Helen Miller Delamare
Helen Miller McLeod was born in Berwick, Scotland on 6 October 1837, to Alexander and Mary McLeod.
Mornington Standard
11 March, 1905 p.2
She arrived in Melbourne in 1860, and was working as a maid servant, in Orrong Road, Toorak, when she married John Delamare in 1870, at the age of 32 years.
John Delamare was the son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Delamare, and was born in Guernsey, in the Channel Islands in 1835. His occupation was given as Farmer.
John and Helen raised a family of five sons, the first, John William, being born at Schnapper Point in 1875.
William, Thomas, and James followed, with George, the youngest, born in 1882.
John was a shareholder in the Mornington Butter factory, and the boys were always ready to join in the sports days the Butter Factory held regularly. They also went on to play football with Mornington.
John Delamare was an active member of the Mt Eliza Mutual Improvement Society, and farmed in Bungower Road.
Helen Delamare became ill, and died, on Christmas Eve 1904. She is buried in the Mornington Cemetery.
At this time, her sons were working in Western Australia, and in 1905, John Delamare sold his property and left to join them.
He died in 1916, in Western Australia.
Mornington Butter Factory's Sports Day
Mornington Butter Factory
A group of people at the Mornington Butter Factory Annual Picnic Day
The Delamare boys would have been aged in their late teens and early 20’s at the time
