HUGHES, Tom & Dot
Origin Flint, Wales, UK
Accompanying Family Dorothy Salisbury Gudgeon (nee Hughes), Wade Salisbury Hughes
First settled in Adelaide, South Australia
Original Occupation Bus Driver (Tom) and Interior Decorator (Dot)
Occupation in Australia Driver of lst ABC Outside Broadcast Van in Adelaide; subsequently ABC Storeman. Dot worked in various furnishing stores as Interior Decorator
STRATHNAVER
Departure Port Tilbury, UK
Arrival Year 1959
Fremantle
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Tom & Dot, 45, arrived with 4 pounds, determined to make a go of it and not become part of the returning wave of whingeing poms. They lived happily in Australia until their deaths in Perth within 23 days of each other in 2000. Their ashes are scattered at sea off Hillary's Marina.
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