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Family of Boyle Travers FINNISS and Anne Frances ROGERSON
| Husband: | Boyle Travers FINNISS (1807-1893) | |
| Wife: | Anne Frances ROGERSON (1819-1858) | |
| Children: | Fanny Lipson FINNISS (1836-1865) | |
| Henry John FINNISS (1845-1846) | ||
| Boyle Travers Nixon FINNISS (1839-1853) | ||
| Julia Howard FINNISS (1840-1918) | ||
| William Charles Maxwell FINNISS (1842-1919) | ||
| Emily Anne FINNISS (1844- ) | ||
| Frederick Robert FINNISS (1847-1908) | ||
| Marriage | 1835 | Dublin |
Husband: Boyle Travers FINNISS
| Name: | Boyle Travers FINNISS 1,2 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | John FINNIS (1785-1854) | |
| Mother: | Susanna MAJOR (1799-1815) | |
| Birth | 18 Aug 1807 | off Cape of Good Hope aboard vessel 'Warbey' |
| Death | 24 Dec 1893 (age 86) | Kensington Park, nr Adelaide |
Wife: Anne Frances ROGERSON
| Name: | Anne Frances ROGERSON 1 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 9 Jan 1819 | Mullingar, Ireland |
| Death | 3 Jan 1858 (age 38) | Traversbrook, Australia |
Child 1: Fanny Lipson FINNISS
| Name: | Fanny Lipson FINNISS 1 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Frederick George MORGAN (1836?- ) | |
| Birth | 31 Dec 1836 | Rapid Bay, South Australia |
| Baptism | Bruce Ingram | |
| Death | 30 May 1865 (age 28) | Norwood, South Australia |
Child 2: Henry John FINNISS
| Name: | Henry John FINNISS 1,3 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 29 Sep 1845 | Adelaide |
| Death | 5 Dec 1846 (age 1) | Adelaide |
Child 3: Boyle Travers Nixon FINNISS
| Name: | Boyle Travers Nixon FINNISS 1,3 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 9 Jan 1839 | Australia |
| Death | 18 Dec 1853 (age 14) | River Murray, Australia |
Child 4: Julia Howard FINNISS
| Name: | Julia Howard FINNISS 1,3 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1 Aug 1840 | Adelaide |
| Death | 16 Oct 1918 (age 78) | St Peters, Adelaide |
Child 5: William Charles Maxwell FINNISS
| Name: | William Charles Maxwell FINNISS 1,3 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 19 Apr 1842 | Burnside, Adelaide |
| Death | 15 Apr 1919 (age 76) | St. Peters, Adelaide |
Child 6: Emily Anne FINNISS
| Name: | Emily Anne FINNISS 1,3 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | John Mitchell BORROW (1844?- ) | |
| Birth | 9 Apr 1844 | Australia |
Child 7: Frederick Robert FINNISS
| Name: | Frederick Robert FINNISS 1,3 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Mary Anne PEAT (1847?- ) | |
| Birth | 6 Oct 1847 | Traversbrook, Australia |
| Death | 17 Oct 1908 (age 61) | Palmerston, Australia |
Note on Husband: Boyle Travers FINNISS (1)
source Bruce Ingram/Malcolm Purvis
Note on Husband: Boyle Travers FINNISS (2)
Elected: 1857, by Adelaide to new House of Assembly
Fact 1: Bet. October 24, 1856 - August 21, 1857, First premier of South Australia
Fact 2: Bet. 1833 - 1844, superintended construction of major bridge in Mauritius
Fact 4: November 28, 1843, Commissioner of police & police magistrate
Fact 5: April 28, 1847, Registrar-General & Treasurer
Fact 6: March 1864, Appointed government resident in the NorthernTerritories
Fact 7: Portrait by S.T. Gill in the National Gallery, Adelaide
Military service: 1825, Ensign in the 88th regiment
Boyle Travers Finnis, a top-ranking Sandhurst cadet, army officer, surveyor, public servant and politician, played an important role in the establishment of South Australia. He became involved with the venture in October 1835 and was an early colonist arriving in South Australia before the 'Buffalo'. A prominent public figure during the first decades of South Australian settlement, in 1857 Boyle Finniss became the first Premier in the newly formed South Australian Parliament. Arriving from England at Kangaroo Island in 1836, he was an assistant to Surveyor-General Colonel William Light, and played a role in the laying out of the City of Adelaide and its immediate surroundings. In 1838 he formed a surveying firm with Light, and in the early 1840's established several other business interests. The eventual failure of these saw him return to public service, first as Commissioner of Police, then as Treasurer. He was appointed Colonial Secretary in 1851 with the approval of the semi-democratic enlarged Legislative Council, a position in which he remained until it was made redundant by the establishment of self-government as set out under the radical new constitution of 1856. Although he officially became Premier in 1856 by virtue of his previous status asColonial Secretary, he did not take an active role until his election to the House of Assembly in the first Parliamentary elections of March 1857. As was to be the case with many of his successors, his Premiership was a brief one, lasting less than fourmonths from April to August 1857. He was active in politics until 1862 and held several positions in public office, including Auditor-General from 1876 to his resignation in 1881. Finniss wrote 'The Constitutional History of South Australia' in his retirement, reflecting that it was largely the lack of clear, party-based ideologies that caused such political instability in the early years of self-government - a period that would see forty seven different governments in the thirty six years to 1893. Finniss died in 1893, in Adelaide.
Note on Husband: Boyle Travers FINNISS (3)
Burial: West Terrace Cemetary.
Sources
| 1 | "File (merged): D:\my docs\Finnis family tree\Finnis Gedcom.ged". Record originated in... |
| 2 | Bruce Ingram/Malcolm Purvis |
| 3 | Bruce Ingram |