Stobo, Thomas

Thomas Stobo (1858-1930) was the third child of Scottish-born Captain Robert Stobo, a master mariner, and his wife Mary (née Spears). The family were living

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Slingsby, Arthur

Arthur Slingsby was a building contractor of Redfern, and periodically worked in the city with architect William Nixon on private residences.[1] In 1904 the Slingsby

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Skellett, Thomas

Thomas Henry Brown Skellett led an interesting and unusual life before he settled in Beecroft. He was born in Polesworth, England, in 1855, the son

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Seale, Family

John (1844-1923) and Edward Henry (1859-1927) were sons of Joseph Seale (1819-1888) who with other family members had emigrated from Ireland in 1836. Joseph had

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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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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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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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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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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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Nixon, William

William Mark Nixon was born in Sydney on 31 May 1859, the son of William Nixon and Jane (née Graham), who came from Lynwood, Hawick,

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