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in New South Wales. As his sons grew up they took over management of his various properties. The eldest, Herbert White Hughes, took over
Booyoolee Estate, where he had a fine residence. Arthur and Harold managed Kinchega cattle station, which they later diverted to running sheep. He was one of the
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Adelaide market. Many of the properties he owned freehold, which proved an advantage when various governments began resuming the larger leasehold properties for closer development. He also owned the Kinchega run on the
108:, a family with which they had a long relationship and whose sister Hughes was to marry. The White brothers had abandoned the Port Lincoln area after several years of fear and disappointment. They later sold their lease to
222:, on his Australia tour visited St. Peter's College in October 1867, he had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Hughes at "Athelney". It was later the residence of Edgar Bristow Hughes, and remained in the family for many years.
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Special Magistrate in 1856, but had no time for politics and public affairs. He was perhaps best known as a breeder of horses. Among the thoroughbreds he imported from England were
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in 1853; Frederick White; Edwin White; William White; and Alfred White, who died shortly after arrival in South
Australia. White's River and White's Flat, near
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Laura's elder sister
Elizabeth Hagen White ( – 28 October 1881) in 1861 married William Herbert Squires ( – 30 November 1911), a senior SA public servant.
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He died after a short illness, and was buried at the North Road
Cemetery on Saturday, 21 May. The list of those attending the ceremony reads like a "
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Hughes was a pioneer of the meat-preserving industry in South
Australia. He established extensive meat canning factories at Booyoolee and on the
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were built for him in
Glasgow and brought out in sections, and were used for the carriage of stock and wool from his up-river properties to
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passenger list) and
William may have returned early to England; Samuel and Frederick are remembered as the pioneering White brothers of
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Bristow Hughes (14 July 1866 – 1951) married Ita Marian Augusta Gwynne in 1914, lived at "Athelney", which he purchased in 1917.
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back to Crystal Brook. They divided the country into three lots, J. B. Hughes taking the south-eastern portion, which he named "
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Laura Sophia Hughes (7 March 1859 – 4 June 1941) never married, lived with her sister in "Sea-Bank", Southport, Queensland.
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289:Assertions that H. B. Hughes was related to Sir
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