John Albert Beasley
Father of Veronica Myrtle Ailsa Beasley
Born:
28 Feb 1912 Blair Athol, Queensland, Australia
Married:
(1) 28 Jan 1930 District Registry Office, Mackay, Queensland, Australia to Rose Myrtle Giles. Divorced 13 Jun 1947 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
(2) 16 Aug 1947 St Thomas Presbyterian Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Dorothy Isobel Winchester
Died:
19 Feb 1992 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Age 79
Buried:
Redcliffe Cemetery, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia
Timeline
Feb 1912
1912-1914
1914-1915
Aug 1915
Sep 1915
1916
1917
1920
1921
1922-1925
1925-1928
Jan 1930
1934
1935-1936
1936-1940
1941-1942
May 1942
May 1942
Jan 1943
Feb 1943
May 1943
Sep 1943
Sep-Oct 1943
Oct 1943
Nov 1943
Dec 1943
Jan 1944
Apr 1944
May 1944
Oct 1944
Dec 1945
1946
Jun 1947
Aug 1947
1947-1949
1954-1959
1963
1968
1972-1980
Feb 1992
Born at Blair Athol, Queensland [1]
Lived with parents at Blair Athol, Queensland [1] [2]
Lived at camp by Oaky Creek, Mount Stuart via Blackwater, Queensland. Mother Elizabeth dies at camp [5] [6]
Travelled with family on steam ship Bingera from Rockhampton, Queensland to Mackay, Queensland and settled at Ashburton [5] [7]
Lived with father at Paget Junction, Mackay, Queensland [8]
Lived with father at Guthalungra, Queensland [9]
Lived with father at Ingham, Queensland [10]
Lived with father at Macknade, Queensland [11]
Lived at Farleigh and married Rose Myrtle Giles at District Registry Office, Mackay, Queensland. Worked as a labourer [18]
Lived at Carmila Farm, Carmila, Queensland [19] [20]
Lived at Rosemount Farm, Farleigh, Queensland and worked as a labourer (cane cutter and field work) [19] [21] [22]
Lived at Balnagowan Farm, Farleigh, Queensland and worked as a labourer (cane cutter and field work) [19] [22] [23] [24] [25]
Lived at Farleigh Mill House, Farleigh, Queensland and worked as a labourer at Farleigh Mill and as lorry driver [19] [22] [26]
Enlisted in the RAAF at No. 3 Recruiting Centre, 35-37 Creek St, Brisbane, Queensland. Service no: 75570 [22]
RAAF military service: posted to No. 1 Mobile Works Squadron, Darwin, Northern Territory - Aircraftsman Class 1 (AC1) [22]
RAAF military service: No. 1 Mobile Works Squadron, Darwin, Northern Territory - promoted to Leading Aircraftsman (LAC) [22]
RAAF military service: No. 1 Mobile Works Squadron, Darwin, Northern Territory - position change to AC1 Armament Assistant [22]
RAAF military service: No. 457 Squadron, Darwin, Northern Territory - promoted to LAC Armament Assistant [22]
RAAF military service: posted to No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School, Evans Head, New South Wales [22]
RAAF military service: posted to No. 1 School of Technical Training, Melbourne, Victoria and completed Coppersmith course [22]
Divorce from Rose Myrtle Giles granted by Supreme Court of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland [18]
Married Dorothy Isobel Winchester at St Thomas Presbyterian Church, Dalby, Queensland [27]
Lived at 6 Jack St, Dalby, Queensland and worked as a storeman for Commonwealth Oil Refineries [19] [29] [30] [31]
Lived at 6 Patrick St, Dalby, Queensland and worked as a storeman for Commonwealth Oil Refineries [19] [32]
Lived at 19A Partridge St, North Toowoomba, Queensland and worked as a storeman for Commonwealth Oil Refineries [19] [33]
Lived at 32A Charlotte St, North Toowoomba, Queensland and worked as a storeman for Commonwealth Oil Refineries [19] [33] [34] [35]
Died at Brisbane, Queensland and buried at Redcliffe Cemetery [19] [36]
Biography
Early years
John Albert Beasley, known as "Dick" to his family and friends, was born in 1912 as the eighth of nine children to Charles Thomas Beasley and Elizabeth Legg. Elizabeth, of quarter-Aboriginal descent, had grown up in western Queensland, but it is unlikely she had any connection to her Indigenous heritage. At the time, many people of mixed race sought to "pass as white," and Dick was told his mother’s family was of Spanish and Portuguese origin [1] [19].
