Adam
Lenskyj genealogy of Podusteanu and Stoica/Stoika |
This is a photo of my mother, Larissa, as a baby on the knee of her father, Vladimir Podusteanu and her mother, Adele Wishas. Photo-00 is some 80 years old. It is surprising that it survived W.W.2, many displacement and many adventures. My grandmother, Adele Podusteanu was born in Estonia/ Estland.
Google translated the Romanian as: "Extract from the register of civil status for birth year 1922" which is the birth certificate for my mother Larisa Podusteanu/ Larissa (senior) Lenskyj. |
Genealogy details for Photo-00:
pob: Lapusna, Moldova Citation: Death Notice. The
Manning River Times. m.: {my biological father} Vladimir Stoica 07.Jan.1940 Cioara Falsin {Bessarabia} present day Moldova=============
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Genealogy for Vladimir & Adele:
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My birth place, the Schloss Losensteinleiten is in the background. To see my amusing baby legs in knee-high socks clearly, please click on the photo. |
Australian immigration processed us dockside Sydney NSW and then transported us by railway to the Bathurst migrant camp. After a short stay we were sent to Cowra migrant camp and then on to the Parkes RAAF migrant camp where I learned English for the first time in the camp school. When our two year work contract expired we left Parkes for Old Jindabyne NSW where my mother and her new husband Michael Lenskyj had found jobs in the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme.
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This certificate records her arrival in Melbourne Vic. on "25 Apr. 1951 per (ss) Fairsea." The pages called "Changes of Address" record the following entries: "7.5.(19)51 Holding Centre Parkes NSW. 29.3.(19)52 Migrant Holding Centre Cowra NSW. 30.3.(19)52 (Old) Jindabyne via Cooma NSW 21.11.(19)53 The Cedars Londonderry NSW." - Note: This small 14 acre farm became our permanent residence for the next 35 years! My grandparents died here. My two brothers and my sister were born here. From here I went to Richmond Primary and Richmond High schools, NSW and then on to the University of Sydney.
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My grandmother Adele was holding my hand, my mother Larissa had me by the shoulders. My uncle Eugen, his fiancèe Inge and my grandfather, Vladimir, in the rear rank, were there to make me stay still in this photo. The location was on Friedrich-Wilhelm Strasse near the intersection of Dingshauser Strasse in Solingen. We were living in one room on the third floor of a house on Friedrich-Wilhelm Strasse in the UNRRA URL displaced persons (DP) camp in Solingen, Germany. |
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My O.C. told me that some in my brigade were rumored to be sent to Vietnam. Me? I resigned and made plans to travel to Bahrain or Canada... Canada won. =========== On 7. January 1966 I married in St. Michael's Anglican Church in Vaucluse. See photo NSW State Library collections, Australia. The following morning we boarded a cruise ship. We emigrated to Toronto Ontario Canada where I had prearranged a job as a design engineer with a consulting engineering firm. Our two children were born in St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. |
CITATIONS: 1. Larissa Podusteanu-Lenskyj (b. 1922 Bessarabia/is now Moldova- d. 2014.December.15 Taree NSW Australia); Note: My mother {was} the custodian of family genealogy details and family photos.
2. Elli Wise, Bessarabia - a Koblenz Extraction. Odessa Digital Library; Note: An independent source for genealogy details. See my copy from Elli Wise:
3. National Library of Australia (NLA) Nine Victims in Burrinjuck Tragedy . SYDNEY, Friday. The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 21 October 1950, page 1. http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2804400
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4. National Archives of Australia (NAA), Migrant Selection Documents for Displaced Persons who traveled to Australia per Castelbianco departing Naples 1 February 1950. File reference A12011; Notes: On the name screen, I quote: Your story, our history Explore “Search the collection” :unquote, I used my family names of Lenskyj, Stoica and Podusteanu. I also searched the A12011 file.
For details of Australia's Displaced Persons Scheme (c. 1950) please sign in as 'Guest' and then search in the “Displaced Persons Scheme”: <http://www.naa.gov.au/> [Accessed 05.Feb.2010 18:17 -0500] [Accessed 07.July.2015 t 12h20 (z-4 h)]
I also searched the ”Passenger arrivals index”. I entered “Lenskyj” in the “Passenger family name”; the result of this search is below; I quote: Display passenger search results - 3 names found: Passenger arrivals index {recorded for arrivals in port Freemantle West Australia}, 1921-1950, 1964 Sort order: Family name Ship/aircraft Date of arrival Passenger FAMILY NAME, Given names Ship/aircraft name
LENSKYJ, Adolf A S CASTEL BIANCO Barcode no 30149904 Passenger FAMILY NAME, Given names Ship/aircraft name
LENSKYJ, Larissa CASTEL BIANCO Passenger FAMILY NAME, Given names Ship/aircraft name
LENSKYJ, Michael CASTEL BIANCO Record 1 to 3 of 3 …:unquote. [Accessed 07.July.2015 t 12h59 (z-4 h)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |