Brothers Ephraim Stollery and Michael Joseph Stollery migrated from Boyton, Suffolk, to New South Wales, Australia, Ephraim around 1871 and Michael around 1875.

The reason why they travelled all that way, possibly never to see their family ever again, we may never know. Perhaps it was in the hope of a better life, perhaps they were recruited to work on the new railways in New South Wales. Exactly when they travelled, and on which ships, is probably buried in an archive somewhere, waiting to be discovered.

This is the story, so far as is known, of what happened to them and their descendants.

I am indebted to the following for their contributions of genealogical data, photographs, press cuttings and personal knowledge:

In Australia
Janice Edwards, Margaret Farlow, Bernadette Grief, Norman Rigney, Helen Stollery,

In Britain
Elizabeth Coulson, Nancy Crisp

In Canada
Marie Robertson, Shirley Stone

In the USA
John Nauta, Patrick Wark, Seattle Public Library