The Cadden Family · William & Christina Cadden
The Kimberley Constable
John Mitchell Cadden 1862–1954
Glen Innes tinsmith, digger beside Paddy Hannan, mounted constable in the Kimberley and for a quarter of a century a Perth hansom-cab man — who at fifty-four took six years off his age to join the AIF’s tunnellers.
Read their storyA Lancashire Runaway on the Goldfields
William & Christina Cadden 1826 – 1907
A Lancashire boy ran away to sea at twelve, walked three thousand eight hundred miles across America for the California gold rush, and spent the next forty-five years chasing gold across two more colonies — while the sixteen-year-old Glasgow girl he married raised seven children through insolvency, a horse theft, and a son whose own Sydney hotels, divorce and brush with the San Francisco earthquake could fill a chapter of their own.
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