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PETERS Family 1949 VOLENDAM

Jan (John) Peters arrived on the MS Volendam from Tilburg, The Netherlands in January 1949 aged 28. His wife Jo (nee Verhoeven aged 29), daughter...

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POKRZYWA, Stanley 1949 NELLY 331
PARDOE Family 1949 MALOJA

Came to Australia to make a life with new opportunities. Embraced Australia with gusto.

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PODMOKLY, Jan 1949 ANNA SALEN

Jan always said he was born again when he arrived at Fremantle. He married but never had any children. He worked as a Motor Mechanic. He was well...

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PAWLENKO Family 1949 ANNA SALEN 469
PERSICHITTI, Rosa 1949 TOSCANA

Married Giovanni Ghirardi 7/7/1950. Lived in and around Merredin, WA. Husband was a farmhand. Had two sons, Patrick & Camillo.

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PAPARELLA, Giuseppe 1948 TOSCANA

I arrived with my mother and brother. My father 1st arrived in 1925 to work for 5 years at a time and visited his family in Italy for 1 year then...

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PERPOLI, C, P & M 1948 TOSCANA

Arrived with mother Pia Perpoli, sister Mughetta Perpoli. Became a motor mechanic in branch of the engineering trade in 1958 and a member...

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PANIZZA Ida (nee Tudori) 1948 AL SUDAN 8
PISCONERI, Giuseppe 1948 TOSCANA

Pioneer in setting up of Italian Styled Coffee Lounge and Continental foods outlet in Perth at the Cnr of Newcastle and Lake Streets. (In the area...

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PEACOCK, Basil & Doris 1948 STRATHAIRD

On arrival Basil worked for the WAGR at the Midland workshops till retirements in 1977. George and David attended Thomas St State School in...

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PEACOCK, George & David 1948 STRATHAIRD 31
PAGGI, Bice, Lino & Ebe 1948 MISR

Husband (Plinio) left Italy in 1938. War broke out and Bice was left to struggle to raise her two young children. Separated for 10 years. Had two...

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PAINI, Candido 1948 MISR

Arrived with Mother, Rosa Paini, and two brothers. Father arrived some time earlier.

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PRENTICE, Bob, Mabel & Sons 1948 ASTURIAS

"Prentice Family" -
Mabel (31 years). John Robert William (Bob) (34 years). Sons, Brian (11 years) and Peter (8 years.)

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PAINI, Aurelio 1948 MISR 115
PAINI, Rosa, A, G & C 1948 MISR 115
PIRONE, Mariantonia (VIECELI) 1948 TOSCANA

Came to Western Australia to meet her father after 23 years.

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PAPAELIAS, Andreas E 1948 RENA 174
PAPAELIAS, Angela 1948 RENA 174
PAPAELIAS, Catherine 1948 RENA 174
PAPAELIAS, Marina 1948 RENA 174
PILLING, James & Renie 1948 SOMERSETSHIRE

James and Renie arrived in Fremantle with 3 children June aged 8, David aged 4 and Pauline aged 2. They stayed in Queensland for 5 years then...

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PARKER, Ronald S 1948 EMPIRE BRENT

My parents along with my sister and brother arrived in Perth in 1948 and later moved to Sydney. I, Ron Parker, returned to Perth in 1974 and...

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PTAK Family 1948 DERNA

Great to come to a free & friendly country after the Holocaust.

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PISCONERI, Domenico 1948 TOSCANA

Together with his brothers they built a business which included a café where the original Italian coffee and lemon gelati was made in Northbridge...

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POLETTI Family 1948 MISR

Mother, 2 daughters & granddaughter moving to WA to be reunited with husband & son.

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PATUPIS, Gediminas (Steve) 1948 KANIMBLA

Those who knew Gediminas Patupis know him as Mr Steve. Much respected entrepreneur of the Nullarbor area, pioneering the New Eucla in 1967. He is...

