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WELLSTEAD Bridget (nee Muir)

Bridget married Mr.John Wellstead in 1884 at Albany. John and Bridget settled down to family life at “Mt. Joy”, Bremer Bay.
John and Bridget certainly endured a hard and isolated life at Bremer Bay.
This lady had thireen children, with eleven reaching adulthood. The first child to die was George Bremer Wellstead who died aged five months of pneumonia. In John’s diaries he wrote “baby died at 6am, made coffin and other preparations, and buried him at 5pm.”
There next son James also died of pneumonia aged 21 years. The next was Thomas who was a twin to Roderick (know as Eric) he died at 2 days of age.
In 1892 the “Agnes” was wrecked at John’s Cove. Due to this wreck the
family were at the beach, salvaging anything they could from the wreck.
The Captain of the ‘Agnes” was Fred Douglas husband of John’s sister Susan.
By 1899, Bridget was expecting her ninth child and conditions in the house were becoming overcrowed. John build a shed at the rear of the house which incorporated an improved wash house.


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Materials for the building included undressed bush timber, planks from the Agnes, these were used as room dividers and the walls and roof made of corrugated iron. This task was finished just in time for the arrival home of Bridget with baby Roderick (Eric) and daughter Mary, who had accompanied her mother to Albany.
The children in this family were John, Robert, Mary, George, James, Edward, Frederick, Andrew, Roderick (Eric), Thomas, William (who married Grace Susan Irene Garnett) and Charles.
These children had a governesss by the name of Miss. Ethelwyn L. McPherson, who later married Roderick Wellstead, brother of John and brother-in-law to Bridget.
Bridget died in Perth in 1961 aged 96 years.

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