by Rosemary Kopittke | 14 Jul 2019 | Beeston family, Migration
At one stage ‘swimming’ was looking like the only way the Beestons made it to Australia! Early in my research I found the marriage of John Francis Beeston to Frances Elizabeth Ford in 1881 at South Brisbane.[i] That was a great surprise to my father who had always...
by Rosemary Kopittke | 8 May 2018 | Beeston family, Migration, Newspapers
The Bristol Channel 24 January 1863 “My new start almost ended today. How I wish we had not decided to follow Robert’s cousins to Brisbane. I don’t even know where Brisbane is. James’ letters promised such a bright future but so far nothing is as we thought it would...
by Rosemary Kopittke | 2 Mar 2018 | Beeston family, Insolvency, Newspapers
Insolvent. Nowhere to live and no tools to gain an income. This was a devastating moment for Robert Beeston and his two small sons. He had lost his beloved wife Elizabeth to heart problems in May 1866 and now just two months later everything they had worked for was...
by Rosemary Kopittke | 2 Mar 2018 | Beeston family
Rolling green hills with quaint village pubs. That is how we think today of the Derbyshire villages of Fenny Bentley and Kniveton where young Francis Beeston spent his days. But what was it like for him? Francis was born in 1798 in the small village of Fenny Bentley....
