Husband George Horace Beecroft [9119]
Born: 2 Apr 1851 - Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia 1 2
Christened: 2 Apr 1851 - Church of England, Wilberforce, NSW, Australia 1
Died: 11 May 1877 - Gunnedah, NSW, Australia
Buried: - Gunnedah General Cemetery, Gunnedah, NSW, Australia 3
Father: Edward Beecroft [9043] (1827-1880) 4
Mother: Mary Bushell [9056] (1829-1904) 4
Events
• He worked as a mail-driver.
• Event: The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 10 Feb 1874. THE FLOOD AT GUNNEDAH.
(from the Correspondent of the Tamworth Weekly News.)
...
The mailman who drives the coach from here to Narrabri, George Beecroft, had an exceedingly narrow escape from drowning. It appears that on his arrival at a place called Baan Baa Creek with the coach and mails, he took one of his leaders out and attempted to ford the creek for the purpose of testing its depth. The current, however, was so strong that it quickly carried him and the mare he was riding down the stream. The mare came foul of a tree throwing her rider in the surging torrent, from which, with considerable risk, he extricated himself. The difficulties connected with the conveyance of mails in this district during a wet season are really immense.
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Gunnedah, Feb. 5, 1874.
• Event: The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 8 Sep 1874. The weather during the present winter season has been unprecedentedly cold and wet; never within the memory of that venerable personage, - "the oldest inhabitant" - have the frosts been so oppressive. This fact and the frequency of heavy rain has rendered travelling in these parts a regular caution. The mails were delayed more so during this winter than in any preceding one during the last seven years. They are now running with more punctuality, and it is to be hoped they will continue so, as the contractor, Nowland, and his coachmen, Dan Leary and Beacroft, have had an amount of hardship during this winter as would make many other men cave in. The are well deserving of some testimonial in reward for their perserverance and pluck. To those grumbers who sit by the fire these cold nights, bemoaning the non-arrival of the mails in proper time, little can be said. They were probably created for grumbing purposes and are fulfilling their destiny. Unhappy, bilious creatures, who are irritated from the most trivial causes, are not the persons to take much heed of.
Gunnedah, Sept. 4th, 1874.
• Event: The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 16 Dec 1875. NARRABRI.
(from the Narrabri Herald, Dec 9.)
A singular accident befel the Gunnedah coach on
Maitland-street, last Friday evening, and it hap- penedin this wise : The driver had delivered the mails and was on his return to the booking-office, when, arriving opposite the Commercial Hotel, he was hailed by Modrsynaki, the watchmaker, who
wanted a lift to the Greyhound Inn to enquire after a certain parcel which he expected from Gunnedah George Beecroft pulled up, and the coach was just coming to a stop, when the near hind wheel came off and the vehicle settled down on the axle arm On examination it turned out that the box had worked loose in the nave and come out, and the necessary repairs having been effected the coach left again at the usual hour on Saturday. For- tunately the driver, who bad his foot on the break, kept his seat and no one was hurt.
• His obituary was published in The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser on 12 May 1877. GUNNEDAH.
Friday.
George Becroft, who has been for many years a mail-driver on the Namol, died last night. The deceased was universally respected, and his unexpected death causes a gloom over the community.
Weather showery.
• Event: The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 19 May 1877. ...
Quite a gloom was cast over our small town on Friday morning last, on account of the death of Mr. George Beacroft, who expired at eleven p.m. on Thursday night, in Gunnedah. He as been driving the mail between Gunnedah and Narrabri for the past four or five years, and was universally liked and respected for his kind and obliging disposition.
Boggabri, May 14.
• His obituary was published in the Austrailian Town and Coutry Journal on 19 May 1877. BOOGABRI
May 15
Since my last letter we have had some nice showers of rain, and it is still falling steadily. Although it has come rather late in the season, it will start the clover growing, which will prove of incalculable benefit during the winter.
We have to chronicle, during last week, the death, of one of R. J. Newland's maildrivers, George Becroft. The deceased had been driving on this line for many years, and was sincerely esteemed by all those that had the pleasure of intercourse with him, or a seat on the coach. He was a pleasant companion and most careful driver, always, willing to oblige his passengers; and it will be some time before his familiar face is erased from our memory.
During the week the travelling sheep of Messrs. Clarke Brothers returned to the station.
Road-making: The late showers have stopped the stone drawing for a short time.
Court-house: Brickmakers are at work for this structure.
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