https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2012/04/bat-tree/ Benz World Photography Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 https://jason.bennee.com/blog/2012/04/bat-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-5008 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:10:18 +0000 http://jason.bennee.com/blog/?p=2746#comment-5008 I doubt that your ancestors set out for Australia specifically to seek gold. It is more likely that they were simply seeking a better life. By the 1850s manual workers were being replaced by machines so there was much poverty and dreadful working conditions for those who had jobs. Very large numbers of people emigrated. There were three generations of Robinsons traveling out on the ship so they must have intended to settle there. When they arrived everyone must have been talking about the gold that had been found in Victoria so I imagine they decided to join in.

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