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From: "Peter Robinson" <>
Subject: Re: Deserted wife in a strange country
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:20:20 +1100
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Hi List

Dawn's posting brought home to me another, but doubtless often repeated,
situation in early (and, perhaps, not so early) Australia. My half second
cousin twice removed, having migrated from England about ten years earlier,
lost her husband in a sparsely populated part of Western Australia (near
Albany) in the early 1920s. She had seven children to care for and not a
single rellie within cooee - the nearest was in Melbourne. How DID a woman
survive in those circumstances - and rear those kiddies. A hell of a job for
a single mother in these days with all sorts of government and charitable
organisation support and virtually instant communications. What it must have
been like for these women in those times and earlier doesn't bear thinking
about.

the older of the tworobbos

This thread:

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  • Re: KORWEINGUBOORA, SPARGO CREEK, BARKSTEAD - highlight towns by "roy comrie" <>
    • RE: KORWEINGUBOORA, SPARGO CREEK, BARKSTEAD - highlight towns by "Dawn Webb" <>

      • Re: Deserted wife in a strange country by "Peter Robinson" <>

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        • Re: Deserted wife in a strange country by "Susan Patterson" <>
  • Barkstead - Volk, Clinch. by "Barbara Ellard" <>
    • Re: Barkstead - Newman Shrubsole McGie Worland Wright by "Beryl O'Gorman" <>
  • KORWEINGUBOORA, SPARGO CREEK, BARKSTEAD by "Norm Darwin" <>