Beginning’s End

By an anthropologist and publisher of note, this is the story of how 200 years of family history led to his family's migration to Western Australia in the 1920s, and how at one level a failure, at another it contributed to the vibrancy of the growing state. And what a remarkable collection of people emerge from this tale - none of them famous, none known to history, but all with rich histories. There were cot deaths and mine deaths and murder-suicides, but no war deaths. There were deaths of children and the middle aged. Sibling rivalries played out in wills. Illness stalked young and old. Friendships enriched lives within and outside of families; other friendships were lost in separations from one side of the world to the other. Wealth was accumulated and lost. In short a passing parade of human relationships play out in these pages.