Category: People

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 de Beuzeville family was of Huguenot extraction who for many generations were engaged in the silk industry in France. As part of the Hugenot

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

Mary Elizabeth Dougan (nee Coles) (1902-2007) was born on the Clarence River where she learnt her love of gardening from her grandfather who had “worked

John Gillett Fearnley was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1861, the son of a well-to-do mill owner. He emigrated to Australia when he was about

Grantley Fitzhardinge was born in Waverley, Sydney, in 1845, fourth son of William George Fitzhardinge who had come to Australia with his family in 1838.

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