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SS Ville de Metz

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Identifiernot specifiedPhotographernot specifiedDescriptionAnthony and Alma Baynie, along with their two eldest daughters, Emily and Adeaby, departed Lebanon on the Irish built, French owned cargo and passenger steamer, the SS Ville de Metz. The modest ship was able to carry 54 passengers. They sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden, entering the Indian Ocean, bound for Sydney, via Perth and Melbourne. The family disembarked in Sydney on Friday April 17, 1925, with little English and no money, but were initially welcomed into the close knit small Lebanese community in Redfern.
After living in Wahroonga, Waitara and Hornsby for a few years, they managed to buy their first home 'Roebuck', in Central Avenue, Thornleigh in 1928.

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SuburbThornleigh

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Contributed byDavid Brown

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