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Hi
I happened on the Lindley Cemetery at Morgan some years ago and was intrigued by its isolation and the fact that all the inscriptions on the headstones were in German. I asked about at the Morgan Information Centre but they didn’t even know it existed, let alone its history. I couldn’t find any reference to it on the web at that time either. I went back again last week and saw that a sign had now been put up identifying the old school and church and decided to search the web again and found your site. Can you tell me any more about the history of Lindley – was it actually a small town or just a district name? – who lived there etc etc? It’s just such a desolate place and I’m interested in knowing how they made a living out there all those years ago.
Thanks for any information you might be able to provide.
David Kennedy
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G’day David,
The Hundred of Lindley was gazetted in 1881, named after John Lindley (1799 – 1865), botanist and horticulturalist, was assistant librarian to Sir Joseph Banks and Professor of Botany at London University. Area: 115 square miles.
In 1881 the SA government sold the land as “farmland” at £1 per acre to migrant farmers. Having seen the area, you can imagine what a disaster it was trying to grow wheat or any other crops there.
I found this snippet in an 1883 SA newspaper:
“The State of the Crops
— Mr. H. Baker of Kangaroo Flat, who about three weeks ago was travelling in the Hundreds of Lindley, Schomburg, Eba, and Bundey, gives us a deplorable
account of the state of the crops in those hundreds. In Lindley, he put up at a hut, to get some dinner, and intended paying for it, but he found no one at home but a little girl, who stated that they had nothing to eat, not even a piece of mutton. The family had been living on potatoes for the previous three days, and the mother had gone out to try and get some food. Their crop had entirely failed, and there was not a single sign to show that one had been reaped. In these districts the land is nearly bare of any kind of vegetation by which animals could graze. Eudunda was almost as bad, scarcely a crop being reaped in the district. Surely some alteration ought to be made in our Land laws, and these, poor farmers are entitled to same great concession at the hands of the Government. If for no other reason than keeping them in the Colony, they ought not to be compelled to pay either rent or interest, when their crops are an utter failure, such as these, and seeing if there is not some good in the land or whether it must be all thrown open for vast sheep runs. Better this than have so many farmers going inssolvent year after year.”
I’ve never heard mention of a township, so presume the school and church was all there was.
Cheers,
Bart