Early Swan River ColonyAccount of the early settlement of Western Australia, from European discovery of the Swan River until the arrival of the first convict ships in 1850. |
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... labour , money , and food caused great loss and hardship . Eliza and Will Shaw , superior settlers from Leicestershire , arrived to find they could get no information whatever about their grant . Eliza wrote in January 1830 : ' Out of ...
... labour , money , and food caused great loss and hardship . Eliza and Will Shaw , superior settlers from Leicestershire , arrived to find they could get no information whatever about their grant . Eliza wrote in January 1830 : ' Out of ...
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... labour all day for a pittance over the gentlemen's ruffled shirts and the flounced and finely tucked skirts and petticoats of the women and children . Fine clothes suffered much from trailing through loose red dust , or through mud and ...
... labour all day for a pittance over the gentlemen's ruffled shirts and the flounced and finely tucked skirts and petticoats of the women and children . Fine clothes suffered much from trailing through loose red dust , or through mud and ...
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... labour . To the hard - pressed settlers , the answer could only be in a convict intake . It was a total about - face because so much emphasis had been placed on creating ' a select and moral society ' at Swan River . Against that was ...
... labour . To the hard - pressed settlers , the answer could only be in a convict intake . It was a total about - face because so much emphasis had been placed on creating ' a select and moral society ' at Swan River . Against that was ...
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Aborigines acres anchor arrived Australind Battye Library Benedictine built Bussell Cape Captain Fremantle Captain Irwin Captain Stirling Cattle Chosen Challenger Church coast Cockburn Sound Colonial Office Colonial Secretary Commander Dance convict Currie DATE DUE STANFORD Dr Collie Drummond DUE STANFORD UNIVERSITY early Ellen Stirling England established expedition exploration farm Garden Island Governor Darling Governor Stirling grant Guildford H.M.S. Sulphur Hardey hereby given J.S. Roe John June kangaroo labour land later leading settlers Lieutenant March Matilda Midgigoroo military Mitchell Library Molloy Mount Eliza Norcia NOTICE is hereby Parkfield Parmelia party PETER BROWN Reveley Rosendo Salvado Rottnest Island sailed sailors servants ship Sir George Murray Sir James Stirling soldiers soon spearing St Georges Terrace Stirling's Swan River area Swan River Colony Swan River Mania Thomas Peel Thomas Turner W.A. town Turner W.A. Art UNIVERSITY 3 6105 voyage W.A. Art Gallery Western Australia wife Wollaston Yagan young