Adam Victor Kobooroff

Alias Adam Gosh Nicolaivich Kobooroff; later children used name Koboroff

Russian spelling Адам Николаевич Кобуров (Коборов)

Born 1.01.1872       Place Varna, Bulgaria     Ethnic origin Russian (Bulgarian?)      Religion -

Father Kobooroff, Nicholas (Victor?) (Russian)    Mother Grendalt, Mary (Swedish)

Arrived at Australia

            from Russia, Eastern Siberia     on 22.02.1902     per Polynesien   disembarked at Melbourne (jumped ship - information from the family)

Residence before enlistment Brisbane, Townsville, Sydney

Occupation worked as a ships cook before arrival at Australia; carpenter by trade; in Australia worked as a cook, labourer at meat works and on waterfront

Family was married before arrival at Australia and had a daughter; by 1907 was a widower.

Wife Helen Kobooroff (née Bloomfield), (1878-1945), married at Toowong, Qld in 1907;

children (used surname Koboroff): Victor Nicholas George (1908 - ca 1957), Helen Mary (b.1911), Emma Victoria (1912-2003), John Adam (1914-1994), Joseph Alexander (b.1916), Adam James (b.1917), Robert Edward Thomas Koboroff (1919-1956), Thelma Grace Koboroff (b.1920), Dorothy Jean Koboroff (b.1924), Ada Florence Koboroff (1924-1998)

Service

service number    enlisted 09.1916   POE Sydney

place Home service, was employed as a cook at Liverpool Camp

discharged 28.12.1918

Naturalisation applied several times since 1916, naturalised 1919

Residence after the war Sydney

Died 22.09.1951, Sydney

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA) (includes photo)

information from great grandson Neale Ferguson

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