ATKINSON, WA & EM
Origin LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Accompanying Family Wife: Edith Mary. Children: May, Norman, Donald, Roy, Victor, Lillian, Eric
First settled in NORTHCLIFFE, WA
Original Occupation NEWSAGENT
Occupation in Australia DAIRY FARMER TO 1935, LATER ARMY AND CBH
BENDIGO
Departure Port TILBURY, LONDON
Arrival Year 1924
Fremantle
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Mr and Mrs W Atkinson and children came to Northcliffe under the Group Settlement Scheme to establish a dairy farm. Their eighth child, Joan, was born in September 1925. They moved to Perth in August 1935 during the Depression and after the failure of the Scheme.
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