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Westmeath Ireland to an Irish mother and Scots father. The family had lived in a
cottage on the estate of one Lord Longford where Lucy's father William was
employed as a steward and her mother kept the gate. At age fourteen, Lucy, with her
parents and sister Helen aged ten, had arrived in Melboume aboard the Samuel Locke
on 27 April 1857 after a 140 day voyage from Liverpool.^"* Seven years later Lucy met
and married Serafino Righetti, the service taking place at St Alipius Church in Ballarat.
Before her marriage, Lucy had been living wdth her mother in Daylesford and working
as a servant at Buninyong. Her father was at the time working as an engineer at
Kyneton.
Serafino and Lucy produced five children, the first, Edmund Edward, bom in
Hepbum in the final months of 1862. On 3 March 1865, at 28 years of age, Serafino
was naturalised. Giving his occupation as publican at Hepbum, he may at that time
have been assisting his brother Giuseppe at the Old Racecourse Hotel. In the late
1860s Serafino's family moved to Stony Creek (ref figure 9), five kilometres south of
Daylesford and near Sailors Falls, an area which had been heavily settled by Italian
speakers and whose building styles reflected their traditional constmction methods.^*
Here the Righettis produced another child Emest Serafino on 22 January 1869, his
name an acknowledgement of his British-Swiss heritage. Lucy Amelia was bom 24
October 1872.^* With the birth of Giuseppe's children ~ a son Frank (for whom no
birth certificate has been located), Theresa Catherine (who died in infancy) in 1865,
Robert in 1869, Eveline Honora in 1871 and Mary Josephine in 1873 ~ the Righetti
clan was able to re-estabUsh itself in Australia.
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