Nina's father, Charles Mabey (actually christened Mario Angelo Bennati), born a month after his parents were married, became a marine engineer with the P and O Company
. He had left school at eleven and...
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Mary Anne Barker
Her next journey, begun early in 1883, was a complicated one. Her husband, still in Mauritius, had been appointed Governor of Western Australia (then an enormous area including what is now Northern Territories). She travelled...
