A Story of Two Sisters
Sarah (Stoneman) Ford 1880s The immigration story of my maternal Granma’s ancestors is well known and documented in historical and family publications. The short version is thus: Mr and Mrs Richard Bowey, with eight children, left Devon and emigrated to South Australia in 1858. At Port Adelaide they were met by a brother-in-law with bullocks and dray, and taken to Hartley Vale. Richard, known as Dick, soon started a blacksmith business in the nearby town of Gumeracha. Being on the main thoroughfare between Mannum and Adelaide the business prospered, and Dick took his two eldest sons into the business. When land ‘opened up’ in the Yorke Peninsula Dick went farming with sons, Richard and William, while he left Henry to run the blacksmithing business in Gumeracha. [i] , [ii] There is no mention of the women in these accounts. Who was Mrs Richard Bowey? What about their daughters? What were their lives like? What happened to them? As a woman I want to know about my female ancesto...
