Chequered lives
Iola Hack Mathews writes about some remarkable Friends
John Barton Hack was my great-great-grandfather. He was known as Barton. I live in Melbourne, Australia and recently visited Chichester to give a talk in the Friends Meeting house about my Quaker ancestors, particularly about John Barton Hack. Just around the corner from the Meeting house is an old street named Little London, and number thirty was the Hack family home. A plaque on the front explains that John Barton Hack – ‘a founder of Adelaide’ – lived there. Next door, at number twenty-nine, is a large building which was originally the family’s leather business. The story of this family has now been told in my book Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the early days of South Australia.
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