Welcome Walls

COOPER, William & Florence

Origin Carlton Colville, England
Accompanying Family William Percy, Evelyn Florence, Ernest George, Gladys May & Lesley Robert
First settled in Northcliffe, WA
Original Occupation Fisherman
Occupation in Australia Farmer/seaman

ORVIETO

Departure Port Southampton, England
Arrival Year 1924

Fremantle

32 panel

Read their story

William and Florence came to Australia as part of the "Group Settlement Scheme". William had been a fisherman all his life and found farming very difficult. After much hardship they left Northcliffe and settled in the Harvey Shire. Eventually William returned to the sea.

Share

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share this

Visitor Submitted Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Attach files to this comment
Changes made to the attachments are not permanent until you save this post. Files must be smaller than 10 MB and have one of the following extensions: jpg jpeg gif png bmp.

All content copyright Government of Western Australia, All rights reserved.