John and Elizabeth Barnard and their four children, Edward aged 11 years, William aged 6 years, Ann aged 4 years, and Charles aged 2 years arrived in 1829 on the ship 'Lotus'. John was listed as a labourer indentured to Colonel Peter Latour and the family was at Clarence when the General Muster took place early in 1830 and were still there when Charles, their youngest child died of typhus fever in March of the same year. A letter from John, dated 28 May 1831, to his home village of Sullington in Sussex bears testimony to the fact that those indentured to Latour were discharged by this time and he and Edward had gained employment 'under a private gentleman' as he put it. John described as a farming servant, Elizabeth and children are recorded in the 1832 population census as living in Perth, although their fifth child Ellen Jane is said to have been born at Clarence in 1834. In 1837 at the time of the census the Barnards were renting at Daviot Park, a property in Middle Swan and then were farming and living at Sandalford, another property adjacent to Daviot Park, in 1845 when Elizabeth died. Both John and Elizabeth are noted as farmers. A memorial of land shows the sale of the north east section of Perth building allotment H6 by John Barnard to Mark Read - John's son-in -aw, in 1859. Edward their eldest son never married. William married in 1867 but had no children. Ann married in 1842 to Mark Read and after her death in 1855, Mark married her young sister Ellen Jane in 1860. There were twelve children from these two marriages.