READ ALL STORIES
The following is a collection of the stories of migration submitted to the site. We invite you to read and gain some idea of the variation of experiences, taking into account the reasons for migration, the hardships and joys of the journey and the adapting to a climate and countryside that was often extremely foreign.
Read them and consider recording your own family's story.
| First name | |
| Surname | |
| Country of Origin | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Year of Arrival in Australia | |
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| Ignacio & Teresa | |
| Delgado | |
| Spain | |
| 21 September 1924, 3 November 1928 | |
| 1968 | |
|
| Janet | |
| WELCH | |
| ENGLAND | |
| 21/8/40 | |
| 1949 | |
|
| James | |
| McQuillan | |
| Ireland | |
| c1849 | |
| c1866 | |
|
| Judith (Judit0 | |
| Cassab (Kaszab)CBE, AO (Part 2) | |
| Hungary | |
| 1920, Vienna | |
| 1951 | |
|
| Judith (Judit0 | |
| Cassab (Kaszab)CBE, AO (Part 1) | |
| Hungary | |
| 1920, Vienna | |
| 1951 | |
|
| George | |
| Fathers | |
| England | |
| 1862 | |
| 1897 | |
|
| Albert Cornelius | |
| Fathers | |
| England | |
| 1835 | |
| 8Feb1877 | |
|
| Bela (Béla ) | |
| Gosztola (part 11) | |
| SOPRON, HUNGARY (Austro-Hungarian Empire) | |
| 17 April 1909 | |
| 1949 | |
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| Bela (Béla ) | |
| Gosztola | |
| SOPRON, HUNGARY (Austro-Hungarian Empire) | |
| 17 April 1909 | |
| 1949 | |
|
| Helen | |
| Zervopoulos | |
| Greece | |
| 4/3/51 | |
| 1954 | |
|
| Elham | |
| Jamali | |
| Iran | |
| 22/11/1962 | |
| 1981 | |
|
| Len @ Maria | |
| Bakker | |
| Netherlands | |
| Len 26/06/1928 Maria 12/07/1932 | |
| 1952 | |
|
| Michael | |
| Tossell | |
| England | |
| 11/08/1940 | |
| 1975 | |
|
| William | |
| Fehon | |
| England | |
| 5/3/1834 | |
| 1858 | |
|
| Dr Kamalakaren | |
| Ratnam | |
| Malaysia | |
| 18/6/1950 | |
| 1981 | |
|
| Mary | |
| Plummer | |
| England | |
| c1835 | |
| 1840 | |
|
| K. Stuart | |
| Towers | |
| England | |
| 1928 | |
| 1951 | |
|
| Rowland | |
| Nutt | |
| England | |
| 1832 | |
| 1849 | |
|
| Anthony | |
| Papaconstuntinos | |
| Greece | |
| 08 /10 /1950 | |
| 1955 | |
|
| Marie Grace | |
| John (Part 2) | |
| India | |
| 2 March 1924 | |
| circa 1981 | |
|
| Ron, Samuel, Clare, Evelyn, Gove family. | |
| GOVE | |
| INDIA/ENGLAND | |
| | |
| 1951 | |
|
| Francesco | |
| Violi | |
| Italy | |
| 04.02.1937 | |
| 11.09.1951 | |
|
| William | |
| Todd | |
| England | |
| 1810 | |
| 1854 | |
|
| Maria | |
| Kellari | |
| Greece | |
| 15 September 1933 | |
| 1957 | |
|
| Ralph Alexander | |
| Boesel | |
| Germany | |
| 01/02/1966 | |
| 16Aug1967 | |
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