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...
