Category: People

Tucker, Charles

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

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Vernon, John

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

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Vernon, Mary

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

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Vicars, Robert

Robert Vicars (1867-1962) was one of five sons and two daughters of John Vicars and Ann (nee Moors). John Vicars (1820-1894) had been born in

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Vicars, Violet

Violet Halliday Vicars was born in Scone to James Little and his wife Mary Ann (nee McLaughlin). Her father was an accountant. She married Robert

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Vickery, Joyce

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

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Wachsmann, Albert

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,

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Wheeler Family

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

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Whittell, Henry

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

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Willis 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

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Women

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

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Wood, Ellen

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

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