RUMOURS OF OTHERS
My earliest known ancestor was a Glaswegian girl named Agnes Turley. The records tell us that she
had brown hair, freckles and blue eyes.
She could even read and write.
Agnes was sixteen when she was caught nicking some clothes in her home town. Like thousands of other Anglo-Celtic poor folks, she found herself sent to a colony on the other side of the world as a white slave.
She served in the Cascades Female Factory before being assigned as a maid to John Townsend in Launceston. She was two months pregnant when she married her master in St John's Anglican Church.
They moved into the thick of the Black War's final frontier, the wild northwest coast. It must have been terrifying.
John worked with the Van Diemen's Land Company. Agnes gave birth to nine children over fifteen years and probably never lost that wonderful accent.
There is no record of their deaths. Their children buried them in unmarked graves.
Just like anyone, they were born into a certain place and time and were compelled to make the most of what they had.
The older I get, the less sure I am about any of this stuff.
had brown hair, freckles and blue eyes.
She could even read and write.
Agnes was sixteen when she was caught nicking some clothes in her home town. Like thousands of other Anglo-Celtic poor folks, she found herself sent to a colony on the other side of the world as a white slave.
She served in the Cascades Female Factory before being assigned as a maid to John Townsend in Launceston. She was two months pregnant when she married her master in St John's Anglican Church.
They moved into the thick of the Black War's final frontier, the wild northwest coast. It must have been terrifying.
John worked with the Van Diemen's Land Company. Agnes gave birth to nine children over fifteen years and probably never lost that wonderful accent.
There is no record of their deaths. Their children buried them in unmarked graves.
Just like anyone, they were born into a certain place and time and were compelled to make the most of what they had.
The older I get, the less sure I am about any of this stuff.
