Paul Capsis

She said, and there was this man at the dock saying,

Maltese man said, where are you going?

She said, we're going to Melbourne.

He said, lady, Melbourne is miles away from this area.

You won't have time.

You have to get it back on the boat.

To walk around on land.

And I suspect if she'd got to Melbourne, she may not have bothered with Sydney.

But anyway, so she got back on the boat and very disappointed and then continued on to Sydney to meet my grandfather.

Well, it's a very interesting story with my grandfather because his father died in the First World War in a submarine, was blown up in the First World War.

So my great-grandfather, Charles, was killed in that war.

And my grandfather's mother remarried and they were also from a village in Malta called Goudia.

which is a tiny village and close to a bigger village called Rabat, which is where they lived.

They lived in Rabat and they lived in Limdina, which is like the ancient capital, ex-capital of Malta.

And I was there last year and I was taken to this place by a friend of mine who was doing research about her family.

And I went with her and she said, you might as well come along and find out.

You might be able to find the original papers from your grandmother's trip to go to Australia.

And whilst we were there, I said, my grandfather's brother migrated to Australia, I think in the 20s.

And all I know is his name is John, surname Benisi.

That's all I know.