Wednesday 18
Porridge for breakfast, salt beef for dinner. Today is my birthday, (she was 27, both Emily and John Edwin were born in 1856) I have made a fatty cake and a sweetcake, we have 12ozs. of flour to make a suet pudding with so I melt the suet and make a fatty cake of it, but I am sorry to say it began to rain just before tea so we had to go down and get our tea on top of the bed, it is so dark we cannot see if we do not get on the bed. We did not enjoy our tea at all, we get all our meals on deck it is so close down below.
What an amazing story teller your Great Great Grandmother was! It must have taken some incredible tolerance to raise a small child in such terrible conditions. To think that they paid for their trip out and couldn't even get access to their own possessions.
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I agree, the immigrants were better off than the convicts, but still had their hardships. Also in addition to caring for young Emmeline, Emily was also several months pregnant at the time - imagine having seasickness and morning sickness down in the hold of the ship.
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