September – John Ridley builds his invention, a corn stripper-harvester, in Hindmarsh.
Born in Hindmarsh, Adelaide, Davies competed in sidecar racing with his brother in Australia, and then in scrambling, in which became a close friend of John Boulger, who later encouraged him to travel to England to try to establish himself as a speedway rider.
The Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh was originally laid out as a speculative subdivision, the Village of Hindmarsh, on land owned by him.
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A grandson Alfred Hindmarsh was an MP and early Labour politician in New Zealand.
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The Division of Hindmarsh federal electorate takes in the area near the proclamation site.
He married Elizabeth Verco on 13 March 1848, first living at Noarlunga, then moving to Hindmarsh in 1849 where, with his brother James, he had bought the Hindmarsh flour-mill from John Ridley.
His operation was hugely successful and in 1896 he was forced to move to Hindmarsh near Adelaide.
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Hindmarsh was also the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until its abolition in 1857, Robert Davenport, then John Rankine being the members.
When Anglo-European Caucasian settlers first arrived in 1836 at Holdfast Bay (now Glenelg), the land was considered in the 1834 South Australia Act passed by the British Parliament and by Governor Hindmarsh as Commander in chief in his Proclamation of 1836, to be a barren wasteland.