Thomas Hall Plush b. 1809

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Thomas Hall Plush was a photographic showman, house-painter and gilder. Plush and 'Professor' Robert Hall held a magic-lantern show in Adelaide, showing dissolving views and phantasmagoria in 1847.
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photographic showman, house-painter and gilder, brother of John Saddington Plush , came to South Australia in 1839 and set up in Adelaide as a painter and gilder. In February 1847 Plush and 'Professor’ Robert Hall held a magic-lantern show in Adelaide, showing dissolving views and phantasmagoria.

Plush married twice. His first wife, Rebecca, died in 1845, leaving a surviving (namesake) son and a daughter from the five children of their marriage. The following year he married Catharine Hoskin, an Adelaide dressmaker; they had seven children. He died at Angaston on 27 October 1867 and was buried in the Congregational section of the Angaston Cemetery.

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1992
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