INTRODUCTION:FROM MILLER TO ROPE, THE MATRIARCHS
INTRODUCTION
Beginning with Eliza Ann this series presents as much is as known of my direct maternal line, from Ardstraw, Ireland to Mudgee, NSW Australia.
The original research, which included birth,
marriage, death, land and cemetery records, was undertaken by my mother, Madge
Rups (nee Rope) in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. I have extended her work in an effort to view
these women’s lives in context of what it may have been like for them at the
time.
Before embarking on these stories 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 massacres that were 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.
The series includes,
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