Summary

Loan repayment receipt from the Department of Lands and Survey for two pounds. Paid by Amelia Lynch on 12 March 1925 for the cost of her boat fare on S.S. Esperance Bay. She migrated from England to Australia in 1924. Amelia married Frederick Roberts in 1926 and the couple later settled in Seymour, Victoria.

Physical Description

Cream sheet of paper with black printed text and hand written inscriptions.

Significance

This collection of documents relates to the migration and settlement experiences of two English migrants, Amelia Lynch and Frederick Roberts. They migrated separately to Victoria during the 1920s, and subsequently married, worked and lived in Seymour, Victoria. Amelia left England in April 1924 aged 29, and Frederick Roberts in the December of 1924 aged 22. The couple married in 1926.
The collection includes documents brought from England, as well as items collated whilst in Australia.
Of particular interest are the set of receipts for ship fare repayment, indicating a loans system during the 1920s for unassisted British migrants. A set of broadcast listener's licences from the 1940s and 1950s are also of note for how they reflect a time when domestic communications were highly regulated.

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