Frances Davis interviewed by Jenny Salmon in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 566915
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Davis, Frances, 1904-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access to be determined.
- Description:
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- 1987 Mar. 10
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 58 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Warren, NSW, Davis speaks of being eldest of 12 children; her family background; her father's employment; her memories of her family moving to Lightning Ridge for opal strike of 1909; moving to Walgett; her relatives and their lives; Halley's Comet; childhood memories; family life and lifestyle; schools at Lightning Ridge and Walgett; her family home in Lightning Ridge; food, diet, the self sufficiency of her family; local community; clothes facilities; anecdotes and experiences in Lightning Ridge; her education; moving to Walgett; employment; local Aborigines in Walgett and the attitude to them; her memories of Walgett; her family's health; World War I; employment as a maid on a station; her duties and lifestyle; working as a maid/childminder in Sydney; marrying at 18 in Double Bay; her children; the Depression; and her husband's background.
- Notes:
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- Recording begins 3 minutes into side A and side B.
- Transcript unavailable.
- Includes index.
- 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)
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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