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Vincenzo Fazio was the first of the family to settle in Tuncurry. He was born on Lipari Island, Sicily on 11 July 1865. He was in the Italian Navy for several years.
He decide to migrate to Australia in 1886 - three years before his sister with her husband, Phillipo Sciacca , and their family.
The Sciaccas came to Sydney. Vincenzo went to Melbourne on board the "Jeira". He then moved to Sydney and joined the fishing fleets there. Later, he moved north to Port Stephens, then to Wallis Lake where he settled in Tuncurry in 1896.
Vincenzo met and married a local girl, Miss Lily Hardy.
The Fazios had a shop on the side of their home in Kent Street. Mrs Fazio made a particularly enjoyable ice cream that was popular with the town folk. Vincenzo started a trucking company between Tuncurry and Taree (30 kilometres distant) and transported all of the Sciacca fish to Taree, to get the fish to the rail head in a fresher condition.
Today, the Fazio family has a successful trucking business, using six semi-trailer trucks, to transport goods to Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane.
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