Author: heather

Whittell, Henry

Henry Rawes Whittell was born in 1857 in College Street, Sydney, where his father practised medicine. His mother, Esther, was from a wealthy Wiltshire family

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Willis Family,

George Frederick Willis was the father of David John Willis [1], in whose memory Beecroft’s Boer War memorial was built. George Frederick was a first

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Women

There appears to be three parallel stories for women in Beecroft and Cheltenham for most of its first hundred years. A common feature derives from

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Wood, Ellen

Dr Ellen Maud Wood commenced medical practice in Beecroft in 1909. She arrived with ‘four horses and an up-to-date groom’ [1]. Ellen Maud Wood was

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WW 1 Aftermath

World War 1 – the Aftermath  Celebrations News of the war ending was celebrated in Beecroft and Cheltenham by large crowds of young people congregating

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