On Sunday 12th December 2021 at the Siva Singh Memorial, Benalla Foreshore near the Library, Fawckner Drive, a ceremony will be held celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the first documented reading of a Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (Sikh…
© Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan 2021 Nadan Singh was born in c. 1872 at Hardaspura Village, Tehsil Barnala, Punjab, India and migrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1894. He lived and worked as a Hawker, using a horse…
Gamble Singh (aka Gambil/Gambol), was an Indian Hawker from the Punjab who lived and worked in the Albury and Wodonga District hawking with a wagon drawn by two horses. Gamble followed the Sikh Religion and as is the custom of…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2019 Indian Hawkers supplied a large range of items used in everyday life for people in cities and towns throughout Australia. One on those hawkers was Siva Singh, who hawked in the Benalla District,…
SIVA SINGH'S WAGON WILL BE RETURNED TO BE ON DISPLAY AT BENALLA AS SOON AS A SUITABLE SITE IS FOUND TO HOUSE ITSEE STORY ABOUT SIVA'S WAGON Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2019. Siva Singh arrived in Australia in approximately…
AUSTRIALA VICH SIKHAN DA ITIHAS NEW RELEASE Title: SIKH HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA Authors: Len Kenna and Crystal JordanThis book has been translated into Punjabi by Dr. Balwant Singh Dhillon Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Published by: Australian Indian Historical Society…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan Tarka Singh was born in India in 1869 and migrated to Malaytown, Cairns, Queensland. In 1928 he married Mary nee Bullis. He had a mixed farm at near J. D. Saul and Company's Meatworks, Queerah, White Rock, and grew,…
RESEARCH NOTES OF THE PLAY IT HAPPENED IN HEYWOOD by Len Kenna 2001 READ ONLINE at NLA Our journey into Indian Historical Research began in 1985. However, while researching Indian Hawkers in the Western District of Victoria…
Indur Singh also known as Inder, was born in 1873 at Chak Kalan Village, Nakodur Tehsil, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He was a tall thin man who wore earrings. He arrived in Cairns Australia in 1897 where he worked as an…
