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The Common Room / Re: Leaving a young family behind
« on: Friday 05 November 10 08:46 GMT (UK) »
My G grandfather so I am told left his wife and 3 small children to go to the goldfields in the late 1890's . I have no idea how she coped and have been unable to find them on the 1901 census. He did not return and my g grandmother later remarried. It would have been a hard life for them.
