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Hi Michele

I'm researching the BAGDONAVICIUS family that also came out on the Wooster Victory, but they came to Sydney in July 1949.

I am also looking for information on the ship and it's Jul journey.

I thought if you have not already done you may wish to check http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html, as I have found almost all of the BAGDONAVICIUS immigration documents this way, including photos.

Good luck with your search!

Hi GUYS,
HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE WEBSITE IMMIGRANTSHIPS.NET THEY HAVE QUITE A FEW PASSENGER LISTS COMPILED FOR THE FIFTH FLEET
MAIE

hi michelle,
surfing around naa tonight, came across bronislaw olszewski- in search type in surname and years series no D4881 GOOD LUCK- YOU CAN REQUEST COPIES OF RELEVNT INFO!!
MAIE

Check out http://dpcamps.org/dpcampsGermanyFr.html.

Info on Fulda and the Fulda State Archives there. Good site for displaced persons info. Our family was at the Hanau camp.

Sandra, Record Search at the National Archives shows the following file on your mother.  It will contain her selection documents:

Title MIETKIEWICZ Teresa born 13 April 1927
Series number A11912    
Control symbol 351    
Contents date range 1949 - 1949
Access status Not yet examined   
Location Canberra    
Barcode 4782558

Send this information in an e-mail to <ref@naa.gov.au>, asking them to examine the file with a view to public access and to e-mail you back with a quote for photocopying if they decide to make the file available (which they will do, but they have these formalities).

Good luck with finding your family in Poland.  Have you Googled for <Genealogy Poland> yet?  You should find a wealth of possibilities!

Ann

kelmark wrote:

Hi Michele

I'm researching the BAGDONAVICIUS family that also came out on the Wooster Victory, but they came to Sydney in July 1949.

I am also looking for information on the ship and it's Jul journey.

I thought if you have not already done you may wish to check http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html, as I have found almost all of the BAGDONAVICIUS immigration documents this way, including photos.

Good luck with your search!

Dear Kelmark

I have some information about the Journey of the Wooster Victory which arrived in Sydney on the 31st July 1949

The ports it stopped on the way were Depart Naples           30 06 49
                                                                  Port Said       04 07 49
                                                                  Suez             06 07 49
                                                                  Aden             20 07 49
                                                                  Fremantle      24 07 49
                                                       Arrive Sydney           31 07 49


Apparentley there was a death on the ship and it the passengers had to disembark the next daydue to quarantine and police prcedures I wiil confirm this at a later time.

Last edited by Sumpey (2008-02-25 15:40:39)

Dear Julie

Having only five passengers listed on the Immigrant Ships site is the result, I think, of a particular transcriber noting only those people who left the vessels in Fremantle.  If you have looked at the naa.gov.au lists, then you must have some idea of how to get around that site.  I suggest that you search for <Wooster Victory>.  Hit the Refine this Search button next to the number of Items found (not Series).  In the new window, search for <Nominal Roll>.  That's what the Department of Immigration called the passenger lists.

Doing what I have just suggested gave a list of 22 files.  Scanning through the 22 items, I found that one was "SS Wooster Victory - ex Naples 13 February 1949 [includes Nominal Roll]".  That looks like the voyage that brought your great-uncle and maybe your grandmother's mother.

As it happens, somebody has requested already that this file be digitised.  You can read through it on a computer with an Internet connection.  Let us know if you find your relatives!

The step after that will be to find their selection, aliens registration and maybe citizenship papers in the National Archives.

Best wishes,
Ann Tündern-Smith

Hi Michelle

My father arrived on this ship in Sydney. I have his Berthing ticket.

He is Polish and is still alive. He lives in Perth WA.

I need help to get hold of passenger lists and photos of the ship. Dad tells me that a photo was taken by the Sydney paper front news when they arrived.

Can you tell me when I can start?

Im sure DAD who love to have a catch with you relative about their trip on the ship.

Regards
Chris

My parents came to australia on the Wooster Victory with me as a 2 year old arriving March 15/1949
My mother's name was Regina Sprada and my Father was Alexander Sprada. My name is Woijech Sprada now Stephen sprada.
I'm wondering if anyone met my parents on the ship ?
I live in sydney Australia and would love some information / photos of the ship as well.
both my parents are deceased- my mother escaped Poland after she was released from Auschwitz concentration camp where she was a prisoner for 3 years
Thank you
Stephen