John Finnis (captain)

[1][2] In 1839 Finnis, with Hampden Dutton and Duncan McFarlane, purchased 4000 acres (the Mount Barker Special Survey, the first such), to the chagrin of John Barton Hack, who was squatting there and had no intimation of the Special Survey.

The following year he drove 10,000 sheep from New South Wales to Adelaide with Nelson and John Tooth,[4] then supervised several later musters.

[7] He then purchased the ship and made other voyages, but the Joseph Albino was impounded in America with no redress.

Children of Rosa and Charles included:[9] On 3 September 1856, at his home in Franklin Street, Adelaide, Finnis married Mary Ann Russell, a daughter of his sister.

James Pollitt was charged under canon law, on the information of G. S. Kingston, of officiating at a clandestine marriage within the Anglican Church's prohibited bounds of consanguity, and had his licence suspended for a year.