106:, and soon took over the shop next door, number 102. The company was incorporated on 15 March 1912. In 1920 Gerard & Goodman began making conduit fittings, branded "Clipsal", referring to their fittings being compatible with those from other manufacturers. In 1921 he bought the company's first freehold property, in Synagogue Place. As business expanded and diversified, he bought the shop at 132 Rundle street for an electrical and radio retail and repair shop. That arm of the business was later transferred to 192â196 Rundle Street east, adjacent to the Synagogue Place warehouse, which had meanwhile expanded to four storeys.
176:. In gratitude for the care she received there, Alf commissioned the architect Gordon Brown to design and build what came to be called the Gerard Memorial Chapel in their grounds. It was opened on Saturday 3 May 1958; Elsie died a little over a year later. In 1988 the Gerard brothers established a chapel maintenance fund in her memory. Alfred and Elsie were buried in the Payneham cemetery, as were many of their family.
83:, then at the urging of his sister Annie returned to South Australia, but shortly moved to Broken Hill, where he opened his own camera shop in 1897. After three years he returned to Adelaide, and found work with flour millers Edwin Davey & Sons in Salisbury, as engineer and manager of their electric lighting plant. Annie introduced him to Elsie Goodman; they married on 26 March 1902.
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for the UAM and named Gerard
Aboriginal Community in his honour. A. E. Gerard had a hands-on involvement in the Community's management, but after his death the facility became so run down that the Gerard brothers took away the portrait of their father and persuaded the UAM to sell the property to the
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was founded in 1929 to bring education to isolated
Aboriginal children, and following a policy which is now discredited but honourable and based on Christian values, this involved children being displaced from their families, sometimes unwillingly. Gerard was at the forefront in founding and
231:(Alfred) Hubert Gerard (14 March 1903 â 22 March 1992) married Doris Alma Reid ( â 25 August 1932) in October 1927. He married again, to Ivy Emerald Violet Gurner ( â c. 12 April 2000). His daughter Nancy Joy Gerard (28 May 1932 â ) married Ian MacLeod, mayor of
63:, the son of William Gerard and Emily nÊe Russell. He was educated at Burra Public School, and his first job was with John Perry's Burra Carriage Factory, then in 1894 left for Western Australia. There he worked for the Railways, then for
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Australian outback he became aware of the number of children of Aboriginal women who had been fathered by itinerant European men, and appeared to be suffering neglect and susceptible to exploitation. The
56:, where he found work as a trolley driver at the mine. They had two children: Sarah Ann "Annie" Gerard (1872 â 20 May 1946), who married James Thomas Walker on 27 June 1894 and lived at Burra, and Alfred Edward Gerard.
98:, he set up his own contracting business in their rented home, and soon had enough work to hire an assistant. When his workforce had reached five he moved the business into the basement of the bicycle shop at 200
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William Gerard (c. 1843 â c. 24 May 1916) of
Tintinhull, Somerset, married Emily Russell (c. 1845 â 14 June 1908) on 12 October 1865. Two months later they left for South Australia on the
316:. He married Flaida May "Maye" Evans ( â 6 November 1989) on 28 October 1938. He married again, to Rita Joyce Luke, nÊe Rogers (1917 â 28 December 2007) on 11 June 1992
292:. He married Hestia Mary "Hess" Follett ( â 8 April 1978) in 1935. He married again in 1974, to Audrey Gabrielle "Gay" Horowitz, nÊe Schultze (1919 â c. 4 July 1994).
102:. The company name "Gerard and Goodman" was registered on 3 August 1908 and in 1910 they moved; for a few months they rented premises in Twin Street. then to 100
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Hamilton Gerard (27 September 1915 â 31 December 2005) educated at North Adelaide Public School, and Prince Alfred College and the
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506:Historical Society of South Australia 2003
482:Ears of corn : from a layman to laymen
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