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Hugh_daly (Hugh_daly)
Username: Hugh_daly
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 9:19 pm: | |
Point Pass in South Australia was the subject of my talk to the Society last December. Below is an email from Bill Greenfield in Adelaide:
In July 1854 three sisters from the Poyntzpass area landed at Port Misery (now Pt Adelaide). They were called Anne, Lavinia and Latitia Redpath, milkmaids and farm hands.
There was a great shortage of females in South Australia at the time and by October Lavinia was married to a local farmer, Patrick Callaghan. Latitia moved further out and married a shepherd, William Greenfield in December. She had a couple of children, both boys, who eventually took up sheep farming and became station owners. (Australians call them ‘stations’ – Americans call them ‘ranches’, we call them farrns). These two boys had ten and twelve children respectively, one of the children was my father. They owned and controlled between them an area about half the size of the Republic of Ireland, 13,000 square miles.
The third girl, Anne Redpath became pregnant to a man called Michael O’Shea, (no doubt a smooth talking Irishman!) had her baby out of wedlock and moved up country to live with her sister Latitia (Callaghan). Anne took the surname Callaghan and portrayed herself as a widow. She married a local farmer, William Richards and they moved to a new section of country to clear land and begin farming. She eventually raised seven healthy children, who became farmers or married farmers. She named the area after her home village in Co Armagh ‘Points Pass’.
These girls could not read or write and so spelling is as written by some English clerk of the day. Latitia, for example, is written ‘Elisha’, ‘Alisha’ or ‘Lettittia’ in various documents, all of which she signed with an ‘X’. |
Hugh_daly (Hugh_daly)
Username: Hugh_daly
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 9:20 pm: | |
(Taken from ‘Emmaus to World’s End, a ‘History of the Robertstown’ area.)
Point Pass: Point Pass was the first council centre for the hundred of English. Council was centred there 1932 when the five present hundreds combined.
It is situated 116 km from Adelaide, 11km south of Robertstown and north of Eudunda. It is six miles west of Goyden’s line of 10 inches of rainfall, at the foot of the westerly plateau. The land about is undulating, cut by creeks running down from the plateau 154 metres (500 feet) above the town. The altitude of the town is approximately 400 metres (1211 feet) above sea level, 148 metres above the eastern edge of the hundred.
It is on the main road from Robertstown to Eudunda and, before modern transport, was an important local centre with many businesses prospering and a centre for sport and recreation. Mail was delivered to Robertstown and other areas from Point Pass at first. The Post Office, hall, tennis courts are still in use and the hotel prospers, but all the other businesses have closed.
In 1924 the population was 410 (when Robertstown was 271 and Australian Plains 169)
Point Pass became a town because a spring provided water there after the land grants of 1867. It was named by Mrs Anne Richards (nee Callaghan) who died in 1880. |
Hugh_daly (Hugh_daly)
Username: Hugh_daly
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 9:24 pm: | |
Here is a link to a map of Point Pass.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=point+pass,+south+australia&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=13.544511,39.418945&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Point+Pass+South+Australia,+Australia&ll=-34.077743,139.049358&spn=0.018519,0.038495&t=h&z=15
I'll try to post a few photos later. |
Hugh_daly (Hugh_daly)
Username: Hugh_daly
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 - 3:24 pm: | |
Here is a link to some picture. I hope it works!
Pictures of Point Pass |
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