Bruny Island girl
Cutcliffe, Max2019
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In the year 1879, William and Jane Burns from Durham, England, migrated to Newcastle, Australia, in the hope of finding a better life for themselves and their two children, Joseph, aged three, and Elizabeth, aged one. Stormy seas, interspersed with weeks of boredom, made their three-month-long voyage on the sailing ship, William Stonehouse, anything but pleasant. William, like his father, was a coal miner and found work easily in a Newcastle colliery. During this time, he befriended a German immigrant, Wilhelm Zschachner, and learned that a new coal discovery had been made in the state of Tasmania. The thought of moving to Tasmania was challenging to the Burns family now that they had two additional children. Nevertheless, they repacked their furniture and treasures brought out with them from England and moved to remote Bruny Island, off Tasmania's southeast coast. Here, they were true pioneers.
Main title:
Bruny Island girl / Max Cutcliffe.
Author:
Cutcliffe, Max, author
Imprint:
London : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2019.
Collation:
230 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781528929844 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR9619.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2610612