Kathleen Summers

History
Immigration

Carvings
on site

Residents
in the past

1900 - 1920

1950 - 1984

Kathleen Summers arriving in Sydney

Kathleen remembers that when she was only 3 in 1913 she travelled with her mother by ship back to Sydney to rejoin her father. On the way, some of the people on the ship took sick.

The ship was quarantined at Manly. Kathleen vividly remembers having to have a bath that smelled strongly of disinfectant. It was frightening to have to take off all her clothes and get into this strong smelling bath.

It was lucky that she travelled in 1913 however because the next year the war broke out and they would not have been able to travel for many years after that.

Kathleen Linton (née Summers)
still living in Manly in 1999
Story and picture by her daughter,
Diane Cunningham.

1900 - 1920

1950 - 1984