Summary

Certificate of Identity issued to Frederick Roberts by the Migration and Settlement Office, Australia House, London on 24 November 1924.

This certificate allowed the holder to migrate to Australia and acted in place of a passport. Frederick left England bound for Australia on 6 December 1924 on the ship Osterley. He married Amelia Lynch in 1926 and the couple later settled in Seymour, Victoria.

Physical Description

Cream sheet of paper, landscape orientation, with black printed text, type written text, hand written inscriptions in black ink and purple date stamps. Ripped into 4 separate pieces. Yellowed tape remnants where someone has tried to reattach the pieces.

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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