John Duncalf Oliver

  Research Notes:

Jan Jozsa notes:
John and Mary Oliver lived in various places including Mt Bolton near Ararat, Victoria and finally at Stawell in north central Victoria. In each place John worked as a miller but like his sons, he was insolvent more than once owing to the vagaries of crops, wheat prices etc in a harsh and struggling colony.
John Duncalf Oliver and family arrived in South Australia from London on board the Henry Porcher on 1 July, 1838. Sarah Porcher Oliver was board en route, hence her middle name.

  Noted events in his life were:

• source.

• emigrated. ³⁰²

• connection. ³⁰²

John married Mary Ann James in 1838 in Cornwall England. (Mary Ann James was born in 1815 in Cornwall England.)