More arrivals from Memel/Klaipeda

Last week's post looked at some examples of people from the Memel/Klaipėda region who arrived in the nineteenth century.  Arrivals into Australia from this region continued into the 20th century, including after the establishment of Lithuanian independence after the First World War and the incorporation of Klaipėda as part of the new state:

Frederich WEDRAT: a family history posted on Ancestry.com shows him as a seaman born in 1890 in Memel, arriving in Sydney on the ship Worms from Emden, Germany, in 1910.  He married in 1921 and died in Chinchilla, Queensland in 1963.

Max LIPSCHUS:  Metraštis No 1 records Maksas LIPŠIUS, born in the Klaipėda region, as having been elected to the audit committee of the Australian Lithuanian Society in 1948.  His notice of intention to seek naturalisation, published in The Sydney Morning Herald of 7 March 1939, states that Max Lipschus was born in Kretinga (about 25km north of the town of Klaipėda), was of Lithuanian nationality, had been living in Australia for 15 years, and was then resident at 373 King Street Newtown (Sydney);

PALIOKAS:  Metraštis No 1 also mentions this man, born in Vente  (about 50km south of the town of Klaipėda), but does not reveal his first name.  He had apparently arrived in Australia in 1928 and was present at the docks in Melbourne when the first shipload of Lithuanian DPs arrived there in 1947;

Bruno GREITSCHUS: his notice of intention to seek naturalisation, published in Brisbane's The Courier Mail of 4 August 1937, states that he was born in Memel, was of Lithuanian nationality, and had been resident in Australia for 12 years.  He was then living at Goolburra Station, Offham siding (western Queesland);

Rahel HANEMAN; his notice of intention to seek naturalisation, published in The Sydney Morning Herald of 10 November 1936 states that he was born in Klaipėda, was of Lithuanian nationality, and had been resident in Australia for 7 years.  His residence at the time was 278 Bondi Road, Bondi (Sydney).