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The Butlers of Wickepin
Records show Dutch were on the first fleet, that the Swan Colony had a Dutch consul as early as 1879 and that Dutch made a living on the land in Queensland in the early part of the 20th century. This tiny portal into the life of Dutch farmers who migrated to Western Australia in 1923 is based on the recollections of Ena and Frances, the two youngest children of Johannes Cornelis Butler, born 1895 at Kapelle, Biezelinge, and his wife Jacoba Mol, who settled on Avon Down farm, Wickepin, some 300 kilometres south-east of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia.
Adriaan and Johanna Rutte
Golden Memories of their 50th Wedding Anniversary at Stirling in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Anton Roodhuyzen
Memories of life as a child in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp in the former Netherlands East Indies
Vandersteen Family History
Written by Johanna Wagenaar (nee, van der Steen). Johanna (Hannie) tells of the family's sea journey from The Netherlands to Fremantle Western Australia on board the 'Groote Beer' in 1951, their reception by members of the Free Reformed Church, their adventures settling into a new country, and a journey not to be forgotten from Armadale to Albany on the State's southern coast.
Life at an Indonesian Sugar Plantation
A touch of humour: the recollections of Walter Mannot as a lively nine-year-old living in the former Dutch colony of the Netherlands East Indies
Wie Waagt, Die Wint: the story of the van Popering family's migration from the Netherlands to Australia in March 1955.
This delightful family history, written by Lena Darlington (nee van Popering) in 2005, tells of the trials and triumphs of migration from The Netherlands to Australia in 1955. This is the story of an individual Dutch family, yet people of all nationalities will relate to the myriad of issues that confronted migrants to Australia more than 50 years ago. In this writing, Lena's memories as a five-year-old are skillfully set against the family story of migration.