Paul Capsis

I've never seen a photograph, but he was the reason my grandfather was able to migrate to Australia in 1948.

So out comes this paper in mint condition document from 1925.

She opened it and there's a photograph of my grandfather's brother at 18.

Handsome.

And he migrated to Australia in 1925.

And he never returned to Malta.

I cried because I'd never seen this man.

I'd heard about him.

And I knew he was the reason my Maltese family were able to migrate to Australia.

So my grandfather sent a letter to Sydney to the Maltese club in Darlinghurst.

No number, just Maltese Club, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

John Benisi sends a letter, six months or whatever, he gets a reply.

Yes, come, but come by yourself.

Because your wife, you may not like Australia, it's very different from Malta.

And that's how that happened.

So last year I got to see the face of this uncle.

Well, I think my mother was attending a dance.

There was a club.

I can't remember the name.

And I think my father, my mother was, um, my mother was 17 when she met my dad and he was 18.