Background
Carrington was born in Nottinghamshire and served an apprenticeship in the drapery business.
Carrington was born in Nottinghamshire and served an apprenticeship in the drapery business.
The trip was by all accounts an unpleasant experience for the passengers) He set up in business in Kapunda and invested heavily in land there. They returned in 1861. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in October 1857.
Their children included:
Eldest daughter died in England c.
1860
Harriet Garrett Smedley (1845 – 16 March 1879) married Daniel Henry Cudmore on 20 February 1872. Anne Emma Smedley ( – 13 October 1937) married Alfred Palmer of Kapunda on 27 September 1870
Maria P. "Lilla" Smedley married George M. Henderson of Greenock on 14 June 1877
only son Samuel Smedley married Alice C. Saunders of Clare on 12 March 1884 and lived at Brougham Place.
Their son Arthur Carrington Smedley (19 November 1886 – 19 August 1915) lost a leg at Gallipoli, and reportedly died, but whose papers were lost so for a time was posted as "missing". Their home for around nine years was the Peacock mansion "Palm House" in Hackney, later part of Saint Peter"s College.
In 1883 they moved to "Torrens Villa", Ellen Street, Semaphore, where he died.