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| Title |
Arrival Year |
Ship Name | Story | Panel # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZAKNIC, Nikola | 1955 | AUSTRALIA |
My wife came from Croatia in 1957 - we married in 1956. We have 2 children Franya and Michael born in Australia. |
23 |
| ZERAFA, Charlie | 1955 | SKAUBRYN |
Charlie came to Australia as a child. He married Terry and and had 5 children, Elizabeth, Wayne, Julie, Chas and Daniel. |
42 |
| ZERAFA, Doris | 1955 | SKAUBRYN |
Doris came to Australia as a child. She has four children - Shane, Samantha, Danika and Ashleigh |
42 |
| ZERAFA, Lily | 1955 | SKAUBRYN |
Lily Zerafa came to Australia with her two children, Charlie and Doris, to join her husband Joseph. They went on to have four more children,... |
42 |
| ZARALIAKOS, Alexandra | 1955 | CASTEL FELICE |
Alexandra was 19 when she arrived in Fremantle to marry her fiance Arthur. This was an arranged marriage. Both had known each other as children.... |
50 |
| ZUIDERHOEK Family | 1955 | MAETSUYCKER | 101 | |
| ZILLESSEN, Wolfgang Johann | 1955 | SKAUBRYN |
When I was 11 yrs old and my 9 yr old sister Anneruth embarked on the migrant ship on our own in Nov 1955. We arrived in Fremantle on Christmas... |
117 |
| ZAMMIT, Alfred | 1955 | SKAUBRYN | 150 | |
| ZYLSTRA, Jan & Gerrigje | 1955 | SIBAJAK | 234 | |
| ZEGA, Arnold | 1955 | FLAMINIA | 351 | |
| ZEGA, Gustav & Emma | 1955 | FLAMINIA | 351 | |
| ZAMBOTTI, Luigi & Giuditta | 1955 | AUSTRALIA | 420 | |
| ZAMBONETTI, Edvige Maria | 1955 | NEPTUNIA | 480 | |
| ZAKNIC, Dragica | 1956 | OCEANIA |
I joined my husband Nikola in Australia in 1957. Settled down in Bunbury where we are still living. My parents Bogdan and Bosiljka Jelic joined me... |
23 |
| ZAMBONETTI, Donato | 1956 | NEPTUNIA | 26 | |
| ZOITI, Giuseppe | 1956 | OCEANIA |
Giuseppe disembarked the ship and immediately travelled to the farming town of Merredin, to live with an uncle. He laboured on the farm for 12... |
52 |
| ZWANENBURG, George & Jetty | 1956 | JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELT |
George and Jetty arrived in Fremantle with 5 young children (2 boys & 3 girls) and lived for a short time in Northam at the Holden Camp. The... |
53 |
| ZUVELA-DODA, Kresimir | 1956 | SURRIENTO |
Husband of Franica and father of Janita, Jasna & Kristine Zuvela - Doda. Joined his uncles Joze & Marko Zuvela - Doda on the Nullabor... |
65 |
| ZAKNIC, Franica | 1956 | SURRIENTO | 152 | |
| ZOLLO, Luigia | 1956 | CASTEL BIANCO |
Luigia (known as 'Gina') at sixteen was the oldest of two sisters and one brother. Her mother, Luisa and her siblings travelled to WA to be... |
167 |
| ZARB, Maria & Family | 1956 | CASTEL FELICE |
Mum, my brothers, Tom, Fred, Joe and myself (Antoinette), arrived 6 years after Dad. Two other children, Lionel and Mary with her family followed... |
190 |
| ZORIČIĆ, Zorro Zvonimir | 1956 | FLAMINIA |
Zvonimir Zoričić - they call him Zorro. In 1958 under his leadership a group of new Australian Croatians - forty of them, including Zorro, agreed... |
271 |
| ZLENDICH, Ljubo | 1956 | PAOLO TOSCANELLI | 321 | |
| ZIMMERMANN, HJ & L | 1956 | FAIRSEA |
Heinrich & Lieselotte bought their first home in Como, NSW in 1957, later moving to Ingleburn, NSW starting a chicken farm where the family... |
454 |
| ZORZUT, Mercedes | 1957 | OCEANIA |