Dick's father, Charles, was a chequered character. He had a carpenter's trade but he frequently moved around central and western Queensland, finding work in sawmills, as a carrier or hunting marsupial pelts to sell. Before meeting Dick's mother, Charles had left behind another family - a wife and three children - in Birdsville, western Queensland, close to the South Australian border [38] [39] [40] [41].
Charles had married Dick's mother Elizabeth, but it was a bigamous marriage and Charles gave a fake name to the marriage registrar to evade detection. Despite this, the Registrar discovered the bigamous nature of the union [42] [43]. As a result, although Dick and all his siblings were acknowledged by their father and used the surname Beasley throughout their lives, their births were classified as illegitimate and they were were registered under the surname of Legg as well as Beasley.
By the time of Dick's birth, the Beasley family had already spent years "on the road" in central western Queensland, with Dick's older siblings born in various small townships. When Dick was born, the family were living in Blair Athol, a township about 20km north/north-west from Clermont.
It was an area with extensive seams of coal had been discovered when early shafts were put down in the early 1870s. By the time the Beasley family arrived, the Blair Athol North Coal Mine Ltd was reporting that 1,200 ft of timber had been put in place for the main shaft of the future coal mine. Additionally, the company was completing a survey for the proposed railway siding from the railway station yard. The carpentry and labouring work both projects would have offered gives us the probable reason why Charles had brought his family to the area [44] [45].
Despite the industrial expansion and work opportunities, Blair Athol was a primitive town. Most residents in the township lived in tents or very temporary buildings, over a mile from the railway station. The tents were clustered around the township and the No. 1 mine. Drainage and sanitary arrangements were adequate, although there were doubts they would survive a rainy season. Despite most of the camp being comprised of miners, there was no constable stationed in town. Facilities for families were limited - a local state school for the children was located well out of town and, although ministers were amongst the population, churches had yet to be built. The Salvation Army had a small shed, with the only substantive buildings being the local hotel and the home of the station master [46].
Blair Athol Coal and Timber No.1 mine, 1910. You can see some living tents behind.
Blair Athol railway station and residence, c1910
Death of mother
In 1914, the family welcomed another son, Percy, known as "Darby." The following year, the family moved 200km south to the colliery at Blackwater. By August the following year, the family had moved again to a remote camp on Mount Stuart, where Charles worked pumping water for the Lakes Creek Company, a cattle and meat export business [3] [4] [5].
Three-year-old Dick lived in a tent with his parents and his eight siblings (ranging in age from 1-17 years of age), after half a mile from where his father worked with other Lakes Creek workers. His mother, heavily pregnant with her tenth child complained of a lump of wind in her chest. Her condition did not improve and she died suddenly the following day [5].
With the help of some fellow workers, Charles made Elizabeth's coffin and they buried her on the banks of Oaky Creek. After her burial, Charles packed up Dick and his siblings and they made for Rockhampton, over 200km west toward the coast [5].
Dick's eldest sister, Dorothy (known as "Dor" or "Dorrie") remembered that they sailed from Port Alma, Rockhampton to Flat Top, Mackay on the steamer ship Bingera [47] [48]. This was the first time Dick would have seen the ocean or a ship.
When they docked at Mackay, there was a ship-to-shore "flying fox" to get passengers from the steamer to land. While the family were being winched over, Dick fell and dropped into the ocean. He was rescued but, from that moment, John would have a lifetime terror of water and discomfort on boats [19].
Steamship Bingera
Flat Top, Mackay, Queensland
The family stayed in Farleigh, outside Mackay, and Charles got work as a carpenter in nearby Ashburton, however, Charles resumed his pattern of moving from one place and job to the next.
While his eldest, Dorrie, stayed in Farleigh, Charles' work led the rest of the family north, to Guthalungra and then Ingham, where he worked on various labouring projects, including as a bridge carpenter on the Ingham-Cardwell railway [9] [10] [47] [49] .
The family lived on the breadline, a fact revealed by Dick's father declaring insolvency in 1920, with his only asset being a brown retriever dog [10].
Salvation for the family came in 1922, when Dick was 10 years old. Dick's father later said that, at the time, they hadn't a penny to their name and had been starving. Charles had brought them to Euri Creek, near Bowen, where they rented a farm from Martin Tierney, the owner of the Merinda Hotel. Tierney set Charles up with a three-year lease for the farm, in return for giving Tierney a half share of everything grown [50a and 50b].
The farm provided the family a precarious living but the relationship between Charles and Martin Tierney soured, resulting in them coming to blows. The family moved to Collinsville in 1925 [15].
