10. Helen Angus 1883 [891]

HELEN ANGUS, was born 11 July 1883, Limecroft, Newcastle died August 1945 Burial: 16 Aug 1945.

She married DIGBY BERKELEY GRIST on 22 Jul 1909. He was born 1869 1Q Stroud, Glos. and died February 1943.

HELEN and DIGBY are buried at Minchinhampton.

Digby Berkeley Grist had previously spent 14 years in Australia the first 7 as a jackaroo and having earned enough money he bought land in Queensland and over the next 7 years established a sheep station, which made him quite a lot of money when he sold it. As he had gone out penniless this was quite an achievement. After doing some work for the British Government in the Balkans he was asked to go to South America and take an expedition to some land on the border of Chile and Argentina to report on its suitability for sheep. He obviously saw potential in Argentina and decided to establish an enstancia close to the Patagonia coast in Argentina. Before doing so he returned to England where he met and married Helen. He went back to Argentina and she followed once a house had been built for them.

Digby Berkeley Grist did not want his son Digby Berkeley Angus Grist to be an Argentinian national and so they sailed round the Cape Horn to get to Chile.

When Helen's mother died in 1910 and with her father in poor health and Digby bored once he had established the estancia they returned to England and lived initially in Newcastle but, after Sir William died in 1912, they returned to Gloucestershire. Digby served in the First World War as a Supply Officer in the Army Service Corps.

Children of HELEN and DIGBY BERKELEY GRIST are:

i. DIGBY BERKELEY ANGUS GRIST, [1290] b. 17 May 1910 in Punta Arenas, Chile

. ii. MICHAEL MORTON GRIST, b. 1912 [4Q Newcastle], d. 14 Jan 1913.