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Emigration to Australia 1874 |
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| In the late 19th century conditions for most agricultural labourers across Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, were no better then for any others, wages were on the decline, living conditions were overcrowded and a way out of this deprivation was virtually non-existent. | ||||
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The image left is a typical advert
taken from The Oxford Times of 1874, encouraging would be
emigrants that Queensland, Australia was the land of promise.
Adverts such as these must have been very tempting, so much so that
many families from Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and a few from
Northamptonshire set sail on the Indus on September 13th 1874,
arriving at Brisbane 29th December 1874 William Munt b 1825 and his wife Sarah (nee Hinton) b 1824 their children, Martha b 1852, William, b 1854 and Eliza, b 1856, sailed on the fifth voyage of the Indus on 13th September 1874 from London. |
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| It is probable that along with many of the other families emigrating to Australia on that voyage, that William and his family attended a meeting held at The Market Square Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to hear an address by Mr E Richardson of Aylesbury one of the delegates of the National Agricultural Labourers union. William and his family had a free passage
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above newspaper clippings for larger image. Images taken from The Oxford Times dated September 1874
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| Link to William Munt and his family in Australia Link to James Munt and Eliza Jane Morton
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