• Title
  Item 02: Tape 3 Margaret Riley interview by Anne Whitehead, [ca. 1988]
• Call number
  MLOH 890/3
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [ca. 1988]
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9653567
• Physical Description
  1 audiocassette (approximately 1 hr, 30 min.)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Margaret Riley, née Hoare, recorded at the age of 100 and again at age 105 at her home in Tugun Queensland. She had clear memories of the 1891 Shearers’ Strike in Queensland in which her father, Dennis Hoare, a carrier, was involved, and took her, aged 8, to some of the meetings. In December 1893, aged 10, she sailed with her family (parents and six brothers and sisters) to Paraguay and settled at New Australia for six years. When she was recorded, she was the last surviving witness of the 1891 Shearers’ Strike, the early days of the ‘Paraguay experiment’ and of William Lane, its chairman
• Scope and Content
  This is an interview with Margaret Riley about Barcaldine during her childhood, and describes her memories of the 1891 Shearers’ Strike at Barcaldine in which her father Dennis Hoare was involved, sailing on the Royal Tar in 1893 and her six years in Paraguay at Nueva Australia.
• Access Conditions
  
  Master only. For access to this oral history collection please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales courtesy of Anne Whitehead
• General note
  
  Tape 3 Side A pages 66-86 and Side B 86-107
  Transcript available at MLMSS 12032/Box 1
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Riley, Margaret, 1883-1989
  
• Subject
  Riley, Margaret, 1883-1989--Interviews.
  Shearers' Strike, Queensland, 1891
  Barcaldine (Qld.)--History
  Colonia Stroessner (Paraguay).
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21162679

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