Notes
Note for: George Beebe, 29 APR 1886 - UNKNOWN Index
"Uncle George worked with horses and sheep in Kent. Living at Ufton
Lane, Sittingbourn.
Sam lived and went to school here as a child.
Next door Neighbours were 'Bretts'."
Death certificate for first wife Ellen Elizabeth shows address as of 20th
May 1910 as Stony Road, Dunkirk, Kent. He was an agricultural labourer.
General Register shows marriage to Ellen R Woollett September quarter
1911 Faversham 2a 2193
Bill, Arthur, Les, Bob, Albert and Stan left England with their parents
in steamship "Euripodes" arriving in Albany in March 1924. They were all
farmers except Albert who worked in various timber mills.
Les, Albert and Stan served in the Australian Army during the war.
George was a witness at Mabel's wedding in 1923.
Birth certificate shows born in Kneesworth Street, Royston. The birth
was registered Fifth July 1886 by his mother Ellen Beebe, formerly Woods,
who made a declaration on 30th June 1886 that her address was 7, St
John's Street, Bedford.
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The following notes were sent to me by Lesley Beebe (wife of Stan).
"The following is some more information of the early days of Stan's
parents arrival in Western Australia as Stan remembers it, it may be of
interest to you".
Lesley Beebe, February 1997.
*** The Early Years of George and Ellen Beebe - Northcliffe ***
"In the early 1920's, the Premier of Western Australia (WA) was Sir James
Mitchell who decided to open up the South West of WA for dairy farming.
The
WA Government recruited migrants from England. George, seeing this as a
great opportunity, migrated to Australia with his wife Ellen (commonly
known as Nell) and 6 boys, not aware of the trials that were to face
them. With hundreds of other English Migrants, they boarded the Steam
Ship Euripodes for Australia and arrived in Albany WA on the 10th of
March 1924. From Albany they were taken by train to Perth and then by
train to Pemberton, a distance of 920 miles. On arrival at Pemberton
they were put onto trucks and taken into the Karri Forest, a further 20
miles on, which later became known as Northcliffe. They were placed into
camps which consisted of tin shacks of two rooms, dirt floors and no
windows or doors Conditions were unbelievable and many of the women
wished they had never left England. Toilet facilities were non-existent.
George made chairs out of kerosine boxes and beds were a piece of hessian
slung between poles. Each day the men were taken out in gangs to clear
the forest for house sites. After this, eventually, weatherboard
cottages were built and the families balloted for them and gradually
moved into a cottage from the camps. Once you had been allotted a house
you were on your own and had to clear land for your farm, with none of
the modern machinery of today, this was no small task In fact it must
have been rather daunting The men were paid £8 per acre by the
government to clear the land. Then, as the pasture grew, they were
issued with 2 or 3 cows depending on what the pasture would carry. These
payments and cows were a debt against you at the bank which eventually
had to be re-paid when you were self supporting. By the 1930's many were
self supporting but there were many who were disenchanted by the hard
life and conditions and walked off the land and went to the city of Perth
to look for work.
George's determination was such that he was one of the few who stayed and
made a go of it, he grew his own vegetables which helped to sustain
them. By this time a few shops had been built in Northcliffe, thus other
supplies were available.
In the mid 1930's, Bill, Arthur, Les and Bob took up land of their own.
When war broke out in 1939 Les, Albert and Stan joined the army, after
the war ended Les and Stan took up land and farmed while Albert went to
the city to work. Les eventually left the farm and went to Perth to work
at Chamberlains Factory. Stan also went on to sell the farm (a move he
still regrets today) and went on to buy a mixed business in Northcliffe
which he ran for two and a half years before selling up and moving to
Albany to manage a beef farm. His (Stan) wife died in April 1976 and he
went to live with Sharon and Tony for a few months and worked for
Automotive Investments managing their farms until he retired in 1986.
Albert worked in various timber mills in and around Perth until his
retirement in 1996.
Now in 1997, with only Stan and Albert alive, the Beebe line is slowly
dwindling.
Albert still lives in Kewdale, a suburb of Perth, and Stan lives in
Albany when he is not touring around Australia in car and caravan, a life
he enjoys very much"
Notes
Note for: Ellen Elizabeth Little, 1884 - 20 MAY 1910 Index
Death certificate shows Lobar Pneumonia, 11 days, Cardiac Failure.
Informant was George Beebe, widowere of the deceased, Sony Road, Dunkirk,
Faversham, Kent.
Notes
Note for: Daisy Beebe, 16 FEB 1893 - 1966 Index
At the time of her marriage to Charles Higgins, Daisy was living at 4,
Frederick Street, Sittingbourne and still lived there at the time of her
death. She was age 21 when she married.