Family businesses

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McFarlane and Smith businesses that cousins, sinlings, parents or inlaws worked together in or connected to each other's business needs.

diagram of intertwined family business.

List so far: Yalumba london house general goods saddlery in strathalbyn Mcfarlane bros limited J&m mcfarlane stores Adelaide Steamship Company New Era fruit growing and cannery. / yalumba preserving works (or were they seperate?) Hardy Plant Nursery other nursery Pinnaroo country news The Esperance Times

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Yalumba 1849-present Samuel Smith (1812-1889), Mary (Osborne) Smith (1819-1872), Sidney Smith (1837-1908), Miriam (Smith) McFarlane (1848-1942), Fredrick Caley Smith (1866-1913) Walter Grundy Smith (abt.1867-1938) Eleanor Jane (caley) Smith (1837-1925) Percival Sidney Smith (1866-1954) Sidney Osborne Smith (1869-1950)

winery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalumba samuel smith founded it. sidney smith helped plant the first crops. fred and walter took over the business.

Strathalbyn, London House. 1881-1883 John Muir McFarlane (1852-1887) Robin Hood Hotel and London House on High Street, Strathalbyn, South Australia, ca. 1970 London House is a two storey shop, single storey residence built by Thomas Stephens in 1867 as a general store, the coaching firm of Cobb and Company later built stables at the rear for coach horses used in the daily run to Adelaide. John Muir McFarlane later owned this store and installed the first telephone in Strathalbyn in 1883 connected with his other store Victoria House. ^[1]

John McFarlane 1881- 1883 as General Store & Iron Mongery at London house. The first phone in Strathalbyn was connected from there to Victoria House which he bought from Alfred Catt 1874.

Victoria House built by Alfred Catt 1867 as a General Store. He moved early 1874 with the ‘exodus’ and opened a General Store at Gladstone. Sold to J.M. McFarlane of London House.

Saddler.Strathalbyn Colin Dawson McFarlane (1851-1933) , Colin Dawson McFarlane (1810-1890) Colin sr founded it, passed it onto colin jr.

McFarlane stores David Muir McFarlane (1846-1920), John Muir McFarlane (1852-1887), Percy Muir McFarlane CBE, MID (1880-1946), John Clyde McFarlane (1883-1943), Robert Muir McFarlane (1857-1940)

Mcfarlane limited In January 1879, the business partnership running stores in Angaston and Strathalbyn, john Muir with his brother David Muir McF ended.

McFarlane bros. Cowell. John Clyde McFarlane (1883-1943), Percy Muir McFarlane CBE, MID (1880-1946) Robert Muir McFarlane (1857-1940)

The business of McFarlane Bros., at Cowell, Port Lincoln, Tumby Bay and Elliston. John his brother Percy Muir mcf . The business, now known as McFarlane's Ltd. at Cowell (also acted as agent for the Adelaide Steamship Company William Woide (goodhart) Goodhart (1862-1947) was manager)

John took over the management of McFarlane Bros, business at Cowell. When it was created into a limited company he became a share holder and occupied the managerial' chair .until his demise.

Robert lived and worked in Angaston, Millicent, Laura and then joined his brother David at Port Lincoln as assistant. 3 years later he became partner. Robert managed the Elliston branch until david retired in 1896, supervised both branches until 1906.he sold Elliston branch and in 1906 opened a branch at Tumby Bay and in 1897 in Cowell.

1911 NOTICE is hereby given that the PARTNERSHIP heretofore subsisting between DAVID MUIR MCFARLANE, of Malvern, in the State of South Australia, Storekeeper, and ROBERT MUIR MCFARLANE, of Port Lincoln, in the said State, Storekeeper, carrying on business as Storekeepers at Cowell, in the said State, and at Tumby Bay- in the said State, under the style or want of MCFARLANE BROS., has been DISSOLVED BY MUTUAL CONSENT, as from the first day of November 1911. The firmness of the said Arm at Cowell will in future be carried on by the said David Muir McFarlane alone, under the style or firm of Mcfarlane Bros. The business of the said firm at Tumby Bay will in future be carried on by the said Robert Muir McFarlane alone, under the style or firm of McFarlane Bros. Dated this first day of November, 1911. ' Witness to the signature of the said David Muir McFarlane, at Adelaide-U. W. Varley, Solicitor, Adelaide. I'd m. Mcfarlane. ' Witness to the signature of the said Robert Muir McFarlane, at Port Lincoln C. N. McKen- j the. Solicitor. Port Lincoln. I ^[2]

Robert as a young man joined his late brother, Mr. D. M. McFarlane, as general storekeeper at Elliston, Port Lincoln. and Cowell between 50 and 60 years ago. Mr. D. M. McFarlane went to Adelaide some years after, and Mr. R. M. McFarlane moved to Port Lincoln, leaving a manager at Elliston. 44 years ago. They later started a, business at Tumby Bay. The firm later split up. The Elliston branch was sold to Mr. F. Owen, their Port Lincoln branch to Messrs. Stockham bros while mr D.M. McFarlane took over the Cowell business and Mr. R. M. McFarlane the Tumby Bay store. Eventually the Tumby ' (Bay store was sold to Hopping Bros., who had acquired the Port Lincoln branch from Stockham Bros., and Mr. R. M. McFarlane retired and lived in Adelaide until his death. The McFarlane business was a large one. They supplied their customers all over the peninsula with not only groceries, drapery, boots, but were the source of supply for all farm requirements, and so they carried a very wide stock of hardware and even farm implements. They were also agents for the Adelaide Steamship Company until that firm opened a branch in Port Lincoln.

