Skip to toolbar
  • Home
  • Browse All
  • Search
  • My History
  • Login
  • Upload
  • More
  • Contact Us
  • Featured Sites
  • Login
  • Register
1299

Warning. Cloning this item will not retain its parent-child relationship.

Open/Close Toolbox
    Format: Oral history
    Parent Person
    • Douglas Gordon Murrie
    Linked To
    Transcript
    • Interview with Douglas Gordon Murrie [transcript] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson
    Recollections
    Add
    no stories yet
    Tweet this on TwitterShare this on FacebookShare this on LinkedInShare this on TumblrShare this via email
    Tools
    DownloadAdd to My CollectionContact us about thisCitation for this item
    Welcome GuestLogin
    • Help
    • Letters and Diaries
      • -1850
      • 1851-1900
      • 1901-1950
      • 1951-2000
    • Oral History
      • 1951-2000
      • 2001-
      • Living in Woomera
      • S. A. Speaks: An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930
      • Treading out the vintage
      • Yara: wisdom of reciprocity oral history project
    • Themes
      • Emigration to South Australia
      • Exploring Antarctica
      • Federation
      • From clay tablet to iPad
      • Gold Rush and Emigration
      • Sport
      • Time, continuity and change
      • Toys and games
      • Women's suffrage in South Australia
    • Treasures
      • -1850
      • 1851-1900
      • 1901-1950
      • 1951-2000
      • 2001-
      • All treasures
      • Artwork
      • Audio
      • Manuscript
      • Map or plan
      • Object
      • Photograph
      • Publication
      • Video
    • Featured Collections
      • Clara Serena: from Lobethal to the London stage
      • Remember my story: COVID-19
      • Right Wrongs: The 1967 Referendum, Our Constitution and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives
      • Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, pioneer aviators
      • South Australians at War

    Menu

    • Help
    • Letters and Diaries
      • -1850
      • 1851-1900
      • 1901-1950
      • 1951-2000
    • Oral History
      • 1951-2000
      • 2001-
      • Living in Woomera
      • S. A. Speaks: An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930
      • Treading out the vintage
      • Yara: wisdom of reciprocity oral history project
    • Themes
      • Emigration to South Australia
      • Exploring Antarctica
      • Federation
      • From clay tablet to iPad
      • Gold Rush and Emigration
      • Sport
      • Time, continuity and change
      • Toys and games
      • Women's suffrage in South Australia
    • Treasures
      • -1850
      • 1851-1900
      • 1901-1950
      • 1951-2000
      • 2001-
      • All treasures
      • Artwork
      • Audio
      • Manuscript
      • Map or plan
      • Object
      • Photograph
      • Publication
      • Video
    • Featured Collections
      • Clara Serena: from Lobethal to the London stage
      • Remember my story: COVID-19
      • Right Wrongs: The 1967 Referendum, Our Constitution and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives
      • Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, pioneer aviators
      • South Australians at War
    Previous: Interview with Douglas Gordon Murrie [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 3 of 6Next: Interview with Douglas Gordon Murrie [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 5 of 6Douglas Gordon Murrie

    Interview with Douglas Gordon Murrie [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 4 of 6

    Expand/collapse
    Reference
    SLSA catalogueCatalogue RecordSLSA referenceOH 1/29
    Interview details
    CreatorMurrie, Douglas Gordon, 1899-1989Additional creatorRobertson, Beth M., 1957-TitleInterview with Douglas Gordon Murrie [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 4 of 6Date (year)1986Date recordedRecorded on 18 March 1986Description

    Douglas Murrie was born in Georgetown where his father managed a general store for his father. In 1911 Douglas's paternal grandfather's business interests failed and the Douglas family found themselves without a home or livelihood. They moved to Adelaide, first to rented rooms and a shared kitchen in the Rosetta Mansions in Franklin Street. His father soon found work as a wheat buyer for Farmers' Union and Douglas and his brother and sister finished their schooling and began working to help support the household. After a year helping at his maternal grandfather's store in Yacka, Douglas began, in 1915, thirty one years at G & R Wills' Gawler Place warehouse, rising from postboy to second-in-charge of the perfumery department by 1930. He married in 1926 and his first child was born in 1927, and then twins in 1931. In 1946, and by then manager of the stationery department, Mr Murrie left G & R Wills to begin his own wholesale handbag business and did not retire until 1982

    Recording length3 hours
    Relates to
    TranscriptInterview with Douglas Gordon Murrie [transcript] Interviewer: Beth M. RobertsonCollection titleS. A. Speaks': An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930SubjectMurrie, Douglas Gordon, 1899-1989G. & R. Wills & Co EmployeesStores, Retail -- South Australia -- YackaFloods -- South Australia -- Upper North RegionCatholics -- South Australia -- Upper North RegionCamping -- South Australia -- GlenelgTraveling sales personnel -- South AustraliaWarehouses -- South Australia -- AdelaideGeorgetown (S.A.)Yacka (S.A.)
    Use
    Copying and publication

    Copyright is assigned to the Libraries Board of South Australia with unreserved use by State Library of South Australia customers. 

    Permission to use this item for any purpose, including publishing, is not required from the State Library under these conditions of use.

    Buy a copy.

    OH001_029_02_S2_F.wav

    To view this media file please enable JavaScript and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 audio/video

    Captions/Tags
    • Move to Adelaide 248 secs
    • Wests Coffee Palace Hindley Street 52 secs
    • Church and friends 105 secs
    • Brother Jim enlistment and time in WW1 177 secs
    • Avoiding enlistment WW1 casualties from Yacka 65 secs
    • compulsory military training Signalling Engineers 95 secs
    • Wilingness to go to war 92 secs
    • Move to Rosetta Mansions Adelaide 1911 287 secs
    • Tenants at Rosetta Mansions 135 secs
    • Fathers work at Farmers Union 44 secs
    • First impressions of Adelaide finding a church 205 secs
    • Move to St Peters 1913 then Prospect 268 secs
    • Character of father and mother 52 secs
    Murrie, Douglas Gordon, 1899-1989, Interview with Douglas Gordon Murrie [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson, Part 4 of 6. State Library of South Australia, accessed 03/02/2023, https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/1299
    Privacy Policy | Disclaimer
    Content on this site may be subject to Copyright, please contact State Library of South Australia before any reuse if you are unsure.
    RECOLLECT is Copyright © 2011-2023 by Recollect Limited | Page rendered in 0.8551 seconds