Lost Relations

Fortunes of my Family in Australia's Golden Age

Graeme Davison

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Allen & Unwin
27 May 2015

Australasian & Pacific history; Family history, tracing ancestors; Biography - Australian

A widow and her eight older children are uprooted from their Hampshire farm in 1850, and thrown together on an emigrant ship with 38 distressed needlewomen from London. How they came to be on the boat, and what happened on the high seas and afterwards in Australia, is a vivid tale of family ambitions and fears, successes and catastrophes.

In Lost Relations, historian Graeme Davison follows in his family's footsteps, from the picture-postcard village of Newnham to a prison cell in Maitland, from a London slum to a miner's tent in Castlemaine. He takes us back into worlds now largely forgotten, of water-powered mills, free selectors and Methodist evangelists. The Hewetts were not famous or distinguished, but their story reveals much about the foundations of Australia.

By: Graeme Davison
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 418g
ISBN: 9781743319468
ISBN 10: 1743319460
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 27 May 2015
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: The great-aunt's story..1. Hook Farm..2. London..3. The voyage of the Culloden..4. Five weddings and a funeral..5. Wesley Hill..6. The Millers' tale..7. Campbell's Creek..8. Williamstown..9. Richmond Hill..Conclusion: Legacies and life chances..Acknowledgements..Notes..Index

Graeme Davison AO is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, and author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne and Car Wars, and an editor of The Oxford Companion to Australian History.

Reviews for Lost Relations: Fortunes of my Family in Australia's Golden Age

'a quiet masterpiece' - Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne. 'How to produce a good family history? Get a master historian to write about his own. History and family history are combined in this fascinating book' - John Hirst, LaTrobe University