Doras was born at Hillcott Farm at Golden Grove and she attended Golden Grove School. When she left school she nursed her mother until her death, then kept house for her brothers until she married. As a result of her house keeping Doras was an excellent cook producing prize winning scones at various shows, Doras also crocheted and sewed the family clothes. Horace was born at Georgetown SA and with his family moved to Hermitage before settling at Tea Tree Gully.Horace and Doras started married life on a small farm on Yatala Vale road/where they had an apple orchard, kept cows and pigs and Horace cut and carried wood from the property to bakeries etc, on large horse drawn trolleys. In 1921 they sold the farm and moved to Modbury where they lived next to the Methodist Church, Horace was working for a drilling company at Hope Valley. From 1923-29 they lived and worked at Virginia and then moved to Northfield where Horace worked at the Experimental Farm at Northield until he retired, meanwhile they had moved to Walkerville, then to Upper Sturt Rd, Mt Lofty in 1954, and lived there until their deaths in 1960.