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WHITFIELD Family

Origin Penzance, Cornwall, England
Accompanying Family Richard George & Beatrice with sons, Ronald, Edgar, Kenneth & Harold
First settled in Denmark, Western Australia
Original Occupation British Army W02
Occupation in Australia Painter (after Group Sett Scheme)

SOPHOCLES

Arrival Year 1924

Albany

ALBANY panel

Read their story

Travelled by train to Denmark then onto Group Settlement 113 at Parry's. Arrived to a 3-sided shack, 4th wall was painted hessian, and had a dirt floor. Given an axe to clear the land. They grew potatoes but walked off their land when the potato market market collapsed in the late 1920's.

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  • I am interested in what happened to this family when they left Group 113 Denmark

    Wed 12 Feb 2020

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