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                    EWENS to Australia            updated 10.6.2012

WILLIAM ROBERT EWENS

William arrived with his parents and relatives on the Prince Regent 1839.

Joined SA Mounted Police at age 17.

Went to Diggins in 1851.

Was in Escort for Gold from Victoria 1852 under Tolmer.

Photo in Mortlock Library. Photo ca 1865. and 1853. In Police Uniform.

By 1865 he was in Robe, South Australia, as a Corporal of Police, but by 1868 he appears to have left the police service to become a publican, first of the Ship Inn (Kingston (South East) W.R Ewens from 1866-1871) and then the Royal Mail Hotel, also at Kingston.

Maria died in Adelaide in 1862 and William  re-married  Catherine Lloyd Silke in 1870.

William had two children by Catherine, but was to die in 1873, his eldest son William Underdown Ewens being barely 20 years old.

At the time of their marriage, William Robert Ewens was a member of Tolmer's Gold Escort Party, and subsequently he re-joined the police service, as a mounted constable.

In time, there would be 5 generations of Ewens in South Australian Police service.