(nee Taylor)  b.1820 d. 1879.

Jane was frugal, fruitful and cheerful. She was a careful planner who always managed to save a few pennies and endure with calm the worst catastrophes.

When the family settled in Hedi she worked very hard and with others from the settlement she prepared meat, ground grain for flour, making butter and cheese, baking bread and taking these things by horse and cart to sell them on the goldfields.

Later in Ashens she was industrious and after Donalds death she was left 1800 pounds, a considerable sum in those days. It seems she may have helped her family become established with this money.

Following Donalds death the family went to another cousins’(Thomas McKellar) property at Croxton, six miles north of Penshurst. Jane was born on March 26 1863 and John was employed as a station hand and shepherd.

Jane left Croxton in 1865- she came back to the Wimmera to work as housekeeper of the homestead at Wonwondah South 15 miles south-west of Horsham.

In 1878, Jane and Donald were successful in selecting land at East Wonwondah (John was already farming at Nurrabiel). The family moved there at once but Jane died suddenly on May 25 1879- she was 59 years old.

Jane left an estate of 626 pounds which today would be worth $10,000.