George and Jessie Cooper – pioneer profile

George Astley and Jessie Cooper from Carol Townsend (Great Granddaughter). George Astley COOPER was born in 1865 at Duck Ponds, Victoria. In 1890 to Benjamin Edward and Sophia Elizabeth. He married Jessie HASTHORPE  in Warragul, Victoria. Jessie was born in 1868 in Collingwood Victoria, the daughter of Jessie and Esther nee VARNEY. George and Jessie […]

Frederick C B Vosper – Firebrand and Agitator

The son of a civil engineer,  Charles Watson Vosper, Frederick Charles Burleigh Vosper was born in St Dominick  Cornwall in England and educated at Truro. He immigrated to Bolivia at the age of 15. Few other details of his early life are known, but in 1885 he was at Devonport serving with the Royal Navy on the […]