Introduction: The great-aunt's story
1. Hook Farm
2. London
3. The voyage of the Culloden
4. Five weddings and a funeral
5. Wesley Hill
6. The millers' tale
7. Campbell's Creek
8. Williamstown
9. Richmond Hill
Conclusion: Legacies and life chances
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Historian Graeme Davison was never interested in family history. But when he discovered in his grandfather's notebook an account of the family's arrival in Melbourne in 1850 on the infamous ship Culloden, his interest was piqued. He uncovers a largely forgotten world of free selectors, water-powered mills and Methodist evangelists that became the backbone of the Australia we know today.
Graeme Davison is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, and author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne and Car Wars, and editor of the Oxford Companion to Australian History.
'a quiet masterpiece' - Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne. 'How to produce a good family history? Get a master historian to write about his own. History and family history are combined in this fascinating book' - John Hirst, LaTrobe University
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