Medway to the Yarra : a family history / Colin Martin
- Bib ID:
- 8657371
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Martin, Colin, author
- Description:
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- Cottesloe, W.A : Col Martin Enterprises, 2022
- ©2022
- 324 pages : illustrations, illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 22 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646851563 (hardback)
- Summary:
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The history of the Martin’s for nearly four hundred years is inextricably linked with the Medway, a river that meanders its way for 70 miles1 through the heart of Kent from its source in the Ashdown Forest to its mouth in the Thames estuary at Sheerness. In earliest times it provided fresh water for the hamlets and villages that sprung up along its banks. Later, it became a major highway with sailing vessels carrying farm produce and industrial goods down to the estuary and on to England’s capital by way of the Thames. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brick, lime, paper, and cement works were built along its banks providing much-needed employment for many villagers, including those from the Martin and Harris families. It was the cement industry that provided the catalyst for the migration of one of William’s descendants and his family to Australia. Appropriately, it was another William – the seventh christened with that name – and his family who made the move to Western Australia in 1955. William’s son, Colin, later moved to Victoria to live not far from the river Yarra, another waterway fundamental to the development of a city and its suburbs, and a feature of this story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310) and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Until 2077 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2007
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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