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MCWATTIE Family 1966 ELLINIS

Arrived in Australia with dad, Alexander McWattie and Anna McWattie since divorced. Brother Richard was born in 1968 at Kwinana Maternity Hospital...

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MOON, Chow 1829 EMILY TAYLOR

Moon Chow was the first recorded Chinese to arrive in the colony. He settled in Fremantle and became a respected carpenter and boat builder. He...

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MYERS, Christine 1962 FAIRSKY

Sponsored by relatives I'd never met. Came to take up a staff nurse position at Royal Perth Hospital. Worked there for 28 years, over three...

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MULLENDER Family 1968 CASTEL FELICE 309
MASTERTON Family 1963 FAIRSKY

We arrived with Three sons, aged 6yrs, 3yrs & 4 mths. All settled in WA and have sons and daughters of their marriages & relationships. We...

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MCKINLEY, T & B & Family 1965 AUSTRALIS

Arrived with Thomas Jnr 11, Janette 8 and Ian 3. Thomas passed away, following accident at work 26/01/1966. He was a shipwright by trade. Family...

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MARCHEGIANI, Antonio 1963 ROMA

Aged 17, Tony came to Australia to earn & save enough money to buy a 'Vespa'! His first job was in the Goldfields bush cutting wood for the...

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MARTIN, Madeleine A 1967 FAIRSEA

I travelled with the Tingey family & later married Rod Tingey. Completed my teacher training course at Claremont Teachers College on arrival...

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MCLEOD, Donald & Margaret 1952 CHITRAL

Donald & Margaret arrived with four children: Helen, Fiona, Margaret & Donald & settled at Balgawrie Hostel, Fairy Meadow, Wollongong...

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MICARELLI, Mariannina 1959 OCEANIA 307
MALKOWSKI, Jan 1960 NEPTUNIA 305
MARSHALL, Audrey June 1952 RANCHI 305
MATVEEV, Dmytro & Iryna 1950 SKAUGUM

Dmytro & Iryna were taken during their teens by occupying German forces in the early stages of WWII to Hannover to work as slave labour. They...

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MCANEARNEY, Michael & Clare 1959 FAIRSEA 305
MEISNEROWICZ, Jan 1949 MAETSUYCKER

One of first to settle in Forrestdale on 156 acres. Nicholson Road was then just a sand track & was known as Keane Road. No electricity, no...

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MEISNEROWICZ, Krystyna 1950 STRATHAIRD 305
MACNEILL, W & C 1913 AUSTRALIND

William & Charlotte left Glasgow, Scotland in December 1912. They arrived in the port of Fremantle January 1913 with 4 children - Margaret...

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MARTIN, Edwin & Ivy 1922 BENALLA

Ted & Ivy settled in Hampton, Victoria. Ted was unemployed after serving in the British Army in World War I. They came to Australia for a...

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MATTHEWMAN, Brian & Marg 1969 CANBERRA

We arrived in Fremantle on a public holiday & spent our first week in a hotel in Mount St. No shops open, only a deli. Bought a house in...

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MC VEIGH, Ann Frances 1950 ASTURIAS

Child migrant & made contact by making a visit back to homeland in 1967.

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MARINOVICH DORO, Ante 1964 ROMA 303
MARINOVICH DORO, Jakica 1965 GALILEO GALILEI 303
MARTELLA, Basilio 1950 CYRENIA

Dad like many Italians, came to Australia to seek a better life for himself. He worked in the Kirup Saw Mill & lived at Kirup. He married...

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MCDERMOTT, Susan 1947 ORION

Migrated with friends, Nora & Ken Powell. Triple certificate Registered Nurse. First secular Registered Nurse St. Anne's (Mercy) Hospital....

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MARCOLINA, Willem 1950 JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELT

Willem studied architecture in Holland. He married Mary Fazio in Perth in 1951 & had three children. Two of his sisters also settled in Perth...

