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GRIGSON, Peter

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Identity

Gender: M

Also known as

Born: 1927, Pancras, London, England

Died

Surviving: Living

Migration

Organisation: Nazareth House (Stoke Bishop)

Institution

Ship: STRATHAIRD

Arrival: 9 August 1938

Destination: Australia

Placement

Family

Father

Spouse

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Service

WW1

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Notes

A birth registration was found for Peter J Grigson: Mother's Maiden Surname: Grigson; Date of Registration: Oct Nov Dec 1927; Registration district: Pancras; Registration county: Greater London; Volume Number: 1b; Page Number: 99.

In 1938, P. Grigson, 10, along with 4 other boys from St. Joseph's Home, Enfield, England, in a combined group of 37 boys from various Catholic orphanages throughout England and under the auspices of Nazareth House, Stoke Bishop, England, arrived at Perth, Australia, en route to an Agricultural School run by the Christian Broth­ers at Tardun, Australia.

Peter Grigson became a sheep shearer when he left the Agricultural School run by the Christian Broth­ers at Tardun where we had been sent.

He still resides in Western Australia.

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