university lecturer and head of a boys’ college. Janet, one of eight daughters, attended boarding school and like her father could speak several languages. In 1841, she married the Reverend Alexander Laurie and shortly after they sailed to Port Phillip aboard the appropriately...
Sunday 15th August: Sydney The night before departure, I looked up some temperatures on the Net. Peshawar, Chitral, Islamabad - all in the high thirties or even forties. And then Kashgar, in China - eleven degrees and minus six overnight! Vera and PeterK threw in some extra thermal unde...
he had been in Australia since 1839 having arrived in Sydney from Scotland with his parents. He made his way to Victoria, first working at Strathdownie as a stockman, where he proved himself an excellent horseman.
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