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    Default Reminiscences and Incidents - The story of the Early Wimmera by William Candy

    The following story is from a series of articles my great great grandfather William Candy wrote for the Warracknabeal Herald in Victoria in 1927 after his retirement. It provides a fascinating REAL insight in to the early days of Victoria and the hard working pioneers who helped shape this great country. It also provides further insights in to the droughts and floods of the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Aboriginal tribes of the areas and country life in general in the Victorian era of country Victoria.

    The Candy family's story of how they arrived in Australia starts in

    William's father John Candy 1822-1890 was a stone mason in Frome like his father and in 1841, aged 19, he along with his 17 year old sister Sarah left Frome and headed for Plymouth in Devon and boarded the ship Westminster for Australia as free settlers.

    In 1850, aged 27, he married Mary McDonell, an 18 year old girl from Kilrush, County Clare Ireland who came out here under the which brought parentless girls from Ireland to Australia.

    William Candy was born to John and Mary in 1854 in Melbourne. The move to Australia was so successful that John Candy's elderly parents also came out and spent the last years of their lives here, John's other brother and sister also came out.

    The story is 22 pages which I have attached as .jpeg images.

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    Its hard to imagine these days how tough early Australian pioneers did it. It probably doesnt help having the absolute rubbish leftist school curriculum we have, if you ask an 14 year old all we did was sit around massacring aboriginals all day. It would be good to see real stories, such as this one, being taught as part of Australian History in schools rather than the sanitised and politically manipulated crap that is offered instead.

    Anyway, hope you found it interesting , I put it up not just for Austech members, but for Australian History/ Family History researchers who will find it via Google.

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    Oh, and the man himself, William Candy 1854 -1936



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    I am surprised no one commented on this
    Thank god he didnt use a bullet, I would be damned to hell having an ancestor who shot aboriginals.
    I bet he ran off mighty quick


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    Sounds like the stories of what my father and his elder brothers use to do to the local thieving Gypsies.

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    this is very interesting. mrs boase and her husband opened a news paper called the dunmunkle standard in murtoa, they sold it to a relo of mine,
    your lot seem to have been everywhere my lot have been, we might be prick relations

    i remember the name candy from somewhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by admin View Post
    I am surprised no one commented on this
    Thank god he didnt use a bullet, I would be damned to hell having an ancestor who shot aboriginals.
    I bet he ran off mighty quick

    Not really because that was the 'Mores' of the Day and it was considered acceptable.
    Neither side understood the other to any great extent so there was bound to be friction at times.
    During a conversation with some In Laws about 'families', the comment was passed that 'way back when', because there were 'sort of Gaps' in the family tree, thought was there could be Aboriginal blood in the family line and as such, it was never spoken about.
    While I certainly wouldnt run around screaming and shouting of past incidences, I certainly dont see that they should be ignored either as they happened and form a part of History.
    I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!

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