Samuel Stocks
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Samuel Stocks
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Samuel Stocks and his son Samuel Stocks, jun. were businessmen in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. Stocks was a citizen of Heaton Mersey, near Manchester, where he was senior partner of the bleaching firm of Stocks and Tait which failed during the Panic of 1847. He contested, unsuccessfully, the parliamentary seat of Stockport before migrating to South Australia. He arrived in Adelaide via Sydney on the Dorset on 27 August 1843.
At some stage he returned to England and arrived ba
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Businessman early in the life of the colony of South Australia
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2023-09-04T12:43:30Z
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