A 3xGt uncle emigrated to Australia in the 1870s; he was a stone mason. He went to the gold fields in Victoria and started up a carterage. 2 cousins and a sister followed him. On the back of their and other workers' labours, the 'entrepreneur' made a fortune as he managed to expand the carterage, set up a mail run, opened a general store (now a winery and still bears his name) and a hotel (we have a letter from the sister to one of her sisters-in-law in England stating that he never paid the husband and that he would 'pay him when he wanted to'). By the way, the sister had to take in washing, managed to buy a bigger tent and they took in 2 lodgers...in the tent...to make ends meet! Can't fault his work ethic but his treatment of his workers was sickening.
