Mary Elizabeth (Tilly) Ruck was Welsh by birth. She married Robert Travers Atikin in 1863. The Atkins arrived in Queensland in 1865, settled in Herberts Creeks, 100 km from Rockhampton, eventually moving to Brisbane. Robert and Mary had three sons: James Richard, Walter Stewart and Robert Laurence. Mary and the children moved to the United Kingdom in 1870 due to an illness of their third child. She returned in April 1872 to Brisbane to nurse Robert Atkin. She returned to Wales after his death, and later married Thomas Ruddiman Steuart. She died in 1920.

Robert Travers Atkin was born on 29 November 1841 at Fernhill, Clonakilty, County Cork. In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Ruck in London. Robert and Mary, his mother Alice and sister Grace arrived in Queensland aboard the Wansfell in 1865, took the steamer to Rockhampton and took up a selection of land near Rockhampton at Herberts Creek. The Atkins did not take to farming in the Queensland heat and moved back to Rockhampton, eventually moving to Brisbane where Robert embarked on a career in journalism and politics. They had three sons: James Richard, Walter Stewart and Robert Laurence. Robert died at the age of 30 in 1872. There is a large sandstone memorial to Robert Travers Atkins and his sister Grace Atkin at St Margret's Anglican Church, Sandgate.

Grace Townsend Atkin was born in Ireland, possible in 1844. She, her mother, Alice, sister Catherine, brother Robert and his wife Mary left London in 1865 aboard the vessel the "Wansfell". On the journal Catherine died and was buried at sea. They arrived in Queensland in 1865. Grace Atkin was a governess in Rockhampton. When the Atkin family moved to Brisbane she ran a private school. She was appointed assistant teacher at Brisbane Girls Grammar School in 1875. She died on 26 January 1876, at the age of 32. She is buried beside Robert at Sandgate.

Mary Anne Matthews was born in the county of Merioneth, Wales, possibly in 1821.