Payneham is an eastern suburb of
Adelaide in the
City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is part of a string of suburbs in Adelaide's east with a high proportion of Adelaide's Italian-Australian and French-Australian residents, many of whom can be traced back to the large-scale migration following the
Second World War.
Payneham's northern boundary is
Payneham Road
Lower North East Road (and its southwestern sections as North Terrace and Payneham Road) is an arterial road in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. It links the north-eastern corner of Adelaide to Houghton in the Adelaide Hil ...
, and
Portrush Road passes south–north through the middle of the suburb.
History
Payneham was named for himself by
Samuel Payne (c. 1803–1847), who with his wife Ann, née Maslen, and two children arrived in April 1838 aboard ''Lord Goderich'' from London, and occupied section 285,
Hundred of Adelaide in 1839.
opened on 18 July 1850 and was renamed
Marden in 1968.
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
French-Australian culture
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