Frances and Samuel Belcher

Frances Cramp was born in London in 1835. She married Samuel Harborne Belcher on 31 December 1856 in St George The Martyre, Queen Square, Middlesex in England. Frances travelled to Australia in 1857 and that same year she moved to Ipswich on her own to be a governess. She earned eighty pounds a year which she sent back to Sydney to feed the family. Frances and Samuel married again in Sydney in 1863 at St Johns Church in Darlinghurst Road. This was the same year the Samuel joined Frances in Australia.

Samuel had studied at the Dublin University to become a teacher. He completed his study at the Trinity College and then at New College in Bristol on 16 December 1862 before joining his wife, Frances in Australia. He went to Goulburn to work at a school and purchased "Garrooigang" in 1868 and opened a "School for Gentleman's sons".

Frances and Samuel had nine children including:

• Stuart H Belcher
• Herbert J Belcher
• Frances M Belcher
• Beatrice C Belcher

On her death certificate, two sons were noted as deceased.