Old Wishart home at Penrice From the Port Lincoln...
Old Wishart home at Penrice From the Port Lincoln.
Old Wishart home at Penrice
From the Port Lincoln Times
Wednesday Oct 28, 1983
FAMILY REUNION AT LIPSON
About 200 people gathered at Lipson at a reunion of descendants of John Innis Wishart and his wife Jessie.
One day of the two day reunion was spent in touring and viewing properties which have been associated with the family since 1867, followed by a tea in Lipson Hall.
The evening was spent in renewing friendships and hearing stories of early experiences. Many new friendships between people who were previously unaware that they had been related.
Two family members, May Howe and Phillip Wishart had not met for almost 70 years since the death of their father, John Wishart in 1915.
A booklet containing the family history and family tree was released during the celebrations. The booklet was compiled due to the enthusiasm of Mrs Jean LeBrun of Tumby Bay, daughter of Lilias and George France, and granddaughter of John Innis and Jessie Wishart.
John Innis, his wife Jessie and their family of four sons and seven daughters, and accompanied by John's sister Janet and brother-in-law John Percy Barraud and their family, left the Angaston district and arrived in the Hundred of Louth in 1867. Sections 355 and 356, of 161 acres were granted to John at a cost of 161 pounds. The sections were sold in 1880 and John took up land in the Hundred of Yaranyacka where he leased sections 161,163,165 and 166 in 1885, and later added sections 372, 373, 374 and 375, in all about 2,200 acres.
John and Jessie retired to Port Lincoln in 1905. Jessie died in 1916 and John in 1919. Both were buried in the Lipson Cemetery.
Members of the family have been prominent in the Tumby Bay and Lipson districts over the years. Mrs LeBrun said she had spent many years gathering information for the booklet, a copy of which will be placed in the Tumby Bay National Trust museum. She said the late Mrs Trix Simmons and Mrs Iris Willas had supplied much of the information. Other helpers were Audrey Morris, Hilda Baillie, Shirley Cleggett, Joan Berry, Colleen Pedler and Elizabeth Laukes of Western Australia.
Church services were held at Lipson at both the Uniting and Anglican churches.
Kathryne Wishart, Phil Wishart, May Howe, Maxine Fuller & Ivan Baillie at the Lipson Reunion
As told to Colleen Pedlar by her father Aubrey Carr
The Mail would come to Warratta post office, the Wishart's were at that time the only family that far north.
Grandfather (John) would collect the mail late Saturday afternoon, and after tea would read the mail, and newspapers etc. till nearly midnight. No one was allowed to see them until he had finished, and as no one was permitted to read anything but the Bible on Sunday, he would be the only one "in the know" for the weekend.
One hot evening the family was quietly gathered in the house, the back and front doors were open to let the small breeze that was around, to circulate. Suddenly a frantic aborigine ran straight through the house, closely followed by another with a great big stick, and murderous intent. They did a lap around the garden and back through the house again, by that time grandfather had gathered his wits and managed to block the second one on his third run through the house. The first one managed to escape.
The Wishart girls helped shepherd the sheep in scrub during the day. They made bush fences and the sheep were put in these rough brush enclosures overnight. Aborigine children went with the girls and they played together during the day. Played stone games.
The girls took it in turns going through the scrub to the Burrawing Mine School. Too far to go each day. Jessie and Lilias one day and Ellen and Alice the next.
John, besides having land at Warratta, later was allotted land at Kiandra (north of Ponta). Kiandra was granite outcrops, covered with sheoaks. In latter years son Albert managed both farms.
Extract from the book STONE BY STONE A Century of witness in the Lipson Methodist-Uniting Church
1893-1993
In 1890, such stalwarts as J P Barraud, E Oswald, J McCallum Sr and Mrs McCallum, J McCallum Jnr, J Wishart & Mrs Wishart, W Darling and Jessie Darling, Ellen Scott, Lilias France, Samuel Scott, Abram Car, and Lillian Morrison appear on the Roll. They made the decision to seek permission to shift the church, "Stone by Stone", to what is now called Lipson.
1 John Innis WISHART Born: 6 December 1833 in Elie, Fife, Scotland Died: 28 February 1919 in Lipson,
SA age at d: 85
Married: 6 March 1856 in Angaston, SA Jessie BARR Born: 21 December 1838 in near Glascow, Scotland Died: 15 December 1916 in Lipson, SA age at d: 77 Buried: 16 December 1916 Lipson, Father: John BARR Mother: Jean CALDER
The Barr family came from the town of Paisley, near Glascow. They migrated to New Zealand in the "Duchess of Argyle" which departed from Greenock about noon on Thursday 9t June 1842 and arrived in Auckland on the morning of Sunday 9* October 1842.
Jessie's sister, Eliza, came to South Australia in 1844 and Jessie, her Mother and 2 sisters (Jane & Mary) came in 1849 travelling to Sydney in the ship "Cheerful", 123 tons, which departed on 19" May 1849. The passenger list said simply "Mrs Barr & three children". Jessie's sister Arabella, and her brother, John, remained in New Zealand.
Mr. Barr was drowned when out in a fishing boat.
(Source: Stephanie Hocking).