New Era fruit growing company David Muir McFarlane (1846-1920), Fredrick Caley Smith (1866-1913) Walter Grundy Smith (abt.1867-1938) Sidney Colin McFarlane (1876-1906) David Muir director. Sidney colin worker. Fruit growing, some shipped to yalumba.

1900 NEW ERA FRUITGROWING COMPANY, LIMITED. The New Era Fruitgrowing Company at Morgan, SA flourished from about 1900 to 1926 David was involved initially in travelling the districts where Yalumba [Wines] traded and this would have included Morgan and Renmark. (his son) Sidney Colin McFarlane (1876-1906)’s cousins Fredrick Caley Smith (1866-1913), Walter and Burney Smith of Yalumba were attached to the new settlements established in Renmark and Mildura. Fruit was being sourced from Renmark for processing at Yalumba before 1900. Sidney C. McF. initially worked for his father David M. McF. on leaving school and this may have allowed him to be known in the Riverland. The original New Era enterprise on the Murray River failed and was taken over by Samuel Smith’s family, running the property successfully from 1900 to 1926. David M. McFarlane was a director of the New Era Fruit Growing Company near Morgan and he also had interests in the provision of stores. Sidney’s mother, Miriam, used to travel from Morgan to Swan hill by river boat.[MacFarlane's Lantern No. 121 - March 2012]

Former store of New Era Village Settlement, The communal settlement, established 25 Apr 1894, was abandoned 2 years later. The New Era Fruit Growing Company managed the property 1900-1926, now the Cadell irrigation area. 

1902 one of the directors of the New Era Fruit Growing Company. Cadell. “the New Era Fruit-growing Company . . . has been formed to take over 1,387 acres of land, held under perpetual lease from the S.A. Government at a rental of £69 7/ per annum, and known as the New Era Village Settlement. It is the intention of the company to at once start planting from 50 to 100 acres this season with sultana vines and other early fruits, and each year to extend the area, while attention will be paid to many other sources of income, such as early tomatoes, planting some hundreds of acres with lucern and other fodders to fatten store cattle and sheep, breed pigs, and other animals.” [Advertiser 18 Jun 1902]

Pinnaroo country news William Muir McFarlane (1855-1925) newspaper

The Esperance Times Charles Jeffrey Davis (abt.1873-1907) was the editor of the newspaper. "The Esperance times DAVIS & CAFFIN. was WILLIAM YORKE McFARLANE. Witness to Signature—E. do Grave Sells, CHARLES JEFFREY DAVIS. Witness to Signature—W. H. F. Smith, WILLIAM ALFRED CAFFIN." William Muir McFarlane (1855-1925) is William York Mcf?

Hardy Plant Nursery Fredrick Caley Smith (1866-1913) fred studies diseases of plants / vines that would have helped yalumba and also new era,

His eldest son is Mr. F. C. Smith, proprietor of the Hardy Plant Nursery, Aldgate. Another son, Mr W. G. Smith, was among the early settlers at Mildura, where for some time he conducted a nursery, in conjunction with Mr. J. Newell. Another son, Mr. S. O. Smith, visited Renmark a good many years ago and purchased a quantity of pears and peaches for the Yalumba Fruit Preserving Works, of which he was manager.

yalumba preserving works Sidney.Osborne Smith Sidney Osborne Smith\

Adelaide Steamship Company- William Woide (goodhart) Goodhart (1862-1947) via Mary Davidson (McFarlane) Goodhart (1857-1925) Colin Morris Adamson (1905-1986) Mr William Woide Goodhart, manager of the Adelaide Steamship Company's local branch, and Miss Mary Davidson McFarlane married. Goodhart joined the Adelaide Steam- ship Co. Ltd. in 1882, and during his 45 years' service, ending with his retirement in June, 1927, he was branch manager for the company in many Australian ports from Esperance, WA, to Townsville. He was best known in South Australia as branch manager at Port Augusta, Port Pirie and Port Lincoln.

After leaving school, Colin Morris Adamson (1905-1986) worked as a clerk at the Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd head office in Currie Street (1922-1924),

William Woide (goodhart) Goodhart (1862-1947) put advertising for Adelaide Steamship Co advertised in The Esperance Times that Charles Jeffrey Davis ran.

SOURCES

1. ↑ https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5215625
2. ↑  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207959813

History of Adelaide and vicinity : with a general sketch of the province of South Australia and biographies of representative men / edited by J.J. Pascoe