Marshall, Thomas (senior)

**Fast Facts**
Type of person	Individual
Date of birth	c. 1811
Date of arrival	1839
Principal occupation	Land-owner and farmer
Date of death	1880
Place of decease	Willunga, South Australia.

Thomas Marshall was born in 1811 in Waddingham, Lincolnshire, England and he was the son of John Marshall ((1758-1819) and Mary Anne (nee Graves) (1771-1859). He was resident at Willunga for nearly forty years (from at least 1841 to his death in 1880). Religion – Wesleyan Methodist (Uniting Church).

Thomas Marshall, aged 28 years, travelled to South Australia travelled to South Australia on board Singapore from London and arrived at Holdfast Bay on 12 November 1839. Also aboard were the Atkinson family who were also from Waddingham in Lincolnshire. At the time of the 1841 Census (March 1841) Thomas was staying at the Lincolnshire Inn in Willunga then operated by the Atkinson family.

Thomas Marshall, aged about 30 years, married Honor Williams (1815-1873), then aged about 26 years, on 2 Dec 1841 at Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide. Thomas and Honor Marshall had ten children (5 boys and 5 girls; their youngest two were twins):

John (1842-1932) b. at Willunga, m. Eliza James (1843-1919) at Willunga on 3 Nov 1863 They moved to Merriton on the River Broughton in 1873 and he is buried at Crystal Brook

Honor (1843-1916) b. at Willunga, m. William Henry Binney (1841-1909) on 16 Oct 1862 at the Wesleyan Chapel at Willunga, they also moved to the Crystal Brook area

William (1845-1881) b. at Willunga, m. (1st) Mary Nicholas Clement(s) in 1865 (2nd) Isabella Patterson in 1877

Mary (1846-1915) b. at Willunga, m. Almond Sara in 1869 at residence of Mr. Thomas Marshall at Willunga,

Sarah (1848- ) b. at Willunga, m. James Binney junior (1848- ) on 2 June 1881

Thomas (1849-1909) b. at Willunga, m. Susanna Ann Atkinson (1851–1932) at Willunga on 10 Aug 1875 farmer at Willunga, Merriton and later Napperby

Peter (1851-1932) b. at Willunga, m. Mary Finley Graham at Goolwa on 03 Aug 1881, farmer at Bordertown

Ann (1853-1923) b. at Willunga, m. Thomas Martin in 1881 at Res. of Thomas Marshall in Willunga

Andrew (1857-1931) b. at Willunga, m. (1st) Sarah Ann Milne ( -1891) on 5 Sept 1883, (2nd) Clara Eliza Broadbent in 1900, farmer at Bordertown

Eliza (1857-1933) b. at Willunga, m. Edward William Milne (1861-1912) at Willunga

Thomas Marshall (senior)’s last three children - Andrew, Ann and Eliza were baptized in the Willunga Wesleyan Methodist Church between 1853 and 1857.

Thomas Marshall was a land-owner and farmer. Thomas Marshal held a timber license in 1843 and an occupation license in 1844. He was a rate payer on a number of rural sections (including sections 306, 440, 441, 769, 770 & 771) through from the 1850s until his death in 1880. He sat on a special jury of the Supreme Court in 1855 and was a regular competitor (mainly as an owner with his oldest son John as ploughman) at the McLaren Vale and Willunga ploughing matches from the mid-1850s. Through the 1860s and into the 1870s he was a district councilor for Willunga.

Honor Marshall died, aged 58 years, on 26 April 1873 and was buried in grave 144 in the Uniting Church Cemetery at Willunga. Thomas Marshall (senior) died 12 March 1880 aged 69 years having lived at Willunga for nearly 40 years. He is buried in grave 145 at the Willunga Uniting (Wesleyan Methodist) Church Cemetery.