by Dorothy Williams | Feb 15, 2019 | Adoption, Family History, Memoir, Uncategorized
My grandmother Annie Amelia was apprenticed to her foster mother as a household servant when she turned fourteen, without completing Grade 6. Those remaining in the Orphanage were often employed at thirteen as the demand for new admissions grew. Annie’s elder brother...
by Dorothy Williams | Feb 15, 2019 | Abbotsford, Adoption, Depression, Economic Problems, Family History, Melbourne, Memoir
“In a strange land most persons are strangers to each other (and) wherever large assemblies of people settle, there will be orphans,” wrote John Pascoe Fawkner in his own Port Phillip Patriot 5/5/1846. The category of orphans also covered foundlings, neglected or...
