Edmund Bartlett

Edmund Bartlett, aged 44, his wife Elizabeth (nee Bennett), 40, and their children, William, 20, Elizabeth, 16, Thomas, 14, and Edmund, 2 arrived at Port Adelaide on the Lord Raglan on the 24th October 1854. They sailed from Plymouth on the 17th July as Government Emigrants.  The fares were £2 each for the parents and William, £1 for the daughter and 10 shillings each for the two youngest.   

Edmund was born in Linkinhorne, on the Cornwall, Devon border and his wife in St. Cleer, Cornwall, a few miles south-west of Linkinhorne.  They were married in St. Melor's church, Linkinhorne in January 1834.

The family settled at Peachey Belt, on section 3170, on a parcel of 80 acres that now has Womma and Stebonheath Roads as its southern and eastern borders.  Edmund set up business as a blacksmith.  Just before he died in October 1870, he sold his business and land, to Joseph Blake, machinist, and undertaker, of Smithfield.   

He died at his residence near Penfield aged 60 years and is buried in the Zoar Cemetery on Argent road, Penfield.  

Elizabeth married Thomas Sluman Lyle, in Adelaide, in 1872 and lived at Glenelg until she died in 1895.  She is buried in the West Terrace cemetery next to Thomas (died 1890), his first wife Sarah, and other Lyle relatives.

William junior, a wheelwright, leased part of his father's land between 1861 and 1867.  On 1st February 1863, he leased sections 4109 and 4110, totalling 160 acres, which now bordered on three sides by Heaslip, Womma and Short Roads. 

William married Cornish born Jane Santo, in 1857.  They had eight children between 1859 and 1873.  Their youngest son, Francis, born 1872, is honoured on the Boer War Memorial in Adelaide, having died of fever in Pretoria, South Africa in 1900 whilst serving in the armed forces.

The family moved to farm at Telowie, near Port Germein in 1870.  William was mysteriously drowned near the BHP wharf at Port Pirie in May 1888. It is thought that he is buried at Port Pirie.   Jane died in 1894, aged 59, and is buried in the Cheltenham cemetery.

Second son, Thomas married Rosina Blight at Gawler in 1861.  Rosina's parents, Francis and Mary, had arrived from Illogan, Cornwall on the Waterloo in November 1840. Rosina, and her twin, Blanche, were born in Currie Steet, Adelaide, in 1841.  After they married, Thomas and Rosina leased section 3164, now bordered by the Adelaide - Gawler railway line, Anderson Walk, Curtis Road and Coventery Road from Joseph Chivell, and later from S. Smitham, where Thomas carried on business as a blacksmith until 1863 when they relocated to Glenelg.  In 1867 they moved to farm at Grace Plains, for eight years, then to 1360 acres at Stockyard Creek, (near Owen), for 22 years and then to Corcondo ( near Hamley Bridge ) in 1897 where they remained until 1910 when they retired to live in suburban Croydon.  They had 14 children between 1862 and 1885.  Thomas died, aged 75, in 1915 and Rosina in 1929 at the age of 87. They are buried at Cheltenham.

Thomas donated land for the building of the Croydon Church of Christ in 1910 and Rosina had an association with the Churches of Christ for 55 years.

Eldest daughter, Elizabeth, aged 16, married Scotsman, David Miller, crew memeber on the Lord Raglan.  He conducted a contractor's business on the corner of Partridge Street and Jetty Road, Glenelg, working as a builder and carpenter and also acted as an undertaker.  A nearby railway station on Jetty Road was known as Miller's Corner. They had 12 children, all born in Glenelg, before Elizabeth died in 1876, at the age of 38.

David married Helen Robertson in 1879, in Adelaide, and they had five children.  David farmed 1100 acres next to Thomas Bartlett at Stockyard Creek between 1876 and 1890.  He died in 1904 and Helen in 1924, aged 82.  Elizabeth, David, Helen and many of their children are buried at St. Judes cemetery, Brighton.

Edmund jnr, married Sarah Gilbertson in Adelaide in 1875 and they had seven children between 1877 and 1889.  Edmund farmed 264 acres, near Owen, between 1882 and 1889.  They lived in Kent Town and North Adelaide between 1904 and 1907 where he worked as a gardener. They were living in North Croydon when, in 1913, Sarah died, aged 59.  Edmund continued to work as a caretaker, labourer and factory employee (at Brooker's Jam Factory) until 1925. He died aged 90, in North Croydon, in 1942.  Edmund, Sarah, and a son Harold Edmund, who died in 1904, aged 22, are buried in the Payneham cemetery.