Hi list, I am new to your list and I am trying to find when my Uncle and Father arrived in Australia. Family oral history says that my Uncle JOHN WILLIAM HARLEY Immigrated to Australia around 1920/ 1925 landing at Perth Western Australia where he worked for a time as a boat builder. He was born in South Shields Co. Durhan UK 24/2/1904 and had worked in ship building in South Shields. After some time in Perth he settled in the North East of New South Wales around Murwillumbah. My father was HENRY HARLEY also born in South Shields UK on 9/1/1906 and after he received a letter from his brother in Perth signed up on a merchant ship as a cabin boy and arrived in Newcastle New South Wales where he jumper ship around early 1924.(this to me suggests that his brother John William was at this stage living on the East Coast) He worked as a Charlie Chaplin impersonator for a short time and then departed Newcastle for Murwillumbah by train to be with his brother. I have searched the National Archives lists of crew members of all ships entering Newcastle from late 1923 to mid 1924 but due to incomplete records was not able to find any trace of when he jumped ship or the name of the ship that he arrived on. I am looking for advise /Help in trying to locate when they both arrived in Australia and on what ship. This has been a brick wall to me for some years any help would be most welcome. Michael Harley in Overcast Brisbane Australia.