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The plaque commemorates Caroline Phillippa Augusta Short who was the first person buried in the church grounds in February 1848.

 

Location

Address:St Bernards Road, St George`s Anglican Church, Magill, 5072
State:SA
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -34.907621
Long: 138.675802
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Details

Monument Type:Plaque
Monument Theme:People
Sub-Theme:Community
Actual Event Start Date:16-February-1848
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Actual Event End Date:16-February-1848
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Dedication

Approx. Monument Dedication Date:2007
Front Inscription

To the memory of Caroline Phillippa Augusta Short

The first burial in the churchyard on 16th February 1848, aged 1 year, an infant daughter of Bishop Augustus Short just seven weeks after arriving in South Australia. Extracts from the Bishop`s diary state : "The intense heat at the period of our landing, the thermometer in our bedrooms at Government House at night being 95 degrees, seems to have overpowered her and she gradually grew worse and worse, till it pleased God to take her from us ... she has fallen a martyr to the cause on which we embarked."

St George`s Historical Group 2007

 

Left Side Inscription
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Inscription in Proximity
Source: MA
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