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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: JuST Peter on March 10, 2015, 04:45:35 PM

Title: Human Cargo
Post by: JuST Peter on March 10, 2015, 04:45:35 PM

How did your ancestors come to Australia? Mine came by ship on assisted passage.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049 (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049)

Title: Re: Human Cargo
Post by: alans1100 on March 10, 2015, 05:01:44 PM

I don't know as it's before my time....dad might know as he's into the family history thing........

Title: Re: Human Cargo
Post by: Shiney on March 10, 2015, 06:05:12 PM

That is a crazy ending to the story (the "What happened next" section) :eek

Title: Re: Human Cargo
Post by: Totgas on March 10, 2015, 07:12:28 PM

Near Port Campbell, (the twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, and counting down apostles) part of the 'shipwreck coast', is the wreck the Loch Ard . The ship was wrecked on the sheer cliffs off Muttonbird Island on 1 June 1878. It was carrying over fifty people on board when it hit rocks and broke up just a few days short of its three month voyage from England. Only four bodies were ever recovered and just two people survived. My great, great, grandfather was one of those drowned.
Luckily his grandson, my father, decided to give it a second go and so we ended up a bit further up the coast - Sydney.
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