George_Cole_(South_Australian_politician)

George Cole (South Australian politician)

George Cole (South Australian politician)

Australian politician

George William Cole (15 January 1823 – 4 December 1893) was a politician in the colony of South Australia.

History

Cole was born in Lindfield, Sussex, the eldest son of George Cole (2 May 1792 – 20 November 1853)[1] and Sarah Cole, née Cooper (c. 1787–1837). George married a second time, to Mrs Jane Mitchell in 1838. George, Jane, and George's seven children arrived in South Australia on 9 July 1839 aboard Lysander[2]

He was employed as City Valuator from around 1865.

He was, like his father, a confirmed teetotaler, active in the Bible Christian Missionary Society and the Total Abstinence Society[3] and important in the founding of Rechabites in South Australia. He was a lay preacher for the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Adelaide.[4]

He was a member of Parliament for the seats of Burra and Clare 1860–1862, with fellow teetotaler William Dale as his associate, and The Burra 1862–1866, when he resigned.[5] He fought for abolition of liquor and closing of railways on Sundays. In the 1850s he lived next door to the Temperance Hall[6] in Tynte Street, North Adelaide; later at Lymington Cottage, Melbourne Street, North Adelaide.

Family

Cole arrived in South Australia with his father, stepmother and six siblings:

  • Charlotte Ann Cole (26 January 1821 – 1 January 1863) married George Hiles
  • Sarah Jane Cole (4 May 1825 – ) married Samuel May in 1852
  • Thyrza Lucy Cole (17 August 1827 – 1881) married Thomas James Mitchell in 1845
  • Tryphena Cole (29 January 1832 – 30 January 1890) married Henry Jessop in 1848
  • Aaron Cole (1835 – 23 September 1917) married Mary Ann Barlow in 1855
  • William George Cooper Cole (23 February 1837 – 5 December 1912) married Mary Elizabeth Fountain in 1857

He married Ann Elizabeth Mitchell (14 January 1824 – 9 October 1915) on 1 December 1845.

  • Jessie Ann Cole (6 September 1845 – 11 October 1847 in Hobart[7])
  • Jessie Gravely Cole (29 September 1847[citation needed] – 14 November 1870) married Arthur Hamilton Scarfe (20 June 1885 – 16 December 1948) on 22 June 1870
  • Annie Elizabeth Cole (29 April 1851 – 8 June 1878) married Rev. William Williams (c. 1850 – 6 July 1913)
  • George Mitchell Cole (5 December 1854 – 21 February 1884) married Susan Ellen Chapman (16 July 1856 – 11 April 1942) on 11 August 1881.
  • Rosa Jane Cole (2 September 1859 – 21 October 1942) married Hannibal Lyne on 29 September 1880
  • Emma Tryphena Cole (25 October 1861 – 8 January 1926 in WA) married John LeCornu jnr (c. 1861 – 14 July 1948) on 12 December 1882

References

  1. [1]
    "Sudden death". Adelaide Observer. 26 November 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 3 April 2015 – via Trove.
  2. [2]
    Leadbeater, B., http://www.familyhistorysa.org/colonists.doc Archived 24 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Advertising". Adelaide Observer. 12 March 1853. p. 4. Retrieved 3 April 2015 – via Trove.
  4. [4]
    "The Late Mr. G. W. Cole". South Australian Register. 5 December 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 3 April 2015 – via Trove.
  5. [5]
    "George William Cole". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  6. [6]
    Architect for the Temperance Hall was James William Cole, who was member for West Torrens 1857–1860, but it is not known whether there is a family connection.
  7. [7]
    Tasmania BDM Registration 1644
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