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Guest Speaker Meeting

Vonnie Young Auditorium, Lionel Bowen Library Level 1, Bowen Library, 669-673 Anzac Parade, Maroubra, NSW, Australia

Speaker: Councillor Danny Said
Topic: "I am, a Said: Danny Said's family journey"

In this special talk for Family History Month in August, former Mayor and Randwick Councillor Danny Said will speak about his ancestry and tell how his Maltese family made their wealth in Egypt by supplying fresh water to ships in the Nile, how the company was nationalised in the 1950s and the family was thrown out of Egypt for as Maltese, they were British Subject.

Virtually the majority of the population of their town, Port Said, spoke a number of languages and being forced to emigrate many made the move to Australia and to three streets in Matraville. Danny will also tell tales of growing up in Matraville and his life beyond that time.

General Meeting

Vonnie Young Auditorium, Lionel Bowen Library Level 1, Bowen Library, 669-673 Anzac Parade, Maroubra, NSW, Australia

Speaker: Dr Megan Neilson
Topic: "Unravelling the family myth: A personal glimpse of Chinese-Australian history"
When I set out to solve a family puzzle I never expected to fall headlong into Chinese-Australian history. The puzzle concerned my great-grandmother Matilda Jane Millar who in 1852 had arrived in Victoria from England, only 11 years old and seemingly unchaperoned. On the Ballarat goldfields Matilda Jane was later to marry my Chinese great-grandfather Chin Kit. There was a romantic family myth about how they had met elsewhere. But the records said otherwise. The unravelling of the true story took me from University College London, to Ballarat and Bendigo in Victoria, to Launceston in Tasmania and ultimately to Guangdong in southern China.

General Meeting Cancelled

Vonnie Young Auditorium, Lionel Bowen Library Level 1, Bowen Library, 669-673 Anzac Parade, Maroubra, NSW, Australia

Speaker: TBA Topic: "TBA"