The Barrier Miner, Friday 3 April 1914
(Broken Hill, New South Wales)

A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PIONEER
DIES AT KADINA
Mr. Henry Nankervis, sen., died on Monday at Kadina Park, at the age of 87 years. His career was an extremely active one (says the "Register"). Mr. Nankervis was born at St. Just, Cornwall, on October 27, 1826, and, upon attaining his manhood, emigrated to South Australia in the ship Aboukir in 1847. He proceeded to Burra, and worked for some time as a copper dresser. Subsequently, he built and opened the Courthouse Hotel, Redruth. After leaving there he built a hotel on the Port Wakefield road near Gum Creek, and relinquished that business to take the mail contract between Burra and Port Augusta, which he ran for six years. His next venture was in the Kadina Hotel, which was occupied for six years, and for a similar term he tried his hand at farming. For two years he had the Pier Hotel at Port Lincoln, and at Yorke’s Peninsula he combined milling with the trade of a licensed victualler. The deceased conducted the Melville Hotel for a couple of years, and the Yorketown flourmills for 14 years. Latterly Mr. Nankervis was in the District Hotel, Nairne. He was a man of many parts, and besides the occupations already mentioned, followed at different times the callings of a miner at the Victorian gold diggings, a stock dealer, and a brewer. He was one of the first to engage in farming operations on the peninsula. While Mr. Nankervis was at Kadina, the shepherd who discovered the Moonta Mines (Mr. P. Ryan) came to him at midnight with copper specimens which he had found in a wombat hole, and asked advice. Mr. Nankervis was the first man in whom Ryan confided. Deceased was extremely active in many progressive movements, but always declined to take a public position. He was a grand old pioneer, and well known all over the peninsula and the north. His good nature was exceptional. On one occasion, with one son and Mr. Kimber, he cut a track through the scrub from Kadina to Snowtown without any reward. Mr. Nankervis has left a sister (Mrs. Kimber, of Clare), three sons (Messrs. Henry, Adelaide; John and James, Kadina), and five daughters, Mrs. Fanny Maria Kimber (Clare), Mrs. Elizabeth Martin (Yorketown), and Misses Mary, Rosetta, and Maria. There are 17 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

The Advertiser, Thursday 2 April 1914
(Adelaide)

THE LATE MR. H. NANKERVIS
Mr. Henry Nankervis, sen., who died on Monday at Kadina Park, was 87 years of age, having been born at St. Just, Cornwall, on October 27, 1826. Few have engaged in a greater variety of occupations than Mr. Nankervis, for he was at different periods in his strenuous career copper dresser, mail contractor, gold miner, hotel-keeper, brewer, builder, farmer, stock dealer, and flour miller. Mr. Nankervis arrived in South Australia in 1847 by the ship Aboukir, and after working at Burra he built hotels at Redruth and on the Port Wakefield-road near Gum Creek. For six years he had the mail contract between Burra and Port Augusta. He later had the Pier Hotel at Port Lincoln, the Melville Hotel, and the District Hotel, Nairne, and for 14 years he conducted the Yorketown flour mills. Mr. Nankervis left three sons—Messrs. John and James (Kadina), and Henry (Adelaide), and five daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin (Yorketown), Mrs. Fanny Maria Kimber (Clare), and Misses Rosetta, Mary, and Maria Nankervis. He also left a sister, Mrs. Kimber, of Clare. There are 17 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
 
DEATHS
NANKERVIS.—On the 30th March, at Kadina Park, Henry Nankervis, aged 87 years.

The Register, Thursday 9 April 1914
(Adelaide)

DEATHS
NANKERVIS.—On the 30th March, at Kadina Park, Henry Nankervis, sen., aged 87 years. Formerly of Burra, Port Lincoln, Yorketown, and Nairne, S.A.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho