William Arthur Callander a'Beckett (1833 - 1901)

Born 7 Jul 1833 in London, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Emma (Mills) A'Beckett — married 17 Sep 1855 in St Peters, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 16 Dec 1901 at age 68 in Saint Kilda, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

William a'Beckett is Notable.

William Arthur Callander a'Beckett was born on 7th July 1833 at London, Middlesex, England. He was the son of William A'Beckett and Emily Hayley. He was educated at King's College, London.

William a'Beckett migrated from England to New South Wales.

His parents migrated to the Colony of New South Wales (Australia) aboard City of Edinburgh, 1836-37, whereupon his father commenced a successful legal practice. William Junior ventured to the Colony of Victoria upon completing his formal education.

In 1855 at Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria he married Emma Mills,^[1] daughter of John Mills, a freed convict from Tasmania who founded brewing in Melbourne. Their daughter Emma Minnie, whose pursuit was painting, married another of the same pursuit, Arthur Merric Boyd, and there began extended generations of artists in Australian cultural life, collectively the Boyd family.

William was a barrister, member of the colonial militia, a magistrate and a Member of The Legislative Council, which is the Upper House of the Colony of Victoria's Parliament.

He passed away on 16th December 1901 at Saint Kilda, Victoria and is buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery, in Carlton North in the state of Victoria, Australia.

Sources

1. ↑ Victoria Marriage Index #1984/1855

The Boyds by Brenda Niall Melbourne University Press

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 18 February 2023), memorial page for William Arthur Callander a'Beckett (7 Jul 1833–16 Dec 1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #183909061, citing Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia; Maintained by Lilian Wheeler HUHN (contributor 48038554).

• Kathleen Thomson, à Beckett, William Arthur (1833–1901), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/a-beckett-william-arthur-2863/text4081, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 18 February 2023.

• William Arthur Callendar à Beckett from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. first accessed online on the 18th of February, 2023 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Callendar_%C3%A0_Beckett