Kapunda is in South Australia, Australia. It is 77 km from Adelaide and began as a copper mining town in the 1840’s. This mining continued till 1879. Marble was also mined here.
According to Wikipedia, miners were traditionally Cornish, labourers were Irish and smelter specialists were Welsh. Trade and agriculture were Scottish and English. There were German farmers and timber cutters.
2 June 1886: Michael Cullinan and Betsy Wakefield are married here.
Michael Cullinan is my Great Grandfather (father to Kelleen Lillian Cullinan, my paternal Grandmother). He was born in 1852 (2 August) and died in 1924 (20 August) at the age of 72 years. He is buried in Broken Hill cemetery in New South Wales, Australia.
Here is where Michael Cullinan lived:
Betsy Wakefield is my Great Grandmother. She was mother to Kelleen Lillian Cullinan, my paternal Grandmother and 6 other children.
Betsy was born on 12 April, 1861, in Hackham, South Australia and died on 2 June, 1904.
Betsy’s death was a little over a year after her 2 year old daughter, Catherine drowned in the Darling River at Kelleen Station, near Pooncarie in NSW.
Betsy’s parents, Thomas Wakefield (from Haslingford, England) and Tamar Speed (from Balsham, England) immigrated to Australia (Port Jackson, Sydney), on the ship Una in 1849. They arrived in South Australia in 1854.
Betsy met Michael Cullinan, her future husband, through her brother, Tom (who worked alongside Michael). They married on 2 June, 1886 in Kapunda, South Australia. She was 25 years old.
Here are the places where Betsy lived:
Further Information on Betsy’s family (the Wakefields) can be found in High on the Hill, (p.231) a history of Onkaparinga City in South Australia.