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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: blamcca on Sunday 10 March 13 22:31 GMT (UK)
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Is there a way to find records of immigration of people from England coming to Australia, I think it would've been South Australia.
Dr. Audrey Vera FOX and her son, came to South Australia in 1960's. This is a rough estimate because the earliest records we have of her being in SA are from the 60's. According to the stories she had been divorced from her husband, Graham FOX, after they had 2 children. Their daughter stayed in England because she was disabled and in a wheelchair. We think she may still be alive.
Also can I see records of doctors who were working in SA around this time?
Audrey married K D FOULIS in 1970's. K is my great-grandfather, whose wife, Vera Jean FOULIS had died the previous year.
Hope someone can help.
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Hi Blamcca,
I can see the burials of Audrey and Kyffin, but suggest that the other two names you mention may still be living people, so it would be best if you modified your post to remove their names. (RC policy).
I take it you know about Audrey and Kyffin's deaths.
Dee :)
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There is a SUBMITTED private tree at Ancestry, with the index listing a headstone, in Adelaide, SA for Audrey’s son, who is noted as born 1955. There does not seem to be any supporting documentation.
I can see Ryerson has Audrey Vera FOULIS at age 78, 5 Jan 2005.
Cheers, JM
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Some links for immigration indexes :)
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/Scripts/PassengerSearch.asp
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/search/index.aspx
http://museum.wa.gov.au/welcomewalls/
Cheers, JM
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That tree on Ancestry is probably mine. We found copies of the birth certificates of Audrey's children when we cleaned out her house after she died. Andrew died in the 1970's when he was involved in a car crash. We also know her first husband has passed away.
Thanks majm I'll try those links.
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Tried those links and couldn't find anything :(
Anyone else got some other suggestions? :)
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For records of doctors working in South Aust. in 1960s, you could try either
Medical Board of South Australia
South Australian Government Gazette
The Med Board's records may even be at their State Archives by now, for that period.
If you could get someone to look them up for you,
Not sure where you'd get to read the SAGG for then, but possibly their State Library?
If you could get someone to look them up for you,
The Medical Board may or may not be receptive to a request for the information - these Boards are notoriously difficult to deal with, in most Aust. states! ::) ::) ::)
Dawn M
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Hi
Audrey is still on the UK Medical Register for 1959 (the latest one Ancestry has).
You could try the South Australian Electoral Roll to see when she was first on it, that should give you a window of arrival, unfortunately they are not online.
Andy
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Hi
Audrey Vera Hooper on this site http://www.alumni.bristol.ac.uk/publications/events/reunion/2012/Lost%20graduates%20from%20pre%201962.pdf
There may not be a record of her arrival if she came by plane.
Muss
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Thanks I'll check some of this out.
I know there may not be records if she came by plane but still shouldn't there be paperwork to do because she wanted to live and work in South Australia.
I don't think she became an Australian citizen though, she received a British pension and had a British passport (which no doesn't show her arrival). She wouldn't be on the electoral rolls if she wasn't a citizen, or would she?
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Hi
Yes, she could be on the Electoral Roll. It wasn't until c1985? that Brits had to take out Australian Citizenship to be on the roll however if they were already on the roll when the change came in then they could stay on the roll provided it was continuous. There are still Brits on the roll who haven't taken out Australian Citizenship.
There would be a passenger list but it is most likely not online if there was no success from the National Archives link posted earlier by majm.
The link below has an index of Passenger Records held in Adelaide
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs256.aspx (http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs256.aspx)
The link below has an index of Passenger Records held in Canberra
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs38.aspx (http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs38.aspx)
There are records in other cities.
The records are not indexed by name so you would be almost impossible to find without more information
Andy
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Hello blamcca. I saw your entry re Audrey Hooper. We were friends from our school days so I may be able to help you a bit. The last time that I saw Audrey and family was in 1963 when she had a private practice in Bristol. She went to Australia in about '65,by boat. I was in East Africa at the time and she wanted me to meet the ship when it called in at Aden, unfortunately it wasn't possible for me to get there in time. Things were a bit different 50 years ago ! I had a letter from her telling me that they had sold the farm that they had bought in Australia and that Graham was returning to the U.K. with Sarah where she would be able to attend a special school. I'm afraid after that we lost contact as I was moving about quite a bit. The next news that I had was from a relative in Bristol who she went to see with your Gt grandfather. She was hoping to get Sarah to return to Australia with them. Obviously she didn't. Sarah definately was not in a wheel chair. Must close now will try and contact you again later. Hope you get this O.K. Mervyn.
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Mervyn this is great news!! We had always presumed it was Audrey and Andrew who came to Australia alone. You don't remember where this farm you mentioned was? I never had much to do with Audrey I only remember her in her later years when she would sit out on the verandah of the her house in West Lakes and we used to go and see her before going to the footy, she lived just down the road from the big stadium in Adelaide. We believe Audrey still has a younger sister alive living in Birmingham (I think that is it). If you post 3 times you can send and receive private messages where we can further discuss living family members.
Blake
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Hello Blake. It's nice to hear from you. It would be nice if our correspondence was a little private !
Sorry, I don't know where the farm was. Will contact you again later. I look forward to any further comments that you may have.
Regards Mervyn.
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Not really sure I can say a whole lot about Audrey. In November 1974 (we think) she married my gt-grandfather Dean Foulis somewhere in Adelaide, can't say a lot about the wedding, Dean's sisters were the only family members that we know were invited. It was a little suspicious really, all of Dean's children just got a phone call on the morning of the wedding. Audrey and Dean settled back at Dean's farm in the Eden Valley and lived there until retiring to West Beach, Dean died in 1996 and Audrey in 2005. Can't really say much more I found a few more documents last night, I'll tell you more about them when we can get private messages going.
Blake
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It gets "interestinger and interestinger" ! I too thought there something odd. I will speak to you about it later. Will try and turn out the letter that I had from Peggy after they had visited her when they were in Bristol just after they were married, I think I still have it somewhere.
Four our five years ago I exchanged a few emails with your grandfather, Daryl , He and your grandmother had then just been to visit Rita, Audreys sister in Tamworth, which is about fifteen miles north of Birmingnam. More later.
Regards, Mervyn.
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I'll send you a private message now.
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Hi everyone, I am a PhD candidate researching a group of 1952 Bristol medical graduates who migrated to Australia. Audrey Fox has an entry in the Medical Directory of Australia in 1978, and is listed as working as a medical officer for the South Australian mental health service; there is also a record of her arrival in Australia on the ship Fairsky in 1965 (see Passenger arrival index, National Archives of Australia).
I would be particularly interested in finding out why she moved to Australia, and if it was for professional or personal reasons.
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Hello all
my name is Russell Skinner and at the age of about 13 was a patient of Dr Audrey Fox at her practice in Downend Bristol when i contracted a germ in the blood stream if it had not been for Dr Fox's quick actions i would not be writing this today.I am now in my 70s and every year on my birthday i thank Dr Fox for every year that i have had.
I was hoping to find out that she was still alive so i could write and tell her how much she had given to me only to find out that she had emigrated to Adelaide and passed away in 2005 the irony of this is since the early 1990s i have visited my sister ten times staying for over a month each time at her home at Maslin Beach and know my way round the city well so somewhere on my travel's around the city i must have been very near by to her.