I
liked the Williams River area and the work I had been doing. I decided to make my home there, working on
the different properties in and around that area.
I started saving every
penny I earned, so I could one day. buy a nice piece of land that I could call
my own.
While working at
a property owned by Thomas & Mary Trotter at Allyn River, I spied their
lovely daughter Ann.
She was only
young at the time but I knew she was the one I wanted to marry.
I started to make
myself more presentable in her Parents eyes by working hard, and going to
church regularly. I also realised that I had never been baptised so I thought I
should also attend to that.
On the 14th
January 1844 I was baptised into the Church Of England Parrish in Seaham in the
Hunter River region.
With that done with
her parent’s approval I started courting Ann, who at the time was only sixteen,
but we were both deeply in love.
Ann was the fifth
child of the eleven children, born in Wrexham Wales and arrived in Australia
with her Family in 1836 when she was ten years old.
She
knew the old country so we had a lot in common to talk about.
Ann
and I were married on the 29th of June 1845 in a little Church of
England church at Gresford on the Allyn River. Ann had only just turned Seventeen,
so she had to get her parents consent, which they gave freely.
It
was a lovely big happy wedding for all of her brothers & sisters were in
attendance. The reception was held back on the Trotter’s property with all the
food loving prepared by the ladies of the family and what a do it was. The only
sad thought I had was for my family wishing they could share this wonderful
occasion.
