Samuel Perry (ironmaster)

Samuel Perry was an industrialist in the State of South Australia.

History

Samuel Perry (ca.1864 – 19 March 1930) was a son of John and Harriett Perry (ca.1834 – 24 September 1918) of Shropshire, England, and a brother of Rev. Isaiah Perry (1854–1911). He was apprenticed as an iron worker to the Coalbrookdale Company, and trained as an engineer with that company. At the age of 22, around 1886, he followed his brother to Gawler, South Australia, where he found employment at James Martin's "Phoenix Foundry", living with the Roediger family at nearby Buchfelde (later named Loos).[1] He next worked at Port Adelaide, then as foreman for John Danks & Son of Melbourne. He returned to Adelaide and started his own business with the purchase of James Wedlock's "Cornwall Foundry", the transfer of that factory to new premises Perry Engineering at Mile End, and the purchase of the James Martin & Co. workshops in Gawler. He took on his nephew Frank Perry, who became managing director and company chairman on his death.[2]

He married Mary Jane Rofe (died 9 August 1924) of Port Adelaide on 7 March 1894; they had a daughter, and lived at "Brier Holme" at Grove Street, Unley Park. He was a member of the Royal SA Yacht Squadron; his motor yacht Isis was the largest in South Australia.[3]

Family

John Perry and Harriett Perry (ca.1834 – 24 September 1918) of Shropshire, England, had two sons who emigrated to South Australia:

  • John Perry
  • Frank Tennyson Perry (1887–1965) married Hildegard Therese "Hilda" Matschoss
  • Frank Spencer Perry (9 September 1913 – 7 August 1951) married Margaret Florence Collin on 20 April 1940. They had two sons, born on 14 April 1942 and 1 May 1950; lived at 2 College Street, College Park. His death was not mentioned in the newspapers. Margaret married again, to G. W. W. Griffith on 8 November 1952.
  • Margaret Pauline "Peg" Perry (18 July 1917 – ) married John Mackie Gebhardt on 17 October 1936.
  • (Audrey) Vivienne Perry LLB (29 July 1925 – ) married Donald Hope Laidlaw on 2 February 1948. Their eldest daughter Diana Laidlaw was a noted State politician.
  • Rev. Charles Julius Perry (1888–1961) Methodist minister and Australian Rules footballer
  • Albert Perry
  • Nellie Perry
  • daughter V. M. Perry

References

  1. ↑ "Gawler's Ironmaster Mr. S. Perry Dead". Bunyip (Gawler, SA: National Library of Australia). 21 March 1930. p. 6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Susan Marsden, 'Perry, Sir Frank Tennyson (1887–1965)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 9 December 2014
  3. ↑ "Melbourne Yachtsman Buys Isis". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 27 January 1932. p. 14. Retrieved 8 December 2014.