thanksgiving in Australia

[wilk1149]

Sarah Jane is on ABC news saying we should have thanksgiving here. Aren't we inundated with enough pseudo American culture already

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@katymatey* wrote:

I am not going to feel any guilt about being here either. Most of my ancestors had no choice about it. They were just packed up and shipped across the world with no by your leave. 

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Oh Katey - do you have 'assisted passage' relatives - not the ten quid kind.

Sadly mine were coalminers from Cornwall - paid their own way - very boring background.

Not even a Royal in there.

[katymatey*]

Helen. My great great grandmother arrived in 1849 as a 16 year old, with her 14 year old sister. They were orphans as a result of the Irish famine. The British government rounded up around 4000 orphan girls from the workhouses and shipped them out here to work as servants and eventually marry. The bloke she married was in his early 30's and yes he did come involuntarily. lol. She gave birth to 14 kids on the Vic. goldfields and was as tough as old nails.

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@katymatey* wrote:

Helen. My great great grandmother arrived in 1849 as a 16 year old, with her 14 year old sister. They were orphans as a result of the Irish famine. The British government rounded up around 4000 orphan girls from the workhouses and shipped them out here to work as servants and eventually marry. The bloke she married was in his early 30's and yes he did come involuntarily. lol. She gave birth to 14 kids on the Vic. goldfields and was as tough as old nails.

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It beggards the imagination.

Can you imagine some of these present day 'princesses' at 16 handling a situation similar.

Looking after a younger sibling - bad enough in the workhouse back there - let alone here - then.

Geez they were the backbone of women.

[katymatey*]

Hard to imagine isn't it? 14 years old and except for her sister, alone in the world. 😞 I hope they met some kind people along the way, but I suspect life was very hard for them.

[aps1080]

Helen,

Women were the backbone of the country in some ways or many ways.

Both keeping the fort and or being pioneers.

Have you read the book we of the never never ?

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@aps1080 wrote:
Helen,

Women were the backbone of the country in some ways or many ways.

Both keeping the fort and or being pioneers.

Have you read the book we of the never never ?

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A classic - and - of course I have.

I am 66 years old & reading is my nature.

I also read the short -

They're a Weird Mob - and everything 'inbetween'.

Women are still the backbone - never heard one declare 'war'.

Unless of course it was on the OH or untidy 'kid'.

[aps1080]

The other book was the one about bullo station. Cant remember the name.

I am 50, male ! But reading i also in my nature, especially aussie bush pioneers.

[jean2579]

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@cmcoins2000 wrote:

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@aps1080 wrote:
Helen,

Women were the backbone of the country in some ways or many ways.

Both keeping the fort and or being pioneers.

Have you read the book we of the never never ?

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A classic - and - of course I have.

I am 66 years old & reading is my nature.

I also read the short -

They're a Weird Mob - and everything 'inbetween'.

Women are still the backbone - never heard one declare 'war'.

Unless of course it was on the OH or untidy 'kid'.

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I believe that Britians' Mrs Margaret Thatcher did on Argentina.

[jean2579]

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@aps1080 wrote:
The other book was the one about bullo station. Cant remember the name.

I am 50, male ! But reading i also in my nature, especially aussie bush pioneers.

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Aps, I think that the author was a Mrs Henderson. Can't recall her first name but I do remember that there was a massive court duel with her daughter about ownership of Bullo. I think that the daughter eventually won.

[aps1080]

Thats it. Sarah henderson.