Shep's Place Family Tree

"I came here in 1839 in the ship Thomas Hareson we went to live in the old emigration square for about three months then my Father died Mother was left with four of us children then Mother went neruse in a weathebord Hospital my two Brothers went to woork at any thing they could get after a time my Mother married again a man named Alleyn then we went up to the uper sturt

we built a hut fenced in a garden and got a cow or two. My brothers and step Father went away to woork at the mines Mother and us smaller childers were left to manage at home my poor old Mother had to go to town every week and cary home flour and anything else that was wanted that was ten miles ther and ten miles back I used to go and meet Mother and my sister would mind the House wile I was away my sister went for the cow wile we was away and whon she came back the Hut was all on fire every thng we brought from England was burnt...one of our neghbous took us in is name was Joseph brown joh woscomb Hill pearc Brown and other neghbours came with there tools and soon put up a Hut for us."

The 1853 SA Electoral Roll for the Mount Barker district shows Abraham Bairstow as freehold, section 5016 Hd Macclesfield.

Abraham and Fanny's marriage entry ‎(no. 2337)‎ at ‎[Holy]‎ Trinity Church, Adelaide. Abraham Bairstow age 21, laborer, bachelor and Fanny Barbara Moulton age 19 spinster married by Licence by James Farrell. Witnesses R H Moulton and Anna Boyd Watters ‎[sic]‎ Moulton. ‎(All written in hand of the minister.)‎