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I'm new to family researching. I'm currently researching the BEASLEY family of Millthorp area of New South Wales and later Victoria. I'm hoping that others may be or have researched the same line of the BEASLEY'S
Related Surnames:
Leader (Orange, NSW) Monday 3 May 1920
OBITUARY
MR. FREDERlCK BEASLEY.
Mr. Frederick Beasley, who died at
Wentworthville at noon on Wednes-
day, April 28, from senile decay, had
lived a few years in the Millthorpe
district. Prior to that his more active
life was spent in a large way grow-
ing wool and wheat in the Peak Hill
district. In the earliest gold digging
days he started out from England as
a boy of 14, but was shipwrecked on
the coast of Brazil. The rescued
crew and passengers were cared for
in a monastry for six months before
another vessel could he found going
to Australia. Mr. Beasley leaves a
large family, Mr. John Beasley, Bara-
dine; Mrs H. M. Brown, Canowindra
whose husband was a candidate in
Mr Holman's electorate in the recent
State elections; Mrs. H. J. Fletcher,
Anson-road, Orango; Mrs J. J. Treg-
lown, Croydon; Mrs. John Campey,
Singleton; Mr. Arthur Beasley,
Queensland; Mrs. C. F. Oates, Bath-
urst. Another son, Robert, died in
Sydney last year from, the dreaded
influenza. Mr. Beasley was an enter-
prising citizen, being one of the first
to use the disc plows, also the com-
bined harvester, when they first came
out. He developed a new kind of hard
red wheat, which commanded 8d per
bushel more than other wheats. That
was before Farrar's discoveries. He
was an experimenter and grew things
from rice to date palms on his Har-
vey Park property, Peak Hill, which
is now a soldiers' settlement. He
was 83 a fortnight ago.
I recommend you begin in Trove. I believe Frederick was the first BEASLEY in Millthorpe.
Thanks for that, I have already done some research via TROVE and have seen that article.