A Glaswegian great-great-grandmother

I remember when first doing genealogy, I found the amazing life of my great-great-grandmother Janet .

At the age of 8 she sailed across the ocean on the Libertas with her family (my goodness I am crawling out of a massive rabbit hole the size of a Latin saying looking for a picture for this!)

As a young woman she married a mining man in a double wedding with her sister. What a canny Scot was my great-great-great-grandfather, two daughters off his hands for the price of one!

Over the next 15 years, the newlyweds 

• Marry in Newcastle, NSW 
• First boy born in Newcastle, NSW
• Second boy born in Adelaide, SA 
• Third boy born in Sydney NSW 
• Third boy dies in Sydney NSW 
• First girl (Janet) born in Sydney NSW 
• Second girl born in Sydney NSW
• Third girl born in Emmaville NSW 
• Fourth boy born in Tent Hill NSW 
• Move to Queensland 

I have looked at Emmaville and Tent Hill. They are mining towns in the same remote vicinity of North West NSW. I don't imagine that there was a lot of mod cons in the 1880s out there.

And finally I will leave you with this - from 1871 (not my relatives - that i know of, at least:

Image and text from Trove link - 1873

GILL.

A young medical friend asks our ( Glas-

gow Herald's) advice, or, we should

rather say, our sympathetic condolences

in connection with the subjoined letter,

which we do not think it a breach of

confidence to print verbatim et Hteratum,

changing the real names for others : —

tomintoul By

locbgilphead 25 februry 180073.

Dokter M- ? tere friend, — You

wus told me to rote you a word hoo i

wus felt mysel noo an to gie ye al the

news — my breth no that pad put am

stull fery wake an i canna get oot the

wether hear is fery pad nothin put rane

unless win an a grate dale o that same

too — dokter ye wus say i wus to not tak

a tram whatever on no accounts put

tugal mctavish that al lidge wi hears

wif fery skilly an she say a glep o whus

ky afor twl a klock an anitber at nicht

an maybe a Gamier o tody pefore gump

into my ped it wad pitmericht at wans,

tugal hersel wus fery nere deed a wliil

sins an he tak thre or fore gles in the

day forby porters an it wul' no pe long

afor he get petter an ther no man hear

noo thatl cary a bow o' meal wi hum —

there no be mitch news to told, ye e noo

tugals sister get mariet on last sbuestay

tull wan malcolm mcGregor a fery

decent lat an not pat ore atramneighter

hel kept a piblicans hous an twa o%

thre speeks in the perish o Craiguish —

Donald mcfale get drunk at Kilmichael

market fal an brok liims. legs , in two

place itll pe six minth afor he pit -his

feets tull the ground an may be so—

shop mcdougal broon meres fole gump

a dilk an fall and kill an shon hersel

sbist refus twanty pound the day afor— -

the minister o the establisht' chirch got

a wane last week and shes a poy an

doin fery wel an his wif too an is

prowdst man in hole perish — the fushin

fery pad hear the year an meal fery

dere an coles is two pound the ton

no moar at preasent but remains

Your servant

tull command

Duncan —

Dokter I forget tull say that itll pe

all small glessess thats drunk oot o hear

You sent a word son if you wus alloo

mee to tak a tram.