Clare Stapleton who was born and grew up in Concord, will explore what it was like to start a farm without the basics, such as ploughs or horses. Eleanor Frazer, a First Fleet convict established one of the first farms at Concord in 1794. With her partners and children, Eleanor Frazer made two farms at Concord. Along the way, she also recorded several “firsts” for Concord and Australia. The life of this “ordinary” woman provides us with a wonderful insight into being a “Concordian” at the very beginning of European settlement, 230 years ago. Eleanor Frazer was a farm girl, a convict, a widow, and a mother. A woman who never stopped pursuing her rights, even when she was in her seventies.
