Named in honor of Andrei Ivanovich DeJulia - Дьюлия Андрей Иванович, who was born in Vladivostok in 1905. He migrated to Queensland in 1925 with his wife and Efrosinia (1907- ), possibly a sister.
Andrew worked in various jobs before moving to Katherine in 1926 to work on the Katherine River railway bridge. Later he worked on the construction of the railway in Mataranka and Birdum.
In 1929 he and his wife Lidia (1911- ) occupied land on the Adelaide River along with a number of other Russians. He tried buffalo shooting and mixed farming before returning to Katherine before World War II.
He was killed during the first air raid in February 1942 while working at Darwin Wharf.
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27 August 1905 -Born in Vladivostock
1920 goes to China
5 December 1924 Arrives at Townsville from Harbin.
1924 Tully (QLD) 1927 Katherine, works on railway bridge construction.
1928 returns to China, married Lydia .
1929 Returns to NT, works on last stages of Railway construction from From Mataranka to Birdum.
1929 Adelaide River, farms with Zimmin, Sapitsky, Belakriloff, Mikhailoff And Tokmakoff on block 109
In 1930 Andrew was trying to invite his parents and brother to Australia ( Applicant - GEJULIA Andrew; Nominee - GEJULIA John Mihailovich; GEJULIA Natalia; GEJULIA George; nationality Russian)
1934 Miner at Grove Hill
1936 Katherine , farms block 159 , now Rowland's Dairy area
Trove
1939 Darwin, works as a railway fettler .
1941 Transfers to wharf ( Railways controlled wharf operations)
1942 Killed working on wharf during first bombing raid. Andrew was a shunter, one of several men who pushed the railway trucks by hand to and from the ships' sides. De Julia, a member of the No.3 gang, was killed while working on the Neptuna.
De Julia's wife, Lydia, was evacuated from Darwin on the Australian merchant vessel Koolama prior to the raid. Children, Mena, Natalie, Lydia, Ivan, Olga
Well read, literate man who was out of place among the other Russians, had five children. Dejulia's Creek was a local landmark, now lapsed. Located before Billycan Creek.
Described as 5' 10 ", brown eyes, dark hair. In Russian his surname was spelt Gejulia.
Sources
THE NORTHERN STANDARD FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936. (1936, May 1). Northern Standard (Darwin, NT : 1921 - 1955), p. 2. Retrieved May 4, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49431612
Sun newspapers Wed 15 Feb 2012 - https://hdl.handle.net/10070/637488