Samuel Stocks jun. (abt. 1812 - 1850)

Biography

Samuel Stocks, jun. was born around 1812 in Stockport, Cheshire, England. His parents were Samuel and Barbara Stocks.

Samuel Stocks, jun. migrated to South Australia on the Glenarm in late 1842 and immediately established himself as a merchant and exporter.

To Drapers, Farmers, and Wool-Dealers.
THE undersigned having a selection of Manchester Goods and Wines, beg to inform the trade that they will be obliged by a call, and also that they are prepared either to purchase or receive on Consignment to their friends in England, any of the produce of the Colony.
SAMUEL STOCKS, Jun. & Co.
Grenfell Street, Dec. 8, 1842.

--The Southern Australian, 9 December 1842 page 3^[1]

He invested in the South Australian Mining Association and was one of the first board of directors of the company when it won the rights to the northern half of the Burra ore body. He died aged 37 on 3 February 1850 at his home on Hindley Street, Adelaide.^[2] The South Australian Register published an uncomplimentary obituary.

DIED
DIED.On Sunday morning last, at half-past six o'clock, at his residence, in Hindley-street, West, Mr Samuel Stocks, jun., aged 37. This gentleman arrived in the colony about seven years ago, commencing his colonial career as a merchant, with the fairest promise of success, and was regarded by his numerous friends as likely to make a valuable member of our community. His disposition and manners were frank, his education sound, his mercantile qualifications of a superior order, and his respect for the forms of godliness was strikingly manifest, long after he had lost its power and ceased to be under that moral restraint which was once habitual to him. One of the original Burra Burra proprietors, the securing that special survey was in no small degree due to Mr Stocks's activity and influence. He amassed considerable wealth through that successful venture, and, withdrawing from his commercial pursuits in Adelaide, assumed the superintendence of this wonderful mine, for a considerable period, where his admirable management, in which liberality, good nature, and business tact were blended, caused him to be greatly esteemed in the busy neighbourhood of Kooringa. The large and sudden accumulation of property, however, proved a snare, and the deceased unhappily fell into habits of intemperance, which beclouded the latter portion of his life, and, undermining a fine natural constitution, "brought down his strength in his journey and shortened his days." It is consolatory, however, to know that in his last moments he was able to express contrition, and his sorrowing friends have hope in his death.

--The South Australian Register, 5 February 1850, page 2^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Advertising (1842, December 9). Southern Australian (Adelaide, SA : 1838 - 1844), p. 3. Retrieved July 20, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71622614
2. ↑ STOCKS, Samuel, South Australian Death registrations index, Adelaide 1/209, accessed 20 July 2023 via Genealogy SA
3. ↑ Family Notices (1850, February 5). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), p. 2. Retrieved July 20, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38450424

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