Category: People

Noble, John

John Noble, Beecroft’s naturelover and pioneer bush regenerator  1916 – 2011 John Noble described himself as a man with ‘an ongoing interest in things of nature and

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North, John

William John George North was born in Sydney in 1856, the son of John Britty North and Clarissa Hack who were married in Sydney in

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Ogden, George,

George Ogden was born around 1821 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England. He married Emma Browne and they lived, in 1851, with her three unmarried siblings in

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Ogle, Robert

Robert William George Ogle DSO [1] was born on 21 November 1904 at Georgetown, Newcastle the son of Robert William Ogle, a locally born blacksmith,

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Onus, Bill

William Townsend Onus Jnr (1906-1968) [1] William Townsend Onus Snr was born in 1868 to Madha (or Martha) Hobbs, Hibbs or Higgs (d 1926). Madha

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Oxley, Samuel

Samuel James Oxley (1859-1952) [1]  the son of English-born Owen Oxley who had arrived in the colony, on board the ‘Roxburgh Castle’ with his family,

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Pierce, Arthur

Arthur Ernest Pierce, born in Newtown, Sydney, in 1889, and his wife Lillian Martha (née Woodham), came to Cheltenham in 1914. They had been living

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Pines, Eleanor

Eleanor Frances Pines (born 1869) was the daughter of Edward Martin, a draftsman in the Colonial Architect’s Office. She became the fourth wife of Frederick

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Quodling, Robert

Robert Alfred Quodling was born in Paddington, Sydney, in 1866, son of an Irish-born father, Robert, a surveyor, and an Australian-born mother, Susan Ann (née

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Redshaw, George

George Redshaw, one of six sons, was born in Sydney of English parents, his father, from the city of Derby, coming to Australia as officer

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Reeve, Mary Jo

Mary Jo Reeve was a formidable activist and supporter of the communities of Beecroft and Cheltenham. [1] She was raised in a Catholic orphanage where

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