William Light

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  1. ↑ Steurt's great-grandmother.
  2. ↑ Steurt treads delicately around this matter, suggesting that the three children were "by her first marriage", even though it says elsewhere that Light was in England during these years.
  3. ↑ See note at First Fleet of South Australia on Dr Edward Wright.
  4. ↑ Described in some detail in a footnote in Steuart's book, quoting Dutton, and see also Legacy, etc. section below. The cross looks similar to a Celtic cross.
  5. ↑ The firm also designed the pedestal for the Boer War Memorial at the corner of North Terrace and King William Street, Unley Town Hall, some of the Hackney tram barn buildings, the Scarfe Cottage Homes in Gertrude St, Norwood and many smaller projects. [70]
  6. ↑ Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery is on the west side of West Terrace, and hence is not within "the square mile".
  7. ↑ Lewis also did the stonework for a windmill designed by Strickland, built in 1842. [74]
  8. ↑ Jackman worked with Daniel Garlick, and later with his brother Sydney on the Adelaide railway station.
  9. ↑ More work needs to be done on this person, but it seems likely that this is him.

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