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‘Fair Delinquents’? Irish Famine Orphans of Colonial Bathurst and Beyond by Leonie Glynn Blair and Perry McIntyre This local history focusses on the group of Irish orphan girls who went to Bathurst, either banished or by choice.
Biographical profiles of 185 Irish orphan girls from the Poor Law Workhouses of Ireland to become
• The brunt of disapprobation in Sydney
• Pioneers of Bathurst
• And finally, respected
A triumphant story of their courage and resilience with surprising discoveries of killers, child killers, arsonists, thieves and vagrants
Photos, illustrations, tables, appendices, sources and index in 300 pages
Four years of intensive research using available primary sources and newspapers and meshing with descendant family stories