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The Tuck family lived in Mount Torrens from the 1860's to the late 1930's when their family home was destroyed in a bushfire.
Edward (father) and Sophie (daughter) held the head teacher position at the Mount Torrens School from 1860-1912.
Land owned by the family was passed through generations up until the 1940's.
Sophie Tuck donated land in 1922 to enable the hall to be built.
Marie Tuck gifted paintings to the Hall Trust in 1937 and these paintings still decorate the hall today.
Edward Starkey TUCK
Edward Starkey TUCK
13 March 1827 – 9 August 1898
Married
Amy Harriet Tayler (1827 – 1901)
Children
Amy Jane Tayler (1849 – 1933)
Edward John Tayler (1853 – 1926)
Sophie Mary (1855–1943)
Bernard Henry (1858–1942)
Alfred Robert (1860–1938)
Henry Joseph "Harry" (1863 – 1946)
Marie Anne (1866 – 1947)
Elizabeth Frances Starkey "Francie" (1869 – 1946)
The first appointed teacher by the Central Board of Education in 1859 to Mount Torrens was Edward Starkey Tuck as head teacher. He remained teacher at Mount Torrens from 1860 - 1877.
In 1874 he purchased several parcels of land in Mount Torrens East, from Edward Prescott. He gifted one parcel of land for the Uniting Church, confirmed in his will in 1898. The other parcels of land were left to his family.
Sophie Mary
Sophie Mary
TUCK
TUCK
daughter of Edward Starkey Tuck
1855 – 31 December 1943
Sophie was in the first intake at Adelaide Teachers' College 1876.
She was Head Teacher at Mt Torrens School (1877–1912). Together with her father they had charge of the school as head teachers for 52 years, a Commonwealth record at the time.
Sophie never married.
Sophie inherited the title of land on which the hall sits in 1901 after the passing of her father in 1898 and then mother in 1901.
In 1922, Sophie presented the title of land to the Hall Trust.
In 1939 the Tuck family home at Mount Torrens was destroyed by bushfire and Sophie moved to Forestville for her remainder years.
Marie Anne
Marie Anne
TUCK
TUCK
daughter of Edward Starkey Tuck
5 September 1866 – 3 September 1947
Marie is a well regarded artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tuck
In December 1936 Marie Tuck offered to present 2 oil paintings to the hall, and the Hall Trust paid for them to be suitably framed. In 1937, at the Back to Mount Torrens centenary celebrations Marie gifted these two paintings to the Hall Trust:
"After the Proclamation"
and
"Shearing Murray View"
These paintings remain on display in the hall today.
An additional painting is also on display "Laundry Day"
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