Find and Sign William Armour Traditional Cache
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Find and Sign William Armour
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Venus Bay
It is thought that the bay was named after the two-masted schooner Venus' that traded around the Eyre Peninsula coastline in the mid 1850s.
A far more romantic notion is the bay was named after the Roman goddess of beauty and love. It is the latter version which is promoted by the locals and visitors to the region.
The town was established after a Whaling station was built in the 1820’s, and for twenty years it existed as no more than a shop, hotel and Police Station. The focus of the town soon turned to Agriculture as the area was opened up in the 1840’s.. The township was abandoned by in the 1870’s but was somewhat revitalised in the 1920s when it became a base for a Commercial fishing operation.
In 1862 Venus Bay police request a new stone building as the old Station building was propped up and likely to tumble down.
In 1863 Venus Bay Trooper Gerhardy was dismissed from the service because of his drunkenness and bad language.
In November of 1880 William Armour met his fate at the young age of 40 years and was buried in the sand hills to the SE of the settlement.
Who was this lonely husband who left a loving and bereft wife? If you have any more information let the rest of us know.
ENTERED OCTOBER 2010.
William Armour was born in Glasgow, and claimed to be related to poet Robert Burns. His occupation was listed as confectioner when he married Sarah Ann Matthews on the 10th August 1862 at Port Lincoln, at the residence of the Rev J P Buttfield. William was employed variously as a baker, shepherd, labourer and publican.
William and Sarah moved from Goolwa, where William was employed as a baker, to Point Brown, near Smoky Bay, where he was employed as a shepherd.
Prior to 1874 the family moved to Flinders Island, where William worked as a shepherd for Anton Schlink. Several children were born on Flinders Island. The Armour family left Flinders Island after the birth of their eighth child in 1878, to take over the lease of the Huddesfield Arms Hotel at Venus Bay in 1879.
About twelve months after leasing the hotel at Venus Bay, William died on 24th November 1880, at the age of 40, two months after the birth of the last child. It is thought that William may have had tuberculosis, but a family anecdote states that he was found dead one morning after a party at the hotel.
Sarah took over the lease of the hotel until she sold it to Charles Marsh on the 13th of December 1881.
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