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Caroline Chisholm

                                                                                    Caroline Chisholm (1808–1877)

 Caroline Chisholm was born in Northampton England 30th of May 1808.In 1835 she married Captain Archibald Chisholm.

 The Chisholm's decided to spend leave in Australia and arrived in Sydney by  in the Emerald Isle in September 1838, they settled in at Windsor.

The Chisholm's travelled by boat into Australia

 When Caroline arrived in Australia in 1838 and set up a home for other women who had come to live here. She worked to improve life on the ships bringing people to Australia to start a new life and started a loans plan to bring poor children and families to Australia. She arranged free trips so that the families of convicts who were transported to Australia could come to join them. She also believed poor people should be able to buy farms cheaply. 

 Caroline Chisholm's work has been remembered in several ways. Her face has appeared on stamps and on a bank note.

  Caroline went back to England but then return to Australia in 1854, she was well known in England. However, later, as her health deteriorated she returned to England. She continued to work despite increasing sickness and  poverty.She died in 1877, poor and almost unknown.

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