Aleck King

The photo of Aleck King, a market gardener in Caltowie, South Australia

Aleck King

Image Courtesy of: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+280/1/3/304

A Chinese man identified as Aleck King of Caltowie who had lived in South Australia for sixty-one years, had been naturalised for forty years, and was returning to China for a visit. Aleck married Emily Parsons, formerly of Dorset, in Adelaide and they moved to Caltowie where he became a market gardener.

The Caltowie correspondent for The Areas Express, 9 June 1877, page 3, reports: "A Chinaman named King has started a garden in this township, and he has now a fine lot of vegetables coming on rapidly".

The couple do not appear to have had children. Emily King died at Caltowie, aged 67, on 24 August 1907. Her husband Aleck placed death notices in several SA newspapers and had a large white marble headstone erected on her grave at Caltowie Cemetery.

Source: State Library of South Australia