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Welcome to the Beecroft Cheltenham History Group website. Since it’s formation in 1987 by local history enthusiasts, the aim of the History Group has been
Persons of Interest Captain James Cook, Chorley and Cheltenham In 2020, the 250th anniversary of the sighting of Australia by Captain James Cook, it is
William Gratus Coward, born in 1857, and his wife Jane (née Crossing) lived in Strathfield until 1890 when they moved to Beecroft and lived in
Alfred Cox and his wife were two of Beecroft original residents and their house one of the earliest built. In 1888 Alfred purchased one acre
Some recollections of the 1950’s and 1960’s by Malcolm Cox 2020. I lived in Beecroft from 1953 to 1969, that is age 8 to 24.
Ruth Cracknell AM (also Ruth Winifred Phillips) was born in Maitland NSW on 6 July 1925 to Charles and Winifred Cracknell. Her father Charles ran
Walter Ferguson Crawford KBE CMG (1894-1978) was the son of the widowed Mrs Annie Crawford and, while born in Malvern Victoria, grew up in Doon
The Cremers : A German family in post war Beecroft. Gundel Briggs’s story. When, In September 1950, Lotte Cremer and her five children sailed into Sydney Harbour to
The de Beuzeville family was of Huguenot extraction who for many generations were engaged in the silk industry in France. As part of the Hugenot
James Devlin was born in 1808 the eldest child of Arthur Devlin, an Irishman from Wicklow who was transported for his part in the Irish
Alice Mary Dobbie was born in 1864 to Charles and Elizabeth Read of Lochinvar in the Hunter Valley. She attended school at the Girls High
Charles Archibald Dobbie was born in 1861 at Potts Point, Sydney, the second child of John and Isabelle Dobbie who had left Birmingham, England, for
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