SKEFFINGTON, John & Bridget

24 January 1910 – 23 June 1980
26 July 1916 – 28 March 1997

Origin Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland
First settled in Perth, WA

NEW AUSTRALIA

Departure Port Southampton, England
Arrival Year 1951

Fremantle

243 panel

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John & Bridget (nee McGuigan) arrived with Mary (15), Pearse (12), John (9) & Mauraid (6). They added Malachy (1952) & Una (1956) to complete the family. The Skeffington family grew together in Sixth Avenue Maylands, John & Bridget maintaining family homes in the area for forty years. Active parishioners at Maylands all their lives.

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