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 Introduction and Contents Before embarking on this story I would first like to acknowledge the First Peoples of Australia and their elders past and present, especially the Mowgee clan of the Wiradjuri nation on whose country Eliza Ann and her family made their home. I would also like to acknowledge the devastation of Australia’s First Nations which was the result of British and other arrivals, especially the massacre of the Wiradjuri nation that was part of the settlement of Mudgee with orders being given to shoot on sight, and honour those who fought and died to protect their land, especially  Windradyne who led the defence of Mowgee land  – Australia’s first wars.   On 9 th August 1841 Eliza Ann Miller arrives in Sydney on the Cadet, having left Liverpool on 10 th March 1841 [1] .  The journey had taken five months, probably a little longer than normal as the ship had been blown off course off the Cape of Good Hope, ending up anchoring at Rio de Janeiro where it picked up a lar