FAMILY TREE – What’s your heritage?

Hi Alysha,

that’s a great mix [biggrin] and good topic too.

My family is from Cyprus and came here as refugees in 1975. I was 5 and my brother was 1.

I’m a true blue Aussie too. Very little attachement to Cypriot culture apart from being born there!

My son was born in Canada and my daughter was born in Australia.

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Nothing Exotic about me,
Parents are both Aussies, mum was even born and raised in Kurnell, you don’t get more Aussie than that. Ancestory is English & Scottish.

Mal

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I am a real mix.

Mum’s side has first fleeters as well as Sarah with no surname whom we recently found out was an Aboriginal house girl who married a well known horseman in the Mudgee district. Was kept quiet until recently but we are all quite proud of it today! Not that you’d notice with my blue eyes and fair hair but some say they can see it….

Dad’s father was a Polish Jew who fled Europe as a refugee. He had few known relatives surviving the persecution during WWII. His Mum was the daughter of a prominent State MP who as Minister of Roads laid the first stone of the Harbour Bridge. Has a plaque there and I must take the kids looking for it next time we are down there.

There are a few more interesting stories – of course each generation you go back you are doubling the ancestry so I am sure we all have some very interesting people back there.

And I married a Kiwi so my kids are even more mixed than me!

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I was born in Australia. As true blue as they come. I have worked in London and San Francisco. Australia is the best country in the World.

My father was Italian and my mother was dutch. They met in Melbourne in the early 60’s.

My wife is french-canadian. I met her as a backpacker on the train between toronto and montreal. I made the mistake of talking to a stranger.

Her father is french canadian. He looks like Napoleon. Her mother is a pom. She migrated as a kid to Canada. They were looking at migrating to australia.

Her father re-married to a canadian-italian. They have adopted a girl from china and a boy from Cambodia.

So my kids are real bitzas now. I have family in the UK, Holland and Canada. The world is getting smaller and smaller.

Mum’s from Harvey, south of Perth, but has Irish/scottish heritage.
I was born in Barbados in the caribbean where my Dad’s side is from (sugar farmers), althought dad’s side was originally english. We came to Oz in 87… and now live in Perth.

People of note in the family tree:

* John Forrest : of great emmence in early WA
* At one stage mum’s side owned the swan brewery, but a long time ago.
* Dad’s side used to own the Mount Gay Barbados Rum Distillery (oldest rum in the world).
* John Booth, the man who shot Abraham Lincoln is in the family tree also.

and thats about where our claim to fame ends.

Maybe in 200yrs, someone will be saying, “yeah, the great Cabo Wabo, famed property magnate, head of the world bank and philanthipist was my ancestor”…… NOT.

Cabo Wabo