As it is Women’s History Month and was International Women’s Day this week, I thought I would share stories about a couple of my more prolific female ancestors. My first subject is Caroline Rideout, another will follow in a week or so.
Caroline was the eighth of nine know children of James
Rideout and Caroline Bennett. Caroline was born 4 April 1844 in Menangle near
Camden, New South Wales, Australia. Her
parents had arrived in Australia six years earlier and I have written about them previously. Her oldest surviving
sister, Martha, married when Caroline was just 2 years old.