Old Wishart home at Penrice
From the Port Lincoln Times
Wednesday Oct 28, 1983
FAMILY REUNION AT LIPSON
About 200 people gathered at Lipson at a reunion of descendants of John Innis Wishart and his wife Jessie.
One day of the two day reunion was spent in touring and viewing properties which have been associated with the family since 1867, followed by a tea in Lipson Hall.
The evening was spent in renewing friendships and hearing stories of early experiences. Many new friendships between people who were previously unaware that they had been related.
Two family members, May Howe and Phillip Wishart had not met for almost 70 years since the death of their father, John Wishart in 1915.
A booklet containing the family history and family tree was released during the celebrations. The booklet was compiled due to the enthusiasm of Mrs Jean LeBrun of Tumby Bay, daughter of Lilias and George France, and granddaughter of John Innis and Jessie Wishart.
John Innis, his wife Jessie and their family of four sons and seven daughters, and accompanied by John's sister Janet and brother-in-law John Percy Barraud and their family, left the Angaston district and arrived in the Hundred of Louth in 1867. Sections 355 and 356, of 161 acres were granted to John at a cost of 161 pounds. The sections were sold in 1880 and John took up land in the Hundred of Yaranyacka where he leased sections 161,163,165 and 166 in 1885, and later added sections 372, 373, 374 and 375, in all about 2,200 acres.
John and Jessie retired to Port Lincoln in 1905. Jessie died in 1916 and John in 1919. Both were buried in the Lipson Cemetery.
Members of the family have been prominent in the Tumby Bay and Lipson districts over the years. Mrs LeBrun said she had spent many years gathering information for the booklet, a copy of which will be placed in the Tumby Bay National Trust museum. She said the late Mrs Trix Simmons and Mrs Iris Willas had supplied much of the information. Other helpers were Audrey Morris, Hilda Baillie, Shirley Cleggett, Joan Berry, Colleen Pedler and Elizabeth Laukes of Western Australia.
Church services were held at Lipson at both the Uniting and Anglican churches.
A combined luncheon was followed by a roll call which revealed descendants present from each family branch. A display of family albums and photographs was arranged in the hall and Mr Wilf Prescott gave an interesting talk about the family history.
Kathryne Wishart, Phil Wishart, May Howe, Maxine Fuller & Ivan Baillie at the Lipson Reunion
As told to Colleen Pedlar by her father Aubrey Carr
The Mail would come to Warratta post office, the Wishart's were at that time the only family that far north.
Grandfather (John) would collect the mail late Saturday afternoon, and after tea would read the mail, and newspapers etc. till nearly midnight. No one was allowed to see them until he had finished, and as no one was permitted to read anything but the Bible on Sunday, he would be the only one "in the know" for the weekend.
One hot evening the family was quietly gathered in the house, the back and front doors were open to let the small breeze that was around, to circulate. Suddenly a frantic aborigine ran straight through the house, closely followed by another with a great big stick, and murderous intent. They did a lap around the garden and back through the house again, by that time grandfather had gathered his wits and managed to block the second one on his third run through the house. The first one managed to escape.
The Wishart girls helped shepherd the sheep in scrub during the day. They made bush fences and the sheep were put in these rough brush enclosures overnight. Aborigine children went with the girls and they played together during the day. Played stone games.
The girls took it in turns going through the scrub to the Burrawing Mine School. Too far to go each day. Jessie and Lilias one day and Ellen and Alice the next.
John, besides having land at Warratta, later was allotted land at Kiandra (north of Ponta). Kiandra was granite outcrops, covered with sheoaks. In latter years son Albert managed both farms.
Extract from the book STONE BY STONE A Century of witness in the Lipson Methodist-Uniting Church
1893-1993
In 1890, such stalwarts as J P Barraud, E Oswald, J McCallum Sr and Mrs McCallum, J McCallum Jnr, J Wishart & Mrs Wishart, W Darling and Jessie Darling, Ellen Scott, Lilias France, Samuel Scott, Abram Car, and Lillian Morrison appear on the Roll. They made the decision to seek permission to shift the church, "Stone by Stone", to what is now called Lipson.
1 John Innis WISHART Born: 6 December 1833 in Elie, Fife, Scotland Died: 28 February 1919 in Lipson,
SA age at d: 85
Married: 6 March 1856 in Angaston, SA Jessie BARR Born: 21 December 1838 in near Glascow, Scotland Died: 15 December 1916 in Lipson, SA age at d: 77 Buried: 16 December 1916 Lipson, Father: John BARR Mother: Jean CALDER
The Barr family came from the town of Paisley, near Glascow. They migrated to New Zealand in the "Duchess of Argyle" which departed from Greenock about noon on Thursday 9t June 1842 and arrived in Auckland on the morning of Sunday 9* October 1842.
Jessie's sister, Eliza, came to South Australia in 1844 and Jessie, her Mother and 2 sisters (Jane & Mary) came in 1849 travelling to Sydney in the ship "Cheerful", 123 tons, which departed on 19" May 1849. The passenger list said simply "Mrs Barr & three children". Jessie's sister Arabella, and her brother, John, remained in New Zealand.
Mr. Barr was drowned when out in a fishing boat.
(Source: Stephanie Hocking).
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