Dear Everyone, On 30 Oct 1831 Summerland STANIFORD (1796 -1856 ) son of John STANIFORD and Elizabeth KIRSOP married Lydia CHAPPLE daughter of Thomas CHAPPLE and Lucretia Hunt PITFIELD in Axminster, Devon, England. They had 7 children all born in Plymouth -Nathaniel, Lydia Pitfield, Eliza, Mary Ann, Lucretia, Emma and Summerland. Summerland and his family, except for Nathaniel, sailed from Plymouth on 04 April 1851 on the "Candahar" and arrived at Port Adelaide on 02 Dec 1851. Nathaniel had apparently come to Australia some 12 months earlier. Lydia Pitfield married John William WAKELING on 10 Feb 1857 in Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, South Australia Eliza married John James COWING son of John James COWING and Sarah Ann WHITE, on 22 Dec 1856 in Pirie Street Methodist Church, Adelaide and some time later they moved to Melbourne where their first son John was born in 1858. After the death of John, Eliza married Patrick William LEGGETT, son of James LEGGETT and Eliza SOLE, on 28 Mar 1876 in Victoria. (This was the first of Patrick's three marriages.) Mary Ann married William WILLCOCK son of John WILLCOCK and Sarah RAMSKILL, on 2 Jan 1860 in St. John's Church, Halifax Street, Adelaide, South Australia. (This was John's second marriage.) Lucretia STANIFORD died on 24 Apr 1858 in Melbourne, Victoria after the birth of her daughter Maria Lucretia Russell STANIFORD. Emma married Patrick Francis Neville QUINLIVAN, son of Patrick QUINLIVAN and Eliza NEVILLE, on 26 Oct 1863 in Robe Town, South Australia. Over the years they had numerous children who were born in various towns as the family steadily moved east ending up in Lubeck to the north of Stawell. After the death of Emma, Patrick married Mary EGAN of Marion, S.A, the daughter of Martin EGAN and Bridget HAYES. Summerland married Mary Catherine BAKER, daughter of George BAKER and Catherine PATTERSON, on 26 Oct 1871 in Pirie Street Methodist Church, Adelaide. To celebrate the 150 anniversary of their arrival in Australia, we are planning to have a family reunion When: Sunday September 30, 2001. Where: Uniting Church Hall, Main Road, Summertown. Time: 2:00 to about 5:00. Any and all descendants and/or family connections are invited to attend. Please eMail me directly for further information etc. Michael.