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They were true pioneers! And how awful for her to be so ill! I doubt I would get back on a ship either! My BIL has the same affliction and so it is my sister who goes on cruises with his mother and they have a great time! The MIL is 88! Gotta love it! sam 
posted by
sam444
on December 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM
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I am glad they made it when it was rough. Deferring all the time is hard, it was worth the risk if he thought he had a decent chance.
posted by
mariss9
on December 2, 2011 at 12:35 PM
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they certainly had courage!
posted by
lionreign
on December 1, 2011 at 8:02 AM
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Hi,Kabu.A very interesting read.I agree such pioneers paved the way for future generations & sacrificed a lot.The other day i was watching a t.v. programme on a motorbike trip a few americans took across the silk route,once done on camel & horse backs.....we have indeed come a long way.
posted by
shamasehar
on December 1, 2011 at 3:25 AM
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Kabuiepie-;)
Well you have the same courage and fortitude of that strong family. Susan was a toughie,I'd hate to be sick for 3 months on board ship. Great post and I love reading about your family.
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 30, 2011 at 7:37 PM
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Kabuiepie-;)
Well you have the same courage and fortitude of that strong family. Susan was a toughie,I'd hate to be sick for 3 months on board ship. Great post and I love reading about your family.
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 30, 2011 at 7:36 PM
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I enjoy reading family history too, Kabu. Yes - they sure had things alot harder than we do now, both physically and emotionally. I not sure about mine - apparently one was hung as a highwayman, another was an outlaw with a price on his head...I'm not sure I want to dig any further 
But of course...I will....
posted by
adnohr
on November 30, 2011 at 3:06 PM
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I just love reading your family's sagas...it just goes to show, how we take so much for granted now
posted by
Whisperer4U
on November 30, 2011 at 2:51 PM
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Sounds like you have a rich heritiage (as do many of us). We have to admire the challenges those that came before us were met with. They survived a very different and difficult time when they settled in new lands.
posted by
Troosha
on November 30, 2011 at 2:08 PM
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I understand how you feel as my great grandparents were among the first group of settlers to this Utah desert (my father was born in 1897 in south eastern Idaho and was a bugler in the old horse Calvary) and my great grandfather helped carve the trail west as an Indian interpreter. I also have a relative who was sent to the land down under for suspected thievery of a file in merry old England.
posted by
UtahJay
on November 30, 2011 at 1:29 PM
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It seems almost a part of human nature to be wayfarers,
else how would this continent have been settled. There's a pioneer spirit that makes us step out from hearth and home, to test the fringes of civilization, to establish new ways and ideas. Sometimes it seems humanity has finally reached the edge -- we've gone into space, colonized every (almost every) spot on earth, closed in time and space for our own convenience. And yet the young still rebel against their parents, and the new keeps turning up for our consideration. Maybe it's not the norm to settle in across the street and adopt all the habits anf folkways of those around us.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 30, 2011 at 12:47 PM
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yes things have indeed changed to the better sometimes
posted by
Lanetay
on November 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM
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KABU it took that long three months, my grampy's brother brought horses and a trap over and back poor old horses I expect it was to show off how well he had done.
Things must have been desperate in England in those days about like they are now. The trouble is old people did not tell youngsters much I remember my Grampy saying as it got dark that it was then that the lions prowled, but it did not say where he heard them, but he did not make a fortune.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM
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I love family history and tales of past happenings.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 30, 2011 at 9:35 AM
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It's amazing all that our relatives went through when they came.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 30, 2011 at 9:29 AM
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Yes they truly paid a price coming here as they did or to Australia. But you are glad they did I am sure. You have lived a much different life than you would have in Britain. Love ya,
posted by
Justi
on November 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM
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