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Eastem HiU. His children and grandchildren also distinguished themselves in military
careers, three generations of Caligaris thus expressing their commitment to Australia.
Battista'a sister Camilla married a Mr Hogan and moved to the inner Melboume
suburb of Footscray. Mary Anne married a Mr Stewart and remained m Eganstovm.
Richard moved to the industrial Melboume suburb of Preston, where he became an
assembly worker wdth an engineering firm. His brother William farmed as an itinerant,
a Ufe-style facilitated by his childless marriage. Harry stmggled through the depression
years, becoming a semi-skilled worker in a Melboume brewery. Leo, who was twelve
years his junior, trained as a qualified telegraphist and found employment with the
Victorian RaUways at Benalla. While only a few of the Caligari offspring remained in
the area of their birth, and through marriage distanced themselves from their Swiss
roots, they retained a strong attachment to the family and the community of which they
had been a part.'*
Their mother Mary Ann, who had been left with one child at home at the time
of Antonio's death, had married an Eastem HiU farmer, Henry Colboume. Establishing
new friendships, she had drifted from some of her neighbours in the Italian-speaking
community, the Morgantis seeing her only seldomly. When she died (in the Creswick
Hospital) on 2 January 1926 at 69 years of age, the obituary, which referred to
'another old and respected resident of Eastem Hill (Blampied) passing away','^ was
warm and aff"ectionate. Mary Ann's funeral also expressed the lasting bonds which had
formed between the Italian-speaking and Anglo-Celtic communities, it being attended
by many Swiss, including J. Pedrotti, L. Morganti and several members of the
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