Marriage to Rose Myrtle Giles
In about 1929, when he was about 16, Dick came to the Farleigh/Coningsby area for work. He found employment on a farm owned by Ned Powell, a man who would become a close friend. It was through this connection that Dick met his future wife, Rose Myrtle Giles, the daughter of local driver. Myrtle, as she known, was three years older than Dick, and had left her own troubled home at the age of 15 [19].
On the 28th of January 1930, shortly before his 18th birthday, Dick married Myrtle at the District Registry Office in Mackay. Attending the ceremony as official witnesses were Dick's father Charles and his older sister Lena [18].
Old Mackay Court House
The marriage was difficult from the start, with both Dick and Myrtle both bearing the scars of their upbringings. Myrtle, known for her temper, had grown up without her mother, who had died shortly after her birth, and had experienced abuse by her father. Meanwhile, Dick, shaped by an upbringing rife with neglect and abuse, struggled to express his emotions [19].
In 1934, the couple welcomed their first daughter, Veronica, while living on a farm in Carmila owned by Dick's sister, Lena, and her husband Alfred ("Alf") Thomas. Dick worked as a cane cutter, spending the off-season ploughing and strip seeding the fields [19] [20].
They stayed there for about 9 months and, by early 1935, they moved to Rosemount Farm, located outside Farleigh. The farm belonged to a friend of Dick's and he worked the farm as he did in Carmila [19].
In 1936, the family moved to nearby Balnagowan Farm, a small sugar cane farm. Myrtle had been given the farm from a recently-deceased relative and it abutted a farm run by a Maltese family called the Corinos. One year, after a bad season, Dick supplemented the family income by working for the Corinos. He had a talenet for languages and, after spending about 6 weeks working with the Corino family, he could speak Maltese fluently [19] [21] [22].
Over the next few years, Dick and Myrtle had welcomed two more daughters, Kathleen and Norma. The names of their daughters were deeply personal to Dick. His eldest daughter was named Veronica Myrtle Ailsa. Veronica after an old girlfriend, Myrtle for her mother and Ailsa for a cousin that Dick got on well with. Despite the meaningful names, she was always known as Bonnie, referencing a horse the family had that was very bonny [19].
The middle names for Kathleen (called Kay, but in her early days, "Capital K" and "the big K"), were tributes to family relatives: Eleanor, probably for Dick's grandmother, and Mona for his sister. Meanwhile, Norma June Rose (known affectionately as Nugget), was named for Norma Shearer, a favourite actress of Dick's, June for the month she was born and Rose for her mother [19].
By 1941, Dick and Myrtle sold their farm to Peter Corino and returned to Farleigh, living at the Mill House, as Dick picked up work as a fugler at Farleigh Mill [19] [22] [26].
"Fuglers" worked at the centrifugal machine of a sugar cane mill. It was an important step in processing the sugar cane into sugar. After the cane was crushed, the sugar juice would be boiled to evaporate off the water and leave behind a syrup called “massecuite”, which was a concentrated mixture of molasses and sugar. The centrifugal machine, or “fugal” as it was commonly called, would receive the massecuite and spin it at high speeds, to separate the molasses from the sugar. The fugals at Farleigh Mill were lined with several thicknesses of brass gauze and spun at a speed of about 1000 revolutions a minute. The molasses was forced through the gauze and the remaining sugar dropped to the bottom of the fugal and carried to the dryer [19] [51].
Farleigh Sugar Mill, 1924
Dick worked the midnight - 4am shift and Myrtle would have breakfast ready for him when he came home [19]. One morning, in 1942, after coming off shift, Dick came home and abruptly told Myrtle that he had gone to town to join the RAAF and that he was leaving and wouldn't be back [19].
Dick took a small knapsack, hopped on his bike and drove into town, to take the train and on to basic training. His daughters would not see him again until well after the war [19].
Service in World War II
Dick's military record stated that he enlisted as ground crew in the Royal Australian Air For (RAAF) at the Creek St Recruitment Centre in Brisbane. His physical description was given as 30 yrs 1 mth, 5'6", 132 lbs, fair complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. The recruitment officer described Dick as "wiry, weather beaten appearance, respectful, clean appearance, answers readily." Dick had a full set of upper dentures, which he needed as all his upper teeth had decayed - a legacy of his impoverished upbringing [22].
On his enlistment form, Dick stated that he had worked as a cane cutter and field worker for six years, a lorry driver for two years and his current job was as a plumber's offsider at Farleigh Sugar Mill. Additionally, for the previous 12 months, he had served in the Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) in Farleigh. The VDC was an Australian part-time volunteer military force of World War II modelled on the British Home Guard. Dick's photo was taken and he his enlistment was approved [22].
