November, 2015

By the time Eddie Scarf had finished his wrestling career, another Australian Lebanese wrestler was coming into prominence. Wadi Youssef Ayoub was born in…

This 1955 booklet is a very valuable genealogical and family history resource. An item in the Society’s Library collection is a booklet produced in…

Charles Abraham Farah first came to Australia from Lebanon in the late 1800s acting as agent for his uncle, a merchant based in Marseilles,…

As Assif “George” Trad lay on his death bed in 1960, he said there was a fortune hidden in his hawker’s van. Most thought…

Albert 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…

Georgina Whitehouse In 1913 Exarch Father Nicholas Shehadie was sent to Australia, arriving in Sydney in to Sydney to investigate the state of the…

As a lover of all things historic, it was no surprise to find myself adopting the role of our family historian. Mary Surtees With…

Yusef (Joe) Kayrooz (17 April 1926 – 30 January 2003) was the grandson of Lebanese migrants who migrated here in 1886 and was one…

Herbert Debeck (1899 – 1991) used to live in the back of a truck from which he hawked goods all over the Hunter Valley…

They came from the villages of Lebanon To the Inverell District – Julie Regan of the Inverell District Family History Group Inc. The first…

In 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…