Category: Individuals

Charles Churchill Tucker was born in 1857, the third son of James Cawley and Elizabeth Tucker and one of a family of seven boys and

John Vernon, born in England in 1844, came to New South Wales and took a position in the Auditor-General’s Department. In Sydney in 1871 he

Adeline Mary Gordon (‘Mary’) Vernon was born in Beecroft on 4 February 1923 the eldest child of Harry Gordon Vernon and Millie (nee Rogers). Her

Joyce Winifred Vickery D Sc MBE [1] was born on 15 December 1908 at Strathfield as the youngest of four children of George Begg Vickery

Albert Ernest Wright de Berri Wachsmann was born in Nelson, New Zealand, in 1874, of German and French stock. His father, Captain Albert Frederick Wachsmann,

The Wheeler Family moves to Beecroft in 1894 Originally written by the late Roy Wheeler 1924-2008 My grandfather, Charles Walter Wheeler, was born on 9th

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

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

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

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