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The Grange was the home built by Charles Sturt in 1840 and where he lived with his wife Charlotte and 3 children before returning to England in 1853. It was also where his youngest and only daughter Charlotte Eyre Sturt was born in 1843.
DID THEY HAVE ANY CHILDREN?
Charles Sturt is the eldest son (of thirteen children) of Thomas Lenox Napier Sturt. At the age of five, Charles was sent to England for his education and after attending a preparatory school he was sent to Harrow in 1810. In 1812, Charles went to Cambridge to speak with Mr. Preston (he was part of the parliment back in 1812) to speak about attending Cambridge University, but his father wasn't very wealthy and couldn't afford for his son to attend the great university. On the 9th of September 1813, Sturt joined the 18th Regiment.
Charles wanted to be the first explorer to place his foot in the "middle" of Australia. In August 1844, he set out with a party of 15 men, 200 sheep, six drays and a boat to explore north-western New South Wales and to advance into central Australia. They travelled along the Murray River and Darling River before passing the future site of Broken Hill, but then they became stranded for months by the extreme summer conditions that Australia has. When the rain eventually came Charles moved north and established a depot at Fort Grey in today's Sturt National Park. With a small group of men, including explorer John McDouall Stuart, Sturt pressed on across Sturt's Stony Desert and into the Simpson Desert, at which point he was unable to go further and turned back to where he started. He tried again but his health wasn't the best and was forced to stop his attempts. Harris Browne was a doctor on the expedition and took over Charles's job while he was a bit ill.
Charles Sturt had a couple of occupations before being a explorer. These occupations include:
Colonial Administrator Military Secretary and a Grazier.
HOW DID CHARLES STURT DIE?
On 20 September 1834 Charles married Charlotte Christiana Greene, daughter of an old family friend.
Charles Sturt's second expedition was discovering the Murray River. On 3 November 1829 this second expedition started in Sydney. Charles group consisted of Sturt, his servant Joseph Harris, two soldiers, eight convicts and George McLean. They went around the country until they settled on the 28 November when they left Warby's station near Gundagai. After many crossings of the Murrumbidgee, they arrived at the Lachlan. After a few days of resting, they came across a river which Charles and his party where all exploring the river. After days of discovering it, they decided to call the river the Murray River.
WHAT WAS CHARLES STURT'S FAMILY BACKROUND AND EDUCATION?
Charles Sturt died on the 16th of June, 1869. He died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. His death was very sudden and unexpectant.
It was part of Charles Sturt's duties. Charles Sturt was Surveyor-General of South Australia, and in this position, he was required to explore. Charles Sturt was one of Australia's most important inland explorers that explored parts of Australia.
Charles Sturt was born on the 28th of April, 1795. He was born in a small town in Bengal, British India. He was one of 13 children, and was the oldest boy in the family.
Charles Sturt discovered and explored many well known attractions in Australia that we know of today. He explored 3 major expeditions one of them being exploring Adelaide.
Charles Sturt was an incredible man with a great imagination. He explored and discovered many great landmarks and tourist attractions like many rivers and such. He all ways had high expectations of what he could do and never wanted to ever give up. He was an incredible explorer and a great discover as well.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/
http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/australia.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/european_exploration_of_Australia
Australian Dictionary Of Biography
Charles Sturt assembled a party including Mr Poole who went with him as a surveyor, Mr Browne as a surgeon an the draughtsman was Mr J Mc Douall Stuart. He also brought along soldiers and convicts in the party. Some equipment that he brought with him was a boat, salted meat, fresh water, guns and barrels. The boat was a whale boat which he took with him in pieces and he assembled this when he was ready to sail the river.
Early in 1847 Charles went to England on leave. He arrived in October and was presented with the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal. Throughout this time he was suffering with poor eyesight. Charles returned to Adelaide with his family, arriving back in August 1849. He was given the job of colonial secretary and ensured that roads would be built but could not continue that promise as he was suffering from bad eyesight again. So his family and himself sailed back to England and lived there for the rest of his life. They also moved back to ensure that his kids got the best education that they could get. Unfortunately, the town that there were living in, Cheltenham, was unhealthy at the time so this caused his family to get ill and sadly kill Charles Sturt.
Charles Sturt and his whale boat.