Joyce Family in Victoria, Australia
The Joyce
Family in Victoria, Australia, traces its origin back to the arrival of the
widowed Catherine Joyce and her family in Melbourne on 25th June
1855.
They arrived on the Hotspur after a voyage of 108 days from Liverpool, having started from the village of Whitegate or An Geata Ban, in County Galway (now part of County Clare) in Ireland, leaving behind the unmarked grave of Edmund Joyce who died in 1846 at the height of the Great Famine.
More details of the family are in the book Joyce: descendants of Edmund and Catherine Joyce 1855 to 1975 compiled by Patricia Joyce and Margaret Thomas and printed in early 1975, for the family reunion held at the Redemptorist Monastery in Ballarat on the 30th March 1975.
Catherine Joyce
A Celebration of the Arrival of the Joyce
Family in Australia
Here's the plan:
Meet at
Station Pier, Port
Melbourne
Saturday 25th
June 2005
at 11.30 am
(the Light Rail from Bourke Street ends at Beach Road at the new Beacon Cove development, and directly opposite is Station Pier - Melways 2J A6).
After welcoming our
original family at Station Pier, we'll be going to a local hotel for a family reunion.
We expect some hundred people, bringing photographs, memories and good stories. There will be some recent photographs from Ireland showing Catherine Joyce's original farmland. So bring whatever you can, and come and meet the rest of the family.
URGENT NOTE! There has been a change of venue.
We can no longer go to Molly Blooms (it's closing down) so instead, at the same time as given elsewhere, i.e. 1 pm or even earlier if you wish, we will meet at "The London Restaurant - Upstairs", at 92-94 Beach Street, Port Melbourne.
It's even closer to Station Pier than the original place, so
SEE YOU THERE ON SATURDAY 25th JUNE - NEXT SATURDAY
RSVP and your comments, to:
Bernie Joyce
Tel. 0427 330 117