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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Dobbie, Alice

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

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Politicians Local

Local Government Councillors elected by Beecroft/Cheltenham voters Hornsby Riding/Ward: C  Years Councillor Years Councillor Years Councillor 1906-1911 William Mark Nixon 1906-1911 Charles Churchill Tucker 1906-1908

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Knit It Beecroft

Knit it Joan Reid’s passion, since the age of four, was knitting!  This is the story of her shop. With my passion for knitting I

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Byles, Baldur

Baldur Unwin Byles BScFor (Adel), LLD (ANU) FIFA OBE [1] (1904-1975) was born in Manchester, England. His parents were Cyril and Ida Byles and his

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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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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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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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Sargent, Foster

Foster Henry Hartley Sargent (1878-1924) was the son of Charlotte Foster who married George Sargent [1]. He was born out of wedlock and was named

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Rouse, Marjorie

Marjorie Gwenneth Rouse BSC, DIP ED (1914-2013) was born in Waratah (now a suburb of Newcastle) to Stanley Rouse (chief cashier for the Hunter District

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