[2] Upon arrival in Sydney, six-year-old Shumack and his family together travelled the three-week journey by horse-drawn cart to the sheep station Duntroon.

[1] After two years at Duntroon, Richard Shumack took up a selection at Emu Bank (now the site of Belconnen Library).

[2] In 1866, at age 16, Samuel Shumack took up land at "Spring Vale" in Weetangera with his father.

[1] The Shumacks lived in Weetangera until 1915 when their land was resumed by the Commonwealth to become part of the Australian Capital Territory.

[6] For a year beginning Easter 1895, and again in 1904, Shumack was elected a churchwarden at St John's, Canberra.

Shumack died on 6 April 1940 at Peakhurst, where he had been living with his wife Sarah and his daughter Jemima.

[17] Shumack had four daughters and four sons, who are named in his obituary (not necessarily in order of birth) as: Jemima, Ruth, Clementina, Eileen, Everest, David, Heber and Stephen.