Archibald ANDERSON [4790]

  General Notes:

The Advertiser, Tuesday 17 April 1917, page 6
ANDERSON, Archibald died 12 Apr 1917
A well-known resident of the lower Peninsula, Mr. Archibald Anderson, of Wool Bay, died on Thursday from blood poisoning, resulting from a fish-hook in his hand. Mr. Anderson was born at sea on board the ship Surrey in 1838, and he had been a farmer all his life, first at Yankalilla. He went to Wool Bay in 1872. He took an active interest in the welfare of the district, and was a member of the Dalrymple District Council for 13 years. He was an enthusiastic amateur fisherman, and he caught tons of schnapper and whiting during his residence at Wool Bay. The surviving members of the family are:- Mesdames F. Anderson, of Stansbury; Dafty, of Nhill; and A.G. Daniells, of Wool Bay; and Messrs. W. A. Anderson, of Gilgandra, N.S.W.; A. J. Anderson, of Gladstone; and E. J. Anderson, of Curramulka.
Headstone Stansbury Cemetery

Archibald married Ann DUFTY [4821] [MRIN: 1568] on 11 Apr 1860 in Res Wm Heggarton, Bald Hill, nr Yankalilla. (Ann DUFTY [4821] was born in 1841 and died on 23 Jul 1913 in Wool Bay, South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1860 SA Marriages Encounter Bay 42/297