Charles Simeon Hare (1808 - 1882)

Born 1808 in United States of America

Husband of Anna Maria (Robinson) Hare — married 16 Apr 1836 in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Died 22 Jul 1882 at about age 74 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Biography

See biography at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hare-charles-simeon-3717 Little is known of the early life and career of Charles Simeon Hare (1808 – 1882). He was born in America in 1808 and emigrated to England sometime before 1836 where he married Anna Maria Robinson.^[1] In London on 10 March 1836 he offered his services as personal secretary to John Morphett for a period of two years. Morphett accepted and both men sailed for South Australia in 1836 (Morphett in March on the Cygnet and Hare in April on the Emma). A series of correspondence with George Fife Angas throughout the voyage of the Emma suggests that Hare cared for the South Australian Company’s livestock on board. This, coupled with the fact that correspondence over Hare’s appointment to Morphett was found in the Angas papers in the archival holdings of the State Library of South Australia, suggests that perhaps a further arrangement had been made between Hare and the South Australian Company prior to the Emma’s sailing in April 1836. Indeed, Hare took up formal employment with the South Australian Company on Kangaroo Island in September 1836. Hare was 28 on arrival in South Australia and went on to become an important early colonist best known for an eccentric and rugged character which was said to have obscured his ‘warm and generous heart’. - http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au/journey-content/charles-s-hare.html

Real Life Stories Of South Australia CHARLES SIMEON HARE Pioneer Who Played Many Parts

A pioneer who played many parts was Charles Simeon Hare. Though a quaint and (somewhat eccentric character, he was, nevertheless, a man who possessed many Stirling qualities. He and his wife came to South Australia before it was proclaimed a colony. They arrived by the Emma, which dropped anchor at Kangaroo Island, October 5, 1836.

For a time, Charles Simeon Hare served the South Australian Company. He then resigned and started a contracting business at Port Adelaide. In the new council of 1851 he was chosen to represent the district of West Torrens. He cast his vote against, and was greatly opposed to, State aid to religion, which, at that time, was a subject causing great controversy. He was a close friend of John Stephens, and was his staunch supporter when one trouble after another overtook him. When the first Parliament was formed, in 1857, Charles Simeon Hare had a seat in the House of Assembly: being elected as representative for the district of Yatala. He was appointed Manager of Railways, and, in this capacity, had an experience which might easily have ended much more tragically, and which brought an abrupt termination to his managership. Sir Dominick Daly (at that time Governor of South Australia) and several members of the Ministry, with a number of distinguished visitors, wished to travel by express train to Port Adelaide, to visit the H.M.S. Falcon. The railway system was then in its infancy. Charles Simeon Hare had charge of the train, and gave orders to the engine driver to "put on full steam". The engine driver obeyed, with the result that the rails were displaced and two carriages thrown off the line. Fortunately the coupling chain between the engine and carriages broke. Little damage was done and no injuries resulted. However, the viceregal party were upset by their experience, and an enquiry was held. Thie resulted in the services of Charles Simeon Hare being dispensed with. He went to Fiji for a time, after which he returned to South Australia, and was again elected to Parliament. The remainder of his life was chiefly taken up by Parliamentary duties. A number of humorous stories could be told of incidents in which this quaint politician figured. Few men knew how to sway a crowd better than he. On one occasion he was addressing a large gathering of miners in an effort to secure their suffrages. Noticing a scaffolding and ladder nearby, he ran up the ladder and, standing on the scaffolding exclaimed, "I always like to speak as working man to work ing men!" From his elevated position he then delivered his speech, which be punctuated by puffing away at a cigar. This pioener passed out at the age of 74, on July 22, 1882. — A.H.B., Halton Gardens. - (1934, March 29). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 12. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92353464

See an account of his journey on the Emma taken from a letter written to George Fife Angas in London, and dated 28 November 1836, at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island:: - http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/sa/immigra/shipmisc.htm

Mr. Charles Simeon Hare is favoring the electors of Wallaroo with his American experiences. An old colonist once thought he would calculate how long Mr. Hare must have been in the United States according to his own accounts of the periods he had spent at different places, adding up so many years in Boston, so many in New York, so many in Washing ton ?, and so long ia each of a host of other places, and found that altogether the veracious Simeon was 120 years in America — we cannot say the United States, as that period would carry us back a generation or two before the skirmish of Lexington, and the more serious affair of Bunker's Hill. Mr. Hare has been here ever since 1836, or nearly 40 years, and, as he does not profess to be a native of America, we may suppose he did not go there before he was 20, so that altogether his present age cannot be less than 180 ; and a very halo, hearty man he is, considering the length of his pilgrimage in this world of toil and trouble. It is not, perhaps, an improbable assumption that he is in some way related to Washington's nurse, who was exhibited about the country when she had attained the mature age of eight score years. - THINGS IN GENERAL. (1875, February 6). South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881), p. 9. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93961204

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Cambridgeshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1538-1983," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLBS-SG3L : 17 March 2018), Charles Simeon Hare and Anna Maria Robinson, 16 Apr 1836; citing Marriage, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Library, England; FHL microfilm 1,937,665.

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SA BDM (Secondary evidence) Page: Ade 121 137 Text: Given Name(s): Charles Simeon Last Name: HARE Death Date: 22 Jul 1882 Gender: M Age: 74y Approx. Birth Year: 1808 Marital Status: N Relative 1: Relative 2: Residence: Adelaide Death Place: Adelaide District: Adelaide Symbol: Book/Page: 121/137

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