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MITCHELL, L & W, B, S & R

14 December 1888 – 21 June 1961
12 October 1893 – 3 January 1971

Origin Totnes, Devon, UK
Accompanying Family Barbara Marie, Stanley Llewellyn (Jim) & Ralph George
First settled in Group Settlement 114, Denmark, WA
Original Occupation Railway Guard, Soldier
Occupation in Australia Farming, Hospital Orderley

DIOGENES

Departure Port Plymouth
Arrival Year 1924

Albany

ALBANY panel

Read their story

Lew & Win had three children, Barbara, Jim & Ralph (all aged six & under). There were twenty families in galvanised iron sheds. The women & children remained in Denmark while the men & teenage boys cleared land out at the campsite at Styx River. Lew & Win subsequently moved to other group settlements (Peel Estate, Baldivis) & in 1928 to Group 74 at Gnarabup (Forrest Grove).

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  • These are my Grandparents, They had had 3 More Children, Monica, Richard(Dick) and Cyril, they later walked off the farm in Forrest grove,(group 74) Due to the depression and low prices for dairy products, it wasn't viable to keep the farm going.

    Mon 17 Feb 2014

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