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...