Adelaide Dunlop
1852-1931
Born: On ship to Australia - The David McIver
Died: Wickham, NSW
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1852-1931
Born: On ship to Australia - The David McIver
Died: Wickham, NSW
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia; line-height: 15px"><span style="font-size: large">David, with his parents and siblings, one being Adelaide who was born on the voyage to Australia, arrived from Plymouth, England in 1852 in the vessell 'David McIvor'. He was 4 years of age when his family came to Australia and his religous denomination was Presbyterian. David's father, a policeman, settled in Newcastle and lived in the guardhouse until the police barracks were built. David attended a number of schools but was a pupil of Hamilton Public School in his final year before going to work in the 'pits'. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia; line-height: 15px"><span style="font-size: large">He worked in the AA Company's Pit at Hamilton and later remembered it as a place marked only by six slab huts. His family lived in one of these huts until the AA Company built his father a house on Cameron's Hill. One of the real houses he recalled in 1931, was on what became the corner of Beaumont and Denison Streets, Hamilton. Later, a hotel called the Miners Arm was to be built there. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia; line-height: 15px"><span style="font-size: large">When David left the mines, he became a publican. David held the license of various hotels in the district which were the: Miners Arm Hotel (Hamilton) 1883-1886, 1889-1911. The Volunteer Hotel (West Maitland) 1887- July 1895. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia; line-height: 15px"><span style="font-size: large">David is chiefly remembered for his athletic abilities and was known as the miners champion. He won 32 of 34 important foot races. He won races in New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand and was regarded as the fastest sprinter in the colony. On his retirement from competition, he became a trainer. One of his pupils was world champion, Bob Watson. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia; line-height: 15px"><span style="font-size: large">When David died, he was one of Hamilton's oldest and most respected residents. The name of Dunlop is a much a part of the districts history as is Hamilton itself.</span></span></p><p>CREDIT & THANKS MUST GO TO dpa77895 MEMBER OF ANCESTRY, FOR WRITING THIS STORY. </p>