Napoleon’S History of Australia
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emigrant, Napoleon Gilbert, ancestor of Ms Gilbert, born in
1799 who immigrated with his family to Tasmania in the late
1820s.This family saga spans five generations, rags to riches
and back again, farming and convict labour in Tasmania,
butchering meat for Victorian goldminers, Darling Downs
squattocracy, Ballarat and Melbourne Architect, genteel
Melbourne society, the 1890 crash, Prussian farmers in
Ipswich, the First World War, death and poverty in
Port Pirie and scandalous unwed motherhood in Adelaide.
The connecting thread is the fact that all the
Gilbert sons had Napoleon as their middle name, ending
the authors father, Melbourne Napoleon Gilbert. It is an
entertaining and novel way of writing history, proving
that fact is stranger than fiction.
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D. Y. Gilbert
Ms Gilbert was born in January 1950 in Adelaide, South Australia, youngest daughter of Melbourne Napoleon Gilbert and inheritor of 5 generations of ‘Napoleons’. Educated at Black Forest and Glenelg Primary Schools and Woodlands CEGGS, she matriculated in 1967. In 1968 she was a Rotary Exchange student to El Paso, Texas and in 1969 attended the SA School of Art in Adelaide. After a failed marriage she studied Secondary Art Teaching at Underdale CAE and in 1980 married Kevin, a marriage which has lasted 36 years. She has three sons, Stephen, Jamie and Paul and several grandchildren. Ms Gilbert has been an educator for 27 years and has a Masters degree in Special Education. She has recently retired and is now working on several novels. Her hobbies are in property investment and travelling.
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