Leslie Phillip Swan was born in Sydney in 1889. He arrived in Fremantle aged 7 years with his family & settled in Beverley, which is a sheep & wheat farming area 130 kilometres east of Perth. The area was settled in 1838 & by the 1890’s many large buildings and services had been established for this farming community. After…
Francis Peter Shelley was born c1860 in South Australia to parents William & Elizabeth Sheehy. His parents arrived in Adelaide c1857 from London with their eldest son John Augustus Moree (Sheehy) Shelley. Sometime during the late 1850’s, the family changed their surname from the Irish, Sheehy to the English version of Shelley. Another son known as J.A.M. Shelley was…
Johann Heinrich Seebeck was a German immigrant who made his way to Australia in the mid 1800’s. His Prussian born wife Johanna Charlotte Schmidt arrived in Adelaide as an infant in 1850. Three of their seven children came to Western Australia c1894 to the Coolgardie goldfields. Eldest son John Valentine Seebeck was born at Chewton, Victoria in 1864. He…
Samuel Yoxall was born c1876 in Beechworth Victoria. His family had aerated water interests in NE Victoria and he went into partnership with his brother John Proudlove Yoxall about 1905 when they took over the Moonee Valley Cordial Company in North Fitzroy. During his time in Victoria, Samuel was awarded his 1st gold medal, 12 first prizes and 6…
John Thomas Tandy known as Thomas Tandy was born in 1889 in Smethwick, Staffordshire, England near Bermingham. He was one of nine children to Thomas Richard Tandy and his wife Lucy. In the 1911 English Census, his father was a rolled plate glass maker whilst son Tom was at Oldbury Staffordshire as assistant manager in a bakery and was…
GEORGE ROBINSON & THOMAS HIGGINS were both living in Coolgardie in 1897. In May 1897 Robinson was living in premises in Forrest Street and applied for a beer bottling license and this was refused. His rented premises belonged to William Stobbart, at Town Lot 416 and in August he applied for a gallon license for this building on the…
Western Australian based group dedicated to the finding and preservation of relics of all sorts.