Manning, William Thomas

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Type of person	Individual
Date of birth	1847
Place of birth	Adelaide, SA
Date of arrival	1875
Principal occupation	Storekeeper
Date of departure	1890
Date of death	1925
Place of decease	Unley, SA

William Thomas Manning was born in Adelaide on 21 March 1847. He was the son of Thomas Manning (1813-1896) and Sarah Brown (1815-1888).

William, aged 26 years, married Catherine Jane Wheaton (1852-1935), aged 21 years, on 26 May 1873 at the residence of Mrs. Ann Wheaton at Plympton, SA. They had twelve children:

Florence Emily (1874-1970) b. at Adelaide, m. Richard Arthur Morphett (1873-1938) on 25 Dec 1900 at the residence of W.T. Manning, Plympton, they had four children, d. at Burnside, SA.

Albert Wheaton (1875-1956) b. at Sellick’s Hill, m. Emily Elizabeth Lightfoot (1880-1940), they had five children, d. at Subiaco, WA.

William Horace (1877-1949) b. at Aldinga, m. Isabella Anderson (1887-1948) on 23 Sept 1908 in New Zealand, they had six children, d. at Ashburton, NZ.

Edwin Ross (1879-1967) b. at Willunga, m. Ethel Mercy Ransley (1880-1960) on 3 April 1902 at Adelaide, they had six children, d. at Adelaide.

Elizabeth Rose (1881-1942) b. at Aldinga, m. Samuel Herbert Goldsworthy (1877-1956) on 28 June 1905 at the residence of W.T. Manning, Plympton, d. in South Australia.

Harry Phillip (1883-1952) b. at Kingston, Surry, England, m. Phllis Bromley (1883-1969), they had three children, d. in South Australia

Thomas James (1885-1889) b. & d. at Aldinga, died as a child.

Percy John (1886-1889) b. & d. at Aldinga, died as a child.

Barton Wilfred (1888-1971) b. at Aldinga, m. Melesina Irvena Majorie Harper (1894-1981), he was a minister of religion and they lived in Queensland,

Linda Muriel (1891-1996) b. at Plympton, m. Herbert Artor Schache (1888- ) at Church of Christ in Unley, d. at Brisbane, Qld.

Vera Constance (1894-1983) b. at Plympton, m. Alfred Beamont Chappell (1887-1956) on 12 Oct 1916, d.at Murchison, WA.

Alice Winifred (1898-1900) b. & d. at Plympton, died as a child.

William Manning was a storekeeper at Sellick’s Hill and Aldinga for about fifteen years from 1875 until 1890. On 1 April 1875 he took a five-year lease on a block of land (part of section 668) at Sellick’s Hill from James Murray, storekeeper of Sellick’s Hill. He renewed this lease for another five years on 1 Aug 1880 (CT 172/123). Also in August 1875 William leased a block of land (part of section 400) in Aldinga from James Murray (CT 80/244), which he extended until August 1890. From 1875 to 1880, William was operating in a partnership with Samuel Manning, who were jointly described as “storekeepers at Aldinga and Sellick's Hill and this partnership was dissolved in April 1880. James Murray died in 1889 and the new owners leased the land to Winifred Fidge in 1890. It is assumed that William and his family left Aldinga at about this time as by October 1891 (the birth of daughter Linda) they had moved to Plympton, SA.

William was an auditor for the Aldinga District Council elections in 1888.

William Thomas Manning died at Unley on 6 May 1925 and was buried at the Mitcham General Cemetery.

Sources

• South Australian Births – Index of Registrations 1842-1906
• South Australian Marriages – Index of Registrations 1842-1937
• South Australian Deaths – Index of Registrations 1842-1972
• SA Directories – Aldinga 1883-1889
• SAILIS 1873-1878 M 95 CT 172/123 & CT 80/244
• The Express and Telegraph 8 Dec 1875:2
• Evening Journal 16 Aug 1880:3
• The South Australian Advertiser 6 July 1888:6

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