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Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Dutch-Australian writer Francisca (Paquita) Delprat (wife of explorer David Mawson)

Francisca Adriana (Paquita) Delprat was a British-born writer and community worker, born on August 19, 1891, in Acton, London. Her father was a Dutch-born mining engineer Guillaume Daniel Delprat, who had moved to Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1898 Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 11, 2023 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

Jacob Jansen/Johnson – (grand)father of famous Australian Footballers and Cyclists

Jacob Jansen (1848-1928), who later changed his name to Jacob Johnson, was born in Groningen and immigrated to Australia in the 1860s.. He became a Dutch-Australian businessman who owned and operated several cafes in Melbourne during the late 19th and Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 10, 2023 ago
Dutch – Australian History

Was there a Dutch colony in Central Australia in the 18th century?

There are a number of stories and myths about a Dutch colony in Central Australia dating back to the 18th century. However, there is no concrete evidence to support the claim that a group of Dutch settlers ever established a Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 10, 2023 ago
Migration history

The extremely tough life of the Lubbs family in the Pilliga Scrub (NSW)

The Dutch Lubbs family came to Australia via South America. They were one of the pioneering families who settled in the Pilliga Forest, sometimes known as the Pilliga Scrub, constitute over 5,000 km2 of semi-arid woodland in temperate north-central New Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 9, 2023 ago
Migration history

Fokke Jacob de Jong – jumped ship and settled in Victoria

Fokke Jacob de Jong was born on December 18, 1841, in Oldeboorn, Friesland, Netherlands. His parents were Jacob de Jong and Antje Jans Rinzema. It looks like he jumped ship somewhere around 187e and settled in the Romsey area. According Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 9, 2023 ago
News and Updates

Graham Gosewinckel – director of Australia’s first satellite company.

Graham Gosewinckel was born 24 February 1930. Brief overview of his career The highlight of his career was that he was appointed by the Government as the inaugural CEO of Aussat Pty Ltd, the Australian satellite telecommunications company, from 1985 Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 8, 2023 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

Van Alkemade’s Major Plains Limekiln in Lara Victoria

Petrus van Alkemade, also known (in Australia) as Peter Alkemade, was born in Noordwijk, Netherlands in 1835. Son of Petrus van Alkemade, also known (in Australia) as Peter Alkemade, was born in Noordwijk, Netherlands in 1835. Son of Cornelis Cornelisz Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 6, 2023 ago
Migration history

An 1855 proposal for a Dutch Settlement in Moreton Bay (Brisbane)

The Referend John Dunmore Lang was a Scottish-born Australian politician and Presbyterian minister who advocated for the establishment of a Dutch settlement in Moreton Bay in the mid-19th century. Lang believed that a Dutch settlement in Moreton Bay would be Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 6, 2023 ago
Migration history

Dutch Migrants and the gold rush of the 1850s.

Obviously the Big Australian Gold Rush that started in the 1850s and 1860s had also reached the news in the Netherlands. It looks like that several potential prospectors signed on as sailor on the many merchants ship with the aim Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 6, 2023 ago
Book Library

Jan Vennik – and other Dutchmen at the Eureka Stockade (1854)

Jan Vennik: the Dutchman at Eureka. This Dutchman was present in the vicinity of the Eureka Stockade on 3 December 1854, before he was arrested and charged with Treason together with 12 others.

By DACC, 2 yearsMarch 6, 2023 ago
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