The Packers were originally from the Reading area in the Thames Valley and Frederick's father was a master pianoforte manufacturer with premises on London's Oxford Street.
Augusta was the granddaughter of Scotland's famous fiddler and composer of antiquity, Niel Gow of Dunkeld.
Her father was Nathaniel Gow, a highly regarded musician and composer himself, who had a shop in Princes Street, Edinburgh in the early to mid-19th century.
Notable achievements included launching the first Miss Australia beauty contest at the Daily Guardian in 1926.
[1] Robert Clyde Packer married Ethel Maude Hewson (1874–1947), the youngest daughter of Rev.