Samuel NEALL, b. 1820, Harnslope (near Milton Keynes), Buckinghamshire (Bkm), England, son of William NEALL and ___ was married in England to Charlotte CURL, b. abt 1820 ___, daughter of ____ and ____. A daughter Harriet Sophia NEALL was born in Bedfordshire in 1851.
Samuel & Charlotte NEALL, along with daughter Harriet emigrated from England on the "Hydaspes" and arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia in November 1851. Another 7 children were born in South Australia from 1853 to 1869.
Samuel NEALL and family moved from Mount Gambier, S-E South Australia over the border to Sandford on the Wannon river in S-W Victoria in 1870.
In 1875 Samuel NEALL paid £20 in rates on property at Carapook, near Sandford.
Samuel NEALL lived near Sandford after 1870 until he leased 222 acres of land at Lake Mundi, west of Casterton.
Samuel NEALL died after a horse accident in the Casterton area and was buried in the Sandford Cemetery in 1886.
Charlotte NEALL died at Mount Gambier in 1904 and was buried in the local cemetery.
Samuel NEALL & Charlotte CURL had the following known family:
- James NEALL b. abt 1849, d. abt 1849, England.
- Harriet NEALL b. 1851, Bedfordshire, England, d. 1851, at sea aboard "Hydaspes."
- Elizabeth NEALL b. 1853, South Australia, d. 1936, Adelaide, SA, m. 1870 to Edwin William Pitt STONE ~1843-1920.
- Mary Ann NEALL b. 1855, South Australia, d. 1934, SA, m. 1870 to Robert CURL ~1844-1926.
- Martha NEALL b. 1857, South Australia, d. 1922, Mount Gambier, SA, m. 1880 to John Henry ELLIS 1856-1926, and had three children at Sandford, S-W Victoria....
- James Henry ELLIS b. 1881, Sandford, S-W Vic
- William Robert ELLIS b. 1884, Sandford, S-W Vic
- Zachariah John ELLIS b. 1888, Sandford, S-W Vic
- Maria Mary NEALL b. 1860, South Australia, d. 1941, Tasmania, m. 1879 to Michael VALE 1857-1943 and had two children at Sandford, S-W Victoria and then moved to Tasmania.
- Maurice VALE b. 1880, Sandford, Victoria, d. 1967, Sydney, NSW
- Johannah Maria VALE b. 1881, Sandford, S-W Victoria, m. to .... HAMILTON
- Mary Lucy VALE b. 1883, Hobart, Tasmania, m. ..... SUTTON
- Zachariah James NEALL b. 1863, South Australia, d. 1945, Casterton, S-W Victoria, m. 1893 to Rosa YOUNG 1867-1958 and farmed at Lake Mundi, between Casterton & Penola.
- Leah NEALL b. 1865, South Australia, d. 1943, Adelaide, SA, m. 1885 to Henry Bismark (Michael) SULLIVAN.
- Charlotte NEALL b. 1869, South Australia, d. 1963, Adelaide, SA, m. 1893 to Skirving McDonald ELLIS 1862-1939.