Winter Journey

Nuriootpa

Truro

Eudunda

We were blessed with sunshine today as we investigated the Julian family heritage visiting cemeteries in Truro and Eudunda.

Trevs family on his Mothers side definitely came from this part of the world and we found the resting places of many of them today. It was such an interesting day which turned out to be very rewarding too. There is really something nice about finding someone you are connected to. The most memorable moment for me was when he called out “here she is”.

It really meant a lot to be standing in a small country cemetery just looking at her name and knowing that this pioneer woman, Louise Kamm is related to our children.

Searching

Louise Kamm

Anna Mathilde (Nitschke) Jaeger, Great Grandmother, Born in 1858, she lived in Truro in 1939. She died in 1941 in Keswick SA. We did not find her grave today.

Carl Gustav Nitschke

Pip loves picnics

Carl Gustav Nitschke, Great great Uncle. Born 11^th September 1867 in Flaxmans Valley SA. Died 25^th December 1945 after collapsing during the Christmas church service in Truro. This was reported in the Angaston Leader newspaper in January 1946, which was the year Trevor was born.

Louise (Nitschke) Kamm, Great great Aunt. Born 1855 in Tununda SA. Died January 18 1934. Died and buried at Eudunda Cemetry SA. One of 16 children, Anna and Carl were her siblings.

Truro is a small quiet historic town with heritage buildings lining the main street, a post office, a bakery, pub and antique centre. Not much else there but it does boast a Police station, a Primary school and a Uniting Church. Other than the bakery there is nowhere to buy food so residents would need to travel to Nuriootpa for supplies. We had a picnic lunch beside the dry river bed at Hero's Park which is dedicated to all veterans.

Typical stone cottage in Truro

No other people in the main street of Eudunda

Eudunda cemetry was much larger with many 'new graves'. The older graves were often marked with just names and dates with no headstones and some of those were now unreadable or crumbling.

The township of Eudunda was absolutely deserted, we were the only people on the street, even the tourist information centre was unmanned. We went into the Food Land supermarket and only saw a couple of customers but quite a few workers. We thought that perhaps they were expecting it to get busier later. Most of the shops on the main street were closed and a lot of businesses were for sale.

On the road between Truro and Eudunda

We drove back to Nuriootpa through beautiful sheep country. On one 27klm stretch of road we saw about 15 stone cottages that had been allowed to fall into ruin, such a sad sight and we thought of the families that once inhabited them.

Another one of many deserted ruins.

Once back in the town we stopped at the local shopping centre and found Co Op Fresh, one of the best markets I have ever been in. It was crowded and vibrant with an amazing variety food and produce.