
Wadi Ayoub – Professional Wrestler
By the time Eddie Scarf had finished his wrestling career, another Australian Lebanese wrestler was coming into prominence. Wadi Youssef Ayoub was born in…
Read MoreBy the time Eddie Scarf had finished his wrestling career, another Australian Lebanese wrestler was coming into prominence. Wadi Youssef Ayoub was born in…
Read MoreThis 1955 booklet is a very valuable genealogical and family history resource. An item in the Society’s Library collection is a booklet produced in…
Read MoreCharles Abraham Farah first came to Australia from Lebanon in the late 1800s acting as agent for his uncle, a merchant based in Marseilles,…
Read MoreAs Assif “George” Trad lay on his death bed in 1960, he said there was a fortune hidden in his hawker’s van. Most thought…
Read MoreThe suburb of Carlton was the centre of early Lebanese settlement in Victoria, also famous for its Carlton AFL football club. An Australian of…
Read MoreAlbert Aboody and Hannah Debeau are my great-grand-parents. In about 1902 they arrived on the far north coast of NSW and commenced a hawking…
Read MoreGeorgina Whitehouse In 1913 Exarch Father Nicholas Shehadie was sent to Australia, arriving in Sydney in to Sydney to investigate the state of the…
Read MoreAs a lover of all things historic, it was no surprise to find myself adopting the role of our family historian. Mary Surtees With…
Read MoreYusef (Joe) Kayrooz (17 April 1926 – 30 January 2003) was the grandson of Lebanese migrants who migrated here in 1886 and was one…
Read MoreHerbert Debeck (1899 – 1991) used to live in the back of a truck from which he hawked goods all over the Hunter Valley…
Read MoreThey came from the villages of Lebanon To the Inverell District – Julie Regan of the Inverell District Family History Group Inc. The first…
Read MoreIn her article ‘Country links−Syrian/Lebanese settlement in New South Wales up to 1920’, Nola Bramble referred to two families which have interested me for…
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