Mary Elizabeth Cawte

Mary Elizabeth Dalby was the daughter of George Dalby and Maria Giles.

CAWTE—DALBY.— On the 25th February, at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. AlLen, by the Rev. John Lloyd, Frederick James Cawte, eldest son of James Cawte, late of Twyford, Hants, England, to Mary Elizabeth Dalby. youngest daughter of George Dalby, of Wallaroo, South Australia. Hampshire papers please copy.

1899 'Family Notices', The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), 22 March, p. 7. , viewed 16 Oct 2018, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73213770

GOLDEN WEDDING. Cawte—Dalby.

The Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs F. J. Cawte, of Murray Bridge, will be celebrated at Wallaroo on Saturday next, where both were born, and the following is the interesting life of the couple. Mrs Cawte was Miss Mary Dalby: "As a boy Fred Cawte spent some years in Sydney with his parents and possesses an interesting fund of reminiscences on people and events in the troubled days of the Great Maritime strike and the bank crashes of the early nineties. He returned to Wallaroo and went after copper in the heyday of the Wallaroo Mines. Be coming. engaged to Miss Dalby the couple successfully accomplished the feat which .was not so uncommon to progressive young people in those days, but which would probably be regarded as unique in these times

They built their own home while waiting to be married and "they" certainly means both of them—they built well too, for the little home, close to the well-known Lord's ground stands strong and solid today. The three eldest children of the union, Fred jr., Vin and Alethia (Mrs J. Kenyon) were born there. Conspicuous service was rendered in the disastrous fires in the mines, but a long mining career was cut short by the serious accident in which Mr Sam Gray lost his life and Mr F. Cawte was seriously injured. After convalescence the family migrated to Port Pirie, where Linda (Mrs M. Pike) was born. They stayed at Pt. Pirie for three years and then moved, on to the Murray where contracts _ for the transhipping of goods from river to rail were undertaken at Morgan— the first of its kind. Forty years ago the river was a really busy place, and Morgan handled most of the wool from the Barwon, Darling and Murray areas, as well as the wheat and fruit of the upper Murray. Here was born the fifth member of the family —Nellie (Mrs D. Phillis). The same type of work took the family to Murray Bridge some 36 years ago. As the volume of transport handled on the river declined, Mr Cawte turned his attention to road transport, at first with horse teams, but later introducing probably first motor trucks into Lower Murray Districts, where the old chain driven Republic, so expertly handled along the switch back roads of those days, by Vin, laid the foundation of the subsequent fleets i) that were built up both in Murray J Bridge and Adelaide. In 1931 Mr Cawte's flair for transport organization was shown by the introduction of his scheme for a coordinated road and rail service for the district, a step of outstanding value to the progress of the district. In Murray Bridge, Syd. the youngest of the children was born. In all the districts in which he lived, Mr Cawte had borne a prominent part as an athlete—cricket and football being played with skill over a long period. He also more man held his own as a runner. Always a good townsman, he has worked for the good of the communities, that he has lived amongst—the greatest portion of this work naturally being accomplished in Murray Bridge. During all this work, Mrs Cawte has gone along in her modest way, raising and caring for her family and conducting her home with the same staunchness that characterized her efforts at house building 50 years ago.

The celebration of the golden wedding anniversary is being made the occasion for a rather unique gathering. The Cawte and Dalby families both having been murtured in Wallaroo, a reunion of both families is to be held in that town on 'February 26. All the children of the marriage expect to be present, one coming from New Zealand to do so.

GOLDEN WEDDING. (1949, February 25). The Kadina and Wallaroo Times (SA : 1888 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved October 16, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110166587