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Thomas ALLEN ( - 1868)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Sarah Matilda ALLEN ( - 1862)	Thomas ALLEN ( - 1868) + Sarah WEAVER (1792 - 1856)

+. Sarah WEAVER (1792 - 1856)

d. 1868 at Dunedin, New Zealand

Near Relatives of Thomas ALLEN ( - 1868)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Mother in Law	Susan WINMILL
Self	Thomas ALLEN			1868	Dunedin, New Zealand
Spouse/Partner	Sarah WEAVER	1792		1856	Victoria, Australia	64
Daughter	Sarah Matilda ALLEN			1862	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Son in Law	Charles Willliam STUART			1891	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Granddaughter	Letitia Elizabeth STUART	1857	Victoria, Australia	1952	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	95

Events in Thomas ALLEN ( - 1868)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1856		Death of wife Sarah WEAVER (aged 64)	Victoria, Australia	Note 1	52, 60
1862		Death of daughter Sarah Matilda ALLEN	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia		52, 60
1868		Thomas ALLEN died	Dunedin, New Zealand	Note 2

Note 1: Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 Name Sarah Allen Birth Year 1792 Age 64 Death Place Victoria Father's Name Weaver Mother's Name Susan Winmill Registration Year 1856 Registration Place Victoria Registration Number 2414 South Australian Register (Adelaide) 30 May 1856 DIED. On the 1st May, at Sandridge, near Melbourne, in the 64th year of her age, of apoplexy, Sarah, wife of Mr. Thomas Allen, botanical gardener, late of this city. Deceased was one of the earliest colonists, having arrived here on the 4th December, 1836.

Note 2: Death 27 Apr 1868 • Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand Thomas Allen died 27 April 1868 at the residence of his daughter, Mrs Muir, Bedford House, Dunedin, buried 29 April 1868 Southern Cemetery, Dunedin Block 6P. Plot 37, born Edmonton, Middlesex, England botanist/photographer aged 80 or 82 years.

Personal Notes:

from death reg of dau https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/gardens From the outset The foundations of gardening were established before settlement when horticulturist Thomas Allen & Sons advertised in the first edition of the South Australian Gazette & Colonial Register in June 1836. In the initial years George Stevenson, the ‘father of horticulture’ in South Australia (as claimed in his obituaries) wrote for the Register and practised what he preached at his North Adelaide and Leawood Garden properties. However, little money was spent on gardens and horticulture until some degree of land and employment security was obtained. The Adelaide community also unsuccessfully sponsored a botanic garden under the auspices of colonial botanist John Bailey on the banks of the River Torrens in 1839. In prosperous years between 1840 and 1890 many South Australian families established gardens around their homes. Wealthy Adelaideans developed extensive private gardens in the Adelaide Hills, collecting, propagating and displaying curiosities and the latest plants from Asia and Europe. Garden styles shifted from pragmatic utilitarian and cottage garden principles to Victorian and Gardenesque styles as owners’ incomes and allotment sizes increased, and as gardens were established in the acidic soils and cool temperatures of the Adelaide Hills. https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/notable-locations/adelaides-first-commercial-garden-where-exactly-was-it/ South Australia’s first commercial nursery was established by Thomas Allen, a botanist and gardener employed by King William IV to design and plant St James’s and Regent’s Parks in London. The garden existed between 1837 and 1840, however we cannot say with complete certainty where the garden was exactly. The garden was first thought to have been established roughly where the new Royal Adelaide Hospital is now located and a plaque was installed there in 1983 to recognise the location. Subsequent research indicated the garden formed part of the original Governor’s Garden, which sat in what is now Elder Park near where the rotunda is located. The Governor’s Garden primarily serviced Government House. Recent research however indicates that Allen’s Garden was located on the site Colonel Light (in his plan for Adelaide) allocated to the Botanic Gardens (nowhere near the current Botanic Gardens), in present day Bonython Park. According to a description in 1838 by James Chittleborough, an early settler, Allen’s garden was the only piece of ground in the colony that was cultivated and pleasant to roam through, with “its cucumber and melon beds, and solace from the glare and dust of Currie and Hindley Streets”. It is described as being a low, swampy piece of land that had formerly been flooded, and was capable of “producing astonishing crops of both English and Colonial vegetables”.

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