RAAF recruits marching down Queen St, Brisbane during WWII
Dick was posted in Darwin at the No. 1 Mobile Works Squadron in May 1942, only months after Darwin had suffered severe enemy bombing. Upon enrolment, Dick served as a General Hand but he soon submitted a request for remustering as an armament assistant, due to his keen interest in armament work [22].
After completing and passing a Field Defence Course, Dick was promoted to an Armament Assistant in February 1943 and, in May of that year, he was posted to the No. 457 Squadron in Darwin [22].
The No. 457 Squadron was the RAAF's fighter squadron, equipped with Supermarine Spitfire fighters. The squadron had been deployed to Darwin to counter Japanese raids against the town and Dick would have been busy loading and unloading munitions from the spitfires. The squadron was scrambled multiple times to defend Darwin, including a major raid in May 1943 [52].
No. 457 Squadron ground crew pushing a Spitfire into its bay, 1943
In November 1943, Dick was posted to the Bombing and Air Gunnery School in Evans Head, New South Wales, then in December 1943, he was posted to the No. 1 Air Observers School in Cootamundra, New South Wales [22].
Between January - Apr 1944, Dick completed a Coppersmith course at the No. 1 School for Technical Training in Melbourne. After successfully passing the course, he was remustered as a Coppersmith and posted to the No. 6 Aircraft Depot in Oakey, Queensland in May 1944 [22].
The depot was used to construct, repair and equip aircraft attached to squadrons. The depot consisted of two surfaced runways and a substantial base camp and buildings. As a coppersmith, Dick's trade was one of many - including welding, fitting and turning, carpentry - working in repair shops for the aircraft on base [53] [54].
Dick finished out the war in Oakey and was discharged in December 1945 [22].
Men of the Royal Navy detachment at RAAF Oakey with RAAF representatives posing with a completed Seafire III during World War II
Second marriage and latter years
After his discharge, Dick remained in Oakey and, whilst living there, he met a woman called Dorothy Winchester, from the nearby town of Dalby. They met through a RAAF friend of Dick's who was also from Dalby. The relationship progressed to thoughts of marriage, which prompted Dick to seek divorce from Myrtle, who was managing with their three daughters back in Mackay. After Dick left, Myrtle and the girls had moved to Kuttabul and Myrtle was in a relationship with a man called Charlie Cox [19].
The divorce between Dick and Myrtle was finalised 13th June 1947 and, on 16th August 1947, John and Dorothy married at the St Thomas Presbyterian Church in Dalby. Their best men and bridesmaid was Dick's RAAF friend who introduced him, and his wife [19] [18] [27].
Dick Beasley and Dorothy Winchester on their wedding day
The following year, Dick wrote to Myrtle to ask their three girls to come visit him and Dorothy in Dalby. Their youngest daughter Norma did not want to go, but Veronica and Kay made the visit, taking the train from Mackay to Brisbane's Roma St station where Dick and Dorothy met them for the drive out to Dalby [19].
Dick had a job as a storeman for Commonwealth Oil Refinery (COR) petrol company. Farmers would come in to buy petrol which would go on account, as no one had cash. At the end of the season, the farmers would settle the bill. Dick would handle that and petrol supplies. He worked for COR for the rest of his time in Dalby [19] [29] [30] [31] [32].
Close to his retirement, COR transferred Dick to Toowoomba where he continued to work for about a year before retiring [33] [19].
Dick lived to the age of 79, passing away on 28th February 1992 in Brisbane [36].
Dick Beasley at work with COR. COR was sold to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which became British Petroleum Company (BP) - the BP patch on his co-worker dates this picture to after 1954.
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Percy Clemard Beasley, Queensland Birth Certificate, 22 Feb 1914, Record no: 1914/C/2714, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]
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Elizabeth Legg, Queensland Electoral Roll, Electoral District of Normanby, Division of Rockhampton, 1914, FindMyPast [www.findmypast.co.uk]
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Elizabeth Legge known as Elizabeth Beasley, Queensland Death Certificate, 26 Aug 1915, Record no: 1915/C/2732, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]. Cause of death given as "approaching confinement", which refers to a pregnant woman approaching her due date.
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Celebrations held to mark 90th birthday, Newspaper article - unknown paper (probably Daily Mercury), 1988 (unknown date and page number). This article features memories from Dorothy May Childow (nee Beasley) of her childhood.
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Personal, Daily Mercury, Mon 31 Jul 1916, page 2, National Library of Australia [trove.nla.gov.au]. Article gives information on where the Beasley family were living at the time. Article relates to a Mr. Beasley (John's father Charles) leaving work as a foreman of railway sawmill at Paget Junction, heading for Bowen. The researcher has identified "Mr Beasley" as Charles Thomas Beasley, as he was a carpenter with experience in sawmills, he was in the Mackay area at the time (Ashburton/Farleigh) and other records confirm he was in the Bowen area after this.
