**CAROLINE CHISHOLM**

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FIRST NAME:Caroline
MAIDEN NAME:Jones
MARRIED NAME:chisholm
NICKNAME:'the imigrants friend'
BORN:in England in 1808
DIED:in her home town of england in march of 1877
MARRIED:to Archibald Chisholm in 1832
CLAIM TO FAME:first person to set up a women's home in Australia
and she set up the first set of workers contracts.
REWARDS:her portrait was placed on the five dollar bill in
Australia for more than 20 years before being replaced by the
Queen of England

Caroline Jones was brought up with a caring family whose front door was always open to others no matter how rich or poor. this may have contributed to her love of caring for others rights.

Caroline was known as 'the imigrants friend' and she earned this title from her work with poor migrant women whom had travelled to Sydney looking for a better life.

Caroline Jones married Archibald Chisholm at the age of 22 in the year of 1832. Archibald was a British Army Officer and was always 100% behind his wife Caroline.

Early in their marriage Caroline and Archibald Chisholm decided to move across the ocean to Australia to start up a family. When they arrived in Sydney, Caroline was repulsed with all of the used and abused women living and begging on the streets.

When Caroline and Archibald Chisholm sailed to Australia, it was still a convict town.

Caroline was determined to make a difference and after much lobbying persuaded Governor Gipps to allow her to use the old, disused immigration barrcks as a women's home. This was established in 1835.

The immigration barracks were run down and in desperate need of repair, and it is believed that Caroline was to have said:
"God, if you wish for me to start with nothing than i shall do so with your help."

Within two years of setting up the women's home, Caroline had found homes and jobs for over 1'000women. In her total time of running the women's home, Caroline Chisholm housed and found decent jobs for over 11'000 migrants of whom ere mainly women.

A few years later Caroline had her first child, a beautiful boy resembling her husband Archibald.

Caroline Chisholm was the first person in Australia to set up a counsiling service for young girls and women who came to Sydney with stars in their eyes,looking for a better life, who'se hopes were shattered when all they foud in the end were cold streets.

In 1846 Caroline and Archibald Chisholm returned home to show their children England. By 1854 their hearts were aching for the beauty and space of Australia and they returned to Sydney.

in 1847 Caroline went to the Gold Fields to help all of the poor, under paid miners. it was at this stage in her life that Caroline Chisholm set up the first set of work contracts ever in Australia.

Also at this stage in her life Caroline, with the full support and help of Archibald, set up the girls' school in Sydney.

The country repaid Caroline Chisholm for all of her deeds by placing her portrait on the Australian five dollar bill for more than twenty years before it was replaced by the Queen's portrait.

In 1876 Caroline moved back to England without her first son or her husband and she later died in March of 1877. She died at home of an apparent brocken heart and lack of will to live. it was qouted at her funeral to never underestimate the power of will power.

By the time that Caroline Chisholm Died she was verry poor and almost certantly forgotten.

Caroline was a decent hearted lady and would never once expect money for her services.

We both chose to study Croline Chisholm because she is a great contributer to the standard of women's right s in Australia and we are both very srong believers in that.

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