Teasdale Family Connections
Our
link to the Teasdale family is as a result of the marriage of Martha
Bell Brough to George Lee Teasdale in 1910. George was one of eight
brothers, five of whom - including George - set off for Australia,
two months after George's marriage to Martha, leaving their womenfolk
in Cumberland. In the valley of Belka, Western Australia, they
cleared and worked a large area of rough bushland provided by the
government, and took the first steps towards creating a farm there.
They called the farm "Cumberland". When the roughest work was over,
Martha and the wife of another of the brothers came out from England to
join their husbands and before long the next generation of Teasdales
had arrived.
The brothers, one
of whom, John Teasdale, later became chairman of the Australian Wheat
Board, was knighted and awarded the CBE, carried out extensive
research and experimental work with various strains of wheat. George
carried on the practice almost up to the time of his death. In addition
to his interest in wheat farming he established a well known Border
Leicester stud, taken over by his son Arthur Teasdale who
continued to farm the original property after the death of his father.
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