Selina had a son who became a Methodist minister and there was a newspaper cutting giving him praise for gaining the top marks for all England in some examination.

Susan was born at Goldsithney in 1863. She was a red head and was the most forward of all the children. She also had the most initiative. If she was in trouble for some misdemeanour, she always had the forethought to pick a bunch of wild flowers, to appease her mother. Early on other traits showed up which were proven true in later life – Their mother said Susan would thrive where Josephine would starve.

The family must have lived in various villages. Josephine talked about times when a shoal of herrings could be seen and the cry would go up "A seine, a seine". Josephine's home in 1873 at the time of her marriage was at Wheal Vor Breage and her brother Bill (William) claimed to have come from Redruth. Wheal vor Breage was one of the larger tin mines in the Breage area and there were several houses attached to the mines. It was not unusual for the miners to rent mine cottages.

When Samuel was born he was registered as Joseph. The story goes that a friend of his mother's had named her baby Samuel and the name took her fancy so she made the change unofficially. The exchange in names was only discovered in later years when Samuel applied to join the railways and he was required to provide a birth certificate. This was the first time the family knew of the change.

The family went to Moonta (near Adelaide) where Cornish people were mining. The older boys were soon allowed into New Zealand but their mother, Susan, Beatrice, Edith and possibly Samuel had to wait to be sponsored. To the Australians the children appeared quaint because of their Cornish dialect. Bill went down the mines there but the other children where too small.

Mary went out nursing and contracted influenza or diphtheria and was put in hospital. Because of the hospital’s insistence that she take off her red flannel petticoat, she contracted pneumonia and died. Nobody from the hospital notified the family and it was a big shock when they went to visit her.

John James had married before they left England his wife refused to come to New Zealand so later on he went back to Cornwall and got a divorce. He married again in New Zealand to Agnes Fairmaid.

The James brothers tried to keep strict watch over their sisters but Beatrice used to escape through the window. She met a sailor Henry Kelland 30 years old and at seventeen she married him.

William (Bill) married Amelia (Amy) Challis. Amy’s father, George Challis started the Brethren Church in Invercargill and all the family were brought up as Brethren. George Challis was at one stage mayor of Avenal in the days when the city was divided into counties. Bill was a wagon driver who owned his own very successful carrying business which contracted to Wright Stephensons. His horses were kept in a paddock behind his home in King Street. The wedding took place at The Treloar farm at Awarua Plains and Bill and Amy had four children. Their eldest son, George married Dossie Carter who’s parents were hotelkeepers, and their eldest daughter Gertrude married James Roby. It is their daughter Audrey Roby who has given the above paragraph of information.

Richard married and one of his children Mary Alice visited and corresponded with her cousins. Richard had moved away, and the family believes that on a visit back, he took away the only photograph Josephine had of her mother to show his wife, promising to return. To Josephine's great grief it was never returned. Richard was unheard of for quite some time and it was only in the 1990's that it was found he had died in Tokannui Mental Hospital in 1937. He had been there from 1913.

Samuel married Kate Smith whose father James Smith was a butcher in Invercargill. Susan married James (Jim) Hall and they had a farm at Awarua also. Edith married Thomas Eli Wood and they also had a farm not far from the Treloar Farm. Samuel became a very respected citizen in his community and the following obituary gives a good indication of the type of man he was:

Samuel and Kate had four children. They were Clifford, Thomas, Eric and Gordon. Eric married Gladys Warburton in 1904 and they had two children Gwenda and Russell. Gwenda was to become a very good friend of Pearl Patterson (read about Pearl later in the Treloar chapters) and it was Gwenda and her husband Ken Wilden who were so supportive and helpful in our research in Invercargill.

Of Samuel’s four sons Clifford probably had the most colourful career. And his obituary gives a brief outline of his life.

While in the Solomon Islands Clifford and his wife Florence gave birth to Ivan who lives in Auckland today. Ivan’s birth was recorded in the Missionary news at the time:-

The church and missionary work was to play a big role in another James family member. Edith James married Thomas Eli Wood and one of their children, Maria (Myrie) was to spend a very memorable time in China with her husband and children. Her obituary follows with a very interesting story of their travels.