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| Suzanna Connor |
| 1820, Ireland c.1847, Ireland 12 Mar 1886, Perth, WA Catholic Housewife Michael Connor Margaret Connor, b. 1848 Elizabeth Mary Connor, b. 1849 |
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| On April 28, 1853, the barque Palestine dropped anchor in Gage Roads, Fremantle. The vessel had taken six months to make the voyage from England to Fremantle. Among the passengers who went ashore was Elizabeth Mary Connor, then barely three years of age, a native of Cornwall who made the trip with her parents. The child grew up in the colony and later married Mr. J. Rowland Jones, shorthand reporter and journalist, and went to live in the first house built in Subiaco, now 365 Roberts Road, Subiaco. She lives there still. In the sitting room of this house yesterday, Mrs Jones recalled her long life in Western Australia. Often the corners of her mouth would wrinkle in a smile, and her keen eyes would twinkle, as she wove a humorous thread into the fabric of her story. There was enough and to spare of work, sorrow and fun in the life of the early settlers. Elizabeth Mary Connor first lived with her parents in a little cottage in front of the Perth railway station. The Globe Hotel now probably stands on the site of the old cottage. From that house they shifted to a cottage at the bottom of Mill Street, near Lefroy's garden, on which Winterbottom's Garage now stands. Later the Connor family went to live in Mount's Bay Road. Mrs Jones's father went to Victoria in the gold rush. He sent her mother sums of money, and expressed his intention of making a home for his family, but he was never heard of again. Mrs Jones's mother married a second time. |
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