Each girl received two dresses, two petticoats, five pairs of stockings, two pairs of shoes, a bible

[barryqwalsh]

The 110 girls departed for Australia under the Earl Grey Famine Orphan Scheme, named after the colonial secretary who enacted it.



Irish 'breeder' girls sent to Australia during Famine to be honoured

 

[EvilCat Breath]

How fortunate for them to be so rescued from death by disease or starvation.

 

[Gracie]

So...although they survived, it still came with a price. To be breeders.

 

[JGalt]

"Story of bravery"?? "Forced to flee"??

That just sounds too much like the left's feeble attempt to make them out as victims, for being sent to Australia.

See Tipsycatlover's post above.

 

[JGalt]

So...although they survived, it still came with a price. To be breeders.

What woman didn't want a husband, a home, children, and three square meals a day back then?

Remember, that was a time before women's attitudes were polluted by feminism.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

So...although they survived, it still came with a price. To be breeders.

Breeder is a perjorative term used by gays against straight men.

These girls went to find men that loved them and families to raise.

 

[JGalt]

So...although they survived, it still came with a price. To be breeders.

Breeder is a perjorative term used by gays against straight men.

These girls went to find men that loved them and families to raise.

I agree. The article had a definite gender-fluidist and feminist slant to it.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Our west was settled partly by mail order brides who came here to marry men they had never met.

 

[JGalt]

Our west was settled partly by mail order brides who came here to marry men they had never met.

Shit, it's still happening...

Russian Brides - Mail order brides from Russia