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MARZEC, Krystyna 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

Krystyna was orphaned during the war and was sent to an orphanage in Siberia.She later found her sister and they were sent to a refugee camp in...

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MARZEC, Roman 1949 MOZAFFARI

Roman was taken from his home and sent to work on farms in Germany during the war.In Australia he worked at various laboring jobs,later marrying...

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MILEWSKI, Stanislaw 1949 ANNA SALEN

Lived on the army camp in Northam for 3 months. Moved to Dunreath Hostel at Redcliffe later bought land in Redcliffe and built a house. in 2005...

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MORREY Family 1967 FAIRSTAR 302
MACKIEWICZ Family 1950 GENERAL W C LANGFITT

Irena and her children were deported to Russia in 1941.Travelling via Iran and India, they arrived in Tanzania, East Africa, in 1942 to live in...

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MANNELLA, Gaetano 1955 SYDNEY

He did the wrought iron fence at the King's Park War Memorial as well as the main gates at the Fremantle Train Station.

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MANOV, Stase 1957 NEPTUNIA 300
MC KEATING, Elizabeth 1953 STRATHEDEN

My father was working in Perth, him came out under contract to work at the Kwinana Refinery, he was a welder. My mother decided to join him and...

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MISSLER, Edith 1954 FAIRSEA

As there was talk of Russia going to war again my parents, brothers and I decided to flee East Germany before The Wall went up. They came to...

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MATISONS, Janis V 1949 FAIRSEA 30
MCDONALD, Matt & Phemie 1949 DORSETSHIRE

Matthew worked underground in the mines until he joined the Education Department as a Manual Arts teacher in 1953. In 1954 the family moved to...

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MCWILLIAMS Adam & Agnes 1956 STRATHNAVER

Adam & Agnes and their daughter Irene were booked to migrate to Melbourne but when they arrived at Fremantle and had a day trip to Perth they...

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MACLEAN, C & M & J & S 1964 FAIRSEA 30
MARCON, Franco G 1956 SYDNEY

Wanted to travel.

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MARSH, John 1850 SOPHIA

Leased land at Millendon. Bought property named Paradise near Armadale 1857. Established Beuting Place at 83 mile tree Albany Highway. Died &...

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MATISONS, Irene M 1955 JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELT 30
MANSFIELD Family 1953 NEW AUSTRALIA

Jessie was one of ten siblings (Blackwell Family) who all eventually migrated to WA. Jessie, John & Veronica (daughter) originally came so...

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MANNING, John & Mary 1852 WILL WATCH

John Daniel & Mary Manning with their children, Christiana, Elizabeth, John Daniel & Joseph became dairy farmers in Mounts Bay Rd, Perth...

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MARSH, Evelyn R 1927 ESPERANCE BAY

Lived in the Alexander Bridge area before moving to Bussleton and marrying Frederick Coley of Marybrook in 1942. Two children - Beresford (1944)...

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MATTHEWS, Robert & Fanny 1880 CHARLOTTE PADBURY

Robert Matthews & Fanny North were among 14 immigrants nominated by S.P Phillips Esq. who accompanied them on the Charlotte Padbury. They...

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MORAITIS, Klementine 1934 ORFORD

Klementine Moraitis migrated to Fremanbtle in 1934 to marry Jim Kanakis also listed on "welcome wall". They settled and lived in Cottesloe, Jim...

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MOULD, Emma 1833 CYGNET

Was a servant to Bussell's. Married Thomas Sweetmon in Fremantle in 1836.

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MCGEOUGH, JFR & CKD 1927 ORAMA

James & Catherine married on the Saturday & were on the boat to Perth on Tuesday.

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MCMASTER, Robert & Esther 1954 ORION

Robert (Harry) worked as a welder with Harland & Wolff, shipbuilders of Belfast. His father Samuel (who worked on the building of the TITANIC...

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MONACO, Domenico 1951 SEBASTIANO CABOTO

Left his mother Anna and brother Tony to come to Fremantle and join his father Gennaro in search of work opportunities. The whole family was...

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