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kingzos ago

Further research: I tried to find the "Certificate of Naturalisation" in ancestry.com and it did not come up. So I went to the National Records Archive of Australia. There is NO entry for Holowczak, Peter. However, there is one for Piotr Holowczak. Ancestry has an immigration record for him arriving by ship under that name. https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=5011733&isAv=N

The image shown from the PDF says "National Library of Australia". Searching that site for Holowczak does not return any results. You can search for the "Commonwealth of Australia Gazette" and get to the page shown, 1771 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/25976356

This does indeed have a listing for Holowczak, Peter at 30 McAlister, dated August 9 1957. This proves that the document shown is legitimate, not photoshopped; but multiple entries in the electoral roll information for both Peter and Helena confirms their address was 14 McAlister for more than 20 years.

It makes sense to me that you would not be listed on the electoral roll in Australia until you became a citizen. Maybe the original certificate recorded incorrect information - something I have found a lot in ancestry research, especially with people for whom English was not a first language. Or maybe they moved to another house in the same street once their citizenship papers came through.

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Vindicator ago

Thanks for all this! I am going crosslink this whole comment thread in the main body of the post. :-)

argosciv ago

So we're kind of back at square one with more questions than answers for the moment, if I'm reading your comment correctly.

kingzos ago

Not at all. The original post claimed that Fiona's story was wrong because the Holowczaks lived at 30 McAlister, not 14. I have proved that they lived at 14 McAlister from 1958-1980, which completely confirms that aspect of Fiona's story as true.

argosciv ago

Right, but we're still left with a Peter Holowczak at "30 McAlister" and a Poitre Holowczak at "14 McAlister",

Here's where it get's interesting... unless numbers 26, 28 and 30 were fucking tiny and later demolished, there is no "30 McAlister".

That's what I mean by "more questions than answers". Something is still amiss here.

@Vindicator

kingzos ago

people move house.