Rumbelow & Descendants
Family History
Rumbelow & Descendants
Family History
By popular demand, another screening of King of the River has been arranged by the Victa Cinema.
Show Time Sep 14, 2025 02:30 PM
https://www.victacinemas.com.au/movies/?film_id=ST00000964
With Special Thanks to:
Daniel Clarke
Vivien Osborn
Chris Frizell
Emma Heidenreich
Jarrad Jenkins
Stephen Conway
The Rumbelow & Descendants 170th Celebration event was held at Encounter Bay and surrounds on the weekend of 29th & 30th March, 2025.
The pioneer family landed at Port Adelaide on October 9th, 1854, having sailed from Southampton UK on the barque Pestonjee Bomanjee. They then travelled on foot to Encounter Bay arriving on the 5th of January 1855.
Local Artist Peter Matthews commissioned twelve portraits to capture the lives of local fisherman and their outstanding personalities. The portraits featuring Rumbelow, Ewen, and Shannon family members were painted by William (Bill) Needs and Peter’s younger son, Andrew Matthews.
Peter wrote ‘I offer the portraits so that they may be safeguarded and exhibited from time to time – when hopefully Victor Harbor will have a gallery of its own and that I ask for no remuneration. It is just something that I thought worthwhile of the men portrayed and who lost their lives at sea."
Peter Rumbelow alongside the portrait of Malen Rumbelow