ABSTRACT
178Located near Bacchus Marsh, 50 kilometres north west of Melbourne, two houses were built a few years apart to respectively accommodate the Baker family who moved from England to Australia in the early 1960s, and Mrs Elizabeth Sticklen, the mother of Michael Baker’s former wife Rosemary, who followed a few years later – the name ‘Dower’ commonly attributed to the latter house derives from the English definition of this term, meaning: “a widow’s share for life of her husband’s estate”. 1
