Marryatville is a small suburb about 4–5 kilometres (2.5–3.1 mi) east of Adelaide's central business district, in the local council area of City of Norwood Payneham St Peters.

Severe floods in November 2005 overflowed both creeks' banks and caused some damage to both MHS and Loreto, as well as some houses.

[3] Before British colonisation of South Australia and subsequent European settlement, Marryatville was inhabited by one of the groups who later collectively became known as the Kaurna peoples.

[4] George Brunskill (1799–1866), left Sandford, Cumbria (then in the historic county of Westmorland) with his wife Sarah[5] (née Apsey), departing London in November 1838 on board the Thomas Harrison[6] and arriving in Port Adelaide in February 1839.

[7][8] Brunskill first "leased a portion of section 290, comprising 66 acres (27 ha), from the South Australian Company with a right to purchase the freehold", in the area now known as Marryatville.

[9] An undated document, estimated c.1840 by the State Library, shows a mortgage agreement for the sum of £300 between Brunskill and the Savings Bank of South Australia, describing an eight-roomed brick home to be built on 6.5 acres.

[10] In a letter written in August 1839, Brunskill describes the countryside as "magnificent" after rains, with trees, flowers, vegetables all flourishing.

His 67 acres leased from the Company provide lizards and goannas for "excellent eating", and he says that "the Blacks" (the local Kaurna people) hardly ever come near them, are "harmless" and do not steal; he lent an axe which was promptly returned.

The suburb's name thus came from Augusta Sophia Marryat, wife of the fifth Governor of South Australia, Sir Henry Young, after their arrival in the colony in 1848.

[9]In 1851, George Hall founded one of South Australia's first aerated waters companies in Ringmore (now Dudley) Road.

[20] In 1937, Alfred Traeger, inventor of the pedal radio, moved his workshop to larger premises at 11 Dudley Road, where the firm stayed in operation until his death in 1980.

He found the two-storey home unsuitable for his needs and built the grand Victorian mansion now known as Eden Park,[5] designed by architect Alfred Wells.

[24] The large house on the corner of present-day Portrush and Kensington Roads (and now part of Loreto College), known as The Acacias, was built in 1874-5[25] by Dr J.M.

After several other owners, Gunson purchased the land in August 1874, built the house on a terrace above First Creek and developed the gardens.

Elisha Hackett cultivated the garden of his house in Sydenham Road, creating the nursery, and in 1854 persuaded his brother Walter, who had gone to Victoria in 1851, to join him in business.

The plot was bought from Brunskill, and was described as a long strip of land, formerly part of a paddock used as a shortcut by Burnside people going to St Matthew's Church.

Eden Park, the grand two-storey Victorian house built by the Scarfe family, is now used as the high school's Year 12 campus; the timber stables, have been converted into a music centre.

On the south side of Kensington Road in Leabrook is the heritage-listed building built in 1883 as the original Marryatville Primary School, now housing a large health centre[38] and restaurant.