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#1 2008-07-16 09:30:48
- clarissa
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my mother arrived on this ship
After finding my late mother's name on the log of this ship with a different birth date but most definitely her, who came to Australia with her first Polish husband, Vincent, I'm inspired to post a message. My mother Lumila Musidlak was on the Dundalk Bay and I remember her showing me a picture of the ship when I was a child. Now that I have moved to Melbourne I just found out that she arrived in Melbourne but I don't know how she got to Adelaide which is where she said she stayed at Bonegilla I thought.. Hmm. I'd like to learn more.
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#2 2008-08-11 17:39:51
- tundern
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Re: my mother arrived on this ship
Dear Clarissa: You could continue your search by contacting the National Archives at <ref AT naa.gov.au> to see if they have "Bonegilla cards" for your mother and Vincent. The cards should show their first jobs in Australia. Then, if you can get their Aliens Registration files from the National Archives in Melbourne and/or Canberra, you might see what further work they were sent to in the first two years, where they lived during this time and maybe the same details for later. Good luck, Ann (Tündern-Smith)
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#3 2010-05-08 07:03:58
- moira
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Re: my mother arrived on this ship
Hi, my mother in law arrived in Newcastle in June 1950 on this ship. She was 4 years old - Halina Karpa. Her father was Mykola Karpa (b. 1914)and stepmother Gretel-lingard Karpa. They were Ukrainians and had been in Ludendorff Assemblyl Centre at Neu Ulm, but I believe Halina was born in 1946 in a DP camp at Bayreuth. Mykola had been a German POW but escaped and also forced labour for the Russians.
They went to Greta and after that settled in Cairns where they ran a pub in Silkwood for many years.
I have NAA records but am trying to find more information on Mykola Karpa's family and, in particular, Halina's mother Bella Beliak, who died in c.1948?
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#4 2010-05-21 17:21:25
- tundern
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Re: my mother arrived on this ship
Did Bella die in Germany? Then your best bet is to look on the Web for German genealogy sites in English. Good luck!
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