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Charles Thomas Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Herbert, Subdistrict of Bowen, 1917, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]. Location of father is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Charles Thomas Beasley, Insolvency file, Supreme Court, Northern District, Townsville, ID: ITM3477298, 1920, QLD State Archives [archivessearch.qld.gov.au]. Location of father is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Blanche Ednal Beasley, Queensland Death Certificate, 15 Mar 1921, Record no: 1921/C/225, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]. Informant on the certificate was Charles Thomas Beasley, who provided his address as Macknade. Location of John's father, Charles Thomas, is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Charles Thomas Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls, District of Herbert, Subdistrict of Bowen, 1922, FindMyPast [www.findmypast.co.uk]. Original image not available through FindMyPast, only a transcription. Location of father is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Summons Court, Bowen Independent, 1 Nov 1924, page 2, National Library of Australia [trove.nla.gov.au]. Article confirms that John's father Charles Thomas Beasley was a tenant farmer at Euri Creek. Location of father is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time.Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Charles Thomas Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Herbert, Subdistrict of Bowen, 1925, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]. Location of father is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Charles Thomas Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Herbert, Subdistrict of Bowen, 1925, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]. Location of father is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Edward James Beasley, QLD Death Certificate, 7 Nov 1925, Record no: 1925/C/4128, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]. Informant on the certificate was Charles Thomas Beasley, who provided his address as Collinsville. Location of John's father, Charles Thomas, is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Charles Thomas Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Herbert, Subdistrict of Bowen, 1928, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]. Location of father is used as a proxy for location of John, as he was a minor at the time. Conversations with John's daughter Veronica confirmed he was with his dad/followed him all around until he came to Farleigh and married her mother.
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Albert John Beasley and Rose Myrtle Giles, QLD Marriage Certificate, 28 Jan 1930, Record no: 1930/C/481, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]
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Conversation with Veronica Beasley, daughter of John Albert Beasley.
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Rose Myrtle Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Capricornia, Subdistrict of St Lawrence, 1934, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]. Location of wife is used as a proxy for location of John. He is listed in the 1934 Electoral Roll, but still at Farleigh. The family's location at Carmila at this time was also confirmed by his daughter Veronica, so it may be the case that John did not update his address on the electoral roll when they moved to Carmila.
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John Albert Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Herbert, Subdistrict of Mirani, 1934, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
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John Albert Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Herbert, Subdistrict of Mirani, 1943, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
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John Albert Beasley and Dorothy Isabel Winchester, Queensland Marriage Certificate, 16 Aug 1947, Record no: 1947/C/3344, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]
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John Albert Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Maranoa, Subdistrict of Dalby, 1949, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
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John Albert Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Maranoa, Subdistrict of Dalby, 1954, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
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John Albert Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls 1903-1980, District of Maranoa, Subdistrict of Dalby, 1958, Ancestry [www.ancestry.co.uk]
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John Albert Beasley, Australia Electoral Rolls, District of Maranoa, Subdistrict of Dalby, 1959, FindMyPast [www.findmypast.co.uk]. Original image not available through FindMyPast.
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Blanche Ednel Beasley, South Australia Birth Certificate, 25 Feb 1894, Vol no: 537, Page no: 267, Genealogy SA [www.genealogysa.org.au]. Transcription of original certificate.
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Chester Alfred Beasley and Elizabeth Legg, Queensland Marriage Certificate, 9 May 1898, Record no:1898/C/1978, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]
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Note from Registrar's office re bigamous marriage, Marriage of Chester Alfred Beasley and Elizabeth Legg, Record no:1898/C/1978, QLD Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages [www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au]
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Celebrations to mark 90th birthday, Newspaper clipping - unknown newspaper (but likely Daily Mercury), Jan 1988. Newspaper clipping kept by family, not available online. It is an article about Dorrie's recollection of the early days. #
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Port Alma and the Bingera, The Capricornian, Sat 1 May 1909, page 15, National Library of Australia [trove.nla.gov.au]
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Recalling Early Days, Daily Mercury, Tue 24 Feb 1981, page 30, National Library of Australia [trove.nla.gov.au]. Newspaper clipping kept by family, not available online. It is an article about Dorrie's recollection of the early days.
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Summons Court and Summons Court cont., Bowen Independent, Sat 22 Nov 1924, page 6, National Library of Australia [trove.nla.gov.au]
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Personal map
Map of places from Dick's life
