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SILKE, Katie

1 April 1881 – 4 November 1962

Origin Carnmore, County Galway Ireland
First settled in Yundamindera WA Goldfields
Occupation in Australia Dairy farmer

MARLOO

Departure Port Melbourne
Arrival Year 1903

Fremantle

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Migrated from Ireland to Queensland with brother Charles and sisters Elizabeth and Ellen. Worked Sunburst Hotel, Charters Towers. Travelled WA. Worked Granites Hotel Yundamindera. Married in Kalgoorlie to Sperandio Battaglia-Calzolai, native Castione Della Presolana, Bergamo, Italy, November 1907. Children Mary, Luigi, Julia, Adolphus. Was at Yundamindera until 1919. Dairy farmer South Belmont.

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