Book - Pubs Punts & Pastures The Story of Pioneer Irish Women on the Salt Water River, St. Albans History Society, 1988

Physical description

Soft cover book. The front cover illustration shows Margaret Dowd Pickett's grand-daughters picking mushrooms near Footscray. The back cover illustration shows the street names representing the women in the story - from Footscray, Sunshine and Keilor

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Pubs, Punts & Pastures: The Story of Pioneer Irish Women on the Salt Water River. Researched and written by Joan Carstairs & Maureen Lane

Summary

The book documents the lives of Irish immigrant women who lived, worked, and farmed along the Saltwater River (now Maribyrnong River) starting in the 1840's

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