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Caroline Phillippa Augusta ShortPrint Page 
21-May-2021
Photographs supplied by Maureen Aquila
The plaque commemorates Caroline Phillippa Augusta Short who was the first person buried in the church grounds in February 1848.
Location
| Address: | St Bernards Road, St George`s Anglican Church, Magill, 5072 |
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| State: | SA |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -34.907621 Long: 138.675802 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Plaque |
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| Monument Theme: | People |
| Sub-Theme: | Community |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 16-February-1848 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 16-February-1848 |
Dedication
| Approx. Monument Dedication Date: | 2007 |
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Front Inscription
Source: MATo the memory of Caroline Phillippa Augusta Short
The first burial in the churchyard on 16th February 1848, aged 1 year, an infant daughter of Bishop Augustus Short just seven weeks after arriving in South Australia. Extracts from the Bishop`s diary state : "The intense heat at the period of our landing, the thermometer in our bedrooms at Government House at night being 95 degrees, seems to have overpowered her and she gradually grew worse and worse, till it pleased God to take her from us ... she has fallen a martyr to the cause on which we embarked."
St George`s Historical Group 2007
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