Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1880)

Born 21 May 1818 in Minehead, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Died 27 Oct 1880 at age 62 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Samuel Gill was born in Minehead, Somerset, England.

Samuel Gill migrated from Somerset, England to South Australia.

Samuel Gill came free to the Colony of South Australia (1836-1900)

Samuel Gill is Notable.

Birth

Samuel Thomas Gill born 21 May 1818, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. ^[1][2]

Father's Name Samuel Gill

Mother's Name Winifred nee Oke

Maternal Grandfather's Name William Oke

Maternal Grandmother's Name Mary

Immigration

Samuel Thomas Gill departed Plymouth, England 17 July 1839 aboard Caroline arriving South Australia 16 December. ^[3][4]

Death

27 Oct 1880 (aged 62), Melbourne, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia

Burial

Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia - PLOT, COE UU 50A ^[5]

Samuel Thomas Gill ^[6] (1818-1880), painter, was born on 21 May 1818 at Perriton, near Minehead, Somerset, England, the son of Rev. Samuel Gill, Baptist minister, and his first wife, Winifred Oke. Gill was educated at Plymouth in a school kept by his parents, and later at Dr Seabrook's academy. He had some instruction in drawing from his father, who was an amateur artist. Gill was employed in London as 'Draftsman and Water Colour Painter' by the Hubard Profile Gallery, an establishment which produced silhouettes.

He reached South Australia in December 1839 in the Caroline with his parents and a brother and sister. In March 1840 he established a studio in Gawler Place, Adelaide, which was open from 'eleven till dusk'; he offered to produce portraits of human beings, horses and dogs, and to sketch houses and transfer the sketches 'to paper suited for home conveyance'. In 1846 he went without pay as draftsman with an exploring party led by J. A. Horrocks which reached the country at the head of Spencer Gulf. Gill was with Horrocks when he had a gun accident from which he died just over three weeks later. Gill nursed Horrocks devotedly and Gill's poignant diary of the expedition was published in the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, 10 October 1846. The explorer discovered and named Lake Gill (Lake Dutton).
In Adelaide in 1846-47 Gill raffled drawings of the expedition and many of these survive; some remained in the possession of the Horrocks family until 1944 when they were bought by the National Gallery of South Australia.
In 1847 South Australia Illustrated by George French Angas was published in London; in it was a series of hand-coloured lithographs of which at least two were after water-colour drawings by Gill:

Plate 41 'Adelaide. Hindley Street, From the corner of King William St.' and

Plate 54 'The Departure of Captn. Sturt. August, 1844'.

A third lithograph, Plate 7, may be after Gill. These three works are typical of the many water-colours of urban scenes which Gill produced in Adelaide in the 1840s.
In 1849 a series of twenty-two lithographed drawings of prominent South Australian citizens called Heads of the People was published in Adelaide; Gill sketched these from life and drew them on the stone, and at the time the portraits were accepted as admirable likenesses. Other lithographs by him published in Adelaide in 1851 were of the 'Old Colonists Festival Dinner' and of a racehorse called 'Merry Monarch'; the latter indicated his lifelong interest in the turf.

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Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CN6S-CDPZ : 10 April 2021), Samuel Thomas Gill, 1818.
2. ↑ "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H6-LZZ : 11 December 2014), Samuel Thomas Gill, 21 May 1818, Birth; citing p. 199, Perriton, Minehead, Somersetshire, record group RG5, Public Record Office, London.
3. ↑ https://bound-for-south-australia.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/ShipLists%20Alpha%20by%20Year/1839D-G.htm
4. ↑ Southern Australian (Adelaide, SA : 1838 - 1844) Thu 19 Dec 1839
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGN-1JV9 : 23 November 2022), Samuel Thomas Gill, ; Burial, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne General Cemetery; citing record ID 124837608, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
6. ↑ E. J. R. Morgan, Gill, Samuel Thomas (1818–1880), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
   published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 15 December 2019.

• Interactive, 'street-level view' brings colonial Adelaide to life from ABC Radio Adelaide / By Malcolm Sutton. Posted Thursday 27 May 2021. first accessed online on the 4th of June 2021 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-27/street-view-map-brings-colonial-adelaide-alive/100168412

• S. T. Gill from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. first accessed online on the 4th of June 2021 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._T._Gill

• CAROLINE 1839 from the BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA website. first accessed online on the 4th of June 2021 at: https://bound-for-south-australia.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/1839Caroline.htm

• Find a Grave, database and images https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124837608/samuel-thomas-gill : accessed 04 June 2021), memorial page for Samuel Thomas Gill (21 May 1818–27 Oct 1880), Find a Grave Memorial ID 124837608, citing Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia ; Maintained by esco (contributor 47339147) .

• Victoria BDM - Death Reg #10619/1880