Louisa Martin interviewed by Catherine Johnson in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 644909
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Martin, Louisa, 1898-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 Dec. 8
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 95 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Martin speaks of her parents' background; brothers and sisters; childhood memories; mother immigrating from Scotland; father immigrating from England; parent's employment family farm; life and work on the farm; recreation; moving to Brunswick Heads because of a difficult neighbour; music interests; school memories; family life; employment doing housework for local families; experiences during flu epidemic of 1919; family moving to new farm near Sydney; home - slab cottage on farm; working for family in Kensington, duties, lifestyle, employers, work conditions; her courtship; meeting husband; her wedding; husband's employment; living with husband's parents; moving to Lismore; husband's work; politics; moving onto farm; childbirth; her children; lifestyle on farm owned by husband's brother; her health, a miscarriage; housework.
- Notes:
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- Transcript unavailable.
- Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216334741
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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