7/1/2023 0 Comments Albert facey a fortunate lifeWith the McCalls he became a pioneer on a farm at Wickepin, in the wheat-belt.Īged 8, Bert was sent to work on neighbouring properties. His grandmother then took him, his two brothers and a sister to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, where her daughter Alice and son-in-law Archie McCall were living. Bert stayed with the Carrs until his grandfather died in 1901. Instead of returning she remarried, and her new husband refused to take in the younger children. When Joseph died of typhoid in 1898, his wife left Bert and the other children with her parents at Barkers Creek and set out to bring her sons home. With the collapse of the building boom in the 1890s, Joseph Facey and his two eldest boys went to the Western Australian diggings. Bert’s parents, who were born and raised on the Victorian goldfields, had moved from Barkers Creek, near Castlemaine, to Melbourne in 1890. Albert Barnett (Bert) Facey (1894-1982), soldier, farmer, tram driver and autobiographer, was born on 31 August 1894 at Maidstone, Melbourne, youngest of seven children of Joseph Facey, quarryman, and his wife Mary Ann, née Carr.
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