A pioneering life

An enriching experience to learn a little of the life of Warren’s great-grandmother, who is buried at the Angaston ‘New’Cemetery.  In 1866 agricultural labourer Charles and his wife Elizabeth emigrated from Devon with their firstborn 2 year old daughter, who died on the voyage. Living in Adelaide then settling in the Barossa, 8 children were born to them, 6 of whom survived childhood. Following Elizabeth’s death at 45, the family moved a number of times and were scattered when the children grew up. In his early 20s young Walter headed to NZ around 1900 and the rest, as they say, is history.