Career
He started a distillery on the banks of the River Torrens at Klemzig, but was closed down by the Governor George Grey
An attempt at sheep farming at Lovely Valley was unsuccessful, so he got a job at Moonta as accountant in the Boord Brothers store, then joined the rush to the Victorian goldfields. In June 1861 he joined the staff of J. L. Young"s Adelaide Educational Institution, and for 10 years taught English and bookkeeping and assisting in the school"s running, then around 1871 when the school transferred to Parkside, took a position with Saint Peter"s College, perhaps for its greater proximity to his Payneham Road, Stepney home. He retired from teaching late 1879 or early 1880.
Ann Eliza Bennett (ca 1835 – 5 November 1889)
Charles Bennett married Sarah (died 19 May 1880)
He died 28 May 1869 after Doctor Peel removed a section of spear which had penetrated a lung.
Bennett and William Guy were on a working party with surveyor Richard Knuckey at Fred"s Pass on the Adelaide River on 24 May 1869. They had been left alone in the camp to do their drafting work when the attack occurred.
J. West. Ogilvie Bennett had been on good terms with them previously and was working on an atlas of Wuna (Wulna) placenames. He was interred near the top of Fort Hill overlooking the harbour - the first white man to be buried in Darwin.
Guy completely recovered from his wounds.
Nathaniel William Ogle Bennett (ca1850 – 26 August 1882), an officer with H. M. Customs Service. William Ogle Bennett (21 January 1855 – 7 March 1906), a Government agent in Portuguese Lincoln then Moonta. North. West. O. Bennett and West. O. Bennett married sisters Rebecca Caroline Raphael and Laura Raphael on 9 June and 4 October 1877 respectively.
