How many Aussies are there here?

[stofsk]

I'm curious to know how many Aussies frequent this board. Sound off and don't forget to say where in Oz you live.

I live in Melbourne.

 

[PhillWebb]

I look over the recent threads every day or so.

I also live in Melbourne.

Phill

 

[Antony]

I live at Bakers Hill, about 77 km from Perth

Antony

 

[alanb]

I live in Toowoomba. (A bit west of Brisbane.)

 

[djg_p]

I'm in Thornlie ... about 15km south of Perth.

 

[michaelpooley]

I am from brisbane, currently teaching in China

 

[fridge]

I am in Canberra

 

[kafka47]

Only half-Aussie - does it account for something. Me Mum was from Melbourne but more than half her family have died out leaving only old people. Sadly, reside in Canada but would jump at a chance to work in Australia for a year or decade - depending how long I could sustain walkabout.

 

[Starviking]

Me Mum

You wouldn't have some Irish link in the family Kafka?

 

[kafka47]

You wouldn't have some Irish link in the family Kafka?

Both material grandparents came over to Australia during the Potato Famine. Great Great Grand Dad - was a "farmer" from Cork although, he was in steerage. And, the family testifies, he was a bit of a scoundrel before settling in Australia the Fair...and Great Great Grand Mum was a "lady" from Dublin who was traveling alone. Romance kindled by the time they made landfall in Australia.

 

[E.D.Quibell]

Both material grandparents came over to Australia during the Potato Famine. Great Great Grand Dad - was a "farmer" from Cork although, he was in steerage. And, the family testifies, he was a bit of a scoundrel before settling in Australia the Fair...and Great Great Grand Mum was a "lady" from Dublin who was traveling alone. Romance kindled by the time they made landfall in Australia.

OMG, it's Titanic!

Regards,

Ewan

 

[kafka47]

Save that the lady in question was not chaperoned heading to Van Diemen's Land - ok, Melbourne is not that bad...hence the dubious title - plus, they were Irish - not administrators or clerks but salt of the earth...not casting aspersions on my grandparents story - but it does sound awfully suspicious.

 

[Starviking]

Both material grandparents came over to Australia during the Potato Famine. Great Great Grand Dad - was a "farmer" from Cork although, he was in steerage. And, the family testifies, he was a bit of a scoundrel before settling in Australia the Fair...and Great Great Grand Mum was a "lady" from Dublin who was traveling alone. Romance kindled by the time they made landfall in Australia.

Heh! That's a good story now. I'd guess that your Great Great Grand Dad must have had the Cork accent that people can understand - there's another Cork accent which is difficult, to say the least.

 

[Agemegos]

I'm an Aussie. I live in Kempsey, which is on the North Coast of New South Wales, halfway between Sydney and Brisbane.

My Irish great-great grandfather (also from Cork) was a mariner who married a nice Jewish lass in Sydney and gave up the Sea.

 

[Duke Craig]

Hi,
I'm an Aussie from Brisbane.
My great grandfather was the son of an Irishman from Tassie who was a sail maker and sailor who married a Scotch bonny lass and his father was a sailmaker and explorer from Cork who married a German lass with the last name Schultz. Small World huh.
Cheers!

 

[VonPickles]

Rockingham, Perth, Western Australia

 

[madmike]

Mt Pleasant, Perth, Western Australia.

My Great.. etc...grandfather settled as a farmer south of Perth (Dunsborough) in 1841, after arriving as a cooper on a whaling ship in 1838.

Owned a lot of land back then

 

[stilletto.rebel]

I'm in Frankston, south of Melbourne. But I'm not an Aussie. I'm Welsh. My wife is Australian and I emigrated just over two years ago.

 

[Ronnke]

Townsville Nth.QLD

 

[ReaverKing]

Hervey Bay, Queensland.