Married Life

         In 1934 Jack and Ella Osborn (the Osborn family had a farm out from Yaninee) married, and set up "home" on their scrub block out at Pordia, southwest of Wudinna....


(Jack Edmonds and Ella Coraline Osborn, Wudinna 1934)


(Mum and Dad? Camping at Venus Bay?)


(Mum and Dad camping at Venus Bay?)

(Dad holding their first child, probably on
the jetty at Venus Bay, early 1935)

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        Their first house, out on the mallee scrub and sandhill country of Section 10 Pordia, was of true pioneering stuff, being flattened out fuel cans and native pine and brush and a bit of corrugated iron. They stuck it out for about three years before giving up on it and moving in to Wudinna.



Section 10 Pordia

Section 10 Pordia

Section 10 Pordia


Section 10 Pordia