Oh dear.
I've just received a document from Australia that possibly throws one branch of my tree into total disarray.
Anyway, while I'm trying to work out what happened, can anyone tell me how people would have travelled from Sydney to Townsville in 1886?
Were there any trains? Would they have gone by boat, or overland? We're not talking about wealthy people here (it's the Inmans, Libby).
What surprises me is that my great-grandmother apparently made this journey almost immediately after giving birth. She had the baby in Sydney on 2nd January, and she was at Magnetic Island on 15th Jan.
Next question - what might she have been doing on Magnetic Island at that time? The baby ended up in Townsville Orphanage, but I assume there were orphanages closer to Sydney if she wanted rid of it, poor thing.
I've just received a document from Australia that possibly throws one branch of my tree into total disarray.
Anyway, while I'm trying to work out what happened, can anyone tell me how people would have travelled from Sydney to Townsville in 1886?
Were there any trains? Would they have gone by boat, or overland? We're not talking about wealthy people here (it's the Inmans, Libby).
What surprises me is that my great-grandmother apparently made this journey almost immediately after giving birth. She had the baby in Sydney on 2nd January, and she was at Magnetic Island on 15th Jan.
Next question - what might she have been doing on Magnetic Island at that time? The baby ended up in Townsville Orphanage, but I assume there were orphanages closer to Sydney if she wanted rid of it, poor thing.
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