In June 1857, Wrey and Herbert Seymour relocated 2500 sheep on the ship Taranaki from Nelson, New Zealand to stock Run153.
Walter ended up building a sod and a thatch hut (site of the future Annandale homestead), and he lived there for about two weeks; he died at the infant settlement of Invercargill.
Annadale eventually got split up into farms which were owned by Irish farmers; most of them were Catholic.
In 1899 St Peter's Convent School was opened and was run by the Sisters of Mercy.
In 1901 there was a population of 289 according to the 1901 census, there were two pubs, two stores, a blacksmith, a saddler, a bootmaker and other services.