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Gibson Family

c. 1902, Photograph, B 52781

Gibson Family of Bool Lagoon.

Joseph Gilbert

c. 1860, Photograph, B 21469

Joseph Gilbert.

Thomas Gilbert

Government Photolithographer (S.A.), c. 1865, Photograph, B 453

Thomas Gilbert, first Colonial Storekeeper.

Thomas Gilbert, first Colonial Storekeeper. He arrived in South Australia from England on board the Cygnet in 1836. He was a pioneer responsible for all government stores which included pioneering equipment, rations, hardware, clothing. His store and residence was built on the northern side of the Torrens, adjacent to the Iron Store. He ran the first post office from his residence. The buildings were the first European structures built on the Adelaide Plains.

Alfred Giles

1923, Photograph, B 2021

Alfred Giles, explorer and pastoralist. He was appointed second in command of John Ross's 1870 advance expedition to fix a course for the Overland Telegraph Line. In 1879-80, he overlanded several thousand head of sheep and cattle from Adelaide, to establish the Springvale cattle station near Katherine.

Edgar William Giles

Hammer & Co., 1920, Photograph, B 5192

Edgar William Giles July 1, 1920. Born at Staughton, near Kanmantoo on October 5, 1851. Son of William Giles, who was the eldest son of William Giles, the Manager of the South Australian Company. He entered the Civil Service on March 16, 1874. Commissioner of Audit, February 1, 1912. Retired Sept. 30, 1923. He is wearing an embroidered levee dress uniform with bicorn hat and ceremonial sword to which he was entitled as a high level civil servant, following the British court tradition.

Ernest Giles

c. 1885, Photograph, B 7546

Ernest Giles, explorer was born in England and followed his family to Adelaide in 1850. He led an expedition to Central Australia west of the new overland telegraph line. He also led an exploration to Western Australia in 1875 via the Great Western Desert . He performed a return trip thus completing a double crossing of the western half of the Australian continent. He is remembered by his journals which show his powers of observation.

Ernest Giles

c. 1880, Photograph, B 8501

Ernest Giles arrived in Australia in 1850 and after a stint working in the Victorian Goldfields he explored the North West of the Darling River. He made five expeditions into the Centre of Australia and is remembered as a man of remarkable strength of character.

Captain Gilfillan

c. 1865, Photograph, B 45263

Captain Gilfillan.

Samuel Thomas Gill

c. 1920, Photograph, B 9389

Samuel Thomas Gill renown artist and photographer recording Australian scenes and events. In 1849 he famously produced lithographic sketches of twelve South Australian colonists called "Heads of People". Sadly he died penniless in Melbourne in 1880. The photograph shows a rubbing of the carving saying " Samuel Thomas Gill 1818-1880 Delineator of scenes and events in South Australia 1839-1851. Member of Horrocks Exploring Expedition 1846".

Francis James Gillen

c. 1900, Photograph, B 38781

Francis James Gillen.

Lewis William Gilles

c. 1884, Photograph, B 6982

Lewis William Gilles, in his later years and possibly taken in Victoria. He arrived in Tasmania at the age of 27 in 1823, where he was the manager of Archer, Gilles and Company Bank established in Launceston in 1840. It was absorbed and merged to become ANZ Bank Ltd. Mr LW Gilles began life as a naval officer, and moved to Tasmania to establish the Tamar Bank. He came to Adelaide in 1844. He and his family moved to assist his older brother Osmond Gilles, who was a Colonial Treasurer, with managing the lead and silver mine at Glen Osmond Mine. He held positions in the Victorian public service stationed briefly in Hepburn (Srings?) and zpproximately 14 years as a magistrate in Warrnambool. He retired from there at the age of 69 in 1866. Osmond Gilles died that year, and he resided at the family property 'Woodley' in Glen Osmond until he died in 1884.

Osmond Gilles

Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1849, Artwork, B 347

Osmond Gilles. A drawing from S.T.Gill's "Heads of the People". Artist's caption reads Nothing like O.G.'

Osmond Gilles

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1865, Photograph, B 11176

Osmond Gilles was a settler, pastoralist, mine owner and South Australia's first colonial treasurer. He migrated to South Australia in 1836 as a widower onboard the "Buffalo". He had the largest land holdings of any settler in 1837

Gilmour Family

1903, Photograph, B 16051

Mr and Mrs Gilmour with Reg (4 years and 10 months), Edith (2 years and 7 months) and Jessie (5 and a half months) The story of John Erskine Miller Gilmour (1862-1914) is told in Maria Harding's book 'Onward Ever Backward Never - the Life of Elsie and Erskine Gilmour' by Maria Harding and touches on their hardship.

George Gladstanes

c. 1910, Photograph, B 16597

George Gladstanes.

George Gladstanes

c. 1856, Photograph, B 16757

George Gladstanes.

Edward Burton Gleeson

c. 1865, Photograph, B 29501

Edward Burton Gleeson.

George Glen

c. 1890, Photograph, B 10822

George Glen seated in a wheelchair. He managed the sheep run Mayurra Station in the south east of South Australia, the site of the future town of Millicent. Millicent was named after Millicent Glen (nee Short) wife of George Glen. Samuel Davenport established Mayurra sheep run which was later managed by George Glen.

Mrs Millicent Glen

c. 1870, Photograph, B 10823

Mrs Millicent Sophia Glen (nee Short) after whom the town of Millicent was named. Millicent was the daughter of the first Anglican Archbishop Augustus Short. Millicent and George Glen managed Mayurra in the south east of South Australia. Mayurra Station was an immense sheep run before the town was surveyed in 1870. Samuel Davenport established Mayurra sheep run which was later managed by George Glen. Millient lived until she was ninety four and remembered Adelaide from its first days of colonisation.

Charles John Glover

c. 1960, Photograph, B 15064

Charles John Glover was a company director and Lord Mayor of Adelaide 1960-1963.Tthe photograph shows Mr Glover opening Adelaide Motors Limited new showroom in Pirie Street, Adelaide, watched by the Chairman of Directors of Adelaide Motors Limited Mr FS Mann