What a piece of history, so sad when elements have started to claim back the land.
Yes our ancestry made moves to foreign lands due to reasons that drove them further afield to find employment, make a future too many forget today or shovel under the carpet and pretend they had it good.
Most enjoyable read learning more about Australia.
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Thanks for reading Joan, I appreciate it. History fascinates me and it's cool when that history is partly my own. 🙂
History is something I have always enjoyed and followed, on my Mom's side of the family coming to South Africa with 1820 settlers from UK, Dad's side his father arrived from Britain for Boer War. Life was not easy nor handed to them on a platter like some would like to believe.
My uncle mined in Crown mines (gold) on the Witwatersrand. When we visited Johannesburg I managed to get my sons to experience first hand what it was like by taking them down on a tour. Miners underground, hard working conditions, many contracted ailments leading to death at much younger ages.
For many it was a one way trip, leaving family and friends behind with the hope of a better future, they most definitely deserve to be remembered.
Kind of makes a person proud to know how hard their ancestors had to work to make a life. It does for me anyway.