In June 1838 Robert and Isabella Sanders and their young son James, left Scotland (Leith) on board the "Catherine Jamieson" bound for South Australia. They arrived in Port Adelaide on 1 December that same year, but where they went from there I have no idea.

Before they left however, they had friends write in an Album, obviously a book to remind them of their old home. A family named Gall, wrote in the album, and the son James jnr. also drew a picture of their house, Myrtle Bank, Trinity, Leith, with his father, James snr. and mother, Ann, at the top; himself, his wife, Mary, and possibly their children, James, Eliza and Annie, at the bottom, with each of his two sisters, Anna and Jessie, at either side. The Galls are my ancestors and I am really keen to find out if that Album might just still exist! A faint hope....... but stranger things have happened!

It is possible that Isabella Sanders died just a few years later, but Robert returned to Scotland in 1847, though whether permanently or not I cannot be sure. The son James could well have stayed on in Australia, and I would be interested to hear what happened to him.

If anyone is connected to this family I can give them some anecdotes from my ggg grandfather James Gall (snr.)'s journals.

To Evelyn Inglis. Hi, I hope your still out there?
My name is Tim Rymill and I'm from Adelaide.
One of my treasures is a family bible presented by James Gall to his grand daughter (9th April 1847) my great grandmother Anna Gall Rymill (daughter of William Sanders)
I'm sorry that I can't help you with the friendship book but would be interested to hear any anecdotes or history in regard to the Sanders/Gall connections.
Regards, Tim.

Hi Tim
I wrote to you via this website but don't know if you got the email. I only just found your reply to my posting of all those years ago, and am really excited about your connection to William Sanders. I must have got the first names of the parents mixed up somehow as it was indeed William and I assume Harriet his wife who sailed to Port Adelaide aboard the Catherine Jamieson. James and Miss Harriet I knew about but not Robert and Isabella.

Jamrs Gall was not a grandfather of your Anna Gall Rymill nee Sanders, but a friend of the family over here in Scotland who obviously thought much of them to name a child of theirs after Anna, one of JG's daughters, and to give their house the same name as the Galls' home.
I have seen a proof of your Bible presentation plate in JG's papers now in the National Library in Edinburgh, and have some mentions of the family, including one on the day they left Leith for Port Adelaide. That's a strange wee story. My current email address is evelyn186 at btinternet dot com. I'd love to hear about the family and of your descent from Anna. I can send you the notes from JG;s journals, including that wee story from when the family left Leith. I rather suspect that Mrs William Sanders was of an age with Anna Gall, and that the children looked on JG as a grandfather figure!!

Hope to hear from you,
Evelyn