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Hamilton (postcode 5373) is a small township in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. It is about 120 km northeast of Adelaide, South Australia, about 23 km north of Kapunda. Once a stop for the mining carts going from Adelaide to Burra, but now just a small agricultural district.

Hamilton was founded by George Weighton Robertson. George Weighton Robertson was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland in about 1818. As a young single man, George sailed to Australia in 1836 aboard the “Tam o’Shanter”, one of the First Fleet of South Australia; 9 ships bringing the first European settlers to South Australia, arriving in December that year. In 1841 he was living at Thebarton with his first wife Margaret Finn (believed born in Dublin, Ireland in about 1820). They had six children, 2 daughters and 4 sons.

In 1848 George obtained the licence to the Red Lion Hotel in Rundle Street, Adelaide, before obtaining a grant of land north of Kapunda. He drew up a plan for a town he called Hamilton, named the streets for his children, built a hotel in 1850 (destroyed by fire in about 1875) and donated land for a church.

In 1863, George’s eldest son David married Margaret Stribling, whose family owned the Wheatsheaf Inn at Allendale North near Kapunda, and later became the licensee. George died on 10 June 1871 near the Wheatsheaf. In an extraordinary twist of fate, when returning to Hamilton, the cart in which he was a passenger collided with another cart being driven from Hamilton by his son David.
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