Author : Lorna Burke née Medwell 
ISBN : 978-0-9775741-3-1 

This is a digital version (PDF) of the original print edition. 

A Family For Tessie and Tess diverts from the usual family history format and traces the women of the family of Lorna Burke née Medwell, through from the ancestors of her mother Tessie, to her great-grand-daughter, Tess.

It tells the story of the many remarkable women of Lorna’s family.

This well researched and interesting history dating back to the 1500s, describes the many hardships, sad times and happy times these women had to encounter. The book will enable you to experience a little of what life for women might have been like in these, “the good old days.” Defending their homes against the Norman and Viking invaders, depression and famines, having to leave their beloved family and friends in Ireland and Scotland, convict transportation of their men, childbirth in tents on the Victorian goldfields, losing their brothers and friends to world wars, soldier settlement farming in the Malley, fighting for equality, suffrage, and higher education for women, and the fun times in the ‘roaring Twenties’.

They achieved all this whilst raising large families to build a future for Australia to grow on.

This book is the fourth in the series.

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