have you ever been researching your family and found out information that was upsetting?
i was cleaning up my tree yesterday when ancestry had hinted my distant aunt went to tasmania, aboard the cataraqui. when i googled this ship, i learned it sunk off king island in the bass strait in tasmania on 4 aug 1845. it is australia's worst civillian maritime disaster. 9 survivors from 400 people. it was an assisted emmigration ship, full of families. it was an absolutely horrific disaster, and i can't help but think about the terror they went through. or the grief their families in england would have felt upon learning it.
i was cleaning up my tree yesterday when ancestry had hinted my distant aunt went to tasmania, aboard the cataraqui. when i googled this ship, i learned it sunk off king island in the bass strait in tasmania on 4 aug 1845. it is australia's worst civillian maritime disaster. 9 survivors from 400 people. it was an assisted emmigration ship, full of families. it was an absolutely horrific disaster, and i can't help but think about the terror they went through. or the grief their families in england would have felt upon learning it.
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