To: K-list
Recieved: 2000/12/01 15:07
Subject: [K-list] what makes an Australian? ! :)
From: Sylbar
On 2000/12/01 15:07, Sylbar posted thus to the K-list:
>From: Mystress Angelique Serpent <MystressATnospamKundalini-Gateway.org>
>Subject: Re: [K-list] Heritage poll
> I am curious tho, what makes an Australian?
:) I'm not sure even what makes this one - I think I'm finding out tho :)
So...Thank-you for the question Hillary - and Mystress Angelique... much
more to this than I thought -
[not only a spiritual ancestry-/ maybe a bit of both ? ]
many 'rememberings'. :)
My father's side -
Australian for 7 generations through his mother's line + 9 generations
[since white settlement] through his father's line - then traced to the Isle
of Wight and further back to Somerset in the 1400s. His ancestors William
and Catherine arrived on the second ship to come to South Australia. They
built the very first house there and theirs was the first boy child born in
the colony. [pity these lineages are typically traced only through the male
line... I spose its easier [sigh] The women have always been so strong. :)
]
My mother's side -
Australian since the goldrush days~1850's then back to England too
-Cornwall mostly and some from Wales.
My mother's maternal grandmother is a mystery- no record of her anywhere
prior to her marriage -front pages ripped out of her books, expensive + rare
pieces of jewellery - secrets well hidden ! :) My mother is much into
genealogy and is unable to find any trace. She said she was born in
Australia of english parentage. She and my grandmother talked of my/our
'beautiful english skin' and 'blue blood' and 'taking the country airs' -
not exactly in keeping with the egalitarian aussie !
My great-grandmother died when I was about 2. I have a clear memory of
being in a bassinet/ a pram? burbling away on the front balcony of the house
with her [just us] in the morning sunlight with a canary[?] in a cage
singing- her with a rug across her knees- in some sort of wheelchair of dark
wood with wheels dark cane inserts- her long greywhite hair up in a bun and
her eyes and the air alive with sunlight through the tree....
I always loved that tree too- used to climb it very high and its still
there.
Out of my window now- morning sunlight through the trees and 3 little birds
drinkiing at my bird bath twittering. [ +how nice! ] :)
The isle of wight- perhaps explains this - [from my childhood and early 20's
+]
-being at England's southernmost edge but not england [- this didn't make
sense to me at all ]
standing alone on a cliff - in dusky light [but clear] - long hours - a
vigil never ceasing- feeling far so far across the seas, craning into the
wind, listening in to it - for word
rememberings, recognitions
+ yet more :)
love,
:)
Sylvia
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