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child James was bom in 1878, in the same year that Giacomo's brother Nazzaro
married Charlotte Rachinger of Hepburn, who would eventually bear him eight
children.^' Maddalena gave birth to a second daughter Doloretta in 1879, which may
also have been about the time that the family decided to move from Locamo and build
a home of their own. Land was purchased by one G. Sartori, possibly Giacomo, on 19
October 1880 on a site directly beside Locamo and therefore close to the Sartori
clan.^" The Sartoris produced a fourth child Celestino in 1881, followed by Genoveffa
in 1883, Elvezia in 1884, Delfina in 1886 and Elena in 1889.
Despite the work required of them about the house and farm, the children
would have had a good life among the large Italian-speaking community at Yandoit.
Their grandfather Carlo lived close by (until he retumed to Ticino in the 1880s) as did
their uncle and many other ItaUan-speaking families who had moved into the district.
Their neighbours included the Gervasonis, who had built a handsome two-storey
house, the Tognolinis, the Milesis, the Giupponis, the Invemizzis, the Pedrinis and the
Minottis. One of the best-known families was, however, the Righettis (not to be
confused with the Righettis who lived in Hepbum and who appear again in a later
chapter) who had established a large and prosperous dairying business in Yandoit.
Battista Righetti had emigrated to Australia from Someo in 1855, and in 1866 had
married Elisabetta Perinoni whose family had also emigrated from Someo. Indicative
again of the early age at which peasant children accepted adulthood, Elisabetta had
married at thuteen years of age and at fourteen produced the first of her fifteen
children.
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