Mercedes followed her brother Rudolf Zorzut and father Josef Zorzut out to Australia. Rudi arrived with wife Maria and daughter Elena in Melbourne... |
48 |
| ZEMKE, Erika | 1957 | FAIRSEA |
Erika initially lived in Melville then went to live and work on a sheep station in the wheatbelt. She eventually moved to Brisbane where she met... |
65 |
| ŽAKNIĆ, Beor Petar | 1957 | OCEANIA |
I left my birthplace 'Blato na Korculi' Croatia. I was 16 years old. I arrived in Fremantle 09/09/1957 on the ship OCEANIA. I was sponsored by Mrs... |
106 |
| ZELLER, David Josef | 1957 | ORCADES | 187 | |
| ZORIČIĆ, Ančica & Rudolf | 1957 | TOSCANA |
In December 1956 Toscana berthed in Cape Town where we encountered locals selling ice cream from a canvas box. I was mesmerized watching the 'fog... |
271 |
| ZORIČIĆ, Ivana (ST JOHN) | 1957 | TOSCANA |
I was devastated leaving behind everything - I was 17 years old and the life such as I knew back then in Croatia was perfect. It was 1956 and my... |
271 |
| ZAKNIC, Miroslav | 1957 | NEPTUNIA |
Miroslav travelled to Australia to join his father, mother and brother who had settled in Bunbury. |
384 |
| ZERVOS, George, Despina & Yo | 1957 | NEPTUNIA |
George Emmanuel Zervos heritage Greece & Smyrni. Migrated to Egypt & married Despina Caramalis, Greek & Italian heritage. They... |
409 |
| ZAPPIA, Maria | 1958 | AUSTRALIA | 55 | |
| ZUPANOVICH, Vladimir | 1958 | ORONSAY |
Educated in Croatia then qualified as mechanic in Czechoslovakia. Worked in Sibenik and Trogir Croatia. From 1958 worked with father as woodcutter... |
157 |
| ZYLSTRA Family | 1958 | JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELT |
The Zylstra Family settled in Victoria, had their third child, then moved to South Australia, had two more children, and claimed Australian... |
193 |
| ZITMAN, W (Bill) | 1958 | WATERMAN | 220 | |
| ZORANCIC, Damijan & Helena | 1958 | OCEANIA |
Damijan, one of 7 children, that only left Yugoslavia. Started life in the bush on the mines up North. Helena, one of 5 children, also had a... |
294 |
| ZAKNIC, Katica & Franica | 1958 | OCEANIA |
Mother & daughter arrived to join husband & father Miroslav, who had arrived the year prior (1957). |
384 |
| ZAKNIC, Tomislav | 1959 | OCEANIA | 50 | |
| ZAKNICH, Jakov | 1959 | OCEANIA |
Came out as a single man at the age of 23 years. Boarded in Fremantle and continued his career as a wooden boat builder for the crayfishing... |
85 |
| ZAFIRIS, Eleni | 1959 | FRITHERIKI | 224 | |
| ZLENDICH, Marija | 1959 | TOSCANA | 321 | |
| ZURHAAR, Armand | 1959 | JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELT | 397 | |
| ZERRA, Pasquale | 1960 | AUSTRALIA |
He came with his father Nicola to join his brother Angelo. Pasquale married Valmen Cariani in 1969 and had 2 children, Claudia (b.1970) and... |
39 |
| ZIINO, Calogero A | 1960 | SYDNEY | 356 | |
| ZIMMER, Alf & Val, Car & Gin | 1961 | FAIRSKY |
Was first West Australian coach to win Under 12 Australian soccer trophies in Perth. Alf pioneer with P.W.D. in Kunanurra in 1964/1965. |
35 |
| ZUVELA-DODA, Jasna | 1961 | AUSTRALIA |
Arrived with mother Franica. Married to Basil Jansen, mother of Stephanie and Bradley Jansen. Sister to Janita & Kristine Zuvela - Doda |
48 |
| ZAKNIC Tonci | 1961 | OCEANIA | 49 | |
| ZAKNIC Augustina | 1961 | OCEANIA |
Augustina Zaknic (nee Grego Ruzir) travelled from Blato, Korcula to Genoa, whence she sailed to Fremantle with her three children, to join her... |
50 |
| ZAKNIC, Mirjana | 1961 | OCEANIA | 55 |