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- Patrick (Paddy) was born in Kilkenny Ireland and died in 1978. He was the second son of William and Margaret bennett. Paddy migrated a different way to most , migrating to Australia in the modern times. He caught the 'Iberia ship" in 1929, which went through the Suez canal. After docking in Melbourne, he went to Ballarat to join a friend. The depression hit and so he lived on a farm digging potatoes for a living. He then was employed as a well driller and later took up virgin land, which he cleared and farmed, which was Gorae West, near Portland. Paddy then married Mary Josephine Hallam in 1944 and they had four children.
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