David Opie ⁶⁵³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration, 1855. He and Catherine sailed on the ' Hooghly'from Plymouth 3 Jan 1855 and arrived Port Adelaide 19 April 1855.Their son Thomas was born at sea 10 Mar 1855, but died 7 weeks later. David was a miner.

David married Catherine Hancock Phillips, daughter of Francis Phillips and Jennifer Hancock, on 3 Dec 1854 in Gwennap, Cornwall England. (Catherine Hancock Phillips was born in 1831 in Gwennap, Cornwall England, christened on 19 Oct 1831 in Gwennap, Cornwall England and died in 1915 in Ballarat, Victoria Australia.)