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| Project Title : Elizabeth King (nee Goodger) |
| Assignment Type : Person |
| First Name : Mandy |
| Last Name: Coote |
| Date Range: 1851-1900 |
| Why: This assignment began as a plot profile of Elizabeth King, who was buried at the Maesbury St cemetery at Kensington. The uncertainty surrounding the subject's family connections required some interesting delving and deduction, and related to many issues in 19th century South Australia, so I decided to make her the subject of my major essay instead. |
| Summary : The subject was found, in all probability, to belong to the family of John and Mary Goodger (nee Parker), who arrived in the colony in 1849, the year after Elizabeth and her (likely) brother, Amos, by looking at events in the life of this family from the time of their arrival in SA to the early 20th century.
Historical issues such as literacy, health, infant mortality and family life have been looked at in the context of this historical person.
It finds That Elizabeth married Henry King in 1852, who worked as a carpenter then as a sawyer. They had two children in 1853, at Norwood; and 1856 at Kensington, losing the first in infancy at Marryatville due to inflammation of the lungs, and dying soon after the birth of the second from consumption.It also finds that the subject's one remaining child, Mary, married Francis Kemp, farmer, at Two Wells in 1879, and had six daughters in SA, before apparently disappearing from the South Australian scene. |
| Limitations :Often records either were not available or were inconclusive in some areas. As ever, documents raise further questions which cannot be answered by other documents. This caused an inability to attach the subject to any address, and made it impossible to have certainty about her family membership, among other issues. |
| Issues Raised : There is no known residence or workplace that can become the subject of archaeological investigation.
There are no known artefacts that had belonged to this person.
The only archaeological opportunity for further investigation lies in an analysis of remains if found in an excavation. |
| UserFAN : coot0017 |
| AssignmentId : 106 |
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