Sarah Anderson

Sarah ANDERSON                                             Thomas Albert EVISON

  1. 2nd November 1850                                              b. 1859

at Jamberoo, NSW                                                      at Shoalhaven, NSW

  1. 28th April 1911                                                         d. 10th April 1880

at Meroo, NSW                                                             at Sunny Corner, Bellingen, NSW

Sarah and Thomas EVISON married in 1879 at Shoalhaven. Thomas was the son of James Evison and Rebecca Piper. Sarah had already had a daughter named Jane Ellen Anderson, who was not the child of Thomas Evison. Together Sarah and Thomas Evison had a daughter named Elizabeth Rebecca Evison.

Sarah and Thomas lived at Bellingen. Thomas was killed at Sunny Corner, about 16km from Bellingen, the year after his marriage to Sarah. He was buried on the hill going up to the hospital and the grave is unmarked.

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Thursday 15 July 1880, page 7

FERNMOUNT.

Wednesday.

On Tuesday last, as Mr. T. Evison, a new settler from, the Shoalhaven district, was felling a tree on his selection, at the South Arm, it fell on him, breaking both his thighs and inflicting other severe injuries.

Doctor Auld was sent for, and everything done that was possible, but to no purpose, as Evison died last night.

From the Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser - Friday 23 July 1880
From the Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser – Friday 23 July 1880
  1. Jane Ellen Anderson
  2. Elizabeth Rebecca Evison

Sarah returned to the South Coast and on the 10th September 1890 married John Pestell, the son of Joseph and Catherine PESTELL. Sarah died at Meroo on the 28th April 1911 and John later died in 1914 at Nowra.

1911 ‘Death of Mrs. John Pestell.’, The Shoalhaven Telegraph (NSW : 1881 – 1937), 3 May, p. 11. , viewed 13 Jul 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127192763