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Single and Free
"Single & Free is about the scheme administered by the London Emigration Committee to assist free women to migrate to Australia from Great Britain and IreIand. In the 1830s, approximately 3,000 women took advantage of this scheme, representing an enormous influx to the population of the two eastern colonies of Australia. The book analyses the women's motivations and life-experiences, challenging contemporary criticisms that they were the 'sweepings of the gutters'. Many women migrated in family groups, or were joining family and friends in the colonies. They came from a wide cross-section of nineteenth-century society. They were bold and enterprising, and made ideal workers and wives in the new colonies."--author's website.
Bishopscourt Melbourne
Bishopscourt is one of the last surviving pre-gold rush house and garden complexes within the City of Melbourne. Set in an Arcadian landscape, it was designed as an Italianate villa by James Blackburn, one of Melbourne's leading architects. The building was extended fifty years later by Arts and Crafts advocate Walter Richmond Butler, and although it has been renovated and refurbished over the years, the original building remains largely intact. The centre of diocesan life, Bishopscourt was built as the family home of Melbourne's Anglican bishops and archbishops and their wives. For the fourteen women whose task it was to manage her private household, Bishopscourt represented a unique challenge. Each of these women interpreted her role in her own way and each maintained the tradition of generous hospitality, but such a life was not without cost. This lavishly illustrated book focuses on the work and lives of these women.
Colonial Duchesses
In just two years, 750 young Irish women sailed from Cork to Sydney on the Duchess of Northumberland in 1834 and again in 1836 and the James Pattison in 1835. For the women who took the courageous decision to emigrate, the pain of leaving Ireland was mixed with the excitement of forging a new life in the colony of New South Wales. This book examines the backgrounds and lives of these young women. Their experiences are representative of countless numbers of single immigrant women who came to Australia during the nineteenth century.
John Marshall
Immigration was as controversial in the nineteenth century as it is today. Australia has a long history of migration and is considered one of the world's great immigration success stories, but this process has not been without cost. This book tells the story of the most active emigration agent of the nineteenth-century: John Marshall. His influence can be read in the naming of the town Marshall, outside Geelong, Victoria, and in the lives of the descendants of the thousands of people he assisted to migrate to the British colonies of New Zealand, Canada and North America, Cape Town and most importantly, Australia.Marshall's work also impacts the world today through Lloyd's Register of Shippin...
Siberia
Geschiedenis van de bevolking van Siberië.
Clarendon Terrace and Her Neighbours
When the heritage-listed architectural gem Clarendon Terrace was built in 1857, there were only nine other houses in Clarendon Street. This booklet tells the story of this unusual, grand terrace home, the women who lived here and some early pioneering neighbours.
Anastasia
In 1855 Anastasia Burke, a 27 year old woman from Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland, migrated to Adelaide, South Australia. For many post-Famine Irish emigrants there was no guarantee of a welcome in the host country and the following year, the South Australian government launched an enquiry into the influx of single Irishwomen to its shores.Anastasia stayed in South Australia for ten years before joining the exodus to the new goldfields in Victoria. Stockyard Creek, a goldfield in South Gippsland, ultimately became her permanent home.Widowed after a brief marriage to William Thornley, Anastasia was a successful businesswoman who owned land in the district, several gold mines and the biggest hotel in town, the Exchange Hotel. Anastasia visited her homeland in 1906 and returned to Victoria renovate her hotel in palatial style. She was tough and she was a survivor.This is the remarkable story of one Irish immigrant to nineteenth-century Australia and her never-failing support of Irish causes. Her legacy resonates today in Callan and in Foster (formerly Stockyard Creek).
Quarantined!
Quarantined! is about the first full ship to bring Irish family migrants to Australia. When the Lady Macnaghten set sail from Cork Harbour in October 1836 it contained over 400 emigrants, including 80 single women. When the ship limped into Sydney Harbour in February 1837, disease was raging on board and the immigrants and crew were dying from typhoid. It was one of the first uses of Spring Cove as a quarantine station and one of the most deadly. This is the story of these brave people who chose to leave Britain and pre-Famine Ireland in search of a new beginning in a new country.
The Merchant's Women
"Immigration of women to colonial Australia"--Provided by publisher.
