The fifth child of Reverend Frederick John Pitman and Maria Elizabeth Brice, Josiah was a saddler in the Murray River town of Yarrawonga. He was born in what then may still have been known as Forest Creek, but is now Chewton. He married Annie Irwin Cairnes (b 1864) in September 1889 in Yarrawonga.

Their first child, Annie Eileen Pitman, my paternal grandmother, was born in 1891.

There were three other children of whom the only other information I have is that Jessie Cairnes Pitman (b 1895) probably married a man with the surname Ward, and that they may have had a daughter named Patricia.

Josiah Pitman and Annie Irwin Cairnes
About 1889
Source: Patricia Hunt

Annie Irwin Cairnes
At Yarrawonga
About 1920

The Pitman Residence
7 Tom Street Yarrawonga
June 2016

Josiah Pitman (back) and Frederick William Robert Pitman
About 1920

Frederick William Robert Pitman and Annie Irwin Cairnes
About 1920