William Baden Wheeler (1900-1971)
History
William (Bill) Baden Wheeler was born in April 1900, died December 1971.[1] He was a keen golfer and a yachtsman owning and racing a 25 foot yacht ‘Acrospire’ on Lake Wendouree. [2]
He was apprenticed as a boilermaker at the Cowley's Eureka Ironworks at age 14, became a fitter and turner, then he studied draughtsmanship and became works manager in 1937. Wheeler was general manager of Cowley's Eureka Ironworks from 1947/1948, after the death of the former manager, his brother-in-law Bevan A. John. As an engineering firm Cowleys made boilers, cement lined steel pipes,(eg the Swan River Reservoir), Cowley steam roller, Pattern shop before and during World War Two, direct supply milking machines, plus other large projects. In the early 1960s Cowley's was taken over by Rocla Pipes Ltd.[3]
Legacy
A caricature appears in Dudley Gordon's book Around Ballarat with Dudley Gordon, volume 1.
Family
William Wheeler married[4] Elizabeth Ayers
- 1 Mary Ann Wheeler (c1820-?)[5]
- 1 Elizabeth Wheeler (c1821-?)[6]
- 2 Edwin Bailey Ward Carket Wheeler (1856-?)[10]
- 2 Robert Walter Wheeler (1862-1906)[11] married[12] Eliza Brown (c1864-1931)[13]
- 3 Robert Walter Wheeler (1887-1972)[14]
- 3 Ethel Maria Wheeler (1888-?)[15]
- 3 Ada Evelyn Wheeler (1891-?)[16]
- 3 Amelia Gladys Wheeler (1893-1896)[17]
- 3 Doris May Wheeler (1895-?)[18]
- 3 Lilian Maud Wheeler (1898-?)[19]
- 3 William Baden Wheeler (1900-1971)[20] married[21] Doris Elizabeth Williams
- 3 Violet Hannah Wheeler (1902-?)[22]
- 3 Alice Elizabeth Wheeler (1906-?)[23]
1 Edwin Wheeler (c1825-1880)[24] married[25] Amelia Jemima England
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ Information from William B. Wheeler's daughter Janet Mckenzie.
- ↑ Around Ballarat with Dudley Gordon, Vol 1.
- ↑ Information from William B. Wheeler's daughter Janet Mckenzie.
- ↑ 29 May 1820 Uffington, Berkshire, England
- ↑ christened 29 October 1820 Uffington, Berkshire, England
- ↑ christened 16 December 1821 Uffington, Berkshire, England
- ↑ christened 20 April 1823 Uffington, Berkshire, England; died Victoria, Australia VicReg#9860 - born England
- ↑ 1855 Victoria, Australia VicReg#79 - registered bride Maria Carkeet
- ↑ died 1862 Victoria, Australia VicReg#2556 - born Wiltshire, father Thomas Box, mother Betsy
- ↑ born Collingwood, Victoria VicReg#220
- ↑ born Fitzroy, Victoria VicReg#7623 - registered as Robert Walter Bew Wheeler, no father, mother Maria Carket; died Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#4101 - registered Robert Walter Wheeler, father Robert Wheeler, mother Maria Herkest; buried 6 June 1906 Ballaarat New Cemetery, Area Wesleyan D, Section 02, Grave 32 - miner
- ↑ 1886 Victoria, Australia VicReg#546
- ↑ buried 30 January 1931 Ballaarat New Cemetery, Area Wesleyan D, Section 02, Grave 32
- ↑ born Carlton, Victoria VicReg#1247; died Ringwood, Victoria VicReg#18350
- ↑ born Sebastopol, Victoria VicReg#33294
- ↑ born Sebastopol, Victoria VicReg#27461
- ↑ born Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#18916; died Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#300; buried 24 March 1896 Ballaarat New Cemetery, Area Wesleyan D, Section 02, Grave 32
- ↑ born Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#26410
- ↑ Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#8226
- ↑ born Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#8208; died Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#29287
- ↑ 1927 Victoria VicReg#13017
- ↑ born Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#15517
- ↑ born Ballarat, Victoria VicReg#7823
- ↑ died Victoria, Australia VicReg#9860 - born England
- ↑ 1879 Victoria, Australia VicReg#893
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--Beth Kicinski 08:27, 7 July 2017 (AEST)