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so long ago JH..a tad of info gleaned from the net

Stockwell is about 80km north east of Adelaide at the base of the Barossa Range east of Nuriootpa. It was founded by English migrant Samuel Stockwell on land bought from George Fife Angas in 1853 (just 2 years before the Nerlich’s arrival). This confirms the fact that the area was at the frontier of settlement in the mid 1850s. Samuel Stockwell sub-divided part of the land he bought into town blocks and offered them for sale on 4 April 1854, just a year before the Nerlichs arrived in SA.

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Interesting from this old post, Stockwell was named after an actual person. I thought it was named after the boring English habit of naming everything after places in the "home country", as there is a Stockwell in the South of London. So it is good it was named after a real person as a "unique" name.

Actually the Barossa is full of unique names, Angaston, named after George Fife Angas, first Chairman of the South Australia Company, and also the gentlemen who loaned funds to many of the German emigrants helping them to transport themselves and buy land in South Australia. All paid back with interest to the Scotsman by the way, so not charity!

Also Nuriootpa and Tanunda, two Aboriginal names. Eden Valley after the Garden of Eden. Lyndoch after Lord Lynedoch. Even Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide.

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