Clipper Ship 'City of Adelaide'

It would seem entirely possible that Findlay Hogarth and his wife Emma (nee Homburg) were probably returning from a honeymoon trip to England, and possibly Europeon, on the voyage of the 'City of Adelaide' that reached Adelaide on the 11th October 1866. They were only married in May the year before¹ - he was 25 and she was 22. To have been travelling in first class accommodation, they must have been fairly well to do financially.

From a search of available records, it seems that Findlay/Finlay/Findley Hogarth was a commission agent and store owner.

Emma Hogarth (nee Homburg) would have been born in about 1846 although the location of her birth has not been discovered at this time. Her father was named either Adolph or Freidrich Adolph Homburg – as both names appear on records relating to her.

Findlay had a brother John Hogarth who married Sarah Anne Payne on Christmas Day 1866² at the residence of William Applebee at Glenburnie near Mt Gambier. Both John and Findlay give their father’s name as Finlay Hogarth. In July 1861 John Hogarth was appointed Secretary of the school board in Mt Gambier and served on that board for a number of years. John and Sarah Hogarth had two children of their own - Findlay Cranford born in December 1867 and Mary Elizabeth born in April 1870³. Both children were born at Glenburnie.

It appears that he had another brother living in Victoria, as in 1869 Finlay Hogarth and his brother William were doing business between Echuca, Melbourne and Adelaide, with Finlay Hogarth acting as forwarding agent. Six years earlier, that same Finlay Hogarth dissolved a partnership with a David Dewar located in High Street, Echuca, VIC. The newspaper notification of the dissolution states that Finlay Hogarth is “going out of the colony” and that “David Dewar is to receive all monies relating to any debts outstanding.” He sold his share of the business to one Mr. H. Luth on May 30, 1869.

It would appear the Findlay Hogarth moved almost immediately to South Australia, as the Advertiser of 25 June 1869, page 3⁴, has an advertisement for Findlay Hogarth as a commission agent.

Findlay and Emma had three children:

1. Findlay Cranford Hogarth, b 17 Mar 1867⁵; d 3 May 1867⁶ at the age of 2 months - name given there is Findlay Crawford Hogarth.
2. Robert Crauford Hogarth, b 19 December 1869⁷ Glenelg; d 1 January 1904, at hospital in Parkside aged 31 yrs; was a resident of Henley Beach⁸.
3. Florence Louise Hogarth, b 3 April 1871⁹, at Glenelg.

Findlay Hogarth died on the 18^th August 1872, aged 33, in Adelaide¹⁰. No death record pre 1915 was found for Emma Hogarth in South Australia.

The reason that there is no death record for her is that she remarried after Findlay’s death to Frank Skeffington Carroll on 28 April 1877 at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide¹¹ - he was 40 and single and she was 31 and a widow. Emma had two more children with her second husband:

1. Norah Skeffington Carroll, b 2 Feb 1878, at Glenelg¹².
2. Paul Skeffington Carroll, b 28 Oct 1879, at Parkside¹³; d 26 Dec 1879¹⁴, at Parkside aged 10 weeks – his death record states that his parents were living at Parkside at the time.

Emma’s second husband appears to have been somewhat famous in his lifetime, or perhaps infamous.

In 1876, about a year before he married Emma, Frank Skeffington Carroll had a map and book published by E.S. Wigg & Son in Adelaide - the subject was the newly marked out hundreds and districts of NT & SA as at 1876 including distances between places, roads etc. A copy of this work is in the National Library in Canberra and an electronic version is currently available from Gould Books and Australian Archived CD Books. SAGHS have a copy of the original work as well.

An interesting story about Frank Skeffington Carroll appears in the Melbourne Argus on Tuesday 7 May 1878. A sketch writer in the Hobart Town Mercury of May 4 contributes, under the heading of "Socialites", the following additional particulars to the history of Mr. Frank Carroll, one of the recently-elected members for Light, South Australia:

Frank Carroll declared himself insolvent in Darwin according to the Northern Territory Times & Gazette of Saturday 6 October 1883, page 2.

Carroll died in Melbourne in 1887 at the age of 50¹⁵, but a death record has not been located for Emma Carroll (formerly Hogarth nee Homburg).

Researched by JK Stokes, July 2009