Robert John Cunningham Jaunay, the only surviving son of Frank and Mary Jaunay married Dorothy Evelyn May Beasley on 10 Jun 1915. Dorothy was one of four daughters of James and Clara Jane [nee Fisher] Beasley of Gawler, SA.
Charles Fisher's daughter, Clara Jane married James Beasley, the son of Lewis and Anne [nee Sharpe] on Christmas Day 1888. James Beasley had been born on the Victorian Goldfields at Lucky Woman's Diggings near Linton.
Lucky Woman's Diggings to the east of Fletcher's Hotel at Happy Valley, not far from Linton in the Victorian Goldfields was named after Mary Kerr who sought the Victorian Government reward in 1864 for discovering the field. She may have been lucky in her discovery of gold, but the government of the day did not see fit to supplement her income with the standard reward!

Lewis Beasley, a miner from Somerset came to Australia with a flood of more than 2000 assisted immigrants from Somerset and Bristol in the period 1839-1854. A people with a strong sense of their own worth, these emigrants saw Australia as an opportunity to achieve success in a way that was denied to them in England. The Australian colonies welcomed them for entirely different motives - a means of relieving a general shortage of farm labourers and domestic servants! Strangely, documentary evidence of Lewis' arrival in Australia cannot be located. Little is known of Anne Beasley [nee Sharpe] except that she came from Wetwang in Yorkshire in about 1832. An extensive search for records of her arrival in Australia have been unsuccessful.

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Notes

Modern maps do not show Lucky Womans Diggings, however, references are available at the PRO, Ballarat, VIC and the collection includes a very large linen map of the goldfields dated 1863. At the Gold Museum which is part of the Sovereign Hill Museum at Ballarat there is a relief map showing the location of gold fields and in this case the particular site is called Lucky Womans Creek.

James Flett, The History of Gold Diggings in Victoria, Poppett Head Press, Melbourne, 1979.