Shep's Place Family Tree

After Herbert's childhood in Uley/One Tree Hill and Port Lincoln, he may have lived in Blinman for a few years before becoming a surveyor at Milang, Ketchowla and other Murray River towns. Catherine Thomson's father was overseer at Caurnamont Station on the River Murray when the property was owned by Mr. George Melrose, his brother-in-law ‎(husband of Euphemia)‎. In 1861 Robert Thomson bought Caurnamont Station where he and his wife Elizabeth raised a family of eight daughters and two sons.

The Buttfields were living in Milang when their first child was born on November 1, 1879, Elizabeth Olive. Two years later a son was born, Robert Thomson Buttfield at the Buttfield's home on Young Street, Parkside ‎(Adelaide)‎, South Australia. In 1885 Lillie Alice May was also born in Parkside.

Certificate of Particulars
I hereby certify, that on the eleventh day of March 1889 we held an Inquest of Death at the Police Court Windorah in the Police District of Windorah and that the following particulars were disclosed to us:
Name of deceased: Herbert Pearce Buttfield
Height, colour of hair, peculiar clothing, and any other means of identity:
About 5 ft 8 and a half inches, light brown hair, bushy beard and moustache --fully identified.
Profession or calling: Surveyor
Where found and when: Fish ponds Keeroongooloo Run on 20th February 1889.
Date of death: supposed 16th February, 1889.
Supposed cause of death: Exhaustion from want of water or sunstroke.
Persons last seen in company of deceased: Charles Whitehead
No one suspected.
Accused: nil
Names, residences, and callings of witnesses:
John Groughran, Police Constable, Joseph Bridle Miner, Keeroongooloo, Charles Whitehea, Keeroongooloo
Suspicious circumstances: Nil.
Wm. M. Grant J.P.
William Williamson, J.P.