5/22/2023 0 Comments Runaway Clothes by Mrs. D.![]() A huge amount of work turns the land into a garden and soon they are selling excess produce in Lyttelton. The Phipps family arrive at Lyttelton Harbour, in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, without a penny to their name, but Mary is clever and soon gains a small rundown cob cottage on an overgrown piece of land in Governors Bay for the family to make their home. A frantic search for a ship follows, and finally they find passages on the ‘Armenian’, but Mary Ann will have to stay behind and follow later, and the boys will have to work at flax-cutting to pay off their passage. There Mary gets help from an old school friend and the family change their name to Phipps so Stephen won’t find them. The family pack their belongings into a hand-cart and make it to Berrima on foot, from where they catch a coach into Sydney. The next day Stephen leaves on a week-long trip to take their young cattle to the sale yards and Mary puts into place her plans to escape and take her children to safety. In one particularly vicious attack, he strikes Mary to the floor with a chair, then beats Jack and hurls Jim against a wall, causing concussion. ![]() Stephen is an alcoholic and often beats his wife and children in drunken rages. ![]() ![]() Stephen and Mary Elizabeth Small live on a cattle farm in Australia with their children, Mary Ann, Bill, Jack, Archie, Jim and Emma. ![]()
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