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PUNCHER, Gabriel & Dorothy 1948 ASTURIAS 479
PETERSEN, Denzil Harold 1947 GORGON

Denzil arrived with his parents and three sisters. He chose to embrace the Australian way of life and married local Como nurse Dorothy Ravenscroft...

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POGA, Ansis Arvids 1947 GENERAL STUART HEINTZELMAN

Ansis Poga, after arriving in WA went to Tasmania to live. He left Germany on the very first ship of displaced persons. Ansis married and had...

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PECKHAM, Percy & Gladys 1947 ORION

1936 England to Hong Kong. 1941 Hong Kong to Phillines (Gladys) 1941 Hong Kong to Singapore (Percy). 1941-1942 Phillipines to Melbourne then...

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PERICH, Lucija 1947 MISR

Lucy grew up on the island of Vis. Was sent with her son Peter to El Shat Refugee Camp, Egypt in 1942. Joined husband Mate in Australia 1947....

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PERICH, Peter 1947 MISR

Peter came to Australia with his mother in 1947 after living in El Shat Refugee Camp, Egypt for five years. Married with four children - Graeme,...

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PANNELL Family 1947 NESTOR

Alice Pannell (nee Oldcorn) arrived in Fremantle with 3 children on September 1947. Husband Kenneth was here after being demobbed from Royal Navy...

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PULLINGER, Aurelie Margaret 1947 ASTURIAS

I arrived in Fremantle, as a bride-to-be of an ex WWII POW (Australian). We met in Eastbourne, UK in May, 1945. My husband-to-be left the UK...

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PIKE, Jacqueline 1947 ASTURIAS

Came out as a Child Migrant. Nazareth House.

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PETELCZYC, Michal 1947 ASTURIAS

Following the German invasion of his Polish homeland, Michal helped defend the British Empire as part of the Polish Air Force under British...

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PEARCE, CH, CF & MGA 1947 MANOORA

Cecil Henry Pearce arrived in Fremantle with sons Cecil & Melville in 1947. The rest of the family consisting of his wife Gladys & sons,...

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PEARCE-SHORTEN WC & C 1946 ASTURIAS

Terry and Catherine had a daughter, Karen in 1950. The family lived in Brisbane, returned to UK (1954-58) and settled in Perth in 1962. Terry...

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PEARMAN, Dorothy 1946 STRATHMORE

Dorothy met an Australian Air Force Soldier in UK. She came to Australia to get married to John Goodall in Sydney. She was only 23 when she...

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PAXMAN, Jacqueline E 1946 STIRLING CASTLE

I came to Australia as a war bride after marriage to an RAAF WOD/AG in June 1945.

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POPPLE, James William 1946 NESTOR

I had my 8th birthday aboard ship, so arrival would have been late April or early May. I think the trip took about 9 weeks via Cape of Good Hope...

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PARLONGO, Giuseppina 1940 ROMOLO

Married by proxy in 1938 to Perth immigrant (1927), Giuseppe Parlongo.

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PONCINI, Giuseppina & Anna 1940 ROMOLO

On arrival to Australia with her son and daughter, she joined her husband at Big Bell. Two months later when the war broke out, the men were...

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PONCINI, Mario 1940 ROMOLO

On arrival in Australia, my family joined my father at Big Bell. Within two months my father and I were interned when war broke out. We were...

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PAPARO, Ilario 1939 REMO 24
PATERSON, Mary A 1939 ESPERANCE BAY

Came out to be a nanny for a family in Toodyay. Settled in Mandurah. Married F.G. Manwaring, had 3 children born in Pinjarra and 3 children born...

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PONCINI, Annibale 1939 REMO

He arrived in Australia a year before his family. He took any work available - cutting sandalwood, prospecting and at the Big Bell Goldmine. When...

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PAVLOVICH, Bosiljka (nee Kosic) 1939 UNKNOWN

Migrated to marry fiance. Lived at the Clackline Boulder Boarding House they owned in Boulder - bombed 1941, six killed. Moved to Manjimup &...

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