Family Colonisation Loan Society

The ship Caroline Chisholm made its inaugural voyage, transporting Family Colonisation Loan Society members from London and Plymouth to Melbourne and Sydney.

Within its first five years of operation, the Family Colonisation Loan Society established by CC had sent more than three thousand immigrants (primarily the families of skilled tradesmen) to Australia and procured upwards of £20,000...

In London, CC established the Family Colonisation Loan Society which aimed to promote the emigration of entire families from Britain to Australia through the loan of part of the cost of passage.

CC 's Family Colonisation Loan Society launched its first sailing with two hundred and fifty British members travelling to Port Phillip and Port Adelaide, Australia.

Household Words included in its opening issue A Bundle of Emigrant's Letters, the first in a series of articles CC and Charles Dickens jointly authored to promote the Family Colonisation Loan Society .

CC 's husband, Archibald , left England for Adelaide to become the Family Colonisation Loan Society 's first Australian agent.

Published in London, it publicized and promoted the principles of CC 's newly established Family Colonisation Loan Society and levelled serious charges against the existing British governmental system of Australian emigration. She argued...

The piece contained a selection of the settler statements Chisholm had collected in New South Wales some five years earlier. The collaboration between her and Dickens continued for the next few years, during which Household...

Having begun with a brief description of CC 's family and time in India (a very unhealthy climate for young children), it then moves on to tell of establishing the Immigrants' Home

CC toured England, Scotland, and Ireland, publicizing the Family Colonisation Loan Society .