William Evans was born in Cardiff Wales in 1833 he arrived in Dunedin in 1850. Phoebe Westlake was born in London 1852 and arrived in Dunedin in 1860. William and Phoebe married in 1869 and had five children Hannah, Daisy, John, Morris (Owens Father) and Phoebe little Phoebe living only 2 days. William died in 8th of June 1910 at the age of 77. His wife Phoebe died through drowning on the 29th December 1894 aged 43. There are five buried in the grave at the Southern cemetry in Dunedin. William, his wife Phoebe, their little daughter of two days Phoebe, Morris their son aged 37 and Morris David son of Annie and Owen Evans.
Morris died in 1921 aged 37 leaving his wife Bertha with three young children Lydia, Vera and Morris Owen ( Born 26th February 1915 ) Owen would have only been six years old. Bertha's Father being John Donaldson Scoullar born in Melbourne Victoria and her Mother was Mary Louisa
Scoullar (nee Gibbs) Born Tackly, Oxfordshire England. The Gibbs Family came to New Zealand on the
ship Cartsburn. Bertha remarried. Jack Milne was her second husband and they had a daughter
Rena. Rena is married to Alfred Hoyle. Owen spent much of his young life with his Mother Bertha's brother Jim Scoullar (Uncle Jim), and his wife Helen (Auntie Helen). Jim Scoullar had a milk run (Horse and cart) in South Dunedin and he bred and raced pigeons.
Bertha (nee Scoullar) and Morris Evans