Shep's Place Family Tree

Annie was known as Annie Mowbray, rather than Annie Harris because she was in the care of Dr. and Mrs. Mowbray of Port Augusta, South Australia.

Annie married as Harris, so had not been legally adopted by the Dr. Mowbray and his wife who had brought Annie out from England. Dr. Mowbray could not be traced in the directories. Osmond's sister said that her sister-in-law Annie was the illegitimate child of the daughter of an English earl, disposed of by sending her to the Colony. The only earl with the surname of Harris was Malmesbury, created in 1800. If this was so none of the children knew of it, or the name of Annie Melina's parents. On the marriage certificate she was by then resident at Norwood.