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Find your ‘Ten Pound Pom’ relatives

any British citizens who moved abroad over the centuries were offered financial incentives to go. Those who took advantage of the Assisted Passage Migration Schemes to Australia (1945) and New Zealand (1947) were nicknamed ‘Ten Pound Poms’ because they were offered £10 to cover the costs of migration and processing. You can trace those who emigrated down under (as Ten Pound

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