Prior to coming to Australia, both William Vivian and Elizabeth Cooke worked for Sir Richard Vyvyan at Trelowarren farm, near St.Martins in Meneage in Cornwall. William and Elizabeth, along with his brother Thomas and wife Mary (Whear), sailed from Plymouth on 4 July 1856 on the ‘General Hewitt’ bound for Australia, arriving at Portland on 9 October. They began working for Alfred Hobbs, of Mount Gambier and the family spent a number of years at Naracoorte, South Australia. William applied for a selection at Kaniva in 1879 and took up farming there in 1880. He was one of the first to gain a block of land (15 ¾ acres) when the South Australian Village Settlements began in 1894. Around 1896 William went to Coolgardie W.A. and some time later came back to the Adelaide Hills, where he lived till his death in 1916. Elizabeth died at Diapur, near Kaniva, in 1909. William’s sister Grace married Elizabeth’s brother William Hill Cooke in 1864. They also came to Australia, arriving at Adelaide on the ‘Airlie’ in 1877 along with five of their children. Possibly six of the Cooke family came to Australia to live, two went to America, one remained in Cornwall and another died in China.

The Poulton family had its' origins around Eastcourt, Wiltshire. Ann Price was born in Wickwar, Gloucestershire. Thomas and Ann arrived in South Australia on board the ‘Omega’ on 23 August 1852 with five of their children (Elizabeth, John, James, William and Charles). Their youngest child Thomas Edward (Ted) was born in 1854. They started farming at Owen, about 60 miles from Adelaide. James later took over a dairy and William started a brick kiln at Brompton. The other brothers journeyed to the Victorian Mallee with some of their older sons in 1890. John took a grazing lease on nearby Pine Plains, together with the rights for the Wonga Lake run. The Poultans connected Cambacanya and Pine Plains with a single-strand telephone line of fencing wire. It was later relocated between Rainbow and Pine Plains; however, in 1934 it was removed when Pine Plains was connected to the Baring exchange. The Poultans owned Pine Plains until 1917.

Claus Dohse and Louisa Hein were married in Hamburg, Germany, in 1844. They emigrated in 1849 (arriving in Port Adelaide), and though Dorothea Dosey’s birth certificate indicates she was born at sea, it appears it was not during this voyage, since records show she was born in 1846.