Caroline Chisholm

Caroline Jones Chisholm (Known as "The Emigrant's Friend")

Humanitarian, Immigrant Welfare Reformer, Philanthropist, 'The Emigrant's Friend'

Born 1808-05-30

Wootton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

Passed Away 1877-03-25 Highgate, London, United Kingdom

Lifespan 68 years old

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"I was led on by an invisible power, and when I saw the suffering of these young girls, I could not turn away."

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Nineteenth-century humanitarian known as 'The Emigrant's Friend' who provided shelter, employment, and protection for thousands of destitute young female migrants and families in colonial Australia.

Biographical Record

Caroline Chisholm was born on May 30, 1808, in Northamptonshire. Marrying Captain Archibald Chisholm of the East India Company, she moved to Sydney in 1838. Shocked by the plight of young, unemployed female immigrants living homeless on the wharves of Sydney, she persuaded Governor Gipps to grant her use of a vermin-infested government storehouse.

Chisholm established the Female Immigrants Home in 1841, providing safe shelter, literacy instruction, and rural employment placements for over 11,000 women. Later traveling into the bush with wagon-trains to settle migrant families, she established the Family Colonisation Loan Society in London. Her portrait featured on Australia's first five-dollar note.

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Final Resting Place

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Billing Road Cemetery
Northampton, United Kingdom

                         GPS: 52.2410, -0.8750                    

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