William Grieg Evans

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Greg Matheson notes:
Mary Blewett Orchard was born on the 24th April 1855 in SA, and died at Fullarton, SA on the 30th October 1941. She married in Redruth, SA. on the 26th March 1878 to William Grieg EVANS (9th December 1847 - 5th February 1934). William was born in Yorkshire, arrived on "HMS Hercules" in 1853 and became a government surveyor who surveyed throughout the West of SA. 'Snave Hill' on Wilpena Pound was named from a reversed Evans, 'Fred's Knob' was named after Fred Orchard, and there are other recognisable names there as well. William and Mary Evans raised a family of seven children

William married Mary Blewett Orchard, daughter of Hannibal Orchard and Mary Blewett, on 26 Mar 1878 in Redruth, Burra, South Australia.¹⁹ (Mary Blewett Orchard was born on 24 Apr 1855 in Adelaide, South Australia and died on 30 Oct 1941 ¹⁹.)