Agnes Learmonth and the ‘Sons of Neptune’

Ship docked at the wharves, South Brisbane ca. 1881. Negative number 61754, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

This month I take a look at another shipboard diary as part of my Fellowship with the John Oxley Library.

Agnes Learmonth was a young woman when she left Scotland with her parents and extended family members to begin a new life in the colony of Queensland.

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