Wheat Sheaf Inn - Allendale North

1910: A family, consisting of three women, a man, and four children, gathered on the verandah of the Wheat Sheaf Inn, located in Allendale North, South Australia. Possibly the publican William Arthur Robertson and his family, with their pet dogs and cat, a horse hitched to a buggy parked at the front, and a bicycle by the entrance. For details about the Wheatsheaf Inn when run by William Robertson, see the article 'The Wheatsheaf Inn' in the 'Kapunda Herald', Friday 23 May 1930, page 3.

William Arthur Johnston Robertson was born on 9 December 1869 at Wheatsheaf Inn, Allendale North, South Australia, to David Weichston Robertson and Margaret Jane (nee Striblin). William Robertson was publican at the Wheatsheaf Inn, near Kapunda in South Australia, and was licencee since 1910. Previously the licence was held by his mother, and prior to that by his grandmother, being held by his family for approximately 80 years. In 1900 he married Jane Catherine Warrick (1870-1961), and they had five sons, all born and raised at the Wheatsheaf Inn: Murray David (b.1902), Arthur George Warrick (b.1904), Allan Francis (b.1907), William Benjamin (b.1908) and Donald Thomas (b.1913). William Robertson died in 1961.

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