John & Elias BATESON sons of Elias BATESON and Elizabeth COURSE from Cambridgeshire arrived at Portland, S-W Victoria on the "General Hewett" in 1856 and were employed by the KIRBY family at "Spring Bank" Pastoral Run, near Casterton, S-W Victoria.

Elias BATESON 1836-1899 married Margaret PINCOTT in 1859 at Casterton, S-W Victoria. Margaret PINCOTT 1837-1914 was b. 1835, Dalkeith, Scotland, daughter of John PINCOTT and Margaret _____.

Elias and Margaret BATESON died at Kaniva in the west Wimmera in 1899 and 1914 respectively.

John BATESON, brother of Elias married Margaret FIEGHERY from Ireland in 1868 at Ballarat.

Elias BATESON and Margaret PINCOTT had the following known family:

  1. John BATESON b. 1860, Sandford, S-W Victoria, m. Ellen RIDEOUT
  2. Elias BATESON b. 1862, Casterton, S-W Victoria, m. Mary RIDEOUT.
  3. Margaret BATESON b. 1864, Sandford, S-W Victoria, m. Heinrich SCHMIDT.
  4. Elizabeth Jane BATESON b. 1865, Sandford, S-W Victoria, m. Alfred Richard BAILEY.
  5. Mary BATESON b. 1867, Casterton, S-W Victoria, m. David HARRISON.
  6. Isabella BATESON b. 1869, Sandford, S-W Victoria, m. Robert MOORE.
  7. William BATESON b. 1872, Sandford, S-W Victoria, m. Isabella Jane COUTTS.
  8. James BATESON b. 1873, Sandford, S-W Victoria, m. Sarah Augustus LACKMANN.
  9. Robert Alexander BATESON b. 1874, Merino, S-W Victoria, m. Emily Jane WATERS.
  10. Helen BATESON b. 1876, Horsham, Victoria, m. Richard Claude SMART.
  11. Martha BATESON b. 1879, Horsham, Victoria, m. John Henry WATERS.
  12. Ann BATESON b. 1882, Kaniva, Victoria, m. Joseph Gilbert GOULD.