RELATED TO THE BINGHAM FAMILY?

Below is a photo of a family gathering at Spalford to celebrate the diamond wedding anniversary of John Bingham and Mary Ann Crawford, seated at centre. The celebration took place in March 1917. Can anyone identify the rest of the family members?

Pictured above: Four generations with John Bingham aged 84, George Bingham aged 58, Wilfred aged 31 and George aged 2 years

​The following is an excerpt from John Bingham's obituary published in the North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times on 9 December 1918.
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About John Bingham

John Bingham was a native of Nottinghamshire, England, and early in life went to Lincolnshire, where he lived until he left England for Tasmania in 1856, landing in Launceston on New Years Day in 1857 per the ship Alice Walton. He came out under engagement to Captain Horton Summercoates, near Ross, with whom he remained three years. He married Mary Ann, daughter of the late Abraham and Mary Crawford, with whom he had been shipmates on the voyage.

For some nine years he was engaged in various parts of Tasmania, when he took up land and made his home on Castra Road, naming his homestead, Spalford, after his native village in England; and the locality now known by the same name. He was one of about half a dozen of the hardy British pioneering stock who have, by indomitable perseverance, made this part of the Northwest Coast of considerable importance as an agricultural centre. The Spalford homestead stands out as a monument of energy and capacity to surmount difficulties, and an example to the generations who seek to follow in the footsteps of these early advance agents of British civilisation.

All through the years when those obstacles and disappointments common to pioneers beset them, his aged partner proved herself to be a true helpmeet in every difficulty, assisting to overcome every trouble, brightening the solitude of the pioneer home, and helping to bear the lack of social intercourse.

Today, after many years of happy married life, she mourns the loss of a faithful and loving partner, and to her in bereavement there goes out a feeling of sympathy from a large number of people.
 

John Bingham and Mary Ann Crawford aged 84 and 83 respectively, on their wedding anniversary