On December 10th 1852, David Wilson married Euphemia Hay in Dundee Scotland, 18 months later on the 4th May 1854 they left Liverpool, bound for Australia on board the “Miles Barton”, with their 6 month old son David. In July, their only daughter Catherine was born on board the ship in Port Phillip Bay.
They went on to have 6 more sons in Melbourne during the next 20 years. The 2nd-youngest was my great grandfather Andrew Bower Wilson born in 1866 and died in 1934. By the time Euphemia died in 1911 she had 23 grandchildren, although not all of them survived her.
In 1910 after the death of Queen Victoria’s son King Edward VII, memorial jewellery was created from coins with the head of the late King. This bracelet is made from threepenny pieces, all dated 1910. Euphemia gave the bracelet to her grand-daughter, Gertrude Ellen (Wilson) Butler and from her it came to me. One day my grand-daughter Ella will own it; and hold in her hand something that was held by her great-great-great-great grandmother.
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