George Mawbey and his wife Ann (nee Williams) arrived in the penal colony of New South Wales in the early 1830s. In 1839, the year after they married, they went to the fledgling province of South Australia for free settlers. George ran Refreshment Rooms in the commercial district, but his business venture did not work out so the couple returned to Sydney in 1840.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
On 1 December 1839, the population of the province [of South Australia] was 10,200. Royal South Australian Almanack 1840
