Tom and Ruby’s wedding – my paternal grandparents

29 July 1925 St John’s Anglican Church Smithtown, near Kempsey, NSW. William Thomas James (Tom)

Saul married Ruby May Burton to the ‘accompaniment of delightful weather’. My grandmother recalled

that a week before the wedding Tom had been in a car accident and he injured his knee. During the

service he couldn’t kneel at the altar! Their wedding was reported in the Nambucca and Bellinger News

and Macleay Chronicle.

Outside the church in Smithtown

The official studio photograph

The wedding cake and reception at the Literary Institute Hall at

Smithtown

Honeymoon in Sydney before they returned to their newly built

home on their farm, just down the road from his parents and their

extended families.

Their home at Bellimbopinni (near

Seven Oaks, just north of Kempsey),

built on their farm at the time of their

marriage. The road in the front of the

house is the Pacific Highway!

60 years later -

Their 60th wedding anniversary gathering in 1989. We gathered at Kempsey for a family celebration

L-R son Colin

(George) Saul (my

Dad), daughter

Elaine Wallace,

Ruby and Tom Saul,

daughter Gwen

Martin, son Robert

(Bob) Saul

With the

grandchildren and

some of their great

grandchildren

Lorraine Stacker

April 2020