Pioneers and Palms: Three Generations of South Australian Embroiderers Generation 1 - Georgiana Margaretha Eliza Palm 1864 - 1939
Georgiana married Albert Palm in November 1886 at St. Andrews Church, Walkerville. Albert had established a business as a machinist and coach builder at Paskeville, making and supplying a range of equipment to the European settlers who were beginning to occupy land on the Yorke Peninsula. The life of the new bride was arduous. Paskeville was in the low mallee country. It was hot and dry and dependent on the low annual rainfall. Georgiana milked the cows, made butter and baked bread. She made all her own clothes and all the clothes for their children. She also made all her husband's work clothes, including the heavy leather apron he wore in his workshop. Albert's business employed a number of men who were housed in men's quarters and Georgiana also 'boarded' them, that is, did their cooking and cleaning. In 1907 Albert obtained a block of land in newly settled country to the north of Port Lincoln. Georgiana and Albert and their eight children moved to Edillilie. They sailed from Wallaroo to Port Lincoln on the SS 'Rupara', and then set out on a three-day journey by horse and cart over unmade tracks to reach the property. The family lived in a large barn built by Albert until a house was built six months later. One week after arriving, only a change of wind saved them and their new buildings from a bushfire (almost one hundred years before the tragic fires in the same region in 2005).
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