Lost relations : fortunes of my family in Australia's Golden Age / Graeme Davison
- Bib ID:
- 6810164
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Davison, Graeme, 1940-, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2015
- ©2015
- xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781743319468 (paperback)
- Summary:
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A widow and her eight older children are uprooted from their Hampshire farm in 1850, and thrown together on an emigrant ship with 38 distressed needlewomen from London. How they came to be on the boat, and what happened on the high seas and afterwards in Australia, is a vivid tale of family ambitions and fears, successes and catastrophes. In Lost Relations, historian Graeme Davison follows in his family's footsteps, from the picture-postcard village of Newnham to a prison cell in Maitland, from a London slum to a miner's tent in Castlemaine. He takes us back into worlds now largely forgotten, of water-powered mills, free selectors and Methodist evangelists. The Hewetts were not famous or distinguished, but their story reveals much about the foundations of Australia.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: The great-aunt's story
- 1. Hook Farm
- 2. London
- 3. The voyage of the Culloden
- 4. Five weddings and a funeral
- 5. Wesley Hill
- 6. The millers' tale
- 7. Campbell's Creek
- 8. Williamstown
- 9. Richmond Hill
- Conclusion: Legacies and life chances
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references pages (247-266) and index.
- Subject:
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- Davison, Graeme, 1940- -- Family
- Hewett family
- Families -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Immigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- Families -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- Immigrants -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1851-1901
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
- Victoria -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
- Australian
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2015
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