 Thomas Atkinson married in 1901 and in 1904 brought his wife, Jessie Glennie Godschall, known as Glen, and their baby daughter to live at Gunnawarra.In 1908 they added a bedroom wing of tongue and groove cedar to the house and clad the shingled roof with corrugated iron.In 1913, the buildings of the property were reported to be a house, kitchen, outbuildings, stockyard, horse and milking yards, assessed at in value.