Author: heather

Flack, Charles

Charles Thomas Flack, born in Suffolk England, in 1854, arrived in Australia with his parents, Peter and Mary and Flack, in 1857. In 1885, in

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Freemasons

Freemasons The foundation stone for the Masonic Hall in Beecroft was laid in March 1924 by Grand Master William Thompson.[1] The hall was located in

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Gelling, Benjamin

Benjamin Richard Gelling was born in Victoria in 1863, his father being a native of the Isle of Man and his mother of Belfast, Ireland.

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Girl Guides NSW

GIRL GUIDES NSW & ACT BEECROFT DISTRICT HISTORY NOTES 1926  district opened, then closed and reopened 1929          Registration Certificate 1 October

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Golf

A newspaper report of 28 April 1906 announced that a number of golfers had decided to establish a golf course and Mr William Chorley had

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Green, Melbourne

Melbourne Green (1851-1928) was born in Chelsea, London,  the youngest of ten children. His parents, Henry and Catherine Ann (née Heath), of London, came to

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Guides

The First Beecroft Girl Guides was well established by at least 1939 when Mrs F P Pines held a fund raising function for it at

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Harris, William

William Henry (Bill) Harris (1874-1953), was a kinsman of Surgeon John Harris of Ultimo. Surgeon John Harris (1754-1838) was a member of the NSW Corps

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Harrison, George

George Robert Harrison (1831-1914) was one of the first buyers of Beecroft Crown Land, purchasing 14 acres on Beecroft Road at an auction in 1887;

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