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PUBLIC LECTURE: Friends of the Library talk: Nineteenth Century Journal Accounts of Life Aboard Sailing Ships

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Diaries written by two great-great uncles as they sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1854, together with a copy of the Daily Sick Book and Synopsis written by their father, Dr John Patchell, on a journey, as the ship’s surgeon, from Dublin to Sydney in 1839 provided Joan Robins with a wealth of information as she researched her family history. She will use extracts from these documents to describe life at sea under sail for migrants travelling to Australia in the mid eighteen hundreds.

About the Speaker

Joan Robins has a BA and a DipEd from UWA. Spending most of her working life at UWA, firstly in teaching and later in administration, she was the recipient of a Twenty-five Year Service Award and a Chancellor’s Medal. In retirement, she completed and self-published a history of the Patchell family. Bitten by the genealogy bug, she is now working on another line of ancestors.

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Members: Free Non Members: $5 donation
Speaker(s) Joan Robins
Location Science Library meeting room (3rd floor)
Contact Stella Ibbott <[email protected]> : 6488 2356
Start Tue, 10 May 2011 19:30
End Tue, 10 May 2011 21:20
Submitted by Katie Mills <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:50
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