Nonington: Emigration to Adelaide, Australia 1859
In May 1849, the Treasurer of the Eastry Union, which
Nonington became a part in 1834, granted the Parish Vestry permission to
grant money to ‘facilitate the emigration’ to Adelaide, Australia, of some
poor parishioners. The Parish Clerk, Mr. Henry Spanton, on receipt of
Colonial and Land Unification Office Licences Nos. 16141 and 16157
accordingly advanced the sum of £2.0.0. each. Other single men given
assistance to emigrate to Adelaide, were labourers Richard Makey, 28,
Henry Morris, 26, and George Kelton, 19, and carpenter Charles Cast, 20,
but requests from some married men with families were refused.