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In 1857, Severino and Giuditta produced a sixth child, whom they named
Severinus, and in the same year moved their place of residence to Bendigo. Relating
their comings and goings to a seemingly interested family in Ticino, Alessandro Pozzi
wrote on 14 April 1857; 'La piu parte degli svizzeri sono qui, una buona quantita
sono al Bendigo dove si trova il dottore Guscetti con uno storo '.^"* The large numbers
of Italian speakers then moving to Bendigo had apparently attracted Severino to set up
new medical premises (or 'lo storo' as Pozzi described it in Anglo-Italian terms).
Re-emphasising his compatriots' mistmst in (or possibly their resentment of) the
professional classes' ability to prosper in Australia, Alessandro's brother Stefano also
wrote: '// Guscetti va a mettere storo in Bendigo ma fara cattiva speculazione'^^
While living in Bendigo, Giuditta Guscetti gave birth to another son, whom she named
Fausto Amerigo after his brother who had died. Other ItaUan speakers, it will be
recalled, observed this naming practice. The Guscettis produced their last child
Charles in 1859 but he died that same year. When, in 1861, Fausto also died, it meant
that not one of the offspring Giuditta produced in Australia had survived childhood.
Some time between 1858 and 1860, Severino and his family moved to the
TamaguUa DunoUy region of Victoria where Severino was honorary surgeon of the
DunoUy Hospital^* (ref figure 6). As honorary surgeons, doctors volunteered their
services free of charge to the hospital but in exchange were permitted to charge a fee
to any private patients visiting them on the premises. Under this arrangement doctors
could thus tend the patients at the hosphal while, at the same time, operate their own
consulting rooms. The Guscetti family was very mobile during this period and by 1861
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