To Be Heirs Forever by Mary Durack.
Author of Kings in Grass Castles.
With her husband Will, six children, two servants, some livestock and tools, Eliza Shaw exchanged her comfortable English world of drawing-rooms and embroidery for the brushwood huts and back-breaking labour of a pioneer settler in Western Australia. They would never see England again ......
After long months at sea, then a tragic arrival at the infant colony of Freemantle when two sons were drowned, the family finally settled on the upper Swan River. The heat and the sand, the hardships and calamities, the brilliant flowers and birds, the strangeness of the Aborigines, and the courage and comradeship of the small band of settlers are all recorded here through the eyes of a remarkable woman.