Tolley family

Albion James Tolley (1819–1901), his wife Fanny, née Darbon, (1830–1899) and three children arrived in South Australia aboard Gipsy in August 1853.

In 1883 Albion took on his brother Frederick as partner as A. E. & F. Tolley, and rented a section of Thomas Hardy and Sons' premises at 85 Currie Street, which they did not fully relinquish until 1901.

[8] It was purchased by Hakan Linde (1822 – 17 January 1907), a coppersmith from Sweden, who built a distillation plant on the site, at some stage named the "Phoenix Distillery",[9] and operated it profitably.

The two brothers returned to Adelaide in December 1886 and May 1887, followed by Scott in 1888, in which year they purchased the "Phoenix Distillery" and promptly set about enlarging the facilities.

[14] A son, John Archibald Linnett (died 1954), was a longtime resident of American River, Kangaroo Island.

In the early 1890s the grape-growers of Nuriootpa, Angaston and Tanunda were facing the prospect of another year's surplus with the concomitant problems of low prices and having to dump tons of rotting grapes.

They appealed to the Tolleys to erect a distillery in their midst, and gave to the company as a "sweetener" a few acres of land[15] at the intersection of Angaston and Tanunda Roads, Nuriootpa.

[14] Sam and Len Tolley took over management of the company around this time, and a very large export market was developed; over half the brandy production going to Singapore and Malaya.

His son Leonard J. Tolley succeeded him as governing director of the firm, producing mostly bulk wine for interstate customers.

[21] Albion James Tolley (1819 – 12 January[22] 1901) and Fanny Tolley, née Darbon or D'Arbon, (1830 – 27 December 1899) emigrated to Australia aboard Gipsy, arriving in August 1853, lived at Brougham Place, North Adelaide; "Shirley Lodge" Beulah Road, Norwood, South Australia, retired to "The Grange", South Norwood, Surrey, England by 1885, and died at his home "Hurstleigh" in the same suburb.