Esther Farrow Latter

Role: Second child of Charles & Elizabeth (Telfer) Farrow of Hope Farm — m. Richard Pelling Latter

Born: 8 April 1859 — Finniss Point, South Australia
Died: 31 October 1951 (aged 92) — Adelaide, South Australia (⚠️ primary sources: FindAGrave + Trove newspaper notice agree 31 Oct 1951; earlier 26 Oct superseded — see Notes)
Spouse: Richard Pelling Latter (m. 2 March 1882, Finniss Point/Hope Farm)

Family

Life Summary

Esther was the second child born to Charles Farrow and Elizabeth Hannah Telfer at Hope Farm, Finniss Point, near Tarlee. She married Richard Pelling Latter on 2 March 1882. Her descendants form the Latter–Cooper–Wishart family line recorded in the family's 2017 supplement tree.

Per WikiTree, Esther was mother of Ida Jane (Latter) Cooper and Daisy Vera (Latter) Wishart. She died in Adelaide on 31 October 1951, aged 92.

Timeline

Family Stories

🖊️ Anecdote — as told in From the Borders to the Bush (book pp. 63–65): A story of the family's Dick — Richard Latter, who married Esther. He worked for Jas Martin & Co over in Gawler, making farming machinery that was the talk of the colonies. He packed a shipment of harvesters onto a ship bound all the way round the world to Argentina. When they landed, he stayed on to put every one of those machines back together and run them through their trial, proving to the Argentine farmers they'd been built to work. He wrote letters home from Buenos Aires about all of it, and thank goodness for that — his grandson Ashley Cooper still holds those letters today, so we can hear Dick's own voice telling us about it.

(Anecdote only — family colour, told as the elders tell it. Does not establish any relationship, date or place.)

⚠️ Year correction (10 Sep 2026): The book dates the Argentine trip to 1908; Richard Latter's own letters are dated 5 November 1903 (Buenos Aires) and 26 December 1903 (Dornquist). The 1903 dating is also supported by the fact that James Martin & Co. went into liquidation in 1907 (Australian Dictionary of Biography, biography of James Martin — "In 1907 Martin & Co. went into liquidation"), which makes a 1908 shipment on their behalf impossible. The correct year is likely 1903. The year is inside the anecdote, which cannot itself assert a date — so the anecdote text is left as the book tells it, with this correction attached. To be resolved fully, the letters themselves (held by grandson Ashley Cooper's family) would need to be sighted.

Sources

• Source: Find a Grave — Esther (Farrow) Latter (1859–1951), Memorial 158299839 — Cheltenham Cemetery, Cheltenham SA; death 31 Oct 1951 — accessed 19 Aug 2026
• Source: Trove/NLA newspaper — Family Notices, 31 Oct 1951 (article 45788895): "LATTER — the friends of the late Mrs ESTHER LATTER ... passed away October 31" — Trove family-notice dated 31 Oct 1951; accessed 1 Sep 2026
• Source: A Telfer Family Tree (Supplement to From the Borders to the Bush, 2017), pp. 37–39 — accessed 06 Aug 2026
• Source: WikiTree — Esther (Farrow) Latter (1859–1951) — accessed 06 Aug 2026