Brisbane

The first one out

Michele Mazza was born at Catania in 1909 and landed at Fremantle on 21 April 1925, aged about sixteen. He died in Queensland the following year. He is the earliest Australian arrival in this archive and the shortest life in it, and he came out a full twenty-four years before the family that followed him.

Whether he was the reason the others chose Queensland — whether there was already a Mazza name at an address in Brisbane when Sebastiano Mazza stepped off at Fremantle in 1949 — is not something the archive can presently answer. It is a good question and it is written down. Open questions →

The post-war arrivals

Fremantle was the first Australian landfall for ships out of the Suez route; a Brisbane-bound migrant was frequently disembarked and recorded there, then continued east. A Fremantle arrival in this table is not evidence that the person settled in Western Australia.

Everyone the archive places in Queensland