Adelaide. Payneham. Headstone of William Henry Cornish in the Payneham cemetery. He was Chief Surveyor not to be confused with Surveyor General of South Australia.
He was born in 1849 in Kensington Adelaide and died at North Terrace Adelaide when just 38 years of age. HIs obituary appeared in the Adelaide Evening Journal on 17 May 1888.
He entered the government Survey Department in 1865 when he was 16 years old as a cadet. The Surveyor General by then was George Goyder. From 1868 to 1870 he worked with George Goyder on surveying the Northern Territory which was then part of the colony South Australia. In 1874 he was appointed as a surveyor and in 1877 as a trigonometrical survey. By then he was 29 years old. In 1882 he was appointed as Chief Surveyor but this position was abolished in 1883. In early 1886 he worked on the boundary between South Australia New South Wales and Queensland and he endured much hardship resulting in ill health. When he returned to Adelaide in June he was ill. The next year he sailed to England for a trip. He returned in 1888 and died shortly thereafter.
Adelaide. Payneham. Headstone of William Henry Cornish in the Payneham cemetery. He was Chief Surveyor not to be confused with Surveyor General of South Australia.
He was born in 1849 in Kensington Adelaide and died at North Terrace Adelaide when just 38 years of age. HIs obituary appeared in the Adelaide Evening Journal on 17 May 1888.
He entered the government Survey Department in 1865 when he was 16 years old as a cadet. The Surveyor General by then was George Goyder. From 1868 to 1870 he worked with George Goyder on surveying the Northern Territory which was then part of the colony South Australia. In 1874 he was appointed as a surveyor and in 1877 as a trigonometrical survey. By then he was 29 years old. In 1882 he was appointed as Chief Surveyor but this position was abolished in 1883. In early 1886 he worked on the boundary between South Australia New South Wales and Queensland and he endured much hardship resulting in ill health. When he returned to Adelaide in June he was ill. The next year he sailed to England for a trip. He returned in 1888 and died shortly thereafter.