BETTS, James

(05/04/1870 - 30/09/1953)

James was born in South Guildford and died in Margaret River. James was the son of John and Eliza. He was married on 20/04/1908 to Anne Jane Keenan (21/09/1876 - 26/09/1960) in Busselton. Anna was born in Cape Naturaliste and died in Mount Lawley. She was the daughter of Stewart and Isabella. Their children were Margaret (1909-), James (1911, stillborn in Bunbury) and John Stewart Keenan (1915 - 1922), born in Bunbury. James worked on his father's property in Turtle Creek, Guildford. He was a timber worker at Canning, then went to Karridale in the 1890s as a bush foreman for the Millers' Timber Company. In 1913 he was a tally clerk at Barrabup and Jarrahwood. In 1912 he took up land Local 860 at Margaret River. He farmed and also was a contract worker as a survey and soil classifier. He worked clearing for railways in 1923. He was a bush foreman in Western Australia for the Jarrah Company. He was educated at Guildford Government School.

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