Tuggeranong Suburbs - CHISHOLM Traditional Cache
Tuggeranong Suburbs - CHISHOLM
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The surburb of Chisholm is named after Caroline Chisholm. It was gazetted on 5 August 1975, and streets are named after notable women.
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Caroline Chisholm (30 May 1808 – 25 March 1877) was a progressive 19th-century English humanitarian known mostly for her involvement with female immigrant welfare in Australia. She is commemorated in the Calendar of saints of the Church of England. There are proposals for the Catholic Church to also recognise her as a saint.
Born Caroline Jones in Wootton, close to Northampton, England, her well-to-do father was a land owner and pig farmer. She was the youngest of a large family and was educated by a governess, excelling in mathematics and french.
At the age of 22, she married Captain Archibald Chisholm, of the East India Company, thirteen years her senior. The Chisholms were married in the Church of England, but Caroline converted to her husband's religion, Roman Catholicism, at about this time.
In 1832, Captain Chisholm was posted to Madras in India, and Caroline joined him there a year later. Chisholm observed that the wives and daughters of British soldiers were living in poverty and involved in crime and prostitution, and so she appealed to the Governor of Madras for assistance in establishing a school. In 1834 Chisholm founed the Female School of Industry for the Daughters of European Soldiers which provided a practical education for the girls and young women.
In 1838, Captain Chisholm was granted leave, and the family moved to Sydney in the colony of New South Wales. The family settled at Windsor, and Caroline and the children remained there when her husband was recalled to active service in 1840. At this stage Sydney had a large population of unemployed immigrants, particularly young women, and Chisholm began assisting these people by helping them to find work and sheltering them in her home.
In 1841 Chisholm approached the Governor, Sir George Gipps, with a plan for a house for immigrant women. Her first approach was turned down, but she went back twice to argue her case. Eventually Governor Gipps presented her with part of an empty immigration barracks, and Chisholm established the Female Immigrants Home that provided shelter for ninety-six women and a free employment registry.
Chisholm also arranged employment for young single women in the country areas surrounding Sydney, and personally accompanied parties of women travelling to take up their new positions. She established employment agencies in rural centres, and in 1842 was able to close the Female Immigrants Home because of her success in finding work for unemployed immigrants. Chisholm later exented her work to include families as well as single women, and between 1841 and 1844 assisted 14,000 people to settle in New South Wales.
After one further return trip to England, the Chisholms returned to England in June 1866 to see out their retirement. Granted a pension of £100, they lived first in Liverpool, then in dingy lodgings at Highgate, London. Caroline Chisholm died on 25 March 1877. Her husband died in August and was buried in the same grave at Northampton; it bears a headstone inscribed 'The emigrant's friend'. They were survived by three of their four sons and two daughters.
A number of educational facilities in Australia and England have been named after Caroline Chisholm, as well as a federal electoral division. Chisholm has also appeared on Australian stamps and banknotes.The character of Mrs Jellyby in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, is said to be based on Caroline Chisholm.
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