Caroline Stanton (nee Broome) was born in England in 1835. She married Edward Stanton in 1858. He was aged 20 and she was 23 and they lived at Dawley, Shropshire. 

They had eight children, Edward born in 1858, Jane (1863), Fanny (1867), Elizabeth (1869), Caroline (1872), James (1874), William (1877) and Mary-Ann (1880).  Edward and Caroline came to  South Australia in 1879 on the Woodlark with six children, their last child Mary-Ann being born after their arrival. Their eldest son Edward, came two years later in 1881 with his wife Mary Ann (nee Bishop) on the Star of India. 

Children of Edward and Caroline
1.   Edward  (1858 – 1942) ) married Mary Ann Bishop before coming to Australia. They had 10 children and lived for some years in the Springton/ Mount Pleasant area before moving to Port Adelaide in the 1890s and then Edithburgh on Yorke Peninsular  in the early 1900s. 
2.    Jane  (1863 – 1907)  married John James Fishlock in 1890. They had four children and lived at Oakbank. Jane died in 1907 at the age of 44.
3.    Fanny  (1867 -1939)  was married in 1922 at the age of 56, to a widower, William Paul, aged 71, at his residence in Clapham, Adelaide. It appears that he died only a month after their marriage. Fanny lived there until her death in 1939 aged 73.
4.    Elizabeth (1869 – 1938) married James John Hams in 1894  at the age of 25.  They had eight children and lived in Adelaide. Elizabeth died in 1938) aged 69.
5.    Caroline (1872 – 1941) married George Farrow in 1895 at the age of 23. They had six children and lived initially in the Mitcham area of Adelaide before moving to Yorketown in the early 1900s. 
6.     James  (1874 -1940) married Mabel Goldsmith in 1901 at Morphett Vale. They had four children and lived in Adelaide. Mabel died in 1920 at the age of 44. James remarried in 1926 to Alice Butterick, when they were both in their fifties.
7.    William (1877 – 1965) married Herminie Leishield ( known as Minnie) in 1903 at Eden Valley. They had two daughters before Minnie died in 1911 aged 34 years. She is buried in the South Rhine cemetery adjacent to William’s mother Caroline. William remarried in 1936 (aged 57) to Agnes Jane Warmingham (aged 36) who was also widowed. 
8.    Mary Ann (1880 – 1962) married Clement Morcom in 1905. They had five children and lived in Adelaide.

Edward (Snr) was an agricultural labourer at South Rhine during the 1880s and the family attended the South Rhine church. 

Caroline died at Springton on 20 September 1900 aged 65 years and is buried in the South Rhine cemetery. 

Edward died at Glandore on 13 March 1919 aged 80 years.