Interview with Milva Rebuli (nee Zampin) [sound recording] / Interviewer : Madeleine Regan, Part 1 of 3

Milva Rebuli (nee Zampin), born 14 May 1932, begins with her family background and explains that her father, Silvano Zampin, emigrated from the Veneto and arrived in Adelaide in January 1928. He met Milva's mother, Amelia (Millie) Katherine Shaw, at the West Terrace cemetery in 1930 and they married in 1931. They first lived in the city, where Milva was born in 1932. At the time, her father had a job working with a Chinese market gardener near where the Adelaide airport is now. She speaks about her husband who was from a Veneto market gardening family on Valetta Road. She includes information about: her eight siblings; her husband's family; her eight children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren; the accidental death of her father's brother in 1930; the closeness of the Veneto community when her husband was a young man; her parents' move from the city to Frogmore Road clost to the River Torrens when she was a small child; description of the land and houses on Frogmore Road and the southern side of the River along Torrens Avenue; her parents' social life with other Veneti market gardening families on Frogmore Road; family life and closeness with the Italians; disowning by her mother because of her marriage to an Italian; Italian focus of rituals in her family life; processes for her mother to apply for a permit to go into the city during the War; soldiers camped at the back of the family home on Henley Beach Road, Lockleys, where the family moved in about 1937/38; her parents' market gardens and their 10 glasshouses and outside vegetables and working including going to market and watering; her father's role in the munitions factory at Woodville during the War while he worked the market garden; primary school at Lockley's Primary School; finishing school at the end of year 7 to work in the family market gardens; dismantling glasshouses to move them to another place, digging by handbefore her father got a rotary hoe; work in Brazzale's mica factory at 17 years old for about three years before her marriage, role as a supervisor; social life, attending a dance in the city with a lot of young people from Veneti market gardening families; contribution of salary towards the family savings; the story of how she married Elvio Rebuli (1952); some differences between the Italians who had lived in Adelaide before World War II and those who arrived post-War; her parents' move to Findon including the dsmantling and moving of glasshouses after she married in 1954 - fulfillment of their dreams (having a son after eight daughters) and owning land. In her second interview, Milva adds to the story of her parents' move to Findon, working the market gardens, growing vegetables, helping out her parents after she had her eight children. Other items covered include: her parents' trips to Italy and meeting relatives; trips to Italy with Elvio and visiting her father's relatives; significance of her Italian heritage, her sense of feeling more Italian than Australian; closeness of the family and the work on the market gardens; weddings and the combined efforst to prepare receptions; her marriage to Elvio in 1952 with 500 guests including Veneti market gardener families; racism experienced by Melva and her daughter, Stephanie; endorsement of the Veneti market gardeners oral history project.

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