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Subject: LIMERICK TO QUEENSLAND - The Kearney Family Story
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:06:39 +1100

NEW FAMILY HISTORY AVAILABLE THIS MONTH

LIMERICK TO QUEENSLAND: The Kearney Family Story traces the journey in the
early 1860s of John Martin & Honorah Kearney and their large family, from
the Abington area of County Limerick, Ireland, to Rockhampton in the newly
separated colony of Queensland, and tells the stories of the generations
which followed.

These were the early years of the colony after separation from New
South Wales in 1859, and mining and railway construction and pastoral
interests were the primary focus for the new government. Immigration
policies were introduced to provide the labour force to build the colony.
Still a frontier, physical strength and a degree of enterprise were the
qualities that counted …… and Irish women in the colony exhibited a marked
degree of enterprise.

The Kearney story is bound together by the stories of the Kearney women
- wives and daughters. In the early years, the Kearney men died young,
leaving their women to endure in this new land and raise their families –
perforce, the women were the backbone of the family, supporting each other
and keeping the family together.



256 pages in Hardcover – Fully Indexed, Family Trees, over 200 images

Check the website - HYPERLINK "http://www.cremorne1.com"www.cremorne1.com





Regards Margaret

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