On the 31st Jan. 1985, Ida & Wallace Sandeman celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and a party was held in their honour at their daughter Prudence's home on Saturday, Jan. 26th 1985. Their sons Wallace, John and Paul with wives, children and grand-children were present including many friends and nephew Bill Muller and his wife.
Biographical Notes
Note: The Sandemans descend from John Glas Sandeman and his wife Margaret Ramsay. John was the founder of the sect the "Sandemanians" (in Scotland), a breakaway from the Presbyterian Church. Michael Farraday (1791 -1867), the famous chemist and philosopher, belonged to this sect and married a Sandeman niece. Wallace had a Sandeman genealogy in book form with the family coat-of-arms on the cover.
Note: After the death in 1928 of Ida's mother she and her husband were in England for some time, returning in 1934 to live at St. Peters with her father and then at Romolo Avenue, Magill. Following the second World War Wallace who had enlisted, as did his son Wallace, had a soldier settlement property at Parndana, Kangaroo Island which his son Michael later took over for a period. By 1970 they were at "Arundel", Cygnet River , Kangaroo Island, on a 9 acre property where they endured the experience of a bush fire, but the house was saved. By 1981 with all their family on the mainland they retired to a house they built at lot 100 Shannon Road Bridgewater, South Australia.