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Australia, South Australia, Far West Coast
The farming property of "Kilroy" is located approximately 15 kilometres inland from Colton which is 11 kms north of Elliston. It became the home of the McCracken family when John McCracken purchased the first parcel of leasehold land in late 1887. In 1889 he purchased a further 10,930 acres and another 1,663 acres in 1907.
John is said to have been introduced to the area around Anxious Bay when the coastal cutter Firefly, was shipwrecked there on the 20th October, 1866.
After John's death in 1919 the property passed to his second wife, Augusta (nee Crossland), who lived there with her younger son Gordon and his wife Dulcie until around 1950. Son Eric and daughter Lucie share-farmed parts of Kilroy for some years after John's death.
Augusta eventually moved back to Adelaide to be nearer her daughter Lucie who was by then living in the Adelaide Hills and to her sisters and brother. Gordon and Dulcie continued to live on the farm and ran it until Gordon's death in 1998. They had no children and the property then passed to John's great-grandsons, the grandchildren of John's eldest son, William.
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