 Before European settlement, Marryatville was inhabited by one of the groups who later collectively became known as the Kaurna peoples.George Brunskill (1799-1866), left Sandford, Cumbria (then in the historic county of Westmorland) with his wife Sarah (née Apsey), departing London in November 1838 on board the "Thomas Harrison" and arriving in Port Adelaide in February 1839.Both of their young children died before the ship sailed.