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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: Bee on Tuesday 11 November 25 23:56 GMT (UK)
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A great aunt emigrated to Adelaide in 1927 at the age 38, the ship's passenger list gives her occupation as a waitress.
Is it likely that she already had an offer of a job or would she have had to find a job on arrival. Unfortunately the passenger list does not state with whom or where she was going to stay.
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Not enough information available to know.
Was she an assisted passenger or non-assisted?
Why was she emigrating to Australia?
Did she have relatives / friends in Australia who might organised work?
Had she answered a newspaper advert for work?
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As happens even today, some newcomers to a country will arrive with employment arranged and others arrive with sufficient savings to tide them over until employment is found.
Other come for a holiday only.
So, it is not really possible to speculate on an answer to your query.
;D
Sue
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More detail re her full name , dob, would be helpful: also the ship's passenger list.
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My grandfather was listed as fireman on the passenger listed when he emigrated from Rotterdam to Australia in 1914 for the second time. His imigration to Australia was complicated ;D The first time coming to Australia in 1910, he stowed away on a coalship.
Even though he was recorded as a fireman from Rotterdam on the 1914 passenger list and also on his naturalisation papers in 1912 - he worked on the shipping docks in Victoria, Australia as a rigger.
This was also the same for my father's side of the family when emigrating from England to Australia. They had a different occupation once in Australia to what was recorded on the passenger list.