The Henderson Story

This is the biography of Ellen Josephine Henderson (1875-1973), a gold miner's daughter from Tarnagulla in Victoria. Her father died when she was six years old, and for the next 10 years she lived in poverty supported by the miner's families and the local Borough. She eventually moved to Fitzroy in Melbourne, became a dentist assistant, and married a Station Manager from the Riverina who would one day become the pre-eminent Merino stud breeder in Australia. Hers was a rags to riches...
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This is the biography of Ellen Josephine Henderson (1875-1973), a gold miner's daughter from Tarnagulla in Victoria. Her father died when she was six years old, and for the next 10 years she lived in poverty supported by the miner's families and the local Borough. She eventually moved to Fitzroy in Melbourne, became a dentist assistant, and married a Station Manager from the Riverina who would one day become the pre-eminent Merino stud breeder in Australia. Hers was a rags to riches story, taking us through such places at Deniliquin, Jerilderie, Albury and Wagga Wagga NSW.