ABSTRACT
About I860, when she was in her mid-thirties, my great-grandmother sailed from England to Australia with her husband and four or five children, despite her mother's apprehensions that this was a dangerous move. She had three more children in Sydney — the last, my grandmother, when she was forty. Child-bearing and -rearing occupied a great portion of her life. What else she did I do not know, but taking regular care of elderly parents was not part of her life's experience.
