2022/09/06

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Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the early days of South Australia

By Iola Mathews and Chris Durrant

424 pages

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Chequered Lives is the fascinating story of a Quaker family from England who camped on the beach in 1837 before the city of Adelaide was created, but rose to owning a 3000-acre estate in the Adelaide Hills. Barton Hack built his first house where the Adelaide Railway station now stands, became a merchant who owned ships, a whaling stati