Adelaide, South Australia, July 1840.
Adelaide, South Australia, July 1840.Catherine celebrated Susanna’s first birthday alone. She had made no friends in the new Colony; as all her time was spent creating a thriving vegetable garden and trying to turn the shack she and James lived in. into a home. And caring for Susanna. He’d brought home a packing crate when she and the baby arrived, telling Catherine to use it as a crib for Susanna. The infant had outgrown it and he wasn’t interested in supplying anything more appropriate.
While Susanna slept in the middle of Catherine and James’ bed, Catherine dug up potatoes, bagged them, collected eggs which she put in a cloth bag she’d made, pulled onions from the ground, and prepared her products for sale. With the front door ajar so she could he
