Elizabeth Arthur interviewed by Jeannine Baker for the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5814295
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Arthur, Elizabeth, 1931-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 2012
- 2 sound files (ca. 229 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Summary:
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Elizabeth Arthur speaks about being into Burnside Presbyterian Home in Parramatta with her sister; life in the orphanage with her sister; visits from her mother; daily routine in the orphanage; the orphanage staff; Christmas not being celebrated; leaving school and taking on cooking duties; relationships with other girls and her sister; birthdays not being acknowledged; leaving the orphanage and working as a nanny; being unprepared for life; getting married; being pregnant and having children; working with her husband at a chicken farm; being a parent; health problems for her and her husband.
Arthur talks about moving to a sheep station near Brewarrina; coping with isolation; moving to Tarcoon where her husband worked for the railroad; family life in tough conditions; moving to Campbelltown to improve their children’s access to education; living in tents near the railway line; getting their own house; her and her husband’s work; getting her birth certificate; searching for her other siblings; involvement with the television program ‘Can we help?’; meeting her siblings; her feelings about her mother; the Burnside reunion; CLAN; her husband’s search for his history; the Apology to the Forgotten Australians; how her childhood has impacted on her life.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 27 and 31 January 2012 in Campbelltown, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (8 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Baker, Jeannine, interviewer
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This belongs to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
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- 2012
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