Historical information
4 documents which have references to the a’Beckett family.
Photocopied extract from Burke’s Colonial Gentry Vol 1 1891 on the name a’Beckett, William Arthur Callander
Handwritten research on various a’Beckett family tree members taken from Burke’s Colonial Gentry etc, includes rate details of home in Alma Street
Leaflet on The Briars Mornington giving history on family and the Napoleonic collection of furniture
Photocopied article on a’Beckett name taken from ‘Sand, Swamp and Heath by Peter R Murray and John C Wells 1980. This paragraph gives the connection to Emma Minna a’Beckett who married Arthur Boyd. Boyd’s father owner Glenfern on the corner of Hotham and Inkerman Street. This is the beginning of the artistic Boyd family in Murrumbeena
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References
- St Kilda Rate Book 1864
- Sand, Swamp & Heath by Peter R Murray & John C Wells 1980
- Burke’s Colonial Gentry Vol 1 1891 and Vol 11 1895
- Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 3