Pioneers and Palms
Introduction
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Georgiana Newman m. Albert Palm

Alberta Minnie Albert
Cyril
Leslie
George
Milton
Daphne
Diosma m. Stuart Humble

Maggie Patterson

These families have their own history at the beginning of the Colony of South Australia, and all sorts of links, to other people and places in the new Colony.

William Bales: born 1811, in England and came to SA on the 'Tam O Shanter' in 1836 at the same time as Colonel Light. He was a carpenter and builder. He told his children that he had fallen out with his family because he was sent to the colony after he fell in love with a family servant. He resisted all his family's attempts at reconciliation, but near the end of his life seemed to regret this. Eventually, he became the proprietor of the Tea Tree Gully Hotel.

Georgiana Knapp: born 1821, came from Kenton near Dawlish , England. She arrived with her parents on the 'Hartley' in 1837 and was endorsed as 'Randall's servant'. William Randall had come as a farm manager for the South Australia Company. The oldest of his seven children was William, later Captain Randall, one the great paddle-steamer pioneers of the Murray River. Georgiana's health was poor and she died at 27, having had three children. The oldest, Mary Ann Maria, who married Carl Frederick Neumann, was one of the first children born to new settlers in the Colony.

William and Georgiana's marriage was the 24th to be celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, North Terrace, Adelaide which, at the time, was still a temporary building. The marriage was solemnized by the Rev C.B. Howard, the first Colonial Chaplain. Mary Ann Maria is listed as being born in Gawler Place and christened at Holy Trinity.

Carl Frederick Neumann: born 1834, left Bremen, Germany, with his parents, two sisters and a brother. They arrived on the 'George Washington' in 1846. Carl's brother did not survive the voyage. The family first settled at Klemzig, now a suburb of Adelaide, but then farmed at Hope Valley which was settled by German immigrants. They moved to Houghton in 1850. Carl anglicized his name to Charles Newman in the late 1850s. He is known to have worked on the family farm and to have gone to the goldfields in Victoria. In 1854, he bought 68 acres of land at Houghton.

Mary Ann Maria Newman (nee Bales) died in 1932. She was 93. An obituary in 'The Advertiser' described her as 'the oldest native-born woman in South Australia'. She had 59 grandchildren and 49 great-grandchildren.

Charles and Mary Ann Newman developed their property into an orchard and plant nursery which was eventually called 'The Model Nursery' of CF Newman and Son. They expanded to the point that, by the turn of the century, they listed over 300 orchids, 600 roses and over 300 different fruit trees as well as numerous varieties of edible plants. The Newman family is an integral part of the horticultural history of South Australia as they supplied much of the plant stock for the early orchards, vineyards and, later, for the irrigated lands of the Murray Valley including those of the Chaffey brothers of Mildura (NSW).

Johanna Palm (nee Bussenschutt): born 1822 left Bremen, Germany, in 1846. Johann Palm is known to have to have born in Germany and also left in 1846. It is possible that they both came on the 'Pauline'. They married in 1848 and first settled at Hope Valley. Johann was a blacksmith and wheelwright, but took up farming. After the early death of Johann, Johanna kept the farm and after a few years the oldest son, also Johann, took over.