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   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 03/01/26 21:27, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >   
   > In case it wasn't clear: I was talking about long-ago ancestors in   
   > Ireland, not in Western Victoria. I'm only a fourth generation   
   > Australian.   
      
   If anyone wants to quibble, that's not precisely right. All of my   
   grandparents were born and lived in the Colony of Victoria (Australia   
   was not yet a country, just a collection of colonies), and legally their   
   status was "British subject". So was mine, come to think of it. The   
   Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 came into force in January 1949,   
   when I was almost one year old. A grandfather clause then gave me (and my   
   grandfathers) Australian citizenship.   
      
   Something similar happened, at roughly the same time, in New Zealand,   
   Canada, and South Africa.   
      
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   Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org   
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