What my father said, as written by my brother Cornelis Vleeskens:
Migration... we didn't give it
a lot of thought
One Friday we received a letter
from my brother Gerard
saying he was doing all right
So we said
How about us going over there?
(Never thought about emigrating before...)
Talked it out during the weekend,
signed the papers the following Tuesday,
and in three months we were on a plane.
I'm the third child, eldest daughter... two more boys were born in Australia