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William and Grenfell streets, previously "Prince's crockery shop". They needed a warehouse to support their burgeoning wholesale trade, so took over the adjoining King William Street
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Rebecca Godfrey, of Rockford, Ireland; they had one child, a son who died young. He was an active supporter of the Presbyterian Church, YMCA and the School of Mines. He was a member of the
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243:(July 1859 – 1950) was with the firm 1875–1925, and head of the Manchester department. He represented South Australia in four sports: football, cricket, baseball, and bowls and excelled in several others. He married Mary Elizabeth Walters in 1892.
231:(1839–1917) with the firm in 1858–1915, made a partner c. 1885, and served as manager of the Melbourne office. He was elected president of the SA Sunday School Union 1893. His son Harry M. Knowles (1873–1907) was also with the company.
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37:(28 December 1829 – 6 January 1907) and William Mackintosh Murray (c. 1831 – 25 November 1920), which became the wholesale draper D. & W. Murray Limited, with warehouses in three States, then
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