Sarah Allchin
Thomas Allchin commenced building operations in Schnapper Point in the early 1850s and on business trips would stay with John Carr and his wife of Frankston.
St James Old Cathedral, Melbourne
Here he met his future wife Sarah Jagger, Mrs. Carr’s sister, who had emigrated from England in 1855.
Thomas and Sarah were married in St. James Old Cathedral, Melbourne on June 2nd, 1857.
She wrote: "We stayed in town until Saturday evening, then came out to Cheltenham, walked to Mordialloc and next morning walked to Carr’s at Frankston, there being no conveyance."
She stayed at Carr’s for another month or two and eventually arrived at Schnapper Point in style dressed in her best crinoline and smart bonnet, and with her household and personal effects, behind a team of bullocks provided by Isaac Swift. These same bullocks shortly afterwards ate the linen that she had brought from England and which was drying on the line.
In her diary she wrote: "We spent our first night at the Point full of hope for better things for the future".
Sarah died just short of her 90th year on September 9th 1918.
