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Your connection with Scotland in the 1700s, and with pioneers in South Australia in the late 1800s
Jessie & Alexander GORDON - family tree & stories
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| Name |
Thomas ('Tom') Cedric BECKITT |
| Born |
31 Aug 1910 |
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| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I1419 |
Alexander & Jessie |
| Last Modified |
14 May 2018 |
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| Photos |
 | Beckitt family - about 1916
Back - Gladys, Harold, Bill, Percy & Ethel
Front - Doris, Tom, John (father), Ellen (mother) & Alfred |
| Stories |
 | 4.61 - Tom BECKITT & Hyacinth, nee MARSH
Tom was born in 1910 and grew up in Liverpool. When he was 14 years old, he migrated to Western Australia. The family lived in Subiaco and ran a corner store in the East Perth area, selling groceries and a wide range of family requirements.
Cynthia’s parents met in the gold mining town of Walhalla in Victoria where her grandfather was a bandmaster. The family moved to Kalgoorlie and then Perth where Cynthia was born in 1909. They settled in West Leederville. Her father had an industrial accident which left him without the use of one of his arms so he supported his family by collecting and selling firewood near Perth – using a horse and cart.
Cynthia became a seamstress-taylor. She was active with the ‘Y’ sports and social life. Tom and Cynthia met because Tom was also involved ‘Y’ sports.
They married in 1939, after Tom had completed studies. They moved to Capel where Tom had obtained work as an accountant with a butter factory. Coralie was born in 1940. Tom served in the army World War II and was stationed in Busselton, Geraldton & Queensland. During this time he had intermittent contact with the family. Max was born in 1944. After the war the family lived in Fremantle and Mt Barker (WA) and then settled in Bunbury.
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