Adelaide. Mitcham general cemetery. The grave site of Anne Keynes of Keynton South Australia.
Anne Keynes 1824-1903, the widow of Joseph Keynes of Kkeyneton South Australia.
As the son of a Ccongregational minister, Jospeh Keynes who was a sheep breeder in England, wrote to George Fife Angas in the 1830s about the new colony of South Australia. Angas invited him to come to SA and work for him. He arrived with his wife Ellen in 1839. He leased land from Angas; then he went bankrupt; then he re-built his empire as a pastorlist by 1850. His wife Ellen left him and he remarried Anne in 1866. She had been a Scammell, the wealthy SA chemical company before her marriage. Joseph and Anne Keyneton established a huge property called Keyneton just east of the village of Keyneton on the outskirts of the Barossa Valley. Joseph died in 1883 and was bured in Keyneton. Anne was buried here, perhaps to be near her Scammell relatives? Keyneton estate is still in the family.
Adelaide. Mitcham general cemetery. The grave site of Anne Keynes of Keynton South Australia.
Anne Keynes 1824-1903, the widow of Joseph Keynes of Kkeyneton South Australia.
As the son of a Ccongregational minister, Jospeh Keynes who was a sheep breeder in England, wrote to George Fife Angas in the 1830s about the new colony of South Australia. Angas invited him to come to SA and work for him. He arrived with his wife Ellen in 1839. He leased land from Angas; then he went bankrupt; then he re-built his empire as a pastorlist by 1850. His wife Ellen left him and he remarried Anne in 1866. She had been a Scammell, the wealthy SA chemical company before her marriage. Joseph and Anne Keyneton established a huge property called Keyneton just east of the village of Keyneton on the outskirts of the Barossa Valley. Joseph died in 1883 and was bured in Keyneton. Anne was buried here, perhaps to be near her Scammell relatives? Keyneton estate is still in the family.