August 1905, DINNISON.- On the 15th August, at his residence, Strathoar, Mount Wedge, John, the dearly
beloved husband of Mary Dinnison, aged 79 years. A colonist of 54 years.
( 4 sons & 4 daughters ) Observer Adelaide Sat. 3oth Sept 1905 AN OLD BUSH COLONIST. The late Mr. John Dinnison, whose death occurred lately, was born in the Orkneys, (the island of Shapinsay), Scotland. With his wife he arrived in South Australia in 1851 in the ship Marion, which was
wrecked on Troubridge Shoal. Shortly after his arrival in the State he obtained employment from the late Mr. Robert Rankin, of Mount Crawford. Nine months subsequently he went to the Victorian goldfields, but was compelled to return in a few months, suffering from rheumatism. Soon after his recovery he was engaged by the late Mr. A. H. Murray as manager of one of his sheep stations, continuing with him for 13 years. In 1866 he took
charge of Talia Station, on the west coast, for the late Dr. J. H. Browne, where he remained for nine years, when he met with an accident, in which his leg was broken. In this condition he travelled overland from Talia to Port Lincoln-130 miles- thence to Adelaide, where his leg was amputated. On recovery he entered the service, in succession, of his old employer, the late Mr. A. B. Murray, Mr. W. A. Horn, at the Mary Yale Station, on the west
coast, and Messrs. Swan & Smith, of Yalata Station, Fowler's Bay. In 1883 he took up land at Mount Wedge, where he resided till his death. The deceased has left a widow, four sons, and four daughters.
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