With his parents deceased and his older brother deserting his family, William Blay is struggling with insolvency.
But tenacity.
Forced to deal with the First World War and the Great Depression, they fight to make ends meet.
A new start is not easy as it first seemed.
But life in the new Colony is dogged by the same dramas that hounded William in Van Diemen\'s Land.
After selling his farm in New Norfolk, Van Diemen\'s Land, William packs up his wife and three daughters and absconds to Port Phillip.
With his parents deceased and his older brother deserting his family, William Blay is struggling with insolvency